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Her Garden Gate Swings Lightly Without Weight

by Torchiana

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1.
Away 02:11
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You'll find me out far away In a land I have made Unattainable by vehicles you'd know But it is far from paradise Where words are bricks Building up to scrape the sky I just stand idly by Waiting for the fall The world is water My head a vessel It forms itself to the way I choose to see it Until I choose to change
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A Mattress of Grass 02:52
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Sippin on the wind Through the pours of my skin You wouldn't believe How dehydrated I've been And I'm drinking in the sunshine Sipping like a fine wine Searching for a hint of oak To save me from this city stroke Just tapping in Straight through to the ocean Letting it go Down the current to somewhere new Sippin on the wind Through the pours of my skin You wouldn't believe How dehydrated I've been And I'm asking how long Till I can get gone I'm thinking cabin Smack dab in the middle of a dense wood Just tapping in Straight through to the ocean Letting it go Down the current to somewhere new Sippin on the wind Through the pours of my skin You wouldn't believe How dehydrated I've been And I'm drinking in the sunshine Sipping like a fine wine Searching for a hint of oak To save me from this city stroke
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The View From Below 02:14
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Where mountains rise without a quake To wake them from their slumber We will live in their shadows No options But you'd like me to choose Take me to the river To show me the locks that run down her spine And cradle the rocks that weigh down her line Slipping away to the sea Change Is all that will be Take me to the river To show me the locks that run down her spine And cradle the rocks that weigh down her line Slipping away to the sea No options That you'd like me to be
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Voyage 01:20
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I'll be sailing away across that sea Looking out for a place that a mans never been Where the sunlight lays sparkling Over every peak and valley rolling in Nothing but the sky the ocean and me Is all I'll see And I'll figure out just where I'm going Just as soon as I get there Till then I got nowhere better to be But here Loosing myself in daydreams swimming by Staring up at me
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Someday Soon 04:11
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Someday soon you will find us in our home Someplace where We won't be hassled anymore We will find ourselves the perfect spot To build our family Where we can do things our way Someday soon I will build you up a home With my own two hands Where they can't find us anymore Where we can do things our way I'll plant the seeds to grow our food And we will do things our way We won't be hassled anymore Someday soon Far away from here
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Make Being Only Logical 01:56
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Looking around myself I find inspiration to see And plenty of fine things to be So what have you chose And where have you been all of this time Only with the future on your mind And what's past filled up your regrets Knotted pretty tight now Where your fingernails Just can't get a grip Digging in the rut bit by bit And day by day Getting pretty deep in
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Thanks to the Gardenkeeper 01:54
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The snow silently fell To deafen the noise of this land Between the sunrise and fall We were freed from the shackles And before us was laid a new land Though treacherous it was beautiful And the people there did seem a bit kinder But the land was torn apart and cast aside As it was before And will be again In time
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Even the Rain 05:31
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I've been constructing Islands in my head Places where I can Taste the fruits that they took for granted I've been typing out Pages of arguments in my mind Things that will never be said Light the match and push it out to the horizon Houses popped out by the dozen and lined up On a strand of the Earth's hair With the wheels to pair And honestly honesty hasn't been here in a long while But we're still hanging out Just the same as the old days Staring out the window of the backseat Asking mom and dad where we're headed to And counting down the steps to this staircase Hoping the top is better than this place Even the rain's been getting to me lately Not anything like when we Used to watch the waves rise from the doorway We'd race through the garden I'll beat you back To our concrete land This land wears away a man Bit by bit til he fits right in Houses churned out from the factory lined up On a strand of the Earth's hair With the wheels to pair And honestly honesty hasn't been here in a long while But we're still hanging out Just the same as the old days Staring out the window of the backseat Asking mom and dad where we're headed to And counting down the steps to this staircase Hoping the top is better than this place The willows limbs hang low The weight of the past on his shoulders He hears the screams as they echo Pushed and thrown from their homes just begging for decency Thinking back to A time when We weren't so caught Deep in the thick of this Houses crapped out by the dozen and lined up On a strand of the Earth's hair With the wheels to pair And honestly honesty hasn't been here in a long while But we're still hanging out Just the same as the old days Staring out the window of the backseat Asking mom and dad where we're headed to And counting down the steps to this staircase Hoping the top is better than this place And I hope the people there speak softly I hope they treat each other with decency

about

The name of this album is a tribute to Captain Beefheart, whose lyrics in Trout Mask Replica have an paralleled way of conjuring up vivid images and ideas with minimal information and heavy abstraction. I can hardly compare my own lyrics to his but they have inspired me to think differently about writing lyrics, particularly in these songs.

The album art was taken in my hometown, Havertown, Pennsylvania around 1-2 am on Christmas morning, 2015. It was a strange night which culminated in my siblings and I dancing through the streets as we walked back from the home of some neighbors we grew up with. There was some of the thickest fog I'd ever seen that night and I went to take a photo of my younger brother, Daniel, without realizing my flash was on. The result was this extremely abstract photo of Daniel dancing with waves of light dancing all around him, a perfect image for the way that night felt.

Please feel free to download this album for free. I dont want your money, only your ears.

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released May 27, 2016

All writing and performing of music and lyrics, as well as recording and mixing were done by Matthew Torchiana Hoban throughout the winter and spring of 2016.

Thank you to the radio show hosts who unknowingly participated in the recording of a few of these songs.

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Singer/songwriter music by Matthew Torchiana Hoban, based in Athens GA.
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