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Idols In The Dark Heart

by Valery Gore

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1.
I set you down I’m so cold I’m sorry you can’t feel my warmth anymore What do you want with the future at your fingertips What? Tar-feathered by this change I’m too reflective to engage What do you want with the future at your fingertips What?
2.
Chinook 02:58
It would take a whole night to play those half recorded songs from the radio on unlabeled tapes sweet jane I’m all ears Sideways glancing at the thing the sky had made We were holding our breath for the long western sigh Colourful people Colourful walls for colourful people Red sliver of a moon could deceive you But MacEwan Park Close yards are still lit with life There’s a house, and beyond that, the house that brought you Took out my summer clothes for the chinook, as we were holding our breath for the long western sigh Colourful people Colourful walls for colourful people
3.
Amsterdam 04:01
Layers uncurl where there were only closed flowers I get the courage, my eversion shows you other colours Rumbling just below traffic, abandoned conversations Cheating fear, surviving cities, leaving old elements there Amsterdam don’t let me down Seasons could collaborate forget the movements When I move you, you’ll move with me Distal and unlocked from those that remain with other matter Amsterdam don’t let me down Seasons could collaborate Forget the movements
4.
You had summarized it a time Character girls and their quiet guys I now encounter a mouthful of stories between cheek and teeth ruminating half sentences What I wish to win and the ending I’m rearranging one hundred tables You had summarized it a time Character girls and their quiet guys While your gold arms grow electric and premonitory in the dark room and out of the corner, your profile is the event What I wish to win and the ending I’m rearranging one hundred tables Oceans rise under my coat I’m your island overthrown I want new flags I want new flags I want new flags I just sew, sew, sew
5.
Evergreen 04:22
Shining smile like a brand new dollar I for one am windowed permitting you to let live allowing you to see in Cause a great house can stand with no people no doors Lonely hinges hang-ons An evergreen wall is smothering makes so many hearts grow apart We know homes burn you’d think we’d see what in the heat isn’t apparent for saving A guest takes off their shoes lets loose inside the trust of staying only while eyes of hosts are open and willing I tip-toe your mild slumber surprises you with new scenery B with her face that laughs A face that knows what it has no slow disclosure blue eyes blast I think of her after a few days have passed.
6.
July 03:53
July, a silver and gold month Afternoon, white washed sun Hallways resounded our festival Hearts rule behind the pines The air hesitates like a loose memory Finding our thoughts homeless, we trespass into one another Our voices humbled by autumn choices Two leaves left when you said I’ll go too if anywhere can love you like I do Thunderhead, our voices each stop for the others spark July, a silver a gold month Borrowed blue in the sky overhead those girls that washed the careless moon and sunk their heels down by the river made still the current to calm the rock that swayed and stomped Thunderhead, our voices each stop for the others spark coloured lightning and watching the dark Leonard Cohen on a Belgian summer night I slept while you remembered the rest
7.
All those birds that dropped with the apple In Arkansas Empty stomachs and no real cause Maybe fireworks Sentiment some times will lapse along with time and weaken in your chest A crisis hits and hearts will shock with a rush and find how deep that sentiment really is You think of this Maybe fireworks Sentiment burns a hole, bares the rest the blood that rests on it Remember a hammer at your door The sky falling on your darkened home The starlings were sympathy sick For the black wing, the jackdaw, for the spit And the forest fire in a dream I had The pavement slick with earlier rain I believed it all in that one spark Maybe fireworks
8.
Clean Break 03:05
The year I gave you that shirt you hated and you wrote a book with the look that you made It hung like death in your closet until they threw all your things away I used to only see you when I was cleaning up after a man and what it did to you to have to think of him again You’ve the weakest grasp with those diaphanous hands But let’s keep this clean like true love mentors heaps of first aid There were a million bells calling to you Folks walking by humming, those songs were for you The rivers all run out just to flood you with love Sweetheart, you should get a job Let’s move on and you can get a job Put your trust in it It can happen for one and all
9.
Lungs 03:52
I’ve known your lungs but not enough to know those lungs are now full of blood Songbird throated all the secrets of the non-sense above the clouds It hurts sometimes in the way that you feel it in your ribs feel it in your fingertips Or on the side of your sleeping head pillow of lace and lead Or in the way where the city’s torn in two and one half drops with the weight of you A stringed instrument could follow your tune stretched by the inevitable falling we’ll do You meet it at the edge of the bitter ocean a sand pile sure knows how to glitter now Waist deep into the final hours before the sun tower topples into flowers And now it seems the city’s torn in two and one half drops with the weight of you A stringed instrument could follow your tune stretched by the inevitable falling we’ll do
10.
Found out in Rostock that you’d be gone in forty-five The removal of the mortal minute maker machine with green lit peaks and valleys stretching evenly apart, flat line It was too damn bright in the grotesquely beautiful park Thick blades of grass grew, sunlight wooed the white blossom trees and factory sleeves smoked the sky All of the singing in the air couldn’t be stopped It’s better to have loved and lost And I never once felt lonely for you but now I do It’s stark as his stance at the window pane some where Saturated spring, hummingbirds flying in reverse I get caught in the blur of pouring rain Now I’m in the ghost corridor where the veins live where they pump it all that blood I want to give you as your heart thumps loosely inside a wicker cage We’re as loyal as fire we stick around just long enough to burn things down So I can’t help the ping pong forethought of descendants Is it a security to have someone to miss with Or is it so that they can miss me So that every good thing that happens to them happens to me So I can watch from the front yard as they pull away from me And when I dissolve into the earth there’s a person to represent all that I stood for Or isn’t it? Since I’ve been building up the same house with the same materials and then knocking it to the ground I don’t want to pass on hand me downs though given a body to expel it’s own replacement It feels the roles have been set for years We inherit each other’s tears and fumble around in the giving purse What’s worse?
11.
S.O. 03:30
I never want to see certain people again Like the bitch at Becker’s when I was a kid She’d watch a hole right through me as I arrived at the counter with carefully selected penny candies and a signed note to buy cigarettes for my mother When I was young, I thought fate hung so carefully in the balance Throwing trash into a can with major reservations for good aim and consequences for missing Well, regardless, I’m forced to stay the same to you, dissolved salt in the tears You had the most amazing penmanship All the libraries have heard of you Rain barrels plot rhythm about you And still no one has seen you So we wait out the rain, crammed into tram stalls Stand beside the lightning from balcony walls Placid parks lay down and accept it Unearthed are the ways we could have kept it I’m sticking with fire because it means what it does It says what it means It hurts to be judged It tumbles up and floats down stairs It washes the memory of what was there. My money wings only spread so far If I knew where you grew I’d put a lawn ornament out on your front lawn saying I miss you, Pink Flamingo I’d pinch out candles with wet fingertips and wish for some more bravery Well regardless, I’m forced to stay the same to you, dissolved salt in the tears You had the most amazing penmanship

