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The Atlantic Recollection

by Andrew White

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1.
We Rely (free) 02:33
Will you hold my hand on the long walk home? Will you be my friend? Will you be my own? Will you warm me up when I'm getting cold? Will you love me when I'm still getting old? I know you'll do and be all of the above So it's you, my dear, whom I choose to love But that was long ago. My heart's long been sore I just don't think I can be with you anymore You were unrealistic, oh you were so very kind But see nothing lasts forever in a world obsessed with time Everything you love is gone after you blink your eye But it's not God stealing from you; it's Him saving your dear life My muddled mind is clear now after you rearranged My priorities. I will love all you name Save me from this Earth, God. You're all I wanna know She sure did take my heart, but Lord you take my soul
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The Flood (Part 1) (free) 04:03
I didn't know what you were gonna do I didn't want a part of you You see my body and you see the thread You see my house and you see me dead No one knows about the other song I sang to you and you sang along Passion grows until it thaws A tower is built until it falls You didn't wanna see me You didn't wanna see me there Father, Father would you hear me out Didn't need her then, but I need her now No, my boy, you have it upside down The flood, it came, but didn't make a sound Can you hear the river flow Turn the bend and watch it go Follow it until you see The reason she let go of me You didn't wanna see me You didn't wanna see me there
3.
I see how things evolve It'll never get better I see how things evolve It'll never get better No, don't care for me You'll only waste your time I'm dying with the sun Sitting on a good man's dime You say you wanna help So maybe you ought to leave 'Cause I can't care for you When baby you care for me I'm sorry for myself And everything I do My friends exit the hall Going out two by two No, go on ahead I'm only gonna slow you down I say I miss the lake You say we gotta meet the crowd You say you wanna help So maybe you ought to leave 'Cause I can't care for you When baby you care for me I'm living on my own Maybe you remember me Find me on a slope Living in an Alpine tree
4.
See the Sickness (free) 06:55
Either way you look you're looking past me We're not the same, friend, we're not the same anymore You are alone in this world That's not my problem; you looked past my shore Oh, you're out at sea now looking for me I'm a year gone, going the other way I tried to catch your rope as you went by me Your hands were busy, you screamed out, "I was too late!" The sun is beating down upon your skin Your getting burnt friend. Cover up before you die You drink up all the water that's around you You're getting sick now. You pass out face to the sky "Oh, won't you rescue me my love? Come and pick me up." Your words stopped at the stern You waved your hands and called my name I'll be the one to blame 'Cause I will never turn Water's splashing up onto your deck Your getting wet but you don't even know You walk around in circles with your compass I know you're lost and you don't know where to go I tried to steer your boat from a distance And now you're missing my hand upon the wheel You pushed away my hand with loathing I felt it burning through the things I used to feel "Oh, won't you rescue me my love? Come and pick me up." Your words stopped at the stern You waved your hands and called my name I'll be the one to blame 'Cause I will never turn I am so very far away And that's where I'll stay You'll be Captain of your boat You know that this is what you want I'll be forever gone You can now be alone/I hope you are alone
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Forlorn Prophecy (free) 04:36
You don't know me, but I want you to I would do the things that you would do Follow me and maybe you will find Beauty in the meaning of the rhyme You will move on; one day, I will too But think of me and I will think of you Winter is my forlorn prophecy This is where I'll always have to be Darling, would you want to have me here I would care you without the fear Of staying down and living life alone I can help you up and be your home Now I know that I can't be with you Theories of the thought of something new Keep you from the repetitious life Living in the moment and the night
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No need to be fearful It’s just what you get down here Everything is a circle You end up where you appeared "It's all wrong," invading your mind Do you know her anymore? No need for explanations It's been made holy by the Lord It's bad to be forgotten It’s just like you thought it feel Piercing darkness with your thoughts Makes the darkness feel more real In the beauty of illusion I thought you were one of a kind Then my mind came to wander To find it all to be a lie So run Can you stand to be a man? Do you know how to love? When their love has been abandoned Will you, too, say you’ve had enough? Can you keep your well-known promise? To yourself and to you friends To hold and love and treasure Not her until the very end. So run You’re running faster Oh then she could And in the beauty of denial You simply pass the place you stood
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Impalpable (free) 04:55
