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Rag and Bone

 

I’ve had enough

I know, it’s dead here

I’ve heard there’s more, there must be more to life

Repetitive

We serve, we smile, we wear a grin

I know there’s more, there’s so much more to life

 

You can’t see the light when you are under

Strapped down, joyless on the merry-go-round

There is beauty in the hedgerows

Don’t ask me

 

Because you know they’ll take everything that you own

Winter’s coming around like the rag and bone

Still going round

Still playing statues

 

I’ve had enough

This house is never clean

We should flee like Thelma and Louise

I’ll get my coat

But first I’ll get the washing in

I’ve heard Mexico is lovely in the spring

 

You can’t see the light when you are under

Strapped down, joyless on the merry-go-round

There is fire in the old girl

Yet I’m bound

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike & Hannah Dean

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Upright Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocal, Bottle Percussion & Acoustic Guitar: Chantelle Pike

Acoustic Guitar, Piano & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

Banjo: Cosmo Sheldrake

Strings, Electric Guitar & Programming: Ben Mink

 

Messing Around

 

I was only messing around

Never meant to throw you to the ground

I was only messing but we’re turning into slaves upon a battlefield

 

When all you want is written in a story

And you’re acting like you’re living in a movie

 

Where have you gone?

 

Need some time to capture the sound

Of all the splendour racing through this town

Need some time to turn some tables

Residential bliss would be the death of me

 

What is real? We’re losing empathy

Plugged into erase reality

Silence is a friend to see

And solitude has always seen the need in me

 

We’re the generation of life’s limitation

We’re the generation of art’s imitation

We’re the generation of human degradation

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike

Drums & percussion: Randall Stoll. Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocals & Acoustic Guitar: Chantelle Pike

Piano, Accordion & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

Strings, Electric Guitar & Programming: Ben Mink

 

Forgiveness Killed Us

 

She’s so softly spoken and holding your hand

You could crush her fingers and grind them to sand

She would scream and you would laugh

She gladly gave herself to him and that is why you

Think these tragic things that keep you up until the dawn

 

Hurt in your head

Your bed’s burning

A seed planted

Since she went calling, calling, calling his name

 

She’s so softly spoken and holding your hand

You should hold her and drift to far away lands

Instead you dream of pushing her off the cliff

Your mother used to take you too when you were just a child

Her shameful infidelity is boring underneath your skin

And feeding off the sanity inside

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike & Hannah Dean

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead vocal, Glockenspiel, Acoustic Guitar & Percussion: Chantelle Pike

Accordion, Piano & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

Fiddles, Electric Guitar & Programming: Ben Mink

 

Home

 

Keep on watch

Watching the days go by

Though these lives

Watching the days go by

Chasing time

 

Look, I’m rushing

Inside, I’m outside, inside, I’m outside

Then I’m struggling

Inside, I’m outside, inside, I’m outside

Gotta get me, gotta get me home

 

Please don’t stop

Stopping the dangerous lights

Cover my eyes

Stopping the dangerous lights

Soothe my mind

Cos’ I’m afraid I might

 

Keep on rushing

Inside I’m outside, inside I’m outside

Keep on struggling

Inside I’m outside, inside I’m outside

Gotta get me, gotta get me home

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike & Hannah Dean

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocal & Acoustic Guitar: Chantelle Pike

Accordion, Piano & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

Strings, Ebow, Electric Guitar & Programming: Ben Mink

 

Heaven

 

Heaven see the beauty in you

Heaven see the beauty in me

Heaven how I feel it everywhere, everywhere

 

Heaven shone and gave us choice

Heaven smiled and gave us voice

Straight into the heart, heaven everywhere

 

And it’s gonna be a long beautiful life

It’s gonna be a long beautiful life

 

Heaven is the dust that lays

Heavy on this open page

Constantly the heart beats heaven everywhere

 

Heaven is a lingering stare

Shooting arrows in the air

Now I must declare, heaven’s everywhere

 

And it’s gonna be a long beautiful life

Heaven’s in your bones, chapters in your eyes

It’s gonna be a long, beautiful life

It’s gonna be a long, beautiful life

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike & Hannah Dean

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocal, Electric Guitar & Percussion: Chantelle Pike

Piano, Accordion & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

String Arrangement & Acoustic Guitar: Ben Mink

 

History

 

Where’d you wanna go?

