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Seventeen

by Common Fires

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1.
Samstag 03:15
It's December in Lafayette There's never snow in the sun But I tasted the peppermint It's Friday night on the border line Stood on our feet for our turn We had to check on the instruments It's a pleasant evening There's no sense in leaving If nobody has to worry If we haven't said goodbye It's Friday night on the tennis courts Where we retreat to the dark We would lay down and think on it Camera flash in the misty lights On the beach in the dead of night See the winter rains coming in It's a pleasant evening There's no sense in leaving If nobody has to worry If we haven't said goodbye In this perfect memory You turn to lend me The mirage of no more worries And no need to say goodbye We used to live in a model house Only for one afternoon We made a toast to our future health
2.
Grow 03:07
Cold The tile floor under my face The spinning sight of the ceiling I can't pretend To call me a friend of all Of those I've let down Of those that I've learned are like All of us Just like all of us Vices I enable Drink you under the table Then demand that you foot the bill Your bedding tangled up into knots By morning, I scold your passion And I pretend That I was so different I had drawn out the lines That I stayed behind of like All of us Just like all of us I act indignant Tell you off in the kitchen When the evidence goes my way And we don't grow
3.
When the child sleeps Drifting in a dream He slowly slips away Slips into a song Oh, what life would be If this were reality Stretching out his tongue To taste the trickle down Paper-thin construction contours me In dreams that shake Beneath the weight of these Lines and folly Life outside these walls It's hard to see where You leave space for me For me Basement of a stream Sedimentary beads Thick water overhead My violent riverbed You're quick to honour me As the weathering succeeds I am more like you But I still cannot move
4.
I bowed my head And pressed my hands Together in a prayer For peace Then those same hands I washed out red And watched the blood circle The sink Looser lips Have been sinking ships While we Tongue-tied Don't sail at all Harsher words Have been stirring up anger While we have yet to speak You have other ways to spend your time You only have to wait your place in line Call me when the tunnel floods with light I'll see you then You told me not to fear the day I die You promised me I'd see the other side But what if I was wrong, and you were right? Will I see you then?

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Written by a 17 year old Common Fires, and released by a 27 year old Common Fires. A brief visit to the past.

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released May 13, 2022

Engineered and produced by Caleb McAlpine at Common Kitchen
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Andrew Judah at Sounds Suspicious

Caleb McAlpine: vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, fretless bass guitar, venova, piano, synths, percussion
Jacob Kemp: vocals on 'Leave Space for Me'
Joshua Clark: vocals on 'I'll See You Then'
Sarah Clark: vocals on 'I'll See You Then'

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Common Fires Kelowna, British Columbia

Described as having “[melodies] akin to Ben Howard or Bon Iver’s rawest moments”, and as having both “the serene qualities of singer-songwriter music [and] the abstract tendencies of prog”, Common Fires is equal parts ambitious and moving.

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