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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Limited edition cassette tape featuring "Vacant" by Steven Michael Holmes and "Metanoia" by Matt Langlais. Hand screen-printed album packaging, original artwork for "Vacant" by Monica Dubray.

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1.
Stay Warm 04:00
stay warm, don't go outside don't leave the light on, don't even try to say i'm sorry for yesterday when all our problems are still the same can i follow you down that trail my brittled bones might break, my red skin reads like braille can i sleep in your bed when you leave i'll wash the sheets, my temptations i won't relieve for what i've got i give and i give but i never get of all your problems i'm glad that ya put up with it you sink like ice, i float like a broken brick if you're not home stay warm tonight whether or not you ever come home at all the same thorn pulled from my side was found five counties west of where you run and hide it's how the east was won, the northern freeze december rain came hard and froze us to our knees
2.
hunker down, sing a little tune with me press rewind, erase everything red hydrant sprinkler, hook line and sinker water balloon fight. rubber wound finger. she's a six o'clock SAY soccer game she's hotter than a midsummers day and i'm wilting away in the shade last in the treat line i remain capri sun glory for my rotten aim nothing's ever going to be the same corner crust piece queen, the jammed printer paper ream hide under stairs clenching nerf gun weaponry running from cops after ding dong ditch knocks when the good times were measured by the mud on our socks she's a six o'clock SAY soccer game she's hotter than a midsummers day and i'm wilting away in the shade stayed out late after the hockey game our mothers worry and our fathers blame but nothing's ever going to be the same behold vacant iron mountain, one day together and four days left. behold vacant iron mountain, where the awkward sun was born.
3.
does it even make you cry does it even make you try at all i know i do. i know i do. if only you knew everything that i didn't do i know you do. i know you do. in a forest of empty trees a nest and a broken seed in a forest of empty trees the cold earth beneath our feet when nothing's left - still, there is you maybe you knew this was one thing you couldn't see through i know you knew. i know you knew.
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Everyone 04:19
everyone wants it to be true so why don't you breathe like i do where do you crawl into? everyone looks the same through blurry, broken outdated prescription lenses framed except for you, you sang the truth you played the chords that we always knew sing a little louder pretend that you can't hear my voice the ground is getting colder every day that you aren't here speak a little softer pretend that you can't hear my voice the leaves are getting older every day that you aren't here like how i always knew that i'd find out lying down without a buckler or a steed. it came too soon, the end your grand finale has just began
6.
you dream so fast asleep so fast to comfort me can you spare a couple sheep? have you seen god lately he owes me a couple drinks that cat's been haunting me it's not like you to run away from this turn back now or suffer consequence you breathe so quietly i stutter, shake, i wonder if she'll never leave my quilt, my tent, my wreath the broken boat under the stream that carried me it's not like you to run away from this the prairie moon under which where we kissed i can't believe i caught you i can't believe i guessed you dream so fast asleep so fast to comfort me can you spare a couple sheep? have you seen god lately he owes me a couple drinks that cat's been haunting me it's not like you to run away from this remember june when december hits i can't believe i caught you i can't believe we kissed
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credits

released December 30, 2013

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all songs written and performed by Steven Michael Holmes
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engineered/produced by Andrew Benda & SMH
mixed by SMH
mastered by Ben Lau at Double Phelix
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additional personnel :
Marie Orttenburger, violin / cover art lettering
Kevin Johnson, drums on Rural Hymns (reprise)
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my endless thanks to the following. without them
this album would not have been possible :
John & Brian Christensen, Lindsay Groeneveld,
Andrew Benda, Arthur James LaFave,
Kevin Johnson, Lorna March,
Marie Orttenburger & The Entire Smith Family

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