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Feeling heavy in the air tonight
Should've told me something wasn't right
Beyond the limit of my sight
Beyond reason, beyond a fight
Guess it's no one's fault
Something had to crack
I could take the sting of salt
If you would say you're coming back
Lost thoughts, lost time
These gifts are no longer mine
Sad summer moving into fall
Wasn't ready when you made the call
I could bear it all and grin
Find another tack
Take it on the chin
If you would say you're coming back
I can slowly fade
If that's what you want
Is that what you need?
Or are you just afraid?
Feeling heavy in the air tonight
Should've told me something wasn't right
NZ: vocals, keys, guitar, drum machine, synth bass
Blake Howard: percussion
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Footsteps
04:41
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No apathy in aftermath
Only reason and reckoning
Nothing to believe in, at long last
Out with a searchlight
Looking everywhere
For my footsteps
Out in the snow
If I knew where I went
I might know where to go again
We're all haunted
By rattles and calls
Persistent memory
Lonely waterfall
Frozen in a falling flow
That nobody would notice
I think you know this
Blood of mine, so blue inside
Turns red upon the surface
Time doesn't fly
It disappears
Blown away like smoke, those years
Have come and gone
They felt so long
Nothing worse than a let down
When you're holding on so strong
Frozen in a falling flow
That nobody would notice
I think you know this
Blood of mine, so blue inside
Turns red upon the surface
Out of sight, out of mind
Everything clear in time
NZ: vocals, guitars, synth
SP: synth, sequencer, sampler, melodica
Thomas Hammerton: keys, synths
Mark McIntyre: bass
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Silent Confirmations
03:19
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Dare I say it doesn't matter
Meaning isn't everything
Some things don't mean anything at all
Patterns overtaking me
I'm not what I used to be
Losing all my love to my illusions
Silent confirmations
Of things I didn't wanna hear
Everything I fear can release me
Moving forward’s proven tricky
Stuck inside a memory
Caught up in a web of my own spinning
Threads of things I once believed
Tangled with the other ones
If I could trace them back to the beginning
I'd make them so unbreakable
So steady and unshakable
To weather all the winds to come a-blowing
In hours of days ever hidden
Minutes waiting so quietly
For flowers of love not yet risen
In the eyes of Venus black and white
Bloom in colour with the light
NZ: vocals, guitars, synth, shaker
SP: bass, synth, moog kick
Ryan Driver: flute
Blake Howard: percussion
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If we could only select
Family traits we'd like to project
I'd take more of my mother's resilience
Less of my father's ruminating distance
If we could only protect
Parts of ourselves others reject
I'd be playing with fire, walking on wire
Building up bridges
Just to knock them down and watch them fall
One day forever
Next day never
Running through the stillness
Of these hollow thoughts again
Still on the tip of my tongue
Too many options, still getting stung
Afraid of the future
Stuck in the past
Wrapped up in the present
Trying to make a good thing last
Turn the sand into glass
Nurture nature moving so fast
Take up with the owls, up with the bats
Go into the night
Prowl with the alley cats
One day forever
Next day never
Running through the stillness
Of these hollow thoughts again
NZ: vocals, guitars, synths, percussion
SP: bass, drum machine, shaker
Jacob Mittermaier-Zubeck: jaw harp
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Any City
03:21
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In the dark womb of his hotel room
He could be in any city
Visit all the monuments
See the great museums
Take in all the sights and flashing lights
But instead he'll stay in here and disappear
Sorrow like an oil spill
Seeping deep into the soil
Never wanted to be kept
Never want to be a keeper
She kept him up again last night
Though she'd never know it
He caught him dreaming of her new haircut
Though he'd never even seen it
Who's in her room tonight?
Who's got her spare key?
He can only wonder
Only know it's not me
Never wanted to be kept
Never want to be a keeper
Must've happened while we slept
Only wanted to go deeper
NZ: vocals, guitar
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Evening Star
04:03
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...and would you walk a little longer
in my company, if there was a clearer way to go?
cus i would break away the branches, roll away the stone
to have another day with you alone
NZ: vocals, guitars, synth, organ
SP: melodica, sampler
Mark McIntyre: bass
Thomas Hammerton: keys, synth
Ryan Driver: flute
Blake Howard: cymbals
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Venusian Blues
02:22
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NZ: guitar, wine glasses
SP: sampler
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Morning Star
04:36
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Morning star, can you still see me?
In your glory, standing here
Morning star, call on me
To write a better story
I've just been scribbling lines
I hear the sound of a warning
I will stand clear
Tomorrow's coming
You will be near
Morning star, for you we mourn
You fade away into daylight
Morning star, can you be transformed?
In the falling night
And be reborn?
I hear the sound of a warning
I will stand clear
Tomorrow's coming
We will be here
Evening star, the sun is setting
On all of us here
Evening star, I keep forgetting
You'll reappear
Evening star, day is turning
You've become the morning star
Become the morning star
The morning star
Morning star
NZ: vocals, guitar, synth
Thomas Hammerton: piano, synth bass
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Lying still, awake until
Sleep come soft and low
Deliver dreams
Absurd and strange
So much not to know
Bodies in shadows
And faces in the dark
Twins of love and loss
Turn their backs and miss the mark
Colours fade
Everyone's west of somewhere
Can't break a promise
Never made
Lucid in the solar wind
Sailing the black and golden boat
Ancient dream, so it seems
Feather outweigh the heart
Feeding dreams
That just don't have the stomach
To climb a hill
And never reach the summit
Endless screens
Streaming feeds of longing
Can't break a friendship
Never made
NZ: vocals, guitar, synth
Thomas Hammerton: keys, synth
Josh Cole: fretless bass
Ryan Driver: flute
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Many Lives
03:10
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In the eyes of god
I am blind
Flawed and faithless
I don't mind
I have eyes
I have many lives
In the starry sky
I see patterns
In your words at night
All that matters
Are the words, that I didn't write
I see you as a dancer
I feel your weary limbs
Can I find a painless answer
In the rhythm
Indecision is my condition
Seems I live in limbo
With the future fading fast
Looking through a dirty window
I'll break the glass
Nothing lasts
Even this will pass
In the eyes of god
I am blind
Flawed and faithless
I don't mind
I have eyes
I have many lives
NZ: vocals, guitar, lap steel
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Nick Zubeck Toronto, Ontario
Atypical and adventurous singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist using a wide palette of acoustic and electric sounds. Heavy on beautiful arrangements, instrumental passages, and thoughtful lyrics. Nick has also kept busy as a sideman working with varied groups like Great Lake Swimmers, Sandro Perri, Barzin, Sun Kil Moon, Royal Wood, Dana Sipos, Rich Burnett, Roxanne Potvin, and many others. ... more
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