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Old Invitations

by Coriander

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Kelsey Freese Old Invitations is a fantastic blend of folk and alternative rock, tied together with the soulful lyrics and vocals by Matt Hamer. Favorite track: Tired of Spinning.
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1.
The Blue Hour Blue Just for a moment we were in between A lucid slumber and a waking dream No wrongs to choose Blue No glaring sundogs to blind our eyes No parenthetic horizon lines Or sentry moons Just blue Blue We sailed the gap between the sea and sky Without the anchors of the “how” or “why” Or “win” or “lose” Blue We made no mention of the day or night Would it be darkness or warming light We’d plunge into After blue? Must we fall from blue And let other colors bleed through?
2.
These are Fighting Words Can you teach me how to fight? How to wrap my knuckles tight For blackening eyes? I don’t want to beat the air Swinging at what isn’t there Exposed from behind I’ll throw down my gloves To win my love With blood on my hands I’ll be her man I was born a runner’s son Turning tale with drifter’s thumb At first sign of pain There’s a time for making war Staring down the bleeding sore And cutting the vein Mirror, mirror on the wall Who is the fiercest foe of all? With violent eyes I set out for my enemy But pulled my punches when I saw that he was me So I might need some help To face myself With blood on my hands I’m still her man
3.
Tired of Spinning Does the earth grow tired of spinning Round the sun in perfect lines Knowing that if it were stronger It’d kiss the moon with flaming skies? Kiss the moon with flaming skies There’s a madness to the movement Of a man who harbors lies He hopes in secret for collisions While he fights the rising tides While he fights the rising tides There are days I tire of living When death seems a welcome friend Cause I’ve dealt pain out like prescriptions And I want for that to end I want so bad for that to end But I’m learning that my weakness Is a bottle strength can fill I'll swallow pride like penicillin A bitter, angry little pill A bitter, angry little pill My best efforts are but bloodrags Folly, striving after wind I can’t hold a thing together Could I just orbit you instead? Cause I’m exhausted from the doping Strung out on my very best Let my broken spirit slumber Teach me how to truly rest
4.
Soft as Gold 05:37
Soft as Gold So this is what we hungered for The grand romantic longing Young girl with your broomstick groom And boy with dream-spun drawings We burrowed deep, deep down We mined each other’s hearts, but still we came up empty I nearly stripped you bare I nearly killed this cave’s canary Truth is, I knew our weaker beams Would crumble under pressure But I hold that what’s pure will shine Once it’s run through the thresher Our love is soft as gold It takes a beating and a burning to define it The strongest wedding band Is melted down first to refine it Our love Our love is not a perfect love But our love, my love, Could point us to that love In love, my love, we made a promise, love. So our love is more than just the feeling of Desire
5.
Synesthesia 03:31
Synesthesia You look the same way that rain smells Like the promise of spring relief Like rekindled belief in the heart of a man who prayed long for you And I have felt your pheromones Bubble bath my weary bones On the evenings when home is to bathe in the scent of your lavender dew Oh my, m’lady I’ve gone crazy Cause you muddle my senses up Fuddle my Muddle my senses up Baby you do Touching you’s like butter rum Toffee melting on my tongue Your confections have won my affections again and again and again And since the day I first tasted you Can’t wash those cellos off my lips Your counterpoint kisses sing out you’re my misses and I am your man
6.
Egg Tooth 02:55
7.
Dear Gomer 04:14
Dear Gomer The bank sign flashed fifty degrees But your skin reads thirty And little clouds congregate ‘round your mouth As if to agree You’ve found a sure-fire formula For waking up feeling dirty But your peach-bruised knees Are just another night’s housing fee You asserted when you flew from our nest You were born a free sprint But when you pluck at your feathers You remind me of a dove in a cage You hang sweet perfume in your Magdalene hair Like a dangled carrot You get applause for your tricks But you know that all the magic’s staged I was your first love And you my stunning bride But you colored crimson what was white I remember when the story of our wedding hit publications We made a clipping of the column And we framed it like a real Monet If you still had an address I’d mail you our old invitations Just scratch out the date, babe And fill it back in with today’s
8.
‘Neath Mad, Marigold Suns Father, what will they say When I’m wrinkled with age Of the span of my days And all that I built on my way to the grave Cause all to do has been done ‘Neath mad, marigold suns And all man’s vision becomes A more and more bombastic pile of dust Vanity, vanity Oh my God all is vanity If there’s solace at all in this life It’s of thee I keep buying the same Sentimental refrains The fictive, Kodachrome way We talk on the past when we want better days Vanity, vanity Oh my God all is vanity If there’s solace at all in this life It’s of thee Clocks will ever unwind Through our deaths and our lives Times of peace and of strife Father, make it all beauty in time
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10.
Sapling Heart I faintly can recall the open earth The tender womb of soil tilled for my home And gentle hands that cradled me at birth And planted me beneath the peat and loam But I drank deep the darkness underneath And lost my appetite for heaven’s tears I grew new thorns from every limb and leaf To tear the hands that held the pruning shears So deftly I was cut back to the root My vain pursuit of manhood shorn away And green, my sapling heart could not refuse The graces of the sunlight and the rain The mettle of a man will surely show In whether he will shrivel up or grow
11.
Sojourneyonsojourner Monarch morning Whispered up like the wind Flit like flights of sunlight as you’re unpinned Fragile wings, so unfettered, so free Carried by the call called first from a dream See the undefiled horizon rises with the dawn So journey on sojourner, journey on So journey on sojourner, journey on Fear not nightfall, fear no angel or man Fail with forward bent and bear on again Lest you let the truest tale go untold Frontline sister, count yourself with the bold The land you leave is no more home than any road you’ll ramble upon So journey on sojourner, journey on So journey on sojourner, journey on

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released January 18, 2014

Produced by Coriander and Daniel White

Recorded and Mixed by Daniel White at The White House in Wichita, KS

Mastered by Joey Lemon at Spiderglass Studios

Artwork and Layout by Megan Sornson

Coriander is:
Adam Lutes: Drums, Percussion, Background vocals
Matt Hamer: Vocals, Guitars, Percussion
Michael Engdahl: Guitars, Background vocals
Ryan Stoldt: Bass, Background vocals

All lyrics by Matt Hamer except 11 by Matt Hamer and Megan Hamer
All music by Coriander

Additional Musicians:
Dayton Yarrow: Clarinet on “Sojourneyonsojourner”
Isaac Byall: Violin on “Tired of Spinning” and “Sojourneyonsojourner”
Joel White: Piano on “Sewing Ghosts”, Keys on “Soft as Gold” and “The Blue Hour”
Megan Hamer: Background Vocals on “Sojourneyonsojourner”

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