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Low Moon
04:26
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Low moon follow me home
Hanging around all night I know
How it feels to be down
Low moon watching me with one eye
You keep half your face hidden
Hooded in the night
Low moon Low moon
Prowling the city skyline
Playing hide and seek
Biding your time
Eavesdropping in on me
Eavesdropping in on me
Wandering satellite
Lost polar star
Adrift in the nights
Ink black sea
Calling out
To me
Low moon shine your light
Our paths don’t cross as often
These days as I’d like
Low moon Low moon
Low moon
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Night Terrors
03:37
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Lift the caul that
Veils my eyes
From false gods
unnecessary lies
As true as delicate
As a spider’s thread
the will o the wisp draws me
Across hell’s half acres
Night terrors
Night terrors
In the twilight of dusk
The maize pulled from its husk
A feast of souls
In the sunset gold
A serpent can’t rest
Until the sun sets
The bulrushes sound
The nights murky depths
Night terrors
Night terrors
I talk in my sleep
I walk in my sleep
The Will o the wisp draws me
Across hell’s half acres
Take flight into the night
Drawn like a moth’s eye
Towards the moonlight
The devil take the hindmost
Night terrors
Night terrors
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Mistakes
03:30
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I make mistakes
But everything’s in it's right place
Tied together by moments
I'm lead by my senses
I blur the lines
Like looking out the window
Of a car driving by
By white picket fences
I blur the lines
I make mistakes
I make mistakes
But everything’s is in it's right place
Tied together by
The lies
That betray the truth
About the love
Between me and you
I blur the lines
I make mistakes
I make mistakes
I make mistakes
I make mistakes
I make mistakes
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the Way These Days
04:18
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The days i have seen
The way things have been
You wove your sorcery around me
And all i brought myself to do was brood,
And stew over you
And i know that you knew
The way you shook those hips
The way you licked your lips
My head still spins from your tricks
Despite myself i’ve always known
That when i’m with you
We’re never so alone
You wove your sorcery around me
And all i brought myself to do was brood,
And stew over you
And i know you knew
Despite myself i’ve always known
That when i’m with you
We’re never so alone
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Best Kept Secret
03:20
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Promise me that you will keep
This between you and me
I believe that you would be
Best kept secret
You could be my best kept secret and
I will keep you all to myself
Through sickness through health
Through songs and through wealth
Just for me will you keep
Best kept secret
Don’t run away I stalk my prey
You’d be lucky to live to regret the day
Just stay with me stay hidden away
And i will keep the hounds at bay
Best kept secret
Promise me by day that
You will watch what you say
And like a blinded bird
I’ll let you sing all night
Don’t put up a fight
Promise you won’t tell
I will keep you under my spell
Through heaven through hell
Through wedding bells
Just for me will you keep
Best kept secret
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Pompeii
03:56
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The shine in the shadows
Swings like a swinging pendulum
Its flickering light comes
Through the trees
The torch lit
Tinderstick
So light a fire in the heather
And flush out the adder’s
Where the smoke floats like feathers
From ash to ash
To ember to ember
Petrified town
Buried stories underground
Pompeii
Autumn leaves alight the ground
The wind stokes the coals of this burning town
The tree limbs tattooed with the seasons past
Like shadows in the hourglass
So light a fire in the heather
And flush out the adder’s
Where the smoke floats like feathers
From ash to ash
To ember to ember
In a petrified town
Stories underground
Pompeii
Ash to ash, ember to ember, ash to ash, ember to /
Ember, ash to ash, ember to ember, ash to ash, em /
Ber to ember, ash to ash, ember to ember, ash to /
Ash, ember to ember, ash to ash, ember to ember /
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Young Phoenix
03:32
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I fly my plane kamikaze
Into a ball of flames mars leaps
Into the sun to kingdom come
From the tides of ash burnt in the urn
And with the washed ashore wreckage
I’ll rise a young phoenix with so much to learn
The past resonates
The future hesitates
There’s a long way to go
To start again
An empty vessel at birth
Breaking into new verse
Learning to lose, learning to
Burn in a baptism of fire
Chasing my ashes ‘cross the pyre
Where once were flames
Only embers remain
The past initiates
The future deviates
There’s a long way to go
To start again
There's a long way
To start again
The past disintegrates
The future regenerates
There’s a long way to go
To start again
I fly my plane kamikaze
Into a ball of flames mars leaps
Into the sun to kingdom come
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and Another Song Too
01:42
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Something is stirring
Beneath the horizon
A monolithic iceberg
In the frozen ocean
Its bowers only open
Into the night
Babe can you hear the rain love
On our window pane
Lightning is striking
Just out of reach from our eyes
On the crest of the horizons sky
And we can hear the bellows of the storm
But maybe it will never come
Babe can you hear the rain love
On our window pain
Babe can you hear the rain love
On our window
Babe can you hear the rain love
On our window
Babe can you hear the rain love
On our window pane
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Andrew James Barker Toronto, Ontario
Mercurial Toronto musician and artist Andrew James Barker has been zigzagging between identities for the past twenty years. Barker cut his teeth in the budding Toronto scene of the naughts as a multi-instrumentalist sideman (most notably with the band Bruce Peninsula). Songwriter, composer, jazz guitarist, producer, and engineer, Barker has consistently been crafting albums of note since 2005. ... more
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