I don’t know

Figures in the snow

Told you so

 

Where’d you wanna go?

I don’t know

Grey from head to toe

Stirring slowly

 

And this ain’t much fun

Watching everyone go down in history

Lord we gotta run

Don’t wanna see the sun bounce off my TV

 

6 5 4 3 2 1 ZERO

There’s nowhere else left to go

 

God, this is an eyesore

All that we have worked for, all our history

Not dancing when we choose to

Now, we only move so solitary

Start to gather dust, put to bed to rust inside this factory

Lord, we gotta run

Don’t wanna see the sun rise on my TV

 

6 5 4 3 2 1 ZERO

There’s nowhere else left to go

 

 Hold on

 

Turn the mood to low

Heavy glow

On this dancefloor, on this empty dancefloor

Last orders at The Crow

Drink up slowly

 

And this ain’t much fun

Watching everyone go down in history

Lord we gotta run

Don’t wanna see the sun set on my TV

 

6 5 4 3 2 1 ZERO

There’s nowhere else left to go

 

Hold on

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike & Hannah Dean

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocal, Electric Guitar & Percussion: Chantelle Pike

Piano & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

String Arrangement: Ben Mink

 

Wings

 

Broken dreams leave splinters

Buried in the nine to fives

So many axes here to grind

Pretty shapes, those diamonds

 

We polish our wings and they clip them

I’m telling you this:

They’ll never clip mine

 

Children pulling triggers

So many eyes to cover

The Midas touch, a touch too much

Pretty shapes, those diamonds

 

No dead, no end

I feel it in my heart

I’m telling you this:

They’ll never clip these wings of mine

I’m telling you this:

They’ll never clip mine

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Electric & Upright Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocal, Harmony Vocal & Electric Guitar: Chantelle Pike

Piano & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

Strings, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Mandola, Autoharp & Programming: Ben Mink

 

Julian

 

Stroll on, Julian

Stroll on, where she met you

Come down, Julian

Come down from your tree

Where she met you

 

Lay down, make no sound

Listen, he’s your religion

He’ll forgive you

 

Julian

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike & Hannah Dean

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocal & Percussion: Chantelle Pike

Piano & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

Strings, Ebow, Electric Guitar & Pogramming: Ben Mink

 

The Boatman

 

You could easily be the boatman

The wise man on the water

And I see it

I hear it in you

There’s a coloured light

I believe it may connect you

 

Helped me forget, when I heard your song

Wanna sing along

Just like the boatman

 

We used to write and we were free

The boatman, the boatman and me

You see the same

You course the same vein

There’s a golden light

That joins across the water

 

There’s a comfort in your face

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocal & Acoustic Guitar: Chantelle Pike

Piano, Organ & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

Strings, Electric Guitar & Programming: Ben Mink

 

Empires   

 

In time all empires fall and decline

All you see here will never be mine

We all live and die and fight for nothing

We will fight and die till there is nothing

Nothing left

 

We break windows to get what we want

Enter new worlds; take what we want

We all live and die and fight for nothing

We will fight and die till there is nothing

Nothing left

 

Empires all fall in time

In the decline

No one left to tie their shoes

Empty souls leave empty spaces

 

We all live and die and fight for nothing

We will fight and die till there is nothing

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike & Hannah Dean

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocals, Glockenspiel & Electric Guitar: Chantelle Pike

Piano & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

Strings, Electric Guitar & Programming: Ben Mink

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rag and Bone

 

I’ve had enough

I know, it’s dead here

I’ve heard there’s more, there must be more to life

Repetitive

We serve, we smile, we wear a grin

I know there’s more, there’s so much more to life

 

