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California Memory

by The Douglas Fir

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1.
Brand New Dress - The Douglas Fir Fake your way to the front of the line And forget about all those friends that you have left behind Break away from this fate you’ve self-designed Arguing with you makes me feel like I’m alive Buy yourself a brand new dress Buy yourself a new old coat Buy yourself a brand new dress That’s something that you’ll never outgrow Complicate the simplest day of the week You’re a dramatized dress rehearsal of the future bleak Day of wine, lullaby yourself to sleep I misinterpret everything that you repeat Buy yourself a brand new dress Buy yourself a new old coat Buy yourself a brand new dress That’s something that you’ll never outgrow I said please, don’t you ever outgrow Unlike me, yea you’ll never outgrow
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California Memory - The Douglas Fir On the first that she arrived in town they all started staring Black raven’s hair that looked like licorice was what she was wearing And with a fist full of fright and a temper electric She candlelit up the room and commanded all our attention A California memory is all that you will ever be Someday you’ll fall into the sea in California, memory... With her bags unpacked she settled down near Lake Silver And all the copycat kids strayed right to her And with a soundtrack out of time the silent movie moved her This town grew cold, she had a frostbitten sunburn to prove it Your California memory is all that you’ll have left of me And someday you’ll come back you see, In California, a memory
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How Soon Should I Let You Go - The Douglas Fir How soon should I let you go? Get yourself together my friend Get yourself together again my friend This time you ought to know Don’t disguise your disappearance again Don’t disguise your disappearance again my friend This time you ought to show How soon should I let you go? You’ve lost your composure again You’ve lost your composure again my friend This time you should have known Like a Polaroid you fade in the end Too much overexposure again my friend This time it’s going to show The truth you’ve been seeking The lies you’ve been told The life you’ve been leading With eyes halfway closed The truth is deceiving Come in from the cold Entangled forever, together alone
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Daylight 03:22
Daylight - The Douglas Fir Everyone gets laid off in daylight Everyone gets laid off in sunshine With the view unseen I’ll remain close But her continental lash left me feeling lachrymose Everyone gets laid off in sunshine Everyone gets laid off in daytime In the view I see you’re overexposed Afraid of what you might see now that things are juxtaposed You’re using me with my eyes unclosed She said “I just want to sleep alone, although I’m alone” If you could complete me our life’s lie would be grandiose And I would be completely overwhelmed but we both know Stop using me with my eyes unclosed She said “I just want to sleep alone, although I’m alone”
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Mervue 03:21
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I Know That You Don't - The Douglas Fir When you go back over everything Don’t you know that I never meant those things Was it too much, too soon, did we rush in? Right before my eyes you are vanishing We met last summer, after years of trainspotting I felt like I’d known you forever, and a century Long days together, bound tight, joined inseparably We star in our own silent film, no need to say anything I know that you don’t miss me now I know that you don’t In winter’s arms you tremble with anxiety And forget last summer as the cold creeps in quietly With glycerin tears I look away and apologize And watch my honor escape on the wind that blows through terrified
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Excuse Me 03:09
Excuse Me - The Douglas Fir She never owned a phone The television broken Her record player skipped The needle danced across her favorite b-sides and singles A flat tire on her bicycle built for two Days she complained and filed this formal complaint Excuse me I don’t hear a word that you say Your voice drowns all sound Can you whisper, I’m afraid? She never flew alone She was afraid of heights when solo Current whereabouts unknown They lost the trace the lead went cold Somewhere over Tokyo Or maybe on the Continental Divide By all your lies, subtract the truth, then multiply Excuse me I don’t hear a word that you say Your voice drowns all sound Can you whisper, I’m afraid... And if I run away please don’t give chase or say anything And like John Cusack said, I won’t “say anything” Toulouse you lose at the Moulin Rouge Hide your drink inside your cane You bid farewell to the old fool As the watercolors wash away
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Lucy 04:20
Lucy - The Douglas Fir Lucy come quickly, someone’s on the phone It’s America, she’s hysterical Isolated, my forgotten home We fight in full collide And sight unseen, I follow We fight and forget why And where we’ve been, I don’t know If you lose me you will soon see That I was never one to roam We’re caught in a tailspin A backwards Cheshire grin Forget the money, let’s call it a loan We fight in full collide And sight unseen, I follow We fight and forget why And where you’ve been, I don’t know I give you everything that you want I give you everything that you need I give you everything that you want from me
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In Case of Emergency - The Douglas Fir Sometimes I fear fright When you yell I run away With wings clipped I still take flight With hands tied I still escape In case of emergency In case I emerge and see What we’ve become no longer suits me In case of emergency
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At the Moment I'm Torn - The Douglas Fir At the moment I’m torn My tongue grows tired from asking too much At the moment I’m torn And when you run, I don’t follow with heart Wipe the drive, a bulk erase of the heart All evidence of you and I is now considered lost On that day when you leave My heart grows tired from asking too proud On that day you deceive And when you run, I won’t follow with heart Left of the dial, I tuned in right from the start Your Midwest smile, it always missed the mark And with the rain you lose your way And if the rain should lose its way, oh so slowly...
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Alamo Square Hill - The Douglas Fir When the day winds down And night falls on Fillmore and Grove As dusk drowns sound You climb the hill to that place where you go Alamo Square Hill All alone Whispered secrets from cypress trees The sound of shadows echo in your favorite place San Francisco she sleeps below I miss that freckle on your face Alamo Square Hill All alone

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released September 16, 2016

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The Douglas Fir San Francisco, California

The Douglas Fir's new album "California Memory" was mixed by Brad Wood (Liz Phair, Pete Yorn, Sunny Day Real Estate). The band's moody-pop songs have garnered praise in Magnet Magazine, Village Voice, Boston Globe, The Big Takeover, and the band has shared the stage with Metric, Pinback, Rob Dickinson (Catherine Wheel), Pernice Brothers, The Church, Grant Lee Phillips, The Wrens and many more. ... more

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