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Witness 3​-​in​-​1!

by Witness

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    We made a CD! It's got all our songs so far! It's pretty! Art by Ana Keller Flores.

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1.
april vigil 02:23
april vigil by the river my god my heart's a slow forgiver I'm gonna wait here by the water til you tell me why I should bother my generation are all addicts and I'm so numb that it's not tragic but I saw a nuthatch chip the tree bark so this machine is made of magic after all
2.
Looking over the horizon Spot something that chills my bones My father taught me there are some things That a body leaves alone Still there’s beauty in a dog’s eyes As he roams the endless road And there’s wonder when we capsize On a forgotten chestnut grove There is always someone looking Over a shoulder you can’t see And you’re always moving backwards From the person you will be Live the questions so said Rilke May I do so till I die And may we rain down tender mercy Until the oceans all run dry
3.
desperate for love never enough taught me to hate now it’s too late you are my only option desperate for love never enough desperate for love do what you want never give up if it’s your only option do what you want you are my only option desperate for love be my own god you’re not my only option take what you want desperate for love while I’m surrounded by it take what you want you never have to buy it ready for love you are my only option desperate for love
4.
before the paddleboats lined the shore before the millworks asked for more before the roar of progress came there were beasts without a name the fern unfurled will tell the tale the frog in song remembers well the old world before the dawn the silent night, the vicious calm the tender stare, the laden air the days without reprieve or care the old world abandoned there an old man playin solitaire and if my message clears the breach tell me, do you know of which I speak? or is your program too far gone down the road of possession and domination? we're here and then we're gone the old world carries on and if you wanna know where you are oh, you don't have to look far you're here in my heart
5.
you got a plan you wanna run as fast as you can and I know a place where we can go when the light gets low and you were reading Franny and Zooey when you were 16 raise high the roof beams, carpenter, know what I mean? I learned more words reading books than I ever could speak didn't say much in those days, anyway and especially not with my heart on vulture's peak I'm young and I'm waiting for something to break or to change the thing they don't tell you is how much just stays the same I loved a girl in my youth, she had fire in her veins wings on her shoulders, water in her lungs, and love on the brain I learned more words from her than I ever could name didn't say much in those days anyway but you talked me out of the vulture's game
6.
can you imagine waiting ten thousand years for summer? that would put even this winter to shame how the seed knows when it's safe to emerge doesn't matter how long it's been frozen and it's the same for me that glacier here pokin rubbin me raw waitin me out and there's nowhere to run you just get ground down deeper givin up hope that your life is about to start all the books I never read all the ones I never kissed we don't mind death we just mind the suspense but I haven't died yet I'm just waitin is it the same for you? that glacier here pokin rubbin you raw waitin you out and there's nowhere to run you just get ground down deeper givin up hope that your life is about anything at all even mighty rivers it's the same to me I smile at the first flower after the ice age knowin it's just a matter of time
7.
I get sadder in the summer without my veil on like a lonely bride hummin a wedding song this must be what it's like in heaven when the thrill is gone I get sadder in the summer but it won't last long in the winter there are branches to hang your blues upon in the winter there are chances that it won't be long in the summer there are lovers, am I the only one who gets sadder in the summer? come on let's have some fun in the winter there's no option, you gotta stay strong but all that bracing lingers long after the cold is gone takes some time to learn to play after it's been so long let's go dancing in the summer to the saddest song I'm the type that's always reveled in the saddest song first time I heard 'something so right' I could sing along think the summer's just the current version going on so I'm sadder in the summer but there's nothing wrong
8.
samvega 04:18
I just wanna be free I just wanna be happy forever I just wanna be loved I don't wanna be somebody better I just wanna be me without having that be a problem I just wanna have friends without having to ever call them is that too much? tell me honey to ask for I just wanna know peace I just wanna feel safety inside me I just wanna know why it's so hard to put my demons behind me I just wanna be wise understand the reasons people suffer I just wanna be kind take the world as my gentle lover is that too much? tell me honey to ask for I think there's an upside to all this darkness I'm not interested in expensive watches I have to be free, there's no option either that or completely lose my noggin
9.
as you travel this lonesome road you will come to the wasteland and when you do you will know why they call it the wasteland when you're lonely, feelin blue you will come to the wasteland and when you do just hold on don't be scared of the wasteland I'm a stranger with no friends I have come from the wasteland bringing gifts to you all I have is the wasteland
10.
translation 04:18
I need you in translation the sun in the trees the light on the table the whispering breeze not my imagination no, this is really here for me the cool of forgiveness the warmth of harmony all I have is translation the sun peekin through the trees and an insufficient poem just a moment, then it leaves falling, burning like a riot I think I never knew my life before and still don't know it now and probly never will just these translations anyhow I want you in translation you are my family I never felt so close to the blood inside of me churning, yearning for survival never felt so fuckin tribal you're my nation in this translation

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released May 26, 2022

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Witness Minneapolis, Minnesota

Witness is a garage-country/jazz-fusion/rock-n-roll power trio from Minneapolis, MN. Our new travelogue album just passing through is a mix of full-band and solo arrangements of songs Gabe wrote while on a six-week solo road trip last year. Loud guitars and heavy drums intersperse with minimalist piano and banjo for a rollicking journey through heartbreak and back. ... more

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