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The Way Things Move

by Lost River/Old River

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1.
Cedar Shakes 05:34
if I am allowed to sit and breathe on the beach alone looking out at the sea will I find the stillness I need? or only the way things are moving in me (if I am) found by the fury of love in the morning, will I know it at night? (on the beach) feeling a moment becoming a memory, will I remember it then? (will I find) a voice in the fog of a future that I cannot see, calling to me? (or only) a noise in the distance, a smudge on the mirror of time with love looking back
2.
I can see the distance in the air it bends like an apparition, it shakes and it moves there in between us at the end of the day I can see the air in the light the low sun is shining through the pines behind your house it catches you full in the face and you look away and I'm happy to be alive we sit there without saying anything but we both know that the sun is gonna set and I know that we may be through but it feels good to just sit with you watching the trees move
3.
Untended 05:00
the street is blue the morning's a deep, dark gray the street lamp is garish through the October rain there's hills all around us trying to hide the day and I think I'll let them all of the things that I wanted to show the world are wrapped in a cover and hidden beneath my floor and there they will crumble and turn back to cluttered thought untended it all goes the same way but after all I am left walking through heavy grass hoping and waiting for the storms to pass and I feel the fragments of thinking and I want to know if left untended will they become the whole?
4.
Cold Hands 05:47
I have cold hands yellow and red, shaking follow slowly let my feet fall steadily make time to slow down think of the things that we have are you listening? I don't know how to do this
5.
when the whirlwind was born between my bones my lungs were breathing waves my heart was pounding stone my hand a daydream's grave and hesitation's home a tree who's casting its roots around to find her I am left wondering if my blood will still stir once the Westerlies have prevailed inside of me I will throw away all of the maps that I have made as the whirlwind was hauling through my heart I felt my trembling pulse I felt my ribcage part I saw the splitting bones and knew you'd leave a scar
6.
Duet 06:17
7.
I watched the wind coming up my street coming up strong the cold came too in the cloud of a short breath it took me from you and death is a fitting end to the messes we make while relying on memory time starts and slows and moves like a friend who we can't ever really know I was born in the wintertime nestled real low in the hills of Colorado and when I can I will return and find myself a home
8.
I was running I was running with the wolves and I knew I was cold but I didn't know how cold and I knew I was fast but I wasn't fast enough while I was running I learned something new that if you run long enough the earth begins to move and your thoughts start to slow and the wolves all fall away
9.
10.
the sunlight falls like fog we watch it shift and shake you stand and it pools at your feet I'm having a hard time seeing you you laugh and glimmer and gleam you burn and break up a ghost in the sunlight the canyon walls are hollow and your dress is a prism in the billow and brume the sandstone shivers and shines like the mirror you hung on our wall you step off of the earth and into the water and your world begins to move like a dog's breath or a calm sea the waves too gentle to resist too gentle to resist

about

These songs came into being between 2009 & 2014. Matthew wrote, performed, recorded & produced them all inside various homes while watching things move. Thank you for listening.

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released October 7, 2014

Matthew Hovey Kemp
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Wilson Kemp - drums - 02, 03, 04, 10
Eric Loftis - drums - 05, 07, 08
Maureen Halverson - vocals - 02, 03, 04, 10
John Gnorski - lap & pedal steel - 02, 06, 07
Alicia Kate Halverson - vocals - 07
John Walsh - vocals - 04

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Sometimes-folk music made by Matthew Hovey Kemp
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