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American Hymn

by Mary Knapp / Toot Sweet

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1.
Intro 00:23
2.
Sometimes 02:59
Sometimes You'll find You'll find I was unkind I was unkind I was unkind But then So nigh You'll cry And show me why You took my side You took my side Doubled over seven fold Hustling to barricade the cold I'm your well You dig me deep Toss the coins Upon my cheek My wishes to keep, yeah My will to speak Sometimes I'll cite Our plight That we were slight So full of spite Immune to light But then I'll know And we'll grow Into the light To set it right To take this flight Ooh la la Ooh la la Ooh la la Ooh lala Ooh lala Ooh lala Ooh lala
3.
In this short life That only lasts an hour How much, how little Is within our power La-ba da ba-da-da-da Ba-da da-da-da Da la da da-da-da La-ba da ba-da-da-da Ba-da da-da-da Da la da da-da-da Keep it close, hold it dear Hush now not a tear Morning dawns we sing our songs Of good life and cheer La-ba da ba-da-da-da Ba-da da-da-da Da la da da-da-da La-ba da ba-da-da-da Ba-da da-da-da Da la da da-da-da How how much How how much Power? For thine is the kingdom (How much) Is the power (Power) And the glory
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5.
Roses 02:16
Break of day I pick my plots Brilliant schemes will come to naught Night descends I turn my poses Lay my plots with hollowed roses Come the day which plot still stands The one to which I lent pure hands? Loathe to wager on my soul Fearing light of smouldering coals Fear now not for days be mild Stealing time for fleeting smiles Night will come to challenge stride For in the dark impulses ride Steeping life with heartfelt crimes To trudge with us in light Empty plots no crop to graze I deigned to wander through the haze To noble gardens gently grown Where I did lay 'mong blessed roses
6.
Dark Road 02:32
Running down the same dark road again Feels like it's the millionth time I've been Nothing left to fix though I know I've hardly tried No one left to blame and I know the reason why Are we ever breaking through? Oo-ooh have you changed or was it always you? Oo-ooh what's left for me to do? But to believe in a man I thought I knew Feeling our hearts slowly turning into ice Revealing a conceit that always hid behind our eyes Can't get through your bitter spleen to where it all began Guess I'm running down the same, same dark road again Are we ever breaking through? Oo-ooh have you changed or was it always you? Oo-ooh what's left for me to do? But to believe in a man I thought I knew Running all the way back home again Cause all you're giving me is a hole in the head Planning my next move can't remember where I stand Guess I'm running down the same, same dark road again And at the end of the day I'm just trying to feel alright I've got to run far away From the dark black roads of our minds
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How beautiful the twilight skies Unfolding o'er the fields Affecting wistful sentiments To which my body yields America, America Vous etes ma reverie With fruitful lands and hills so grand From sea to shining sea Anticipation Transitory Elation Find Consolation In the American Hymn O Beautiful are all my dreams That see beyond the years And terrible are all the ones That spur my latent fears America, America What do you vest in me Transient cares or earth and air And music hearted sea? Anticipation Transitory Elation Find Consolation In the American Hymn Merciful Hearts Kneel before you Cry out to you Implore you
9.
The skies are settling Troubles out at sea The ocean waves Surrendering in stride The cooling breezes Brazen with their charms Caress these waters With sweet remembered songs The storms have passed And now we can begin To seek the shores Where fires light the skies We'll sift through waters Thirsting for new meaning We'll trove the evenings Where fires light your eye Soon as the evening treads My baby lays me down to bed
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11.
Cleaned Up 03:21
We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together headpiece filled with straw Between the essence (We) And the descent (We) Falls the shadow (We) We We We This is the way the world ends (We, the way) This is the way the world ends (We, the way) Not with a bang But a whimper

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All songs and interludes written by Mary Spencer Knapp 2013*

Recorded, mixed & mastered by Oliver Ignatius of Mama Coco's Funky Kitchen, Brooklyn, NY 2014

*In A Cold World and Cleaned Up include excerpts from the poetry of Emily Dickinson and T.S. Eliot (see individual tracks for details)

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released February 18, 2014

Mary Spencer Knapp - vocals, accordion, piano, organ
Benji Marx - upright bass, electric bass, electric guitar, mandolin
Jesse Maynard - drums
Alex Carter - tenor saxophone (2, 8)
Marc Orleans - mandolin (5, 6)
Hannah Sloane-Barton - violin (9)
Tyler Kaneshiro - trumpet (11)

Album cover photo by Manuel Laqui
Album cover designed by Caleb Shea Sillars

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