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Sea and Sun

by Teething Veils

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    Vinyl LP with Marisol interview zine insert, cover art by Adam de Boer, sleeve design by Craig Garrett, lyrics and credits, download code.

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1.
Like some animals slinking There’s an inter-island feud we are nearing They’re hurling their horseshoes right at you Here comes resentment on wheels Rolling down your street at high speed Caught between the millstones Hail over your day The bridesmaid has her way Stirring up the fray The bridesmaid’s born that way She sings into coffee cans With strings attached They stretch to your building And into your prize-winning kitchen The rain falls on Irving, unnerving You were inseparable, impenetrable, unmovable Time to stop believing Craft the night away Witching all the way War for what you say The bridesmaid shines this way Waste my will away You know I was built this way Painting up the hallway The bridesmaid loathes the day Wish the day away You know I was made this way Buried hearts by the bay The bridesmaid’s born this way
2.
The sun set past the window, you walked out to the street Your brown eyes lit the pavement on the day we came to meet The moonlight came to take me, but you got to me first We strolled on up the hillside, I held you by the church The band they came out swinging at the dry eyes in the house We arm-in-arm’d through the ballroom, they shook the windows out We stepped on up the hallway, the keys fell to the floor Your ring shone with the moonlight, you held me by the door Brightly in the sunrise, buried in the bed The light shone on your pale face, a dream swam through your head Your hands they found my shoulders, your heart it found the rest The dust did come unsettled, you danced inside my chest I stepped out to the courtyard, coffee in my hand The crowds took to the pavement, a noise I couldn’t stand You came to me so sleepless and rested like a cat The rain drummed at the window, do you remember that? I turned around darkened corners, my head weighed down with lead There’s no heaven in Las Vegas, there’s a hell above the bed I walked along the bright streets and stepped on through the swill The predators with their leaflets, their poisons, and their pills No more will our hands lock, no more will we meet Your shadow hangs before me on late-night Shepherd Street The wine we didn’t open in the attic by the beam casts a shadow through the window, just beyond our dreams
3.
Each Morning 04:46
You take me here and there, Virginia to the coast You saw me in the light that suited you the most We follow one another’s trails across the bay We swallow one another’s islands, as we lay You told me how I could be reading you the news You find me hard to read and harder now to use This must be something other than what we had built Behind me, I only see airports and hotels You’d leave me behind But the news isn’t real You say what you think But not how you feel These landscapes orchestrate our static These landscapes dignify our habits Each morning we wake Under all-black clouds I thought they were the same ones But I’m not sure now
4.
I’ve really let myself go Places that caused grief look okay now For now The trouble with reservations is they stick to you, Follow you around and can’t be canceled Casting narrow nets across my own street Reining in whatever wants to stay with me Doesn’t make much sense anymore And now I’ve really let myself go
5.
You spin too many tales to be true Bloomed into a black widow through and through Prey from behind volumes of Chaplik One-sided-mirror me, borrow my chapstick And then you trail me home, twenty-one paces behind You look through my window when I turn out the light You watch me sleep Your boundary-crossing arachnid-thread head Weaves me in an icy web No Arecibo Observatory ever could have seen you No pre-Raphaelite could have conceived of you Sinking teeth in, you milk and spout My mouth’s sewn shut, our lives inside-out Though even a black widow’s time runs out You spin too many tales to be true Bloomed into a black widow through and through A monastic researcher, plotting, cruel Father Noel has lost his cool In your cave, drive me bats Tumbling, crumbling, fading fast Cracking up all of your eggshells tonight
6.
By the Way 04:08
I want you to know who I am I want you to be unafraid I moved on up I loused it up Fallen by the wayside to fade I sprung from my bed in a sweat I head-counted all that I’ve wrecked I packed your things and swallowed the ring Back to bed I crept What do you mean, I’m just an in-between? The clock still goes ‘round, while your heart careens
7.
You won’t rebuild the human you were The puzzle pieces don’t fit together You won’t revisit the town where you wanted to live Hear its heartbeat or take its pulse You don’t inhabit the world you write about There’s no conduit leading to who you dreamed about That inkwell’s dried Those trees are taller There are no more letters and no more parcels There are no reactions or harsh responses There are no praises You haven’t earned them What is the value in imagination Without ambition or revelation? You haven’t lived it, you found your own way There are no portals into yesterday And who would want that? It’s too late for that It is okay
8.
Webbed 03:38
Empty your baggage out onto the bed I came to your island, it’s where I was webbed Your voice hanging grandly where your body lay still Your fingernail broken at the white window sill Layers of lairs removed with your tweezers For piles of papers that block out your light Glooming, the gloaming is casting our shadows Between dialysis in the daytime and nicotine at night Tossing my paperweights aside in the sun It’s too hard to talk while you’re biting my tongue Turning the corner but still out of tune You don’t need to worry, I’ll be out of here soon Plying and plodding the piano too hard It’s how I was dragged up in the place where I was scarred I will go underground, naturally plotting Losing the plot where daisies grow sodding Icing the bite marks on your couch where I sat Pulling my hair out, like I need help with that It’s a wonder how you find anything on these shelves You know that these dishes don’t wash themselves Cold institutions of grey-building days Painting by numbers, latching their gates The doorway stands open, a cat’s in the hallway The avenue’s bustling where you leave me lonely I really have tried but I don’t understand Your scouring-pad fingers while you’re holding my hand Not wanting for a moment to go with the flow But gone with the flood, to each one their own Don’t sell your organs, I won’t pray for forgiveness There is no first aid where you’re smothered in blankets The stairs make me dizzy when I go out for food I don’t know where I’m going or what I meant to you “Come on and follow me out onto the ledge You won’t slip or fall as long as you’re webbed” Be careful of theater people and the hats that they wear What you think you’re holding is not really there As the last silo standing when the warships left town Millstones of sweetness were weighing us down You’re housing my body but there’s no place like home At the edge of the world we ran out of room
9.
Dinner Date 03:51
You were born too soon I was born too late And so we dine alone Wash our plates Time is so unkind Your hands should talk to mine Our bones will soon be dust Buried in the brine Fade away You will never fade Your heart will wake just as mine Dusting the cobwebs to the side Washed from the sheets where we lie Night after night Worlds where your thoughts swim Light that does not dim Take me walking by the sea Take me in Fade away You will never fade Your heart will wake just as mine Dusting the cobwebs to the side Washed from the sheets where we lie Night after night Fade away You will never fade Let’s go away for awhile Let’s radiate through these aisles Oceans astir, winds for miles
10.
They all liked your face They all picture-framed you Socialite disgrace Hook, line, and sinker Your carpentry Can you feel the city shake With every plaster face you break? Some sharpened teeth to stir You’re working out of turn Moons rise and worlds turn, all over you I believe your hands Mothball matchless magic Some spokes and forty varnish coats A veil of teeth to stir You’re working in return Moons rise and worlds turn Allover you A taxless toll These kings lose all control Who do they really know? Not you And me May I watch you breathe Over afternoon tea? It’s free It’s just afternoon tea It’s free It’s just afternoon tea

