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Up In Smoke

by Great North

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1.
I Was Gold 03:01
In that champagne summer We were both so young The streets were crackling Like an old time song I felt right I felt right But I sure was wrong About a lot of things My faith was steady And my faith was strong Now it’s long gone honey And I need you home If you’re here By my side I don’t feel alone So please come back to me By the dirt By the bleach By your soft voice humming In the great dark deep I know all of this is fleeting But stay here I am making a new thing They dammed the river From my saviour’s hands Dimmed the lights Down on the last soul band I was gold I was gold I was golden then But now I’m ready to leave The moon was fading Like the leaving lord As I staggered drunken Back into your arms I’ve been knocked To the ground But I’m getting up When you lie next to me I am free I am free As a sunset shadow As a falling leaf And I will sing Even if I’m the same old sorry man I’ve always been For the dirt For the bleach For your soft voice humming In the great dark deep I know all of this is fleeting But stay here I’m making a new thing These old chords are rising up in me Let them all go
2.
Up In Smoke 03:47
So this is how it goes This is how it feels to lose your home To give your son To leave him on a field Tethers in his thumbs And though it hurts like a fire I’ll stay out here awhile When I finally fall It’ll be flat on my face Under the weeping wall And I’ll drink to every doubt I’ll drink until the sky and stars blink out If you won’t give me a sign I’ll stay out here all night And I’ll go up in smoke Leaving down the aisle In my wedding coat With my shoes undone My shirt untucked I never really had that much luck But it goes up in smoke Always said I’d hang myself Given enough rope I always wondered Now I know This is how it feels To be let go You go up in smoke I’ll be leaving like the sun Leaving like a bird Swallowing its song Leaving like a crown Leaving like a bruise Leaving like the morning star falling And when it all turns to dust I’ll see your sweet kingdom come And I’ll go up in smoke Leaving down the river Like dirty foam I’d have gave my tongue Just to hear your voice I’d have gave the world For a little hope But it goes up in smoke You only get one call But there’s no telephone I just want to fight I don’t want to talk So this is how it feels To be let go You go up in smoke
3.
I’ll lie down At the Wailing Wall When my work is done I’m so sick of waiting round For somebody else’s Lord To catch fire like the fairy lights Do on Christmas day And make me into a waterfall To carry these tears away All the stars Look like lamps On a distant hill Going out We both know It gets darker And it gets cold Before the dawn Morning born in an empty sky Quiet as a word unsaid I’m so tired of lying down In somebody else’s bed So I’m going home in a begging bowl Fearful as a sailor’s song It still feels like letting go Though you’ve already gone Hold me up Set my feet Make the river strong Let me go We both know I get the words Stuck in my throat Hear me out
4.
Casey Jones 03:52
See the bleeding incarnation Kneeling down in desolation When at the great transfiguration Abraham stood on the lonely hill He was standing still Singing who will hold my hand? Who is gonna hold my hand? You will not keep your life So leave it all behind Casey Jones took the evening train Casey don’t leave that way Who is gonna hold your hand? As the engines crash You will catch on fire And if you’re going to start a fire Let me be your light It took the flames of recreation To find this revelation Forget about your reputation This’ll be your liberation day When everything else breaks I am going to hold your hand When words have lose their power We will be the sound Let me be your light At our final tribulation There will be no reprobation And in this spinning constellation I will breathe until the day I die Then I’ll close my eyes Hoping you will hold my hand Until I find my home Still got no place to go
5.
Omaha 03:49
On the water I’ll wait For grace To teach me how to be alone It is singing low In your sorrow As your fingertips Your last kiss Are fading into the fog In this smoke grey morning I can feel you going In the evening light The stars are falling Ribbons streaming red and gold I can feel you dancing close I can hear your voice Sing an old time song Radio code Telling me my love, so long Love is letting go It is letting go It’s singing Home You are going home Wash the silt From my eyes Be a light When everything else goes dark On this narrow path In broken arms Carry me home I’m tired and drunk And I can’t feel anymore Keep my heart inside your heart Call me across the rocks Tell me Home You are going home Fire in the water, Omaha Blood in my belly Lay my body down And build a bridge To the beginning Oh my God Salt in the asphalt Sugar in my mouth Spit it out Until the sky’s Filling with stars Feel these dry bones Moving in the ground Hold me close It was you in every song It was you in every single one On a starless night You’re asking me why Leaving always feels wrong
6.
