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SALVATION

by Monarch Mtn

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1.
I was a poor girl in the hospital, 1983 When I spoke brief with my mother it was all she asked of me Asked of me To form some sort of sanctuary deep within in her walls It was not so much her smothering than her Resurrection Call It was not so much consideration but a Resurrection Call What I heard inside the galley I now hear bouncing off the walls A fine dream when you’re vain Everything is the same - complete I was born in a museum, maybe 1964 Under a portrait of a lover and a lover gone to war Gone to war Tattooed on my shoulder blades, the lyrics of a hymn: It says “Sometimes you fight the law, and sometimes the law might win” Sometimes the city enters you, sometimes they breach the wall But when I left your broken body it was with a Resurrection Call A fine dream when you’re vain Everything is insane - complete I was called into a crime scene, in the summer of '08 Where this kid was being questioned while heavily sedated What a shame Oppressive heat and cigarettes, he knows more than we think If I take him to the alley, five minutes and he’ll break, I bet he’ll break So I take him to the alley and I start in on his jaw Is that a train deep in the valley or is that my Resurrection Call A fine dream when you’re vain Everything is the same A loose string built to break A new king for the age - plastique
2.
At Dawn, Three Michaels Lying next to me Still drunk and stifled I ponder the thing In regards to your calling The message on my phone You are not so defeated To accept the erode I am with you I, I We are pursued By, by Everyone knew Salvation I recall being gripped By a horsehair mirage Four visions, three Michaels The first one was a lark This room came with towels And curtains on the glass You could sleep here for hours And no light would get past We are in tune By, by Signals come through Why, why Do they love you? Salvation
3.
Mary & Robin 05:11
Mary, were you there to watch your Robin get shot yesterday? It was dark in the morning, it stayed dark til noon I called you into my room Your face was wet from crying I guess that’s how I knew Married in a parking lot You were both twenty three years old Robin in his corduroys, the shape of a revolver Some shifting iron weight Some misplaced sense of danger Manhattan from his place Was a sight to behold Mary did you lock the door I own every inch of this apartment Mary if you calm down, I’ll call down for a taxi And we’ll tell him Mount Sinai Even though I know it’s pointless He could not be revived I hear the door creak open Mary I was there to watch your Robin get shot yesterday And yet your generation isn’t ready for discerning But if the lord abides Pronounced dead at seven-thirty He was only twenty-five I identified his body
4.
Do you know my favorite colors? Two shades of gold: one bright, one dim And if you go I’ll find another But I’ll be alone again The dark in you says ‘hello mister’ Just passing through, I’ll be on my way But if I could just sit down for dinner I’d be good again You didn’t know but you should’ve figured We were at home, I was high as shit The smallest stone still makes a ripple Now I’m alone again A single man, mad talking singer It’s not so bad if you leave the room But if I leave my bed and the feeling lingers I’m coming after you Do you know my favorite colors? Two shades of gold: one bright, one dim And if you go, i’ll find another But I’ll be alone again
5.
The door locks from inside So try the window The city from behind My Buick Regal My Buick Regal drives The purring engine The empty city rise The ounce I’m ditching An evening on the island Your body next to mine When did you stop supplying? Sister do you buy? Your father took a yacht To Ellis Island He educated up “Career in finance” A one percent-er Drinks more than I do He met David Bowie In 1982 And my Buick Regal drives He’s in my tape deck ‘Five years’ in my mind I could never stand it The paper says he’s dying Did he keep you in the will? Maybe we should write him Sister say you will Sister say you will
6.
You were just a kid I told you not to watch but you did Now we can’t look at each other And now you live An apartment in the village Comparison leaves me quietly impressed And now my house That I share here with my brother We have found some kind of balance with each other It is good But sometimes I say “Eddie take the long way round To the dark room” It could not have been I slept inside the walls that you slept in Independent of each other And if you live To be a hundred and forty Like you planned I’d reflect on paler skin And contemplate The tremble in your voice and what you ate We always cooked your favorites It was kind, it was kind But sometimes I say “Eddie take the long way round To the dark room” Once it was buried deep underground Then it grew
7.
Pardon me, the avalanche the storm brought It all belongs I can see the orchard flood and trees rock And feel the dawn I’ve known you since the age of ten, your brothers were sixteen We drank a lot We’d ride our bikes down to the swamp, fight naked in the reeds I never lost I called you once, your dad picked up I stood and waited, thinking Pardon me, the avalanche the storm brought It all belongs Do you believe in debts to beings beyond us Or did you once? I got my first job building cars, it was 1993 Saved every dime You fell down in a liquor store, then the checks came every week You met your wife I called at night, once your son picked up I stood and waited, breathing “Who is it son?” then you’re on the line “I told you to stop calling”
8.
The dark chased the light And another man’s kin Gave me two dollars and a bed to sleep in I asked for some work but they turned me away Saying return the favor some other day A three days ride led me into town I told all I knew of the kindness I’d found Hard times had fallen, such treatment was rare A blessing I swore had been pulled from the air It is simple It is just One september I’ll cross your path again Just once After some years these thoughts left my head Replaced by the commoner’s hatred of man It was some time til I took the same path I wished to stop by and repay my debt But the homestead was empty, the doors off their hinge I called from the yard, no movement within Crossed over the threshold saw nothing inside Seeking the closure my fate had denied It is simple It is just One september I’ll cross your path again Just once

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released November 6, 2015

Recorded Summer 2015 in Steamboat Springs, Colorado

All songs written by Logan Farmer

Additional Instrumentation:
Sean Culliton - Saxophone
Robin Rütenberg - Flute, Vocals
Liz Ross - Vocals

Produced by Logan Farmer
Mastered by Mike Bridavsky at Russian Recording Studio in Bloomington, Indiana

Special thanks to Steve Boynton and First String Music

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