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Turning Point

by Alex Northrup

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I unplugged my modem Set out for a walk Connected with my own nature Answered my own call What did I miss? Don’t tell me - I don’t want to know What did I miss? This absence was to help me grow What did I miss? Three months in a lean-to With no digital crutch Although it claimed to support me I was leaned on too much What did I miss? Don’t tell me - I don’t want to know What did I miss? This absence was to help me grow What did I miss? No matter what kind of progress I missed It just hits better to bucket my own list So what did I miss? Don’t tell me - I don’t want to know What did I miss? This world and me have come to blows What did I miss?
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Once you factor out the novelty Happiness is easy to achieve The gifts of presence may not come in threes But jump that bridge Suspend your disbelief Take a walk upon the mild side Darkness can be taken in in stride The foot falls on the other shoe drop tide When the mood has ebbed You’re drawn into their web If you’re happy, never let ‘em know the score A diamond dozen on the rough draft page You’re three times more but acting half your age Back up the road the car had disengaged It stalled that rail And no one threw your bail Talent gets erotic when it’s blown Turned to dust from worn out bones Keep ‘em wondering why you let it go Goddam these genes Their blue dye’s fading me If you’re happy, never let ‘em know the score One day this will fade away
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Vespa Cosa 03:59
The western ‘burbs are quiet tonight Despite absurd reports of the right The wrongs are being swept from under the rug A shoulder shrugs and war has begun The war has begun I don’t know what to believe no more I don’t know why I believe no more The hound’s at the door A trail of lies, a tale of fate Forging art for art’s sake Two thousand strokes, a click of the tail It’s all here for you to decide what path you should forge ahead Or will you be led? I don’t know what to believe no more I don’t know what to believe no more I don’t know if I should grieve no more I don’t know why I believe no more The hound’s at the door
5.
Drug Holiday 03:51
Fifteen hours across the plains The wind’s won’t blow you sane They howl through your brain The hum of tire pressure pounds And time just spins around A scream won’t make a sound But when this holiday is through The words come back to you The script is filled and you can rest again Then test again Trapped inside this great expanse And frozen in advance Of crops that may not reap Or sow - the terror grows in fields This country seems unreal Through any shade of glass But when this holiday is through The words come back to you The script is filled and you can rest again Then test again But when the mountains rise ahead I know it’s time to come down from the clouds And start my rain And claim my prize for giving this a try Misfortune’s swept under the rug again Until we meet in this backseat And test defeat again
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Out of Time 05:14
In between the notes that’s where I live In between the holes, ‘cause I don’t fit in No matter where I land I always find I stand out of time No matter who I am I turn around and stand out of time No matter what’s in hand Drawn, decked, or dealt I stand out of time Out of time In between the tones, that’s where I’m found Pages inked with notes, sounded and bound I ride a wavelength nobody can hear And one I’m afraid to show I couldn’t tune into nobody near So this is the way I will go - go - go! No matter where I land I always find I stand out of time No matter who I am I turn around and stand out of time No matter what’s in hand Drawn, decked, or dealt I stand out of time Out of time
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Words don’t have currency or gravity Until they’re filled with weight of lies And then distilled into narcotic cries That nobody seems to hear Endless echoes bound by apathy We wait and wait to flip the script As frame by frame, the image comes to be lit So come inside: we’ll watch it burn from our door Don’t you cry: we’ve watched this movie before It always ends the same, there’s always goats to scape And no escape You can never spoil the end if it don’t arrive You start to see reality is virtually a fever dream That fell right off the screen So come inside: we’ll watch it burn from our door Don’t you cry: we’ve watched this movie before It’s not escapist anymore We should have read the book instead
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Summerhouse 03:55
Sun is setting in for darker times Someone’s betting on the next headline Placing wagers on a way too blind Find a place where you can turn your mind away Break a pebble and then watch it burn Break a promise that you never learned Earn your keep and watch it disappear Ring the bell and listen for the fear to find you This cold’s uncommon even for this town This town’s uneven, but that’s not so odd If this ignites then we can take a drive Drive into the night and turn your mind away All the faces need another chance All the faces need another dance together All the faces need another mourn No faces need another storm to weather We’re gonna burn again
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I tried to get lost in a dream Seemed that was where I should be Life on earth had seemed to lack lust Rust belt voices that don’t back trust Dusty gems were hard to scope Hope lay just outside my globe Bound outside the longest of ropes Not long ago, I used to aim high But now I’m over the moon Now I find I no longer need dream life I’m content in the backyard I can still still go and stargaze Staying safe on the ground plane No time left to play the game from not long ago I used to aim high But now I’m over the moon I’m in the stars right here at home I’m in the space, I’m in the zone I’ve got a star right here on earth
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Lillison 03:53
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Summer Faces 03:46
Summer faces and summer places And some are turning to blue Summer face us and summer grace us And some are turning to blue How ‘bout you? Maybe in time we’ll drop our line And cool our heels in the grass Maybe in time we’ll time it right And slide down the trees On the skin of our knees With whomever we please, and our… Summer faces and summer places And some are turning to blue Summer face us and summer grace us And some are turning to blue How ‘bout you? It’s just a swivel chair ride from the subway station Show inebriation? Show me the door please Payoff or payday? Shouting “mayday!” We exit the scene As we grow up from green And at work we will dream of our… Summer faces and summer places And some are turning to blue Summer face us and summer grace us And some are turning to blue How ‘bout you? Swan dive off the wagon Lady be good, later be good Look what the cat just dragged in You’re bumming a cigarette And feeding your pig Yet you’re wetting your wig And forgetting those… Summer faces and summer places And some are turning to blue Summer face us and summer grace us And some are turning to blue How ‘bout you? I wish I knew what I know now Then I’d know what to do I wish I knew what I know now Then I might see it through
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credits

released January 12, 2024

All songs written by Alex Northrup except 8, 10, & 12 written with Sammy Hirsh.

With the following special guest Darlingtones:
Cammy Enaharo
Sammy Hirsh
Billy Martin
Katie Morey
Jacob Walsh
Ryan Yarmel

Produced & engineered by Alex Northrup

Additional engineering and production by Sammy Hirsh & Sam Snyder

Recorded at Stu-Stu-Studio, Rochester, NY

Drums on “Turning Point” recorded across the river by Billy Martin

Vibraphone recorded at Submarine Sound Studio by Ben Morey

Artwork adapted from Shin-Bijutsukai magazine (1902-1906), courtesy of Public Domain Review and the Smithsonian

Mastered by Sam Snyder

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