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What Was, What Is, What Could Have Been

by Adieu Caribou

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Donald Orr
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Donald Orr Following the release of their EP Hollow Joy in 2015, Andy Alvarez and company continue to provide fantastic lo-fi indie tunes that meet at an intersection of youth and sincerity, yet matures both in lyricism and musicianship since their last full-length release. One of my most anticipated albums of the year, this doesn't disappoint.

Faves: URIM, Pine, Tequila, Xoxoxo, Buried Luv, the whole thing! :^) Favorite track: Pine.
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tonymachine andy killed it again as usual :D Favorite track: Tequila.
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1.
You Are I Am 03:18
I’m so tired of myself I wish that I was someone else Maybe then you’ll notice me When I am six feet underneath But I’m not What you want And my thoughts Will fuck you up Days I’ll never spend with you Inside my closed off blue bedroom While you’re out cruising beneath the sun With some guy that you think is the one But he’s not What you want And his thoughts Will fuck you up Sometimes at night I pretend you’re by my side Constellations in your eyes Remind me I’m alive You are I am Everything That went wrong And you’re not What you want And your thoughts Will fuck you up
2.
Blanket Cape 04:30
I could never let you go With your hands around my throat Say you need someone else To save you from yourself Call me at 3am Just to say we were never meant But that you once were the one Who held me close beneath a glaring sun Then you looked at me with your bloodshot eyes and yelled that you feel alone Then I disappear to become my fear of always staying ghost You were heaven sent You're my medicine So sweet and poisonous I'll swallow you whole till I die Now I can't speak to you Without a can in my hand to soothe All the feelings I locked up inside And will keep there until I die Remember when you dressed all in red The same night that you wished me dead With the lights shining bright in our eyes We finally had an excuse to cry Then you looked at me with your bloodshot eyes and yelled that you feel alone Then I disappear to become my fear of always staying ghost You were heaven sent You're my medicine So sweet and poisonous
3.
Days lost in a lover’s haze Gone with each time I mention your name You'll always be all of the good things to me When you go I’ll know that even the good things can leave You left our love in a photograph Said our love won't last long but this time will last Said when you feel sad don't reach for my hand I'll be long gone with the southern wind Don't forsake my name I know we don't talk at all that much these days But I still hope that you are doing ok Erase my name from your walls and from your bed frame Where I once laid as everything around me started to fade You left our love in a photograph Said our love won't last long but this time will last Said when you feel sad don't reach for my hand I'll be long gone with the southern wind Don't forsake my name And I can’t be what you need me to be But my love is yours to keep And I can’t be what you need me to be But my love is yours to keep And I will never be what you need But my love is yours to keep And I will never be what you need But my love is yours to keep Said you want someone Addicted to your love To consume your time Paint themselves into your life When things have changed Does love remain? Does love remain? When I’m sinking down Don’t let me drown Though we don’t feel the same Does love remain? Does love remain?
4.
Holy Water 06:02
Holy water I’m drowning Please wash away all of my sins You're a saint but you don't pray for me Anymore Anymore Cut me out of your lungs Every breath draws the damage I’ve done Love is cruel and you don’t sing for me Anymore Anymore Please Please Let me stick around Stick around Please Please Let me stick around Stick around Stick around Wait won't you stay Don't let all our memories fade You're the one I’ve always loved You're the one I'll always love you But go see the world I know you’re no longer the girl That I have always loved And a memory is more than enough In my dreams You're here with me Holding hands down by the sea While I'm drowning Burn everything I gave to you Let dead flames consume Till you forget me Please Please Please let me be in your memories In your dreams And your memories No more Crying Please
5.
Only 03:41
