Lamplight video (directed by Mylène Simard)
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Receiver
03:21
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I'm a taker receiver
I always get what I take
You only take what they leave you
You get nothing if you keep that rate
I'm a sayer repeater
I'll suck the time from your eyes
While you follow the leader
I'll take your soul and your merchandise
Thanks to you I haven't been the same since
You made me want to die
Die on the crutches of time
I'm a lover believer
Cupid shoots at a glance
He’s not trying to kill you
He just wants to see you dance
With arrows falling around you
Until one gets in your skin
Yo’re not sure what’s found you
You’ll never know what kind of trouble you’re in
Oh my love I haven't been the same
Since you made me want to fall
Fall from the crutches of time
It's a trusted opinion
The popular advice
It must be one in a million
I’d be surprised if it happens twice
Oh my love I haven't been the same
Since you made me want to fall
Fall from the crutches of time
Oh my love you haven't been the same
Since you made me want to fall
Fall from the crutches of time
Fall from the crutches of time
Fall from the crutches of time
Fall from the crutches of time
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2. |
I Wanted More
02:49
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I told you when I met you I was very hard to please
But I didn’t want it to get in the way
You told me where to look to to find a place of peace
Somewhere that maybe I could stay
I need a place to stay
I was disconnected I was floundering
I could only see the clock up on the wall
The ticking and the tocking and the trial by fire
Couldn't get myself unstuck at all
I needed a place to fall
All my life
I wanted more
Now I know I have it all
You can't trust your body cause it always lies
The body is ruled by martial law
You can't trust your mind because it just asks why
Something about a fatal flaw
Answering the call, I was answering the call
All my life
I wanted more
Now I know I have it all
Now I know I have it all
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Love will get you high
But you have to burn it up
Keep it deep inside you
Then let it blow away
Love will get you high
But you have to burn it up
Keep it deep inside you
Then let it blow away
Keep your lamplight low
Soon to know
Soon to know
Keep your lamplight low
Soon to know
Soon to know
I left without a sound
Without an echo in the hallway
Not even just a footstep
Or brush against the wall
But it echoed in the night
You could hear it far and wide
The soft probably
The adult Lullaby
Keep your lamplight low
Soon to know
Soon to know
Keep your lamplight low
Soon to know
Soon to know
The end of something good
Is the start of something better
So breathe like you should
And let it blow away
Keep your lamplight low
Soon to know
Soon to know
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4. |
We Walk By
03:05
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We walk by
We walk through
We make a splash with everything that we do
We can pout we can flaunt
We’re used to getting everything that we want
But you can't be trapped in the magic forever
There's got to be a moment when you feel untrue
We set up
We tear down
We caravan from town to town
We’ve got the passion got the love
We’ve got the footage for the making of
You can't be trapped in the moment forever
There’s got to way to make the picture stay
What can you do
When all you really want is to be true?
Out of step out of place
I’d be lost without your beacon face
There’s no trade publication
For what we really want to do
For what we really want to do now
(Looking at the world turned upside down)
We walk by
We walk through
We make a splash with everything that we do
We can pout we can flaunt
We’re used to getting everything that we want
But you can't be trapped in the moment forever
There's got to be a moment when you feel untrue
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There is no truth
That cannot sing
So think up something
And let it ring
Contentment is simple
So is good cheer
Look death in the eye
And whisper in its ear
Put some air into the sound
Put some sound into the air
Clackity clack
Only indecision
Can make a man regret
What he hasn't even done
He can't forget
You were spinning like top
Then caught in the gears
An all-new season
Of sitcom tears
Put some air into the sound
Put some sound into the air
Clackity clack
If he’d only got it right
Could have been a great man
Pictured kissing world leaders
And shaking babies' hands
But standing in a snowbank
Looking at the moon
Listen closely is he howling
Or just whistling a tune?
Put some air into the sound
Put some sound into the air
Clackity clack
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6. |
The Devil
05:28
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The devil had my love
The devil had my love
All my life the devil had my love
The devil had my love
The devil had my love
All my life the devil had my love
Apple in the tree, the foam in the sea
All my life the devil had my love
Platonic and tough, devotional and free
All my life the devil had my love
Oh the flower the delicate flower brings the bees that sting
The delicate flower the anticipation hour awaiting everything
Add a few more zeroes before you sign the check
Before I could even begin to forgive your debt
I'm kidding of course only making fun
No amount of zeroes that could make up for what you've done
Oh the flower the delicate flower brings the bees that sting
The delicate flower the anticipation hour awaiting everything
Stranded on the tarmac no contact with the tower
All my life the devil had my love
Motionless machine static on the ground
All my life the devil had my love
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7. |
Cemetery Trees
04:00
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They called you gold digger
They called you other things
They hid your name
It didn’t take you by surprise did it?
