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Pretty One 07:32
Oh, my baby Pretty one Throwing dahlias in the creek Break all your plates for me Braid all your sweet names for me Oh, my baby Oh, my girl Tell me something I don't know Break all your plates for me Braid all your sweet names for me And paint your toenails for me
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I was a horse I run up that hill I was a horse I run up that hill He's my one true love On the other side Take me away And build me a home Take me away And build me a home My lover's gone Down beyond the sun I will see you I will see you See you See you There I will see you I will see you See you See you There On that other shore My one true love God is a man Holy in word God is a man Holy in word He broke my back When he took you over there I will see you I will see you See you See you There I will see you I will see you See you See you There On that other shore My one true love On that other shore My one true love On that other shore My one true love On that other shore My one true love
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Lay with me like I was your wife I give you the part of me I save for myself See the herds with their lolling tongues Something righteous, heavy in their throats I want you to praise him Oh yea, that's right, baby Raise your arms to heaven The one true lord When I'm with you, heaven smiles down Crocuses are bursting through the soil Form the words with your pretty mouth Broken hymnals rise up like steam I want you to praise him Oh yea, that's right, baby Raise your arms to heaven The one true lord Gonna get good and liquored up Spit the fire back in his throat
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In the Pines 11:14
My girl, my girl Don't lie to me Tell me Where did you sleep last night? In the pines In the pines Where the sun don't ever shine I'll shiver the whole night through
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“Basically this album is about being in love, old American music, and Jesus. I wrote it while living in upstate New York this summer and while rehearsing in an old horse barn. I think the exemplary line from the record is 'When I’m with you, heaven smiles down - crocuses are bursting through the soil.' Seeing the world as an enchanted/religious/blessed place, feeling good, summer baptisms, laying with a naked person in a too-small twin bed, the smell of grass, entertaining the notion of a creator with no notion of the devil, edenic, a feeling of living in multiple time periods at once (the feeling of talking on a cell phone in a field unchanged for centuries, using a language that is new but somehow remembered), the guitar as if it grew out of the earth like a root vegetable, my voice like it fell sun ripened from a tree.”

Written while in residence at the Wassaic Project, August 2012.

Recorded live with no overdubs in the course of a single afternoon.

This is the final record in the "NEW ________" series, see NEW SPACE and NEW MUSIC.

For more info, see www.benseretan.com

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released November 16, 2012

Engineering, production, mastering all by Tom Tierney of Spaceman Sound in Brooklyn, New York.
All written by Ben Seretan, except for "In the Pines," a traditional.
All performed by Ben Seretan
Album art painting detail by Jessica Sugerman.
Thanks to Alex Baron for use of his boombox.
Thanks to Reid Bingham for the backup boombox.
Thanks to Asa Horvitz, as ever, for use of his guitar.
Thanks to Benedict and Alex Lewis.
Thanks to A.C., the pretty one
Thanks to J.K.
And Thank You for listening

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