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Song for the Singer

from Year Of Endless Light by Wilder Maker

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    NOTE: having traveled from apartment to apartment with me, and due to various decisions i made trying to save money in production, these LP jackets are a little banged up. I apologize for this, but I have to sell them as is. There should be no issue with the vinyl itself, just the jackets.

    Vinyl version of the album, comes with a lovely full download of ALL EIGHT tracks in whatever form you please. Artwork by Jordan Piantedosi, layout by Katie Von Schleicher, insert with full lyrics. Edition of 500.

    Tracklist:

    Side A
    I. Float Us Through The Barroom
    II. Song For The Singer

    Side B
    I. Slow Life
    II. Lullaby
    III. Holy Night

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    Cassette version of the album, handy for your Walkmen. Comes with a full download of all eight tracks in whatever form you please. Amazing artwork by Jordan Piantedosi, and layout by Katie Von Schleicher. Edition of 250.

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lyrics

here's a song for the singer who's trembling with light
so bright and so brief a bulb burning
out in the darkness of the held breath blue hour
she lets me see the way her eyes are wet and rimmed around with
red like the skin around my handprint on her hip
I am the secret that she will not tell the next one

There'll be peace in the valley child but not 'til we're old
'til our bodies have abandoned their planetary 
pulls on my collar breathes from deep in her throat
she says let's make it hotter than a center-
fold me in two I am weak as a dollar
I am passed from hand to hand for pleasure

but in the clear night
when I stand at the mirror
proud and upright
flying like a flag
muscles singing
in a hundred part harmony
my body's meaning
unlocked by her body

When she holds me in her arms I know it is not me at all
it is the wish that is the heartache that will kill her by and by

and by the way her hand lights on my hip at the bar
I know for certain that tonight we will be lovers

she says your clothes look so good in a pile on my floor
I say the idea of you is enough to start a war
it's heat lightning in my heart

her heartbeat mingles with the rain drums on the windowsill
and it seems every single thing's alive and so so far away

but in the clear night
when I stand at the mirror
proud and upright
flying like a flag
muscles singing
in a hundred part harmony
my body's meaning
unlocked by her body

and every now and again she comes to me in a dream
she says you don't have the gift the gift has you
she says let your demons cover you in kisses
she says you never gave me quite enough
and in the morning I feel the absence after the train
and my heart rings and rings like the telephone in the apartment next door
it rings louder
and it beats harder
it is the clenching of the fist in my chest
it is a heart that will beat me to death

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from Year Of Endless Light, released September 10, 2013

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