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BACKSTROKEFOX

by BACKSTROKEFOX

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Life if fragile comes and gos, burying the son or brother Sippican the middle of them stranger letters written to lovers, Cacophony echoes wharf rats pleading festooned, it reaches you stick out your tongue till it starts bleeding, All thats left is a ghost of you like a freezing fog time is next in the gap you lost crippled decaying god, crippled decaying god. god oh god I want to run away, god oh god I want to stay, be a longshoreman, anyway you can spear the whale with another mans hands, unfurled sail, cant stop pushing step by step in this time machine Wish I could be everywhere wish I, wish I could be everywhere. god oh god I want to run away, god oh god I want to stay, dreams are vastly freezing hands, the dead will make me play: Her cheeks were red from the salty midnight air never should have stepped off shore a rogue broadside wave all is lost Salt toughened skin and his wolf-like eyes manor in the hills everyone passes by everyone passes everyone's passing by. god oh god I want to run away, god oh god I want to stay, man oh man I want to run away, god oh god I want to stay.
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Home, why do we come home everyday, theres no coming home today, wont you save me a slice of home. You, oh why do you remind me of home, it could be something in the way you stay home Away, why are we away all these days we've been, stay stay stay stay away, thats what they say, when they're afraid, Afraid, why are we afraid? every single day owwwwwww oh it hurts every day to be afraid oh it hurts, oh it hurts everyday.
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Watch Hands 03:20
Its hardly in between us, oh the heart lands after flying, in some ways inconvenient, call me darling, call me something. ohhhhh we wake up so cold, thumper thumping, palpitating, Mind goes like a dream oh you are first, at the end of the universe. oh no words but my head is turned its hard not to give in to burrow into this, the rhythm in your skin, slowly we submerge what do you want from this, what do you get from this, I hope that you say everything, I hope that you mean everything. what do you want from this, what do you get from this, I hope that you say everything, I hope that you mean everything. waiting, while you're waiting, oh I'm waiting for the great migration, waiting, while we're waiting call me anything, call me something, its hard to know where to begin, to burrow into this the rhythm vibrating, slowly we submerge Nothing, in between us, but the watch hands
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Tides 04:00
When the tide breaks, make no mistake the place can inspire you, but only the man can change the man, only the man can change the man. Don't you think by leaving me. everything will change, traveling does some strange things. we'll walk on for a while, hoping magically we'll stumble on the things that made us wonder wonder Lets speak like children speak, Got to beleive, if only its brief, we'll speak like children speak, Got to beleive, if only its brief, only the man can change the man, woe is the man who moves the sand sure is the man who takes a chance only the man can change the man only the man can change the man, woe is the man who moves the sand sure is the man who takes a chance only the man can change the man We'll sleep only when we can, the night is inviting, but that sun is growing in your hands, Toss it to skip to another land Toss it to skip to another land. Toss it to skip to another land. we'll walk on for a while, hoping magically we'll stumble on the things that made us wonder wonder wander wonder wonder
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Allegory 05:04
Want to feel elite do you just like you know I know it too the al la la lalalagory, we'll never leave together we're alone through him, vicarious the darkness wins restructured face and whimsy cringe shared the race we're all the same He says he knows the captains son, pass to me authority I will put your foot inside, you're on your own I will hand that torch to you, to be the master of your shadows, of the world you thought you knew, of the stars you thought the gallows, speak in tongues, the truth is more than we can take that's why we need an allegory an allegory an allegory I will hand that torch to you, to be the master of your shadows, of the world you thought you knew, of the stars you thought the gallows.
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Brothers 01:52
Survival is sustenance I must admit I have not been suffering or ill. Grizzly bears will still attack you if they think you're cute. no thats just you putting impressions on another, you're not a dead artist questioning our mother, earth has art inside when it blows it coincides with species errevocably erased and we are investing in another, though its always the same and changing cover for a hierarchy game, we play to make stairs of all our brothers. stairs of all our brothers stairs of all our brothers stairs of all our brothers not to watch over the others, but to stare at one another. We're not dead artists, we're not dead artists.
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Moonshine 04:43
There she stood in water up to her waist, every step she takes, brings her farther, into her grave, holding to reeds that sway it was a sunny day. Moonshine moonshine, fill my pockets with your air, don't leave, don't leave. moonshine moonshine, fill my pockets with your stare, don't go anywhere. There she stood in water up to her thigh, and every time she tried to look up, reminded of the time, I lost my best friend to the elemental pull back to where we all began. Moonshine moonshine fill my pockets with your stare, don't leave don't leave, moonshine moonshine fill my pockets with you stare don't leave, don't leave, don't go anywhere.
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Sleeping away another glorious day, and I surmise. Oh where has my time gone, to be up and around and God what have I done, what have I done? am I my only son? Sipping away all these pains at stake and I've compromised almost everything that I have ever done, whiskey whiskey telephone oh I know that I am gone and I am my only son. God what will I do, what will I do? without you.
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BY: (the) BACKSTROKEFOX

Written and recorded almost entirely in Portland, OR.
Finished in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Artwork by Maren Celest.



Banjo - Acoustic 6 string - coffee cans (full of nails) - piano - bass - upright bass - Umbrella - giant chime - voices - giant kazoo - cello - electric slide guitar - Bows - porches - shakeys - computer noises - baby piano - Snake the Bird -

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released December 1, 2011

Thank you Portland. The Band Animal Eyes. Glennerd and the Bastard Few. Brandon Elhaj. Tobi Jeanne Holland. Redwood son. Jeff Newman. Seth Rue. Cathleen and Joe. Jeff Weller. Eppe Wolfis and his Family. Branden Mann. Justin Schoenfelder. Carl and Susan Walker. The Strutt. Every soul that I have met along the way, you are all truly an inspiration and have driven my obsession through your existence.

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BACKSTROKEFOX Portland, Oregon

BACKSTROKEFOX is a recording project by Jason Walker. Based in the sticks of Michigan nearest to Kalamazoo.

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