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Blonde + Blue

by Bike Path

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1.
Desire Lines 04:27
desire lines a green path we both imply you’re a sugared smile in knee-highs so I’ll make some air for a Gemini pale to the touch apple, butterscotch we’ve all been hurt to some degree everything’s been built on trust so take off your clothes and share your scars with me tell me everything so slow how can we breathe forever? “I can be anything” motioning get-close-to-me can you guess what I’m thinking of? it’s cooling off outside this daylight’s burning off a tent’s a damn good place to hide when my heart’s racing and our time is up so we make our way to sleep you’re looking up at me your eyes are telling me something you can’t hide that honesty and I wonder if you’ve always known how this night is going to go yeah, I wonder… “I can be anything” laughingly, you half-agree “don’t you dare fall for me”
2.
Majesty 03:13
I’ve been spending most of my time alone and I’ve been sweating through my sheets and drinking at home if I told you I was doing better you could call me a liar I am letting go now I keep daydreaming of sleep we’re all liars we all make mistakes we go on living hidden in commonplace (they’ll never find me here) as the stars unfold their majesty we hang like paper cranes, suspended I’ve been building bridges just to knock them down windows haunted by reflections I’m losing ground
3.
New Moon 01:24
in the treetop mezzanine by chance, an opening for a new moon oh, speak to me our words are weaving our breathing oh, be sweet to me it's so sweet to be sweet to you to you, to you
4.
“lighten up” you told me I’m bright enough to know we all love slow but I’m not sure if the world is capable of loving anything in good health, beyond it’s worth you keep my eyes in hold you’re green and gold with your feet in the dirt so I’ve finally gone out on a limb in the hopes that I could breathe something a little more sweet reaching up in threes, and as simple as I want to be a nest of robins in her hair do you know what you really want? (poems are lived everywhere) I’ve got a perfect view blonde and blue the sky and the earth
5.
frame this mess I made the dyes are bleeding into indigo lakes drown my hazy view with your red lipstick and forget-me-not blues anything can feel new any day a sense I can’t outrun the dyes are bleeding my heart has been undone paint me a bed where I can relax and your eyes can become my suns now anywhere can be just a day away I’m seeing violet for the first time we spend months collecting dust on top of our bedsheets the faucet is dripping the window breaks the iron rusts birds, they get in but they don’t see us they’ll never find us here in stained glass buildings we’re away in frames of Monet Mucha prints Debussy scores we’re greenhouse explorers
6.
Moonlight 06:33
I’ve been thinking to you, out loud “how far do you think Missouri stretches out?” it’s just too big I can’t picture it how can our hearts outgrow our homes? can you imagine the lives that have passed? the people that I’ve loved moved on so fast redelivered by times endless river silhouettes in traced moonlight holding back her smile she shines in gold ink haloed in blue she’s laughing at me I know she means, she says, “it’s okay to leave…” “…it’s all home-to-be”
7.
Perfect Pace 05:13
well I’m burning slow you’re messing with fire talking Boxcar I swore I’d never chase but in this case, well it’s written out nobody knows well it’s all energy and history with the lights turned down I can drown in the sound and I’m nervous again ‘cause I’m an old soul but I’ve but got a new heart it’s taken me a generation just to figure out that I’m the one that’s been tearing me apart it’s etched into our spines with perfect pace in varied time I’m the one that’s been killing me I can handle it I’m made for this 1-2-3-4 your back’s against the bathroom door smoothest saline wrapped around me we had nothing I’m slow burning, oh you’re sucking on fire getting higher I would never, I swore I’d never but this time it’s written out
8.
Saints 04:35
before crooked souls stole away god there were patient men fountains of trust without names and I can’t understand how you can take this out on me I’ve always tried to clean my hands when I had the chance what can I do to help you understand? there have always been saints their glory lies in unmarked graves their majesty remains unstained weathered faces soaked by decades of rain pure like soaring cranes hearts of prairie fire on these plains but they never talked shit like you do or hurt people like you need to rivers flow through our aisles and grass grows under our pews we could all be saints
9.
New Stars 01:50
oh you, I do, adieu, Ste. Rue silvering, silvering florally it's a pleasure to meet you formally spin spin, spin spin, spin, pirouette at your seat at the bar spin, spin, pirouette flickering flames new stars we're new stars
10.
zenith and north my spirit was broken I’m headed north to your home in Lincoln and then on and I said “no, no, that’s fine” we lose good men all the time now I’ve got a star to tell me home so I’m dusting off what heart I have left separated every thread and stepped out into the cold the skies are deeper than old heaven’s cracked and over flowing eyes up, hands out take a step to the right spilled out we’re ever-glowing and then night
11.
Ivy + Ink 06:48
ivy and ink I've cut the cord of energy so, familiar, let's get familiar and saturate what it means to be so I dive in Wildlife honest eyes your northern high follow my breathing, repeating dry in burning pine soak in the driest wines of a lantern always setting of a light that's never ending of a heart that's never ending in me I want to tattoo all of my skin so these words can sink into who I am

about

Bike Path is Dan, Josh, Luca, and Sammy. Blonde + Blue was recorded, produced, and mastered by Zagk Gibbons at Loud House Studios and Gaslight Studios. We are also eternally grateful to Zagk for performing the bulk of the drum tracks as we were going through a transition period as a band. We were also very privileged to be able to feature performances by Anne Linders and David Maness.

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released July 13, 2016

Beyond those performing on this record, we would also like to thank our families, Jake Snyder, Kirin and Patches (Constant Cocoon), Adam and Mitch and everyone involved with Barnfest, Sarah Souders Photography, Mike and Encapsulated Studios, Ursa Major, Lobby Boxer, Smooth Talkin’ Perverts, LifeWithout, Sleeping Cranes, all of our other brother and sister bands from St. Louis and beyond, Mike, Shaquille Joe’Neal, Joebe Bryant, Juli, Victoria, Olivia, Lauren, Cole, Chris, Gabi, Canaan, all of our loving and supportive friends, the Tulane crew who never complained about our practices being way too loud, anybody who ever threw a basement show, and anybody who ever sang along despite not knowing the words, cheap beer and Mario Kart, but mostly Kingsley the dog.

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