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Goodbye, Duluth

by Ian Kimmer

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1.
The Whitewater Valley comes right upon you And that stream, it stretches on for days. And son you'll ride All this great unwinding As the stream stretches on for days. But girl understand her You've got to get on in her So here we go, here we go And the sun He shines On the old white horse On my dusty suitcase On the dent in the door On his muddy shoes On her big smiling face Oh the sun he shines on me. But when you're far away From the things that raise the day You drop to your knees and you pray real hard. But the river she runs anyway And she turns to say It ain't right there. It just goes on. And the river she rolls And she shimmers and she shines And then dumps you over Just to break your leg. And then she'll do it again So you get up again And still love her 'til the end She's so beautiful.
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Here's the scene of a man and a lady on a lake Light behind, Open ahead Every road through these hills and houses Brings them down to the edge Or over the light in their eyes Holding hands in the cold, cold age Of a hundred ways to make a home They hear the drum beat louder for their chance Goodbye Duluth You are not all the sheets you've taken away from here You are the ruin. You are the lift. You are the sky. But not here. Does the field of the tall tree take them away from us? Or do they dance with the moon on their bare breasts and breath in the sand? And the waves? And the waves of this rage? Goodbye Duluth
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Iowa 05:30
Let's write on the streets 'round my throne "This once was his home." Then laugh about another sad story And slide down the street without thinking twice. We were right when we saw this way, maybe. But we're not the kind who get away from the sun. For what's coming up ahead my dear, You don't want my advice. 'Cuz I ain't afraid of my soul anymore. And with our heads on the ground layin' down, We see the sights soaring. We're at the heights of our lives. Wait for his trap. He's gonna want to do this right. All around us the ground is on fire As we settle for the night. But the wilds aren't just anything So now we run for our lives. Oh, this home on the road. Take the turn for Omaha And we gotta do this right. So I guess falling down Was our way to find out why.
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Lean On Ian 05:50
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The Road 09:10

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A rough demo-style live recording done in two hours with mics duct taped to chairs in the happy but gritty Emerson Cooperative, Duluth, Minnesota, June 2014. With Lee Jeffrey Peterson recording and on piano, Deanna Erickson on backup vocals, and Brynn Sias on guitar and backup vocals - though none of us had practiced together before gathering the morning of recording. An album to end a great decade of life in the far north of the Arrowhead, a life that broke us but was better than we could have ever imagined when we showed up in 2004. From the farm in Embarrass to the BWCA to the nights on the shores of Lake Superior and downtown Duluth. This is my goodbye letter to a place that made me and where my children were born of.

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released July 1, 2014

Lee Jeffrey Peterson - Recording, Piano
Brynn Sias - Guitar and backup vocals
Deanna Erickson - backup vocals

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