Sixteen and your life was caving in And I won't be the sins of your past Now nineteen and you're starting over again And I just want to make amends with you ’Cause you haunt my head every night while I lay in bed And you think of me oh like I’m just like in another freak When we were young We had it all Now you're the only girl I have ever loved With diamonds in your hair feet dripping with blood Now you’re in my dreams but you're still real to me Now I all I ever do now is want to sleep and dream of you Darling please kill me while I’m young The older I become the more I feel numb Write me let me know you’re doing well And thoughts of me still only give you hell Cause you haunt my head every night while I lay in bed And you think of me oh like I’m just like in another freak When we were young We had it all Now you're the only girl I have ever loved With diamonds in your hair feet dripping with blood Now you're next to me And we’re crying ’Cause there'll never be another you and me How can this be I know I’m gonna die Close my eyes to a starry sky Kiss my cheek I’ll be alright I’ll dream of you in another life I know I’m gonna die Close my eyes to a starry sky Kiss my cheek I’ll be alright I’ll dream of you in another life
6.
Pine 04:03
I once asked you to hang with me For a cup of bad coffee And we laughed and we laughed until the time did pass And the sun sank into the sky And as we said goodbye The stars shined so bright in your eyes And the moon came out as I started to shout It's been awhile since I felt all right Months carried on it had been so long Since I lost track of time You read books in my bed And you met all my friends And I met your future instead And one day you looked so sad You said lately life's been pretty bad So I tried and I tried almost every summer night To make you feel all right Then as time moved on I met a boy with your breathe in his lungs He said with his bleeding heart That he had loved you from the start And so many people said That they could make you happy instead And I didn't mean any harm When I left you alone with the stars It's just you don't need another fucking with your beautiful heart Years passed by now you seem happy inside With the outcome of your life You have someone who would fly to the sun And get all the shit you need done I still see you sometimes I'm so glad that you're alive And I'll remember summer nights when you laughing by my side And the stars shined in your eyes Then the minutes slowed When I saw you talking on a telephone I was buying a gift for a friend In a bookstore that you worked in I wish that I could say All the reasons why I went away And always be blue For the girl with the bumblebee tattoo Thanks for saving me from a summer alone
7.
Tequila 03:35
Took every tear for granted She was crying he was laughing But now he sits beneath the moon alone Waiting for a girl that’s long gone Mistook his plastic beads for pearls He’s known for fooling every girl But he’s a bad man in disguise He uses flowers baby just like knives But he has her locked in Like the moon controls the waves Let him him go Baby please let him go Darling please let him go Baby please let him go I remember the taste of death upon your lips From every single empty kiss And the stylish way you moved your hips I don’t recall ever feeling like this I watched the stars fall from the sky Looking into your pale blue eyes Walked you home at a drunken 2AM But by tomorrow you won’t know who I am And he has her locked in Like the moon controls the waves Let him him go Baby please let him go Darling please let him go Baby please let him go Buenas noches mi amor Just know my heart is always yours Buenas noches mi amor Let me see you smile once more
8.
Xoxoxo 03:51
You're the circles around my eyes from the lack of sleep You're the days that I dream about but still have yet to see You're the bones breaking deep within his body built to sink You are Hold a hold a halo above my head as I lay upon the ground Summer's spent in a flower bed in a field behind your house But now your plants are dying and you're worried about your health You are But wait I can't see Whatever happened to you and me And tears stain your sheets As you cry just to fall asleep Said we’d never love again And threw our hearts in that flower bed But I still write you on your birthday Sign it xoxoxo Never certain about the things you locked up in the past Always thought they would never end but the good things never last Now you're all alone skipping stones and lying in the grass You are Found your favorite fable in someone who colors out the blue Let's you smile on sunny days and lazy afternoons I only hope that they see in you all the small funny things You are But wait I can't see Whatever happened to you and me And tears stain your sheets As you cry just to fall asleep Said we’d never love again And threw our hearts in that flower bed But I still write you on your birthday Sign it xoxoxo It will be all right Just gotta give it time It will be all right Just gotta give it time
9.
Buried Luv 06:44
