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St. Anthony of Shipwrecks

by Friends of Mine

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1.
Climbing the stairway I knock on the door of the bedroom, crossing my legs on the floor. I admit that I'm sleeping but the winter goes on and my engine won't start and my lights won't turn on. Glory Hallelujah for the cavalry's here and it won't be too long before Richmond falls. And before I return I will shave my beard and I'll pin your picture to my bandolier. Yesterday I found a bullet in my bedroom they say it's a reflection of the waning of the moon. Lexington roars at the height of surrender. Let's get back in the car and go back to New Hampshire. I can't forget the way that you blush with beauty and cling to the silence at the end of the movie.
2.
September goes and I wouldn't have believed that you would love anybody else but me. I'm not asking for your sympathy I'm just hoping that you'll remember not to be so crippled by your superstition or saturated by somebody else's ambition. Watch out for deadbeat lead feet and anyone admitting that they're feeling weak. I'll keep in touch but don't expect too much. Darling, don't you think this is a little rough? And hey, the hurling whirling unfurling carnival's in town. You gotta hop in my mother's car machine and you and I can go on down. I'm talking orange cream laser beam black skinny jeans with the neon seams pathetic mustache hard cash and pretty soon we'll all be living… I am not your lover, but I guess I'll have to do. I'm not the kind of guy that spends his time with girls like you. I'm knee-deep in these freaks, you can smoke outside if you do not speak but if I catch your stare, you're a grizzly bear, I'll avoid you…
3.
Ice cubes and TV tubes and studies show that you've got the blues. Racing horses, science courses Three identical pairs of shoes. Broken stairs and messy hair and everybody knows you're self aware. Midnight movies and friends in Juvie and I'm starting to feel like the county fair. Pair of legs on a pumpkin pie prize watermelon and a marble rye. All that makeup in your eyes makes it look like you wanna cry. Swimming pools and football rules and tell me what you learned in school. I think your'e pretty, I think you're pretty do you think i'm cool? I know I'm not the coolest guy but will you be my girlfriend? Oh she doesn't love you. Hey why does it have to be that way? Bet you feel you're pretty cool swimming around at the end of the pool. What if I told you I couldn't swim? What would you think of your baby then? Why can't you just leave me alone? It's not like you call me on the telephone. You're breaking my heart, you're breaking my bones. Is this how the story goes? Hey baby squid, just look what you did. You made me feel like Captain Kidd. You started a fire, you said you'd retire. I'm hanging on a wire and I can't go higher. I can't fight, it's the thrill of the night. Everybody's saying it'll be alright. Clean up your act, show a little tact think abstract, remember the facts.
4.
Girls 06:36
You said you saw it on the TV storm's coming this way. I'll drop on by in the morning I've got the time to spend the day. We can soak up the weather let it flush through the pits of our chest. I'm your relative minor you know I can catch you like the best of the rest. Blanket yourself in prayer and knowledge of space. Balance yourself with the heavenly product of grace. We can lay by the water let its sweet touch foster our silence. I could lay you in flowers let the tall portrait tamper with my sense. Searching, lying, never finding spinal column half unwinding. People staring, no one caring you have such a hard time bearing tissues, issues, or is this you? I can't explain how much I miss you Father, mother never be see each other I won't ever be your lover.
5.
Oh frustration, you didn't ask for a thing but your daffodils are dead by the end of the spring. You fell in love with a girl just about your height but you fell right back when you couldn't make it through the night. You got a lot to learn about making time. You got a lot to learn about leaving things behind. You got a lot to learn about spending a couple dollars. You're not getting any taller. Your cigarette butts are scattered across the floor. You'd toss them all out but you fear it's such a chore. Your leaves are green, your dirt is brown but you can't stand to be told that the world is round. Your high school daydream, your grapes of wrath have melted into another cheap dinner and a hundred dollars in cash. You used to like baseball, you used to be a funny guy and now every crack of the bat makes you wanna cry.
6.
Coffee House 04:11
You looked at me in a way suggesting that you caught your brother walking on the water saying "Don't take the name of the Lord in vain but if you do, I pledge for you to follow the investigation through and forward I'll project you with my blessing." Forever time is reaching slowly outward. Forever I'm collapsing slowly inward. I have seen you before of other things I am sure and your perfume permeates the room and it challenges the wisdom of the moon and lays upon the land forever westward. Time will turn me old and ugly. The promises of spring will be behind me. I will wear the ties of my bootstraps high and the glimmering of the light on the highway at night will be the only lights I trust to guide me.

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released March 7, 2012

Geoff Himsel: vocals, drums, guitar, harmonica
Andrew Eckel: guitar, drums, vocals, organ
Matt Eisenberg: bass, vocals

Percussion/handclaps by Emily Lewis, John O'Rourke and Friends of Mine

Recorded at Studio 101A in Amherst, NH on July 27-28, 2011
Engineered by Tom Holmes
Mixed and mastered by Friends of Mine and Tom Holmes

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