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call the waves

by mike benecke

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1.
july fires 01:55
july set the lake on fire she walked into chasing the northern light red gold and blue july took it all in stride alight like a funeral pyre hearts blazed anew shake-shaked like a new born child as I clung to you my july said her long goodbye and I try to take it all in stride
2.
bloodsong 02:13
in the dark a secret river conceals itself in the heart it pulls me under the deepest spell tonight will you carry me down to the shore lead me into the flood climb to your room watch you sleep at the windowsill where sturgeon moons wash away those looks that kill the light may shine for you but shadow will follow wherever you go leave me in the flood leave me in the blood
3.
gotta haunted heart a taint in the blood the sinner in my soul is praying for a flood where the waves bury me and we're all soaked up all we are names in the dust so carefully we wrote but the wind is kicking up let the waves carry me til we all go out and we all go send the waves bury me send the waves carry me call the waves til we all go out and we all go
4.
astral line 02:09
saw you lifted like the holy ghost called your name but I never heard the answer beyond the astral line the summoned go like a babe in the wood at the cradle I stood reaching out my arms what fate what form befell you in the dust what saints what souls pulled you away up up and away
5.
half life 04:21
bathe your heart in alcohol soaked down through the marrow my own beloved albatross face down in the water half ghost, half animal takes the cure 'til it's poison sound the alarm
6.
my brain 02:21
my dad said his dad said life is about trying I'll say to my son yes life is trying just trying to hold on my dad said his dad said exercise is good for the soul I'll say to my son yes exercise your soul so yours will move on and though my heart's still beating my brain it's stuck on you well dad said his dad said one day I'll be dead and gone you'll have to move on when I'm gone and dad said his dad said one day I would have a son and you'll tell him all I've told you for so long and when my heart stops beating my brain it's stuck on you
7.
let me hold fast let the wave wash over me let me play deaf to the siren's melody let me come back from the depths upon the surface the air could taste so sweat the saltwater forest untangled from my feet weightlessly I oscillate with the ebb and flow of chemicals I'll soak up the light of the moon I'll soak up the light of the sun
8.
found you chasing constellations seven sisters snicker over me no crown no king mourning star don't get lost in the dark shadows shift and cold winds whisper when the moon is set low mourning star don't get lost in the dark when you stare into the sun
9.
birds 02:54
show your knives to me I'll show you how to bleed cure this curse I keep color the salt beneath lost inside the fold howling for the wolves chasing the same disease oh cure show sympathy I feel the fog hanging over me crawling down like centipede lay you bones under the pink lift the sun let it cover me let the birds breathe into

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released February 1, 2016

all songs by mike benecke except "my brain" by jason starr

mike benecke: guitars, voice, wurlitzer, percussion
rob hume: bass, keys
john broeckel: drums, percussion
raymond richards: pedal steel

recorded and mixed by raymond richards, mark chalecki, mike benecke
mastered by mark chalecki

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mike benecke Los Angeles, California

"beautiful, slow, intimate and rich dreamfolk... that aches like wolves in the near distance." - coverlaydown.com 03/05/16

"One of the most intimately thoughtful and honestly heartfelt records out of L.A. in years. It's pure." - la-underground.net 07/11/12
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