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I saw the forest for the trees when the scales fell from my eye and I hoped that spring eternal but that river’s running dry that was might nigh the night that I saw home as a place that we can’t go yet we row and row and roam when will we wake up? Where’d it go, where’d it go, where’d it go, sensitivity? Daydreams displace me Should we grow apart now? Or do they save me? Why can’t I wake up, intact and see through to the other side. Should I grow up? Or apart? Fall back or Spring Forward? Help me wake up get back to my sensitivity! Spring Forward! The gray that makes green greener. The gray that makes green greener.
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Tinker Creek 06:05
Out of the sedentary confines I deem winter comes the spring “And, like the baseless fabric of this vision” Willing to the wind Well All the same; I’m different than I was just yesterday That’s just nature told by nature Reconciled in all but name Yet there’s this looming fear That something brings me to this place And I trace with one eye shut The only cloud in the sky So one dimensional The clouds keep rolling in Until the time and tide pulled the sky to earth We did this because we felt alive I can’t spend my life naming stray dogs Why do we get closer when we feel like we’re the owner? It puts these clouds over my head Can you begin to show me, my friend, A means without an end?
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Like Ripples 04:28
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Tenth Walk 04:16
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Chamomile 02:58
Sweet Spring Arkansas folds the smoky chamomile into my cup of dusk if I came home would you still tuck me into bed; Sweet Spring Arkansas? To you, my southern bell ringing half a world away you wake me from my wishing well when you get home, won’t you come on back to bed; you, my southern bell? Cause when I’m all alone I start to wonder where it is that I should build my resting home If you ever find a home, won’t you tuck me into bed; Sweet spring wanderlust?
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Quilt 08:41
Rest is not idleness I can’t rely on this rut between waking and walk. Just waiting in wingspan too waxen to see that my form follows function but I was followed to my home by the bluebird that carries the sky on it’s back seeking spring in succession just to tell my winter bones: “I see sage in your hands and all your curves sigh like sand but where there’s driftwood there’s land where you’re driftwood I’m land.” Rest is not idleness You can’t rely on this rut between waking and walk. Sleeping through the stillness of an autumn contour all of it was made for play. Lackadaisical you seem caught in between two thrones draped in blankets they’re for comfort not for warmth And these forts that you call idols are sitting idle in the past small talk is not my forte but I’ll speak about the weather for a change cause I feel spring and better days.
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released June 20, 2014

Released on Raw Paw Records
Recorded and Mixed by Chico Jones @ Ohm Recording Facility
Mastered by Chris Burns @ chrisburnsaudio.com
Cover Art by Katie Rose Pipkin
Trumpet on Spring Forward: Claire Puckett
Cello on Quilt: Nick Gregg
Violin on Spring Forward (Ashe Acoustic): Ian Scott Stewart

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Hikes Austin, Texas

Hikes is a band of friends from Austin, Tx. Inspired by nature, and driven to meld their love of heavy, technical rock with folk

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