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VIGNETTES

by Exquisite Corps

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Jennifer ( Franny ) Fox
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Jennifer ( Franny ) Fox exquisite corps is amazing to see live. the music completely gets under your skin! geniune artist!
Ryan O'Connor
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Ryan O'Connor Don't miss out on track 6. It is killer. Good job guys! Favorite track: Feeling Green.
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1.
I took the North West passage. I saw the devil on acid. It left a film on my glasses. It looked like cinders and ashes. The woods were brutal and savage. And the drugs kept coming in flashes. I felt the world on its axis. It slowly spins around a massive star. I’m caught in a wave and its taking me higher. I’m caught in a wave and its bringing me farther. I can’t help the way that you’re taking me higher. I can’t help the way that you’re bringing me farther out. Cold where the wind blows. Go where the wind blows. Go where the wind blows. Gone where the blows.
2.
Floodlights 03:47
I feel the flood light fantasy taking hold. Brushing the wind from her hair to see her breath in the cold. She put the shape of her voice in the sultriest whisper, And her face in the lustiest look to come hither. Ah, man. She’s gonna burn it up, the places you’re safe and warm. She’s gonna kick it up a notch ‘till your comforts are gone. Another notch and you won’t last long. Another notch might be the last straw. With the shape of her voice in the sultriest whisper, and her face in the lustiest look to come hither… Ah, man. Chase it and taste it, her lips get me wasted I’m turned around, I’m getting dizzy Embrace it, the stain that you just can’t erase. It ain’t coming out. It's permanent. Yet it feels so amazing. The temperature’s raising, it burns. Ah, man.
3.
F.O.M.O. 04:07
I saw your body rise from the river. It was glistening like a gem from the mountain as you rose into the sun like a fountain of love. I can’t get enough of you. I can’t get enough of the way you love me, too, the way you hold me when there’s just these tender two bodies nestled as one. I was wrapped up in my shit but now I say fuck it ‘cause there’s just no room for it in this moment with my friends and lovers, here tonight, around this fire living the good life. So come on and get blissed out before you miss out on what’s happening now. I was wrapped up in my shit but now I say fuck it ‘cause there’s just no room for it in this moment with my friends and lovers, here tonight, around this fire under the moonlight. So come on and get blissed out before you miss out on what’s happening now.
4.
I’m falling slow in the gently broken petals of the rose. I’ve been crushed like velvet. I can’t help it. I wish you’d walk me home because I feel lost. Tied up, twisted, stuck, irrational. But if my words are wings, then I believe that soon they’ll lift me home. Half the time we’ve wasted our lives pining, moaning, pacing back and forth. How can we make up for lost time by standing, talking, wishing…. Listen, listen….. I’ve had enough of just waiting for nothing when nothing comes. Everyone’s gossiping. My ears are burning and I can’t make them stop. It’s a spreading cancer and there’s no answers, only questions. Well our last breath could be any second. Why waste it by wishing… Listen, listen…. I’ve had enough of just waiting for nothing when nothing comes. Oh, but something comes….
5.
Like sifting sand, time gets away from you, it washes away from you. Sleight of hand. What a trick of the eye can do, shifting your point of view, now. Take these days as a lesson in certitude striking a chord in you. Above the fray, free to do what you want to do, its lifting the weight from you now, Lifting the weight from you now. Weightless and shaped like a cloud. Ripples repeating the sound. At a break neck pace There’s just choices there’s no mistakes. in the ways that you undertake. Give and take. Push and pull from that chord in you. Its lifting the weight from you now, Lifting the weight from you now. Weightless and shaped like a cloud, ripples repeating the sound. Out of the night and into the mood. Something so strange has happened to you. But each piece of your soul is covered in joy, where nothing’s created but nothing’s destroyed.
6.
With our intentions we’re moving mountains, impressions building cities that seed from a dream. With forces flowing from deep in the ocean, from deep in the forest, and pouring its love into me. A spark has scattered our minds through matter, it pulls and gathers thoughts in a magnetic ring. With strings a-humming, buried in silence, bursting with music and born of an eternal spring. Walking tall. Feeling green. Moving free.