I told them to be kinder but they didn't
I called you a seeker
I told them they were wrong
I told them to behave
They were looking at the old you
They’d been looking at the same thing too long
We paid our dues
We gave it Hell
We earned it with our sweat and blood
We thrummed the heartstrings
Until there were blisters on our thumbs
But we’re alright
We’ve got the windows open
And though it’s cold outside
We’ve got the stereo pumping
Blaring out at the cemetery trees
They say it’s a wasteland
That it’s nobody’s home
Sick of living on a sofa bed
There’s a frozen yogurt stand
Where our ex-landlord got stabbed
But I can trust in you
You can trust in me
I can tell you what I want to hear
You can show me what you want to see
You can show me what you want to see
But we’re alright
We’ve got the windows open
We feel no pain
We’ve got the stereo pumping
Blaring out at the cemetery trees
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8. |
Mother Tongue
02:58
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Do you remember when I said
All your memories are in your head?
Ooh such a cultivated turn of phrase
But you said poetry never pays
Thoughts are crude
The mouth is a refinery
Powered by the mind
And talk is a landscape
Ravaged and dug up by the need to speak
Mother tongue
Mother tongue
She always eats her young
You were depressed
The death of the party unimpressed
You opened up your eyes to speak
And broken glass came down your cheek because
Mother tongue
Mother tongue
She always eats her young
Mother tongue
Mother tongue
She always eats her young
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9. |
Glacier Love
04:29
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Sweet licks be the major chord beneath my wings
When the beat skips we move on to better things
But I won't be the rhythm that pull you along
The call of the low life I'm told is very strong
We worked days and now we’re working nights
When the clock ticks we move on to bigger things
But I won't be punctuation in a life untold
The call of the low life I'm told
It’s very strong
In the salt air the rush of the white cap waves
It swallows you up and leaves an empty space
But I won’t be the mouth of the river this time
The pressure to make up your mind is very strong
Is very strong
I told you the same thing everyone else did but you knew
Everything I have you know I send it out to you
As cold as I am you know I’m melting up above
Glacier love
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10. |
Talking Blues
03:36
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There’s a part of me that covers too much
And a part of you that gets kicked up like dust
The moon’s gone down on lovers before
And it always slips into tomorrow
The songbird that suddenly talks
And the fish on the land that’s starting to walk
Then some fool throws him back in the pond
And so he slips into tomorrow
So many nights
Almost ready
Almost alive
Pummeling rains on a hot summer night
The flask is dry but we’re feeling alright
The closest store is all the way in town
And so we slip into tomorrow
The mouthpiece with the disarming smile
The common thread the miracle mile
The song bird sings and we listen a while
And we slip into tomorrow
So many nights
Almost ready
Almost alive
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11. |
Blue Light
03:03
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In the blue light I know
I can take it as slow
As I want to
We’re all lazy it’s true
Can’t be trusted to do
What we don't want to
In the blue light I know
I can take it as slow
As I want to
We’re all visionary
Can’t be trusted to see
What we don't want to
In the blue light I know
I can take it as slow
As I want to
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12. |
Monrovia
03:13
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We started out enlightened
We ended in the dark
We suffered for our art along the way
Tan lines on our elbows and dust our eyes
We made it to the border before day’s end
Leaning to west our shadow was our wake
As the sun scraped down the windshield off the sky
Monrovia
You’re drinking up the sun
I’ve never seen your skyline but I know
A wrong turn could help us to unlearn
In an instant you know the beauty and the curse
We saw it in the distance
And we opened up our eyes
And we killed it as we took it in our gaze
The fear of dying and the threat of being alive
In an instant they are both just the same
Monrovia
You’re drinking up the sun
I’ve never seen you skyline but I know
A long road could help us to unload
In an instant you know the beauty and the curse
We started out enlightened and ended in the dark
We suffered for our art along the way
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Michael Feuerstack Montreal, Québec
Montreal-based song-maker, musician and producer Michael Feuerstack (fka Snailhouse) has built an ever growing archive of crooked and beautiful songs. Live and on record, Feuerstack’s panoramic and literate song-craft can be heard in many forms, transcending boundaries with his unmistakable voice and unique perspective hovering between humour and heartbreak. ... more
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