1. |
Overnighter
03:20
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No mirrors in the bathroom
No easy time alone
No visits now to lend you
What you already own
No change in the pocket
For calls on the phone
To say, I miss you, and I love you; I’ll see you back home
Though it kills me to sleep every night
Dream of you there with this thorn in your side
If I could give you what you need for this stay
It’d flood on and on and on and on
Til’ I faded away
The talk groups every morning
The strangers in a crowd
The darkness I envision
You saying out loud
My love’s just a witness
Moss on the stone
Say, I miss you, and I love you; I’ll see you back home
Though it kills me to sleep every night
Dream of you there with this thorn in your side
If I could give you what you need for this stay
It’d flood on and on and on and on
Til’ I faded away
Sing it both together
Though harmony is frail
The weight that is upon me
I’ve already failed
So give us both the chance now to
Reap what we’ve sewn
Say, I miss you, and I love you, and I’ll see you back home
There may be days passing by
Far from our grey, cloudy eyes
Under a warm Sunday sky
We can just dream, you and I
There may be days passing by
Far from our grey, cloudy eyes
Under a warm Sunday sky
We can just dream, you and I
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2. |
Bowie's Ley Lines
02:26
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Ringing out with violins
In clouds of salty spray
Skidding crazed across the sand
The car emerged unscathed
On a beach for nightly glory
With cassettes of Hunky Dory
There will be ley lines tonight
To make you feel beautiful
Ride on the rims and risk your life
Pretend you’re invincible
And you can be home again before you feel alone
You can be home again before you feel alone
I recall the simple facts
Though I’m often led astray
What good is this memory
That rips me from my day
To a beach of nightly glory
With cassettes of Hunky Dory
There will be ley lines tonight
To make you feel beautiful
Ride on the rims and risk your life
Pretend you’re invincible
And you can be home again before you feel alone
You can be home again before you feel alone
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3. |
A Debt
02:21
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Would you lie about what you lost?
And any money that you made
Somewhere in there there’s a cost
There’s a price to be paid
Only wanted to say
Grief is loving
What’s so hard about it now
Sung over and over
There’s a bright light overhead
Over every singer’s song
Pulling loved ones from the dead
They don’t last for very long
Only wanted to say
Grief is loving
What’s so hard about it now
Sung over and over
It’s been a long time coming
Your debts are all the same
A song or a casket
Under different names
So would you lie about what you lost?
And all the money that you made
Somewhere in there there’s a cost
There’s a price to be paid
Only wanted to say
Grief is loving
What’s so hard about it now
Sung over and over
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4. |
Richard Out in Space
03:05
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In truth, this conversation’s all you got
Now go find yourself a parking lot
And give this thing another shot
They wait, these strangers you once called home
In a place you thought you felt alone
In bedrooms you used to own
A stone cracks apart
From a mass in the stars
In the vast up ahead
All alone, and half dead
Cries, “I’ll love you my whole life through
I’ll love you my whole life through”
They lied, singing love is all you need
Not the freedom and anger and weed
An apartment off the BQE
But still, in the shadow of this Park & Pay
With your loved ones just a block away
You idle for another day
A stone cracks apart
From a mass in the stars
In the vast up ahead
All alone, and half dead
Cries, “I’ll love you my whole life through
I’ll love you my whole life through”
The stone steps apart
From its home in the stars
In the vast, up ahead
All alone, and half dead
Cries, “I’ll love you my whole life through
I’ll love you my whole life through”
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5. |
Impossible Man
02:32
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There’s nothing new under my sun
Morning just breaks me down
Evening shakes me ‘round
Come back to you when I’m all done
Such an impossible man
Only you can stand
You meet the darkness in its heart
I make demands a work of art
But here you dull that sound
Break that sucker down
Days won’t end before they start
There’s nothing new under my sun
Dried up and dusty plain
Of this anxious brain
Come back to you when I’m all done
I tread a lonely line
By my own design
You meet the darkness in its heart
I make demands a work of art
But here you dull that sound
Break that sucker down
Days won’t end before they start
What can I do
Head in the sand
Shout my demands
For the riches in the night
What can I do
Face in your hands
Helping me plan
For the riches of the night
Until...there’s nothing new under my sun
Morning just breaks me down
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Thin Lear New York, New York
PopMatters "Best Albums of the Year" (9/10)
AllMusic (★★★★)
Featured on NPR's New Music Friday
Bandcamp's New & Noteworthy
Thin Lear recommends:
Lovely melodies, stripped down arrangements, and perfectly raw production. I heard "Knockout" and was just hypnotized for the next nine songs. Just pure joy in songwriting.
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Hazy, hooky vocals swimming in a wash of lovely production. I listened to this record half-asleep on a bus once, and I think it's permanently stuck somewhere in my subconscious now.
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I've loved this Tumbleweed Connection track for years, and her cover just breaks my heart in a new way. Aching and impossibly gentle, like a jazzy Fairport Convention.
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