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Toves

by Slithy Toves

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1.
New Design 03:11
raven hair and a black balloon heart belongs to the summer moon eyes of blue and the realest smile oh, won't you come and visit soon? too late; mistakes been made should have stopped, should have stayed evening time when the nights grow long my thoughts return to my summer maid it ain't the light i'm runnin from although it looks to be it ain't a new design that keeps me from my misery it ain't the earth beneath my feet that tells me something must go wrong with no exception for a heart that seeks to breathe please don't mind if i leave my mind's not at ease and i'm giving up on a kind of release that my mind says i need so i tell myself i'm better off alone sunshine and peace of mind places we have left behind the sky still rains and the grass still grows but she don't stand the test of time the best friend that could have been i never even let her in i'll use this shame and adjust my aim to never miss a shot again
2.
take a walk down mercer on a sunny afternoon count the cranes and know that it will all be changin soon well i guess i been changin too weave amongst construction sites on union, pike, and pine well i used to know these dirty streets, i used to call them mine knowing i was theirs as well but time and distance cut the same and tendrils of possession retreat and i won't lie and say that i don't miss it when i visit but the lights don't shine the same guess i been gone too long; everything has changed about the place that i am from old familiar streets look wrong to my eyes but life goes on discreetly; i can tell this place don't need me no more and the grass was always green until they cut it down and built a place for wealthy folks to spend their money i met you at bauhaus by the bridge across I-5 drinkin kool-aid and black coffee til they called for closing time well they never opened up again and then you played at the josephine and you took off all your clothes had a busted synthesizer that you fingered with your toes and you smoked a cigarette each song well the josephine is history and bauhaus is a gutted frame and i saw these changes coming but i guess i always hoped that maybe you'd still be the same guess i been gone too long; everything has changed about the place that i am from even my old friends been movin on with their lives though there still remains a mystery, uncertainty of what's to come next and i do concede the part of me that loves the way things used to be don't always know what's best and it don't keep me away; i find myself believin i'll be comin back someday a person is defined by the place that they're from and growing's about changing and it's strange and rearranging is hard and if i go back it would be not through the lens of memory that i gaze upon streets no longer mine
3.
lady luck! i have lately learned a lot from you but i don't like to live allowing you to lead though i know my course is straight and true i don't long to list and drift effortlessly so set the sails! these seeds we'll sow with certainty there is somethin bout the sight of sacred shores though they may be distant, certainly it's the journey, not the goal, that offers more and yet i can't decide where my fortune lies is it beside me, obscured by butty skies? or do i venture off the beaten trail onto a path much stranger? my heart can't figure out there's so much i could do how do i end up like you i just don't know what to do with myself when my heart is hardly beating heartily with a pulse that pauses between precious beats if i sit and search my memories i should like to find a smile upon my cheeks but if i fail to fight the force opposing me and i die alone and broke with some disease well my soul will rest quite comfortably if the journey that i'm on feels complete and yet i can't decide where my fortune lies is it behind me, a forest enterprise? or do i venture off to find the grail into a world of danger my heart can't figure out
4.
Girl//friend 02:38
"what in the world am i going to do now?" i said to thin air my girl, in a whirl of the world left me standing there it's amazingly painless, a strange sort of aimless, and somehow i don't care for the sun on the trees and the salty ocean breeze reminds me why i'm here girl, friend, you're better than the world, friend but don't you fix on me girl, friend, i love you like the world, friend but don't you fix on me wind in my hair and my soul without a care as i wander through my mind it's a dungeon with no demon, a man who seeks a reason but reveals none to find am i going mad? am i happy, am i sad? am i losing all control? is it wrong of me to postulate there's not a way to subjugate the love that's in our souls? but i need you now tonight (no one feels better than you) only you can make me right (you make me grin like a fool) and we won't turn off the light (cuz that don't matter at all) when i see your face, there ain't no time and there ain't no place that i would rather be than right here next to you currents of the mind change direction all the time, oh, what am i to do?
5.
In Flames 03:03
6.
times may change but the devil stays the same he may go by different names but still remains i may grow like the grass up through the snow in a place i have to know will someday be replaced every distance seems to be so near but the mountains bring a fear of finally seeing clear green grass grows all along the dusty road and you'd think i would've knowed my path would veer half the time seems the road is on my mind but i have faith in time my way home i will find words can't say how i wish that i could stay i feel it every day that i have to spend away from my home all my friends will stick with me til the end and my heart will break and mend and i cannot defend life goes on if i'm here or if i'm gone i'll be back before too long but please, don't take my place.

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four pop songs followed by four country songs followed by three pop country songs

recorded july and august 2015 at the guest house

thanks so much to spencer sult for the use of his interface, kevin christopher for his nice mics, all the guest house folks for putting up with incessant noise for a month and a half, and every cool cat in olympia who makes their own music.

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releases August 20, 2037

river nason- instruments, voices, engineering

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