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The Catch Album

by Chain of Lakes

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1.
Fathershaus 02:43
knotted cedar logs all stained and stacked up into walls east-facing a-frame, clear to see the lake from tucked in a cove there where the route runs out of road good old basset boy passed out beside the wood stove some see a cabin a tack on a map with some price tag attached some miss the world for the ground i see my father’s house inlays and purfl ings shine in abelone pearl sweet sitka spruce top, classic Martin headstock gold tune machines, man it’s fancy as can be but you’ve gotta close your eyes to know what i mean some hear a dreadnaught full growling bass as the treble rides the wave some craftsman’s fine work of art i hear my father’s guitar you’ll see a full grown man with his heart on his sleeve singing, making songs to make another one some see delusion some see blind, deaf delusion i see my father’s son
2.
i was a wedding singer before now most of those end in divorce not because of my singing but it sure got me thinking i’m not doing that shit anymore i was a barroom singer for years jim beam, oasis, and beers i’d do that again just to sing with Flynn man i wish that kid was still here corner of the bar superstar top-shelf above the bar stage it’s where i’ll sing and play the night away while you all watch the game i still sing hallelujah in church but i’m not all that sold on the words but i’ll gladly play covers for the faithful others and if it turns out that they’re right it can’t hurt choir loft guitar superstar most of those chords are the same my recessionals sound professional and get you home for the game my star it shines bright as can be right around bedtime i’ll start to sing i’m a bonafide lullaby king and an old campfire troubadour i couldn’t love dancing flames more when we pass the guitar under real country stars it warms my soul to the core corner of the yard superstar noone mispronouncing my name i found an audience of songwriter friends so you can have your damn game
3.
Catch 04:18
grandpa came to visit don’t think i was even six yet he said why aren’t you outside with the brand new mitt i sent you i said grandpa i’m so grateful that you send anything at all but that glove hardly holds a ball and he laughed his ass off he said how could i forget you can’t just send a kid a mitt without a good old heart-to-heart about just how to break it in you can’t rush a glove to greatness that’s why I’m starting you right now go get it i’ll show you how my grand-dad showed me how you pound on the pocket with your fist tap a mallet on the webbing rub in a little lanolin tie it up tight under your mattress and you’ll feel it breaking in once you’re out for crying out loud playing catch with it those summers that he came felt like more than just a game we’d spend all those hours outside shagging flies and reacquainting i’d say grandpa i’m so grateful that we found all this time to talk but cmon man could you throw the ball and he’d laugh his ass off i grew out of that glove but i kept it safe and sound now my own kid’s growing up so i found it and pulled it out turns out she’s a lefty i hear grandpa laughing now as we break in her brand new mitt same way my grandpa did pound on the pocket with your fist tap a mallet on the webbing rub in a little lanolin tie it up tight under your mattress but its no use breaking in unless we’re out for crying out loud playing catch with it
4.
Monsters 03:59
all the monsters i meet seem to be absurd versions of me and even stranger it seems they’re all etched in impressions i leave my monsters strike true and then retreat like defeat-seasoned troops watch the pendulum swing the war for more absurd versions of me i realize i stole the luck from some star falling by when you said you’d have me and hold me for the whole long haul monsters and all all the monsters i meet can’t be seen and i tend to agree so here’s to working on me and to a slightly less absurd version for you i realize it’s not a fight unless you’re clawing for your life til death do us part you have my whole heart at your beckon call monsters and all this is it (i’ll show you) we are the fort (my fortress) i’ll show you mine (my one true blue) you show me yours (you show me you’re ready for yours) i know you i know about your absurd versions too and i’m gonna love you i’ll even insist we combine your monsters and mine
5.
Home State 03:41
i can point to where i live on the back of my left hand where i’ve been, where i’m headed, and where i am trace straight to the edges where my hand runs out of skin that’s where the great glacial lakes that guard my state begin ah peninsula la lovely seasons cycle through i know it in my bones my one and only home goes hand-in-hand with one and only you i can point to where i live on the palm of my right hand etch an x into the callous that marks my land trace northward to the ledges there beneath my nails you see the dirt i’ve worked and that i’ll rest with when they bury me ah peninsula la lovely seasons cycle through i know it in my bones my one and only home goes hand in hand with one and only you i let all my mittens lay thumbs-out to the right so they lay looking like that great home state of mine i let all my mittens lay thumbs-out to the right so they lay looking like that great lake state of mine ah peninsula la lovely seasons cycle through
6.
Nicotine 02:14
i remember watching my papa make an art form ashing his kent III 100’s into arrows as we’d talk no wonder i was always first up for second hand cigarettes and coffee still the best damn smell known to man fa la la la na nicotine who knew so young i remember watching movies making em look awesome it was an easy time to want one i knew i had to get my hands on that so i stole marlboros from the pack behind dad’s carphone i knew even if he caught on he wasn’t dumb enough to say shit about that fa la la la na nicotine who knew so young fa la la la na nicotine it’ll keep you honest i’ve never met a villain so dependable i don’t got another sure-fire breath of calm i don’t think i ever want to quit tobacco in fact i think i’m stepping out after this song fa la la la na nicotine who knew so young fa la la la na nicotine it’ll keep you honest fa la la la na nicotine now i think i want one fa la la la na nicotine
7.
Brave Marie 03:58
