Lowflyers

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1.
Minnesota 02:46
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VERSE/REFRAIN 1 I don't know a soul for states around But to me, it all looks green And I've no reason to believe That everything ain't what it seems Mom, please don't cry when you get the note I wrote you 'Cause I just need to go to Minnesota VERSE/REFRAIN 2 So I'm flying down the road Like a tornado trampling red lights The wind is fixing my hair for me As I'm slicing through the night The sky's a splash of tangerine shining down over lakes and ghost towns Now I'm on my way to Minnesota BRIDGE I'm riding a wave To find that crooked water Oh, that crooked cloudy water VERSE/REFRAIN 3 As I pull up to those frosted northern woods On the borderline Feel like I could say my last words 50 years before I die I took the wheel of my youth and I stalled it in the snow there 'Cause I just had to go to Minnesota Yeah I just had to go to Minnesota
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Lenore 02:49
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INTRO But I grew up (Lenore) Yeah I grew up (Lenore) VERSE 1 Shades hide the makeup you've been working on all day Black fading into blue We trade the trees we carved for bedposts, but I'm getting through to you Singing your blues I give you one, you take twenty-two You know I'm weak when I see you And I don't leave your sight much Singing your blues (I don't leave your sight) Shade to hide the shade under your eye I'm already caught up in your lie, Lenore BRIDGE You're the only one that made the effort to get to know me And if I let a secret slip, you'd still subvert it 'til it owned me So I never really could convey the way I feel to you And I dream of showing you honesty and why they say it's brutal VERSE 2 Hey I grew up (Lenore) And I spent ten lousy years right here beside ya (Lenore) Then I bought you a little place Where you could go insane Then you dragged me through the doorway right behind ya, Lenore (INSTRUMENTAL) VERSE 3 Oh, purity has fallen long behind us (Lenore) Feels like ten thousand years I've been beside ya (Lenore) But we never learned to say What's wrong inside our brains So you better keep it padlocked up inside ya, Lenore Better keep it padlocked up inside, Lenore
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Far From Home 03:06
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VERSE/REFRAIN 1 The smell of cigarettes and vegan food Is spilling through the crack beneath your door Shorts and t-shirts overflowing to the floor In a lonely fog and very far from home VERSE/REFRAIN 2 Our frosted northern dwelling growing Colder every silent moment Watching our commitment fading, falling to the floor In a lonely fog and very far from home Lonely fog and very far from home CHORUS Cave drawings of you and me Fragments of what we used to be Hollowed out by something we can't see VERSE/REFRAIN 3 I'll take my jars of wasted breath And spend them on somebody else And you will lock your door and learn to swim in your contempt In a lonely fog and very far from home BRIDGE Blank white walls, brass lock on the door Holes in the sheets and the ceiling There's not one person here Who would notice me leaving Blank white walls, brass lock on the door Holes in the sheets and the ceiling There's not one person here There's not one person here There's not one person here Who would notice me leaving CHORUS Cave drawings of you and me Fragments of what we used to be Hollowed out by something we can't see
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Right You Are 03:47
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VERSE 1 Lo and behold You tore a hole in my overcoat Changed into your summer clothes And got out of town Now ghosts, they gather round Playing games right outside my house They even got themselves a couch To watch TV and lounge If you don't come around Something's gonna take your place VERSE 2 These ghosts, they have no tact Whisper and whistle through the window cracks They're practicing their stand-up acts I want my money back (back, back) You used to come around And chase them all away But they're gonna keep me company today CHORUS 1 Cobwebs on the land You showed up with your heart in hand Threw it down with seven grand Turned and walked back out And revving up your car Yelled, "you're not who you think you are" Sped off down the boulevard And into the night HOOK And if I listen hard I'll know just how right you are The truth is sneaking through my walls And into my life (INSTRUMENTAL) BRIDGE If you don't come around Something's gonna take your place Whether or not I want it to VERSE 3 Sick today Snuffed the fires that lit the way And I was packaged and mailed away Without a sound Low black clouds I was sent to the racing downs Couldn't keep up; I screamed aloud They threw me right outta town CHORUS 2 You say I've changed and all You don't know how right you are I'm dancing down your boulevard And into the night Oh you say I've changed and all You don't know how right you are Dancing down your boulevard And into the night Dancing down the boulevard And into the night Down the boulevard And into the night