You can’t see the light when you are under

Strapped down, joyless on the merry-go-round

There is beauty in the hedgerows

Don’t ask me

 

Because you know they’ll take everything that you own

Winter’s coming around like the rag and bone

Still going round

Still playing statues

 

I’ve had enough

This house is never clean

We should flee like Thelma and Louise

I’ll get my coat

But first I’ll get the washing in

I’ve heard Mexico is lovely in the spring

 

You can’t see the light when you are under

Strapped down, joyless on the merry-go-round

There is fire in the old girl

Yet I’m bound

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike & Hannah Dean

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Upright Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocal, Bottle Percussion & Acoustic Guitar: Chantelle Pike

Acoustic Guitar, Piano & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

Banjo: Cosmo Sheldrake

Strings, Electric Guitar & Programming: Ben Mink

 

 

Messing Around

 

I was only messing around

Never meant to throw you to the ground

I was only messing but we’re turning into slaves upon a battlefield

 

When all you want is written in a story

And you’re acting like you’re living in a movie

 

Where have you gone?

 

Need some time to capture the sound

Of all the splendour racing through this town

Need some time to turn some tables

Residential bliss would be the death of me

 

What is real? We’re losing empathy

Plugged into erase reality

Silence is a friend to see

And solitude has always seen the need in me

 

We’re the generation of life’s limitation

We’re the generation of art’s imitation

We’re the generation of human degradation

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike

Drums & percussion: Randall Stoll. Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocals & Acoustic Guitar: Chantelle Pike

Piano, Accordion & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

Strings, Electric Guitar & Programming: Ben Mink

 

 

 

 

Forgiveness Killed Us

 

She’s so softly spoken and holding your hand

You could crush her fingers and grind them to sand

She would scream and you would laugh

She gladly gave herself to him and that is why you

Think these tragic things that keep you up until the dawn

 

Hurt in your head

Your bed’s burning

A seed planted

Since she went calling, calling, calling his name

 

She’s so softly spoken and holding your hand

You should hold her and drift to far away lands

Instead you dream of pushing her off the cliff

Your mother used to take you too when you were just a child

Her shameful infidelity is boring underneath your skin

And feeding off the sanity inside

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike & Hannah Dean

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead vocal, Glockenspiel, Acoustic Guitar & Percussion: Chantelle Pike

Accordion, Piano & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

Fiddles, Electric Guitar & Programming: Ben Mink

 

 

 

 

 

Home

 

Keep on watch

Watching the days go by

Though these lives

Watching the days go by

Chasing time

 

Look, I’m rushing

Inside, I’m outside, inside, I’m outside

Then I’m struggling

Inside, I’m outside, inside, I’m outside

Gotta get me, gotta get me home

 

Please don’t stop

Stopping the dangerous lights

Cover my eyes

Stopping the dangerous lights

Soothe my mind

Cos’ I’m afraid I might

 

Keep on rushing

Inside I’m outside, inside I’m outside

Keep on struggling

Inside I’m outside, inside I’m outside

Gotta get me, gotta get me home

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike & Hannah Dean

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocal & Acoustic Guitar: Chantelle Pike

Accordion, Piano & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

Strings, Ebow, Electric Guitar & Programming: Ben Mink

 

 

 

Heaven

 

Heaven see the beauty in you

Heaven see the beauty in me

Heaven how I feel it everywhere, everywhere

 

Heaven shone and gave us choice

Heaven smiled and gave us voice

Straight into the heart, heaven everywhere

 

And it’s gonna be a long beautiful life

It’s gonna be a long beautiful life

 

Heaven is the dust that lays

Heavy on this open page

Constantly the heart beats heaven everywhere

 

Heaven is a lingering stare

Shooting arrows in the air

Now I must declare, heaven’s everywhere

 

And it’s gonna be a long beautiful life

Heaven’s in your bones, chapters in your eyes

It’s gonna be a long, beautiful life

It’s gonna be a long, beautiful life

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike & Hannah Dean

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocal, Electric Guitar & Percussion: Chantelle Pike

Piano, Accordion & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

String Arrangement & Acoustic Guitar: Ben Mink

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

History

 

Where’d you wanna go?

