Crawl

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All songs written by Jim Cuming, and co-arranged with Chris Dadge
Performed by Jim Cuming and Chris Dadge with guests Samantha Savage Smith, David Laing, Ryan Bourne, and Chad Van Gaalen

Produced by Chris Dadge in Calgary
Mastered by Harris Newman in Montreal

Painting by David Janzen
Bookshelf photo set by Levi Manchak
Artwork layout by Parker Thiessen

Written by Jim Cuming from spring 2014 - spring 2018

Recorded, engineered, and mixed by Chris Dadge at 606 Studios, Calgary from July 2017 - September 2018
Additional recording on “Away” by Chad Van Gaalen
Mastered by Harris Newman at Greymarket Mastering, Montreal in September 2018

Special thanks: Dadge for making this happen, Sam and Dadge for being such great hosts, Sam again for singing, Bourne and David, Darrell Hartsook for pedals, Emily Bachynski at Bitter North for demos, Dave Janzen for the perfect cover art, Levi, Parker, Craig at Double Lunch, Yuya and everyone at Moorworks, Shed Books, Jesse Northey, Candace and Richard, Auntie Linda, Chad Van Gaalen, and the lovely city of Calgary

All songs copyright Jim Cuming (SOCAN) 2019

Music video for "Chapel of Chimes" by Don Zimmermon
Music video for "Change Your Mind" by Laura La France

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released September 6, 2019

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Track Name: Mountain
Mountain

I walk on the mountain
I crawl on the ocean
The stair to the fountain is sinking
Is sinking

Stranded at the edge of your command
Safety in the numbers on your hand
Some cautious kind of person reaches out
to pull your feet back down to touch the ground again

I walk on the mountain
I crawl on the ocean
The stair to the fountain is sinking
Is sinking
Track Name: Street Sweeper
Street Sweeper

To watch awake out the window
To wait for days to arrive
To contemplate through the signals, if I could
I could wait here all night
So work your way through this puzzle
That fits you under your wall
Now you’ve become your own double (and not a subtle one)
To flush you from your own stall

And on the day, after the day
On your circuit, on your way
To the depths of your room
Fall asleep to the tune
Of the friendly machine sweeper

Step back and wonder why
It’s too far to make out in your own eyes
In your own hand
If you could see through it it wouldn’t make much of a disguise
Throw all your weight behind your mind
Thoughts wrapped in notes and paper symbols
Til your conscience fits you like a thimble
And washes out so clean and simple
Like a pair of jeans upon the line

So burn your way through this candle
That burns to shed you some light
If it lights off more than you can handle, I can understand
You’ll stay here burning all night

So see if you can discover
Some new direction for that same source of wonder
The same kind you’ve always known
The whisper and the drone
Of the steady machine sweeper

And every day, after every day
The same old circuit, same old way
Bound to anywhere at all
But I’d settle just to fall asleep
To the song of the clean machine
Track Name: The Crawl
The Crawl

Open up to the sound
There’s nothing around you to keep you down
There’s nothing beneath you if you want to crawl
Shoulder to shoulder
No dream for a doubter
A swimmer to drowner

I couldn’t arrange it better
Dropping the rain right where it falls
And then watching from inside
So as you climb
I’ll be climbing a little slower
From a street I just discovered
And you’ve already left behind

Overhead, beneath the ground
You can’t hear the feet fall through your wall of sound
You can’t hear the creeps crawl in your bed at night
The window has been leaking and it’s
Flooding the floor

This is only your lowest hour
Unfolding you slowly like a paper
Or crushing you tight into a ball
But when you crawl
I’ll be wishing that you were stronger
In a place I won’t remember
I’ve already left behind
Track Name: Away
Away

Alive, awake to work in your worry
Didn’t need another day
Awash, adrift in your own inclinations
Circling away
A fly in your station
Keeping you awake

Alive in the night
While you watch the wind shake the window and bending the light
At the foot of a dream
Dissipating before you enter what you’ve never seen

Across in some other hidden dimension
Sleeping underground
Another night with no realization
Sensation unbound
Awake in your station
Call me down

