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    "Canoes"genre: Folk Rock
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    folky, campfire song with lots of percussion and a singalong chorus, some great guitar hooks
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    CD: Later Than Never   Label: Chapel Perilous
    Credits: produced by dreamhouse

    Story Behind the Song
    A campfire song about death and afterlife. The idea just came to me, I scribbled down some lyrics, and a long time later found a guitar riff to put it all together. Kind of sums up my feeling about the seemingly random nature of life, and how little we can really control it. it's not meant to be religious, but it sounds like it.

    music, lyrics: Scott
    Scott: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, drum program, lead vocals
    Charlie: electric guitar, bass, background vocals
    Bill: tambourine, background vocals
    Janet Flynn: background vocals

    Lyrics
    its a silent river
    and we are all canoes
    heading for the waterfall in
    death-defying lunges
    averting sudden plunges
    beneath the mirrored surface
    that we glide upon
    like animated sponges

    and the cleverest of phrases
    are only toothpick paddles
    against the timeless current
    of the downstream flow
    and as hard as we might row
    we can barely make a ripple
    in our final course
    to the undertow

    but we can watch the scenery
    as we skim the shore
    and we can loll in tidepools
    for days or more
    and we can breathe the breeze
    that urges us on
    and we can have a good laugh
    at who the joke is on
    (cuz thats us all)

    oh we look for logic
    and we scent for sense
    we read for reason
    and we argue the difference
    we miss the meanings
    as we clutch at clues
    but when we finally face the fatal
    were going to get the good news

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