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XVSK

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fallen and scarred, a long time to wait wishing so hard for a heart to resonate i don't want to control you just keep you safe from harm i don't need to be right i just want you back in my arms back in my arms she offered up a prayer for attention and forgiveness setting up a journey away from home and innocence 'cause nobody will bail you out of the bind you tied yourself up in but maybe this time you just might learn something fallen and scarred, a long time to wait wishing so hard for a heart to resonate i don't want to control you just keep you safe from harm i don't need to be right i just want you back in my arms back in my arms you've been here before the stakes are high this time 'cause nobody can hurt you more than your own wild mind fallen and scarred, a long time to wait wishing so hard for a heart to resonate i don't want to control you just keep you safe from harm i don't need to be right i just want you back in my arms back in my arms just want you back in my arms tonight
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Natalie 02:38
they go on about quality and how we don't make the grade i know I'm barking up the wrong tree but at least I'm getting paid out beyond the brickyard there's a whole world waiting from Awendaw to Soulard a feast fit for a king but I never knew how much I wanted you i'm a slow one I confess make my days so blue you tell me that you want me maybe someday you'll be free but you make me wait oh Natalie oh Natalie i never sat up at night and wondered who's the one I'd choose you were the light that led me homeward one I never thought I'd have to lose but I never knew how much I wanted you i'm a slow one I confess make my days so blue you tell me that you want me maybe someday you'll be free but you make me wait oh Natalie oh Natalie
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fear used to tuck me in my bed now it shakes me out and pride used to say it was on my side when I was busy cashing out I twist and turn to get to you now you're gonna ask me what I'm gonna do well what am I gonna do well read my mind or guess the future I always try to be a straight shooter kept on running with the ball I didn't see the hole to fall well read my mind or guess the future I always try to be a straight shooter kept on running with the ball I didn't see the hole to fall and now I'm doing all that I can now that I am many times the man many times the man something changes when you're looking at a pile up now I'm tearing it up and the times are tough and I can decide when I've had enough have you had enough? well read my mind or guess the future I always try to be a straight shooter kept on running with the ball I didn't see the hole to fall well read my mind or guess the future I always try to be a straight shooter kept on running with the ball I didn't see the hole to fall and now I'm doing all that I can now that I am many times the man many times the man many times the man many times the man many times the man
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sing it to me mellow, mellow melody come down off your high horse come down off your treadmill stop trying so hard to find the place to be and just be here in the place with me sing it, sing to me mellow, mellow melody come down off your high horse come down off your treadmill stop trying so hard to find the place to be and just be here in the place with me wherever you want to go i'll follow you high and low follow you high and low sing it, sing to me mellow, mellow melody sing it, sing to me mellow, mellow melody your voice is my my mystical remedy wherever you want to go i'll follow you high and low wherever you want to go i'll follow you high follow you high and low wherever you want to go i'll follow you high follow you high and low wherever you want to go i'll follow you high Sing it to me wherever you want to go i'll follow you high and low wherever you want i'll follow you high follow you high and low wherever you want follow you high wherever you want follow you high and low
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XVSK 03:37
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Know How 02:37
you've gone from broke to bust but you keep on raising the stakes gabardine con layin' in the dust but you keep on making the same mistakes and i know you're trying to get your head together but it's making you lose your mind you think you can skip lines light like a feather until you go blind, til you go blind until you go blind, til you go blind i'm begging on my knees with my back to the crowd hand off the keys and grow yourself some know-how and i know you're burning up inside didn't know what you had til it was gone and they're sayin' God bless you God bless you mr suit and tie and the horse you rode in on and the horse you rode in on i'm begging on my knees with my back to the crowd hand off the keys and grow yourself some know-how i'm begging on my knees with my back to the crowd hand off the keys and grow yourself hand off the keys and grow yourself some hand off the keys and grow yourself some know-how grow yourself some know-how
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Sweeter 03:20
the world is still an open door talking 'bout the good old days is a bore you know you've got some legs of steel but you're only as beautiful as you feel you found me out let your demons lie long enough to enjoy yourself let your love take flight sweeter than honey you're heaven in a body wish i could brush the blackness from my heart spend my whole life trying to be smart now i've got my legs of steel but you're only as beautiful as you feel it's a brand new dawn, i'm in a new place put a new look on the same old face you found me out let your demons lie long enough to enjoy yourself let your love take flight sweeter than honey you're heaven in a body you found me out let your demons lie long enough to enjoy yourself let your love take flight sweeter than honey you're heaven in a body heaven in a body you found me out and you're sweeter than honey you found me out and you're sweeter than sweeter than sweeter than honey
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Outrun 04:06
waiting up alone at night tryin' hard not to give up the fight and another day goes by i'm looking for a home if the trip began with a single step but it all comes back to how far you get i never thought it would take this much out of me outrun, outgunned outshone and outdone broken down in my own land a boomtown bystander it doesn't matter where i draw the line someone's always waving from the other side rock bottom is the only solid place to stand and nobody does great things when they're getting everything they want hand to mouth is the only way i know outrun, outgunned outshone and outdone broken down in my own land a boomtown bystander oh outrun, outgunned outshone and outdone broken down in my own land a boomtown bystander
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about

It's done, and god what a ride! XVSK spent a couple of years on the road while making this record. We took a very bare-bones approach, building it piece-by-piece while the songs developed from show to show, sneaking studio time in wherever we could. A few times we threw away a perfectly good track because the song had mutated in the shows. Anyway, here it is!

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released January 16, 2014

XVSK is Trevor Exter and John Kimock, cello and drums

(and singing and glockenspiel and samples and driving and loading)

Music by XVSK
Lyrics by Trevor Exter
"Mother's Song" by John Kimock

Dana Colley, saxophones on "Straight Shooter" and "Back In My Arms"
Roger Greenawalt, ukulele on "Natalie"

Produced by XVSK
Mixed and mastered by Phil Joly
except "Natalie" mixed by Roger Greenawalt

"Back In My Arms", "Straight Shooter", "No How" and "XVSK" produced by Dana Colley at Hi N Dry Studio, Cambridge, MA.
Additional engineering by Nick Natale

"Outrun", "Sweeter", "Sing It To Me" and "Mother's Song" recorded and produced by XVSK at home in Bethlehem, PA, Allentown PA and at New Warsaw Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Additional engineering by Riley McMahon

"Natalie" recorded and produced by Roger Greenawalt at Shabby Road Studio, Brooklyn NY

Special thanks to Ben Travers

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XVSK Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Working with the shorthand moniker XVSK, cellist Trevor Exter and percussionist John Kimock have a unique chemistry as musicians, wringing the depth of drums and cello.

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