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Violence

by Tyler Butler

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Jeremy / HI54LOFI These songs are what I imagine a lot of men's inner dialogue would be if you took them out to the middle of nowhere and left them alone to think on things awhile. Favorite track: Ben.
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jon & liam "There is a feeling that the songs are set in a time passed, a simpler period where love is more innocent and romance is just that, which, along with a yearning for a simpler way of life."

wakethedeaf.co.uk/post/33635058729/tyler-butler-violence Favorite track: Violence by the North Saskatchewan.
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Call your name 'cross the field, you have a sprinter in your blood. I am jealous of your wide nose and long legs. Summer bronzed your back, turned a wild eye to your scorn, called you reckless as you laugh through golden teeth. She longs for the sun to lie her down, feel the short grass on her back, hoist her knees and take her loving, burn the wanting from her breast. Call your name 'cross the field, you have a fever on your brow. Let your belly swell and shape you as the moon. Call me to gaze, to curse your skin and call you old. Saw your round ass wave and named you as you were. She longs for the sun to lie her down, feel the short grass on her back, hoist her knees and take her loving, burn the wanting from her breast.
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Ben 03:18
All I want is a piece of land by the water when the cold wind comes and dries my nose and mouth. I would raise an early home and face to the east and bring only my hands and wife and mind. Give me love and bring me child from the water to ward off fear and cleanse my mind of evil. I have grown the strength of hand to tame the boiling sea and bend its will and sterile use for me. Bring me firm and able mind by the water. Be stern with those who say I am older now. I will rise up with the sun and he will rise with me and claim my heart and keep my family.
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Oh river, rest your vengeance I am not the one you seek. Deep underwater a restless spirit calls your name in viciousness. Down by the river, occurrence of violence, my dear brother lies dead on the bank all for the love of the reckless woman who stole my heart and took my name. Blind old river sees blood in the distance. Pools on the water, tear out my eyes. She’s a killer, a killer of men, full and loved and honest shape. Oh river, bear away my burden. I have succumbed to a wicked fear. I am haunted by an awful demon my brother’s ghost comes chained in stones. Up from the river a cascading spirit rose as steam and fades as mist and whispers closely, mouth full of water, “I curse your soul, I curse your name.” Blind old river sees blood in the distance. Pools on the water, tear out my eyes. She’s a killer, a killer of men, full and loved and honest shape.
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Workhorse 04:39
I am young with desire for the yard a workhorse borne of muscle and lashing of the arm. I am the old one, a wisdom born of love. Finding calm in the work to be done raise a crop to the hillside, be docile and strong and mount a harness, assign me to a field Live a stern and patient life. Be husband to the ground and to a wife. I have grown so strong and been very good. I cannot raise a home with these hands no strength in my muscles can build to withstand the savage weather that tears across the plains But there are things you can do for yourself lend a hand to my aching and rest me back to health and learn to love me as wrongly as I am Live a stern and patient life Be husband to the ground and to a wife I have grown so strong and been very good

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Recorded in twelve hours by Ashton Richard Klassen in his shed and basement near Grande Prairie, Alberta. All songs by Tyler Jack Butler, arranged by Tyler Jack Butler, Ashton Richard Klassen and Courtney Løberg. Album art by Joe Gurba.

Thanks Ashton and Courtney, Lynds, Seannie, Dylan, Joe and Beth, Old Ugly and my family. Thanks also to my Grande Prairie hosts: the Løbergs, the Edigers and the Klassens.

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released October 20, 2012

Tyler Jack Butler: Vocals, Guitar, Organ
Ashton Richard Klassen: Vocals, Piano, Banjo
Courtney Løberg: Vocals, Organ
Brody Irvine: Violin

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