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  • Book of Travelers CD
    Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Comes in a digipak with complete lyrics and original photography. You will be emailed a link to download a song upon pre-ordering, and will receive four additional songs (one every 10-14 days) leading up to the release. (Image is just a mock-up; physical product doesn't exist yet!)

    Includes unlimited streaming of Book of Travelers via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    **We have resumed regular shipping (24-48 hours from placement of order)**

    A new, limited edition pressing of the critically-acclaimed 2018 album is here on gorgeous translucent orange vinyl.

    “a stunning portrait of a singular moment in America” — Rolling Stone
    “one of the finest, most searching songwriters of the day” — Alex Ross, The New Yorker

    Includes unlimited streaming of Book of Travelers via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Sheet Music

    PLEASE NOTE: this item is currently being reprinted and will ship in 3-4 weeks.

    Full Score, Piano & Voice, for Book of Travelers. Engraved, note for note, by the composer. 70 pp.
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lyrics

The flag was torn in a Tuesday tug-of-war
I was standing there in tatters when the carnie took the floor,
Left my cellphone for a suitcase,
Checked the pockets for a clue—
There was an atlas;
It reminded me of you.

Chinese dragon inches toward the boarding gate.
Found my seat and told a joke to break the ice, but it broke too late.
The punchline shattered on the carpet,
All our faces turned to shale
Up the Hudson for a furlough to the rail.

8980 on an overnight train
Crawling back toward the national pain,
I’m a city boy swimming in the Laramie plain
Looking for something—
What it is?
I just wanna talk to you.
I just wanna talk to you.
I just wanna talk to you.

Smoke break breathing North Dakota in the snow.
Is difference only distance from the people I don’t know?
‘Cause here I am with strangers
Singing four-part harmony
Of a pasture undivided to the sea.

8980 on an overnight train
Crawling back toward the national pain,
I’m a city boy swimming in the Laramie plain
Looking for something—
What it is?
I just wanna talk to you.
I just wanna talk to you.
I just wanna talk to you.

Last light sinking in an unfamiliar bed,
Crooked shoulder, crooked conversation
Running through my head,
Gonna count the trees and taillights
‘Til the hour I’m left to dream
Of that pasture undivided to the sea,
Undivided to the sea.

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from Book of Travelers, released August 24, 2018

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