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Spill Kid

by Harley Alexander

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1.
Overflow 01:25
some girls in summer said I looked alright but the joke isn't mine all rosie everytime with the softest desires but i liked it morale in circles it's not for me i'm just so frazzley in time all different clothes nah it's stupid let go by the feet see that i liked it if it pleases you i'll overflow
2.
be the best friend you never had hold your head when you feeling bad i'll be glad to get on the way hold my breath because it's finally sinking in this could be the one loved you since our eyes connected even though i hate myself is this what you're hoping for am i the boy of your dreams you love and more ya know the insides so what you feeling like by yourself by the screen in of the night forgetful that you were taught sometimes it's good and sometimes it's not i'll rewrite all the words and start the conversation and forget in a blur and lose the invitation all erase it's my fault only if they have the patience it's our word it's our word it's good and sometimes its not it's our word it's our word... it's good and sometimes it's not
3.
Look at You 03:08
look at you trying lately holding back all of your plans are there for the taking like a piece together split right open could it because the pressures of a good job is not your token good job the words never spoken to you look around you seein it gets harder-dangit it's hard to make sense but you manage your tongue in happenstances so then all the others all abandoned all dependencies on good job is not yet spoken good job it was not your token like an awkward other one, other one other one an awkward other one, other one other one and all for another one, nother one wouldn't be the soul happy all alone..
4.
Tiny Bricks 03:51
she says that my words are like tiny bricks more like poetry than pickup sticks hiding knees and scraped up toes hanging over the window my sandbox has got room for more even when the sky's about to pour a salty lick, we're up all night that spongey kick... turns the tide i never wanted to go (oh no...) she took me under her fancy-- clouds are my friends when I've been on drugs moss is the place that i know and love a bridge that meets the garden wall ancient oak trees a hundred feet tall i'm movin from the city now to somewhere different glidin' down towards the cold pacific the spooky sounds of the bugs n the darkness the first time i drank was in a park like this i wanted to go she took me under.. her fancy clothes
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last time we spoke it through, we, to eachother it was not half of what i wanted to tell you but i wait timing didn't make sense you went away i learned to wait last time we spoke about to each we would talk about inner conflict people don't perceive people wouldn't love me if i feel down let's talk it over i'll be good you make this couch go away harmful, lost his way and he made some big mistakes what i change today so long it takes so long it takes this time you go to shake hands and make out with a new cute person this longing vacancy seems to be a long lost strangers history walking looking up don't even need gloves you made it and i learned to shout
7.
how many roads do i have to wait upon? moons and loons and tears i'm swimming on hearts been closed cuz i left my baby home off to the woods but my soul is bleeding from all that i've seen slay the patriarchy winters rough but i fight the demons off when i get warm thats when i get to be soft hill by hill by mountain peak i wait for the storm inside me patiently all that i know patriarchys gotta go and now i realize that this is real life back in the thick of it i won't get used to it and now i realize i lost my sparkled eyes it's never my fault patriarchy locked the vault
8.
the sun is moving the air is cooling the breeze delivers nutrients to the rivers concrete and the tomato vine the hills keep rolling the chill gets stoking the bees are working young hearts get-a-flirtin concrete and the tomato vine the flow of forces the rag of horses shooting of stars wishes made from behind bars concrete and the tomato vine

about

Spill Kid is about processing sexual-trauma. The space that opens up after the crying, despair, rage, and self hatred, is a calm and vulnerable place that I wanted to reach. Embracing subconscious thoughts and feelings and challenging conditioned toxic masculinity was on the agenda as well.

The songs were intended to just be for me as a therapeutic practice of reconnecting with all parts of myself but ended up being something I thought other people might find useful too, or atleast nice to listen to while having a bath or something.

Across rural BC, Calgary, and Prince Edward County ON at friends and families homes between tree planting contracts, Spill Kid was written and recorded using little more than a classical guitar and the talkback mic from a headphone cable.

If you've lived through freaky horror shit-I just wanna say it wasn't your fault, I believe you, and I believe in your ability to heal and live with pride and swagger and all your glorious imperfect uniqueness. It's what I say to myself and I'm working on it too.

Until next time, thanks for listening
xo
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released October 20, 2017

Released with Sports Day Records
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Musically: Everything-Harley

Recorded/Mixed by Harley Alexander
Mastered by Jacob Hiltz
Album Illustration by Myles Fairhead

Some Very Important Thank-Yous:
Sophie Wonfor, Chesel and Max Alexander, Mom+Pop, Theo-Lloyd Hughes, Ryan Russel, Myles Fairhead, Iain MacNeil, Peter Nyhuus, The Wonfors, Jennifer Blanchard, Laura-Lynne Petrick, Mea Bissett, Christopher Young, Callum Gaudet, Dimka Batarin, Jacob Hiltz, Adam Gravelle, Kurt Inder, Bianca Palmer, Estan Beedell, Sas Long, Tim Noxon, and David Bernier

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