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Chaff and Chapel (2012)

from The Road To The Tavern by In Greater Numbers

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Laryngitis, it is something I didn't have when I recorded this song in May 2012. But it is something I have at the moment that kept me from completing the demo I'm working on now. Instead of sharing something incomplete or with croaking vocals I thought I'd upload another remnant of my time in Dallas.

Typically. I don't write many songs about women and/or my relationships with them. It's never really interested me all that much. This is one of the few. They lyrics make me uncomfortable as do the vocals.

I honestly don't know how I feel about this demo. I don't see it as representative of me at all and so I have detached from it. It makes me think of a direction I could have gone but am glad I didn't. Hopefully my voice comes back so I don't have to post another old squeaky recording.

lyrics

And was the time we spent well invested?
Or should I have taken this idea and repressed it?
Cause every hour means a day of inside hollowed,
Quarter-hearted up turned lips and conversations shallow.

The sun keeps coming up without your outline in my sheets.
And I complain but we agreed I lost that right to speech.
Some would liken this to a wound but we won't cause it's too much too soon. (I've mapped this all out but it's faded)

I'm a church I haven't entered in stacking seasons.
Burning inside out, the windows boarded up so no one sees in.
The kindling fed the flame, the distance proved the billow.
There's no time for the chaff and grain to be winnowed.

Push down on both ends til we get hairline fractures.
Spread out like veins and branches until we are captured.

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from The Road To The Tavern, released April 3, 2015

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