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Shadows

by Rick Reid

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1.
Why So Bleak? 02:25
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Why so Bleak? I know we’re sailing in sea of shit We can’t see the future that’s why we won’t give up yet French girls don’t wear helmets when they ride their bikes They want fire when they ask, ‘you got a light?’ This world of darkness Barely a chance So much beauty In these trembling hands Promise me every longing And then make me wait For some broken salvation A dark interstate French girls don’t care about your pretty lies Vanity is emptiness’ favorite disguise This holy terror preys on the weak Kill off the good guys Oh, why so bleak
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The Ruins 01:58
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The Ruins The edifice has crumbled the nightmare has begun What’s sinister is everywhere that which we cannot overcome We foraged for salvageable parts amongst all this abandonment We turn it up loud we don’t know where they all went The people we loved are somewhere else We try to follow the tracks buried in grass You just have to ask are we going somewhere? We walked along the bottom of a dried up lake Close to where your parents were born Tonight you lie awake
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Sad Ol' Eyes 04:17
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Tabs 02:20
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The Ave 03:10
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The Ave That bottle it’s a bible That barstool it’s a pew The barkeep he’s a priest This tavern a church Your waitress she’s not an angel Your friends they’re lost souls Friday night that’s the sabbath God in your poisoned veins Hey we’re all the same, how sad is that? (how sad is that) Maybe we should trade places Spend some time in other shoes I think we’d find it’s just as boring As the life we choose Blame it on your family blame it on your friends The only god is routine don’t worry routine never ends 10 thousand fools stream down the ave Cops beating girls while the crowds gather ‘round and laugh Everyone looks then everyone leaves I’ve taken beatings for people who’ve never been there for me Think of me however you want, you stand in that crowd you’re just like that cop You started the fire but you ran from the flames If you believe in something you can take a little pain
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Vanity Shadows 03:27
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Vanity Shadows All your love is gone All your love is gone Did they tell you you were a special child an artist has begun Did she say that was the best she ever had did you really believe that one? All your love is gone Oh my little atheist who never learned to read Ambition sure looks great on you now try on this greed Nothing you learned growing up taught you how to be a man Find out what you believe in I really hope you can I’m with you on the women I’m with you on the songs But your friends are at the station and that train is long since gone Oh my little punk rock saviour play us some guitar This time sing us something that tells us who you really are All your love is gone Don’t say nothing you got nothing to say It shines so bright up on that stage I’ve got the light you’re praying for fame I’m always in love you’re in love with your own name I hope you find What you’re looking for
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Holy Wars 03:14
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Holy Wars In my eyes you saw ‘I finish what I started’ and you sighed Our memories are not enough to keep me here I’m paralyzed but my eyes are open wide – don’t dare Open the shutters I can’t trust myself to not jump out sleepwalking And parallel to the beauty of this world runs all the pain Our hearts conceive of some rapture when we truly, truly are Nothing scares me more than thoughts of freedom All I saw was flashing when I started losing you I’m not listening to anything but truth now The rest of it’s just static from the holy wars
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Wrap My Arms Around the Moon 03:46
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Christmas in E-Town 05:29
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Christmas in E-Town You were talking just talking when I wanted to dance I said ok baby lets move to France Oh well don’t we all How about Montreal? Christmas in the city brings rig pigs and cocaine Money and murder suicide kills the pain A late night greyhound ride Chances are someone died The coldest nights bring warmer dreams Can’t help but smile what could it mean We’re all in over our heads We’re always falling in and out of luck We’re always falling in and out of luck Why should we feel ashamed? It was a setup, we were framed The sound of the siren gives me relief It means everything’s working the way it’s supposed to be The old, the young are giving out The rest of us gripped with fear and doubt So where you feel the warmest maybe somebody’s arms Don’t forget forgiveness it’s all part of the charm Of having a heart that’s still working Be careful you never know where evil might be lurking When you feel like the light has gone out of your eyes It could be a ruse just a clever disguise C’mon walk it of…walk it off, look alive You let out a sigh late Christmas eve Maybe you’re happy maybe you want to leave This world behind If you were a kid this shit would be blowing your mind Don’t ever lose that part of you
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Blue Below 02:02
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Scenes From a Marriage 03:09
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Scenes from a Marriage I piss on you in the shower wait for the eternal grin Saint Walt Whitman’s in my bed again We fall asleep on the landing Babe you had it coming to you Look what we’ve got ourselves into All we’re sure of is dying White noise black space mistakes So strange to be alive Your father figured he wouldn’t have anything to say or do with you until his dying day she picked me 11 daises I know your favorite color’s blue These look more like what I love in you All we’re good for is living Kindness hopeful madness A broken paradise We wipe ourselves with a towel I reach across the bed the nightstand for water Our mouths dry from giving head
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Clean 30 05:56
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All songs written, performed and recorded by Rick Reid (SOCAN). Mastered by Jesse Gander at the Hive Studios in Vancouver, Canada. Recorded in bedrooms, basements and living rooms in Edmonton, Montreal and Franktown Studios (Montreal, QC). Matt Leddy played guitar on Blue Below and guitar and organ on Clean 30. Anastasia Reid sang and made cat sounds on Christmas in E-Town. Special thanks to Jesse Gander for his sonic expertise and for making this album sound better than it should. Thanks to the City Streets, my family and friends. This album is for Edmonton.

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released February 28, 2011

2011 Clamour Records.
Mixed by Rick Reid.
Mastered by Jesse Gander at Hive Creative Labs (Vancouver, Canada)

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Rick Reid Victoria, British Columbia

Songwriter, musician, singer, writer, member of Eternal Husbands, The City Streets and half cut, dad, husband, film enthusiast, voracious reader, veganesque, unprepared hiker, melancholy optimist and traveler living in Victoria, Canada.

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