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Promise of Winter

by Young Legs

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1.
Resolution 02:47
never believed in second chances i was too concerned with what romance is i bit my tongue and tied up every thought i bound them and i muted them and i left them to rot lost my focus, lost my way lost your trust when i said it was okay so i stumbled and we fell so hard i swear i have more than just a bandaid to heal the scars let me try show you, oh how much you mean i can be the green man and you the may queen we can grow a garden, when the season thaws maybe soon you'll even parler avec moi lost my focus, lost my way lost my reason to get up each day i know i panicked and i burned your heart but will you please let me rekindle what is now so charred? i never believed in second chances i was too concerned with what romance is i know we won't be wasting our time you washed away every doubt in my mind so i stumbled and we fell so hard i know i panicked and we fell so hard but when i first saw you, i fell so hard and now i can promise you that we are going far
2.
your jaw's been shut since the day that you could talk and you sat down when you learned to run away now you've a taste for a different kind of waste and you wish that you could give your smile away please be gentle please be gentle when you go give me the sad news and we'll give each other better news soon if you wake up while the heat of summer sin dries the grass that you decide to lay upon you'll peel your skin and you'll light another grin watch the ashes reach so desperate for the sun have i found what i want? am i satisfied with where i place the fault? another broken heart is pouring through my fingertips and as it's falling it becomes a ring of salt please be gentle please be gentle when you go give me the sad news
3.
twist and turn the apple stem and you'll see what you want to see you won't hear what you need to hear the flower petals that you picked were better left upon those flowers and the lies you choose to live by grow more beautiful each time i see you but you reflect them like hundred year old silverware that's never seen a polish or a wash and oh, i know you see what you want to see and lord, it shows is this really who you want to be? not all apples are so sweet and there's a bit of arsenic* in every apple that you eat and darling you were once a treat but now you're nothing but a core and seeds and now i know you see what you want to see and lord, it shows is this really it? is this really who you want to be? *scientific accuracy note: it should be cyanide. whoops
4.
ten or twenty beautiful strays playing in the yard perforated ceilings and stairs that leave some scarred how can i say this? goodbye, john ryle how about one more headache for old time's sake sleeping in a closet and dishes that respawn you ate up all my money years of my life are gone to anxiety and asbestos goodbye, john ryle how about one more headache for old time's sake the garbage piles are in the distance goodbye, john ryle goodbye, john ryle! how about one more headache? for old time's sake
5.
of all that we know, how much of it's useful? if i keep on making mistakes if i can just change who i am then who am i? am i just inconstant or fake? trying and trying is trying my patience a virtue without much reward if the goal is the road's end but the road there is endless, i'll walk it for walking its sake when job knew his task, he was stoic and steadfast and sisyphus took up his hill though i wasn't given a celestial trial, my trials are testing me still testing and testing is testing my temper as fragile as untempered steel if the goal is the road's end but the road there is endless there's time to get used to the chill
6.
i watch trains enter tunnels like worms in earth and i wish i could disappear i could think of a thousand ways to change my life but i would still be here though it gets old soon i always find that i keep dancing round the root dancing, spinning like a pinwheel ever dancing round the root i keep dancing round the root like a sickness, long and low my thoughts are still and pool in sad, familiar ways dull words repeating, time and time, and time again it's time to try another phrase why should i run in place? when instead i keep dancing round the root dancing, spinning like a pinwheel ever dancing round the root i keep dancing round the root oooo, like a pinwheel round the root oooo, ever dancing round the root
7.
the night rolled in like your favorite blanket, hanging in the breeze you let me see what you were made of, tears and torn up knees you dipped your feet into the current, and told me it was fine i didn't think you'd ever try to change my mind so down, down, down to the river bed i saw you hang your head and down, down, down swimming far too deep i gave you a heart that you couldn't keep frozen typewriters sang to us with pages made of leaves our bodies blue like our sad demeanor, i knew you don't believe we found the book you were looking for, sitting where it sank you picked it up and turned the cover, every page was blank down, down, down to the river bed i saw you hang your head down, down, down swimming far too deep i made you a promise i couldn't keep down, down, down to the river bed i saw you hang your head down, down, down swimming far too deep i gave you a heart that you couldn't keep
8.
i sit along the bridge, i throw a stick into the creek but it won't come out of the other side just think of better days, they can bring to you a tear or two the price you have to pay to finally be satisfied and i cannot forget but i don't exactly remember tuck away the years, left in a tome from your old home when you find them again, what will you care? i sit along the bridge between today and yesterday the river sings, "you won't come out the other side!" and i cannot forget but i don't exactly remember the memories are pressed together flattening with age it's getting hard to tell between the petal and the page …between today and yesterday …bring to you a tear or two because the binding tears or the water wears what i wished would last forever! if i cast a light, or i hold too tight it'll crumble altogether so i will not forget - but i don't exactly remember yet.
9.
i have one request this year show me there are others who value the things that i value love in all the ways that i do others who appreciate every breath they breathe out and in those who forgive everything every season is for giving is there someone else out there, lying in the snow, talking to air? pleading with the moon i hope it's you i hope it's you
10.
frozen fingertips feel the air, it makes you think of her what she means to you what did you get her? rosy cheeks and frozen windshield wipers you think she'll understand and you say, "i can't wrap it up but this year, i gave you everything" where are you this year? far from home, driven there by a sense of fear and your mom's mini-van running low on hope you put your check in your tank and the next day it's ten cents cheaper and you say, "i can't wrap it up but next year, i'll give you everything" frozen fingertips all is well, somewhere there is a fireplace with those who love you
11.
Eve 04:14
i dropped my glass of wine when your brother spoke between his tears i lost my sense of time by the fireplace it was almost the new year i watched it slip away i watched it slip away i thought the spinning lights were for the holiday but you loved to prove me wrong i saw the party end as it came to me i think i loved you all along i watched them slip away i watched them slip away i walked into the cold without my jacket on oh, how you would have sighed i lost my sense of place in the driveway i lost my sense of place oh, why did i drive you away? i watched you slip away
12.
Northfield 02:08
still crystal cheek against the glass tie up your boots go through the door and smile white hillside maple syrup boils bring in the wood joy is simple feet by the fire and sleep

about

this album is a remixed and remastered collection of songs released on Beta Snake Records & NotRock Records between the decembers of 2010 and 2014.

two songs were made for a secret single series and all the rest were made for various artist compilations which are online for free at the following locations:

betasnakerecords.bandcamp.com
notrockrecords.bandcamp.com

if not for my friends in those labels always putting together really fun comps, five sixths of these songs would have never existed! if you like this music, i implore you to download all the original releases. that's 221 (two hundred twenty one) songs by local bands for none dollars!! hey wait actually give them a bunch of money because they ruuuuule

if you would like to download the Mint 400 Records digital copy of this album, please do so via Amazon, iTunes or Spotify.

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released May 19, 2015

all music written, performed, recorded, and produced by steven donahue except where indicated below:

matt olsson: drums/percussion on tracks 1, 5, 6, 7, and 8. backing vocals on track 6
ashley simon: backing vocals on track 6
the science of computronics: drums/percussion on tracks 3 and 10

photography and album design by michael ambrose!
mastered by neil sabatino!
released by Mint 400 Records

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