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A Friend Too Long

by Lac La Belle

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1.
Rusted Bolt 04:31
Rusted Bolt Schillace/Lac La Belle Days coming down and don’t you feel Like a rusted bolt on a broken wheel Memories up from the past It’s a suffering I can’t outlast Fox doesn’t hunt behind a gun Teeth and Claws will get it done Polished rifle always nigh A sack of silver a man to die A lifetimes gone from riding on and on Bury me inside someone’s beating heart Mid-day sun doesn’t work it out Burning bright but love without Where were you when I set to Hooves? Seared to sin on a barroom stool A lifetimes gone from riding on and on Bury me inside someone’s beating heart The night’s a cloak, it doesn’t heal Tried to buy but had to steal Cashing out won’t get it back It’s a bitter deal off of that stack A lifetimes gone from riding on and on Bury me inside someone’s beating heart
2.
The Border 04:13
The Border Knaggs/Lac La Belle Wait for stars to cross the border not a sound can tip the breeze Get our fill last drops of water to cross the sands of the desert deep I think I've walked a hundred miles with a man I scarcely know There’s no reason when it comes to your child and there’s no measure for how far you'll go Come right in The dreams that I have cherished Come right in The stories we've been told Come right in Each step a new world rises Come right in I need a chance to know A piece of paper held with a pin Script “Unknown” in the tattered wind This worn wooden cross marks the line between a life that’s theirs and a life that’s mine. I've got to know Oh, The lengths that I will go Cross the valley from below I've got to see what that land can do for me and my baby Come right in The dreams that I have cherished Come right in The stories we've been told Come right in Each step a new world rises Come right in The light is getting brighter!
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Passing Arizona Schillace/Lac La Belle The waterline is fast but still Eroding earth with time The passengers that have no name Slowly drifting by The evening light has drifted out Behind the earth to hide The firelight awakens the days The mind has tried to rest Why would you go To a place so remote? Why would you go To a place so remote? No further from your fears You’ve only kept them near
4.
Spoils like Venom Schillace/Lac La Belle Skipped that last train going out Ain’t no way to carry me home I drove a thousand spikes through steel Rail stretching miles of land I started on the east coast of the country I ended at the shores of the Pacific The first one we took she was headed Baltimore, Chicago bound The taste of spoils like venom and we burned that iron to the ground When we rode off I could still hear crying But the night just swallowed me whole A killer’s disease won’t temper What an ocean of pearls can’t sway Working that line like butchers Cutting our hate with greed I remember the roil of my brothers Shooting at stars that shattered like crystals Three down and two in the desert Last one bleeding out in the sand Reckless and wild I continue No force left for a locomotive now I buried friends in the shadows under mountains Cold valleys, shrouded in cloud Murder only buys you terror Money doesn’t spend on fear I started on the east coast of the country I ended at the shores of the Pacific
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Shadows of a Dream Knaggs/Lac La Belle I long to see the sun go down With my love sided with me I long to leave this hallowed town and go across the sea What leads a man to a cursed fate? How could he choose that rugged road? As dreams that haunt follow close behind I too, bare a heavy load He shot three men in German Town for pennies on a dime He's a devil for a fool to love still I hang on every line As the darkness folds around me it quells the pain and bitter chill Yet the dawn comes back blinding for a life forever still Some toss their wishes coin for coin each refined with golden sheen I willed my heart to fates employ to chase shadows of a dream
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Carry Me Under Schillace/Lac La Belle Take all my memories, and most of my dreams A few of my lies and those things in between I’m going to bed early and, Lord, sleeping in If I ever get rested I’ll try it again A penny ain’t worth a cent of good luck or the time that it takes to pick that thing up A quarter’s no better you know after all It won’t even buy you a game of pinball Carry me Carry me Carry me under the ground I’ll write you a check for the things that I’ve done The one offs, the regulars, and all them often But don’t come asking to start over again ‘Cause after I’m busted I’m open to sin Carry me Carry me Carry me under the ground Bent up metal and a seat threadbare Overgrown meadows and a heart unaware If you can’t take the hunger stay away from the bone Turn back around and leave me alone Carry me Carry me Carry me under the ground
8.
Breezy Sunday Knaggs/Lac La Belle Sunday Breezy Sunday Warm sun on your skin Lazy Dreams hazy Breathe deep, Love Take it in Hard times We all hit hard times Calloused hearts, false starts, hard hands Lovely Life can be so lovely before the tide reaches the sand The curl of a leaf tells of storms that brew like a song our voices must twist to croon We pray, though there is no good deed we could do to stop the wind for a balance skewed A coin flips A switch trips Day rolls into evening So enjoy, Love Do take full advantage of the good life you're receiving
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Clarion 04:37
Clarion Knaggs/Lac La Belle Dry sand beneath my feet The desert walks with me No divine plan for me just endless yearning The night was cold and dim and I was wrought within No divine plan for me just endless yearning I thought I saw a light flash on the mountain side A tiny glimpse of star that slowly faded I felt it was my right to wish upon its might Or how could I ever be what’s truly meant of me? I will wait along the dark aisle I will wait with barren fields A clarion, the starlight, that kissed away my fears I thought I saw a light flash on the mountain side A tiny glimpse of star that slowly faded I felt it was my right to wish upon its might Where so few seedlings grow it must be mine to know I waited for the sun that shown on everyone I will wait along the dark aisle I will wait with barren fields A clarion, the starlight, that kissed away my fears
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St. Michael (Day Star) Schillace/Lac La Belle What time does make, of hard fired days Troubles the young man creates The longest tooth is the sharpest too His gold just stone Stone is all he leaves Better to be gone Not failed so much as incomplete When past has cut the future becomes Dust burdens the blade The hardest truth is the darkest too For time is fate Fate is all he needs Welcomed when it comes No show of hands just indiscreet Oh, he was a friend too long The devil‘s only right when he’s wrong Released from the place he belongs His hand so swift and strong Mask the day Fall to the night A whisper his only call But the fairest touch is the fiercest too Path unknown Without need Cast out and left to roam You know him well He knows you too For he was a friend too long The devil’s only right when he’s wrong Released from the place he belongs His hand so swift and strong Oh, he was a friend too long

