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The Rolling, Driftless North

by Vansire

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Eleven Weeks 03:05
Since we last spoke The past eleven weeks The stacks of paper left me feeling Like sentience is not quite what it seems When we last wrote It was the sun and me With cliffs as high And fears as deep with my Magnum opus, my starry-eyed recitative The color on these trees It's like something from a movie Last night I smiled While laughing at a moonbeam We're all moving I felt awoke Our summer music spree My reflections on being cut free It's turning out to be the strength I need I hope you know That there's still joy for me In fleeting moments I take relief In my suspicion that these past months Were a dream You should see these trees It's like something from a movie And when she smiles The earth's no longer moving The thought's soothing
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Pale Blue 02:40
Although we're windswept We're buffered by the trees The past couple of weeks were riddled with unease It'd take several hours to drive Picture living different lives And I'd rather stay inside When I watch the world pass by on someone else's time Is that the sun I'm staring at Is that my visage staring back The turnpike's jammed no turning back And we spin around the cul de sac Is that the sun I'm staring at Is that my visage staring back And we spin around the cul de sac
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Driftless 03:22
There is a street lamp Twenty feet outside From where I sit in bed Waiting out the night Left your keys on the table It's clear we've no need to drive It's you and I floating through space Fates intertwined And as the snow fell While the cars passed by The window was obscured Frost blocked the light I've not changed I've merely stayed the same I've been dreaming so it seems less strange (x2) I'm unsure if I will ever be Sure of who I am before I leave Maybe check back in awhile with me I'm just trying to feel ok (x3)
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There's Arnold With his back to me Wandering down through an ill-lit street I'm curious And would like to entreat Is it inspiration or self-defeat And from the corner his figure fades And should I follow or retrograde There's Anton With a furrowed brow A crooked finger and non-plussed scowl There's symmetry He will soon endow Crafting tone rows with his head faced down If I seek pleasure in melody Have I betrayed best tendencies Oh Alban We part our hair the same Posing next to a drawer and frame At 23 and two years of age Your work is tasteful your life's urbane As for the despot's who bring you down A century later they're still around And so I sit by the window sill Feeling sad, the questions linger still I'm trying to decide if it's fake or real I'm all alone In a noisy throng Nameless and ageless, all strung along Nobody else can name this song Mispronunciations and words spelled wrong At times like these I think I'm on my own A new self-portrait of my own

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The Rolling, Driftless North was written and recorded over a month-long period between the end of 2016 and beginning of 2017 by Josh Augustin and Sam Winemiller.

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released January 27, 2017

Josh Augustin - Vocals, Synth, Drums/Percussion, Guitar
Sam Winemiller - Rhythm Guitar, Lead Guitar, Bass, Percussion
Isaac Winemiller - Bass on Eleven Weeks, Pale Blue, and Driftless

Cover design by the band.
Photograph taken by Josh in 2013 in Lanesboro, Minnesota.

Reflection No. 2 composed by Josh

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