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Saint of the Open Opera

by Just Like the Country

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1.
Constant Tide 04:41
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Constant Tide Nathan Brown and Ginnifer Brown, 2008 Moon in the sky Shines on the sea, Jealously And moves by Down in the drain I stay in bed. What you said Real champagne Burn ev'ry church If I run away, Mortal clay Join the search Our fav'rite game Became such a chore, Elsinore Price of fame Mixing oil and water Dressing the daughter In her conscience I know you don't want to hear It broke my spirit In the constant tide Saltwater hints Breakers like a crush, Igneous Ground down since Learned all the lines But you're in ev'ry scene In between Real moonshine Psalms on the wind Made it easy math, Psychopath Once opened The saddest song Couldn't make you smile. A fair trial Can't be wrong Mixing oil and water Dousing the daughter In her conscience I know you don't want to hear It broke my spirit In the constant tide I sharpened the corners and darkened the mourners I still can't cry Can't get high She thanked all the cowards as they drank to the powers And proper nouns That held her down Drowning the daughter In her conscience Below the deepest ocean A friend's devotion is Never constant Mixing oil and water Damning the daughter In her conscience I know you don't want to hear It broke my spirit In the constant tide
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Hearing Voices 03:48
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Hearing Voices Nathan Brown and Ginnifer Brown, 2008 It’s a mystery In the black of the unknown universe Swim the starless sea To the shore of dawn In our history She’s the saint of the open opera Voices vi’lently When the shame is gone Throwing music On the roof of a rust rain rehearsal Trending patterns In the clouds of a dust cotton sky Turning rhyming Into reasons to fly Fearful symmetry Darkened stain like the able Abelard Falling as if free From the height of Truth Like Geometry In the proof of the evil everyman Mirror matches me In the book of Ruth Blowing fuses With the cost of the cross crown commercial Bending matters In the quick of the lost questions why Burning rhyming Into reasons to cry Beside an open flower Arose the Eiffel Tower The breeze was funnel cakes and old decay And in the elevator Forgot our then & later Threw all our prayers away Throwing music On the roof of a rust rain rehearsal Trending patterns In the clouds of a dust cotton sky Turning rhyming Into reasons to fly
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Passing Notes 04:06
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Passing Notes Nathan Brown and Ginnifer Brown, 2003 It's the height of fashion I believe - To wear this heart out on my sleeve But it gets pulled off as you pass - And in its place a chip of glass The violence goes unbroken - It's itching in my palms right now Faith I have no token - And you can mark me deep and how Smell like electric smoke and cheap cologne and daffodils Unknown, unseen, unspoken Thrill And a stupid grin is on my face - We're moving like a three-leg race And the gospel starts to sound like truth - Received in filling in my tooth The silent vow is shaken - You heard the words that have no sound In symbols and ruins pagan - A dirty limerick written down That in my soul awakens strongest love and purest will Misread, misled, mistaken Thrill My islet now is so lost - Cracked rocks resolve to solve this howl And all the shame is focused - My hungry heart begins to growl Hum like a swarm of locust - Paean for the dentist drill Holy, hopeless, holocaust Thrill
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Nine Years 03:06
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Nine Years Nathan Brown and Ginnifer Brown, 2008 Nine years gone past Good and damaged - Never could last Broken, bandaged - Set the cast Fast, or feed me - I tried to nurse it You came to need me - Like I was worth it More fears than faith Terrors proven - In my lined face Worries woven - Into lace Grace won't save me - I can't escape it The life you gave me - Helped me reshape it It's time that I confront That I don't know what I want I know that dreams don't come true but There's still me and you The years burn quickly - Bright embers gild it My heart beats thickly - This blood has filled it And if you pick me - I will not shield it Nine years gone past
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Dreamboat 03:30
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DREAMBOAT Nathan Brown and Ginnifer Brown, 2005 the last leaf has been blown down and father’s gone to bed the moon’s in her wedding gown the groom’s already fled rumors like tumors Ophelia’s alive her coffin’s an office at a quarter ‘til five drift through the rift on the dreamboat Pinocchio said he lost you he flirted with blue love remember what it cost you burned black as Smell the Glove liars conspire and Lincoln is weeping the serpent’s conversant through saltwater creeping the thieves don’t believe in the dreamboat in Amsterdam dark canals reflect a fevered moon moonbeams in June seem like crepe paper streamers at vespers, he gestures at all sullen dreamers and Voltaire (with sole care) a gardener with great skill his flowers he showers with bloodlust and buzzkill so clean and obscene is the dreamboat
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Seminary Road 03:18
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Seminary Road Nathan Brown and Ginnifer Brown, 2010 Laid bedtime stories in the ground Paid Lincoln pennies on the mound And all those sunny days ended tonight And all our faithful prayers whispered in fright And all the lights and all the fight went out on Seminary Road Steal children's fables from the ban Peel wrongful labels from the can And all the bullshitters were so bright And all to scare us out of what's right And insect bites and all the night-sweats came from Seminary Road Leaving would be living in sin Grieving was just holding it in Proven illusion Still makes us believe All the breath I can heave Thrones, virtues, powers hitch a ride Stone holy flowers have all died And all those sunny days ended in night And all our faithless prayers breathed out in frostbite And all the white and all the kites ripped away And all bright hot fire light can stay on Seminary Road
