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New Travelers In An Old World

by The Yellow Albatross

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1.
Crashing Down 03:56
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Wide eyed Take the long way home Where the rocks and the craters are red Be lead Hear the tips of leaves tell you Home is a matter of time Let the knife from behind your lips Give a sobering sting to the one you kiss You say you know But you don’t even know All the delicate things I find I keep locked up inside And here you come Crashing down the door Stockpile All inventions, dreams, and things That you threw out among the chaff God, the way you give the banquet away to the dogs Give it away to the dogs Give it away to the dogs Plant a word and with grueling drips on the ground How the stalk, in the wind it whips You say you know but you don’t even know With a map and key, would you go on discovering Or take the road and come Crashing down the door With a map and key Would you go on discovering Or take the road and come Crashing down Crashing down the door With a map and key Would you go on discovering Or take the road and come Crashing down
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Clear Midnight 04:18
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On a clear night I was walking around In the soul of a convent A crescent a crown Over chattering bones and the cracks on the road Tracing the curve on my back in the space on the ground The canopy pooled up in pockets of light I was counting the darknesses of sound and of sight And I passed through the arches of the living obscure And I moved ever on through door after door Moved ever on through door after door I’ve come looking for a place you’d not ever know that you were I’m not running I know I’m not calm I don’t know But you don’t have to know What you’re after now The hum of a train and the goose it was calling Was heavy with meaning like the verse of a song I wanted to save it, the sound it was fading I tried to look back, but the past was all gone And the marching of time is on, ever on I’ve come looking for a place you’d not ever know that you were I’m not running I know I’m not calm I don’t know But you don’t have to know What you’re after now All of the mystery above and below, I think What have I missed, what can I know But if I stand in the light, if I learn to let go If I turn all my stones what will I have left to show I’ve come looking for a place you’d not ever know that you were I’m not running I know I’m not calm I don’t know But you don’t have to know What you’re after now
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Wake 04:12
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all i ever need is to see and be seen the delivery truck was loud enough to wake me up is this old voice a friend who tells me you'll be back again tells me you'll be back again my heart was pushed away and i know that it can't stay this way will it stop, or will it break well this hurt is just too hard to take what a vicious thing to have to keep your dukes up in a ring the remote and the TV saw the boxer backed against a wall when our eyes meet, I keep my feet but my hands fall is this old voice a friend who tells me to get up again my heart was pushed away and i know that it can't stay this way will it stop, or will it break well this hurt is just too hard to take Is this old hand a friend who helps me to my feet again will it stop or will it break will I love you at my wake will I love you at my wake
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Two Lies 05:08
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We’re lost intentionally So afraid of being safe Make us save, make us chew the words together Until they mean something Though winter’s passed here over I still see the prints between the trees The two lies that I told her Have now come alive I should have told you myself I was lost too Now look how close to you I am A crestfallen sauntering How much can we sleep away And how close Can we force two hearts together Before we break something And I won’t for long Keep pretending to know for the Where we go is not to a destination But from something I should have showed you myself I almost lost you, now look how close to you I am I should have showed you myself I almost lost you, now look how close to you I am
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What's Going On With You 06:06
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Sit on the floor staring at the fire These same old chords are so cold Ashes where lovers were dancing so slowly Less than a second ago Call in the loan only if you want to fall through I’m doing fine, I’m just wasting my time What’s going on with you We were so tender all penciled in woods An hourglass on all the wrong terms Mighty machine took our hope for a turn Striking away till it burned Fork in the road Venturing, tried but not true I’m doing fine, I’m just wasting my time What’s going on with you Save for the peels left above the old Franklin Growing a white frosty mold Grave for reminders all locked up in smoke In a room with a seminal soul I can’t go on trying to make the old new Playing with a rind, I’m just wasting my time What’s going on with you
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Songofafool 04:46
