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Esmeralda Towers
03:06
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I’ve been watching you
from my cat scan birds eye view
Tabernacle towers
Sun spot radiation showers
bloodshot rings in the air
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The devil said
Don’t say you heard this from me
But contrary to popular belief
I’m not a thief
I make my living honestly
Honestly I cant tell tell a lie
One day your heart will bleed dry
And ill help you leave your mark
Before you die
People are starved for a terrified heart
Just undo the tourniquet
And let it bleed
Tie it umbilical
To your sleeve
And you’ll get everything you want
And everything you need
You’re sleepwalking through the american dream
The devil said
Don’t make a deal unless it’s guaranteed
But i’m not sure I understand what that means
I’m caught between what I want
And what I need
Kid wake up and see that things aren’t
Just what they seem
You’re sleepwalking through the american dream
Sleepwalking through the american dream
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The Mitral Valve
03:17
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You have a cinematic sense of scale
Relaying from light into colour into life
Your lens retreats from the north indian sea
Back into it’s birds eye nest in space
Somehow but I don’t know how
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Man Of War
02:31
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Before The Horse
03:19
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December Stars
03:18
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Under December stars and flickering streetlights
my cataract insight is guiding me home
Ive been drinking alone
Watch my shadow grow tall from here
It dances on the walls
I threw my tie over the chandelier
And I kicked my boots over the chair
I walked out onto the thin ice
Seeking truth in alibi’s
My business meetings at the bar
Stiletto holes in the roof of my car
Watch my shadow grow tall from here
It dances on the walls
I threw my tie over the chandelier
And I kicked my boots over the chair
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Tfork
02:58
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This Spring
03:44
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So for me this spring was the most painful
And the loveliest of my life
To be released from hell and defy my death
Only to get well and make my return
But oh this spring to see a women again
Well I have not seen many better days
So to the women to whom I am
I’m a stranger
well my love I send
All the words that i couldn’t say
I was waiting
Cause why have a women who would fear me
Though i see her through sensitive eyes
She doesn’t see me at all
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Chief Rocking Horse
01:31
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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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