Found love in a cemetery So I could let it get buried I found love in a cemetery So I could let it get buried But in my dreams you are with me But I'm awake and you’ll only forget me When you're near I run from you and hide Scared to face the changes in our lives Loved you when we were young and insecure Now we've grown but still feel the way love hurts Darling you Loved you back when we were younger Now you're so beautiful Loved you back when we were younger But now you sit with love upon your throne But in my dreams you are with me But I'm awake and you’ll only forget me When you're near I run from you and hide Scared to face the changes in our lives Loved you when we were young and insecure Now we've grown but still feel the way love hurts Darling you I still call you but now you don’t pick up the phone Buried in my bones are the feelings that we can’t let go
10.
Human 05:20
I am only human And she's a heavenly girl Bought artificial candy To fill my empty world Crying by my bedside To the sound of rain Just like the dead flowers in autumn In time I too will bloom again So go ahead and let me down now Just like you always do Too scared to see what I am now And what I still mean to you Cling to the arms of another So that you feel loved I only want to see you smiling I hope that they're enough Oh no time says I'll become a ghost Haunting every thought you love the most Summers spent hiding inside your room Quickly time consumed Everything too soon I heard that you've been crying Sorry about your loss I wish that I could be there Cause I too am lost And if I get to see you One more time before I die Just wanted to tell you I hope you know I tried Oh no time says I'll become a ghost Haunting every thought you love the most Summers spent hiding inside your room Slowly time consumed Everything but you I heard that you are happy Lying beneath the sun I hope that you are proud of What I have become
11.
Scout 04:31
Somewhere deep inside your eyes Is a girl I used to know Back when I so young And the time moved so slow Now she’s hanging by a thread With a noose around her neck And I am hiding in my bed As thoughts of her fill up my head Fill up my head Lately you're always on my mind Like I'm back in 2009 But I cannot rewind the time And It’d hurt too much to even try Remember lying by the stream But now it only ever feels like make believe Cause we threw out those memories there nothing more than painful things Hanging by a string With my last breathe I will sing In time time time I promise I’ll be fine So don't bear all the pain and wonder why I left you all alone to cry I know there were times that I didn't try Fucked up we never said goodbye Now we only try to rewind the time To go back and say what we never could Like love will petrify your heart like wood All we've come to know Is how to let go And your names stuck in my mouth Cause I can't say it out loud It's been so long since you called me scout This is me yelling my lungs out Somewhere deep inside his eyes Is a boy she used to know Back when life was so sweet And the time moved so slow Now all he ever does his hide ‘Cause he can't face his stupid life All he does to get by Is try to wind back the time Though we said goodbye Walked away not feeling right
12.
Champ 05:27
Summer turns blue at first light’s thought of you Winter painted red when you said that we were dead I buried my regrets In a garden by your house where you said you could no longer feel And all you do is wilt as you try to fill everything your heat spilt. Looking for someone that can do all the things I lacked Like make you crack a smile yah I know it's been awhile Since you've been happy All the empty words from the boys that don't give two shits About how you really feel and how it's hard to deal with all of this sadness And all I had to say when you went away Is that We are young and we are dumb ‘Cause we're in love with what we've lost Can't leave the past behind But we won't find What we’re longing for It's not there no more Hallelujah champ So glad your smiles back I know we no longer speak ‘Cause Heavy words only make you Sink Hallelujah champ So glad your smiles back Oh how I used to sing And you’d always dance with me Do you remember Back when we were young Summer turns blue at first light’s thought of you

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This is the third Full-Length LP from Adieu Caribou

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released March 24, 2017

Thank you to: Premiere Academy of Performing arts, Indiana Laub, Interzone, Joe Eggers, Corvallis DIY, Mondo Moreno, Fear Dog, The Shifts, Dumb Luck, our friends and families for supporting us, and everyone who has come out to a show <3

All songs recorded and mixed by Christopher McFetridge between June 2016 and January 2017 in The Basement and The Dancehall
All songs performed by Adieu Caribou
Trumpet on tracks 1,4,5,7 and 8 were performed by Matthew Mischke
Album Art by Sean Swanson

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