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Blind Spots
01:11
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Salacious stories
Curvaceous lady
This spaceship sure feels spacious lately
Maybe in some other time zone
We’ll go and get our minds blown
Instead of why it will be why not
Love rolling in the blind spots
Police lights flashing outside Maidstone
Some impatient farmer hauling horses
Big skies can’t get any bigger
Love rolling in the blind spots
A switch flicks in your heart
And an ocean descends from above
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2. |
High Summer
02:34
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High summer
Winding up the full moon
Eros, broken arrows flyin’ sideways down the hall
Babe, it seems it only took a lifetime in a weekend
Realising, maybe you & I
We’re really not so different after all
High summer
Tight roping, camp-firing
Firing on all cylinders, now I’m lost in the woods
Rewired, desiring one real reveal
Babe, I think we can change the world
Babe, do you think we should?
Don’t just sit there
Be careful what you wish for
When we gonna get there?
Should we get off on this floor?
Words fail me
At least the ones I choose to use for you
High summer
My high summer
You are my sunshine
You got my number
High summer
High summer
I’m your winter in the fine print
Ring me if you find it lost in January blues
High summer
Baby, meet me in the fall
Maybe you & I
We’re really not so different after all
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3. |
Iona
02:00
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Some loves will never make sense
Two twos aren’t four when you look my way
I can’t just sit on the fence
and watch the Bras d’Or day after day
Three years ago when we met
Leaving your lips, I heard my words
Before the total eclipse
Ooh, we were free
Free as the birds
Iona
If you’re at my door
You hold the key
Iona
I’m on your floor
I’m down on my knees
Iona
You owe me nothing
We’re even
Iona
My only
I’m leaving
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4. |
Let Me Go, Jo
04:09
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Wide eyed, looking sky high
Wondering why I can’t fly by
This place in the sun
Tracing the blue, chasing the one
Above or below
Let me go, Jo
Let me go, Jo for a spell
To find my way to Heaven
Or wind my way through Hell
Let me go, Jo
Let me go make my mistakes
The pedal to the metal
Just to know that them’s the brakes
Breaking news, making waves, making art
Waking you up with a broken heart
That’s alright, that’s ok
It’s all part of the show
It’s the cinema you know
So let me go, Jo
Let me go for a spell
To find my way to Heaven
Or wind my way through Hell
Let me go, Jo
Let me go make something up
Let curiosity kill this cat
Or fill his empty cup
Stepping out on a daydream
Ain’t got a doubt in the grand scheme
East to the West
‘Cause the restless don’t settle for rest
No, we sleep on the road
So let me go
Let me go
To find my way to Heaven
Or wind my way below, Jo
Let me go, Jo
If I’m still here pretend I’m gone
To find the silver lining
The horizon’s rolling on, Jo
Let me go, Jo
Before I forget how
I’ll go nowhere for the encore, Jo
Let me go somewhere now
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5. |
Rainy Day Janey
02:49
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Rainy Day Janey, may I take the lazy way home?
And borrow your wheels
Pretty please?
It’s coming down, heavy now
I’m gonna get soaked to the bone
And you know how that feels in the breeze
I hear the sound of rolling thunder
See lightning on the line
This heavy cloud I am under
Defining divine
Rainy Day Janey, it seems now I’m slurring my words
Can I crash on your couch for a spell?
Your whole room is spiralling
Spinning the Stones and The Byrds
And Janey, they’re ringin’ my bell
Just gimme a couple hours
And Jane, I’ll be outta your hair
When there’s a break in the showers
I’ll start walking there
Rainy Day Janey, the weather has taken a turn
Can I sleep on your floor for the night?
I don’t have a pillow but that’s not my going concern
I can roll up my jacket alright
I’ll let myself out in the mornin’
You won’t even know I was here
From your living room floor I heard you snorin’
I adore you my dear
Rainy Day Janey, may I take the lazy way home?
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One Real Reveal
06:55
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I’m not so sure it’s gonna set us free
But if you’re walking out the door
Wait for me
I’m hot on your heels
I know how it feels
Waiting on one real reveal
You and I, we go back
Up on high
Down the track
Around the bend, back again
We hide away, they count from
Ten, nine, eight - don’t wait too long
Five, four, three - too late we’re gone
Searching
Searching
Searching
For something real to feel
I’m not so sure I’m gonna say a word
After all the ones I’ve heard other people saying
Lying and betraying
Thinking they’re the only ones who know the way in
All of me, I will follow you
Any door that you pass through
Stepping in to now and then
We hide away, they count from
Ten, nine, eight - don’t wait too long
Five, four, three - too late we’re gone
Searching
Searching
Searching
For something real to feel
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I Sell Flowers
01:27
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With eyes closed in mid air
I knew where we would meet
Your shoulders and arms bare
At King and Portland St
Hiding in plain sight
Above you, in bright light
Hang tight, it’s alright
This world can disappear
I loved you, I lost you
I held the door you walked through
A ghost ship from stern to bow
I sell flowers now
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8. |
Character Witness
00:53
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Did I conjure you?
With the keys and the ribbon
As a character witness
To my ups and my downs
Was that you checking in
With the cats in the kitchen?
