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The Quest

by Earl & Raine

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1.
Take a Shot (Our Souls Waiting) 03:55
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I’m not gonna wait around to be another mark along your pretty, fickle timeline I’ve watched your high points roll and break your purest heart and you always tend to act so fine But I see the lack of substance that hides behind your wild brown eyes And if it’s something I can spice up with a risk, then damn, I’ll get in that line We’ve seen it all The best of love stories ripped out raw We’ve heard it all The promises folks make when they’re standing tall We’ve played it all in music and thinking and time Hey just take a shot Take a shot Take a shot It’s not that I fret or want to forget about all those stupid girls you spend time with They can put on a halo with angel wings and still be from the happily wrong heaven My teeth and tongue chatter like a storm when I hear your notes every day My feet and lungs don’t get along from all the running I did along the way We’ve seen it all The best of love stories ripped out raw We’ve heard it all The promises folks make when they’re standing tall We’ve played it all in music and thinking and time Hey just take a shot Remember when... The day you wept The girl I left Our souls waiting To mean something The times you grew From the love I knew To a lady in red Painted in my head The day we met The girl I kept Our souls waiting To mean something
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Radical Kathryn 03:59
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Kathryn combs her wild hair Humming the words that Nicholas sang at the Brothel stairs We were there In the face of every girl was hope Enough to shatter space and time against the steepest slope And down the cliff through the sharpest stones Where we speak The sun carves out our needs Where we breathe The cobblestone cracks in the wildest of these wilting weeds Find your movement and chase it through the end I see a little bit of drink and laughter starting And I can’t wait till the after party Kathryn waits up on the porch Smoking a black that she wishes will only have the strength to last Maybe a minute more Working at a coffee shop Is that the little girl you told yourself you’d always drop Off at the corner of being young? Where we meet The troubles we held crash down by our dirty, unworthy feet Find your movement and chase it through the end I see a little bit of drink and laughter starting And I can’t wait till the after party
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Hawk these Bones 04:01
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I won’t waste my time on here in hearts I’ve found that disappear Like teeth pulled out from a pillow, the kid needs answers not more flow So if you are real, just let me know ‘Cause I’ve roamed streets for day and night with hours tied to the moonlight Like a puppeteer growing old waiting on Pinocchio So if you are real, just let me know Oh, oh, oh, patience don’t you just watch me grow Oh, oh, oh, float on down and tell me what it’s really like to hawk these bones. I won’t leave if you want me and sure I’ll flee if that’s my key But you best bet that I’ll still go as high as birds and roots so low So if you are real, just let me know ‘Cause I’ve messed up a thousand times with girls and booze and polished lies But I’ve thrown fists with good old Joe and told him I’m not going home So if you are real, just let me know Oh, oh, oh, patience don’t you just watch me grow Oh, oh, oh, float on down and tell me what it’s really like to hawk these bones Oh, oh, oh, patience don’t you just watch me grow Oh, oh, oh, float on down and tell me what it’s really like to hawk these bones I’m visiting my cousins in the depths of Curitiba I’m finding how to love in the times that I don’t see ya I might break down and crash into some cars or snow I might just drive to Nashville or fly or run or row So if you are real, just let me know
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Wind on the Sea 04:36
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Crushing the leaves like stepping stones over a broken life We don't pay attention to where we walk anymore You tread over nightmares the size of castle doors I'm a little fearful of where I stood before Once upon a fall you placed me on two stable feet Backs against the wall all I hear is how you scream and cheat Walking wounds through downtown, is anybody there? “If you want me back again”, no, just walk back up the stairs The wind on the sea stirs Like children dipping fingers in the world Your name is a curse that I have failed to learn You tread over nightmares the size of castle doors I’m a little fearful of where I stood before Once upon a fall you placed me on two stable feet Backs against the wall all I hear is how you scream and cheat Walking wounds through downtown, is anybody there? “If you want me back again”, no, just walk back up the stairs
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Letters of Your Journey 04:39
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Somebody once told me You should try to go and see What it feels like to be truly alone When you drive all night Through blurry red lights And wake up in your seat Next to a friend out, still half stoned Papa said "please guard your bed And earn the living you surely can I know you’ll make me proud" Now off you go, your friend said to row We named our boats after our souls And they were “move” and “love” Remember the waters you came from I’ll write a book one stormy day In 40 years when you’ve moved away And I’ve got nothing but my notes One chapter will tell of funny times With beer and diner trips past nine And another will be this song I wrote For all the years of sailing I stayed afloat You showed me I’m on my own Out the door and running for the road It's something that I’ve never known Honey I’ve grown roots in my arms At the thought of seeing you so far I can’t be affording all these trips Funny how once you learn to hurt It wipes the appeal away like dirt And leaves you thinking the “what if's” If California grips your wrist Then book the page that chaps your lips And I won’t say a single word Just because my hope was off Will never make my promise soft So watch while my bed begins to curl Up into a desert where you wouldn’t grow You showed me I’m on my own Out the door and running for the road It's something that I’ve never known Showing me that I’m on my own Out the door and running for the road It's something that I’ve never known Tonight I’ll drink to all the friends That held their tongues up till the end Because I sure as hell didn’t make it Today you’ll sing back to me While watching all of winter come clean And I’ll be in silence, you'll see
