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liance - mt. vernon oh lyrics

[verse 1]
i spent a week at johnson’s home in mt. vernon, ohio
to record some tracks for my first ep for a july release
and see his high school friends like graham, andrew and nora
and spend time with johnson before he left for hungary

they filled up quarries with water to create artificial lakes
a m-ssive smoke stack loomed over the tall, tall trees
we walked barefoot through the mud and bushes to the secret hangout
we took off our clothes and swung from the rope into the cold

[chorus 1]
teenage middle-school girls, awkward and self-conscious
swam close to us, swearing at each other in young voices
they left when they felt what they thought was something biting their feet
it started to rain, i began to shiver, limbs rotating aimlessly
four years ago the police searched the water for a murder victim’s body
they never found it, just some sunken cars

[verse 2]
nora drove us to the edge of the world at golden hour
we parked inside an empty lot through a destroyed fence and a railway track
walked down the gravel road which was littered with bones, bags and dead animals
stacks of red bricks, smashed-in tv’s and the hood of a car

[chorus 2]
then we found it a large expanse of concrete where a factory used to be
trees and long gr-ss grew out of cracks, puddles pooled sporadically
it was alien and disturbing for reasons we could not explain
we stopped walking when we smelled chemicals, and ran the other way

[verse 3]
we explored an abandoned poorhouse that was falling apart
ran out of its collapsing floors when it started to get dark
at the top of the observatory hill in the gr-ss we went star-tipping
and stumbled our way back to the car when we heard something screaming

[chorus 3]
we drifted around kenyon college at midnight where andrew gave me the tour
walked around the church holy spirit and its red carpet floors
i tested out the acoustics clapping my hands and singing victoria city
a moment is infinite because every moment is unique

[verse 4]
on the last day we went to the sunday service where we talked to god
on the last day johnson’s mom talked about joe; her autistic older son
she wanted to build a special-needs home for three other kids and joe
and she cried when she said that‘s how she’d provide when it was her time to go

[chorus 4]
only saw johnson one more time that year at pitchfork festival
it was the second night after headliners neutral milk hotel
and standing in union park with harsh lights and empty plastic bottles
we hugged and left separately, it feels so long ago
there’s only a finite amount of times i’ll go to mt. vernon before i die
but it doesn’t mean that it ain’t special or that i won’t at least try
i’m not one for hyperbole or cheap clichéd sentimentality
but johnson is a friend i will keep and love for as long as i breathe

- liance lyrics

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