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Bonfire Etiquette

by Amity Beach

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1.
The fluorescence in the hall reminded us of new dawn When it woke us just as easy as an early dream And the shadows on the wall looked like two holy idols Looked a little bit devine and a lot like you and me And our lives together When we would spend Sunday nights to infinity Making life of cheap retreats with each one better than the others Hand drums and keys in the afternoons we learned Easy songs for lazy lovers And we strung lights that ran along the fence When we thought that we could spend eternal summers in the backyard We strung lights to illuminate the space between us Keep us out of the dark If you need to confide I can be easy to find Have you felt like this before? Got a feeling in your bones a restless nerve you can't abandon We'll outgrow predictions if you stay with me As my doe-eyed companion This young we can't see what we'll become Hold my fingers like a gun and shoot the lights out over our heads And hide the things that we're trying not to see What we haven't figured out yet With naive melody lamps that decorate the bedroom We stripped all of the linens tracing a loose thread If you love me till I'm dead I'll haunt the bedroom with you Make ourselves out to be ghosts with sheets around our heads And our tired hands worn as every day demands We demolish what we have and create the whole world over Because it's the only way we can be sure That we're never getting older And we strung lights that ran along the fence When we thought that we could spend eternal summers in the backyard We strung lights to illuminate the space between us And keep us out of the dark If you need to confide I can be easy to find Have you felt like this before Got a feeling in your bones a restless nerve you can't abandon We'll outgrow predictions if you stay with me As my doe-eyed companion This young we can't see what we'll become Hold my fingers like a gun and shoot the lights out over our heads And hide the things that we're trying not to see What we haven't figured out yet
2.
It takes two and you've done everything you can to build integrity In all that you do I still disintegrate into a million pieces Hold myself together meet you at the corner of princess and pine When I'm still convinced that we can make some kind of rupture in the suburbs An autumn skylight up above my head I would sleep away the afternoons And I'm all about the reds and yellows all across the ceiling And the colours on the other walls don't mean a single thing I blame my failures on my fantasies, you blame them both on me We wasted hours in the heat that's beat this town for a century The curse is lifted all's forgiven we all melt into the sea Let's go drowning let's go meet the fate that would come to us eventually An autumn skylight up above my head I would sleep away the afternoons And I'm all about the reds and yellows all across the ceiling And the colours on the other walls don't mean a single thing Fires starting in my backyard I could see everything I watched the light drip from the setting sun I watched the harvest palette colouring the fall Oh well Restless winds that rip open the shutters And tear dead leaves each by each from the trees It crossed my room as I pulled up the covers as I Went back into my fortress An autumn skylight up above my head I would sleep away the afternoons And I'm all about the reds and yellows all across the ceiling And the colours on the other walls don't mean a single thing Fires starting in my backyard I could see everything I watched the light drip from the setting sun I watched the harvest palette colouring the fall Oh well
3.
They banned fires in the hottest summer We have ever known and we're on our last resort We surround the bath you curse me to death And I don't blame you Say you'll never forgive me I'll never expect you to We feel like we are glorious We drive a Crown Victoria I'll be your hands if you're my eyes And keep watching the mirrors while I drive Unless we are stricken in a thickened haze That's challenging us to remain And pressures on to break us down Now I might be a liar but I'll say that it won't Spirits turn to turpentine and ash That swelled until they learned what their bodies cannot hold But I got control I think I'm in control Or I'll pretend I am We both know by now that I'll always be new to this We feel like we are glorious We drive a Crown Victoria I'll be your hands if you're my eyes And keep watching the mirrors while I drive Unless we are stricken in a thickened haze That's challenging us to remain And pressures on to break us down Now I might be a liar but I'll say That we just can't be defeated
4.
Avalanches 03:42
We're so far from the tide Shallow as I've seen You give me all your lines That I've learned to read between When the beach bonfires are banned We swear that we'll give up these rituals next summer But for now it is only you and me And you've got all the nerve that I don't have Feel your bones grow back Hands on the ceiling because for now we're feeling better It's only avalanches Try to be with me and either way we'll live forever I told you that I would stay As long as you were standing But I'll always be afraid Of what runs in your family Drink Iceberg and discuss how right you are How you've got all the nerve that I don't have So fall asleep in turns And lie where you can sleep heavy and forget your curse Feel your bones grow back Hands on the ceiling because for now we're feeling better It's only avalanches Try to be with me and either way we'll live forever
5.
Fields 03:23
Let me to bed stop insisting I listen I can't take you I can't take you seriously I want myself want my own reflection The vampires are harmless but they won't let me sleep They won't let me sleep Fields like sunlight and gold I was sold on the necessary failure Because I thought taking the loss would be worth it Hurting myself for the good of me My condition's being eaten up by a fire And I'll grip to my survival rolling up my sleeves And I'll be psychotic for once and ignore you Until I collapse you won't get a word to me Not a word to me Fields like sunlight and gold I was sold on the necessary failure Because I thought taking the loss would be worth it Hurting myself for the good of me There are phantoms wandering my neighbourhood There are phantoms wondering why Phantoms wandering my neighbourhood In the fields out by the county line
6.
Do you remember that day (That sunny day) When you first came my way I said no one could take your place And if you get hurt (If you get hurt) By the little things I say I'll put that smile back on your face It's alright and it's coming along We got to get right back to where we started from Love is good, love can be strong We got to get right back to where we started from It's alright and it's coming along We got to get right back to where we started from Love is good, love can be strong We got to get right back to where we started from A love like ours (A love like ours) Can never fade away I know it's only just begun Give me your love (Give me your love) I just can't stay away I know that you're the only one It's alright and it's coming along We got to get right back to where we started from Love is good, love can be strong We got to get right back to where we started from It's alright and it's coming along We got to get right back to where we started from Love is good, love can be strong We got to get right back to where we started from
7.
Hedonistic summertime every romantic song that we know On the nearest college station when you Criticized my wooly mammoth caravan that I drove In fits and starts somehow it got me from the Casbah in the Hammer to Eternal Bummer Manor shows Never could escape the balladry I've got a string quartet that follows me wherever I go It plays on and on I hear them when we're going Station to tape and place to place always looking for a saviour Without much to save heroes we find are always the same But I don't think that we wasted any time Searching for our unsung pleasures Those nights have been forgotten Every party was a fantasy undone Got used to washouts that always Came upon us just as plain as the rain comes But our affective empathy shed particles that were summoned Like little sparks between us that grew into a sun But now look at you Miss Universe You're standing just inside a window You're wrapped up in a curtain while I'm In the Pearson Garden sat by a memorial stone To us each our own somehow we're both surviving I know you'll keep believing in hope In corners of the world where excesses of love have been stored But you'll only find love where you can create it Those nights have been forgotten Every party was a fantasy undone Got used to washouts that always Came upon us just as plain as the rain comes But our affective empathy shed particles that were summoned Like little sparks between us that grew into a sun
8.
Make your soft palate hum Run your fingers on the steering wheel like a drum Check your blind spots Grind your teeth look me in the eye You need to learn how to apologize You need to learn how to apologize You need to learn how to apologize You need to learn how to apologize Soaking wet slippers in the mudroom Lay your back across a table top in the monsoon And think of the flooding in the Lion's Park And I don't know why you can't be bothered Just once and we'd all be better for it You always find reasons to argue You don't like to say sorry do you The situation calls for failure And you're thinking that I might try I would never Unless you learned how to apologize And then I might But I don't know why you can't be bothered Just once and we'd all be better for it You always find reasons to argue You don't like to well I don't like you at all
9.
Read guide lines And adhere to them that they might get us by First step pretend that everything is fine The rest of the steps are impossible Lay awake Putting hopeless thought to hopeless thought that saves Me from daylight reminding me that I Was born to sleep late and fantasize So I lie on my back for the canopy sky And burn my eyes like it was my sun to admire You're impossible and I'm alright We could've been fine I never would've lost But I knew you before I knew how to change Born in the first decent light I ever saw I've given up because you'll never change Share my sunlight If we're so alike why aren't you listening Saying we're doing fine will never mean a thing Shoreline drive Where I'm harbouring my ghosts I tried to hide Took my shoes off and rolled my ankles bare Tempt the water but I'm never there And I see Silhouettes waltzing on the end of the pier Cast out sails only waiting for a breeze Or a pulse in the lake to teach them how to leave So I lie on my back for the canopy sky And burn my eyes like it was my sun to admire You're impossible and I'm alright We could've been fine I never would've lost But I knew you before I knew how to change Born in the first decent light I ever saw I've given up because you'll never change Share my sunlight If we're so alike why aren't you listening Saying we're doing fine will never mean a thing
10.
Comet Stop 04:03
Calloused hands and I'm striking matches In my haunted leather jacket All my moves long gone out of fashion But you've got them too so we act like We've found some common ground A reason to relate But all we've got in common is we made the same mistake Taking our inherited moonlight Our confetti bombs in the sky Trying to punch holes in the night time Lying backwards closing our eyes Comets spread like ashes all across the smoking night Until the comets stop and everything goes quiet Say what you mean Asthmatic breaths and cautious steps towards me Your cautious steps won't do Enough to bring me out of November and into A tangle of icy hands with you We're lost on purpose for something to do In the neighbourhood named after me and you And I hope you find what you're looking for I hope you find what you're looking for I hope you find what you're looking for I hope you find what you're looking for

