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Conspicuously Absent

by The Idahobos

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totallykvothe2 If I was banned from listening to all music save one song for the rest of my life, I might just pick Beatrice as that one song. In any case, it's in the running for that pick.
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1.
Beatrice 05:13
He might have been a wanderer without a care Never knowing whether he was here or there But he just can't bring himself to cut his ties With the girl with the smile and the earth-brown eyes The first time he saw her she seemed so sublime He said life might be bearable if she were mine I'd have rings on her fingers, bells on her toes So the music would follow wherever she goes Met on the mountain in the August heat No place to hide, no place to retreat And every word she spoke was a shooting star A setting sun, a shot of rum, a call to war. If life is a dream can a broken heart Shake the sleep from its eyes and make a brand new start Or is it better to surrender to the printed text Read on hoping blindly for whatever happens next? The seasons are changing as the sun ordains And the summer's gone and memory alone remains But he just can't bring himself to cut his ties With the girl with the smile and the earth-brown eyes.
2.
I've caught the madness Now I belong to this I've found the place where a man is mostly free I've got the sickness And now I can't resist Going up where the competition is only bears and bees Up on the mountainside, that's where my worries die Up where the shade meets sky, and I've got one thing on my mind. There's treasure on the ground I see it all around There's acres of bounteous beauty that's fresh and pure and clean Up where the tough ones go Oregon and Idaho On that road of discovery that only few have seen Sometimes the rain will come And try to drive you home But when the going gets tough the tough get wet The sickness keeps me warm Evaporates that storm and Incinerates the troubles I've been trying to forget [Eistus' reel / St. Cecelia's reel]
3.
Heavy the heart within me lies Heavy the heart within me Great my toil and many my tears And heavy the heart within me O for the silence which echoes death For to descend upon me O for the Savior's healing Breath To mend the rend within me. You may think that I have fallen to lie But still my breath is drawn And from the ashes I will rise Up into an infant dawn Heavy you lie with no wings to fly Deep have you fled and fallen And yet lie still The sun has long since run away And heavy the heart within me O for a sun both bright and pure To grace this land with dawn light O for the grace of the evening star To end the life of long night
4.
Kolbe 05:04
You looked at him with your sunken eyes Too damn hungry for despair or surprise Still you cried aloud as they harshly barked your name Drops of rain on a rusting wire Not a heartbeat not a sigh of desire Too much anguish, too much fear for shame I'm not where I wanted to be, Somebody had another plan for me. What was I supposed to do? For my kind it was nothing new To trade my place for a man of lesser worth Did you see him did you see his expression As he gaped and he made his final inspection Of a man not broken not guarded for his birth? So here I lie like a broken stone If I can help it, sure I won't die alone You sent me down here, don't discard me now You raise me up now you lay me down Grace my head with your crimson crown The glory's mine and I only wonder how.
5.
Socrates was wise cause he's humble Watching the bumblebees bumble Dreaming up questions that nobody's answered In over two millennia. Suzie's homemade lemonade shakers Crooked politicians and bankers Sit on a wall, sit on a wall Come watch America prosper. People say we used to work harder A dollar would get you much farther The man's got his hands on everyone's land And he thinks that he's that much smarter. Californian tourists with cameras Tanning salons and cabanas Mountains and trees that nobody sees From Oregon to Montana. Crowds of people amassing Watching the summer days passing The end of the day seems so far away Till that sunset comes flashing.
6.
Elorah 04:39
Elorah, now I know That I'll never get that feeling back If I could write just one more song That would let me briefly through that door. A new life like an open book The cover hurts me now I don't look And now it pains me to stay this way And it pains me to say your name Elorah, good times go So fast with you beside the willow grove If I could forget those words sublime Well I know I'd come back one more time. I ran with you through adventures strange Then abruptly you flipped the final page And now it pains me to stay this way And it pains me to say your name Elorah, now I know That I'll never get that feeling back It's in your nature to reappear That memory keeps me waiting here. Elorah, now I know That I'll never get that feeling back And now it pains me to stay this way And it makes me wish to see you again
7.
Embrace me River Lethe Compass me round That all sensation may you only tell Dull hearing, unmake sight, touch, taste and smell And perish my pride for I cannot care What refuge it removes If not for her sake For His whom she loves Let memory of past delight and awe Flow swift unfettered from this wearied mind Then bear me up to breathe To trouble blind
8.
Jack's not the kind of guy To let his folks sit idly by Or let their minds roam to the sky. And Maura's not the kind of dame To let her mind stray from the game She just tries to keep her life the same. Is it just another world? Is it just another job? Jack meets Maura at the bar Another week in the jar I doubt there'll be that many more. Jack is sick, Maura's old This cautious tale has been retold Ever since mankind broke the mold. Is it just another world? Is it just another life? A silent grave where Jack's bones lie Maura finds it hard to cry She just turns; doesn't say goodbye. She thinks its just another world Thinks Jack was just another guy. Is it just another world? Is it just another day?

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released October 2, 2017

David Counts (guitar, bass guitar, banjo, mandolin, whistle, vocals)
Jonathan Counts (mandolin, vocals)
Kevin Kuplack (guitar, vocals)
Patrick Kuplack (vocals)
Dawn Wilburn (percussion)
Scott Wilburn (bass guitar, percussion)


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Recorded, mixed, and mastered at Wilburn Custom Shop and Recording Studio, Sandpoint, ID.
Photographs by Ealish Counts

Special thanks to Scott Wilburn for all his help in recording, mixing, and mastering, and for his advice and encouragement on the way!

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The Idahobos are the Sovereign Nation of North Idaho's premier provider of original folk rock. Established 2014

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