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Let's Dance Vol​.​1 & C​-​Sides

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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Extra Long Play, limited edition cassette. Beautiful vibrant 80s colors, beautiful vibrant 80s inspired dance tracks, featuring drum machine, casio-keyboards, bass, and vocal harmonies. "People sometimes get you wrong, their conclusions - it figures - are poorly drawn, so let's dance!" LET'S DANCE!

    Includes unlimited streaming of Let's Dance Vol.1 & C-Sides via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Get all 6 skiing releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of "Spring", "Winter", Let's Dance Vol. 2, Let's Dance Vol.1 & C-Sides, Blue Hydrangeas, and Skiing//Mother of the Unicorn. , and , .

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1.
Called a friend the other day Was sad to hear he's not ok Took him out for a drive and watched him turn the radio dial and asked Do you wanna drive or watch it passing by? Do you wanna die? I know your answer, right? I think you're wrong 'cause you can get through this you aren't too far gone you can keep your heart you won't turn to metal He says 'in this society, where we're taught to lose our empathy we've internalized our oppression and let other's shape our self opinion" Do you wanna drive, or let the others try? Do You wanna die? 'we're taught to doubt and disbelieve disguise our vulnerabilites' Well who can break this tragic chain? And who can free us from this pain? I want an answer!
2.
Take your time Don't rush through just 'cause that's what they tell you to As you like Feel like you feel, and n'er for it apologize It's your time, your life Do what you like Be who you are The rest is secondary Secondary concerns Live your life Don't waste your time on what everybody's though of you Free your mind Think as you think, and always to yourself be true And there you are, there you are.
3.
The earth is round You can call it how How you want Though it won't thus so be You talk loud and proud You command the crowd But flattery from tyranny's Unsound People sometimes get it wrong They'll light a candle And call it dawn So let's dance No one is made of truth Though I believe you too So if you humor me I will humor you People sometimes get it wrong They'll like a candle And call it dawn People sometimes get you wrong Their conclusions, it figures, Are poorly drawn So let's dance! Let's Dance!
4.
It's a miracle to be It's a blessing and a curse Whether you are at your best or your worst As it's all the same to me Let's spare the sanctimony I will tell a joke at your funeral 'Cause there's still laughter When the leaves fall You go on living As the earth cools And the fire's dying down Time's a series of events Everything in a sequence All that's real is now And just before it passes If it's all the same to you To the past, let's bid adieu To the future, we'll see you when we see you Where did the time go? Is it buried? Are you the dumb dog Digging up time's bones? Are the clock hands Chasing their own tales around? When your friend died You felt lighter Why's it weird to admit that Aren't you a good boy And did you use that As an excuse for Your other problems? And that's ok too But they were actually there before And the fire's dying down And the clock hand is chasing its own tale around Around Around Around Around...
5.
Extras 02:14
Take a bus downtown It's Friday night Gonna see some friends Gonna start a fight You're gonna make a movie Yeah, where you're the star Do you need some extras? I thought you'd never ask Gonna take the train Far away Gonna see my friends on Sunday You're gonna make a movie Yeah, where you're the star Do you need some extras? Gonna write a poem and it will win your heart Gonna make a song and it will win your heart Gonna write a book and it will win your heart
6.
Hyasynths 01:09
"I am in love With him to whom A hyacinth is dearer than I shall ever be dear On nights when the field mice are abroad He cannot sleep He heard their narrow teeth gnawing at the bulbs of his hyacinths But the gnawing at my heart he does not hear" I love him He loves me not
7.
On & On 03:04
"On & on We just keep on trying Though we smile Though we feel like crying On & on On & on"
8.
Breakout 03:31
"Don't stop to ask Now you've found a break To make it last You've got to find a way Say what you want to say Breakout!"
9.
Bowl of Dust 03:47
15 years later the old boat broker is still at his trade, but cannot retire unfortunately, or for from higher powers, keeping him young if young means still having a back to break I know him well, in our course, we've walked side by side I arrive at the decorated house to find him in a crowd in festive huddle the time here ticks quietly slow to tears, photographs, embraces hours later I will meet my old dusty room and disturb the fine grey powder, time thrown, and sit on the creaking wicker chair my dusty toothbrush next to the mirror which can catch only the present reflection, inevitably I will return time to this house these reflections and shadows and I will go to speak to my father the eternal watchman and one of these days I will sit down and eat my bowl of dust like all the rest I will sit down and eat my bowl of dust like all the rest

about

4 Track E.P. plus 5 C-Sides.

credits

released December 16, 2019

Written, recorded, played, and mixed by Everett
Mastered by Joe Kelly
Artwork by Csaba Kozma

Thanks to Csaba, Daniel, Joe, Kevin, Molly, Nadia, René, Stefi, Susanna, and Volker.

This album is dedicated to my family, by birth and by choice.

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The moon itself will move away
All that in this world that's bought
Now or then returns to nought
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