I don’t know

Figures in the snow

Told you so

 

Where’d you wanna go?

I don’t know

Grey from head to toe

Stirring slowly

 

And this ain’t much fun

Watching everyone go down in history

Lord we gotta run

Don’t wanna see the sun bounce off my TV

 

6 5 4 3 2 1 ZERO

There’s nowhere else left to go

 

God, this is an eyesore

All that we have worked for, all our history

Not dancing when we choose to

Now, we only move so solitary

Start to gather dust, put to bed to rust inside this factory

Lord, we gotta run

Don’t wanna see the sun rise on my TV

 

6 5 4 3 2 1 ZERO

There’s nowhere else left to go

 

 

Hold on

 

Turn the mood to low

Heavy glow

On this dancefloor, on this empty dancefloor

Last orders at The Crow

Drink up slowly

 

And this ain’t much fun

Watching everyone go down in history

Lord we gotta run

Don’t wanna see the sun set on my TV

 

6 5 4 3 2 1 ZERO

There’s nowhere else left to go

 

Hold on

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike & Hannah Dean

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocal, Electric Guitar & Percussion: Chantelle Pike

Piano & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

String Arrangement: Ben Mink

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wings

 

Broken dreams leave splinters

Buried in the nine to fives

So many axes here to grind

Pretty shapes, those diamonds

 

We polish our wings and they clip them

I’m telling you this:

They’ll never clip mine

 

Children pulling triggers

So many eyes to cover

The Midas touch, a touch too much

Pretty shapes, those diamonds

 

No dead, no end

I feel it in my heart

I’m telling you this:

They’ll never clip these wings of mine

I’m telling you this:

They’ll never clip mine

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Electric & Upright Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocal, Harmony Vocal & Electric Guitar: Chantelle Pike

Piano & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

Strings, Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Mandola, Autoharp & Programming: Ben Mink

 

 

Julian

 

Stroll on, Julian

Stroll on, where she met you

Come down, Julian

Come down from your tree

Where she met you

 

Lay down, make no sound

Listen, he’s your religion

He’ll forgive you

 

Julian

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike & Hannah Dean

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocal & Percussion: Chantelle Pike

Piano & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

Strings, Ebow, Electric Guitar & Pogramming: Ben Mink

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Boatman

 

You could easily be the boatman

The wise man on the water

And I see it

I hear it in you

There’s a coloured light

I believe it may connect you

 

Helped me forget, when I heard your song

Wanna sing along

Just like the boatman

 

We used to write and we were free

The boatman, the boatman and me

You see the same

You course the same vein

There’s a golden light

That joins across the water

 

There’s a comfort in your face

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocal & Acoustic Guitar: Chantelle Pike

Piano, Organ & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

Strings, Electric Guitar & Programming: Ben Mink

 

 

 

Empires   

 

In time all empires fall and decline

All you see here will never be mine

We all live and die and fight for nothing

We will fight and die till there is nothing

Nothing left

 

We break windows to get what we want

Enter new worlds; take what we want

We all live and die and fight for nothing

We will fight and die till there is nothing

Nothing left

 

Empires all fall in time

In the decline

No one left to tie their shoes

Empty souls leave empty spaces

 

We all live and die and fight for nothing

We will fight and die till there is nothing

 

Words and music by Chantelle Pike & Hannah Dean

Drums & Percussion: Randall Stoll. Bass: Tony Marryatt

Lead Vocals, Glockenspiel & Electric Guitar: Chantelle Pike

Piano & Harmony Vocal: Hannah Dean

Strings, Electric Guitar & Programming: Ben Mink

 

Recorded at Placebo Sound, Vancouver BC and Hipposonic (previously known as Mushroom) Studios, Vancouver BC

 

Engineered by Jeremy Patch 

 

Mastered by Craig Waddell at Gotham City Studios

Vancouver, BC

 

Produced and Mixed by Ben Mink


All strings Arranged and Performed by Ben Mink