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Ghosts 03:43
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GHOSTS Nathan Brown and Ginnifer Brown, 2005 voices in the street call your name and arouse echoes – bittersweet there are ghosts in my house here we are now how’d we get here? are you singing? i can’t hear a thing choices incomplete stunting shame growing doubt clean illusion hallway music wash the windows always keep them closed moments trapped in ice flickering and fading coincidence – unwise we were waiting daydream into dream wake and sleep; make believe just as it would seem all my life, never leave so here we are now wrapped in twilight with my eyes closed doubt insight is posed moments trapped in ice flickering and fading coincidence – unwise we were waiting
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Arcanum 04:44
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Arcanum Nathan Brown and Ginnifer Brown, 2010 You spoke in secret tongues And prayed While x-rayed Cast-iron black lungs A breath of smoke causes pain to subside Broken-down conscience spoken aside Sense-antisense tension slips through In truth, I never severed self from suffer A lucid moment in fright Makes the common arcane In terror is truth and sight But who would choose to see rain? A petrol burned black sun Abrades As it fades A stale rerun The southern sea filled with tears of the young Broken-down soldier goes unsung Famed-infamous famine fell through In faith, A fervent servant begs bewilderment A sane reaction is fear Makes the common arcane The horror of visions near But who would look for that stain? Cold water washed out blood A gift Left to drift A fatal flood The death of one can cause tears to appear Ashen rain Wednesday there, my dear There, there, there, where is my dear?
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One Breath 03:14
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ONE BREATH Nathan Brown and Ginnifer Brown, 2005 one breath easy i believe it was once in faith i live invisible chains follow me – i know the way hollow me – into the grey cannot keep – a smile from my face cannot sleep – amazing grace echo hear me it’s just not the same twice witness this dream inconceivable end follow me – over the bliss hollow me – living abyss cannot weep – a smile from my face as i creep – amazing grace one breath over impossible since this face stillborn don’t believe the few one callow me – i know the way color me – into the grey say again? – never the same prey for sin – making my name falling – to you calling – the stray crawling – away stalling
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Acid Rain 04:30
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Acid Rain Nathan Brown and Ginnifer Brown, 2010 Watching as the smoke pours from your honest fear Polluting the room with broken dreams Bent another spoke out of this tarnished gear Extruding the truth from both extremes Scent of ammonia stings my eyes When acid rain makes Venus cry Littering the path with pilgrim miseries Following the gloom of methane clouds Trailing all this trash out of these treasuries Hollow as the tombs in silent crowds Smell of ammonia brought me 'round While acid rain broke Venus down Love bonds with lye left me alone A flake of stone Chemical fires burn my fav'rite memories Engulfing the past in pitch-black oil Bury all the mourners with their enemies In trouble, the vast sea starts to boil Streams of ammonia down the wall Since acid rain made Venus fall Love bonds with lye left me alone A flake of stone
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Pain & 31 04:26
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PAIN & 31 Nathan Brown and Ginnifer Brown, 2008 A girl with a black eye in a Northern logging town The winds in the fir trees whispering their blacker sound A lamp in the window and a promise to come back A hospital fire, nothing to pack Falling snow hides crows All of the fright of fathers’ sons Under the light at Pain and 31 A girl with a secret in a quiet Southern town The songs of the crickets whispering their secret sound A book in the closet and a story never told A volunteer choir, nothing to hold Crawling home finds stone All of the might of mothers’ tongues Under the light at Pain and 31 Twin sisters in sadness ride the broken carriage down The bells on the horses singing out their sadder sound A room with no window and an angel crying white A funeral pyre, nothing is right Falling snow hides crows All of the fright of fathers’ sons Wander the night in vain and curse the sun Crawling home finds stone All of the might of mothers’ tongues Under the light at Pain and 31
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Frost 02:50
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If, For Once 02:37
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If, For Once Nathan Brown and Ginnifer Brown, 2007 If, for once, I believed In secret circus sermons With the cuts I received Hidden in the nightshade When Candide candidly agreed To praise the word and strike the deed Like amen amputees amend I lost my closest friend If she was, then, deceived By slipping soap dish pieces And the cuts I relieved Given to be timeworn When germane German verbs concede That all you’ve learned was how to bleed When constant conquests condescend You've lost your closest friend

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Stunning debut album from this indie-pop duo that reinvents itself with each song. At once dreamy and substantial, electronic and organic, ambient and melodic, the collection is a journey through poetic lyrics, powerful vocals, and rich musical textures.

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released March 24, 2011

All songs produced by Just Like the Country.
All songs recorded at Brown and Serve Recording, Edwardsville, IL.

Mixed by by Just Like the Country and Derek Merrell.
Mastered by Greg Trampe at Music Master, Inc.: musicmastersinc.com

Album art by J. Travis Rose at i.e.Publishing Company: iepublishing.com

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