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Canton and Field

by Songs About Rivers

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1.
Waterlogged 05:19
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Remember the nights On the water in Newport News By the bridge With the lion's head roaring at you We'd slip down the bank The James River at our feet The swirling air Brought the smell of Smithfield To our little beach And the malt liquor we drank The weeknights easier to take When you kissed me on the mouth The law was hours We walked past the mansions On Riverside, by the shore You lit up Shoe Lane The streetlights crystalized your form In Tidewater light, this all seems so long ago In Tidewater light, seven cities all our own In Tidewater light, when I still recognized myself In Tidewater light, we'll be crossing water to get back home Waterless port Our own brick boxes beyond the square When broken hearts Were far less complicated and fair We could drink them off Stay in one place and feel secured If man made Lake Maury We showed it how to be pure And it seems we only speak In nostalgia anymore I've found train tracks through the woods In every state We took expensive papers Back to a home that wasn't ours It's not what we'd hoped Our time and place is waterlogged In Tidewater light, this all seems so long ago In Tidewater light, seven cities all our own In Tidewater light, when I still recognized myself In Tidewater light, we'll be crossing water to get back home
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In Good Faith 05:13
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Shadowy figures Exalted with incense Feels more like faces On post offices walls A young mind can be built Blind trust won't be ceded Until you're 16 and your friend is a sin Because he don't Know who he is yet And he feels Too tired to pretend Jesus, if you were real These men have butchered your name I want to see it But I can't believe In good faith You can't worship a god That you might not believe in This thing of darkness I recognize mine A company cover-up Scriptures in pieces Won't unite us Like a Michael Morse walk-up song That we sing All in unison With a joy So tangible and real Jesus, if you were real These men have butchered your name I want to see it But I can't believe In good faith Mysteries, I could believe in But why would they all be for me These forces they all seem to lead To separation Words, hearts, hands Parrots forget why they stand Jesus, if you were real These men have butchered your name I want to see it But I can't believe In good faith
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Defenseless Characters 04:20
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A prom night injury A future written off And when they said she wouldn't be all there She woke up singing esperer And my drive It had some perspective And my drive It had some relief And then the rains came They tased Pamela Brown Her median is empty And now Granby has no sound Defenseless characters The color of every town Just take a minute And be grateful that it's loud A yellow hydro-hoop A smile and a glance The break in your routine Sneakers faster than the HRT And my drive It had some perspective And my drive It had some relief And then the rains came They tased Pamela Brown Her median is empty And now Granby has no sound Defenseless characters The color of every town Just take a minute And be grateful that it's loud Officers ground, please slow down She's reaching for her medical card Officers ground, please slow down She's reaching for her medical card Officers ground, please slow down (Would you remember someone) She's reaching for her medical card (Thirty years from now) Officers ground, please slow down (Could you just take a moment) She's reaching for her medical card
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Carolina 05:13
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You'd only return to the scene of the crime When it's this pretty And we're a couple hundred miles Down the coast When the Ravenel is open every weeknight And the harbor tells you that one day She'll be a ghost Carolina, you caught me fleeing Found me retreating My home state Carolina, looking for meaning Trying to find my way home Without her face Reb's corner seems quiet this evening And the Line Street crowd Has even packed it in I think I'll take to walking St. Phillip till morning The streetlights are hazy And home feels miles away Carolina, you caught me fleeing Found me retreating My home state Carolina, I'm looking for meaning Trying to find my way home Without her face I think I might come out of hiding I think you're almost a memory There's all kinds of waterways To get lost in, down here I'm feeling almost not bad Carolina, you caught me fleeing Found me retreating My home state Carolina, I'm looking for meaning Trying to find my way home Without her face
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The Ballad of Jimmy Scott 04:48
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When you're older You feel something When you're young You can't feel a thing I've started lots of fires But I've learned from them The Baker brothers said I wasn't dirty enough They wanted to hang me from a tree I'm stuck with this number on my chest It didn't fail because of me Warden, damn right I moved those bags around Warden, you locked me up To keep those pitchforks in the ground When you're hurting You'll blame anything They wanted to string me up the Bayview Bridge Webster haunts me every single day of my life And it's what gave me this sentence I never claimed that I was perfect I've stumbled and drank my share and ten But when the newsman asked for sandbaggers I was there to do my pennance Warden, a better man would have put The bottle down Warden, I tried my best But there's no redemption in this town One day soon these walls Will crumble into debris And take what fight the cancer couldn't From me They said Rudy was a ghost Suzie is gone and I'm a memory Mississippi sunset in my mind Is all I'll see Quincy, when I was young I know I let you down Quincy, my heart broke Watching my hometown city drown
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Moving Plates 03:48
