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The Horse That Carries The Wheel

by Eternal Fair

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1.
Revelry in the town square today It might be coming our way Do you know how to loosen all the Knots that tie you down? Do you know how to forgive The ones you love? That chariot; that flaming golden ride The horse that carries the wheel Carries the wheel What heaven; what hell have we here?
2.
Static Youth 04:31
Tonight I’ll paint the streets The colors of my unborn dreams with you While we listen to the songs That no one may take time to write On endless sheets of paper white And on and on and on and on and on And you with your laser light Bursting all the stars Into a million tiny galaxies That form and drift until they’re far from sight Fading boundlessly into the night Tonight we’ll tear down All the misconceptions of the static youth And with the pieces Build a cityscape that held together By some old electric tape And never will we stray from what is true And you with your laser light Burning tiny holes into the sun To let the morning, dusk And afternoon and dawn Turn into one To live to burn until the day they’re done Tonight I’ll paint the streets The colors of my unborn dreams with you While we gather all the things Forgotten in our memories As carefully as you may please We’ll hang them one by one For us to view And you with your laser light Turning all the skyline into Fractured puzzle pieces Meeting just above the rooftops where we lie Connecting all the stars across the sky Fading boundlessly into the night
3.
Time for sleep In time you’ll show me how I can wait I don’t need to know now Silence beats Like rain on metal roofs And through the rain I hear my mother call “It’s time to go soon” Come with me You mistress of the night Tell me all of your secrets As we fade into the light And I will be On my way by and by And through the rain I hear my mother call To come in from the quiet Restless, sleepless, endless night
4.
Michael John 05:38
Come in from the rain Michael John Only son Only son Your dinner’s getting cold On the stove Your mother’s hands Are getting old The winter’s coming on Don’t you know? The winter show Michael John? Hear the kettle blow The weary dawn It won’t be long It won’t be long He’ll be watching you From the hill Smiles for you You know he will He’ll be watching you The whole way through You know he will You know he will
5.
I remember what you told me You were talking like the Dead Dog Hero Maybe it’s just like they all say First day on the job and we go So pick yourself up and get on it There ain’t no other way to get to the middle All the lines Come back to us They come a-run right back Like a care in the night A slide to the left We go run into space For a reason to live And what of all the time spent? Chasing clocks Counting backwards to zero How will we know which way we went? With all the arrows pointing right at the middle All the lines come back to us They come a-running right back Like a care in the night A slide to the left We go run into space For a reason to live
6.
Tommy Moore 06:38
Hello My name is Tommy Moore I live in basement number four I never asked for fortune or fame But nobody seems to remember my name When I sit her quietly I think of open skies you see Though I never really climb the stairs It’s been so long Since anybody cared about me Can’t you see? Up on the streets The people passing my window They’re unaware I’m right below They boogie by to the same old city beat At night I fall asleep To the sweeping of the streets And fly In the morning I get out of bed I brush my teeth and comb my head I press my suit and straighten out my tie (Tommy why?) Cus I like to pretend that I’m just like the boys and girls outside My afternoons are quite the same These questions in my little brain Crawl out my ears and spill across the floor Like anybody else I wonder to myself What am I doing here? Am I insane?
7.
Donny Don’t be afraid Someone’s gonna save this place There were countrymen lining the streets Their mothers gathered to weep The infantry crested the hill Their daughters sweeping up memories Ah-ah into the night We’ll be alright Donny What do you think? About these impossible dreams You can’t wash them down with a drink You can’t buy them off with a gold coin / silver dollar You can’t wish them away with a blink How does it feel when you sink them? Donny don’t wait For time won’t slow down Not for no one Donny reach for the sun Ah-ah into the night We’ll be alright
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9.
I went walking today All this color See I fear I am fading away So I painted pictures Now my face is all over town In every window So no one will ever forget These are the outlines of a man I went walking today All this color Funny how time falls away What will we remember? Now I will follow My brightest star Into this darkness I won’t go too far What will we remember?
10.
Revelry in the town square today It might be coming our way Now the bell’s gone missing from the Calvary Twelve o’clock never sounded so alone And Mama Carr’s in the kitchen Watching the Jackons on tv Her cat named Elvis looks away That cat; that cradle That flaming golden ride The horse that carries the wheel Carrie the wheel What heaven; what hell have we here? Out with the things that we never said And on with the things that we never did And when we arrive maybe time will tell What heaven; what hell have we here?

about

Andrew Vait - vocals, guitars, wurlitzer, mellotrons
Chris Jones - bass, vocals
Daniel Nash - drums, vocals, percussion

Brian Kinsella - keyboards/synths
Steven Scalfati - keyboards/synths
Meagan Grandall - backing vocals on Brightest Star
Brent Rusinow - backing vocals on Brightest Star
Shenandoah Davis - backing vocals on Donny's Impossible Dream
Chris Cunningham - backing vocals on Donny's Impossible Dream
Brantley Duke - backing vocals on Donny's Impossible Dream

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released April 16, 2013

Produced by Chris Mathews, Jr. and Eternal Fair
Engineered by Chris Mathews, Jr. and Kyle Davis
Recorded at Joonior Studios and Big Sound Productions in Seattle, WA
Mixed by Chris Mathews, Jr. and Kyle Davis at Noise Cellar Studios in Seattle, WA
Mastered by Rick Fisher at RFI Mastering in Seattle, WA
Album design by Brie Elam
Photography by Scott Dickerson
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