Living Room Tapes EP

by Jesse Hill

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1.	Internet Courses On Mindfulness 04:39	lyrics	buy track
sometimes you ask me where do I go and I tell you baby I just don't know but the truth is that I'm a million miles from home. and in the kitchen where I'm drifting off our family picture hangs on the wall and laughter of children echoes from down the hall I held my sons when they were born soon I won't hold them any more and it would kill me to see us drift apart I'd like to kiss you like our first time get carried away, and close the blinds but I just can't get imagined futures off my mind and the source of your life is tangled up inside the winding ribbon of time you're moving forward but looking back you can't perceive what any of this means so hold still cause right now is everything see revolutions around the world cruel dictators being overthrown but we're too distracted for insurrections of our own and all this self help adds to the mess internet courses on mindfulness you won't believe these ten new ways to feel content
2.	Preachers of Morality 02:13	lyrics	buy track
hey now kid, they’re gonna try and make you just as sad as they are hey now kid, they won’t stop accusing ‘til you’re all but dead and useless it’s too easy to get confused make things more complicated than they really are we all forget the simple truth that you can’t see the stars when you’re standing underneath the streetlights it seems easier, to live by man made rules than to live by the spirit so they’re gonna baptize you push your little head under the water speak the old religious words tell you that you’ve been made new they’ve got everything you need but the fire that never dies away
3.	I Remember That Night 02:40	lyrics	buy track
I remember that night when we sat on the curb and all our friends talked about us inside and we spoke in uncertain terms about the way we thought our lives could go I was afraid to say it then but this is how i dreamed that things would be and every day my love for you grows truer filling this heart that is bursting at the seams I remember that day when we stood on those steps and all our friends watched us and smiled and we spoke in such certain terms about the way our love would never die I was afraid to dream it then but this is how we said that things would be and every day my love for you grows bigger filling this heart that is bursting at the seams
4.	A River Running Red 03:13	lyrics	buy track
I put beauty on you like it’s the thing you never had before like a blanket on a rose bush my words are caught frayed on your thorns which with the wind are tearing me apart you’re tearing me apart when I see you in my dreams one of us is bleeding you are a river running red you are a river running silver you are dividing me the sword in your mouth cutting marrow from bone spirit from soul do I divide you, too and pit your mercy against you am I some kind of conflict or are you past my comprehension when I see you in my dreams one of us is bleeding you are a river running red you are a river running silver I am a river dry and dead I am a river running over a grave the hollow of a hidden life a city full of roses
5.	December 03:13	lyrics	buy track
December always came so slowly I remember this time last year when I couldn’t kiss you on your mouth But now I kiss you every evening and you sleep beside me in this room we share and the autumn’s flying by outside our window can you hold the room I am reeling I am reeling

about

***All purchases will go towards funding a full length record I've been writing for the past year or so. Thanks!***

After spending the past six years singing and writing songs in Over the Ocean, I realized that I had accumulated a lot of songs that would never make it to a record. Looking through these songs, I found that I wasn't ready to just forget about all of them, so I decided to pick a few and record them as simply as I could at home.

About the songs:

1. "Internet Courses On Mindfulness"
When I sent an early version of some of the songs I was doing for this EP to my brother-in-law, Ben (plays bass in Over the Ocean), he said that I needed a different first track; he suggested I write about something that scares me. I don't like thinking about what scares me, but the next day this song came out, including several extra verses I decided to save for another time.

2. "Preachers of Morality"
This song has evolved in bits and pieces since 2008. At first it was a brief intro to another song I used to do, and then it became a sort of narrative piece about a fictional character, but it never seemed quite right. When my first son was born, I realized what I had been trying to write about all this time without understanding.

3. "I Remember That Night"
I wrote this song for my wife's birthday after our second year of marriage. In typical form, the song didn't feel right when her birthday came around, and I wound up first playing it for her a week later.

4. "A River Running Red"
When Over the Ocean's 2nd LP, Be Given to the Soil came out, I was eager to write another record right away. I wrote several songs for the new record, and played some of them at a fundraiser for the local NPR affiliate. After the fundraiser, I lost the notebook that the songs were in, and immediately forgot all of them but this one.

5. "December"
I wrote this song the day after Thanksgiving our first year of marriage. The year before, we were managing a long distance relationship, with Natanya four hours away at college. I was always eager for December to come, because it meant she would be home for nearly a month.

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released June 15, 2015

Recorded to cassette in my living room using a Tascam 424 MkII Portastudio, some old mics, and a pile of guitar pedals.

All songs written and performed by Jesse Hill, additional vocals by Natanya Hill.

Painting for album art by Natanya Hill.

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