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The Modest Revolution

by Enter The Haggis

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1.
You stood high out of reach there at the top of the tower you blew out the clouds, blocked out the sun no end to the pull and power a rope tied over the land suddenly frayed and unwinding eyes, sharp as a warrior’s blade but in your own smoke you were blinded so come all you liars saints and lost souls one day’s black is another day’s gold it’s a strange place to see you tonight but it’s all or nothing and it’s gone what’s that racket down on the street is it the year of the rat or the sheep smoke and sting, this chaos and reek the hum and the haze of the hollows it’s a ruse, a line, between yours and mine we’re dumping the body of evidence spread that paper, cover your eyes and flee to the walls and the shadows
2.
too many years in the wind disappeared and you can’t go back but you rescued your heart from the cinders and wreckage of one bloody final crash oh, you knew there was something a bright little beacon a kink in the dark now you walk with intention a smile and a sword in your arms trust your eyes they will follow the light it’s a new tragic story trust your heart it will swallow the dark it’s a mecca of heartache and doom you can’t trust the news the dark midnight runway's as still as the lake of your younger years when the sunshine was brighter the laughing was lighter you never gave in to your fear oh, you could call it a waste a disaster, a chase for the ghost of love but you spat out the skin and the seeds and the dirt on your tongue
3.
Skin of fire, bones of coal these piston arms are born to roll down, down the line you don’t find it, it finds you if you don’t drive, it’s what you do down, down the line i see an open stage a crowd of people sit and wait oh my fingers burn mother, dear, please don’t be hurt for if i stay i won’t be heard and oh my fingers burn focus on the work at hand twisting bolts upon the plan down, down the line heavy is this steady wage pulls the sun down on the day down, down the line saturday morning was a hell of a crash but you've gotta keep rolling on the trail of cash
4.
Scarecrow 03:26
little wonder wide awake buried under the promises you make don't be worried somebody's gonna take you home remember if you fall fall with grace don't let 'em see the fear upon your face if you break break the reins it's better up in lights than down in flames city soldier tall and proud find your pleasure wherever you're allowed underwater someone's gotta take you home keep you on your throne bastard brother so far away if I call you I wonder what you'll say little wonder home is just a word to me now
5.
Balto 03:26
Carry on, Balto - straight through the storm you are my legs my eyes, my ears i cannot run cannot see cannot hear swallow a cold fire hard in our lungs there's a girl i love waiting for me with a child in her arms don't hold me back oh i can feel it so close don't hold me back i’d die for the white light of Nome don't hold me back my love, this is all i can give don't hold me back under the darkness is hope, i can feel it hold on my darling no, i won't delay
6.
Letters 05:03
Lost, farewell under this sinking sun in an ocean of sky dust and bones echoes of rusty guns i'm not too young to die your love is a compass rose steadfast through this sand and stone wind, carry these letters home to Joan old memories come to life a last dance in this amber light wind, carry these letters home tonight spinning wheels since i was just a boy with a traveling mind the bright moon steals the heart of orion's joy we trace a simple line all our days there was a song that played for you in my head all these things on my mind now that i'm taking the time to write see these letters swirl like a thousand white birds in the sky up above her i'm a flag unfurled and I’m sending my heart to a dear friend and lover
7.
Pardon 03:21
They came for me early that morning was surely the last I would see a free man burst through the door threw me down on the floor while my fickle friends scattered and ran proud and undone I surrendered my gun and allowed them to lead me outside but I have never been guilty I don’t need a pardon I don’t need prayers I’m fine to face my accusers and show ‘em my ten-mile stare I’m prepared these bars the aren’t permanent rust takes a turn but it won’t be til I’m still and cold my confidence fades as their baskets and blades all grow brittle and broken and old out in the yard I cast glares at the guards and I hurl these words at the sky and laugh while they show me to a room I’ll never leave outside a wooden box no familiar faces not a friend I won’t be afraid I won’t apologize I will be alone until the end I’m prepared I’m not scared I’m prepared
8.
Hindsight 04:49
Eyes in a mirror so unfamiliar show me your failure and show me your pride chasing, grieving always believing flaring or burning you've watched me learning face in a memory young and unbroken show me a reason to fall on your sword chasing, waiting burning and fading striving or leaning you gave me meaning
9.
Footnote 03:54
Another day another cameo another artificial heart beats on and on he's got a job he's got some furniture and he's got friends who can't tell anything is wrong but he hates his old apartment on the Gardiner and he swears he won't be living here that long it's been two years since that night down by the reservoir but he'll always have that song he's got a car and maps of everywhere and he's put stars on every city name he knows but he can't move he can't go anywhere cause he can't think of any place he wants to go and he knows she's out there somewhere chasing hurricanes putting miles between them every day she's gone it's been three years since she left him in Toledo but he'll always have that song and every time that it comes on he sings along and it kills him when he hears it on the radio but all his friends are glad he's finally moving on it's been five years since he said her name to anyone but he'll always have that song and every time that it comes on even if he sings it wrong he sings alone
10.
We all abused you, threw you on the tracks stood with bated brain a simple thrill to kill the boredom of a wasted summer day and now they’re showing you the door one hundred years and fifty more these cold machines punched out your leaves and though your aspirations soared the sidewalk would not take your seed and now they’re showing you the door i think we’ll find it hard to walk without your rattling bones the story broke a year ago a nickel was the only one who screamed “god save me from this fate! oh, darling, i just can’t believe that now they’re showing you the door” we can’t afford to keep the change
11.
Blackout 04:37
The year was '67, the last we raised it up. years come and go, still nothing to show in these cold, cold hands. We blame Barilko's body on a decade drought but what buried bones do we have to bring home for another chance? It’s a blackout, but we follow along We keep chasing the puck ever whispering “Someday we’ll drink from the cup” we crept out from the gardens into the neon glow. a pauper’s chair to an emperor's throne still without a crown. did we leave the blood stains, the crack of ice to bone? as the winter melted away our thirst for glory drowned. when the final score is settled and the final roar decays did we throw our sticks in the fire or did we have our day?
12.
Up In Lights 05:11
The first time always overwhelms and our bodies frozen like we’re statues of ourselves our eyes close we’re ready now whatever we might see tonight we’re all expecting it to be big as life the earth moves underneath our feet and all our big plans get tossed aside like pennies in the street in the morning the music stops whatever we achieve tonight we need a reason to believe we’re big as life all the doors and windows blowing open all the walls and barriers will fall all the lights on our marquee say we will always be big as life

