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Prairie Shipbuilder
05:41
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Kawartha, North
03:59
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Drove your car just far enough to find
Where the highways finally unwind onto
That stone-lake blue
Lost our way there only to find
every sound, every lake and every light would fold
Back into you
Are you coming home?
Left the light of the Great Lakes for to find
An idea, something I cannot cite, or make
Through time remain
Capital and they’re love of oil incites
Cadence of those prairie city nights unfolds
and I miss you
Are you coming home?
Time enough to know what we left behind.
A thousand miles between and we can’t quite find
The courage to dwell in, to pass through, to let go
Time enough to learn never we will know
Are you coming home?
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Desire Lines
04:23
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With longing and hope Sukanen stokes a forging fire
To build of steel and oak, make material and real a desire
That won’t bend to the wind or the heavy weight of time
Of the shipbuilder stranded two thousand miles from tide.
The rhythm of work, hammered steel and painted earth would ease the mind
Recollections of home to galvanize the tired iron of his soul
and day after day the pulleys and the chains stabilize
the boat that emerges to defy horizon lines.
He knows the way things are going he won’t ever feel at home but he’ll try
to build something to bear the equation of distance over time
and to carry the infinite load of the modern signifier
his boat will go up and there he will abide
Infinite the ocean’s currents, infinite the clouded sky’s geometry
But the myths overwhelm and in the drought a desolate economy
Of longing and new verbs the love and the rain that just never came
For the shipbuilder stranded two thousand miles from the sea
Sontianan never sailed from the tired prairie soil still we strive
to build boats of words catch the wind of the world in signs
As hard as we try the metaphors won’t take us home but they might
Stand against the water and the wind at least for a while.
I know the way things are going I won’t ever feel at home, but I’ll try
to build something to bear the equation of distance over time
and to carry the infinite load of the modern signifier
my boat will go up, and there I will abide.
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City of Broad Shoulders
03:53
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Orion
04:35
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Local Haunts London, Ontario
Local Haunts' songs are created by David Janzen, a singer-songwriter based in Edmonton and London, Canada. On the inaugural, self-titled EP, Janzen is backed by inimitable country artists, Treeline (Taylor Ackerman, Danny Dyck, Tyler Bird and Clayton Smith) and features guests, Brenna Lowry and Nicole Hembroff. ... more
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