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Waiting For Midnight

by Alex Rather-Taylor

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Peck So much heart in this track. I like when a fast tempo manages to be soothing and subtle. Favorite track: Marla.
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1.
You're behind every door in my mind I can hear your whispered words as I search for patterns of your thoughts in the wheeling flight of birds. A new onion in each hand my head chalk full and sore the thought of you comes slipping through like a letter under the door I try to tune my very self to your self so far away and I imagine that you're here with me, imagine all things we'd say. I watch a jack rabbit through the window as I flatten down my hair and I imagine I'm receiving signals from you through the morning air I thought I could do better but its so hard without you near There's too much happening in my head I need to read you loud and clear I want to read you loud and clear I need to read you loud and clear
2.
Lucky 02:00
Its lucky that you left got up and flew away like all good birds do these days Its lucky that you left me with this tickle in my chest billowing like a sail white, without detail Its lucky that I left in spite of how impressed I was and I am. Its lucky that I left. There was no because, just a wish bone in my glove cracked in two a wish for you and one for me too. Its lucky that I fled, Escaped from this tapestry that trapped me in my head. Its lucky how it went, here with this paper and this pen. I can't always win what I want or when. Its lucky that we're gone long gone away and dear, its better this way though I wish you were here to stay.
3.
Marla 03:53
Marla woke up having been reborn, full reform. She could only hold it for so long To prolong meant hanging on. And even though she'd undergone. Yeah and even after all she'd done. Marla sat up in a state disturbed, her eyes burned. Weary, reckless and a bit unnerved, reassured herself and heard that Even though she'd overcome and even after all she'd done She'd returned She woke and learned Reaffirmed Forgot in turn Marla's dream invented all these things, everything. In this dream she was the feature of magnificent events and such that Even though that time had passed her dreaming pride was left intact But she'd returned She woke and learned Reaffirmed Forgot in turn She'll make do Afternoon arrives her eyes are glued, neutral mood. Recliner chair assists her states subdued And even though she wants to move her fears persistently control she lets them because she'd weak is all She's returned She woke and learned Reaffirmed Forgot in turn She'll make do
4.
Difference 03:13
The blurred lines are like this the twine wrapped around my fist In the garden sitting pretty Sitting for all to see But the harvest would not be fitting If you were not sitting with me And catching caterpillars from the trees The time lost is days and the days gone Are gone but more stretch out before us and the tendrils on the plants are long But the sinking in my stomach is not wrong For the time that has passed is still gone and those memories like the trunks of trees have transformed and the differences many but the similarities are enough for me And the tops of the trees sing the refrain Music set out and brushed through the leaves Pushed upon, bumped and squeezed
5.
Shameless 02:37
Silence spoken calmly after every nod try to hear your words but I am drifting off. Recognize your lips and the sounds you're pouring out but I'm too involved to try and sort it out. After I complete this song I'll be loving you and I hope that thats ok When I feel your power tear my mind away temptation grabs my thoughts and lets your voice remain Whisper thoughts and kind words encouraging me on but all I want is repetitions of this song After I complete this song I'll be loving you and I hope that thats ok Hope you're ok I complain that I'm boring and I'm dull but when there's life I'm full After I complete this song I'll be loving you and I hope that thats ok Hope you're ok
6.
The World 03:27
Happiness, is it a game? Does it fit into a frame? Does it simply float in the air? Taking the care you can see it floating right there but try not to stare Its gone as fast as it came sinking like a balloon the next day. The party, the party was great but time doesn't wait or save the presents it gave it doesn't even wave. And my bother ends right away Forgetting the moments I've saved and saved Throw away Pocket, hands away. Picture a face you'll forget and hold it as it starts to slip Is the image a faint silhouette, a fragment of what it meant and it meant the world it still means the world.
7.
Trailing You 02:15
I will grab you by the ears I will grab you by the ears I will fill your head with flowers And though they may fall out again I will stay nearby to stuff them in as needed Petals in your ears. I can think of far worse ways to spend my hours than trailing you, picking up flowers.

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released July 23, 2012

All songs written, performed and recorded by Alex Rather-Taylor unless otherwise noted.

Cover art by Rebecca Merris-Miché

Lyrics for Loud and Clear as well as Trailing You by Rosie Wilson Briggs

Lyrics for Difference by Nathan Loceff

Cello on Difference performed by Christian Dupree

Thanks to Miles Wick, Scott Barnyardeby, Michael Spector, Nathan Loceff, Rosie Wilson-Briggs, Darcy Ballister, Rebecca Merris-Miché, Robin Wilson, Danny Kendrick, Paul Hanna, Tyler Tebrich and everyone else who listened to and gave me advice on these songs!

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