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they don't love the songs

by Dear Rabbit

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1.
we knew it struck at you from that photograph
2.
bring me a sweet melody the songs we used to sing when we had sweet harmony before they sifted to deep they talk at the shows outside they smoke they don't love the songs streets that they pave scars that they make they don't love these lands bring me a sweet memory pre-false-technology find us a nice shady tree sing how things might-could-should be
3.
dear rabbit 03:03
oh you hop hide under that tree why must you fear me? there's a snow storm coming our way i hope or so i pray you'd best get in from that storm you'd best try to keep warm there's coffee in the house coffee fresh and now pour a cup for me watch leaves yellow i'll sing for you while we dream of snow little bird high up in that tree would you sing a song with me? there's a snow storm coming our way i hope or so i pray
4.
a beggar in the streets he asks for food to eat even dime to spare i walk on still as if i never cared oh Lord change my heart you gotta break it so far apart i'm getting old yet my heart is cold can you break this?
5.
as i sit i wish i was not here somewhere else i'd sit and watch prancing deer what's that out the window i see? glisten of snow behind the big old tree oh you pretty deer what drives your fears? oh you pretty deer we got so near
6.
when we were young we would play with ants make them crawl on sticks they rode on just like boats crawled on sticks that float and they rode like boats they sailed some distant streams, distant streams mother told me don't torment the ants they work hard they work very hard
7.
coffee's tasting great today brewed in such a special way pour a cup here while i read feel the fresh air that we breathe that we? coffee tasted great then but we made it spill when chores caught up with the fun records spinning 'round were grand before the sad turn spilled coffee now it's gone so where's the coffee what'd you say? could it be a pleasant day? spilled the coffee oh you say my dismay laundry and the bills they they don't make it okay spilled coffee got me down quite a clumsy spilla so grab a mop there will ya? and wipe this mess up from the ground
8.
sing a song with me can you sing? can you sing? i miss the winter like i miss the spring so long spring as school kids pack the bus outside no more july so long july as times like this fly by fly by fly by fly by i'm watching spiders crawl on this old blank white wall i think about her every now and then now and then but like before again she's with new friend he's her new friend now my brother with his wife a happy family life my sister's job she found our parents she makes proud i'm watching spiders crawl i watch the spiders crawl on this old blank white wall it's still a blank white wall sing a song with me can you sing? can you sing? i miss the winter like i miss the spring so long spring
9.
i'm reminded every single day i look out the window and see and see the scar that they made how i miss thee i miss thee old tree

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SIDE A
1. Thatrattlesnakeyouphotographed 2:59
2. They don't love the songs 3:40
3. Dear rabbit 3:02
4. Can you break this? 3:27
5. Oh! you pretty deer 4:25

SIDE B
6. A song about ants 2:09
7. Coffeetastedgreatuntilwespilledit 6:56
8. Watching spiders crawl 5:11
9. The scar that they made 3:27

credits

released August 6, 2011

Mike Clark - banjo (4) |
Shawn Stafford - drums/percussion (1-4, 6-8) |
Paul Keen - guitar (1-3, 6), mandolin (1-2) |
E.J. Swider - bass trombone (1-2, 4, 7), tuba (6) |
Chris White - trombone (1, 7) |
Brian Arnot - clarinet (2, 3, 7) |
Rence - vocals (1-9), accordion (1-4, 6-7), cornet (1-2, 7-9) , piano (3, 5, 7-9), french horn (5, 9), organ (3-4, 8), field recording (9) |
Uncredited friends sang additional vocals at the end of 'they don't love the songs' at a party.

All songs written by Rence. This album was produced by Conor Bourgal and Ian Bourgal, except 'Oh! you pretty deer' and 'The scar that they made' were recorded by Rence and mixed by Ian Bourgal and Conor Bourgal. Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering.

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"They're Not Like You...the charm of an off-kilter, '50s sci-fi movie soundtrack in glorious rock 'n' roll. Think Roky Erickson and the B-52s with some good ole American grit.." - B. Simm, BeatRoute, Calgary, AB

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