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gopher wood

by continental drift

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Lenora Paron
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Lenora Paron I'm listening to all of these EPs at once since continental drift's fourth EP dropped recently, but I think gopher wood is such a great place to start with it. It's kind of hypnotic, and creates a picture in my mind so easily. Favorite track: silvermine bay (girl, two).
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love. the. lyrics. Favorite track: silvermine bay (girl, two).
iconoclasticgentleman
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iconoclasticgentleman its, beautiful and ethereal and contains so much in so little Favorite track: silvermine bay (girl, two).
bluejay_
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bluejay_ this is so beautiful i'm yelling !!! this whole ep is just. amazing Favorite track: silvermine bay (girl, two).
lee
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lee just some lovely lofi folk. great yearning music. cont drift 4ever Favorite track: silvermine bay (girl, two).
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1.
pangaea 01:41
our futures are our own our futures are our own our own olive branch between your lips, olive branch between your lips and i’m sinking bed of gopher wood and calm saltwater oh, this is a trust fall. drowned girl, the flood banks; the great wide
2.
i said i’m not sure if i'm more scared of death itself or just dying alone you said don’t panic, baby, maybe one day we’ll die but first we’ll make a home the sky is purple bruised and clouded over and you’re pointing out dragonflies and local ghost hauntings, a heart snaps clean in two and out pours cold saltwater and wanting, oh, wanting this is something like heaven wondering, drenched in rain in the ocean, your hand on my hand, a moment in stasis chapstick smile so graceless, tasting cherry balm and bubblegum and oh, oh, oh. we watch the airplanes dance below the haze, cause the sky’s too sick to show us stars, but it’s enough, and you whisper my name. the light pools in the nooks and crannies of your face and your cheekbones are mountains and your eyes are window panes. i taste blood and call it cherry, you taste blood and call it wine. thoughtless and broken, seeping moonlight, cracked visages, and your laughter. lost to time. this is something like heaven wondering, drenched in rain in the ocean, your hand on my hand, a moment in stasis chapstick smile so graceless, tasting cherry balm and bubblegum and maybe it’s a lost cause to stare at stars that aren’t there and the dragonflies will die within the week and it’s so loud when the rain bellows, sunset clouds dripping the richest red i’ve ever ever seen (if you're starving to death, can you eat your own limbs? you don't look like home anymore. i don't think you ever did. to what extent can righteousness through violence be morally justifiable, and you said, you said the blood tasted like wine and i argued for cherry but it's saltwater, really, it's always been saltwater and i've never wanted to die so why would i write about jumping in front of trains for fun, and will getting angry even change anything? will it? and how could i be so goddamn arrogant as to think this could mean something? to someone? to anyone? so what am i really scared of, then? death, or dying?) and this is something like heaven wondering, drenched in rain in the ocean, your hand on my hand, a moment in stasis chapstick smile so graceless, tasting cherry balm and bubblegum and oh, oh, oh (and hey, sometimes i wanna jump in front of the MTR just to look into your eyes a little longer. and that's the thing. it's always been you.)
3.
she calls me nervous i call her blind she calls me burnin’ angel fire, angel sigh she calls me traveler never lingering, nowhere to call home she calls me turning planet map on my wall pinned with places left to go and it scares me half to death laughter on her breath painted pink and yellow in the sunset and it’s raining, just a little there’s a beach in south lantau where the waves lap soft as my hand on yours where rabbits sleep in the moon and i can be with you she calls me nicknames and it’s funny, i’ve never wanted one before she calls me artist but i’ll never paint a picture like the ones she describes to me, she calls me noah i build her boats when it’s raining, and the typhoon floods the forests, she calls me nothing, grey smoke and i can’t hear her over the wind and the crying and black water and it scares me half to death ruin on her breath painted blue and silver in the moonlight and it’s raining, just a little there’s a beach in south lantau where the waves crash hard as my lips bleeding into yours, where rabbits sleep in the moon and i can be with you i remember lying in a children’s playground looking up at the clouds pretending the stars are out secrets on both of our tongues the night is still so young we are both so young we were both so young and it scares me half to death sweetness on her breath painted white and orange in the sunrise and it’s raining, just a little there’s a beach in south lantau where the waves brush against the shore, and everyone is smiling, where rabbits sleep in the moon and i can be with you there’s a beach in south lantau where the waves lap soft as my lips into yours, where rabbits sleep in the moon and i’m up there with you
4.
floodwater 03:17
i guess fluidity scares me nothing’s the same as it was half a year ago make me an ocean of identity who cares what’s inside of me i guess it just goes to show i guess nobody really knows my kingdom for a kindness my kingdom for apologies forever falling apart and starting again and it hurts when it shouldn’t, it hurts, my kingdom for a breath a welcome pause in all the screaming what happens when the death doesn’t want the grieving my kingdom for a body to see what i believe a body as a kingdom to do with as i please please call me as i like as i like, (YOU COLOSSAL ASSHOLE) you can’t say i can’t build myself into what i want because WE DESERVE WHAT WE CREATE, AND WE CREATE OURSELVES my kingdom for a kindness my kingdom for apologies forever falling apart and starting again and it hurts when it shouldn’t, it hurts, my kingdom for a breath a welcome pause in all the screaming what happens when the death doesn’t want the grieving my kingdom for a body to see what i believe a body as a kingdom to do with as i please and what do you know of kindness what do you know of apology what do you know of bodies what do you know of me i’ll leave you to grieving the person that i used to be i’ll leave you to believing i’m nobody because i know who i am i know who i am (my kingdom for you)
5.
feet swinging saying push me, push me summer dusk and i’m not scared, not scared bee stinging we don’t know the words does it taste so sweet anymore youth like a flicker bitter coffee, say you don’t care has anyone ever ever cared? i hope so birds winging it’s clouding pink and purple there were no paragraphs about this in the puberty books they wrote oh, oh this is living, drinking soda on a rooftop, on my rooftop who said we were ever cool streets of hanoi streets of the west side, it’s light out at midnight, at midnight sunrise forever i’m sad who isn’t sad looking out from the point at stilled seas, bruised knees, and i know oh, i know we’re all so afraid no one’s gonna love us like we think they should it’s light out at midnight bruised knees stilled seas crushing sky love, love love like a creeping vine feet swinging saying push me push me who said we were ever cool?

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about not-drowning, beaches, bays, crying a lot, and making something from nothing.

for hiding, and whispers, and wind.

thanks for listening.

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released April 17, 2017

thank you to ian, aneurin, and lee. you made this damn thing happen. <3

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continental drift Vancouver, British Columbia

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