My new LP 'Those Aren't Stars Above Your Head' releases this Friday, May 6th.
This is the 5th song streaming from it on Bandcamp. A bit about 'Cons At The New Moon':
Cons At The New Moon is a bit autobiographical and takes me back to my time in NDG in Montreal.
There was a greasy spoon/cafe called The New Moon we used to frequent on the way to and from our local Dep.
Across the street was a sports field and one weekend the student council had a rock festival for the environment there and it embarrassingly and borderline criminally lost a whack of money. At some point, I ran back and forth from a residence building a few blocks down to the field in my Chuck Taylors.
I got ferocious shin splints afterwards that lasted for weeks. I learned at that young age, don't run in soleless Cons.
The hack poets in the song are me and a friend. She wasn't there that day though, the shin splint day.
You can sing along if you like:
I got my shin splints running
On pavement in my Cons.
Can we cheat and lie together
As hack poets, fumbling on?
Oh I dig your powered room
Oh your potent lines, in bloom,
Are exposing you.
Your closed door, sweet breath offer
Made sense, made perfect lines.
But the swell of revelation
We'd never recognize.
Oh I dig your greasy spoon.
Oh I waited at the Moon
All that afternoon.
I got my shin splints running
On pavement in my Cons.
Can we cheat and lie together
As hack poets, fumbling on?
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