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The Glass Mirage

by Ride Til Dawn

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1.
A turn for good was all it said Understood, the day beat on me And knocked me down and out to sleep To the sun drawn spaces in between There she stood out in the street In the dirt torn heat, out in the street I hardly could, I hardly can I hardly would begin to understand Oh, when you feel it Gotta get your love from me Strong from believing Long come from the sea The words like waves sang on the line That drew between the knowing and the time As burning wood begins to shake Her fire-eyes light upon me Oh, when you feel it Gotta get your love from me Strong from believing Long come from the sea Woken up the thought beneath Her face it fades in fiery heat The sea, the sky, bright steam behind In memory’s mind: the drowning of an eye Oh, when you feel it Gotta get your love from me Strong from believing Long come from the sea
2.
The Graduate 02:28
You know you got a long, long way to go Even though the years begin to show Well ok it’s alright Alright You know you got to sell to get ahead You know you got to wake and make your bed Well ok it’s alright Yeah, yeah, yeah Stay with me Ok One more time On time And if I tell you that I love you oh oh Would you whisper in my ear? No not here But it’s clear, right? Just not here Someone’s gonna show you how to live Show you just what you got to give Well, ok It's alright Yeah, yeah, yeah Stay with me, ok One more time On time
3.
Like A Stone 03:19
Oh, you’ve got a style that turns the eye It's with me all the time so I've got to try You don’t believe in home That feeling’s like a stone Remember how the summer made it known? But now it’s gone Sift through sand and whine that I can’t find A love to lead my mind so I've got to try You don’t believe in home That feeling’s like a stone Remember how the summer made it known? But now it’s gone
4.
Rippling wind twisting street signs Drift on through, slip on by I’ve got a friend drowning somewhere Under the ice seen in his eyes Oh, it won’t be long Where to we belong? Whistling lungs heaving sideways Turning blue, gray and white Gimme a tune that I can write to Lay on a song making it right Oh, it won’t be long Our little song
5.
Fruit Flies 03:29
Fruit flies with eyes like depots With shores from brown to gray With weeds of black tobacco ‘Round deep and joyous lakes Come in to the welcome warmth: the womb, the darkened bar The spinning screen decides it's never all that far Sunk deep within the fabric Stains break across his teeth With words repeating patterns That spell a losing streak Guitars screaming out in ragged harmony Left loose to choose he’d lose to liquid sympathy When winter winds confine him And bars against the door The space that molars grind Comes stumbling up the floor When you’re on your own, your own’s the only kind The kind who knows your own, the kind who know your mind
6.
Light a half-smoked cigarette Never believe in full a thought passed through my head Standing in wait for the glass mirage It’s always there, babe, but it’s always far Break on through, break on through Ah, some other shifted lie Moved beyond to rest in state of no reply Standing in wait for the glass mirage It's always near, babe, but it’s always far Break on through, break on through Tighten up your alibis Loosen truths for everybody’s eyes Now that you’ve seen me alone in my head I can still breathe, babe, I can still express Express to you, express to you Yeah, when I saw you looking my way Oh, how I knew, babe, I could not mistake Ooh, how can I express to you? Through the glass mirage, through the glass mirage
7.
Here Tonight 03:28
It's ten PM and I should have made the road tonight The moon was out and the clouds came in and took it's light My suitcase is over there somehow I just don't care Cause I don't want to be anywhere but right here tonight The rains came down and I should have made an early plane Where I'd rather be if it can't be seen then I can't explain It's so warm in here and I want to hold you near And there is no pain or fear right here tonight With tomorrow's dawn I will carry on what I've set aside It's not a matter of my faith or of my pride It just seems so insane to strike out in the rain When it's so easy to remain right here tonight
8.
It took about an hour Just to work up the nerve to call I can feel it coming Your voice will light along the wire It feels like ‘ooh, ooh baby’ Ooh, ooh baby Take my hand, take it Don't lean up on it wrong, babe Listen here, ‘cause I'll let you in I've known it for forever Just wait while I tell, ya I’ll tell ya ooh, ooh baby Ooh, ooh baby See my plan, make it Make it all work out Making it look better Step down to the bar crowd Love it is around me When I can see past the shadows It feels like ‘ooh, ooh baby’ Ooh, ooh baby Learn to stand, stand on Stand on my own
9.
One hundred years from this day Will the people still feel this way Still say the things that they're sayin' right now Everyone said I hurt you, They said that I desert you If I go away, You know I'm going to get back somehow Nobody knows what kind of trouble there is Nobody seems to think it all might happen again One hundred years from this time Would anybody change their minds And find out one thing or two about life But people are always talking You know they're always talking Everybody's so wrong That I know it's gonna work out fine Nobody knows what kind of trouble there is Nobody seems to think it all might happen again
10.
Yesterday I didn’t even want to see their faces Now today I don’t care to see what this place is ‘Cause I know where I’m going ‘Cause it’s where I've been Lived-in skin, lived-in skin Over and over Now the days move so fast they hardly seem in motion Running down, stumbling now on a rush of emotion And the wind’s blowing harder So, I duck down my head Wind stings red, wind stings red Over and over If I may suggest a thought before I'll be leaving Take away what you need so you won’t be repeating ‘Cause I know where I'm going ‘Cause it’s where I've been Lived-in skin, lived-in skin Over and over

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"Glass Mirage taps into a tradition of abiding charm that feels so salutary to the present. Comfort sounds for harsh times, flowing smoothly, full of finger-picked gentleness, earthy amiability and slide caresses. A heart-warming gem."
-Camilla Aisa, Shindig! Magazine (UK)

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released March 31, 2020

All songs written by Mitch Grier ©℗ 2020, except "Here Tonight" by Gene Clark & "One Hundred Years" by Gram Parsons.

Produced by Clayton Linthicum.

Mitch Grier: Lead Vocals, Rhythm Guitar
Fraser Baalim: Bass
Greg Reese: Drums, Backing Vocals, Percussion
Mitch Davies: Lead Guitar
Lucas Goetz: Pedal Steel, Organ, Piano, Backing Vocals, Percussion

Recorded in January 2019 at Ghetto Box Studio, Saskatoon, SK.
Mixed and Engineered by Barrett Ross & Clayton Linthicum.
Mastered by Eric Broyhill at MonsterLab Audio, Stockholm, Sweden.
Artwork by Benjamin Hettinga.
Photos by Brook Byrns.

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