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Psalm of Those Who Go Forth Before the Daylight

by Douglas Fir

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Liance This is a hidden gem. If you've found this page and are reading this, stop what you're doing and just start listening. Douglas Fir doesn't hold anything back. This is an aggressively emotional album - listen to Medical Abbreviations and try not to feel something. There are also surprising moments of musical clarity - college field recordings, cosmic drones, and intricate open tuning fingerings. Favorite track: Medical Abbreviations.
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1.
Gondola 03:16
your life is in the basement because no one pays attention but not knowing where you'll be this time next year can make the fall feel a little colder running away almost seems harder when you have no reason to stay every piece of good news is only for the people who like bad news and when you dream of buildings burning you know that the fire's already been put out I'm sorry to hear your white walled confessions without anything to offer
2.
the windshield matches the space between your cheekbone and your bottom eyelid the space between asleep and awake the shoreline and the skyline both look the same when you can't see a thing at all all of the birds have sticky wings they can't fly away and it used to used to make you feel blind and maybe, and maybe maybe it still does everything is ruined but nothing is broken we shall all be healed
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4.
Salinger 02:33
I can see you reading Whitman under lamplight in your bed while I'm standing reading Salinger under a streetlight in Michigan but I'm struggling to remember the night I drove away and everything I couldn't remember to say familiar contact in the worst of context familiar sounds in the worst surroundings I feel lost severed from the path that I spent months learning
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6.
28th Street 03:01
mountain goats and the silver jews at 2am with a new friend who feels like an old friend falling asleep at the wheel i half-dream my memories Euclid Heights Boulevard the night I turned eighteen too broke to rebel State Road in mid-september windows down mewithoutYou Pearl Road at the end of a day the death of a season the last bit of descending night psalm of those who go forth before the daylight 28th Street in the greyscale Ohio morning last night is already a foregone and I'm feeling this might be the last time
7.
I can still see you every time I close my eyes but it's been seven years and you aren't here killed on your way to work dead before you hit the pavement I was just twelve years old didn't know how Friday the 13th it was scary appropriately I was just twelve years old didn't know how but I can still see you every time I close my eyes I can still hear you when I listen to Highway 61 I'd like to touch you the last time I did you were cold I was just twelve years old didn't know how I saw my father cry first and the last time I was just twelve years old didn't know how

about

These songs were written during the fall and early winter of 2015/16.
They were recorded in various spaces around Calvin College during the month of January.

Thanks:
- The people who are living the stories behind some of these songs
- Anyone who has encouraged me in this project
- All the members of Driver's ed, The Boys Club, Parlor Voice
and The Orthopedics for being such inspiring friends and bandmates
- Lots of people who I'm probably forgetting

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released January 29, 2016

All songs written/played/recorded by Daniel Hickey
Special thanks to Ale Crevier for playing piano on "Medical Abbreviations"

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