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Softer Sticks

by Chain of Lakes

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Follow 03:51
i'm tacking all of my lines i'm raking all of my paths from now on take me on all you want take me out but please don't follow me home i keep em all in my sights there's all kinds of space then there's our kind of close i'll take all of em on all at once but I won't let em follow me home noone follows me home
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Cards 03:26
star-falls & the divine hunting down a wishing well knowing that trying just means trying times and nothing else making a case for naught hungry hunters beg for hell with prayers & time & spite just thrown in piles everywhere don't lose heart calm comes between the fits & starts hold closer when the rift rips harder still no part of this is wasted, love we will grow hard but not apart so if all our ends are stacked up in some cards, and dealing hands, and this is ours? i'd see it as a shame. i'm not all for drawing straws, i fold. casting lots... clutching to cards to throw... i can't hold you if i'm holding those.
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Your Day 03:15
if they're gonna make your cry then cry out loud if they're gonna hold you back go hold your own if they're gonna hold you down then thank everyone around and stand up everyone moving fast will slow let em know that you're coming for em let em know hey you there guarding the water hole water hold guards always lure in desperate foe oh, then the tides they change. then the weak, they strengthen. exchange your day you've had your day. speeder believe you will soon lose speed.
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Cool Down 04:31
every season screams here like a bored old parrot in a cage reel between extreme season's sway roll off my shoulder torrid or they're frozen; the constant cramped complaints i'm not all about frost but i'd trade dog days for colder i'm fevered fatigued, dear and i'm not wearing it well there's no grieving lost leaves here i'm all about autumn it seems i'll take winter clothes, cold, and front heaves and still stay warm here i'm a summer shade seeker. old languor, my tell i'm low now on liquor and i'm not wearing it well cool down
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Clear Love 03:48
call guards down this is for boundary shattering buckles and knobs are sudden stimulus spurs manners in heaps beside attire we are scattering i'm gonna love you i'm gonna make this clear, love posture me love for there my never be another one pardon me love for all the covetous greed manners in heaps as we are tenderly battling i'm gonna wear you you'll be wearing me somehow sweet… keep your hands where i can feel them? you'll find that this is one for the ages…
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With Time 03:33
i remember well the fields we have outgrown when we first watched in awe the ball clearing the road we were homegrown champs of those worn end zones back when the seasons changed the shapes we used to throw i have visited the hills we used to slide those we defended with our frozen fists and pride where the bravest neighbors would stand and ride those shoots have all grown over with time do you remember now the bridge we took to raise? so we could cross and walk for miles to where you stayed? fixing dumpster scraps with stolen nails all day... well, the river rose and washed it all away
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only thing i'll always plead is always sing sing be mine now love, and only mine sing beside me we'll be happy here i'll sweep every corner, dear i'll wash ever mirror clear you can see for yourself, my love what the hell i am doing here you're the bird flying over this i'm just gathering softer sticks should you tire then land here, love and you can rest in the heart of it someday you'll sing this dirge once i'm gone i'll have watched you for long enough that i could fly there too
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A New Kind 02:53
each subtle stroke broke through whispers by will as hummingbirds briskly wave wings to fly still i heard sad silence until a bustling burst was your soft pumping trill we've chased fallen leaves and caught em all fingers crossed for the luck they could bring or a new kind of love song to sing we have been waiting here, down on our knees for your heartbeat stop all the world take it in free of spin as the old eagle holds his pose high on the wind i hold my hope close within here in the home we have been digging in we built a room to face the trees we got the naughtiest dog anyone's ever seen and a new kind of love song to sing since you enthralled both my dear darling and me with your heartbeat

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Softer Sticks was recorded in Grand Rapids, MI by Greg Baxter.
Mastered by Ian Gorman at La Luna

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released May 4, 2013

all songs k.rasche copyright 2013 (BMI)

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Chain of Lakes Alto, Michigan

Kyle Rasche is a singer-songwriter from alto, mi. He has written and performed songs as Chain of Lakes since 2010.

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