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I'm Tony 03:56
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INTRO "I've encountered a lot of spirits in the radio... There's a whole spirit TO the radio. Right? Intros aren't in. Intros are not in. Let's-let's hear the tune..." VERSE 1 I'm Tony As if I could be any other I'm sure someone told you about me Or at least you've seen my face I'm Tony You may think I'm just an impostor But I swear to god I'm the real thing Please hold your applause 'til the end I'm Tony And I'm all about introduction If I'm gonna decide your future Let's get a few things straight... If I hire you Which I must admit I would like to I wanna see production go X2 Or I'm flushing you down the drain INTERLUDE 1 If you knew what I knew You wouldn't need a clue Don't worry, I used to be Just like you VERSE 2 Now, I go underground To a club they call the Lost & Found And I argue down the cost amount That's an average night on the town It's incensing These kids forget I'm the best thing In my old age, I'm investing In things that turn the grass brown I pause for the laugh track And I tend to overact And my old friends are over that But they're all gray and green And I'm Tony And I got some advice I should give ya And if I were you, I would listen: I went platinum in '93 (yeah) INTERLUDE 2 All the wasted years Retiring to Algiers When the world... needs... me! (INSTRUMENTAL) BRIDGE And they ask me, "how do you feel?" I say, "ask again with more zeal! I feel like a five-figure meal A five-finger meal" And if you sign on the dotted line We'll trade your dreams for a bottle of wine Write us a song so fine It could be named after me, "Tony" (STOP PLAYING!) I'm sorry See, I'm only trying to help you I know what you did last Sunday My only son's a DJ I was young once and I've seen careers fall to pieces Seen good men fall in the deep end Reaching out for a hand VERSE 3 I'M TONY Also known as big shot or honcho I'm sure someone told you about me Or at least you've seen my face I'm _____ I'll be signing autographs later And I'll let you all become strangers Before I let you live in my mind Get in line Get in line Get in line HA! OUTRO "Folks, I'm here in Los Angeles; we're doing a new TV show, I've had a very long day, I'm very stressed out, very high-strung, I feel awful"
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Turn Back 03:56
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VERSE 1 Trained myself to come back down But I'm still a little shattered in two And I can't tell you where my family went And the world still tastes like you When I'm coming down, I'll have you to thank For the burns on my hands and a mind gone blank When I'm coming down, I'll be sure that you love me Red eyes on the sunset above me CHORUS 1 I've grown in Into my words Believed them 'til it hurt And I turned back Back to my words And I jumped in headfirst But I'm ready to come back down And say just what I've learned VERSE 2 Everybody sees my beauty when I'm weak I've been real down and walking in my sleep 'Til I walked outta down, barefoot, no keys And everybody said, "who's he?" And now the road stretches out behind me Through fields I barely recognize All I've ever known is what's at the end And it's left me paralyzed PRECHORUS 1 I can't be heard Always alone I don't even know if it's wrong CHORUS 2 I lost the thing I loved the most The hope there's time to change I've been lying To everyone But I'm good at playing everyone's games And I can't shake that curse No matter how many times I change my name BRIDGE And I fell for things I didn't believe in And I spent a lotta time alone Or under the control of another Trying to find my way back home (INSTRUMENTAL) PRECHORUS 2 Count the cracks In the stained glass That once shined ruby red CHORUS 3 'Cause I've grown in Into my words Believed them 'til it hurt And I'll turn back Back to my words 'Til I return to the earth I'm ready to come back down And say just what I've learned 'Fore I turn back Back to my words And I return..... to the earth
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Lost & Found 03:47
