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Elise and Peter: The Tape!

by Peter House

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I'd been traveling for two weeks And I only left the country today Went to that city that you'd recommended me And stepped right out into that rain I have arrived, I've come to see Get me a room, I need a place to sleep Just for the days, I'll spend my nights Out on that street and have myself a good time... I don't know where I'm going I just know where I've been (I've been here) I waited in the airport all night And I didn't even have the time 6 am they called my flight so I could board But I already had lost my mind But when I find where I wanna go I hope that I have for it something to show A world traveler's merit badge Some memories, experience to have And I'll have it... Cause I'm bound to be going But I'd much rather stay (here in Spain)
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When I can't sit and stay, I walk around When I can't stand and stare too long, I look around I don't always like to keep on my feet It's just that these roots don't go too deep And I can't sleep, or let this settle in the soil My blood is oil, is sap from that tree If I were a tree, I'd stand in a different place every day ...and soak this all in When I can't sit and stay, I walk around When I can't stand and stare too long, I look around And I hope that I can soak this all in By some process I don't understand Cause I can't stand to see it slip away But it's out of my hands When I am a tree, I'd stand in a different place every day ...and soak this all in
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If last year was a black hole Then next year is a wide-open space And we will fill it with things Til the gravity takes hold And it's just another black hope If your heart was as light as the feather Weighed against it at some Egyptian gate And you passed into heaven, and floated around space You'd grow heavier with every sight you'd intake And then gravity would break, and you'd become... A little black hole, a god among stars And I'd be drawn to you regardless of what you are And we'd go far, so far into space But space is cold, and so is a black hole
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We recorded a split at 22 Cedar in Potsdam one night on a boombox.

I do have a few cassette copies, but you can only get them at shows. They're FREE (or we could trade something, if you'd like. Music, art, beer...)

All three Peter House original songs were written in 2009, in Spain (where I was traveling/studying at the time)

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released December 17, 2009

Elise Haley as Baby Shark (with Peter on guitar (3) and vocals (4))
Peter House as Peter House (with Elise on vocals (4))

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Peter House Rochester, New York

From the Southern Tier to the North Country, Peter House sings about traveling, community, philosophers in fistfights and Pennsylvania, and calls it all "country songs" even though most of them are only vaguely of that genre. Now living in Rochester, NY. ... more

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