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The Handlebar

by Pioneers! O Pioneers!

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1.
Good Love 06:10
Good love where have I found myself Floating all these oceans away In search of what I thought were the good shores you had made I fell asleep, woke in a dream Now I'm deciding between this life And the waking world I was born for I'm drowning in the faces around me And the ideas of where we were to be One breath into this life And one breath it could leave Are you asking am I waiting for the flames beneath Are you asking am I waiting for the flames beneath my feet
2.
The past knocks at my door While outside shadows pass by With the shapes of faces I once knew If I could close my eyes And wake up in my bed Look my out my window and know this town isn't dead This town isn't dead yet Has time washed away who I am Like oceans leaving the shore blank Have I become trapped in the pictures on my wall Aging with the fading colors This town's a ghost town Where our hopes once lived We put our names in a bottle And buried ourselves here When the last street light went out Distance took it's place between us Without so much as a goodbye We became shadows of this life This town's not dead yet
3.
We were brothers in this life You were the left hand I was the right Bus station early August Summer brought the dreams we had dreamt Youth stretched out before us It's great arms taking us in Separate roads begging to be traveled Blazing nights traveling these white lines Where are you now singing my friend What siren songs did we sing all along As the months turned to years And the years to ashes I stepped in the months like puddles to remind myself I could be drowning Is this the sound of progression Aging with ageless pictures, fading Well my friends I'm trapped in those years While the pages keep on turning Like a book sitting at an empty window sill "For the endless horizon it's gained a few buildings here and there Someday we'll get out of this ghost town"
4.
In Legend 04:53
I may repeat myself Line to line Song to song It may all be the same We may all be the same I find it hard with age to pick out your note from the page And even in my sleep the grave is smiling back Is it life or is it silence that waits for us on the other side Through the darkness and back to dust Is this the path we chose Or is this your dream for us Can you hear me now at your door I asked before the floodgates had opened If you'd reach your hands down Well where are you now Silence turns to static Heaven glows in legend Truth, my love, you're in question The water once ankle deep Now I'm up to my neck Weight heavy on my chest
5.
Be Still 05:03
held a flame to the truth I had claimed And found only ashes in the end I dreamt of the rapture And saw the chariot leaving me behind I saw God taking his people for the new life Be still Face to face Fate is a funny word But what a claim to make when silence like dust gathers Are you leaving me behind Be still I want not of crooked intent Or the grave below Somewhere between the stars sleeping Are you dreaming of this life I keep waking to Be still this restless heart of mine Outside the gates No apparent doorway Be still
6.
I can't feel the words I sing anymore How I wonder what it's like for you Only this confession can bring redemption to the souls of my words "We walked the same roads shoulder to shoulder" We bled the same dreams Yet you're hiding between every emotion unseen just to push that grit through your teeth The waves have betrayed us Have we the fate of sunken cities resting beneath the waves I saw your ghost again Trapped between two mirrors Endlessly reflecting the image of what we were Have our pictures been laid to rest In the memories of people we don't know anymore And the evil I've become, is it such a stretch from what I was I know your face but I don't know your name I've never known such a wrath as this life Twisting and turning and back and forth Have we tied anchors to our legs Are we drowning It's been a long goodbye These sails have set a course you may never follow

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This recording comes from a cd release show we played with our friends Seagull Blue. It was a fantastic night at the Handlebar despite the usual lack of stage monitors to hear any vocals and the lack of grounding in the building, causing shock if you touch a microphone. We can't imagine calling anywhere else home in our small town.

For the first time we feel we've captured our set and our old songs as we had always envisioned them, especially now with our new lineup. We also offer a glimpse of our future with the release of this recording, handing over a few new ones.

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released January 1, 2013

Jason Leger - drums
Ric Hohn - bass, aux percussion
Ben Rockwell - guitar, vocals
Michael Bishop - guitar, vocals

Captured with the wonderful help of Dave Sands

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We're a 4 piece rock band making noises we hope you want to hear!

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