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INTRO It spread all over town But it started in the hills Sirens in the distance Blue lights on the bridge VERSE 1 It's early in the morning I floated out my door With a black bag in the trunk And a prayer from the night before Skid marks on the road All the way from Ricky's house I'll meet you at the register My last two rent checks bounced CHORUS Lost and found, lost and found Bottom of the pile at the lost and found Lost and found, lost and found Bottom of the pile at the lost and found VERSE 2 Where's the money go? We traded it for gold I might be thirty soon, I hardly know (but I know) When I popped the hood Everything was SH- (shot) I still climbed inside To watch the rain turn to snow An impulse and a means To the wind with every sheet Please just make it out This place in one piece I had good explanations For all my past engagements But you only hear bad news Under silver platter moons CHORUS Lost and found, lost and found Bottom of the pile at the lost and found Lost and found, lost and found Bottom of the pile at the lost and found (INSTRUMENTAL) VERSE 3 Wrecked it on the bridge Crawled out to the street Watched it break the rail And tumble down below I was searching for a place To safely set some blame But no one let me down I'm just old enough to know So it started in the hills And it ran right outta town Some of 'em get lost Some of 'em get found CHORUS Lost and found, lost and found Bottom of the pile at the lost and found Lost and found, lost and found Bottom of the pile at the lost and found OUTRO Lost and found Lost and found Bottom of the pile at the lost and found
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Freezing Cold 02:20
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Into the sun on a freezing cold night
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Lowflyers 04:51
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VERSE 1 Sitting by the river with the crows in the cloudy gray We're watching Coca-Cola cans wash up on the shore The wind is in the water chopping up all the waves Into broken mirrors of the sky But there's a ray of tangerine Reflecting from river and refinery CHORUS 1 And everything is calm, but nothing is settled I think I should've just stayed home But I'm thinking out loud to no one, all alone Feel like I came 600 miles to meet someone Came 600 miles to meet someone 600 miles to meet someone And I never got their name VERSE 2 And I've been living between towns Still the wrong side And the bridge is out Hope this river dries But I keep finding myself in another apartment With dirty water dripping from the faucet Think I've been stuck in this moment long enough I deserve to be out of it CHORUS 2 And everything is calm, but nothing is settled I think I should've just stayed home But I'm thinking out loud to nothing, all alone Feel like I came 600 miles to meet someone And they changed their address and they turned off their phone And I've been stuck in this moment long enough I deserve to get out of it INTERLUDE So I get out of it Get out of it (INSTRUMENTAL) VERSE 3 You see the birds flying low in the rain of these northern parts And when they've had all they can take, they choose to fly far You'll hear it in dreams and you'll whisper it in the dark: "One day, we'll be back to normal" But I'm telling you know, normal's never gonna look the same So you gotta let it change You've just gotta let it change Already been through the steel town Had the wrong nights At the wrong bars With the dimmed lights From the bathroom sink to the kitchen floor Then I wandered right back to the same home CHORUS Feel like I came 600 miles to meet someone 600 miles to meet someone 600 miles to meet someone 600 miles to meet someone BRIDGE Your reward for all this is that as long as you live, You'll say what you need to say You will never blink first again Go ahead and let that grief change CHORUS/OUTRO 600 miles to meet someone 600 miles to meet someone And I just learned their name
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Stray 01:40
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VERSE 1 You might feel like everybody hates you And some days you might almost be right I haven't heard your voice in seven Aprils But I keep you in a summer sunset light CHORUS You hold a special place and that's enough (and that's enough) You inform everything I think today (thing I think today) I've built up quite a lifetime all around you My fellow northern stray VERSE 2 I wish we could have every conversation I worked out all alone over the years But I don't think I'm ready for your answers And I still don't have the patience for my fears I still don't have the patience for my fears CHORUS You won't move out my heart and that's enough You're deep in every song I sing today (song I sing today) I've built up quite a lifetime all around you My fellow northern stray

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MINT 400 RECORDS
Recorded fall 2019-spring 2022 in Pittsburgh, PA and Troy, NY

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released February 17, 2023

Mixed and mastered by Nick Zampiello (New Alliance East)
All songs written, recorded, engineered, and produced by Tom Maroon, except:

- Minnesota - lyrics by Tom Maroon, music by Tom Maroon & Nicco Centofanti
- Far From Home - lyrics by Tom Maroon, music by Tom Maroon & Nicco Centofanti
- I'm Tony - guest vocalist: Gene Baker, LLC

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Tom Maroon Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Songwriter and producer.
Indie rock, folk, trip-hop, jazz.
I like telling stories.

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