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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Features studio recording of "Twice" as a bonus track, a hand-written short story by Jay, and a digital download code.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Apes Scrapes and Bandages via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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lyrics

I burned down a house for you
Tore all my idols in two
The poster on the bedroom wall, remember
Staring down the ceiling stars alone at night
For ten years glow, they gave me light

I asked for a hand to end it
But those little white fingerlings bend
The curling trust of a helpless infant
Two brothers’ dreams to take the world laid sound to sleep
And this is the best you’ll ever be

Wipe away every tear
There’s nothing left to feel but joy here
Place to lay, green forgotten shade
A new soothsayer divining all the ways

Green forgotten shade
Green forgotten shade

I poured out my heart in the drain
Thought it would change the pain
And turn me into somebody that I could live with
But we’re four months deep in storytime land and he holds my head,
A spirit in the mirror or a knife in bed

Wipe away every tear
There’s nothing left to feel but joy here
Place to lay, green forgotten shade
A new soothsayer divining all the ways

Green forgotten shade
Green forgotten shade
Stumble hot through Sumer rumble
Tablet cabaret

Green forgotten shade
Green forgotten shade
Tarot cards and olive oil
Taste and see the flame

Dancers interlock and load, tip-totem off in dissonance
Burning down, it’s fate, I’m flaming out, I’m finally getting it
Pair of eyes to carolize two terribly surprise adrift
Heaven, earth, and hell between us—I’m burying the myth

Burying the myth, I’m burying the myth

So I’m brushing my teeth for you
Growing my hair and singin’ more too
I don’t want to spin in a teacup forever
But you’re grabbing the wheel and turning slow,
And you look at me

credits

from Apes Scrapes and Bandages, released October 13, 2023
Dwayne Jordan: drums, chanting
Kevin Beardsley: electric bass, chanting
Brandon Shamar: piano, chanting
Logan Butler: acoustic guitar, chanting
David Siebold: acoustic guitar, chanting
Cody Angel: pedal steel
Ellis Dyson: banjo
Benjamin Dodson: chanting vocals
Jay Siebold: vocals, xylophone, nylon guitar overdubs

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Starsapien Los Angeles, California

Cosmic country & western from songwriter-producer Jay Siebold and his back-east band.

Apes Scrapes and Bandages out October 13, 2023.

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