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A Procession of Dreams (2014)

by Phil Smith & Corsage

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From Earth to Heaven With A Smile I The seasons, they go round and round one by one in a line a mummified magnificence where all we feel we can’t define and one by one we’re heaven-sent grief-stricken vows across the miles as a hand reaches down a hand to raise you from earth to heaven with a smile from earth to heaven with a smile II Oh, it’s hard to free your head from such a busy time spoon-fed, force-fed, rammed down the throat, led-dead, nothing to do but all fall in line but all the while I’ve been waiting for the cosmic phone on which we dial a prayer sent out a message received from earth to heaven with a smile from earth to heaven with a smile III Well, I could tell you stories of countless griefs of so many people crawling along like their hands are tied behind their backs to their feet… but still each morning they wake up and they wonder what’s going to come down and they walk in the sunset walk by the seaside walking down to the old part of town at the Judgement Gate they’re waiting, creating all their secret trials when a hand comes down a hand to raise them from earth to heaven with a smile from earth to heaven with a smile IV It’s a fortress mentality close the ranks and join the pack and pile up the sandbags so high combat boots and hard-hat helmets and bulletproof glass enclosing the sky and we brick up the windows and we plastic up all the vents surround ourselves behind the safety of a cast-iron white picket fence but then one day the doors all open and they’re coming to the light after a while and a million hearts and a million hands sing from earth to heaven with a smile from earth to heaven with a smile
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It All Slips Away so lush and the leaves so green one day it stays like this and then it all slips away It all slips away It all slips away It all slips away hold on hold on our love is leaving so sad to see it go our love is leaving I didn’t even know (I didn’t even know) as it just all slipped away… It all slips away It all slips away It all slips away he could feel that world slipping away the house green with the vines and leaves coming down situated at the back of a large garden with a different kind of light it was a world that was ending he could feel it receding… It all slips away It all slips away It all slips away and once again it all slips away….
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As I Must Leave You I have seen your soul before me I’ve been trying to waste away hurt so bad thought you knew me knew that I had nothing left to say I have been alone too long I’ve got a reason to sing this song: these are the reasons I was given I had nothing left to say I hurt you - you came with me these are the reasons we're still here today come back tomorrow please make me stay you got something for me please don’t take it away hurt me so softly you heard what I meant to say these are the reasons I’m still here today I tried to believe you I tried to be kind everything is left behind that’s what you said when you changed your mind I got three reasons each one’s as good as the next I list each one in order I don’t expect that you’ll object as I must leave you please let me go It’s not a choice I made easily but it’s the only choice I know cause I must leave you I must be gone it’s taken four minutes there’s one minute left then I’ll be gone I said I was sorry I said I was wrong but now I must leave you now I’ll be gone in the early morning light early morning light let me go let me go as I must leave you won't you let me go....
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Life Goes On (Without You) You left me you said that I was no good upset me like you knew you would but does the sun stop shining ? no! does the stock market crash? And though you tried in vain to cause me deepest pain life goes on without you life goes on without you life goes on without you Unspoken I had all I could stand unbroken I’m doing the best I can cause does the rain quit falling? no! do the seasons stop ? And though you tried in vain to cause me deepest pain life goes on without you life goes on without you life goes on without you, oh... do the tides stop turning? no! do the heavens shake ? And though you tried in vain to cause me deepest pain life goes on without you life goes on without you life goes on without you.
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Coda no more sleep no, sleep must not come these tired branches these wasted legions firefly dancing in the heat of the night now is the time when precise rhythms begin to flow out of one and all dizzying inexplicable an ever-changing shift of moods an ever-changing shift of colors bounteous night oh bounteous night! a procession of dreams a mixture of heavens a procession of dreams a mixture of heavens a procession of dreams a mixture of heavens from earth to heaven with a smile from earth to heaven with a smile

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released November 22, 2014

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Phil Smith & Corsage Vancouver, British Columbia

Emerging out of Vancouver during the post-punk era, the musical collective Corsage features the core group of Phil Smith (vocals), Bill Napier-Hemy (guitar), Ron Allan (bass) and John Cody (drums). Over 7 albums and numerous live performances and broadcasts, they have collaborated with some of Vancouver's finest musical and artistic talents on songs that run from trance to hard pop to techno-folk. ... more

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