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Be Careful Where You Stand
Lyrics
Those boots on your back are so heavy / You’re knee deep in quicksand again / You’re begging for the branches, they tell me / But I know you can’t wait to fall in.

You’ve brushed the good side off your shoulder / The devil works through you again / He stains your tongue black with your ink / Oh, why do you dance with him.

Your saving grace / Your sacred space / But if you need to be that man / Oh, please, be careful where you stand.

These sepia stones are all begging / To be humbled and worn by your fists / A thousand great oceans are singing / They’ll cradle and bolster you.

The bull rushes whistle and echo / With the sigh of the times that have passed / They’re asking for you to regain it, love / They want you back home at last.

Your saving grace / Your sacred space/ But if you need to be that man / Oh, please, be careful where you stand / Be careful where you stand.

Genesis

with Psy-T.

Lyrics
Wake me / Break me

Father, you have built me of wind and earth and rain / Cast me into dust so I can find myself again

Wake me (fire, water, wind and earth) / Break me (bring me home through my rebirth)

Let’s Vomit Exclusively!

with the Cow Exchange.

Lyrics
Darryl: Hey Sally / Sally: Yes Darryl? / Darryl: I was wonderin’…well, you see… / Sally: Mmhm? / Darryl: If you’d do me the honour of going out with me. / There’s a movie that I’m really into. / With ponies and dinos and beer. / They make shakes out of maggots. / It killed Keanu’s career. (That’s why I like it!) / And then we can go steady / And superglue our hands / And stay forever and always and ever like a whaler and her man.

Sally: Your odor pokes intrusively / I don’t dare act delusively / I can only spew the truth! / I say this with impunity: / I’d rather puke exclusively / than spend exclusive time with you!

Sally: Let’s go for a stroll and vomit exclusively / Pick a bush and vomit unyieldingly / Guess what I had for dinner last night / Darryl: An egg and turkey sandwich? / Sally: That’s right!

Darryl: Oh, Sally! / Sally: Yes, Darryl? / Darryl: Your pavement pizza is divine.
Would you do me [...] the honour; oh Sally please be mine! / We could move into a house! / Impregnate you right away! / And then spin around in circles. / And stick on appliques. / And then we could get married / And cement ourselves at the hip. / For always and ever and always — that’s what I call courtship.

Sally: I’d like to speak diffusively / About this opportunity / That you have so persuasively raised / I detest your jejunity / I’d rather chuck effusively / than come and share your personal space

Sally: Let’s go for a stroll and vomit exclusively / Pick a bush and vomit unyieldingly / Guess what I had for dinner last night / Darryl: Pickle beans and salad? / Both: That’s right! / Pickle beans and salad? / Pickle beans and salad? / Pickle beans and salad? / That’s right!

Let Me Believe

with the Das Binky Recording Collective.

Lyrics

I know that I need you in a way that you would never want to know / I know if I let you see the truth you’d be afraid and let me go / You are my everything / You keep me safe and whole and strong / But when you’re far away I’m fading / I’m worth nothing when you’re gone.

Reach out, love / Reach out and save me if you will / When I am falling / Let me believe you love me still.

I’m trying to train myself to keep me in and not to burden you / I’m trying to resist because you paint my reds with muted, placid blues / You are my everything / Although I know your eyes are cold / Your love is freezing me / But please don’t leave me here alone.

Reach out, love / Reach out and save me if you will / When I am falling / Let me believe you love me still.

Take what you want of me / Push me away and make me hurt / For being a parasite / It’s nothing more than I deserve.

Reach out, love / Reach out and save me if you will / When I am falling / Let me believe you love me still.

Upsurge

with Sapient Network.

Lyrics

So calm / outside / I swear I’m trying / I swear I’m fighting / Against
/ the tide / It always gets me / It always gets me / Too strong / Too wide / Withstand / Collide

One step / pushed back / I know it’s worth it / I know it’s worth it / Parry /
Attack / I can’t make it / I’ll never make it / I choke / I gasp / Take arms / Backlash

Fight / Within / I long / To shed this skin / Fight / This fate / Deny / My own self-hate

Weighed down / Stuck fast / It always stops me / I always stop me / Undone / Outmassed / I cannot break it / I will not take it / Upsurge / Surpass / Stand up / Fight back

Fight / This fear / I tear / Apart this sin / Fight / Myself / Believe / I can cross this line

Now / I rise / At last / The tides of time have turned / The dice / are cast / I brave the flood, and I, / Myself / unmasked / We grapple, arm in arm / No fear / I cry / I’ll live to see this won

Let go / Release / Washed away now / Washed away now / The storm / has ceased / Dare I raise my eyes to see?

Satin (and Other Vices)
Lyrics
Come into my boudoir / I keep the lights down low / So all the angles are refined

Curtains enclose the bed / The sheets are draped just so / Leave your morals at the door.

No one will know but you and me / If you take me hard or want me sweet / Just have your way with me.

Come into my boudoir / I keep the lights down low / So all the edges are blurred.

What is done dark brings light / What seems like play is not / Leave preconceptions at the door.

No one will know but you and me / If you take me hard or want me sweet / Just have your way with me.

Lullaby for the Bruised

Live at Lula with the Penthelia Singers. Soloist: Susan Sergeant.

Lyrics

Listen to the rain / Spilling from the skies / Mist upon the grass / Helping life arise / And falling rain will wash away the day.

Feel the brush of tears / Slipping from your eyes / Salt upon your lips / In their kiss goodbye / And falling tears will wash away the day / And falling tears will wash away the day.

No Shoes Today
Lyrics

What if I were to wake up and say that I don’t want to wear my shoes today? I don’t wanna wear shoes, I don’t wanna wear shoes today! / Just because I’ve always done it that way isn’t enough of a reason for me to do it today so I won’t wear my shoes today!

Today I’m going to be a little irresponsible / Today I’m going to be a little whimsical / I say, today I’m gonna to feel the grass between my toes
because I know I don’t wanna wear shoes today.

Today I’m going to be a little irrepressible / Today I’m going to be little bit impossible / I say, for now if I may be so bold as to cater to my inner five year old and we say we don’t wanna wear shoes today! / We’re going to let go a bit and maybe be a little lighter like way, if we don’t wear our shoes today.

We don’t wanna wear shoes, we don’t wanna wear shoes, we don’t wanna wear shoes, we don’t wannna wear shoes today, so put them away! / We don’t wanna wear shoes, we don’t wanna wear shoes, we don’t wanna wear shoes today, we don’t wanna wear shoes today, so put them away! / We don’t wanna wear shoes today! We don’t wanna wear shoes today! So put them away!

Upcoming Shows!

Penthelia Singers
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Sunday, December 4 at 3:00pm
Rosedale Presbyterian Church,
129 Mount Pleasant Road.

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