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No Clouds

by Lost River/Old River

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1.
No Clouds (free) 01:58
there were no clouds
2.
there’s a quiet place inside my folded hands a tiny forest of secret gears and exploded plans we'll share a state sewn from remembering within ourselves spread out so carefully in the circles of our minds we're moving towards green and gold again
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Lost River (free) 04:47
we come awake in a sunken field formed in stillness around us we rise with the shine of a belligerent sun with dew on our lips the mountains surround, smoky waves drowned in the green of the woods soft, the wind carries us up like a mad little bird   did I move slowly enough for you? the fire exploded I thought Ben was through we brushed the embers off of our shoes and laughed at the number of holes that were new you hoped I noticed you I have already forgotten what it was I wanted to say something darling don't just stand there trying hard to look me in my eye/I have already forgotten what it was I wanted to say something darling don't just stand there trying not to look me in my eye/I have already…   we can’t fall asleep, it’s dark and it’s cold but it is not quiet there's a river nearby but I cant find its song between all the others I listen hard for the noise that it makes as its water's repeating on and on a lot like the things we thought we'd do
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I Am Calm 05:12
if the night keeps falling around us darling your eyes will melt away and your thoughts will follow through thick and hollow until nothing's left to say we'll grow old in no time at all our lines will show in our folds I can’t understand why the cracks in the road would be wet at this time of night it hasn't rained or snowed since a long time ago but the lines are reflecting the light in the evening glowing the red clouds like wine on a map of unreachable heights we share secret smiles and step without knowing directly into winter's sights   and we'll walk along the side with the cars going by and you'll ask how I feel and I’ll know that this ain’t real I am calm and I’m cold I’m alone when I’m with you I am calm and I’m cold I’m alone when I’m with you I think of home
5.
Sinners 03:14
the sinners on their porches in the late afternoon watch the fireflies appearing in the long distant gloom they slowly grow quiet in the dark tidal heat their chairs are as old and as broken as the trees towering over the road they reach for each other over peeling paint and forgotten lawns in their eyes there's a darkness and in their bony hands there's always a pause because they know the middle because they know all along
6.
Old River 05:41
you were all ready to stir without even knowing why the lines we repeat in our sleep will follow us home I think I’m still drunk from the night we spent with Old Grandad we bend between our commonwealths and you will be known because we are brothers we may not know everything there is to know but when we create things the colors of constancy begin to show because it is winter we see things we didn't know were there the windows are etchings and the bench above Cajun is bare because we are brothers we may not know everything there is to know we traded creeks for streams when you were still waking up and found ourselves deep in the gleam of a light of our own we found a house that would hold the growth of a garden's gain but I still remember the fear and the feeling of chance
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I will not stay, I will not go you are whole and I am half the night’s electric lights are building us a raft the river’s running, the trees are standing and we’re not dead the river’s standing, the trees are running and we’re not dead I held you up to the light your organs were glowing I held you up to the light your organs were burning alive and we both fell through the fire into the furnace inside
8.
Box Elder 01:28
winter warmth inside your gut don't let the light away
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Thunder 03:48
thunder rolls around in the heat of the summer's crown we are old but we are still young we are wise among the foolish ones and the old way is the only way we know in the green fields where the fog builds we will lay the laughter rolls around and the fire we built has all burned down we are sprawled but we are exact we are order among the abstract and the old way is the only way we know on the dirt roads as the day grows we are home
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11.
Grins 05:58
we found a tomb and talked mostly about bones and what they meant to us and then the ghosts joined in and told us what they meant to them they talked real low and soft, so you and I got real still so we could hear them above our breath those old souls, they told us they left their bones behind for us so that we would know that they had been here at all a mournful tune found me grinning, baring all my teeth and I knew where I had heard it in the graveyard with you we pushed off from shore at midnight in boats we built ourselves with the hoods of old cars we used the bottles we had emptied night after night to help keep us afloat    “Come to me,” you called out but the rope that we held was long and the rocks that it found were sharp eventually I might make my way to find out where you went but for now I'm doing fine a mournful tune found me grinning baring all my teeth and I knew where I had heard it on a river in the woods but that's all through, I have found a place now where the water ain't that loud a mournful tune helped me close a door that I’d been meaning to for years
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the sky has been cleaned there's no clouds on the river and the herons on the bank in the reeds all fish with a fever the colors are caught between caution and impulse but I stand still in the woods and I watch the water pass by I’m young and I’m warm and I jump in the river I can spend days by myself all alone just laying on rocks the smells and the sounds will be with me forever and I’ll climb every tree that I find just to say that I did trees are falling over I hear them come crashing down it sounds like trains converging on us and its all around the trees all come apart and the earth moves and falls away there will be a river that's wide and new today its water will remember the trees that it took away there were no clouds or it was all clouds, I couldn't tell aside from the owl you killed we had a good time, I found something new somewhere near New Orleans we came to a bridge with a single green sign it told us to close our eyes: it gets a bit brighter before it is through

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No Clouds was created in five different houses in four different states.

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released August 13, 2010

Written, performed, recorded, mixed & mastered by Matthew Hovey Kemp unless otherwise noted.

Wilson Kemp drums on 3, 4, 6, 7, 9 & 12
Maureen Halverson sings on 3 & 12
Alicia-Kate Halverson sings on 5
Britton Powell plays bass on 6
John Walsh sings & plays guitar on 7
Gerald Clark plays trumpet on 7
Will Manning plays drums on 11
Mike Fleming plays cello on 11
Bossi Baker plays bass on 13

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Sometimes-folk music made by Matthew Hovey Kemp
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