7.
Lights are dim in a strange, strange city. Two planes and a car ride from home. At the bar, another ginger and whiskey. Fuel the fire, help me ride out the storm. A naked room and a busted T.V. Spattered stains on the carpet below. Its like my mind its awful dirty and dizzy, and populated with impossible ghosts. And my heart burns down every rational thought. And my mind reels in and out of every rational thought. I pace the streets because I can’t get sleepy. I walk for miles with her elegant bones. She’s got those lips that’ll suck the dark from the evening. She’s got those pupils staring right through your soul. I reach for you its so automatic. I reach for you like a hawk in the night. You’ve got my pulse in machine gun static. You’ve got my pulse raising up with the tide. And my heart burns down every rational thought. And my mind reels in and out of every rational thought.
8.
Forget the stressful life that surrounds your apartment. Forget the sleepless nights. Today we’re sleeping in. You get wound up so tight that you’re bound to cave right in. But it’s your only life so just breathe it in. We found our way through the dead end, dense, dark maze. We stretch our eyes to see the light of day. A precious ounce of time is all the time we really need. ‘Cause it’s your only life so just breath with me. We will go where we want and where we want to be is here, with you, now, in this space. To be happy…. Just imagine it. And we will do what we want and what we want to do is this, with you, now, in this space. To be happy… Just imagine it.
9.
You can pass the time with a wish trying to make it out. You can grind the nine to five down until your calloused fingers bleed. It’s getting harder to be what you really need when the hours are filled paying bills, trying to make ends meet. Don’t let it kick you down into a ruthless, hardened man. Don’t let it paralyze you until all you want is a coffin full of greed. It’s getting harder to see what you really need (when you’re) too tired to care, blank stare, like you’re walking in your sleep. If this is the truth, it’s coming down… Are you the picture perfect poster child of the narcissistic breed (who’ll) trample underfoot anyone with such a pathologic speed. Its getting harder to breathe when the air is so thin, when you know the ship is sinking, when the walls are caving in. If this is the truth, it’s coming down and taking root. But we can reap tomorrow what’s sown today where our lives are shining through the haze. We can reap tomorrow what’s sown today and I’ll feel so unfettered, free. In my periphal vision, in the side-long distance, while the world keeps spinning on this cruel existence, I feel an existential tug coarsing in my blood. Don’t let it kick you down into a ruthless, hardened man. Don’t let it paralyze you until all you want is a coffin full of greed. It’s getting harder to breathe when the air is so thin, when you know the ship is sinking, when the walls are caving in. If this is the truth, its coming down… Will I be waking up tomorrow still singing these blues….
10.
Wandering Wondering Climbing out of a dream. Wake up Wide eyed Staring through this bright night. Wandering Wondering thoughts that keep me company. Wide eyed Waving goodbye to summer’s whitewashed memory. Flashing Fleeting Car lights acrossed the ceiling. The hushed sounds of your breathing. A calm collected feeling. Wandering Wondering Climbing out of a dream. Wide eyed Waving goodbye to summer’s whitewashed memory. Flashing Fleeting Car lights acrossed the ceiling. The hushed sounds of your breathing. A calm collected feeling.

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Sophomore album by Exquisite Corps
Recorded and mixed by Ira Skinner at Alley Avenue Studios
Mastered by Tony Lash at the Magic Closet
All songs written by Exquisite Corps
Copyright 2014 EXCORPS MUSIC (ASCAP)

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released September 16, 2014

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Exquisite Corps Sacramento, California

In typical rock’n’roll fashion, Exquisite Corps emerged from a downtown garage in the spring of 2011. Beginning as a sextet, they have since proved to be anything but a typical band. With an original vision encompassing the lush power of a string trio (cello & two violins) melded with an indie rock trio (guitar, bass & drums) the band has evolved on the road into a full-fledged psych-art rock band ... more

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