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For Coit and Killie EP

by Ted Leo

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1.
TOO BRIGHT WINDOW There is a window Ah, but the light won’t breach the frame beyond the sill There is a window And it’s too bright to see what’s framed beyond it still There is a window But there’s no gain through all the pain of staring through time Ooh, there’s a window With lifetimes of layered paint and centuries of grime Come to the window Everyone’s calling through the lush cyanamide Come to the window Everyone’s falling on the touching grass outside Go to the window When will they see it all, when will they realize For you, the window Is just a blurry block of light that burns your eyes Some folks see how easy living should be I can’t see, I can’t see Some folks see how to make a living easy Not me; it’s not me Some folks will always suck the living from you Ooh-wee, ooh-wee Behind a window capitalism’s stuck you And me, and me There is a window But maybe your answer’s not outside it, and what’s more Turn from the window Maybe it’s time to face the dark and find a door It’s not a personal failure - entropic miasmas and grief Raised to believe in a system where it’s only money That buys you relief Some folks see how easy living should be I can’t see, I can’t see Some folks see how to make a living easy Not me; it’s not me Some folks will always suck the living from you Ooh-wee, ooh-wee Behind a window capitalism’s stuck you And me, and me
2.
MORE HARD TIMES Hard times are over here, and then Louisa walking home again Up from the mill outside the town To watch the fire burning down Did she see? Did she see? Did she see, see, see These things will be Did she see? Did she see? Did she see, see, see These things will be A brother always on the run Unrecovered, unaware of what he has done Too soon omission filled his head Too late, contrition from a hospital bed Did she see? Did she see? Did she see, see, see These things will be Did she see? Did she see? Did she see, see, see These things will be A bitter marriage on the mend No visiting the parents’ sins upon a progeny, and then Flowers, seed beds, down where she treads In a little bit of garden there to tend Did she see? Did she see? Did she see, see, see These things will be Did she see? Did she see? Did she see, see, see These things will be But not for me
3.
FOR COIT AND KEELY Up before the sun A greeting for everyone And then you say goodbye, but the light in your eye tells me Our day has only begun Don’t know what we’ll find Don’t know what goes on in your mind I know you need to hurry, and some folks will worry But I’m only one step behind Ooh, I’m in a lonely place Not having you down by my side And you’d think that my sleep would be happy and deep Ah, but I only dream of the times that I know you’ve cried Might know where you hide We might’ve been made for the outside And if things that I do could bring back your sky, blue, well then Baby you know I’d’ve tried I’ll still try
4.
LEAVING RIVER ROAD Leaving River Road, I leave the love the river’s owed But the river overflowed And I wonder who will remember Ooh, I remember The winters we had here, though our lives were so austere We held what we had dear Oh we held them, oh how we held them Ooh, I remember How we grew a winter rose, and the Saugatucket froze But now it flows and flows To the ocean, but does it remember Ooh, I remember When we walked the old sea wall and the snow would fall and fall Now there’s no snow here at all In the darkness of December Ooh, I remember Now I don’t want to see you grieve on this foggy Christmas Eve And you know I don’t want to leave And I hope that you will remember Ooh, I remember And so I’m walking toward the dawn, to set a winter rose seaborne To, for a while, the waves, adorn That the ocean might remember Ooh, like we remember
5.
DON’T WANT TO LIVE INSIDE MYSELF (B. Gibb) I am the searcher of my fortune I’ve got my right hand on the wheel We’ve got to dig for buried treasure I know exactly how I feel Don’t want to live inside myself I’m much better off alone But then, you must believe in the falling rain Don’t want to live inside myself I went walking through the graveyard Where the darkness is my friend I heard all about the beginning I want to see just where it ends Don’t want to live inside myself I’m much better off alone But then, you must believe in the falling rain Don’t want to live inside myself I have met the jaded tiger And every tiger knows my name But just as long as I can see my face I can tell myself my name Don’t want to live inside myself I’m much better off alone But then, you must believe in the falling rain Don’t want to live inside myself

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Stealing time here and there to work on music results in some varied production, but none of it without intention, and all probably always in process/progress. An autumnal bummer for you kick leaves, instead of touching grass, to.

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released October 7, 2022

All songs by Ted Leo (Huan, Hound of Valinor Music/SESAC), except "Don't Want to Live Inside Myself," by Barry Gibb.
Written, played, recorded, mixed, and mastered by Ted Leo, mostly at various times between the last Bandcamp EP and now (with some of those things done as far back as 2015 in the case of "More Hard Times").
Art, as always, by the incomparable Rachel Lichtman.

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