On the day of our union You parted the sea But my yoke was heavy And my back was weak And the waves rose above me Covered south, east, west and north Until my path was a river And the river set the course As you lie beside me My head feels slow And my poor heart beats Like a bass drum I'll keep you with me Like a smooth stone When my path is a river And the river sets the course Darling it's the same thing every time I keep running to what holds me down It's hard It's getting harder As the light settled on you You looked beautiful as a ghost And your words started humming Like transistor radio One day my weakness Will be made strong For now my path is a river And the river sets the course Darling it's the same thing every time I keep running to what keeps me low I want to build you into a home While I'm acting like a wrecking ball But our love is like a wedding ring It keeps running on and on and on Even if it's hard It’s getting harder
7.
I want to lay me down Upon your bed I want to paint my skin Bright blood red As the curtains sway To a southbound wind We’ll be moving on When I hang my head Down on your chest I’m going to spend my time Till it’s all been spent When we feel the old Blue hands of death We’ll sing a living song Darling, you don’t have to go it alone I’m right here I’m not letting go If you’re carrying a heavy load Just let it fall I’m going to nail my hands On Calvary Hill Till my bones are set And my body’s still And I’ll let it bleed Till it’s all been spilled Upon the leaving stone When I see you on That starless shore I’m gonna say your name Till I speak no more Gonna hear your voice One scarlet morning Love, I’m coming home Darling, you don’t have to go it alone I’m right here I’m not letting go If you’re carrying a heavy load Just let it fall
8.
The flowers are all falling Like billowing ribbons they go And I know you’re leaving But stay here and say you won’t Cos friend, when you’re near me You honestly lighten the load The sun will be shining On the day he calls me home Don’t say you’re sorry There’s nothing to be sorry for Cos darling tomorrow We’ll beg and we’ll borrow We’ll out-talk the liars We’ll out-spend the buyers We’ll write our own romance Its lines like wild rivers to cross
9.
I’ll stay in Watch TV Drink just like I used to drink And call you on your old phone Can’t go back Can’t go forward Stuck inside this terrible storm Swallowing the same sea I’m not dreaming any big dreams I’m not looking for a gold wedding ring I know you’ve got walking feet Always looking for a reason to leave I’m not asking you to save me This is where I made my bed It’s no surprise I’ll lie in it With someone who is long gone And this old weight It’ll fall But for right now it’s all I’ve got As I’m standing at your front door I’m not thinking I will stay long I’m not asking you to build me a home Just a place I already been Same old people saying the same wrong things Same old story we always wrote Same old open road with nowhere to go I’m not asking you to save me After the rain has all fallen And the air is filled with gold It feels like everything is new With no excuses in my mouth No promises left to doubt It feels like everything is new And I’m not asking you to love me
10.
Spirits (free) 03:46
All the rocks Are rising up in smoke Every city feels like Jericho I’ll be leaving with a keening cry Drinking water Till the river’s dry And spirits come alive To tell stories Of a losing love Share the hurt out Between everyone To keep on talking Till I find some truth Keep on walking Till my muscles move Where the old piano will play Those same ragtime notes Its cracked yellow keys Singing the oldest song Everybody knows the tune Everybody hums along Whether they like or not Whether they’re rich or poor Whether they’re quick or slow I’ll meet you there With everything I’ve got I’ll meet you there With nothing more I’ll meet you there In my last shred of hope In all my gaps In all my cuts and holes And the old brass bell will toll As preachers shout and stomp He’s the dying lamb He’s the living God And though my tongue is tied And every step is short I’ll hold my head up high I won’t let it fall Dressed in the deepest blue Feeling the deepest doubt Put on your dancing shoes Honey we’re heading out And we are going to blow This city right through the fog And we are going to live Like we never lived before Even if it won’t mean a lot
11.
Our glory days are gone I’ll place them down under the ice And I hope I won’t be on my own When I meet the lord In paradise And he sends me back to your arms The past is gathering dust I’m as tired as I’ve ever been So I’ll hold onto the Evergreens And I’ll pray they’ve not forsaken me Cos I’ll be travelling light when I leave I hear the sound of the sea I miss you my old friend I still love you more than anything When it hurts too much to say goodbye I give you Tramadol Help you close your eyes And I feel you lifting off when I leave I will be back before you know it

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released May 9, 2014

Recorded, mixed and mastered by David Parker at Little Monster Studios.
All songs by Hayden Donnell

Hayden Donnell - vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, organ
Rachel Donnell - bass, vocals
Dale Campbell - piano, acoustic guitar, trumpet, harmonica, vocals
Strahan Cole - electric guitar
Ryan Attwood - drums
Matthew Hutching - pedal steel

David Parker added bass, electric guitars and percussion
Jonathan Pearce added organ

Choir: Bryony Wood, Craig Jackson, Daniel Trevarthen, Tineke Struthers, Matthew Hutching, Rachel Donnell, Hayden Donnell, Strahan Cole, Stephanie Dickinson-Cole

Art and design by Rob Turvey

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