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ELOQUENCE

Words and music by J. Rae Perigoe

Hold on there’s something better than this. Something better’s coming soon. Hold on there’s something better than this. Something better’s coming soon. Tomorrow morning your mother will find you hanging from the rafters of your basement flat. The PA will snap me from my sixteen-year-old somnambulism by informing me that my high-school volleyball team has won the district championship and oh, by the way, by the way, your friend took his life last night. Oh. And right now finding pretty witty little rhymes doesn’t seem to matter as much as my guilty uninvolved potential to save your life. Oh my friend, what could I have said? You’re loved. Your life has meaning. Don’t make me hate myself for my clichés. You’re loved. I’m sorry that the words won’t come; I’m not properly rehearsed. You’re loved as you slip into your noose. Don’t punish me for my lack of eloquence. You’re loved. I won’t let you go. No I won’t let you go. Had I taken your call that rainy April night what would I have told you? Would my existentially-racked teenage soul have prattled on about the myth of Sisyphus, intellectualizing everything, as it is safer to do? When in fact the best thing I could not say was two words long? You’re loved…

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from Katie and the Church Basement, released June 15, 2014

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The Human Trampoline Toronto, Ontario

"She means we're bouncing into Graceland." -- Paul Simon
"Katie and the Church Basement" is the debut album from this eclectic folk-rock group, bouncing between the stages of Toronto ON. The album moves from the majestic "Prisoner," to the bluesy Mississippi mud of "Hellhounds," to the carefree, uptempo rock of "Sarah Angeline." Come bouncing with them into Graceland. ... more

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