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released March 30, 2013

Mark Abraham - bass guitar, vocals
Brian Buchanan - vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, piano, accordion, fiddle, banjo
Craig Downie - trumpet, flugelhorn, bagpipes, whistle, glockenspiel, harmonica, vocals
Trevor Lewington - vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, banjo, octave mandolin, B3, Farfisa
Bruce McCarthy - drums, percussion, vocals

Guest vocalists: The Adam Ezra Group, Erin “Izzy” Griffin, Catherine Wiegand, Kelly Elvin, Claire Rayton

Uilleann Pipes on “Year of the Rat”: Tyler Duncan

Additional Piano and B3: Joel Goodwin

Additional Percussion: Tim Price, Dave Wallace

Meaty claps and thunderous stomps: Matt Elvin, Kelly Elvin, Ellen Griffin, Erin “Izzy” Griffin, Dave Wallace, Catherine Wiegand, Claire Rayton, Patty Volpi

Cello: Michael Olsen

All music and lyrics copyright Enter The Haggis, 2012 (SOCAN/ASCAP.)
All arrangements by Enter The Haggis. Published by Firebrand Entertainment Inc.

Recorded at Saint Claire Recording Company in Lexington, KY - October, 2012.

Produced, engineered and mixed by Zach McNees

Assistant Engineers: Tim Price and Cailon Williams

Mastered by Leon Zervos at Studios 301 in Sydney, Australia

Photography by Rosco Weber

Album art and packaging design by Brian Buchanan

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