Compact Discs are the traditional method of listening to music in late 18th Century Ireland, Scotland, and the Canadian Maritimes. Using an ancient technique called "digitization", Celtic craftsmen spun silver into tiny ones and zeroes using looms, then sold the precious discs to their English masters. At parties, the English aristocrats would then produce special music-goats, which would decode the ones and zeroes and bleat the tunes they read. While ancient Celtic digitization and goat-reading have been lost to history, we present the next best thing.
Modern Compact Discs are manufactured from plastics rather than silver, but they still retain a beautiful shine on the reverse side, which sparkles in the sun and will dazzle your friends. Using laser technology, the discs are decoded into electrical signals in something called a "CD Player", which are then transferred into soundwaves via magnets in things called "speakers". (CD Player and Speakers sold separately)
The CD version of Looking Out for Better Weather comes in a cardstock case featuring cover art by Liza Gareau Tosh.
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about
I occasionally see ghosts. I would prefer not to, as it has troubling ramifications for my worldview, but it happens. This song describes three such occurrences. In the song, the spirits help me get over old pain. In real life, it was just kind of scary. -Jeremy
lyrics
In a farmyard full of weeds in a mansion on the prairie
In the ruin of a kitchen lined with crumbling walls,
Groaning in the wind, the house told me a story
Of the portraits in the basement that once lined the halls.
Of the hope that led a family wandering up the trails,
Of the hope they wrought upon the plains in plaster, wood, and nails,
Of the hope that died in dust-bowl dry and sent them down the rails.
And I said, “Why did you tell me?” It said…
Chorus:
It’s a long time gone, a long time gone away.
It’s a long time gone and that hour has passed.
So turn your head away. Leave the pain of yesterday.
Find the joy in nowadays. Live at last.
On a midnight drive in winter, by the moonlight so primordial,
I saw a bus flipped in the snow and stopped to aid.
But lo, the bus had vanished, replaced by a memorial,
And a dozen children’s voices whispered from the shade
Of the crash that took their lives that day thirty years ago,
Of the town that lost its hope that day, buried in the snow,
Of the parents who still mourn that day, unwilling to let go.
And I said, “Why did you tell me?” They said…
Chorus
One night as I lay dreaming I met up with a friend of mine.
I wept to see his face and asked him how he’d been.
I told him what he’d missed. We talked about his slow decline,
The troubled days before he joined the choir unseen.
And I asked him what I could have done to stay his last goodbye,
And I asked him to forgive me when he chose not to reply,
And I asked him why I’d love at all if I must watch it die,
And he said, “Why don’t you tell me?”
Chorus x2
credits
from Looking Out for Better Weather,
released September 30, 2020
A Long Time Gone, by Jeremy A. Cook, and Where the Sun Shineth Not, by Jeremy A. Cook.
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