Alive in the night
While you watch the wind shake the window and bending the light
At the gates of a dream
Hanging outside with your mind in a movie you make while you see
And it keeps you awake
To watch as your highest successes sweep under your gravest mistakes
At the foot of a day
Dissipate through the window of time slowing down
The time it takes you away
Track Name: Chapel of Chimes
Chapel of Chimes

I’m picking up time
That’s fallen behind
To draw the design
The chapel of chimes
I’m walking through walls
I’m walking through air
The faster you fall, the farther to climb
The further to climb

In the condition
You woke up inside
You’re out in the open but you’re
Nowhere in sight
Without a condition

You’re wasting away
You’re wasting your time
There won’t be a stander by
To pick up the line
To pick up and listen

I’m picking up time
The quicker I climb
To draw the design
The chapel of chimes
Track Name: Change Your Mind
Change Your Mind

I’m coming around the corner
I’m floating on frozen quarters
I’m going where the wind is warmer
I’m changing my mind

I’m typing these words to reach you
I’m sending this card to greet you
I never took the time to meet you
I’m changing my mind

Changing inside a circle half as wide
Leave nothing standing by
Changing from top to bottom side to side
No footprints recognize
Moving my body across the ocean blue
No visions beaming through me
I’m taking the time it takes to take the time

(On some shining lake across the sea
That’s where I’ll always be
Some perfect little interlude
Some lovely attitude I’m skipping through)

So unbutton your abandoned notions
Unfilter your frozen oceans
Dance over this door, it’s open
Come and change your mind

On and on from year to year
No clearer course to guide
Through seasons and construction
Reading nothing in the signs
On a lower plane to be, it’s plain to see
You’re in no shape for a climb
And you know you really like to take your time

I’m coming around the corner
I’m cruising across the border
I never have tried but I’m gonna
I’m changing my mind
Track Name: Sliver of Truth
Sliver of Truth

A sliver of truth has come against the grain
And everything that remains will never be the same
One sliver of truth digging under the skin
And once it works its way in
You’ll never get it back out again

In the beginning
There was a place and time
Some new idea I kept in my mind
The same material to make a new kind
Now at another day’s end
It’s a different place and a different time
All I thought I knew now I know was never mine
The same material to make a different kind

A sliver of truth has come against the grain
And everything that remains will never be the same
One minuscule part of knowledge in your heart
Is still awake at night
To bring the flame to light
I have tried to be stronger
But I can’t make this any longer
Doesn’t matter now it’s too late to begin

One sliver of truth
Just a little nugget but it grows and grows
Now it’s a mountain and nobody knows
If there’s a way around or how high it goes
One sliver of truth
Come against the grain
One sliver of truth
Never be the same
Track Name: The Song Can Take the Weight
The Song Can Take the Weight

Holly roads and stars crash down
Just a rumble but it rings out so long
Coloured candles melt into a candy town
A smoky ritual that still smells after it’s gone
Cold beginnings are your science and your art
Shaking down to a reducible state
And the song can take the weight

Collecting cities like chapters in unread books
Flipping through corners and intersections as you comb
Breeze through connections, give no secondary looks
Dog-ear some pages to revisit when you’re home
You only survive in the moments you surrender
Scrape the remainder from the bottom of the plate
And the song can take the weight
And I don’t see a change

Out in the sound of a sudden distance
Out in the distance under a memory, ringing out
Couldn’t have waited for notification (I didn’t cry)
Couldn’t have noticed my own constellation til I turned around

Running the numbers and printing the sheets to publish and pore
Shredding and stripping away to the bottom where no light can shine
Hovering under the empty container (only inside)
Couldn’t have felt so small and endangered
Never so close to time
Track Name: The Swamp
The Swamp

In an honest moment only long as eyes can see
In a light reflection closing open ocean streams
Hiding in the night of blissful distant in-betweens
Turning over stones to feed the filth that crawls beneath

Shrouded from the moment, hoping, holding only what you know
Keep a loving distance, pushing, painting, changing in the glow
Keep a conversation waiting, safely, deeply, where you want
In a distant picture sinking, soaking in the swamp

In an honest moment only long as eyes can see

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