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Welcome to Earth

by Four Eyes

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1.
Go set your sights on Reading, Colorado You'll change your mind, spend winter at your mother's house Oh, this world is large, larger than you can imagine You'll break your heart in Elder, North Dakota You'll turn out fine, spend summer at your mother's house Oh, this life is long, longer than you can imagine We are fragile beings in a fragile universe You recall a steady song on mornings at your mother's house Oh, her heart is large, larger than you can imagine
2.
Old Sedan 02:38
I think I'd rather be a private detective, and you're a police chief and we're drinking black coffee I think I'd rather be studying Egyptology and you're a high priest removing a curse from me But here I am, I am a waitress And you are a driver of an old sedan What are we to do? I think I'd rather be the heir to a fortune And you are a jewel thief waiting patiently I think I'd rather be learning marine biology And you are the ocean, you surround me What are we to do?
3.
You are a house with every light left on throughout the night I saw it just beyond the roadside in Florida one drive Yours is a name that I recall in moments I am quiet We couldn't save a single life, though god how we have tried I wish that you would haunt me I would not be afraid I am always left so wanting By what I could not change
4.
You are not a bird, but I will love your song Of stature quite small, but like your mother, strong You could've had feathers on, but your wings are just arms Let birds have their feathers then, and you can have my songs St. Francis loves all the animals, when they cry out, he's listening St. Francis loves all the animals, and your father named you for him A moth in the floodlight, its wings lit up like fires and your eyes alight when you learn your own powers A deer in the driveway, the headlights leave her blind She's still as a memory of something left behind St. Francis loves all the animals, when they cry out, he's listening St. Francis loves all the animals, and your father named you for him
5.
One hundred and nine times she made up her mind to rise in the morning And I would peer through her fence posts along with my brothers by my side When she lost her last eyesight she said she saw angels bathed in white And we were quiet around her as if to receive our holy rites Oh, the nails in our tires, and we saw the shotgun in his hands But what good is a lightness without the darkness to compare? We would travel the middle of streets in our bare feet as we dared When we knew nothing of life as a creature whose teeth are always bared All of my life I have spent blinded by my divine ego And you had your own direction, a heavenly dimension
6.
Nobody loves a vampire Nobody wants to feel their little fangs on our collarbones Nobody loves a monster Nobody wants to hear one breathing low under your bed Oh, don't be scared Don't be frightened of the dark There is something moving there but it's just as scared of us Nobody loves a zombie Nobody wants to feel a rotting hand on their ankles Nobody loves a monster Nobody wants to think such awful things could be real Oh, don't be scared Don't be frightened of the dark Yes, there is something moving there but it's just as scared of us Oh, I am scared I am frightened of the dark Yes, I am scared, I am frightened of us
7.
Dig To China 03:25
Don't put your shovel down You'll dig so far you reach the ocean, so far you dig to China So far you'll find what you've been looking for Don't put your shovel down You'll dig so far you'll find the ruins of maybe pyramids or something Ancient mysteries that only you can solve Don't put your shovel down You'll dig so far you become famous, you'll give interviews in China You will die at age 100 loved by all They will write it on your gravestone: "She Was Beautiful, Adventurous, & Graceful" They will lay you in your own hole Oh, the cyclical is beautiful, you know
8.
Slept through another eclipse last night And I couldn't even dream in such a curious light Couldn't we take our old bicycles back to Edisto? Cus I feel the pull of the undertow calling to me I'm just a mess of old phantom limbs But why blame the moon and its charming footprints? I keep my head down, my shoulders bent Cus all I see when I look up is where I've been, over and over again
9.
Life Lines 03:20
Dropped you in a parking lot when you were just a child Took you to the hospital, your mother’s eyes were wild They told me you had died for just an hour or so You said heard caterwauls and voices speaking low Calling you home They tore down our old high school and put up steel and glass The kids are freaking out, they smoke too much to laugh Of everything we knew, we soon inhale its dust Embedded in our life lines, it’s all that’s left of us.
10.
On weekends I sleep in, make coffee, feel lazy And all the time I'm wondering why I was so slow to appreciate moments like these with you All year I did nothing but think of you Somehow my days have never felt so full The old me is freaking out to see me so easily happy I shed my old comparisons between myself and others I used to play that game a lot and nobody wins And all the time I could've been making a list of accomplishments I'm with you instead with a lightness setting in All year I did nothing but think of you Somehow my days have never felt so full The old me is freaking out to see me so easily happy

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“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies: God damn it, you've got to be kind.”

-Kurt Vonnegut

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released May 26, 2016

Words & Music by Erin Lovett
Produced by Erin Lovett & Patrick Brick
Mixed by Patrick Brick
Stem Mixing and Mastering by Jesse Mangum (@ The Glow Studio)

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Folky, poppy music out of Athens, GA

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