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Lac La Belle's third release, "A Friend Too Long" elaborates upon their cohesive duo of resonator guitar, banjo, accordion and ukulele, with the addition of upright bass, pump organ, piano, percussion and strings. Written in a secluded cabin in Michigan's upper peninsula, and recorded in their Detroit home during the snowiest winter on record, "A Friend Too Long" provides beautiful soundscapes and a journey of characters that sound at once both new, and reminiscent of days long past.

credits

released October 9, 2014

Nick Schillace: vocals, resonator, acoustic, 12 string and Nashville strung guitars, banjo, bells, percussion

Jennie Knaggs: vocals, accordion, acoustic guitar, pump organ, ukulele

Serge van der Voo: upright bass

Abby Alwin; cello, violin

Rob Avsharian: drums, percussion

Clem Fortuna: 1860 Heywood Piano

Childrens Chorus Claire Abbasse, Ashley Clendennin, Lily Nicks, Lilly Snyder

All songs by Lac La Belle, 2014

String arrangements by Abby Alwin and Lac La Belle

Recorded by Eric Carbonara at Double Lot, Detroit, Michigan, during the great winter of 2014.
Produced by Lac La Belle and Eric Carbonara.
Mixed by Eric Carbonara at Nada Sound Studio, Philadelphia, PA. Mastered by John Baldwin
Watercolor art by Isabel Schillace

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Nick Schillace and Jennie Knaggs form Lac La Belle, a Detroit duo who perform original music blending generations of North American folk styles with modern aesthetic.

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