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Buried

by the Midnight Pine

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1.
Woke up with a fever Trouble in the blood Born a non believer Ready for flood Love is without warning Storms arrive the same Sky’s been clear a while I feel the coming rain Only takes a second For everything to change Hurricanes and weather Arguments and pain There Is something wrong Please Don’t be gone long Truths, I’ve tried to hide But I need you tonight
2.
Buried 05:23
Buried Beneath The swell Jacaranda trees The violent violet majesty You are The least Last river standing in between My freedom from this gentle dream I’ve seen Carried The weight Of words that never hesitate Of worlds that should have tested faith But still You push Against the tidal wave of youth That washes til it’s drowning you In truth Midsummer night Fell in love wrong Days fall to nothing Thirsty for poison Thirsty for song Searching for something What’s love But words Just letters fed to haunted hearts That stalk the salvage yard for parts For you For me For guided light and openings For tides to bring back broken things To sing To us To rust To push and pull and separate To wield love in the face of hate We try At times To stitch tears in our alibis To braid the rivers, lakes and lies / to find Midsummer night Fell in love wrong Days fall to nothing Thirsty for poison Thirsty for song Searching for something I fell As hard As boulevards are broken by The candle quake of footprint light You might Reveal The teal blue tears and fears you still Keep close to chest to breast til death The lives you hide til nothings left But love So open up your wings to me The branches boughs and everything And I’ll sip slow and serpentine TiI you surrender soft serene There’s braille we feel but fail to read The scales that name our wants and needs And when there’s struggle all around I’ll pry the thorns adorn your crown Til every cunning cloud looks down So envious of what we’ve found The beech bark white wash reverie The fevered ghosts surviving me We blow old smoke through punctured lungs Clouding up the crescent sun My breakdown alley miles away My midnight moon and new escape The ballad of a severed spring My love, my loss, my everything My love, my loss, my everything My love, my loss, my everything My love, my loss, my everything My love, my loss, my everything
3.
Tears 03:12
Tears disappear Lost in the rain Tracing the lines on your face Years we had been Tangled in sin Those were my closest to grace Words I would steal Tell what I feel Authors have seen in my soul Where we were strong Where we belong (or) where we belong Where is the last place you go Sometimes Lightning Splits the sky Some nights Feel so Open wide So I drive Poinsettia leaves And it’s time to leave And cold is the season for doubt So hold me one last Sad sigh for the past Cause all left that matters is now Words I would steal Tell what I feel Authors have seen in my soul Sometimes Lightning Splits the sky Some nights Feel so Open wide So I drive
4.
Caution 02:21
Caution’s on the wind I want to start again And throw away / all of the days The blood shed from this pen You want to run with me Revive this reverie Morning sun / San Simeon The last page of a dream Love is a lonely disgrace And love lifts you out of the haze And love breaks you down and builds you back up Love is the map and the maze Escape so hoarse so long Whispers in a song Call my name a moth to flame We catch it for it is gone And either way I leave An evening to secede These open veins on a blank slate I’ll paint you my beliefs Love is a lonely disgrace And love lifts you out of the haze And love breaks you down and builds you back up Love is the map and the maze You’ve been my friend my foe And things I’ve yet to And if you have place in mind so surely I will go Cause we are tied in time The tangles of a vine And if there is border there me may well cross the line
5.
Hey There 03:34
Hey there in the electric chair It’s so hard not to stare 2 Blues eyes could pierce the sky On a mountainside so clear Slow down pullin into town Best time to test your brakes The cops will rob you just as fast This game of give and take Honey sweet in the drivers seat Underneath the August heat Cigarette in between tulips And a stare far from discrete Movie star in a beat up car With a window rolling down Cheshire smile thoughts running wild Just beneath her coffee crown Lets go where the river flows And get lost along the way Break free from the walls around And all the beds we made Half dome over granite chrome In a postcard picture frame Old oak reaching serpentine Chasing down that setting flame
6.
Edge of Town 02:06
Take your limitations To the edge of town Take your breaking Burden better let it drown All the way down See you crying tears On the river there Voice raised to the clouds As if they can hear Every last your fears We all need a cure For something as obscure As our days I’ve been told of poison Gotta let it go Even when it keeps you Warm in the cold Everyone wants to hold And I’ve seen silent hearts Of the rising sun Crescent cast a smile When the day is done All this night weighs a ton
7.
You read me a way that I can't Your actions speak soft silent rants What's inside those tempest eyes I'd be alarmed but not surprised And still I try I've been talking to old flames With ice water inside my veins Certain things cannot be tamed Like ocean waves and your wild mane Yet still I came Some collect art for their walls And you own their hearts in hollow halls Hang them, break them, hear their call Despite the plight and all I saw Still I fall
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Throw yourself into the fire Place wet hands against the ash Touch upon the canvas blank Live the wishes of your past Today Walk headfirst into the storm Born again beneath the gray Clouds and thunder try to warn What is left for us to say Today I have yet to find the strength to swallow hearts and walk away Until then my friend my end we’ll have to bend this branch until it breaks Walk into the ocean’s call Calming is the sound of waves Back ourselves against the wall Tell our hearts to keep their pace Today I have yet to find the strength to swallow hearts and walk away Until then my friend my end we’ll have to bend this branch until it breaks I've been baptized by your tears that clear before the end of day I'm mother of amends and you've been fathering a flame
10.
Clouds are moving in There's distraction on the wind This time last year I swore my dear I'd never go back again I thought I made that clear I swear I made that clear Get the money in the bank and the 20 in the tank Get myself out of here And has it been that long Those sunsets come and gone It seems a shame, the same ole flame could do me this much wrong And we went round and round And we both know this town But there's room in the car if you wanna go far but you gotta be ready now heads we head on home Tails we stray and go It's money well spent cause we didn't pay rent no time to take it slow So roll those windows down And write lines on the clouds It's an empty blue sky in the center of July and love is coming down
11.
Pocket Watch 03:27
There's a pocket watch and a locket locked in a safe deposit box From a different time and a different war and my grandfather clock Chimes at 3 with a memory of someone I have lost And freedom has so many different cost Yeah, freedom has so many different cost Down an ill lit street on an Oxbow lane, keep coming round again There's a maple tree and the way it leans beneath a winter’s end Reminds me of an evening we went out to shout our souls Our breath like ghost float down the Cape Anne coast Our breath like ghost float down the Cape Anne coast And I Would like To trace my way straight back into your life So I'll Just close my eyes And gently walk back to another time Gently walk into a better time Long yesterdays we would strip the layers meant to keep us warm And hold me close, this coming storm, this need to be reborn time will heal, it'll also kill Take us down different ways So meet me in the memories we made Please meet me in the memories we made And I Would like To trace my way straight back into your life So I'll Just close my eyes And gently walk back to another time Gently walk into a better time
12.
Always 03:33
If I took a different path Into tomorrow Would it still have crossed with yours Would I follow Anytime and anywhere Just two souls along the road Or would I always search With some heart and hope I’d like to believe that some circumstance Beyond our means would call us to chance I’d like to believe, I want to know faith That any choice I ever made Would lead to you always If it was a different state That you called home Would I find your front door Or be out there alone Down the endless asphalt Through the last call maze Could a long shadow cast A little light on your days I’d like to believe that some circumstance Beyond our means would call us to chance I’d like to believe, I want to know faith That any choice I ever made Would lead to you always If I was a traveler Wandering abroad From airport to border Would the pull of your shores Draw me to your island Would I land in your arms Subdued by your silence In the front seat of your car I’d like to believe that some circumstance Beyond our means would call us to chance I’d like to believe, I want to know faith That any choice I ever made Would lead to you always
13.
So time Will tell The way we landed when we fell The ways we fit inside a cell You know Me well I have to finish what I start Even as it falls apart To hell So long My love Feast or famine had enough And heaven isn't all above It's in Your eyes The iris ocean open wide Your patient pupils black as night My light Mid winters eve And I have to leave A long search for silence And change as it may Or just stay the same Our love is timeless