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Sea and Sun
Teething Veils | 04
Etxe Records | 011

LP/CD/Digital released May 22, 2017

Track listing:
1. The Bridesmaid
2. Before Sunrise
3. Each Morning
4. I’ve Really Let Myself Go
5. The Black Widow
6. By the Way
7. The Human You Were
8. Webbed
9. Dinner Date
10. Allover Fainting

credits

released May 22, 2017

Krys Baker | accordion, clarinet, flute, saxophone, trumpet
Kevin Buckholdt | drums and percussion
Hannah Burris | viola
Alejandro Castaño | orchestral chimes, piano
Craig Garrett | bass guitar
Kris Kagei | voice
Alexia Kauffman | cello
Greg Svitil | celesta, glockenspiel, guitar, mandolin, voice

By the Way orchestral arrangements by Alejandro Castaño; played by the Teething Veils Orchestra with additional violins by Hannah Burris, Claire Guidry-White, Annie Miller, Tiffany Schoneboom, and
Winston Yu; additional viola by Winston Yu; harp by Richard Bailey; banjo and oboe by Danielle Zeis

The Human You Were guitars, organs, and piano played by The Sea of Veils: Kevin Buckholdt, Alejandro Castaño, Kevin Erickson, Craig Garrett, Carolina Mayorga, and Greg Svitil

Dinner Date additional saxophone by Glen Kerridge

Allover Fainting organ by Mariko Hiller; slide guitar by Daniel Suhre; additional voices by the Allover Chorale: Hannah Burris, Kevin Erickson, Kris Kagei, Catherine Lewis, Annie Miller

Words and music by Greg Svitil

Arr. Baker, Buckholdt, Burris, Castaño, Erickson, Garrett, Kauffman, Kagei, Svitil

Sea and Sun
Teething Veils | 4
Etxe Records & Productions | 11

Engineered by Kevin Erickson and Hugh McElroy
Assisted by Kelsey Butterworth
Celesta engineered by Scotty O’Toole at Omega Studios | Rockville, MD

Recorded at Inner Ear Studio | Arlington, VA
Additional recording at Empress of Sound Studio | Washington, DC

Mastered by James Plotkin at Plotkinworks | Bethlehem, PA

Artwork by Adam de Boer

Sleeve design by Craig Garrett
Thanks to family, iends, and you.
For Marisol.

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Teething Veils Washington, D.C.

"These songs—sepia-toned yet searching, eccentric yet melodically inclined—add up to something that feels like its own universe, sometimes wistful, sometimes the kind of menacing only achieved via a late-career Tom Waits death rattle." -Wash CP

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