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Avec la Verite, Vous Avez le Droit d'Aimer

by The Naked Sun

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1.
Frozen Sand 03:14
The very first thing that I do Is that I wait for you Ain't that a funny thing just to do? Sit and wait for you Grass stuck to my feet like glue The night has all the fun What's the morning left to do? Sit on a rock and skip a stone or two, And I just wait for you Ever get that feeling you just ain't alive? Waiting for something just to let it pass you by So you can tell yourself, "Hell, at least I tried." Is that how you really want to love your life? Stones on that sidewalk and that broken glass Time passing like my feet on frozen sand Looking to the east and now I'm looking back Just waiting for that sky to go black
2.
Love me tender, love me sweetly Complete me, completely and forget it. Love me so good, love me all night Love me alright, and be gone. Love me sweetly, discreetly, need me, leave me, and be gone. Love me sweetly, discreetly, need me, leave me, and be gone.
3.
Marigold 04:00
Hidden in boxes, forgotten in closets Memories made, but what did they cost us? Scattered in drawers, taped up in a basement Secrets, trying to escape us Maybe I'm not ready, Or your ghost it won't let me, But I'm fighting this feeling for you Baby I'm not ready, Or your ghost it won't let me, But I'm fighting this feeling for you The love that I scatter just falls into pieces Like marigolds picked in June When this love that I gather just falls into pieces Like marigolds picked in June Baby I'm not ready, Your ghost it won't let me I'm fighting this feeling for you Baby I'm not ready, Or your ghost it won't let me, But I'm fighting this feeling for you The love that I scatter, the love that I gather, marigolds that bloom in June The love that I scatter, the love that I gather, marigolds that bloom in June Baby I'm not ready, Your ghost it won't let me, But I'm fighting this feeling for you But when I'm ready, And your ghost is dead to me, I won't be fighting this feeling for you
4.
It's hard to think of it all, now It's hard to think at all, now To think that it's all now, over, now Don't want to start, start over at all, now 'Cause baby it's more than tearing some wall down There's a reason that you want to go There's a lie that's been told There's a line I must hold And a secret that we both know This is more thank letting go There's a light that I don't know There's a life I want to know What a secret if we both know?
5.
la Verite 08:19
Can I sing you a love song? Is it too late, or am I too gone? I’d tell you my story if I had one, So, can I sing you a little love song? My daddy died when I was too young They blamed me, but they were all wrong I left the shore for a new home Worked everyday to build a new one Spent the summer of love in a city jail Got set up by someone I thought that I knew well Kept me out of the war, being locked in that cell Guess all’s well that ends well Met a girl and she just blew me away She taught me how to dress, taught me how to play Caught her in bed with my best friend And it took me everything not to blow them both away, But I didn’t, put the gun down Left that house and swore I’d never go back Spent the next 8 years livin’ out the back of my truck Somewhere along the way I found a reason Never thought I’d be the type to come to Jesus Fixed up that old house for my new wife Had the best damn years of my whole damn life A big garden and always something to do Found a community and watched it bloom Then the accident and I lost my hand When you can’t support yourself it’s hard to feel like a man Those old ghosts from the shore showed up like an old friend Told so many lies I lost the only home I ever had You can put the entire blame on me But you can’t tell me I didn’t live my life fully And when we meet again at that pearly gate You’ll know I’m sorry, and I’ll know it’s too late But I’ll sing you this little love song Don’t matter if it’s too late, or if I’m too gone Lived my life’s story and said so long So let me sing you this little love song Ohhh

about

This is the follow up release to the debut LP from the Naked Sun. All of these songs center around one question, "How does one live honestly in the age of lies?" The songs on this EP offer personal narratives of people living with secrets, scarred by lies, or aching to live truthfully. Viewed microcosmically one hears the personal romantic struggle of a couple fighting to survive, but zoom out and one can begin to see the much larger themes.

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released November 15, 2019

Drew Harris - vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, harmonica
Tim Campbell, vocals, electric guitar, pedal steel
Dave Gladney - drums
Ken Letherer - bass guitar
Alan Sheltzer - piano, organ, electric piano
Nerissa Jaucian - vocals
Pat Berkery - drums on "Frozen Sand"
Maya Letherer - bowed upright bass on "Marigold"
Jordan Rast - violin on "la Verite"
Lyle de Vetri - cello on "la Verite"

All songs written by Drew Harris (ASCAP) except "Marigold" - written by Drew Harris and Nerissa Jaucian.

"Frozen Sand," "Marigold" and "Secret We Both Know" were recorded at Miner Street Recordings in Philadelphia, PA, engineered and mixed by Matt Poirier.

"Lovers Love, Lovers Leave" was recorded by Drew and Tim in Drew's basement in Philadelphia, PA on a TEAC 3340-S and mixed by Matt Poirier.

"la Verite" was recorded at Berlin Studios in Gibbsboro, NJ, engineered and mixed by Joe Michelini.

All songs mastered by Ryan Schwabe.

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Fronted by singer-songwriter, Drew Harris and guitarist Tim Campbell, the Naked Sun have been a staple of the Philadelphia music scene since forming in 2011. Harris and Campbell are joined by Dylan Mulcahy on drums, Tom Tusler on bass, Alan Sheltzer on keys, and Bradley Moser on lead guitar. ... more

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