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The Great Divide

by Hanging Hills

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Yo Joseph If you like Lenola you will love this
Nice compositions!
Looking forward to seeing these folks live
Michael Steiner
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Michael Steiner The Great Divide feels like a story being recounted to you- one that you want to hear over and over again Favorite track: Company Town.
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1.
23 times leaves have changed their color in my life Now summer eves wind down To windy blustery days Blowing leaves around My great great grandfather in 1869 crossed the great divide To put old troubled days behind and take Antietam off his mind Thinking back on a simpler better day Picking Blushing Goldens while his father'd bail the hay But with storm clouds brewing down in a southward way The good times couldn't stay For the first time in his life he left that town Said his last goodbyes and set his sights down southward-bound Said we gonna hunt them rebels like a pack of hounds Lord we gonna bring them down Rambling down the Grand Army of the Republic Highway I think about our history's darkest days How we come from ashes and we all will turn to dust How he lives inside of each and all of us 23 times I've, top speed, flown circles around the sun And I aint slowing down
2.
Down the scenic roads I roll Color on the tree line This autumn day, we roam Until the sun sets in the evening and we tire I'm not going home Thinking about the shoreline past in summer days Waves they came crashing, and the sun It's endless rays But this aint no California so the seasons Well they have to change No this aint no damn Olympia I live that New England way No this aint no Philadelphia, that city life I couldn't take Soon will come the winter and the leaves will die Take our spirits with them as the colored tree line cries: "I'll be dead until the springtime when the bear awake and birds will fly" Put back all the color into the trees Spirits high as ever on an early springtime breeze But this aint no California so the seasons Well they make me sneeze No this aint no damn Olympia There's orange all along the trees No this aint no Philadelphia, that city life I'll never please
3.
Once upon a thrill walking upon the hill I saw the army come marching to a drum Coming one by one and two by two We've got a lot to do Put on your polished shoes Make yourself look fine pretty yourself in time For we've to run to town to see them come The cavalry is coming quick on Stallions six by six Leaving dust behind the cloud had left me blind The day forever in my avid mind The general passes by a flag held proud and high A scabbard on his belt his sword I swore I felt He touched it upon my head with a smile The infantry is coming down on the path to town One thousand in the line marching double time To reach their camp by dusk and rest awhile Oh what a wondrous life I hear the drum and fife A bugle strong and loud the heavenliest sound Their footsteps stomp the ground in perfect time I walk down the road With nowhere planned to go Everyone I know Has told me lies I never gave a damn About a single one of them If I tell that to myself Makes it easier to go I love them all so much
4.
The Island 03:03
Your wishes flow right out to sea, Hands stretched toward infinity. In the time it took to lose your head I had walked down Rosewood Bend and headed towards the mainland road. I sought solace in a landlocked grove where the trees grew tall and fruits bore seeds which grew and grew and grew to be Rows and rows of trees and lush greens and browns and underbrush. I'd forgotten that Island where we hid away amidst the scare of a broken world and an endless fight to find our voice and escape the night which always sought to seep in strong and bury deep into our hearts.
5.
The Crossing 01:41
6.
Company Town 04:12
And that train rolled by Northbound its steam billowing high And my hopes they reach its height I'm far below that lustrous sky, my eyes Blink the dust away Grit coats the roads, the shacks, the graves This town raised me as a child Mama was sick for quite awhile Her mind slowly slipped away I grew, despite the days And those days rolled by I kept the home a place to call mine in time Though I worked the ground Crops never grew, just withered and browned My life was a well spring dry Said my farewells to the town, goodbye Now I resolute to try Leapt on the train 'fore it rolled by So long to the old malaise With a pack on my back, I buried those days
7.
A Wise man, I am not yet I am learning from my mistakes I am yearning, I am burning To find the secret ways of this strange life And it has not, no it has not Occurred to me that I won't ever achieve this I my dreams this is how you Can understand all the answers
8.
If I could drive myself into your arms I would not let go I would not let go, no If I could pick myself up off the ground I would stand up tall I would stand up tall for all to see You know there is a drive inside of me Growing higher than a Redwood tree The mountains it will climb The things that it will see The things I long to be Once upon a time you were a child Now that you've grown old What do you behold? What will bring that sparkle to your eyes? What will bring alive what you hold inside? This life I don't quite get but that's ok Someday soon I know I'll find my way Someday I will understand this world You know I've been watching You for all of these days I have been dreaming don'y you take it away I have been searching Every place that I go I have been dreaming Of what, God only knows…
9.
Remember when we'd spend those summer weeks At your grandfather's orchard in Sharpsburg on Antietam Creek? He'd work in those fields picking Pippins to sell back in town We'd help all through morning with dirt on my slacks and your gown On white Stallions we'd ride 'Long the bridge that my father had crossed with Burnside Pebble Spirit I rode How she galloped for miles down that old Sunken Road We'd look toward the hills to that river so mighty and wide That sun on those shimmering mountains would glow in your eyes And just like its peak, lord, our spirits were certainly high Just like that flooding Potomac, our ardor would rise By that Elm in the dell We'd lay down and hear tales your grandfather would tell About the battle frontier How he traveled for miles as an old musketeer They're rushing for gold out in California If you get past those Rockies your bound to make your way Sometimes I feel like I'm growing up fast like a weed But old Oaks all sprout from a seed Unlike that endless road, those days had to end And you'd stop returning those letter I'd ardently send I heard that you're traveling westward, been searching for gold But I'll always remember those stories your grandfather told I'm blowing through wind so damn fast like a tumbleweed But old Oaks all sprout from a seed
10.
City Lights 05:45
City lights, pretty, bright and fair Twinkling in my eyes, I couldn't help but glare I'll be just fine by my lonesome self You and I, we used to have it all Until you set your sights on the bustle down below Take your time, I'm sure you'll not be long City Lights, they blind me from the stars Which help to keep in mind how small we really are Just a speck floating in a ray of light Down in town the world's in such a rush Running round and round in search of such and such But the view's just fine from way out here If I was a rich man's son I'd give up all the money and run Through the Birch and through the Pine No I wouldn't keep even a dime I'd make my own way and I'd live off the land Away from the city, I'd work with my hands Come with me through the woods Way past city lights the world looks like it should Towers tall, standing high But that Mockingbird singing in the sky Hope her song doesn't die No I don't, hope her song doesn't die
11.
So, I guess this is farewell, I guess so long for now Don't you worry about me, I will make you proud Headed on the road, Off to make a home In a different town I'll roam the countryside Through the plains upon The mountains high I'll go follow where winds blow See the world anew to set sail on below Hear those westward trumpets roar, growing louder more With pedals to the floor we're running fast as lightning With gusto down the tracks, and we aint looking back Until we make amends with all our past Don't be sad my friend We'll surely meet again someday Follow where you may Go where your heart leads you And I'll surely go with mine And as I cross The Great Divide New England forever will be on my mind It seems of late since you've gone away I don't hardly know your name anymore Seasons change with the passing days But begone goes your name through the wind to its grave Through places past that we used to know But the ghost of our love haunts me on down their roads It seems of late since you've gone away I don't hardly know this place anymore Growing up is hard to do Wish that I could grow with you But part of getting older is realizing That I cannot do it with you by my side Love is a strange song That you sing for so long Sometimes the words just come out all wrong

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Debut full length from Connecticut based band, Hanging Hills.

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released June 10, 2014

Produced by Andrew Oedel and Hanging Hills. Recorded and mixed by Andrew Oedel at Fortune Studios, New London, CT. Mastered by Jon Markson.

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Hanging Hills is a folk rock group based out of Philadelphia, PA

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