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North

by Geology

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1.
On The Blue 03:28
with steady hands i gather wood for fire to scatter light among the darkest night that i've known i am a boat out on the blue i am drifting, always drifting i'll go on living without you where is my compass? where is my north star? i made my way up to the mountain what am i doing here? what are you doing here? i heard a wind that split the rocks what am i listening for? i felt the ground shake, saw a fire but that was not your voice the stars above are veiled, my hands are tied i'm driftwood on this ancient sea and i will drown in this life after the storm there came a silence
2.
i saw a gleam of morning light in california i heard the sea by my side in this quiet town where every creature holds inside their secret song and the mountains- they will fall and the sea will rise and all the living things inside will call out our sudden blissful, lisping songs are quickly over recalls a longing for a far off half-forgotten land my smallness could not hold that blazing sorrow
3.
follow the tree line along the great bear lake the valley opens up to every last mistake the clouds and shadows swell with every step i take the water rises, washes over all i've made and so i sing the bluest song i know and then the trees sing of mending and of hope the ice that falls apart is ringing as it breaks a warm, familiar light is singing its embrace the fire and water mix as it crashes to the lake i feel myself pulled in
4.
in the cold light of the morning i awoke inside of a dream there was ice around me ringing like a bell and just below my feet and breaking was a glacier in the sea not an end or a beginning but in between and in that water was despair and words of sorrow were ascending through the clearest air there shone a strange, familiar light the deepest knowing in that song of fear and fire then the ice below me melted to desalinate the sea and the cold, white winter sky turned radiant green as the song of One who lived as us descended upon me it spoke my truest name known only in that country a bird emblazoned in fire descended upon me and sang aloud its song: 'it's in suffering that we see, and in our brokenness we're scattered as the seed'
5.
Brother 04:01
brother, has no one told you how to be? you're not even sure what you believe about the things you claim you see brother, where'd you run off now and hide from the healing in your sister's eyes? it's not as safe as it would seem join in the blessed river's song its radiant, holy waters wash away all wrong come join the blessed river song! brother, you've been gone for far too long away from all the small and simple songs that those surrounding you would sing brother, wash the poison from your words it doesn't matter what you think you've done it only matters that you see: we were blind, but now we see
6.
you think it's gone, my friend but it comes back again
7.
G-Minor 03:38
there's a garden in the heart that's overgrown choked by the weeds of all the secret, shameful deeds these hands have known but there's a seed that's broken open by a song that's not my own the words- an altogether different language that i have yet to learn but i have no voice
8.
i'm a stranger in this temple of the holy ghost i'm a stranger to these hands i've called 'my own' but have never known and everything that rises must converge, my friend and everything that rises must converge in its end then begin again and everything that rises must converge, my friend the small and simple songs make known the light that will not end still i wander in this temple of the holy ghost longing to be still and planted as a tree by the riverside and everything that rises must converge, my friend we'll sing aloud our sorrows and our joys and in the end become one again (we will weave together all of our intertwining words to form a song that's not been heard we will scatter seed among the dry and broken ground and rest upon the tree that grows)
9.
North 03:24
i walked north on the day you were born and the trees sang their terrible song and the wind blew around until there was nothing at all

credits

released July 29, 2013

All songs written & recorded by Greg Jehanian

Additional vox on On The Blue by Marlee Moses
Additional vox on North by Marlee Moses and Yin Dwyer

Artwork is called Wave Hill by Emily Auchincloss (emilyauchincloss.com)

Thank you again Anne Porter for your beautiful & life giving words, and to that great Spirit who makes its home in this frame of dust and bones

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Geology Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Geology is the home recording project of Greg Jehanian, the long time bassist of Philadelphia post-hardcore band, mewithoutYou. Through straightforward songwriting and melodies, Jehanian seeks to highlight the small, ordinary moments that draw us close to the enormity of Mystery. In summation, he states Geology's essence in these few words - lo-fi, high hopes. ... more

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