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Southcoast

by Solitaires

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1.
Southcoast 04:38
My brother came from Houston with a Bible in his hand Said he’d been to heaven, said he’d seen the Son of Man He was shivering on the front stoop like a bird without a wing I looked around the neighborhood then I invited him in For seven years he traveled, traveled through the states I was just a kid then, I tried to take his place I traced his every movement til I rendered him away Now he comes back like a saint, he hardly knows the place And the dives we loved are still up on William Street And the blue light glows and it might be all I need Then you come running back home, running back home The southcoast is a loner but he warms up with a drink He started telling me his secrets when I said I had to leave Then most of us got married, half of us had kids What you gonna do with this life? You can’t do everything My brother holds his prayer beads, he walks chanting to the sea I gotta reason with his visions while I try to watch T.V. You always said that you would find me even when I was hard to see Well I’m a sucker for the dream, I’ll believe if you believe And the dives we loved are still up on William Street And the blue light glows but it’s never all I need So I come running back home, running back home
2.
Busted Youth 04:03
Slow down at the corner where the drugs are bright and clean In our empty pockets Huddled in the back seat, trying to find a new way to hide Maybe this September I can’t tell the difference between a lie and the way it is I hope you’ll forgive me for going on like this Slow down I‘m on fire, I gave myself to the Lord above In a Pennsylvania farmhouse Maybe this September I’ll finally come out clean again But my people keep on dying I can’t tell the difference between the lost and the left behind I hope you’ll forgive me, I can’t go on like this Oh will you take me back into your house? Oh will you take me and lay me down to bed? Slow down at the harbor, borrowed car, busted youth Cops are parked behind us, they might be on to you Daddy please forgive me, I don’t think I’m born again I think I’m on fire I can’t tell the difference between these thoughts and what I am I can’t tell the difference between the heat and the smoke of it I can’t tell the difference--what they stole and what I gave away I hope I’ll forgive you but that seems so far away
3.
Mayflies 04:18
Junebug on the kitchen door, rust on the weathervane He don’t care what it means, he just wants to know their names He tries to rest inside things, simple as they are He carries round a field guide, watermarked and torn Curtains on the clothesline catch the dust and wind All her clothes like cerements before they ever touch the skin Mary is the mother of a strong bow-legged boy She carries round a wine glass and a small testament He the son of a dead man, son of a lonely girl She goes out on Fridays trying to find a decent one She tries to rest inside them, simple as they say She confuse the things they take with things she gives away He just wants her eyes to close, close them with his hands Climbing down the fire escape, leaving her within The solemn house of Christ, house of dust and wind River won’t you rise? Mayflies, mayflies with April wings Move the air around him before they touch upon his skin Falling into time now, bodies make a rain Cerements behind, rust on the weathervane
4.
I have seen you waiting for a sign Standing by the mailbox in the middle of the night You have seen him from the corner of your eye Your lost lover like a pillar of light I saw him wander through the yard Looking for somewhere to go I have seen you sitting in the hall In a dirty nightgown talking to the walls You have seen him in the fullness of your mind Your first lover like a pillar of light
5.
Crow Jane 07:47
All summer long we fought and prayed She would reappear and change my name Debt, squalor, you lose face You do it on the run She said, this is this and that’s just that Leave the books on the welcome mat I know you want to look back You better do it on the run Said all I need is on this hill All I need is a wishing well If you know a way don’t tell Let me do it on the run I’m always on the run All I know I learned up in the Hilltop getting burned Take my time through the rain up to the house of Crow Jane All I know I learned up in the Hilltop getting burned Take your wine through the rain up to the house of Crow Jane Begging light, stealing change, I broke through the windows to clear my name I thought I lost, I thought I changed Up in the house of Crow Jane Getting low, getting paid Up in the house of Crow Jane Getting high, getting made Up in the house of Crow Jane
6.
East Town 05:08
I didn’t talk a lot when I was young and I don’t talk too much now In her bedroom we roll our cigarettes and the oddest thoughts come to me Like what can’t you pretend? And where’s your boyfriend at? And how’d I end up here in Michigan? In East Town I walk it off while you’re still asleep In East Town you’re holding out and onto everything They broke up again when she was overseas Reading Sartre and Montaigne In February she flew back to me and our little city by the lake It’s a wondrous life when you hang onto me I can laugh at stupid things It’s a silent film, sunlit tenements and bedroom silhouettes In East Town I walk a wire high above the street In East Town you don’t want to stop, you’re after everything In East Town you’re after everything Now we don’t talk a lot now that she’s in law and I’m working at the shop She says, “I’d tell the truth if it made any sense but it doesn’t yet” That’s alright with me, I know what she means In East Town, in East Town
7.
Devil's Arms 05:38
Meet me at the bell Water in the well Oh I settle in Where I want to hide You don’t need to know There’s fire below Oh I gather it All into my head It’s the devil’s arms And you need to know This fire is cold Oh I gather it Lead me to myself It’s the devil’s arms Olley olley olley Can I come out now?
8.
Your car is in the field The grass is up above the wheels Your kids are sleeping in Your kids they are not there No writing on the glass No steam above the engine I thought I knew you then I thought I knew No words can grapple you No voice can set you free I tied a fire to the fox And now this field shall be released Won’t you meet me at the graveyard? Meet me at the grave
9.
Hollows 05:30
It’s endless, these hollows, these things we find Orphans the summer sends into the creek And always you find them, you take them in Your children inside, but still they’re wild Old County Road is caught in light I remember in July the animals I was And always you find me, you take me in Our tongues all tied And you tell yourself that it isn’t time But the life you want is the one you won’t find inside You can say it, you can tell me anything I’m deciding lines, I’ll tell you anything I remember in July what I want What it was-- It’s what I want I know you fell behind the lion and the bear I remember in July perfect solitaires Now we are alive
10.
When I was young I fell in love with everyone The saddest songs It was my way to feel alone I was two sons one for him and one for her I sang along and God would read my every thought He said, “What’s wrong? What have you done?” I fell in love

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released June 16, 2016

All songs written, performed, and produced by Nate Gelinas

Except "When I Was Young", written by Nate Gelinas, Jon Helm, Caleb LaFrenier, Jared Lopes, and Jon Schiedermayer.

Drums engineered by Jon Helm.

Recorded in Nate and Jon's basements in Columbus, Ohio, 2014-2016.

Mastered by Chris Graham

Artwork by Kyle Knapp - Website design by Hal Hixson

With love and gratitude to all my parents, sisters, and brothers.

Red Spin Records, 2016

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Solitaires Columbus, Ohio

Solitaires is the creative outlet and recording project of Nate Gelinas. Goal is to express everything while trying to keep it simple. Failures are commonplace. New album "No Escape" out in May 2023. Current collaborators include Jon Helm, Hal Hixson, Jon Schiedermayer, and Andy and Holly Malone. Based in Columbus. ... more

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