On the Isle

by Pete Carmichael

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Recorded at Paul's Boutique and Glasgow Sonics. This version has been remastered from the original release. Download is free or PWYC.

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Strike me with a parrot's beak
to scold me for repeating
Land that I presume to keep
was never for my stealing
How am I fully grown up
when perils go untold
The book that I have sewn will
turn to stone

Colonies that carried me
sting twice like a queen bee
No wonder when I'm overseas
I feel a sense of mortality
but since I'm on this road
I'll be careful not to roll up
my window yet it chills me
to the bone

No other snake
could catch a break
there is no place to slide
Except underneath
the mountain on the Isle

Listen to yourself and say
Have I looked into the well
Listen to yourself all day
and you'll find your way to hell
and then you'll have to make up
some story that you'll sell
to an interesting mind who might
ring your bell

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released September 21, 2018
Dave Barnes: drums
Michael K. Newton: bass
Pete Carmichael: everything else

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Pete Carmichael Toronto, Ontario

"Listening to Pete Carmichael sing... is profoundly uncomfortable."

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