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Trait D'union EP

by Okies

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1.
Of Means 04:49
I've traveled far And I've traveled wide I've seen the pyramids And I climbed the skies Oh, I've worshipped the queen And her grey eyes of means Of means I've learned of real needs Done what they said I can't I've slept atop mountains And bargained for land Oh, I've cursed at the duke In his courtyard of statues All your petty problems Are no problems of mine Of mine I've missed them so much But my sentient, she calls Through stargaze I'll watch And I'll contact you all Contact you all
2.
Somewhere in the darkness You’ll find all the stupid things we did Then one day you look back From the light just to forget what we hid Some things you forget Just to smile and overlook what you fear For as long as there is light, Oh the darkness will never disappear Somewhere in the dark You’ll find the lights painted onto the skies From there reflects our dreams, Our hopes, as a glimmer in our eyes It’s when you cease to look That you realize it will never be so clear For as long as there is light, Oh the darkness will never disappear Somewhere in the park Lies a boy who never knew what to say Such a brilliant mind Free of sin now in the ground he must lay He failed to understand Why a man could never live free of fear For as long as there is life, Oh the dark minds will never disappear For as long as there is light, Oh the darkness will never disappear They’re one and the same But they don’t need the same last name Oh he’s the boy in the park She’s the little girl scared of the dark And i’m the man in the bubble, so terrified to drift away
3.
I saw a pebble on the beach today I saw a flower at the dawn of may I pictured you with something better to say Hip hip hooray you've got something to say I heard a bear in the cavern he laid I heard a tenant with rent he had paid I pictured us with a future away A far away town where children can play And I, I had wished for four hours away not ten hours away And I, I had cared for a blossom to stray not a lily to stay Nature's an orphan who lives on her own Peace is a dream that I'm dreaming alone Love is a baby that kills when she's grown I breathe a place that's unlike my home And I, I had wished for four hours away not ten hours away And I, I had cared for a blossom to stray not a lily to stay And I, I had wished for four hours away not ten hours away And I, I had cared for a blossom to stray not a lily to stay And I, I had wished for four hours away not ten hours away And I, I had cared for a blossom to stray not a lily to stay I pictured you with something better to say Hip hip hooray you've got something to say
4.
Coats 04:03
They came from the sea Upon a great wooden beast Sailing far from their homeland To build us a throne and They put up a wall That could protect us all That’s the part of the story That my father told me They shackled our minds And brought the darkest of times They taught us to fear them To hide to believe and As slaves we live on From morning to dawn That’s the part of the story Where my mama taught me To follow the laws Don’t sharpen your claws Stay by my side We're going back to the wild You’ve got to button up your coat So tight ‘round your throat Stay by my side We're going back to the wild now They knew from the start They could tear us apart A once mighty people Slayed by their refusal To follow the laws To sharpen their claws That’s the part of the story My poor sister told me They marched in our homes With their hearts carved in stone With one cold bloody hand They wrote the deeds to our land Then they tallied up their votes Named him king of the coats That’s the part of the story I chose to believe You’ve got to fight for your cause So sharpen your claws Stay by my side We're going back to the wild You’ve got to button up your coat So tight ‘round your throat Stay by my side We're going back to the wild now You’ve got to fight for your cause So sharpen your claws Stay by my side We're going back to the wild You’ve got to button up your coat So tight ‘round your throat Stay by my side We're going back to the wild now
5.
I look at things different Than you, you know There are things I wish that I could change, you know You look at me different Delicate like a rose There are debts I think that You would like to owe Grow up happy, grow up Learning how to loan Grow up faster, grow up Not wanting to grow But you hide it Keep inside it Melancholy hold yourself I have found someone else World spins on queue with you Problems don't rest, you know Work hard and claim the prize Lies, lies, you know Guaranteed you will die Guaranteed you will owe You know... You’ll owe... You’ll grow... You know... Melancholy hold yourself I have found someone else You know...

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released October 3, 2015

Produced, mixed and mastered by Marc-Antoine Moisan
All songs written by Okies; Marc, Thomas and Sam

Drums/Percussions/Harmonica: Thomas Aguinaga;
Keyboard: Samuel Gendron;
Guitar & Vocals: Marc-Antoine Moisan;
Guest Vocals: Grace Ly (Of Means);
Horns: Tsukimi David (Trombone), Eric Prodger (Trumpet) (Of Means, Hip Hip Hooray);

And a big thanks to Carol-Ann Maskrey for the album art-work.

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Okies are an Indie Folk band composed of one guy in four different fonts. They hail from Aylmer, on the Quebec side of the river in the National Capital Region.

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