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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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  • Buy the Full Digital Album

  • 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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    Purchasable with gift card

      $18 USD or more 

     

  • 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.
    ships out within 21 days
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      $30 USD or more 

     

lyrics

When last we spoke
I sang of end times,
Of cities washed away,

The bloodless halls,
A flooded station,
And that last train from L.A.

Well, three years have passed
And here I am in the waiting room,
Delayed with all the restless,

Some sixty eyes fixed
Hard and fast on the TV
Playing something senseless.

Me, I dream of a broken watch
With hands like vines.

In the dream I see the
The sweep of centuries;
I am a prehistoric bird.

And I wandered six lane
It would be generous to call them boulevards
With their dead-eyed metal herd.

I’ve come to peck the faces,
All of the faces off of every clock,
Then set myself to ponder
The golden shoals, the clouds,
The rotting dock.

Can you hear the carnival rising,
The brutal fairgrounds aglow?
Sunburned families laughing at
The toy gun game stall,
Someone screaming below.

And I want to tell you
About November,
The people that I met,

And sleeping badly
On Pullman pallets,
Blue blanket caked in sweat.

Cardiogram power lines,
Heart of the department of the interior.
Glow-in-the-dark Casio,
Breathing fast.

When last we spoke
I sang of end times
Of cities washed away,

The bloodless halls,
A flooded station,
Could a train be an escape?

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from Book of Travelers, released August 24, 2018

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