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Deus Ex Machine 05:19
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Weeping in my hands on the back of someone’s plans I could be alone in bed but it’s still crowded in my head People stop and stare at the monster they’ve prepared Ten years from a burnt down house, ten faces to care about "You judge and be judged" that’s the life that I lead You'll learn and win some if you’re lucky "You’ll love and be loved" is a tale I was told When I was a boy dressed in old stories Moving across the globe with a book and someone’s coat And ink across my arm to remind me of where you are My character reborn from the rain and silent storms Come carry all I ask, these flaws will someday pass He told me there was something I should be. Angels and devils hold my sleeve. You limped across our friends, as I swam towards the west In the streets after the least, I was sprawled across this desk Home creeps back in time, old terrors grasp our eyes When the world cries out at night, you remind me I’m alive.
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Simple People 05:22
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You think, I think, we think, like simple people You talk, I talk, we talk, with what we know I just want to be me, I just want to be me, I just want to be me And want you to be you You dream, I dream, we dream of pretty lovers You look, I look, we look like sisters and brothers I just want to be you, I just want to be you, I just want to be you You sing, I sing, we sing, in different patterns You walk, I walk, we walk, up and down the ladders I just want to see me, I just want to see me, I just want to see me Calm down, the voices are too loud Fall down and listen to be found Calm down, the voices are too loud Fall down and listen to be found You live, I live, we live, like simple people Because in the end, that’s really all we are
8.
Numbers 06:50
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Numbers counting down the digits till we meet One hundred shapes of math stomping to the beat You stole the patterns I rightfully knit piece by piece Numbers tripping down the highway at my feet Bring it down, I watched you hanging artwork beneath their ribs They’re just boys, they want love, they want it now, they don’t care much for your worn out lips And if you don’t leave now I’ll go find where my heart is Numbers caped like pretty girls and four letter words Two hundred miles of riddles marching to the world You know the past I’ve fought behind these cheap tattoos Numbers calmly sailing up the street next to you Let her be, I watched you break her walls to let him in They’re just boys, they want it all, you’ll make them crawl, they want every kind of pretty, easy, skin And if you don’t leave now I’ll go find where my heart is It’s far from here
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Unconditional 04:56
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You feed the mouths that we’ve ripped from the ground With wine dripping red off the words of your head You call the names that we’ve failed to engage With closed teeth on this earth, measure up our own worth On a scale we cannot see You fed the mouths that had bled out the town That was painted pitch black with no wind on your back You called the names that we watched slip away Like a boy in the waves, swept away with the change Where are we supposed to be? We wait upon your white gates With impatient smiles, won’t you let us in awhile? It’s been too long since we’ve seen our mom Is she doing alright? Let her know we’re outside You call us home when there’s no where to go You show us love when our hearts start to rust You know our names while we curse every day And we spit in your face Can we wake up again and feel new? Can we wake up alone, missing you? Can we wake up enough to remember to trust, That we’ll learn how to live as we move? Maybe someday soon
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Full Circle 04:22
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Tapping the wood, you know that it’s coming full circle Believing we could build a new family, yeah Clapping the skin, you know that it’s coming full circle Celebrate our gifts and watch the boys work the city Yes I believe, I believe, I believe, there is something more to be If you could meet me here You will find me all alone And you will carry me back home By the valley my words will grow And spread to the places I can't go Tapping the wood, you know that it’s coming full circle Believing we could build a new family Clapping the skin, you know that it’s coming full circle Celebrate our gifts and watch the boys work the city Packing the books, you know that it’s coming full circle Blaming our family for the pages they took And the “tisk, tisk” called “learning,” How they never let us look You will find me all alone You will carry me back home By the ocean my shell will burn By my first steps I will return On the quest again

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released October 28, 2011

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Earl & Raine Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Earl & Raine was formed in the month of August when Nathan Allebach and Brittney Pendrick concluded that after a year of performing together with different friends, they had to record an album to see if writing music was something they could make a mark with. Their first and only 10 song, full band CD, "The Quest" was released on October 28th of 2011. ... more

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