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Rain​-​Weather Music - EP

by the Dancing Hats

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1.
Fire, take no prisoners, Rob me of everything I've got. For if what I have is what I am, Then really I am not. Yes I've stored up my treasures And I know they'll rust and die Yet I slave to keep them safe away Thus, where my heart resides As ash the dust of what I was Winds from hill to sea You've killed your hostage cursed flame But really set me free // He made his own tap shoes from aluminum cans Says he hates it when people just stand Not a day over twelve he says he believes the sky seems so much bigger in New Orleans A crooked man lives off of those who are weak Selling neon religion and cheaply made things At the end of an era it comes to a close What was was he good for and where does he go? I am standing, I am waiting I am flying, I am dying He's sick like swine, a drunk teller of tales It's amazing how quickly conversation gets stale Says he likes civics but he wants to get away He's such a liar he'll die here someday My distant cousin by marriage not blood Dragged on a cigarette and told me all she could Married at 16, she offered me a smoke I really want to take it but I'd probably choke I am standing, I am waiting I am flying, I am dying Her eyes were full of dreams But nothing's ever as it seems She looked at me there with her foggy stare Said, Go away. Just go away. I've always been pretty old for my age I don't have a story but I've got a stage Sleep is overrated but I've got to succumb Cause if I don't sleep tonight, will tomorrow ever come I guess that I'm just one of those souls Who doesn't really belong anywhere I'm a wanderer, a traveler at best My people are scattered but so are the rest
2.
Pity for the ample notion "All is said and done" Carry me with all your failures And you won't move no one And if I can see my reflection In those pearly gates Help me keep my eyes wide open Despite my trying face And if there is indeed a heaven And I get in someway I don't need clear streets of gold If the good Lord sings with me The good Lord sings with me The good Lord sings with me
3.
Quiet 03:16
When I die, burn the body I don't want to suffocate Under six feet of lamentations Sorrow and dry weight Don't you ever sing alone In the quiet of the tile echo Ever sing alone Cause the quiet cannot keep you No, quiet never keeps you quite at home And on the off-chance that there's no heaven Send my ashes to the sea So at least I'll reach the ends of the earth and the water will remember me Don't you ever sing alone In the quiet of the tile echo Ever sing alone Cause the quiet cannot keep you No, quiet never keeps you quite at home I'll only die when you've forgotten I'll only fade if you're away I'll only sing when you are listening I'll only laugh if you're okay We can kiss when no one's looking Hold hands when they're nearby We can sing until it's light out We can dance until we die No you'll never sing alone In the quiet of the tile echo Never sing alone Cause the quiet cannot keep you No quiet never keeps you quite at home
4.
Birdsong 01:43
I lost my birdsong to the ocean, To warmer weather and the open road. Not gone but temporarily lost, I wonder how the sun will cope with quiet ups. Starting with no intended spectacle But everybody looks, watching you go. Quiet light with head down rises, Apologetically reminds us to look up.
5.
Creeksong 05:28
Bird, she flew over the fields Following, singing simple words She came with a car-full of all that we'd lived with Southbound for a while Coming home, coming home We found the worst This town's like time travel Stuck in this plastic antique Selling porcelain wagons all dirty and broken down No one ever leaves Except for the creeks, oh the creeks. Myrtle-berried eyes with matching feathers Watch out! Those Canyon claws Ditch pockets full of dirt Oh that bite, like salt I need water Our dusty wheels leaked syrup and crumbs Just enough so Bird would follow along Still feeling funny from prior proceedings We laughed and cried along To her song, to her song Hours of nothing after nothing But somehow we kept entertained Singing along as we crossed the state border Remembering all that we'd known Coming home, coming home! Cheeks smooth as slate, hands may have seen Battle, Watch out! Mouth like a flume, legs dance like I wish Oh that bite, like a dog But by nightfall she'd flown So close but yet so far alone How I wished for one more day One more hour Bird took off like a stranger Now I couldn't close my eyes The headlights were the only sign that Any road was left On the way home, coming home Coming home Like fools we stopped to rest our weary feat At crossroads, grass on our knees, between all that we'd come from and all we're going back to, No one wants to leave Except for the creeks, oh those creeks. Remembering where and when we were Bird and I tried to take a picture Running into place and racing the time 2 seconds! Not quite enough time But they turned out alright, yeah, alright There alright, yeah, alright, We'll be alright, yeah, alright We're alright, yeah alright.

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released February 16, 2012

Corey O'Hara - Sings/Guitars!
Julia Cosgrove - Sings/Tambourines!
Shohei Kobayashi - Guitars/Banjos/Sings!
Cate Margeson - Violins/Sings!
Jenny Louthan - Trombones!
Ricardo Huerta - Mandolins!
Canaan Schlesinger - Drums!
Jordán Buysse - Bassss!

Music by the Dancing Hats
Words by Corey O'Hara
*except "Creeksong"
Words by Madi Manson and Corey O'Hara

Recorded December 4th & 12th, 2011
at the Map Room, Portland, OR
- www.themaproomstudio.com
Recorded/Produced/Mixed by Paul Laxer
- paullaxer.wordpress.com
Mastered by Adam Gonsalves, Telegraph Mastering
- telegraphaudio.com
Album artwork/design by Madi Manson

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the Dancing Hats Portland, Oregon

The Dancing Hats is a folk-rock n' roll outfit out of Portland, O.R. and they have the most fun. Forming over a weekend excursion to the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and soon adding anybody they could find (violins! trombones! mandolins!), the group stays up late playing anytime they can and would love to sing for you whenever you would like. ... more

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