Oh, your shadow was polite to me today She kissed my hand then went on her way And that's what I expected from her She was harsh to me, but it was alright All I wanted was a little time set aside And I waited long until the night You're elusive, you know Oh, you're a shadow in the dark And I offered you my heart Oh, you're a shadow on the prowl But I will take my heart back now And if I ever see it coming after me Sure as hell you're gonna see me flee So don't you dare look at me I was trapped in a boa's hold I was dying but didn't wanna be let go And I thought she only did it to her foes But I was wrong You were always on my mind In the morning or at night Oh, my dear boy don't follow me See, I struggled so much just to breath And I choked for hours, choked for days The mirage love gives just took my place I accepted her forlorn embrace And I said I loved her poisonous taste Oh, you're a shadow in the dark And I offered you my heart Oh, you're a shadow on the prowl But I will take my heart back now Oh, you're a shadow in the dark And I offered you my heart Oh, you're a shadow on the prowl But I will take my heart back now
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Pitch (free) 04:56
The flowers on your porch Resemble nothing more Than the consequence of life, death Pounding on your door It entered in your bed It caught you off guard Swimming in the sheets With your lover in your arms And then you knew That death is all we are We live and then we part And it takes its toll All that you live by Turned out to be a lie You never even thought That there's death after this life You trusted that your mind Said everything true You trusted all you saw All the lies it told you And time And time made you cry When it consumed your mind And kept you up at night And then you knew That death is all we are We live and then we part And it takes its toll Through loss we comprehend All we hold dear And the regretting of time Spent wasted all those years
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What I'll Believe (free) 04:52
There are some things over here I choose to disbelieve There is something right in front of me That I choose not see You can carry it around Like it's your only light My dear, I just can't find another way To make it right I followed you a while But I know I ought to lead My love, I am a man And that's the way it ought to be Won't you give me your hand I'll take you to our home But I know you're just not ready For the place we ought to go It's like a story I'd never plot It's like a color I never saw It's like a picture inside of me That I'm too scared to draw It keeps me in my home And I often wonder why The secrets of the world Tend to keep me up at night She tells me what she thinks But I tell her what I know The beauty of the world Tends to save or break your soul Every now and then I wander to the peak Of a mystery inside of me That never gets relief I tell it to appear In a form of something new For a chance to rediscover falsity Or something true It's like a story I'd never plot It's like a color I never saw It's like a picture inside of me That I'm too scared to draw
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The Mourning Dove (free) 04:19
You went ahead of me; congratulations On your wedding You didn't even see The presentation of where you're heading I'm up against the wall, but you sing to me In the tree above You're in and out of love. You're the absentee And the mourning dove You'll make it out, you'll make it out Yeah, you'll be alright You said it was the snow and the thought of flight But did you even know I would keep you warm by the firelight Do you need to go? You'll make it out, you'll make it out Yeah, you'll be alright We'll make it out, we'll it out Yeah, we'll be alright
11.
The Flood (Part 2) (free) 05:55
Father, Father would you hear me out Didn't need her then, but I need her now No, my boy, you have it upside down The flood, it came, but didn't make a sound Can you hear the river flow Turn the bend and watch it go Follow it until you see The reason she let go of me You didn't wanna see me You didn't wanna see me there
12.
There are some things over here I choose to disbelieve There is something right in front of me That I choose not see You can carry it around Like it's your only light My dear, I just can't find another way To make it right I followed you a while But I know I ought to lead My love, I am a man And that's the way it ought to be Won't you give me your hand I'll take you to our home But I know you're just not ready For the place we ought to go It's like a story I'd never plot It's like a color I never saw It's like a picture inside of me That I'm too scared to draw It keeps me in my home And I often wonder why The secrets of the world Tend to keep me up at night She tells me what she thinks But I tell her what I know The beauty of the world Tends to save or break your soul Every now and then I wander to the peak Of a mystery inside of me That never gets relief I tell it to appear In a form of something new For a chance to rediscover falsity Or something true It's like a story I'd never plot It's like a color I never saw It's like a picture inside of me That I'm too scared to draw
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This album was recorded in Morlautern, Germany, over the course of several months. I recorded all of these songs in my room.

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released April 7, 2012

All songs were recorded and produced by Andrew White.
Thank you for all your help Becca, Tait, and Cory.

Art and design: Cory Uehara

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Andrew White Portland, Oregon

Bred more by wandering than by his native Ohio, Andrew White weaves pop-folk tune-stories that feature enough personalities to populate a small town. Armed with his sister's haunting falsetto, he renders scenes and stories of staggering emotional variety. His multi-instrumental blends of the ordinary and supernatural provoke the thinking mind as much as it will the dancing feet. ... more

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