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The Midnight Pine is the soundtrack to a solitary desert drive beneath a crescent moon. Lead by the haunting voice of young siren Shelbi Bennett, the Pine presents a sparse, hypnotic, eerie and beautiful soundscape. On their first two records they are backed by members of the Heavy Guilt, the Styletones and Low Volts. The album wanders through ghost towns of morose psychedelia, brooding folk and triumphant pop. To keep the focus on the vocals there are no drums, just found objects, chains, saw blades, sheet metal, utensils and short wave radios are layered to keep a subtle pulse of percussion pushing the songs forward. The Midnight Pine is an exercise in serene nonchalance, moody atmospheres and songs that braid your heart strings into a rich tapestry. Live the band can conjure pin drop attention with it's gentle movements and with a quick shift in dynamic can be a sonic maelstrom. The voice of Shelbi Bennett is a force of nature, captivating, volatile, gorgeous and pummeling.

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released June 10, 2014

Shelbi Bennett: Vocals
Alfred Howard: Circuit Bent Radio and Percussion
Jason Littlefield: Upright Bass and Cello
Sean Martin: Acoustic and Electric Guitars
Josh Rice: Piano, Rhodes, Hammond B3, Wurlitzer, Farfisa, Vibraphone and Acoustic Guitar

Jordan Andreen: Synthesizer and Accordion
Mikhail Borisovsky: Violin and Cello
Tim Felten: Mellotron
Andy Geib: Trombone and Trumpet
Tim Lowman: Electric Guitar
Gerard Nolan: Clarinet
Jonathan Piper: Tuba

All lyrics by Alfred Howard except Lavish in Bloom by Shelbi Bennett and Out Here Tonight by Shelbi Bennett and Alfred Howard
Produced by Jordan Andreen and Alfred Howard
Mixed by Jordan Andreen
All songs written by the Midnight Pine
Recorded at Audio Design
Mixed at Big Fish and Audio Design
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert

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