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A Vase Full of Flowers

by Festiva

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vinnythebigfan Wow Carver, this is incredible! Miss you. Favorite track: St. Peter's Village.
annie dodson
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annie dodson the words are so good, these rock so hard, never ever stop carver!!!! Favorite track: A Tired and Irritated Protest Song.
Aidan Mitchell
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Aidan Mitchell we're all sick of being inside but this music will make you remember what being outside felt like, with all of the heat and angst and love. some of the best-sounding carver music yet. Favorite track: Like A Medicine.
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1.
well I like summer when it rains a jewelry box for all our pain its like a medicine I take it every day in the dark and I liked you in a flower dress with your garden shoes and your face a mess its like a medicine to take a walk with you in the park there on matlack in the sun I swore it was as good as done and maybe you could feel me growing stiff and there in jakes a haze of smoke I couldn’t here you when you spoke and maybe you could feel me growing small and I call Matt from City ave he knows we’re late and strapped for cash its like a medicine to smoke a pack of ports on the stoop and I like summer when it shines when Philly really shows its grime its like a medicine to bum a bum a port in the park and there we were on Cecil B. I could’t hear what you said to me thought maybe I was going sorta deaf and there we were at twelve steps down I couldn’t see what you had found and maybe its much better that I left well I like spring when it likes me the city had it’s charms it seems its like a medicine to think about that time as we were and I liked to drive to maine from there or really drive to anywhere its like a medicine to let the wind hit me in the face there on matlack in the sun I swore it was as good as done and maybe you could see me fade away and there we were on Cecil B. When I finally heard what you said to me thought it made me really wish I was going deaf
2.
well if it started when we met in the stairwell then it ended when I left that show back onto wharton st and south eighteenth though at the time I didn’t know and if I wanted to become a new person I know where they hides the key though the light in those woods grows thin and pale since 2017 and in the back of saint peters village there is a house thats made of sticks and I used to know the people there yeah I used to know those kids floating body in the water god please come and claim your daughter sir are these your cans of twisted tea? freezing body in the graveyard cops please come and claim the wayward do you want to tell use what you eat? well if it started when I got to our building then it ended up with me on the floor though to tell you the truth all that stuff is a blur I wish that I’d wanted more and if I tried to be up in the morning then I’d be falling with the sun every time through red and green, like nicotine way out behind the tide and if I float when I fall in the river then let it carry me out to sea though the water there grows awful cold since 2017 call a car for the folks we invited tell the rest to all get lost I’ve got a date in mind for when I’ve got time besides the time it’s cost floating body in the water god please come and claim your daughter sir are these your cans of twisted tea? freezing body in the graveyard cops please come and claim the wayward do you want to tell use what you eat?
3.
where is my money I’m self employed and I haven’t had a job in a month and every day I’m closer to running out of food eat potatoes in the graveyard for brunch and I dont think im gonna see a red cent no I really dont think I will got a letter from the IRS the other day but it wasn’t my check, it was a bill oh but jokes on them I cant pay Im all tapped out at least till may and then they’ll say I owe them even more and I cant work cause its not safe I wear a mask though anyway when I have to go to the store and where are my friends they’re all inside exactly where they’re suposed to be if I have to see another fucking protest sign I will drop kick my TV oh and where is my money I’m self employed and cant employ myself And the Russian revolution sorta sounds mighty fine Cause no one in power wants to help oh and jokes on us there is no plan the people we elected couldn’t give a damn they’ll be fine, yeah they wont feel the loss and I talk shit but raise no hell cause I cant help people from a prison cell and even I’ll admit, I like my boss.
4.
I take an umbrella when the sky is grey have two more dollars then yesterday matching my stride to you my lord won’t you walk with me a little longer? I measure it like a counterweight put my blindfold on when its time to pray a call’s been placed to you, my god won’t you talk with me a little longer? and death is a man with a broken heart got a long way to go but a good head start and he follows me and he’ll always say won’t you walk with me a little longer and Ive got grace but he has style Ill meet him once, in a good long while and shake the hand rising from the grave wont you sit with me a little longer? love in person makes this worth it faced with blackness keep a little wind at your back just for practice so important baby’s perfect still just ashes dust to dust for all of us exactly how they planned it
5.
well my love has a pawn shop ferrari and they buy all their clothes at the mall and every day I feel so sorry I cant afford to buy new things at all and my love has a diamond connection they wear five rings for each of their hands and If I dont get this infection I’ll go knock on their door see if there’s any more I love them so but I cannot give them any more I know you know we have both been here before oh baby please understand I am out of IOUs out of my hands lord I give it up to you well my love has an infinite temper they thrash in the seat of my car and frequently I cannot remember who I used to be or where we are and my love has the most perfect body entirely made of blown glass and I do my best to tread lightly all my nightmares the same fragile crash and in the right light they’re an angel though thats true for most people I know pretend you’re an innocent stranger you cannot look away but you also cant stay
6.
i started your book on a thursday in may I finished it in october, the first frost and between the pages thought I heard someone say aren’t you tired of writing those old songs and if I could go back in time I’d try to be stronger and if I can’t love you better can I please love you longer and I fell asleep with the candle beside her and God if you cant make me better can you please make me kinder and we cut the record on a Sunday in maine sold out half price at the show and the tulip bulbs you got me are still sitting in my drawer I want to plant them when there’s no more snow and if I could go back in time I’d try to be stronger and if I can’t love you better can I please love you longer and I fell asleep with the candle beside her and God if you cant make me better can you please make me kinder
7.
its time to go i want to leave and besides my dear I think you parked illegally go get your coat I have your keys Im beginning to think this job just isn’t meant for me and I wanted to grow old with you but you aren’t getting any older and I want to have your kids some day but your crying on my shoulder and there are folks with expertise just sitting by their phones I’ll kiss you lover, one last time take one more for the road I need a box for all my shit you can keep that polaroid I cannot look at it I need a ride to the new house I won’t be right until I can iron all these wrinkles out and I want to grow old with you but you aren’t getting older and I want to have kids some day but your crying on my shoulder and there are folks with expertise just sitting by their phones I’ll kiss you lover, one last time take one more for the road and I wanted to live life with you but you don’t live for yourself and I gave more of my love to you you still would not get help and there are folks who’d love to be exactly what you need I’ll kissed you once, already but now you have to leave

about

Hi Everyone,

What a crazy year it's been.
I miss my family, I miss my friends.
I miss sunnier times when I felt like I knew what was coming.
I didn't, just so we're clear, but I thought I did.

This album is about feeling older than you are.

My best friend wrote the lyrics for track 6. Their music is here.
(rorystrong.bandcamp.com)

When we get to the other side, you'll find me in my straight-leg britches
with a box-back coat and a Stetson hat.
And a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain, So you can let all the boys know I returned standing pat.

<3

(if u can't afford the album, email me!)

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released April 30, 2020

Rory Strong - Lyrics for Into the Void
Noah Grenier-Farwell - Sample for St. Peter's Village
Niki Taylor - Album art photo (chirophelia.com)
Olivia Leary - Album art sketch

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Festiva Portland, Maine

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avery - lead guit.
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