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released July 25, 2013

Recorded and mixed by Matt Weston at Swamp Songs, Lucan, ON
Mastered by Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel, Toronto, ON

All songs written by Geoff Baillie, Andrew Gill, Fraser Moore, Jordan Hansen, except Track #6, written by J. Vincent Edwards and Pierre Tubbs
All lyrics by Geoff Baillie
All string and horn arrangements by Andrew Gill

Geoff Baillie: lead vocals, guitar, glockenspiel, bari sax
Andrew Gill: backing vocals, guitar, trumpet, french horn
Fraser Moore: bass
Jordan Hansen: drums
Grayson Homuth: keyboards, synthesizer

Additional instrumentation:
Anna Horvath: backing vocals on Tracks #4, #8, and #9
Ivan Raczycki: backing vocals on Track #5
Clara Stegall: backing vocals on Track #1
Erin Pickering: cello on Tracks #1, #8, and #9
Jamie McLellan: violin on Track #5
Zac Sereda: trombone on Tracks #1-4, #6, and #8
Jessica Pfaff: glockenspiel on Track #10
Matt Weston: djembe on Track #8
Jon Lawless: additional synth on Track #8

Gang vocals on Tracks #4, #6, and #10 by Scarlett Raczycki, Curtis te Brinke, Adria Anderson, Marije Stryker, Shannen Regier, Jessica Pfaff, Sara McEwan, and Clara Stegall

Cover design by Geoff Baillie

Thank you to the Lambton Creative County Committee

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Amity Beach are a band from Grand Bend, Ontario. They play indie pop music.

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