brave marie, brave marie broke every barrier she ever did see and she etched one heck of a legacy mighty mighty brave marie born in the late 1860’s warsaw had never saw anything like a girl this smart so bold so free mighty mighty brave marie only ten when her mother succumbed to TB it wouldn’t be her last brush with tragedy she took after dad academically mighty mighty smart marie government said college boys only so she found the secret flying university put her sister through school made her money tutoring mighty generous marie brave marie, brave marie broke every barrier she ever did see armed only with her wits, she stormed Paris mighty mighty brave marie dead broke living on toast and tea masters of physics by ’93 the next year she’d follow with a math degree head of the class marie in ’95 she met physicist pierre curie finally found a fun kind of chemistry it wasn’t one short year before the wedding man and marie curie they made elemental discovery named polonium after her home country isolated radium by 1903 the all-star team curie brave marie, brave marie broke every barrier she ever did see and she taught us radioactivity mighty mighty brave marie In ’06 pierre died tragically he left behind a widow on a pile of grief she took on his job the first lady professor madame curie she didn’t even want it when they told her she had won the Nobel for physics she was the one and only woman and it wouldn’t even be the last one for brave marie cuz in 1911 more history her second nobel now she’s still the only one to be awarded in physics and again in chemistry mighty groundbreaking marie brave marie, brave marie broke every barrier she ever did see didn’t want a bit of credit just a whole lot of peace mighty mighty brave marie then war took over 1914 she kept her head down working radiology and made the world’s first field x-ray machine might heroic indeed then all her hard work found a cold hard link between radiation and her blood disease it took her down quick left the world to grieve the late great brave marie you could spend years counting all she achieved showed the world a woman’s got a mind to speak gave all our daughters a real chance to dream like the late great brave marie brave marie, brave marie broke every barrier she ever did see and she etched one heck of a legacy mighty mighty brave marie mighty mighty madame curie
8.
Clover 03:39
you’re living with a squatter no man can afford sleeping three sheets to the wind wondering why you never wake up warm there’s a thirst at the helm hell bent on waging war you can handle any bottle you just struggle with the cork but you’re three says sober hey quick before it’s over throw some four-leaf clover in your pocket oh i think you’re one of those reasons why the wagon goes so slow still hanging on don’t seem so easy yet your angel and your devil never leave their shoulder perch except to fuck behind your back once you’ve all been good and over-served and all the lines you drew in wisdom become muddled and obscured the only thanks for nursing vipers is venom i’m pretty sure but then you’re eight days sober who knew you could evoke that sort of luck by throwing clover in your pocket aren’t you glad for all of those reasons why the wagon goes so slow though falling off still don’t seem so far fetched i guess we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it
9.
Honest 03:38
we thought we’d call you gentle annie i learned the song and sang it in those first few days then i saw you pitching a fit and it sunk in quick my new kid needed a new nickname when you were startled you’d start laughing i don’t think that i could ever get enough of that game here i was a grown-ass man trying to scare the bananas out of my own beautiful babe then before i even knew it you were growing up, girl and the palm of your hand held the whole damn world my only complaint with this whole dad thing is that you’re growing up way too fast for me girl, we get that mini-van jammin’ i think we both trail off in the very same way and i’m loving how you wail on the wall during your bedtime songs lost and gone to some stage but there’s a fire inside you cracklin i’m hoping i can help teach you how to tend those flames before you let em burn the years like your dad did, dear i’ve only got myself to blame if there’s a little bit of you even a tiny bit bad there’s no doubt now it passed down from your dad but the lion’s share there is this angel i see i pray heaven lets a little rub off on me i know my snugglin’ days are numbered i know you can cross without my hand i know your name by heart, darling there’s no forgetting my anzbananz i know darkness might find you cuz i know that there’s plenty in our blood so you can ask anything you want to i’ll tell you about every hole i’ve dug and i could say your future is bright as ever but honey between just you and me most us fathers aren’t the prophets we tend to pretend to be so when that darkness finally finds you or boils up in your blood just know that you come by it honest and you can have my hand back if you want
10.
show me the you that you see in your wildest dreams show me who i’d find flying through your mind as you sleep show me you with all it takes to be the you you want to be show me the you that you see in your wildest dreams show me the you that you are in your heart of hearts with your walls all fallen and you calling off the guards show me unafraid to make mistakes show all your scars show me the you that you are in your heart of hearts if i could save your heart from breaking there’s no way you’d even have to ask but i can’t and i’ll remind you that you’re wilder now for that show me the you that you see in your wildest dreams show me that tidal wave rising with you riding wild and free show me all you want to make show me the stage and everything show me the you that you see in your wildest dreams
11.
when all this is over they’ll want to know how did we do and we’ll all shine a light on better times and cast shadows on a few when all this is over they’ll all want to know where you stood and who behind and who that put right beside you will you be proud of you? who will be proud of you?

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Recorded at Local Legend Recording in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Produced by Josh Kaufman. Recorded, mixed & mastered by Josh Kaufman. All Songs Written and Sung by Kyle Rasche, except for Wildest Dreams; lyrics by Kyle Rasche and Andrew Lutes. Design by Drew Vanderveen. Cover Illustration by Dan Sayer Groesbeck.

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released May 13, 2022

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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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