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i don​’​t know: demos, outtakes and misfits 2015​-​2018

by Dane Letourneau

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1.
tyrants! 03:24
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baby don't you worry, don't you call out in the night it's all done now, end of the fight baby we are seekers, we are travellers of space it's all done now, end of the race all this in the future, and tyrants, and violence and all we have accomplished, stands with us, it proves us again baby don’t you worry, don’t you lose your self control it’s all done now, ace in the hole baby don't you worry, this is bound to leave a mark it's all done now - left in the dark all this in the future, and tyrants, and violence and all we have accomplished, stands with us, it proves us tell me all your secrets and i’ll tell you mine, babe the seekers, unbelievers, stand with us, they prove us again baby don't you worry, don't you call out to the night it's all done now - let there be light
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holding us together 03:43
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my hand on your side, your kiss on my lips, holding us together you’re the one i lay beside, when i’m cold and empty you’re the warmth i seek tonight being that we are so close, can you feel me moving balanced on the edge of a knife my hand on your side, your kiss on my lips, holding us together you’re holding me still, keeping me here, holding us together this is not a new age, we are not so helpless this is not a simple tune you have won me over in all sorts of weather baby be the single thing that holds my attention take away the brighter lights you can see through all my signs, did I say or mention? you’re the one i want tonight there’s clothes on the floor, no sheet on the bed, it didn’t take forever this thing I believe, it’s all entropy, keeping us apart this is not some new age, we are not so helpless we are not a frozen few we have been together through all sorts of weather at the end i’ll still choose you my hand on your side, your kiss on my lips, holding us together
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memory man 03:34
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walking above the highway taking steps i took before you were there, standing tall above filling me with love wand’ring through the forest dreaming of an unknown world you were there, giving me those thoughts teaching me to not be afraid to dream of such snowy world around me stockholm in the deepest cold you were there, walking hand in hand guiding me again memory, man it’s killing me daring me to dream and i dream of you your face is like our own or the other way around and my head is filled with sound
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september (you can try to run) 03:22
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you can try to run from our love you can hop a plane, and from above wish it all would change september every day you can hope that this will change you hope that on the train you’ll find some truth born, born without a clue lucky to be you with september comes the fall air drunk and dressed, and still we stand here born to be confused cannot find your use you can try to run from our love you can time it out to stay or leave born to be confused was i born to set you loose?
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coming back 02:55
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coming back i won’t be the first one to react but i can see what’s coming up behind your back coming back i try to tell myself to just relax you represent the smallest spot on the map i don't ever wanna be this far away coming back you’ve left all your worst selves in the past but do they lie in wait, down there, to attack? coming back i might be walking straight into a trap and i can’t see what’s coming up behind my back i don't ever wanna be this far away
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synth interlude (birdhaus iii) 01:14
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wherever you are, be there 03:07
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from the start, when we built our little home you didn’t know, you didn’t know in the mirror in the front facing room you saw you where ever you are, be there from the start we were fake and fancy free always meaning to be elsewhere you appeared to me in silk and satin blue inventing truth where ever you are, be there lazy little home, and we laid it in the ground tore it from the stone that it sat on it didn’t take that long to be rid of what we had dead and gone
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hard to believe 03:13
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i find it hard to believe that, despite the memory. aren’t you better than me at moving people on? at keeping promises  to feed and water while we’re gone? aren’t you better than me? aren’t i nothing? will they ever believe me? writing upon stone walking into sand where’d you keep all your secrets? let me in there! i’m too rattled to sleep here running out of time running out of reasons  to believe that we’ll be fine i find it hard to believe that this is what you want blood is mixing with sand, and running around us and did we do this? i find it hard to believe that you would want this mess in place of being chained  but innocent of bloodshed
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i'm waiting for my maker (you're waiting for your man) 03:13
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i’m waiting for my maker you’re waiting for your man one comes dressed up to take you away and the other has no plan… we both have little hope of living happy lives something about the waiting’s killing cells inside …my brain yours comes in a trans am mine comes in a cloud despite the differences i think we both should be allowed to take a second look at what we thought would mend years of lonely waiting at the world’s end amen? tears rolling down the surface pool, collect and fall sitting as the sun goes down without a sign or call is waiting just a sign of mental vaporousness? does waiting mean that we should give up the elect? and when he finally comes should i be cool or kept? and when my maker comes what should the bad expect to accept?
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december twelve 02:57
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what if i become something i don’t like? caught between what’s wrong and what’s really right the bright of day or dark of night? what if i become golden life to none? what if i become the centre of the fight caught between feeling good and acting right staring down our darkest night i don’t know, are you alright?
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kings? 03:20
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god, you are out of my control and i don’t know and i stand stark naked and alone when you leave me cold when action calls are you shiv'ring small do you not know? can disbelief replace all that i’ve ever known? well, i don’t know.

about

from 2015-2018, among many other things, I worked on a lot of musical projects for myself and for others - both in my home studio, and also variously in bedrooms, garages, kitchens, and the odd closet. it was an exciting time of constant writing, recording, and creativity, generating a wealth of material, much of which was pruned through pretty thoroughly in pursuit of releasing only the very best songs for any given project.

of the records I had a hand in writing, three in particular stand out to me as having left a good amount of unused demos and detritus lying on the wayside: Gold & Shadow’s “Birdhaus” (still my favourite music I’ve made to date) and “Gather + Scatter” EPs, and my own “20/20”. adding to that the completion of Gold & Shadow’s first and only LP “TORCH” in 2015, and I’ve ended up with quite a collection of unused material over the past three years.

in sifting through these outtakes and misfits, certain songs naturally rose to the top - either they were the first to be cut from one of the aforementioned releases, or just didn’t fit despite me feeling like they represented some of my better writing at the time. this collection is a home for these songs, which yes, don’t all sound the same or work perfectly together. but there is a persistent theme running through these compositions, a sort of confession of a newly formed agnosticism, both in the personal, political and spiritual domains.

from the Trump-era lullabye ‘tyrants!’ to a rewrite of the Gold & Shadow deep cut ‘kings?’, these songs feel like they’re positioned at the beginning of a journey away from a lifetime’s worth of thinking that i had it all figured out. “i don’t know” is often the most honest answer to certain questions of meaning, purpose, and faith. i hope that this collection, at the very least, communicates that asking those questions is still worthwhile.

credits

released September 30, 2019

dane letourneau wrote, sang, played, produced, mixed, and mastered all songs at his midnite city studio in nanaimo, canada. he also created the cover artwork from photos he took in a thrift shop in portland, oregon.

greg vandergrift lent his excellent ears and made some helpful production notes and mix tweaks.

jesse lough programmed some drums and sang a background vocal on "wherever you are, be there".

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Dane Letourneau Victoria, British Columbia

Dane is a Canadian multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and producer. He is best known for working with bands such as Gold & Shadow, The STACKS and Young Babylon. His solo work is influenced by Joni Mitchell, Brian Wilson, Thom Yorke, Sufjan Stevens and Frank Ocean. ... more

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