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The French Song

from Arguments by Maple Stave

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lyrics

Here I lived and here I died
Stitched together symbols and signs
For the bare ruined choir

And so all these things we prayed down
became false signals on the trip out of town
Burned off swift far from your eyes
what brought the summer stayed
under the howls and cries of a dead moon’s weight

I’ve seen the aged cycles of my fears
Never leaving you but never here
I’ve seen what these thoughts create

With all the lies forgot the fiction
we were surrounded but could not listen
We could see the life we could hold the light
but there’s no roadmap for the territory
to inspire the bare ruined choir

Sometimes it got so hot
I’ll burn right out of my skin
The last memory drifts out
as I put down our kids

For my final trick I’ll smile
cocksure rusty and blind
Ghosts show our story’s form
and the plot stretched out for miles

In the moment it is forever
but I’m sure in time it feels like never

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from Arguments, track released August 1, 2023

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Maple Stave Durham, North Carolina

Since 2003, Andy Hull (baritone guitar), Evan Rowe (drums), and Chris Williams (baritone guitar, vocals), have written songs to overwhelm. In 2019, Chris Rasmussen (bass) joined to add even lower-end. Arguments, their 3rd LP, due August 2023, is an explosive amalgamation of what’s come before and a tense, heavy album of loud songs about difficult things. RIYL: Louisville, T&G, Unwound, aluminum. ... more

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