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Barn Raising

by Naviger

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1.
Inverlea 04:26
I will keep walking east To where you lived on Inverlea I'm not afraid of sentiment except when I so obviously am You can't even call this rain It's only fogging up again I'm no closer to understanding why you love this weather No closer to understanding why we're not together I'm pulling at my cuffs and I am fucking up your sweater I checked all your favourite haunts The alley by the restaurant The old abandoned factory The corner by the library The warehouses they're tearing down It's not even your part of town But I will just keep walking in the hopes that you'll feel better I'm pulling at my cuffs, but I will stitch them back together No closer to understanding why you love this weather Put down the phone And get yourself back home What is it that you hope to find Sadness of a different kind A note that doesn't quite resolve A puzzle that'll never solve I don't know much more than you All my books are overdue I'm no closer to understanding why you love this weather No closer to understanding why we're not together I'm pulling at my cuffs and I am fucking up your sweater Barn barn raising Heart heart breaking Wide awaken Rearranging Put down the phone And get yourself back home
2.
Panacea 05:13
The darkness doesn't go away But it changes shape The patterns on an old front porch or a garden gate The shadows thrown by candlelight on the fire escape The darkness doesn't go away Now is it any wonder how you've got this pull So tragically, at least to me, irresistible Despite all my best efforts to the contrary You always seem to have your hooks deep into me And I was lying down Just to rest my eyes before the night shift With the creaking of the ceiling up above Always hoping for a panacea Hoping for your love The neighbourhood it changes as it stays the same A hundred years of give and take and water mains And I wonder if I ever even left at all If only I was that damn indestructible And I was lying down Just to rest my eyes before the night shift With the creaking of the ceiling up above
3.
I don't know what to tell you I am writing in the margins I am walking through your neighbourhood I am running from a bargain I don't know what to give you Maybe my voice from all the yelling Maybe my blood from all the rushing Or maybe nothing, maybe nothing And I don't know what you're thinking But I'm not making any of this up Maybe my nervous system gave it all And has finally given up Loving you gets me nowhere And I've known since the beginning That you make me want to enter When there's no chance of me winning Oh, loving you makes me angry But it sure don't make me better Like a forecast I'm dreading Like a week of rainy weather And I don't know what you're thinking But I'm not making any of this up Maybe my nervous system gave it all And has finally given up I don't know what to tell you I am writing in the margins I am walking through your neighbourhood I am running from a bargain
4.
I'm never gonna be your lucky ticket I'm never gonna be your favourite tune You say that I'm the sun at the end of August But I'm the start of March when nothing's in bloom And you're never work it out unless I tell you So I'm letting you leave with lots of time Before you try to love me Before you try to love me Before I start believing that you might be mine There's nothing here to see but a work of fiction Just a paperback in a discount bin Maybe you had hoped for Victoria weather But I am from the valley I live in And you'll never work it out unless I make you So I'm letting you leave with lots of time Before you try to love me Before you try to love me Before I start believing that you might be mine Think that I'll mess it up less on my own
5.
A Body Needs 04:15
If this were a ball of clay, I’d mold you something beautiful Show you the potential that’s been hiding in the grey But it’s just my head looking for a thumb Longing for approval from a mother’s kiss, or yours, or from anyone Would you pull me aside and give me one more of those smiles I like, I like, I like ‘Cause a body needs to know when it’s alright If this were the only sound I’d hear it as your voice Slow waves coming out of you in whole notes, nothing forced But it’s just another song adding to the din Of every unknown chorus sung by nobody Blowing in the wind Would you pull me aside and give me one more of those smiles I like, I like, I like ‘Cause a body needs to know when it’s alright
6.
Road cut into the shield Never done driving Old abandoned motels housing the ghosts And I think to myself, is it surprising that I'm always alone when I need you most Well I tied a flag to the back of my truck, but I'm out of luck again I've got nothing to haul but this wreck of my heart, my cannonball I guess I'll be driving a while so I might as well play this Dolly cassette And just sing it Try to feel it The answer's not in a glass, not in a bottle It's not holding a sign down by the split It's not breaking your bones into the plaster Whatever you're looking for, that won't be it Now the geese wake me up, flying formation And I'm stuck with the things I wish I never knew Driving into the dawn like revelation Darkness falling away in the rearview Well I tied a flag to the back of my truck, but I'm out of luck again I've got nothing to haul but this wreck of my heart, my cannonball I guess I'll be driving a while so I might as well play this Dolly cassette And just sing it Try to feel it Now we're passing Mazinaw Now we're passing Kishkebus Drive until there's nothing left Leave me in the wilderness
7.
I am my own darling I am my own love I am my own everything Until one of us gives up I will talk myself down I will take myself out I'll bring myself around Until one of us gives up Oh and you You heartbreaker Making me do the work I've gotten good at this Being my own dream girl You heartbreaker Making me pull the weight I've gotten good at this Watching you slip away We keep climbing mountains We keep building homes Every minute of the day Trying to be less alone We keep singing praises Echo in empty rooms I am my own darling Whether I'm anything to you Oh and you You heartbreaker Making me do the work I've gotten good at this Being my own dream girl You heartbreaker Making me pull the weight I've gotten good at this Watching you slip away I am my own darling I am my own love I am my own everything Until one of us gives up

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released February 22, 2016

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Andrea Simms-Karp - vocals
Jeff Gleeson - vocals, guitar, bass, synth, mandolin, banjo, piano, glockenspiel
Brian Simms - vocals, guitar, synth
Philip Shaw Bova - drums
Kirsten Wright - trumpet

Mini choir:
Natasha Coldevin
Dene Swan
Rob Burnfield
Malak Ghanem

All songs written by Andrea Simms-Karp (except for A Body Needs, written by Mia Sheard, used with permission)
Produced by Jeff Gleeson

Recorded by Dean Watson at Gallery Studio in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
(and in our basements and living rooms)
Mastered by Philip Shaw Bova at Bova Lab Studio

Graphic design by Yobé Graphic Design
Cover art by Stefan Thompson
Naviger logo by Gary Jezégabel

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