Watching starlings from the window
While you were making the rounds
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Variations on a Theme
04:37
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Righteous, so righteous
We might just forget where we are
Tonight just went up outta sight
Down here at the bar
Surrounded, we’re surrounded
By creatures we try to explain
Fly as we might we get grounded
Again & again & again
Loves that defy explanation
Lips we could kiss through the screen
Variations on a theme
Tricky, it’s tricky
To rock around when they wanna roll
Everything under the sun into one Over-Soul
Every, every minute
Every moment that we hold the thought
Of splitting the difference
Our opposite’s tying the knot
Planets in heavy rotation
Strangers we meet on the scene
Variations on a theme
Confessions we make at the station
Lies that we tell in between
Variations on a theme
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10. |
It's Almost Over Now
04:19
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There’s a river running through
Every memory with you
To the ocean from the mountain
Couldn’t find it up above
When I went looking for your love
You sent me down here to the fountain
Wild is the Wind Cries Mary
Into the Great Wide Open prairie sky
The only thing as blue and as high as I am
Watch the stray cats in the yard
Watching starlings on the wire
Watch the hearts we set on fire
Slipping in & out of time
To the moments I am yours
In these memories you are mine...
In your rayon dress
Learning all your curves
Turning all the boys into hummingbirds
‘Cross a crowded room
My eyes followed you
And you drew me close ‘cause you wanted to
Heard the Rolling Stones
’Til you turned the dial
And you took me home for a little while
There was no one else
And the walls came down
And we fooled ourselves, yeah, we fooled around
From the parlour doors
That you led me through
Said you wanted me like I wanted you
And you turned it on
Turned our love up loud
And we sang a song
It’s almost over now
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11. |
The New Joys
04:57
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Blind Spots
Craned my neck, looked back
Saw dots connecting broken track
Hearts down the alley
Start rallying real love
Shall we show it?
We reaped it, we ripped it
So now we sew it
Eyes were open but can’t be sure
Exactly what I was looking for
Other than myself
Still some days, I hate to say
I just have eyes to look away
Words upon words, hooks into hooks
Can’t undo, can’t run through
Can’t uncook the books
What’s old where nothing’s new?
So we hold our breath
Hit the wall
Half the time we fall
Other times we hang our heads
Blame it on our parents, their parents
This country, these threads
Or the first two words, after the title of course
Lay nothing on The New Joys
When we’re not busy thinking too much
I suppose we should be thinking this through
We look down at the road
Think, “This is rough.”
Then up at the clouds
Thinking, “Now that’s enough.”
Words - still weaving
Hemmed in by them now
“Some days” he says “they’re all I’ve got.”
Should I say this out loud?
But then there’s you
Outside this high definition
The real 2020
Vision of beauty
Not just on this channel but the whole shebang
Moving truth
Not “shot through with explanation”
Upstairs, there are no holes in this story
Only windows in
I’m rarely up before the sun and this half dream
The one where I’m in your parlour, is fading fast
The other half’s still caught up
With the cats in the kitchen
Dishes to do - yawning now
Dawning on me “It’s hard to learn the ropes
when you’re not up against them.”
Listening
Talking slower
’Til you wind me up and we wind up somewhere else
Time’s up somewhere else
But that’s not here, not yet
Thoughts to matter
Form from force
What are we doing?
Why, we’re performing, of course
Try as I might, to get these words right
Come on - type-write - tear it up!
Are you stuck?
Stuck in the snow?
Can we roll?
Roll with the white out?
Best foot forward?
Nah, best turn the light out
Sleep, let’s sleep on it, babe
Baby, please don’t go
Down to Nouvelle Ecosse
Through this cold triangle
Stay close
Okay - hit ‘em up if you must - every angle
Unity’s not mutually exclusive
When The Old Boys Club can book a room
at The New Joys Inn
Goddamn you’re a character but I can’t find the key for you
This? This afternoon?
Tea for two?
Maybe then I get a clearer picture
What is in fact true
This blue you’ve been though
And where you’re going
And how close to follow when it’s snowing
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12. |
Breezy Jane
01:43
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Breezy Jane, where ya been all my life?
Breezy Jane
I was goin’ through the motions I was stayin’ in my lane
Now I couldn’t care less that I’m standin’ in the rain
Where ya been, where ya been all my life, Breezy Jane?
Breezy Jane, you’re the frame and the reference point
You’re the spark & the flame
You’re the whole damn joint
I’ll say it all again & again & again
Where ya been? Where ya been all my life?
Like a precious metal, you’re extractin’ it
Like a higher power, you’re contactin’ it
Your love’s a contract hit
You got my number & my name
Where ya been, where ya been all my life, Breezy Jane?
Breezy Jane, where you been?
You been turnin’ up the gain
Rippin’ and a-rockin’ and a-drivin’ me insane
Like Mercury & Bowie shakin’ bottles of champagne
Where ya been all my life?
Like a precious metal, you’re extractin’ it
Like a higher power, you’re contactin’ it
You swept me off my feet, like a holy hurricane
Where ya been, where ya been all my life, Breezy Jane?
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Joel Plaskett Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
For over three decades, Joel Plaskett has proven himself a spinning wheel of reinvention. The Nova Scotia songwriter's eclectic body of work reveals a restless and playful spirit, always transforming and expanding.
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