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Maplewood

by Devon Gillingham

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1.
you've gotta promise me you'll stop talking to me look out for yourself be full of great surprises make haste you've gotta promise me you'll stop talking to me look out for yourself maintain stability command your institutions be full of great surprises do i move you have i been you don't you think you'd have noticed by now hurry up now, in a second when you're ready, good and ready to abandon my beliefs don't lose any sleep your behaviour is of great importance shutter speed, often seen in our offices we'll stare knowing you don't see us there you are centered you are grounded you are settled do i move you have i been you don't you think you'd have noticed by now hurry up now, in a second when you're ready, good and ready to abandon my beliefs don't lose any sleep look out for yourself maintain stability command your institutions be full of great surprises on your own
2.
Release Me 02:36
shrug it off release me a bad idea make the obvious choice again and again again shrug it off something you're supposed to be and drink your fools at the bar with all the lights on after a twisted face you said you promised we'd be different then you stared off for a while you turned to me and asked for help and i looked back not knowing what to say not knowing what to say not knowing what to say
3.
look up they're laughing at you do something you'd never do and look back, and laugh why not blame everything on the part of you that no one can see but you know is there all your empty promises never kept, never room for new voices so what's a boy to do, you scream just let me in, just let me in what's a boy to do, you scream just let me in, just let me in tired stranger lay your head back cross-eyed danger give us your support back and you looked at me and you said and you looked at me and you said while all my thoughts turn to red you said, you said i've seen it all before i've never wanted more
4.
what is there to focus on i'll be here and you'll be gone and both of us will carry on i'll think about what i could've said before i went just saying it kind of drunk and well enough alone alone for the afternoon alone - but we'll be back soon enough imagining you are brand new every time you sink intoi too much your own and well enough alone alone for the afternoon alone - but we'll be back soon enough bridges too - you've seen them through i said you've carried - all of your fools so you back down and sink into yourself, enough alone for the afternoon alone - but we'll be back soon enough see you'll stand and fight it off the pieces of together love and face the blame just tired of and face the blame just tired of yourself/enough and face the blame just tired of
5.
Maplewood 06:54
i was running, not far from here and i didn't think, what i did was wrong it was hers, that was what you said so i took my turn, and i ran along what kind of reunion is this and so we found, our way back just lyle and i, thinking we'd pretend that this, is where we are we're just waiting on the street hey lyle welcome home and the water will swallow us whole and i did find you, in the car driving far as far was, saying i was in control and you smiled, so i smiled back we were both just thinking you would see what you thought i could believe so we gave ourselves back to, the water were you surprised, when i couldn't feel my legs i thought that when we walked, you had told me everything i do not, feel in control and yet so much of this seems real, everything to me is real so i'll do my best to kill the water and i did find you in the car, driving far as far as far we shot backwards in the dark what was i led to believe what i've not meant in a while everything i thought was real everything to me is real so i'll do my best to kill the water so i'll do my best to kill the water to celebrate the maplewood will come around you get too excited the maplewood will put you down and please believe that i will never come around you get too excited the maplewood will put you down, some the maplewood will put you down, some the maplewood i look forward to it all the day they'll bring me down like this what i thought was never real maplewood will bring me down like this and i know he'll never come always careful, what he says what i thought was never real maplewood will bring me down like this maplewood will bring me down like this to celebrate the maplewood will come around you get too excited the maplewood will put you down and please believe that i will never come around you get too excited the maplewood will put you down, some the maplewood will put you down the Maplewood will put you down, some
6.
give up yourself try and wait out the questions asked by someone else try and hold on making your quiet judgements open opportunities are sworn and you're passing on and you're passing on hit well your mark avoid direct contact and stay with what you've sworn hit well your mark and hope you can define it when it's time to follow open doors leading you out of here leading you out bleed in this open south hold in your quiet mouth ask, ask give up yourself try and wait out the questions asked by someone else give up yourself talk in your comfort, strangers moving just to sit upon your shelf and lead you out of here and lead you out bleed in this open south hold in your quiet mouth ask, ask
7.
dressed up like an animal that cannot find its own way home looking out at everyone sees that what he did's been done caught up in his own slow rush head in front to stare at us reflection of his own true words in his head is when he heard when he heard everyone here is just like me looking to find what they can see the differences make you believe that everyone here is just like me left alone to leave behind what he said would all be fine and as he walks he'll realize the street are paved with broken lines walking through a crowded room disguised and shown as someone new reflection of his own true words from out there is how he heard how he heard everyone here is just like me looking to find what they can see the differences make you believe that everyone here is just like me
8.
Paper 03:22
what are your ideas and who are they for under clouds of vision you say you wanted more you told us you'd be better this time last year there's no easy way to write this too young to stay asleep and the paper that surrounds you an argument you keep alone with all the lights on taking stock of what you are a runner and a bleeder and a drunk nothing all at once you told us you'd be better this time last year and that you wanted just to stay here when you wake up when you wake up i hear you now, i see you now i hear you now, i see you now
9.
built up in my head two strangers sharing red as the color of their smile but i won't disappoint you you know i never could do enough to stay awhile leave here, save us we are all around you being here, with us nothing that you can do i feel like i'm asleep i'm carrying a dream that i've never had before built up in my head surrounded by people sharing red say they've never wanted more leave here, save us we are all around you being here, with us nothing that you can do oh, i see it coming, i do leave here, save us we are all around you being here, with us nothing that you can do
10.
look at us drinks in hand in groups we stand speaking of loss like it's something we want together now, together proud the clear glass of what we consult and it's our fault look at us alone we stand and hand in hand is just what we say like give it one more day, and i'll have it something to grab on to i know that you feel it too i can't stay for just one drink cause then i'll think i've left unresolved what isn't my fault as i look around and as i look proud of what i don't say to anyone at all and it's our fault that we have it something to grab on to something to put onto you something to grab on to i know that you feel it too

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released December 1, 2021

Music and Lyrics by Devon Gillingham

Produced, Mixed, and Mastered by Lee Meadvin

Devon Gillingham - Guitar, Bass, Piano, Vocals, Organ
Connor Parks - Drums, Percussion
Megan Atchley - Violin
Lee Meadvin - Additional Guitar, Additional Piano, Additional Percussion, Synthesizer, Glockenspiel, Clarinet, Sound Design

Cover Photo & Design by Dallas Wilson

Recorded at Exchange District Studios in Winnipeg, MB
Recording Engineer - Grant Trippel

Drums recorded by Lee Meadvin

Recording made possible with support from the Canada Council for the Arts

2021 Hands-Off Records

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Devon Gillingham Winnipeg, Manitoba

Devon Gillingham is a writer and musician. He currently splits his time between his home town of Winnipeg, Canada, and New York City.

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