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Slow (replacement things mix)

from 2018​:​1 - Replacer Replacer EP by David Newberry

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This song was released as a basement recorded version on 2014's Desire Lines EP, and as a glossy single for my ill-fated participation in a 2015 radio contest. We had Jesse Gander re-mix it to try and make it fit onto Replacement Things, but it didn't have a role there.

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It happened slow, I wasn't looking.
You took it all into the ditch.
I guess you didn't know where you were going,
As if you'd stumbled from a bridge.
As if it snuck up on you,
Sewed you down with one quick stitch.
As if they'd laid that body into the ground, and made the switch.

Oh.

When you are working for the experts, vanity trickles and it drips.
And we can watch the slackened pace of your progress,
Slowly settle down into your hips.
And when you lay beside me, you are full of questions that never leave your lips.
Honey please don't hurry,
There's no use rushing, it is all a fix.

Oh.

The rifle lifts from off the table, as if your shoulder came to it.
The car just drifts from off the highway,
As if you never even forced it to slip.
And when the sun is rising and you are sleeping next to me,
You add it to your secrets, and it just adds to your mystery.

Slow burn.
Slow dent.
Slow working sedatives.
Slow motion.
Slow heart.
Slow at making art.
So so slow to learn.
So slow to burn.
Slow talker/coal walker.
Hard looker with a faster daughter.
Low action.
Slow hands.
Slow bodies with slow demands.

Oh.

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from 2018​:​1 - Replacer Replacer EP, released January 19, 2018

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David Newberry Toronto, Ontario

David Newberry sings folk music with rock sensibilities. Or is it the other way around? His increasingly noisy songs provide insights into the complex contemporary social world.

His new record 'No One Will Remember You' Was released March 6th, 2012 on Northern Electric Records.

His first album 'When We Learn The Things We Need To Learn' was released in 2010 & earned critical praise.
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