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Oh, my mother would love when we'd leave Sunday mornings, church down the street All that she wanted us to be She didn't need that time like I need So say I’m a fool, or leave me alone Or sing my tunes instead of your own My eyes grow tired, my fingers they bleed No one needs these songs like I need You're in the car, I'm holding you back Unkind illusion, cause I don't believe in off track I take some roads just to see where they lead You don't need this time like I need I saw your mother, your light's never on You're up hours later than I where you've gone Since we're off-time, I miss harmonies Do you need one more like I need
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Dark Angel 05:05
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Oh my God, a white halo, unbreakable How weak my eyes in its shadow Oh my God, a dark angel, invincible Spreading poison in a light disguise Whispered soft in lullabies Mnemosyne, drink up you new travelers And sight restored your old world Mnemosyne, so narrow flow backwards Lift Wisdom onto a raft of reeds He won’t let go til the water bleeds What’s your name, Dark Angel, so drinkable Dark crimson seal staining on my lips and tongue What’s your name, you guardian dear, you devil My skin and bones you animate You hold my soul til we separate Omega, light bearer, press onward Renew my eyes in these shallows Omega, my missteps untraceable So clear the blood, my head baptize I have no home while I love your lies
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Son From Man 04:07
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I’ll take you down and raise you up from the cursed ground the harvest pull from the great abyss the storm came for us and the violent rifts tore son from man once more the kingdom was pure if I died I'll take you down and raise you up find ten confessions I’ll spare you all but the age old sacrifice nevermore he told us shall the seeds and harvest ever cease to be so restore the kingdom with falling fire or turn your eyes if someone will come forward
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Eden 05:09
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Westward we walk while the neighbors are talking The river, your camera catching the garden Where God banished Adam He took the fruit that I handed to you The river was moving We’ll never go back there now Cause the builders are breaking ground Then you were Eve But you’re my only Eden now Found once we were when we talked until dark Steam like a canopy rising and arching Our teacups half full but our hearts were half empty And my own oblivion of what I meant to you My time is almost up But I know there was something there Now it’s more than a feeling Mixing and sealing our hearts Simple as laughter but less than a jest I was seeing the prize but ignoring the rest of you Shouting and screaming your thoughts and feelings My simple solutions ignoring the meanings Exhaustion almost left you dead It is time now to rest your head On a pillow of sound I will gently lift you off the ground While sense and reason not doing their best Pride and arrogance rearing their heads But total remorse is a meaningful feeling Where there’s love there’s got to be healing We’ve been torn and tossed now I’m feeling the loss Diamonds and garnet won’t cover the cost And in times when you ask me how Now I know what it’s like without Back then you were Eve But you’re my only Eden now
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Going Back Home 05:47
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Flying A great albatross like an omen We’re getting off course but still floating Waiting till sails catch the wind Children Traveling light We’re all made up Your dress and your hair were so perfect Adrift on the waves of the floor Springtime gave us the grapes on the grape vine Papa said no, but I touched them Made off with two One for you Laughing, a picture of us on a porch swing We rode out on bikes to get closer The sun set between our two hands Trouble sneaking up like trumpets When the leaves fell day after day by the roadside I never pulled off to look closer There lining the yard It started raining Losing the helm And the tension, rising like waves And it scared you You called me, asked me to come out and meet you The lake was so blue and I loved that dirt in my shoes There’s nothing Nothing to scare me away now Christmas Papa handing us our presents Remind us to open them slowly Forgive me, we’re fallen When we’re graying, reading a book in the basement You’ll look up and know that I meant it And turn the page The clouds break Does it feel like we’re moving, Going back home?
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Look Dear, The Woods Are Sparkling! 07:38
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I have led you nowhere I made room to share the grave Pull the ground up over our waist and warm us Like a blank gold blinking eye I have let you down so careful Heaven’s haze as grey as earth And you saw there were no constellations But the woods hold bugs that glow Like me, dear, too I once held you And the air told the tree boughs Reach your fingers in the sky Not like grasping like roots, but to hold what meets you We were given what we’ve taken

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released June 23, 2016

All music and lyrics by Patrick Martel
Musicians: Paul Mercer, Tyler Wheeler, Evan Ponton, Jaime Carbo, Patrick Martel
Additional instruments: Adam Hamlin, Tim Ricci, James Woolridge
Recorded at Mobtown Studios in Baltimore, MD
and in Patrick Martel's basement studio in Baltimore, MD
Produced by Patrick Martel and Paul Mercer

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