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All The Old Familiar Ways

by the quiet revolution

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biffmcgruff Scott is an amazing musician, creative, collaborative and hard-working. Talented. Yes that too. Favorite track: Mayan Calendar.
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1.
Reveille 02:04
"The planet does not need more 'successful' people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every shape and form. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these needs have little to do with success as our culture has defined it." - David Orr
2.
Why would I bother to get out of bed When it's minus fifteen And the world is gonna come to an end in a year and a half Think I'm permanently damaged in the head Frozen pizza and ecstasy formed into a toxic sludge and burned a hole in my brain Crazy – voices in my head make me Crazy – the whole fucking world's going Crazy – it's no wonder I wanna stay high Bombs going off in the markets in Spain And there's buckets of oil in the rain It's a wonder I don't wanna die Why get excited by coming of age To inherit a legacy of Bottomed out bottom lines and a minimum wage No surprise you've a low credibility line Saying drugs are illegal from the back rooms While doing lines off the tits of a whore Crazy (etc) Why would I bother to try to unwind When we're all out of time And the world is gonna come to an end in a year and a half Crazy (etc) Appalled – Kettled in with our backs to the wall Management's got us all by the balls In the 21st Century
3.
Passenger 03:55
Would you watch me fall When I needed to fall Because I needed to fall Passenger Passenger Passenger In a lie In a lie It remained the same In that village where we stayed I forget the name Italy or Spain Passenger Passenger Passenger In a lie In a lie You emit a lie Admit you lie To justify The other lie Passenger Passenger Passenger In a lie In a lie
4.
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Antarctica 04:55
Ice floes slow the atrophy of time The grain, the grind. Memories remain encoded in the ice Lost to humankind We come, we go The ebb and flow Freezes and flows Valence encodes The energetic modes H2O Twenty seven thousand years beneath the ice And still precise A full cup thrust up to power the device Encased in ice We come, we go The ebb and flow Freezes and flows Valence encodes The energetic modes H2O What is time beyond the movement of the stars Eternally All the energy that we could ever need For all, for free
6.
The Devil I Know for the Devil I See Who put the devil inside of me? The devil I see for the devil I know All along the way we go Well I got lost along the way Save my trouble for another day Trust my feet to take the load Nothing owned and nothing owed The places we can go In this world Familiar places we all know In this world Oh the places we can go The Devil I Know for the Devil I See Who put the devil inside of me? The devil I see for the devil I know All along the way we go The places we can go In this world The dangerous places we can go In this world Oh the places we can go The places we can go In this world The dangerous places we all go Without love Oh the places we can go
7.
The Best Part Carries On The Best Part Carries On A red ball of bait Ten thousand Like a beating heart Under the water Under the water The Best Part Carries On The Best Part Carries On Bluefish Sides like silver Ate their way through frenzied bait Under the water Under the water The Best Part Carries On The Best Part Carries On Peaceful, patient Understanding attitude Plus food Under the water Under the water Under the water Under the water
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I want you to be better
9.
Crowsnest 02:53
Your eyes are open, you pick up the pace You take what you can to run the human race Whatever it takes to get you through the day But the waters are rising so fast As you sit in safety at the top of the mast Perched in a crowsnest as the river runs past It's in our nature, our particular curse Things are in bad shape and getting worse Until you need no encouragement No further encouragement You only believe what you can see with your eyes But your children's children watch the phoenix rise They need no encouragement No further encouragement They'll weather the changes, they'll suffer and learn While it'll be your fate to see it burn Your sense of entitlement Your sense of entitlement We dream in colour We dream as one
10.
Don't want to think about the implications Of what they're putting in the water A thousand miles away. Are these unnecessary complications Or does it really matter? It sounds unkind to say that You don't even try To find another way round How you justify All the old familiar ways Well it's a reasonable explanation As sound as any other. Too tired to explain Another throwback conversation, Another ripple in the water Too high from all the rain You don't even try To find another way round There's no compromise All the old familiar ways Still trying to forget you A thousand times a day I asked her if she missed you She laughed and turned away It's partly the emotion It's part of the display You're drunk and you're immortal A tried and tired play You don't even try To find another way round There's no compromise All the old familiar ways

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released February 3, 2017

Adrian Burrill plays trumpet on Reveille
Gregory MacLaughlin contributed a drone to All The Old Familiar Ways

All songs written, performed, recorded and mixed by K Scott Maynard at various apartments in Toronto, ON and Whitehorse, YT

except

Mayan Calendar and Crowsnest, which were performed by

James van Bolhuis - drums
Michael Boyd - guitar, vocal
K Scott Maynard - bass, vocal

and were recorded and mixed by John Critchley at his Green Door studio in Toronto


mastered by Jordy Walker

all photos taken by K Scott Maynard except the band photo which was probably taken by Simon Rogers


Thanks: ADR, Gabe and Bee, Pete O'Neill, Ronley Teper and her Lipliners, Andrew Copland, Tim Maynard, Stacey McLeod, Lex Scully, Chad Dembski, Buffy Krieger, Lianne Cranfield, Kim Winnicky and Music Yukon, Andrew Conners and YFS, Duncan Sinclair, Gen Grant

Also thanks to the many musicians who have helped workshop and perform these songs:

Ben Hermann, Nick Taylor, Chris Timpano, Andrew Innanen, Michael Boyd, James van Bolhuis, Roman Tomé, Don Murray, Jordy Walker, Micah Smith, Fiona Solon, Adrian Burrill, Gregory MacLaughlin, Leith Hill, Kyle Cashen, Sam Gallagher

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