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Empty Country II

by Empty Country

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1.
Pearl 05:42
Grandpa Aaron prophesied The year the messengers would arrive In living ships That burn next to the sky Home from school I’m on suspension For selling all my Ritalin Mare makes eggs Then she gets down to business By 3 she’s comatose Dark den Snowy television So I’m learning “Cherub Rock” On an ex’s electric guitar A flat affect But I really care I see some far-out shit that isn’t there It’s in our blood And our dust-colored hair Mare’s been toast since ‘84 She lost some friends Then she lost some more She sent letters and Violent Femmes to John Hinckley When she had me she was 39 A pickled Pearl, but I was pretty much fine When the future’s written You just kinda have to resign to it Any day We’ll escape from our heads From the chain of consequences And ascend Mama, I can’t leave you here in hell Anywhere I go I’m still myself I’m a tunnel caving in And a goddamn great American Any Day We’ll escape from our heads From the chain of consequences And recall everything forgotten
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Erlking 03:38
Those twenty kids Should be visiting colleges And kissing in dim finished basements Erlking Stowed away on wooden ships In the nightmares of the Calvinists It waited Masks shattered Scorched lawns The end times end We all sing along One short verse Thirteen bars The force of fifty collapsing stars I hear it That thrum Of inconceivable instruments We’re well and truly fucked, my dear The blank billboards still all lit up Like windows to the tenth dimension There is something So much worse than the fear of fear Glimpsed in a dented metal restroom mirror Then forgotten Black forests Small graves It could have been any other way That debt’s due Take on more We’ll still retire to golden shores He’s our man Don’t ask why Forget who he molests He’s a hell of a guy The kind you wanna crack a frosty beverage with Neck in the back of his big car That locket’s a portal To an alien graveyard And a barely-throttled sob Masks shattered Scorched lawns The end times end We all sing along One short verse Thirteen bars The force of fifty collapsing stars I hear it That thrum Of inconceivable instruments No shelter No shade It could have been any other way And it’s a little late to be afraid It’s a little late
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David 05:11
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Dustine 06:09
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Syd 03:25
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Bootsie 07:09
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FLA 04:47
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Lamb 05:13
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Cool S 12:47

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released November 3, 2023

All music/ lyrics by Joseph D’Agostino except ‘Erlking’ music by Joseph D’Agostino and Rachel Browne

Produced by John Agnello and Empty Country

Engineered by John Agnello

Mixed by John Agnello at The Rabbit Hole in Raleigh, NC.

Additional engineering and FX processing by Empty Country

Mastered by Greg Calbi at Sterling Sound

Joseph D’Agostino: Vocals, electric guitar, 12-string acoustic, baritone guitar, piano, Wurlitzer, organ,
mellotron, Chamberlin, toy piano, harmonica, Telefunken Gavotte, loopz

Charlotte Anne Dole: Charlotte Anne Dole: Drum set, tambourine, bongos, marimba, glockenspiel, egg shaker, seed pod shaker, claves, cowbell, buddhist temple bell, bar chimes, tubular bell chimes, timpani

Patrick Dole: Bass, marimba

Rachel Browne: Backing vocals on “David”

Photography and layout by Rachel Browne

Thank you to Rachel, Joe and Phyllis, Nan and Pop, Mitch and Tammy Easter, Matt Whipple, Paul Boswell, and the many Patreon subscribers who helped fund the making of this album.

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