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50

by Footings

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1.
What would you do if i wasn't there? Who would you know if i didn't appear? Would you fall asleep alone with the tv on? Or would you always stay awake until the break of dawn? The longest night is over now The brightest days are always loud No matter if you're blue or red I know that you will never be dead. Spent all this time with my head in the clouds waiting for you before you went out. Well I want to say it straight before I go away that it's all that I can take, no matter what you say Cause I will not destroy myself. That just doesn't seem worthwhile. Cause only once does lightning strike and it's been hitting the earth all my life. I will not destroy myself, that just doesn't seem worthwhile.
2.
Luxembourg 04:04
Well the Luxembourg ladies have all gone to sleep and the sun it commences to rising. And the girls on the train have appointments to keep and the young men are smoking and sighing. And the train leaves the station you're sleeping between cars nothing to say And the train leaves the station your head on your rucksack racing away And the rooftops in town look like fall-colored leaves and the road leading down there is winding. The sea at your feet makes the beer go down smooth and the sand in your shoes is reminding You that you're leaving just here for awhile fading away. And the train leaves the station you're not coming back never to this place again.
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Lay it Down 04:32
I can't feel the pain, but I know that it's there all the same. When will you learn fire's not the only thing that burns. There's love in your heart (love inside your heart, it's part) There's love and that's somewhere you can start. That noise is just the past (noise is just the past at last) Trying to block that which will last. Lay it down, lay it down on me. Lay it down on me. You know you can't pretend (you know you can't pretend it ends) that everything we've built up will end. But these monuments (but these monuments aren't sent) don't stop when you come to a fence. Lay it down, lay it down on me. Lay it down on me. We all go on and on (all go on and on and on) Everyone you've lost isn't gone. We're electricity (electricity aren't we) What did you think we would be?
4.
I can see you shoving off I don't remember teaching those knots Like Luke maybe you'll wake to find yourself one night In the dark sea beneath a volcano blooming bright. It's the season, I can feel it, for wandering You're just getting your elbows, just getting your knees Like Luke you'll pass Gibraltar on your way to Morocco If you see pirates, just remember to sing it: Blow Wind Blow
5.
April 03:16
April don't come and she never will she's taking her time and she's taking pills it's the loneliness that she just can't bear because falling in love is exactly like falling down stairs you'll know when you're there. A cardinal alights on a maple tree and I cannot help thinking it came for me it's crazy thinking that everyone has their own redbird, I cannot be the only one standing in the sun. Ultimately that's the better way cause all of the things that you think and say build towers that reach up into the sky part sunlight part starlight part galaxy, all by and by; all by and by.
6.
Beech Trees 04:34
What I want is what I have not when I was in the past Keep it here, keep it now don't want to bend, don't want to bow What I did was tell you girl it isn't right, it's just my world And the beech trees are the last the last to lose their leaves but when they do it happens fast. It's brittle and unbound my guards are all let down and the birds don't make a sound. Everyone that I knew it wasn't me, it wasn't you Alien in their speech in their eyes and in their reach We've gotta run, gotta move so much to gain, nothing to lose. And the beech trees are the last the last to lose their leaves but when they do it happens fast. This night has such a glow the moonlight on the snow on the shoulders of the crow The last night we're alive if we can go for a drive perhaps it just won't arrive.
7.
The Highline 04:01
I walked the Highline in a miserable heat wearing shoes that were one size too small for my feet I think it's Manhattan, it threads through the city. Lay in the Mediterranean in my clothes a week or two earlier and I might have froze it's nice in the springtime, with bottles of beer. Slept under the el if only for a night after drinking and playing at the Fireside a crowded apartment, south side of Chicago. Bought some weed in Jamaica right out the loo asked him how did he spot me, "the beard and tattoo" I won't bring it down there, just get it in the airport. I had a schoolbus and drove it into the ground it blew up in St. Louis you should have heard the sound we were tired of fighting, and now we are friends again. Disposable cameras are what Mark prefers turned around for balloons it really was absurd and all I can do dear, is sing from the heart darling these stories are just a start.

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50 recorded and mixed by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air
Mastered by Ben Rogers at Loud Sun
Artwork by Polina Soloveichik

available on cassette from Sophomore Lounge Records & Tapes
sophomoreloungerecords.com/50.html

all songs written, arranged, and performed by Eric Gagne

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released April 11, 2014

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Footings Peterborough, New Hampshire

Footings is an American rock band formed in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in 2012. Footings is a vehicle for the songs of Eric Gagne, often in performance with Jordan Holtz, Candace Clement, and Mia Govoni.

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