When The Day Leaves, the new album from Valley Maker
released February 19, 2021 on Frenchkiss Records
Includes lyric booklet insert
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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Released Feb 19, 2021 on Frenchkiss Records. Second pressing, on limited edition sky blue vinyl.
Includes unlimited streaming of When The Day Leaves
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
ships out within 5 days
$20USDor more
about
Produced by Trevor Spencer
Recorded at Way Out studio in Woodinville, WA
Song written by Austin Crane
lyrics
I was not prepared for the real, living beauty
Sleeping in everything to wake up and undo me
And I know what I meant, but the meaning kept growing
Into some kind of static, ghost-ridden smokescreen
My mother, my father, though time made us strangers
I’m a child in your house, and I’m grateful for my dinner
And I wait there
Well I cut my teeth, like so many before me
In the pine tree, Bible Belt, purgatory
One picture I’ve held, with so many escaping, is
My grandmother’s vision through a glass dimly
Now I’m walking with you
It’s precisely when the day leaves
And the tops of the trees look frozen in a painting
And I wait there
How could I forget all the colors I’ve seen
That kind of blue that emits off the sound in the spring
And I know where I’ve been
Though I’m now often sinking
Into meaninglessness, stupidity, and grieving
And I thank you for one more day I’ve been given
Just to lie down beside and feel the night erase it
And I wait there
I long for peace and I long to be riven
By the only judgement, love among the living
Now the border checkpoints, the rifles, the politician jackals
Eat themselves, they laugh at forgiveness
Well I was not prepared for your daughter to visit
There’s a strength in her life that defeats all their bullshit
And I wait there
I was not prepared for the real, living beauty
Sleeping in everything to wake up and undo me
With the stars in the sky, when the birds all surround me
In their fractured patterns, they cry while they’re laughing
Now I’m walking with you
It’s precisely when the weight leaves
And I’m floating, knowing the puzzle is not changing
And I wait there
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