hopefiend

from short wave blues by CraZyFranK

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"This track began in the room of my childhood in Norwell where Louisa May Alcott spent summers in the age of Victorian Haunts.
The song found its way to the Shed of Black Pond infamy and finally to the white room by the sea. The sounds that came to be lived in my head;
But were brought to fruition by G. merrick's assistance & ability to nurture collaboration for collaborative sake. Essentially, this was drawn from growing
up next to a funeral home.
Countless times, inside people would grieve for the dead but for myself and the local children this was not our experience. No, we immersed ourselves and played in the physical remains of carnations that poured out of the back of the hearse drowning us from view. In the midst of death, the children knew only what would eventually become the hopefiend."

lyrics

A thirst to share
in that unfathomable pool.
Parched and quenched,
a thirst so blue.
In and endless swim
I took with you....
Off to see the hope fiend
We will talk for hours
And steal all the flowers
From every funeral home
We will live to outgrow
Dodging fables
And witches brew.
Climbing buildings
Just to catch a view.
Off to see the hope fiend
Hope fiend has the code
To redial the infant phone
The only place a nomadic
Heart blood can flow
From the broken booth vessel
Down below
Scratching at the graves
Of those we thought we knew.
Enough to escape the shiver
Of a lactose intolerant,
Homogeneous zoo.
This thirst is drenched,
But now I am dry.
From the endless swim
I took with you. ☫☪

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from short wave blues, track released October 30, 2011
Justin Paige, Gregory Merrick

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CraZyFranK Boston, Massachusetts

CraZyFranK is a timeless, nostalgia evoking , always experimental , surrealistic , emotionally provocative , enigmatic , hard , soft , warm , cool , just , truthful , envelope cutting , Lo-Fi , Hi-Fi , brazen , subtle , challenging, all these things yet defy any true label, because it comes down to the individual subjectivity that is always brought forth by the listener if they choose to listen. ... more

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