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Everyone You Know EP

by Jolliff

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1.
My eyelashes are too long to wear my glasses They squeeze in my head, slip down my nose I take them off and live in a blur and say “My god, you’re easy on the eyes” I chased the sun right down to L.A. and left As highway after highway Grew sick of my unbelief When I sleep I take all my sins with me I should’ve been watching you I should’ve offered you a little help I take great care to amount to nothing Or say anything good Just to prove you wrong Everyone you know is part of you And when I wake up my dreams have forgiven me And when I wake up my dreams can have me And when I wake up my dreams have forgiven me
2.
What did the turtle say turning the final bend? This doesn’t prove to anyone that I’m faster Baby Moses, floating down the river asleep You are the rabbit in a basket full of sun The cheers thunder through the ground As the turtle’s yawning through the finish line Dear Miriam is on the run To keep her brother in sight until he’s found Now that you know you’re at home in the world Don’t be so eager to wait Now that you know there’s a reason Does it make anything easy to take?
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Wild Things 03:48
4.
Father 03:56
A crow spotted me perched up on a wire He said “I’m on the cover of every holy book” Come down from there Together we discovered peace And the inside of my jacket is layered in feathers The whispers of wind make my bones dry On my flannel parking lot I lay until the dark has passed I must remind myself everyday of a god. I’m not healing even though, even though I’ve admitted my faults When I’m out in plain sight I get cold and tongue-tied For now we store the alter-piece in the side yard Where we watch the passersby praying beads My father asks me, am I proud of him I find moss filling in my ribs Oh, we can barter and beg but we all pay by the mile I prophesy into the clouds I learn the laughing leaves, the sun’s yellow teeth I can’t ever remember the words So let’s see how much that we can live without When I’m out in plain sight I get cold and tongue-tied For now we store the alter-piece in the side yard Where we watch the passersby praying beads The line to the sea grows like a fire They’re waiting, waiting The lightning’s softer than his eyes They’re a maze of crossing lines My father asks me, am I proud of him
5.
Coming over the mountains I’ve been lost for two months Now I can see trees Icicles on my face There’s sand in my pockets And a hole in my sound Independent That’s what I was Friends, I am sorry Our communication was blown by the wind Antlers behind my ears I’m a fish out of water Sucking on air Dependent That’s what I am Jesus, Moses all went through the sand Israel, disciples follow them Conscious now in the river Sweet life restored to me And it’s dripping down my hands Realizing our gift of faith Love stronger than death And tougher than hell is here I see my breath in morning air
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Holy Fool 04:15
I used to be a theologian Until You ruined me I put my books in the closet And gave my robe to charity By the clear spring pool I watched monks Laugh and splash They left their beds for the mountains Painted their faces and howled in the breeze Wake me up in the morning So I know Your not only words If it takes breaking ice on the lake I’ll stand waist deep Day after day after day On my walk back home Red Wing black birds perched on the wheat You said tell them your will I spoke Your name and they flew to the trees Seen outside soaked waste high With the wind freezing my cheeks Face painted all sorts of colors With a smile stretching off my face

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Recorded in the Spring of 2012 at Portsmouth Trinity Lutheran Church, Portland, Oregon.

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released September 14, 2012

Mixed, mastered, & printed by Matt Huiskamp.
Designed by Carl-Eric Tangen.
Many thanks to James Jacobsen

Jolliff is Frank Canepa, Morgan Davie, Dustin Junkert, and Lucas Tomlinson.

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Jolliff Portland, Oregon

Jolliff is comprised of four friends who live upstairs in a Lutheran Church. Falling under the ever increasing banner of pop music, Jolliff finds a niche there with Andrew Bird, Grizzly Bear, Sufjan Stevens and The Band. They seek to connect with their listeners through spirited melodies, changing structures and groove.

Jolliff lives and plays in Portland, OR.
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