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Man of the Year - EP

by Plumes

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1.
The Heat Foretold 04:23
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I wasn’t throwing sticks and stones but I’ve been tryna break some bones With words that may well hurt Cause bitter reading, signs had shown that summer would be spent alone Construe plans to desert That concept of alone well known to mean a chorus save one tone Can’t keep my cries covert That single seed of hope I’d sown turned spite when nothing much had grown I learned to curse the dirt How wrong it was, that vision of a different love to shove your memory Swapping docks for doorknob locks is fine with me Cause as it turns out, I’m the man of the year January April span produced a dick’s preemptive ban Indulgently contrived Doubts were strong you’d ever land quite close enough to kick the can On a galling second try When suddenly I cancel plans as heart is racing still I stand Your message just arrived Spotting flames you fold the fan that I imagined in your hand Which you extend to mine How wrong it was, that vision of a different love to shove your memory Swapping docks for doorknob locks is fine with me Cause as it turns out, I’m the man of the year For so long I thought I’d never find you coming back here For so long I thought it’d never be the same For so long I was embarrassed to be finding myself Imagining getting to say no to your face Rip me open purge these sour humors from my circuits Stitch me up and force-feed me with liquid luck Render songs I gave tone of resignation silly That old cycle’s broken, now I feel unstuck Cause I keep on going up, we keep on going up, now it’s you who brings me up, oh this keeps on going up From a restless night I heal while bussing to a day ideal We sit up in our row Many months of time conceal the sharing of thoughts deemed too real When wakefully composed But dozing off on moving wheels the carelessness of slumber steals A chance for daring prose Patience now it might reveal the full extent of how we feel Afraid yet to expose How wrong it was, that vision of a different love to shove you memory Swapping docks for doorknob locks is fine with me Cause as it turns out, I’m the man of the year
2.
She Loves You, Too 03:54
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She’ll reach out clearly humbled sooner than you ever thought You’ll recount the hints that shrinking kept from getting caught She will fast remind you of the energy she brought Remission from that addiction will nevermore be sought She’ll love you, she’ll love you, she’ll love you too, too She’ll see your fractured picture and connect the dots Old professions that seemed empty actually were not The doubt she cast will then have passed well thickening the plot All your songs are simply wrong, you’re not one she forgot She loved you, she loved you, she loved you too, too You show her Narragansett and nostalgia-tour the spots You both keep extra toothbrushes that come in use a lot She steals a bunch of snapshots that you never knew she shot Future plans revise preserving all the present’s got She loves you, she loves you, she loves you too, she loves you
3.
Yawns are Contagious 08:02
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Sorrow searches for injustice to digest a faultless fall Looking forward to a future without want for you at all But I knew you were the apple so we never wrote or called But you picked up a line I’d blindly thrown and stepped around my wall Prior to the promised meeting after winter’s separate spheres Three encounters counted early as the first three of the year As you named my misconception I had cause to raise my ears Tidal waves of retroactive revelation drowned my fears I tried to let go in the winter I was dumbfounded in spring I have you now in summer Fall was never the only thing You’re across a crowded table many glances stand in line Slow deployment for the danger of yours meeting up with mine Once a yawn leaked out of my mouth, and then from yours a thrilling find It’s contagion’s sole infection proved attention of a kind I tried to let go in the winter I was dumbfounded in spring I have you now in summer Fall was never the only thing I tried to let go in the winter I was dumbfounded in spring I have you now in summer Fall was never the only thing
4.
Twenty-one 03:54
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I heard you were running from sleeping So busy retreating, you left time for nothing at all A secret I hoped you were keeping For the time being, hope fell with the passing of fall Your potence in my age, poured on a private page After your brush with a tiring temptation You fled the nation, and left it domestic behind I thought to replace that consuming sensation Found only frustration, its permanence left me resigned Those pages went to print, a widely published hint Although I cast it blind, you kindly caught the line I keep remembering late last December when Laura laughed right in my face Light grew in my eyes just for you saying "hi" and she deemed me a pitiful case I wanted to tell you in hopes to dispel any doubt you re-centered my life I heard that you’ve never invested this wholly I heard when you told me, A year since you let me inside So happened our pace set surprisingly boldly But why take it slowly? Our puzzle leaves no piece behind The boundaries melt away, you said how long to stay Once windows now the door, our get grew so much more

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Released in late spring of last year, The Negligent Biome - EP was written throughout and about an unsteady not-quite-relationship from 2015, which ended when its better half went abroad for the first third of 2016. Those four songs chronicle
1. the modest growth, in autumn, of a relationship seeded in summer,
2. my giving up on managing/hiding inconvenient feelings,
3. reflections made just after our end on just how preoccupied I'd been,
4. and my looking forward to disassociating her from my college experience.

Given their coherence, it surprises me to remember that those four songs were not written to be published together. Tim actually was the one behind organizing those four, and releasing them. I never thought (but, of course, I hoped) that the subject of all those songs would ever hear them.
I didn't think we would see each other again more than a few times. Ever.
I was pretty bitter about it, too.

As it turns out though, I got it all wrong; she heard the songs and reached out. Now we are living together and we have no plans to stop. So, in an effort to make a sort of revision to The Negligent Biome - EP, I wrote this companion to it. The four songs here are all an update to one of the songs on The Negligent Biome; they use the same keys and chords, and they heavily reference the old lyrics. They still are new songs, though, each celebrating being delightfully wrong about an extraordinarily inspirational person. I hope you enjoy them.

credits

released August 13, 2017

All lyrics and music written by Plumes
Artwork by Sophia Richardson
Special thanks to our brother, Joe, for doing some heavy lifting in recording the middle two tracks, and special thanks to our friends and family for their support, encouragement, and interest.

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Plumes Boston, Massachusetts

Plumes is Ben Long (on the drums!) Tim Green and John Thorsen. Music- listening to it, learning to play it, writing more of it- has been one of few things we've taken really seriously for the last 7 years. These songs grew through many late nights and missed appointments. Our songs are all really about something. It's sincere and sometimes naked. Hope you like it ... more

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