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At the Stork Club

by Tender Beast

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first gather all of the things you will need hammer, nails, lumber, carpet, glass, seed. grow your roots down deep then push the walls out as far as they'll go sink a stable storm cellar below. tar your roof watertight out and in everything needs a place; make a place for each thing in and out with, without what we thought we would have, we still build next fill your pantry with cans against the cold all the blankets your closets will hold run a line to the spring now doors all open and let them come in feel them brush through your halls, skin to skin and the building begins out and in blood, breath, skin where we go when we don't know the way in and out trust, distance, doubt and lose or find or forget, it's all kin it's not locked come in
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Drowned 02:38
if i were a sailor upon the green bay i'd love you and lose you and find you again beneath the queen's waters, lucid and lorn swallowed and stolen, tempest-tossed and torn. if i were a sailor and sailed for my pay i'd find you drowning as i wound my way i'd throw you an anchor to hold and to ride to hitch you to home and to tie you in tide. if i were a sailor that looks to the dawn i'd pray for your favor before i set on i'd drift you a tribute of garland and psalm to lighten your labors and hallow your halls.
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Easy Come 05:45
easy come while I am sleeping find me by my trail of breath tuck yourself inside my eyelids easy leave me when I stir easy come when I'm not looking come in shape I do not know when i lose you, please forgive me easy leave me so it shows and hard, hold hard, hold hard, hold hard, hold easy come with heralds singing hallelujas in your praise then when i have caught the melody easy leave me whistling easy come after hard bargain pay me for my diligence pennies on the promised dollars easy leave me with far less and hard, hold hard, hold hard, hold hard, hold
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the dusk flicks her broom into the corners down at La Musée Mechanique he stops by the Regina music box and brushes his hand against it. if you pour enough time in a bottle, some stays if you pour enough time in a bottle, some stays come share this glass Here in the gallery of mistakes we sip them and savor their tang time's blown all their weapons like buds from a rose all that remains is their fragrance if you pour enough time in a bottle, some stays if you pour enough time in a bottle, some stays come share this glass with me. the doors have been closed and the public's gone home the winds carries salt in to see it they stand you don't know the options 'til after you choose you don't know the price 'til you've paid if you pour enough time in a bottle, some stays if you pour enough time in a bottle, some stays if you pour enough time in a bottle, some stays if you pour enough time in a bottle, the quarter drops, the circuits close and start the motor the slider moves and turns a cam and spins the ratchet a pawl descends, a mouth snaps shut, a hand makes a familiar gesture exactly the way that you want to remember he straightens a gilt-edged, hand-lettered label by the display of embroidered dubloon the wind lifts a souvenir over the rail and the waves carry it far away
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Old Injury 04:28
I dreamed I saw your face last night I dreamed you kissed my cheek In my dreams, just like in life You never speak I called in sick to work today they all understood some things you recover from some things are yours for good It's just an old injury It twinges now and then Sometimes I almost forget And then I'm reminded I'm careful now, I take it slow I meet life day by day I've learned to live with this old hurt I find a way It's just an old injury It twinges now and then Sometimes I almost forget And then I'm reminded my world is smaller since that day one change changed everything and in the space that's left to me I'm gardening

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The Stork Club is a little bar in Oakland; it's kind of divey, kind of magnificent, and I want to get to know everyone there. This set was recorded by Christian, the sound guy. Afterwards he told me stories about his time recording in England in the 70s and 80s.

This was the first live set I'd played in about 2 years, and the first time I'd played any of these songs in front of people. It went better than I could have reasonably expected.

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released January 2, 2014

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Tender Beast Oakland, California

Eloquent folk music to do weird art to.

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