credits

released September 9, 2014

VALERY GORE - Vocals, Keys, Shakers
DEVON HENDERSON - Bass, Synth, Shakers, Percussion, Programming
DANIEL NEILL - Drums
JOSHUA VAN TASSEL - Additional drums and percussion
LUIS ORBEGOSO - Percussion on July
DREW JURECKA - Strings
DAVID FRENCH - Saxophone, Bass Clarinet, Clarinet, Flute
MICHAEL DAVIDSON - Vibraphone

All songs written by Valery Gore, except Hummingbird in Reverse - lyrics by Valery Gore, music by Valery Gore and Joshua Van Tassel // Produced by Devon Henderson and Valery Gore // Arranged by Devon Henderson and Valery Gore // Additional engineering by Joshua Van Tassel, Devon Henderson, Valery Gore, Robbie Grunwald // Piano recorded at Revolution Recording in Toronto, assisted by Jason Dufour // Drums recorded at Verge Music Lab, assisted by Sam Robinson // Everything else was recorded in various places // String arrangements by Devon Henderson for 'New Years Eve', 'Character Girls, Quiet Guys' // String arrangements by Valery Gore and Devon Henderson for 'Amsterdam' // Mixed by Chris Stringer, except 'Character Girls, Quiet Guys', 'Evergreen', 'July’ // Mastered by Joao Carvalho at Joao Carvalho Mastering, Toronto // Palm tree and butterfly photos: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Prokudin-Gorskii Collection // Woman on cover: Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums // Valery: Self-Portrait // Album design by Valery

Thank you Devon Henderson, Daniel Neill, Joshua Van Tassel, Chris Stringer, Joao Carvalho, Bryan Lowe, Revolution, Verge, and all the incredible musicians and people who helped frame, build, and haunt this record. I am grateful to my friends, family, and everyone listening.

We would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

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