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The Drawing Room EP

by Adam Shulman and Katy Stephan

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1.
Estrangement 02:40
The blue spaces between the drops Expand and finally the rain stops It's too late in the day To expect anything more than gray It's just a shifting into evening Out of gloom One by one by one Squares of light dot the houses on the hillside Morse code saying now we're home Everything will be all right One by one by one Squares of gold light the windows where it's safe and warm Darkness leans against locked doors And one of them is yours
2.
Bjorn's collecting butterflies Formerly fluttering Now papery and dead Every shade of fire and flaming red Daintily spread akimbo on a great expanse of groove mounting board Bjorn's collecting butterflies Skewering specimens with straight pins Luring them in with Sugar water bitter chocolate and champagne Just a swift twisting flick of the net A smooth maneuver you're unlikely to forget After the throbbing stops He smoothes them over with glassine whispers "ich hab dich lieb Dufte biene" I've never known a man with such a love of lepodoptery Such a love of lepodoptery Bjorn's collecting butterflies Bjorn's collecting butterflies
3.
At first, when he comes to you in dreams He will come to you in dreams He will swear with such sincerity That it was all, all a huge horrible mistake He's alive as you You are sure it's true It's the opposite of a nightmare Till you wake up to the opposite of a dream After many years After many days and nights After many dreams Miles and weeks of waking After many years When he appears in dreams Saying just what you'd expect him to say Behaving in the most natural, typical way As real as day Still somehow you know Inside the circle of the dream He's not alive in life Somehow this is harmony When he comes to you in dreams
4.
House Finch 01:51
Early I'll be one of those tiny passerine tiny brown birds just outside your window the ones with the flame red throats singing the same two notes early I'll be flitting in between the branches of your waking and your dreams slipping in between your waking and your dreams early A single melody a simple melody incessantly I'll be so early incessantly You'll miss me when I'm gone
5.
Skygazing 03:18
Scanning the sky for signs from a future time Combing the clouds for portents of good fortune Measuring the moon it always slips away too soon Charting the stars where wonders are catalogued Marking the days from when you first were certain Tearing off a page the calendar will prove what's true Magi bearing gifts await, patient as always Wary of the ways stars seem to promise more Stars have fooled me before Mortals will still scan the sky for signs of a miracle Counting on time to tell me I'm not dreaming Smoothing out the scars scraped by sharpened stars Willing to believe love will live Asking the sky what worlds lie ahead

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released June 12, 2010

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