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Our Hips Clung Tight to the Bassline

from The Rehearsal Tapes: fall 2017 by Erik Bleich

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We met inside a laser beam in a hazy dream
And the light was surrounding
Like a river abounding
And our hearts were pounding in time
With the rhythm of the drum
But our hips clung tight to the bassline
With the rhythm of the drum
But our hips clung tight to the bass
You want to get out of this place?
We can make our own sound
Shuffling with these rain-slicked
Shimmering city sidewalks
Let the percolating conversation
Ping off every subway station
It's getting late.

And you smoke cigarettes
Tell me all your fears
I'll tell you all my fears
And we'll remind each other why we're here
We'll live with our regrets
'cause they haven't caught up yet
They haven't taught us yet

Had I known it'd end this way
I'd have done the same
I'd have done the same
I'd have done the same crazy things
'cause you never really understand
What we have
'till we're looking back
And you can see the line where they wave rolled back
But the wave lives on in every song
In every word, in every rhyme
And you can go back and visit when you got the time
And the ones you loved they don't exist
They can't survive outside the lines
And some didn't make it and some didn't try
And some left their bodies
And some left their minds
Their ghosts don't haunt me
Though I see them floating around from time to time...

When you smoked cigarettes...

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from The Rehearsal Tapes: fall 2017, released September 21, 2017
(E. Bleich)

Guitar/shaker/vocals: Erik Bleich
Accordion/trumpet/glockenspiel/vocals: Tristan Murphy
Violin/vocals: Cassie Norton

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Erik Bleich Toronto, Ontario

Seeking to find a place between what can sometimes feel like opposing worlds, singer/songwriter Erik Bleich creates street-lit lullabies & manic, rambling romps that wander the side streets between rural isolation and metropolitan congestion.

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