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The Salt Islands

from Stay Poor, Stay Happy by Cub Country

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There's a lone stone house down a desert cul-de-sac
A Father's hands made alone
The Family names are carved in the cement
Where the pine tree stood is a brand new neighborhood
And everything they made is worn and torn away
There's a swimming hole down near the gravel pit
That people dare to jump in
So you went first and when I took my turn
You were gone without a trace or sound
But I swam on pretending I was fine
History's no mystery where it stopped from you to me
There are never words left to explain
How my days turn to nights
You disappeared from sight
And I lost all of your things along the way
There's a truck outside waiting in the pouring rain
Just to drive away
From a Mother's tears she's held onto for years
You'll go into the night the rest of your life
To follow things you have never seen
But you have faith and you have hope
That all you've known is not just smoke
That rises up and blows out through the trees
That will lose their leaves as the seasons please
To show the year has died and gone away
Long nights with no starlight
Traffic chokes up the West Side
The radio is singing for you alone
As you leave this world behind
There's a light that shines down from the Empire State
That reaches all across town
Pulls people in on a spoon made of tin
With the promise of some bread and an easy death
Whatever you could want, whatever you can get
Now you know everyone in here a cigarette another beer
But when all the barstools are clear
Who will know your fear as it draws so near
And you turn away again and disappear

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from Stay Poor, Stay Happy, released October 19, 2004
Jeremy Chatelain: vocals, guitar
Ben Dunlap: drums
Matt Sumrow: bass
Jeff Clarke: vocals, guitar

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Cub Country

Cub Country is a band formed in 2001 by Jeremy Chatelain (former member of Handsome and Jets To Brazil). Over the course of 10 years Cub Country made 4 long playing records. The "band" consisted of a revolving door of members and was based in Brooklyn, Chapel Hill and Seattle at different points. "Repeat Until Death" is the band's final posthumous offering. ... more

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