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Adding oils to slow the drying time Thoughts were voiceless discordant mind A boy was born here This village unknown where ground was made of glass brittle as bone frail body, wilted alone forged visions, forsaken unshown Stow away illusions of home Drew his darks down mixing tones into the ground told her story in colors and sound A boy was born here with a girl he had grown where ground is made of glass and stone A boy was born here Maybe she'd known Stow away The paintings you blurred Stow away memories of her Stow Away Away
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Raven's Eye 03:32
My head weighted to the ground Unfulfilling, most unsound The bed where we planned to flee Restless children adrift to sea Some hope to the south is led Understated, undermined Our heads to the windmills tilt Undeserving and unrefined Soft doubt in the raven's eye We hadn't planned to last a day Sentiment would not block our way Our hands had written all we hoped On pages of past stuck within my throat Up there in those fields of light Represented so sublime Our heads thought of only flight Comfortable days, a few passionate nights Soft doubt in the raven's eye Up there in those fields of light Represented so sublime We slipped through the night bird's call Simply leaping for the thrill of the fall But our heads thought of only flight Soft doubt in the raven's eye
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Tel Aviv 03:07
I'll move through the desert Sleep on the streets And carry the smell of death with me Picking out the worms that burrow in my feet I'll cut off my own hand for money I won't spend Sell it to an Abyssinian How long have I been here? How long till I leave? Tel Aviv As dry a place as I've been Tel Aviv Because she was so cold I'll surely die here grey and old Siphon out my own blood Like venom from a wound Fill the veins with smoke as if balloons Languidly drifting towards the moon Where we will drink in excess Silence won't be feared Look down at the world and laugh I will not write poetry I will not fall in love Tel Aviv As dry a place as I've been Tel Aviv Because she was so cold I'll surely die here grey and old
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When I am alone, unrequited at the edge of the fall When I howl my thoughts, indecisive at the wall and the stone When I am tired, yet I am quite awake Understand me this: that you are the island, you are where time abates I sailed off into the storm you are the way back home When I turn aside, lashing night all the world seeming slight Mirages unwaning, yet feel memories taming eye feeling time kissing your knees, I clung to the reefs in the cave undertow and wave You are the sail, you are the tale I keep alive Kicking the starlight, keeping to flight You are the perfume that draws me off and breaks me soft I could not stay if my cold wouldn't starve Let it know Let it go Let it go Let it know Let it go go away

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Stowaway by The Duke And The Dauphin is the result of two weeks of coffee drinking, nostalgia, a sense of perpetual displacement, and friendship. It's a relatable collection, with driving full-production efforts, light pop, dark folk, and intimate love ballads. It stems from the confusion and masochism, bliss and recklessness, illusions and delusions present in the unrequited mind of someone in love.

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After the Duke And The Dauphin's first musical effort "Parallel Lines", both members left lakeside with the hopes of making a life elsewhere. Jeffrey left for San Fransisco and Marshall left for New Jersey, both trying to become self-sustaining, hoping to start a career and pursue relationships.

The results didn't live up to the ambitions. They quickly found themselves back in lakeside, starting from square one. While Jeffrey began preparing to move back to Mexico, and Marshall to San Fransisco, they decided to spend the interim time making another collection of songs. The two wrote four new tunes, this time more relatable in message and melody, with an emphasis on larger production.

Stowaway begins with the first track Children of the Village, a driving folk rock tune with harmonies reminiscent of Fleet Foxes and Daniel Rossen, but incorporating a more idiosyncratic rhythm and chord structure. It is followed by Raven's Eye, a much more relaxed and pop-oriented tune, showing hints of The Dirty Projectors and Paul Simon. Tel Aviv reflects the sound of the first EP, and shows clear inspiration from Joni Mitchell. The last track, Hymn to Still Waters, an intimate radiohead-esque piano ballad with sweeping woodwinds, also parallels the style of the last song in the previous EP.

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released May 26, 2013

Marshall Hattersley -- Music
Jeffrey Mull - Lyrics
Shannon Stovall - Artwork

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