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Separation is Natural

by Rory Strong and the Standard Candles

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1.
Julie’s got a brand new window pane Hanging out with me at the end of the lane And I got a brand new set of strings A couple new songs I’ve been trying to sing And she says, “Could you sing that song for me? The only someone else wrote ‘If It Makes You Happy?’” She says, “But if you’re too tired then it ain’t no thing.” She says, “It ain’t no thing at all.” And all my friends were talking about places they were staying And I was in the kitchen when the band had started playing I maybe should’ve listened to all that you were saying when you said it Maybe nobody means to be a heavier stone We just get all caught up in these weights of our own And if I’d spent last time digging up crushed bones Maybe I could belay it But still you said, “Hey girlfriend, put your dancing boots on We’ve got another five minutes before they shut it down And if you ask the band real nice if they know our song maybe they could play it.” That’s when the band started playing Alright so Jim’s got the same bad habits as me That’s how we all ended up here on Christmas Eve He even introduces me to his family And his kid says she’s gonna give a gift to me So she gives me this crystal hanging from a string To be honest I don’t really believe in that sort of thing But I’m never as right as I’d like to be No, sometimes I’m not write at all So when she took that necklace and she placed it ‘round my collar It was all that I could do not to lose my shit and holler When really I know I should just say “Hey thanks for the offer” I still have that necklace somewhere That’s when you said “Hey girlfriend, don’t you know you’re not special At least no more and no less than anyone else is anyone else is special So stop trying to make yourself some kind of exception and maybe start living your life for once.” So I went to to the gazebo for the last time that night And I stayed up way too late and I almost missed my flight It’s Nick says, “Don’t you know you can be just as strange as you like But don’t be a stranger.” No, I don’t want to be a stranger.
2.
Wet Dog 02:55
wet dog wet wet river its sure been a long long winter its sure been a long year so meet me at the avenue You'll walk with me, I'll walk with you who is the third that walks with you? that shines like a wide open sky. like a wide open sky wet dog wet wet river I know I'll always be a sinner I know that I am what I am so if you see old Mister Wallace sayin' you're so great, and you're so boss get yourself down off that cross, my eyes you can't look me in the eyes you can't look me in the eyes wet dog wet wet river you can't make me eat my dinner you can't make me do anything so if you see my friend theophilus heard he came right back, he's a bit pissed of we got that portrait of him all wrong, not right we did our best at the time it was our best at the time I was a sailor and you were my captain and you went down with the ship and I am a failure yeah I'm a proud failure proud to fail at everything
3.
My Boy 02:56
My boy is like fire burning on his own I want to be his desire I want to be there when he comes home And I never meant to love a man I never mean to love no one but then he pushed down on my hand and he burned me like the sun I was making noise in the backroom with that boy and a whole lot of trouble on my mind He might be the one, I don't think about it much I really don't have the time My boy is like water flowing from the cup I might ask for a bit longer I might ask him to tie me up and he might be the mystery of the fruitless fig tree, and I know he ain't no religion but I still get down on my knees I was making noise in the backroom with that boy and a whole lot of trouble on my mind He might be the one, I don't think about it much I really don't have the time
4.
In a past life we had all that we needed that's not our paradise, that's someone else's eden and i keep my hands tied to work on my breathing i walk to the store, i walk home now we're on guilford and east 23rd i do not mean to argue but are you so sure? between hell in my handbag and the gun in your purse and always and everywhere the word always and every the word - i heard he was a sailor before he went gray but the tides do not shine like they did in his day and before there were mirrors a smooth glass display in the water caught the look on his face and he kept a guitar 'round for when the house croaked and he'd sing all the old songs that his old friends wrote he says "alright, maybe it's true and the center can't hold what would it mean if we even could know? what would it mean if we even could know?" - and in a past life you had got the right treatment that's not what it's like and this sure ain't no eden still i marvel at the strength that you found in believing that all that might rise might converge now i still have dreams of a hospital room where you're talking to me and i'm talking to you and the whole thing's so lifelike it's hard to know what's true i leave a note for myself in the morning that's just something that i carve in the door
5.
Steamroller 02:33
Steamroller steamroller would you roll over me
6.
Pretty Ty, he says to me that down here in DC we only smoke these it was PCP but he did not tell me i got lost on Potomac St. in what he said to me i'm going down i'm going down i'm going down down down to the canal. so you can stop and stare i don't really care i'm not really there just some bones in some clothes i wear so when you stop and stare i would shoot Voltaire if i even cared i'm going down i'm going down i'm going down down down to the canal. what was that thing what was that thing that we used to have? if i could remember i'm singin', if only i could remember i think i could get it back. but i'm going down. i'm going down. i'm going down down to the canal.
7.
Song for O+J 05:02
the weight it is staggering and the cost of the whole thing's astonishing i've become a stranger who brings bad news to your family and i know you're pissed off but you should probably know people care you say, "i know that that's true but there's no one who can keep me anywhere." the last time i saw you you hit the trailway the last time i saw you-oo-oo-oou was the driveway i saw you in the driveway and it's ugly and repulsive. the disease is comes in a full swing the glossier the eyes, the louder the songs that we used to sing saying, "i know you're fucked off but you got options besides staying out there." you say, "i know that that's true, good insurance it will take me anywhere." the last time i saw you you were getting in the backseat after a hospital room where you were little more than a bedsheet

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Hello Again,

Here are some new ones, some old ones, and one very old one.

Rory Strong - Vox/Rhythm Guitar
Simi Kunin - Lead Guitar
Quinn Farwell - Drums
Carver Arena - Bass

Annie Dodson played cello on tracks 4 & 7
Annie's other music can be found here:
tidepooler.bandcamp.com/releases
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Instrumentation recorded by Joni Elfers (earthsongsrecording@gmail.com)
@ SoneLab Studio, Northampton, MA (info@sonelab.com)
Vocals recorded by Jeff Bowler

Mixed/Mastered by Justin Nazario

**If you can't afford the album shoot us an email!**

Thanks to:

- Joni Elfers & Jeff Bowler

- SoneLab Recording Studio: Thanks for the space, the gear, the encouragement and the leeway to let us truly do our thing.

- Justin Nazario, you took our vision and carried it to the finish line. A legendary ear.

A new decade is here.
So are all of us.

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released February 14, 2020

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