A shiny screen-printed CD in a 6-panel card case with exclusive artwork and a prose poem sort of thing in the way of liner notes. Look at it and think of the cool waters and monolithic pines of scenic North Idaho.
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This is a sky-blue, music-grade cassette made of recycled plastic inside of a clear case, with artwork specially redesigned for the odd strictures of the J-card format. An impractical, perishable object which could be nice to have around in your limited time on Earth.
Includes unlimited streaming of Forever Only Idaho
via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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lyrics
Memory
comes out and meets you like an enemy
in the smell of burning fields,
in desire that never yields.
You're getting tired;
it's getting down to the wire.
Another year or two,
who knows what you might do.
December comes on like a heart attack.
You call and no one calls you back.
They all get depressed,
or so they say.
Hole up in their rooms
like stowaways.
They've paved over the vacant lots
where you and your brothers got lost.
Is love just standing by
watching a million useless things die?
Birds headed south
and you've half a mind to follow them out,
leave the dead for dead,
follow the magnet in your head,
but something in the treeline glow
says you've got nowhere to go.
You might make it to Sandpoint
or Kellogg
or Moscow, or Spokane,
but if you ran,
well, the hemisphere's too small,
the world's too hard
to break such a late fall.
credits
from Forever Only Idaho,
released March 19, 2021
Harrison Lemke — electric guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocals.
Marc Barnes — drums.
Jared Evans — lead guitar.
Caleb Knorr — piano.
Daniel Merritt — bass guitar.
I'm in awe of the stories Eric tells with such an economy of words here. The magnificent arrangements and weighty vocals, which seem always about to fade into sigh or groan, also help. Harrison Lemke
I made a video game, and this is the soundtrack by my Casiotone guitar pop / ambient / experimental music project. That's a weird digression but sometimes life is like that. Harrison Lemke