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The interior of a tectonic plate Mineral, Virginia's only claim to fame Damaged turrets, uninsured corner spires Twenty minutes to talk to you outside With an ordinary kind of grace The building started to sway Lights suggest we evacuate Or just an excuse To come find you Great apes wouldn't eat Flamingos flocked Citizens stared at skylines Wondering could they drop Avoid elevators even if the operate Have lunch outside with you and postulate With an ordinary kind of grace The building started to sway Lights suggest we evacuate Or just an excuse To come find you There'd be cracks in our greatest monument Three years of damage only scaffolding could fix I clumsily threw in brick after brick To a foundation Valdivia couldn't lift With an ordinary kind of grace The building started to sway Lights suggest we evacuate Or just an excuse To come find you
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The Ballad of John Allen Chau 05:29
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The Milky Way above Like God himself was guiding us From Coast Guard and the Navy patrols Paddle in a criminal's wake With gifts from centuries away Sun rising on Satan's last stranglehold You might think I'm crazy In all of this But I've got clarity I've found the gold The beach started to stir My true calling to this Earth I've been chosen long Before the screams I sang my song back I sang louder while my paddle sat I prayed, and I pushed on You might think I'm crazy In all of this But I've got clarity I've found the gold Picking up the bow Holding it close to their sides I'm scared, but I know That he is strong When they started to fly I said I don't want to die Who is going to tell them When I'm gone You might think I'm crazy In all of this But I've got clarity I've found the gold And as he fell Pierced by an arrow Thin metal through his book and skin He was screaming your name To no comprehension And Xhosa It can't help you everywhere It won't make this fog clear I can't make you right It won't help them hear So if they don't Want to welcome you If they won't listen to you Wipe the dust of your boots And leave
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Moheda 03:41
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These orders have brought others down The angry, lock her up crowd But we'll bang on cowbells at seven o'clock A practical exclave formed by our block We'll be here And if this television year Is a world premiere Season two usually sucks We can ride it out On an IKEA couch They can't take the good part away History is a memory pack Accounting for legend and fact But newspapers won't see These puzzles and snacks We'll know how we fought it When we look back My recording device Was you And if this television year Is a world premiere Season two usually sucks We can ride it out On an IKEA couch They can't take the good part away And they don't write folk songs About covering your face Or a love song About staying in place When these sirens subside I'm going outside With you And if this television year Is a world premiere Season two usually sucks We can ride it out On an IKEA couch They can't take the good part away
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Oscar OK 05:40
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Connecticut Avenue feels like a radio dream When the Taft Bridge has no agenda And portraits of our Presidents Are portraits of a Saturday The lions on the bridge directing you home Comfortably cautious, cautiously uncomfortable When making waves is for the horizon A sounding board in a sweatshirt Our Sundays in solitude In a marble city building a home Waving like an error semaphore Frantically under control I'll love you as the waves crash around I'll love you when they settle down Bus trips with all of your belongings Resignation letters bound To hoping it could be better And stepping off solid ground To Avenue B In the snow Late nights in dark rooms screaming at something Sidewalks robbed me blind and saved my life A certain way of walking The art form of New York To five flights of stairs Leading you home Waving like an error semaphore Frantically under control I'll love you as the waves crash around I'll love you when they settle down How I've noted the way That the sun moves through our room And how all these little moments Are the big moments too And how one day next year They'll be flowers in your hair And we'll say all those things That the state needs to hear
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The Color Green 06:39
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The phones get shut down Around nine And we're points behind It's an uphill climb As my mind peels this room I've decided That I'm gonna make you mine And I'm stuck out here in Manassas For tonight I know there's a story And you have a fight Under stars by the lake I am ready And I know my side I could tell as we drank it away That I had to try So tonight I'll be out on Lake Mercer Counting night's light And you are so pretty That it makes me mad And I've been so quiet Making a plan As it fumbles out you look scared And I can't stand Now I'm stuck out up here on a balcony With shaky hands The moonlight is shining Down from the sky Glaring off ocean And into my eyes Reflecting off water That's already been cried And I'm stuck down here in Carolina For on more night And I'm walking on built up ocean Gonna throw all my intentions in Watch them all float away Only sink past the break But I know tomorrow I'll be leaving with them And I don't know what that means for us The color green Is killing me And i can't help you Because I can't help me So I'm gonna lie And say I'll be just fine till it's true

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Debut full-length album from Songs About Rivers.

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released December 16, 2022

All songs written, recorded, performed, produced, mixed, and mastered by Brendan White.

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Songs About Rivers New York, New York

My name is Brendan. I write and play music in and around New York City.

My debut album, "Canton and Field"is out now and streaming everywhere!

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