Dust & Fumes

by Patrick McCormack

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Almost immediately after “Fresh Paint” was completed, and released, I was back at CarterCo, booking studio time. “Dust & Fumes” is somewhat of a companion piece to “Fresh Paint.” They serve as bookends, surrounding an eventful spring in 2010. The first perspective remains optimistic, while “Dust & Fumes” is a more realistic blueprint of life falling back into place.

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released 28 August 2011
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Piano, acoustic & electric guitar, drums, percussion, bass, organ, ukulele, synth and vocals - Patrick McCormack
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"Mile Away" & "So Long" guest appearances:
Lapsteel and pedal steel guitar - Sam Wagster

"Mile Away" guest appearance:
Backup vocals - Shelley Short
www.shelleyshortmusic.com

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Written, arranged and produced by Patrick McCormack

Engineered by Jamie Carter at CarterCo Recording in Chicago

Cover photograph by Patrick McCormack

© Patrick McCormack 2011

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Track Name: Up At Dawn
Up at dawn
Don't let me fall asleep
You wont
I know, I don't belong out here
Insignificant change
Why can't I sleep past 8?

Don't wait up
The ocean will always move
Waves and tides
They've got their own 'to-do'
Short flights home always drag
Is home all we ever have?
Track Name: So Long
Stacks of crushed cars
Walls of stone
Are thoughtlessly destroyed a lot faster than they rose

The times we struggled
The miles you drove
And songs from a broken heart that nobody knows
You said it sounds like something you'd have wrote

CHORUS:
I was wrong
I was wrong
Just thinking that you'd be in my life for so long
So Long
I'll miss you so,
So Long

Late December
Mid July
I had a great time last year. Good God, time really flies

I saw the heavens
On my way home
Sent cold up the cabin walls and shuffled through my bones
Would it have killed me to spend another week at home?

CHORUS

I'm sorry for the trouble
And if I let you down
I know I could make that right, but you're not around
I know I'd make it right if you were around
Track Name: Dim Lights
I was right in line
I wont apologize
You have a lie to get living so go.

You've given up the right
To set a coarse tonight
We're gonna toss the oars overboard and float

If you had said your peace
Instead of dead to me
I wouldn't take my chances on the open road

When it rained tonight
I watched your red taillights
As they vanished I felt nothing inside

If you'd given up
Don't you ever have the guts
When I saw fear tonight
Left you behind in dim light

Can't you understand why it stays the same
You look to me like I'm to blame
I never really did get you
Track Name: Dust & Fumes
In your later days you said
All those dust and fumes will put you out
But you don't breathe those now

Beneath the floorboards and the grid
Beneath the frequencies and hiss
That's where I must've given up

Like you, I tried for so long
To see through this lens
Back then I was putting on quite a show

How could it be this way? Oh no
And now the pipes, they're calling for your soul
Track Name: Breaking My Heart
All I ever saw in you
Was a portrait of myself
And now it's gone to waste
I can just barely take it
While you're breaking my heart
Breaking my heart

And you, stuck around my place
Said you had nowhere else to be
You always wrote my name
With lower case letters
While you're breaking my heart
Breaking my heart

Why are you breaking my heart?
Can't you see there's a shadow in the dark
You're never gonna reach
Breaking my heart
Into pieces
Breaking my heart and I just don't feel it
Breaking my heart
Breaking my heart

Can't you ever find the time
To keep me in your mind?
I've found it's just the same
When nothing else matters
You are breaking my heart
Breaking my heart

Why are you breaking my heart?
Can't you see there's a shadow in the dark
You're never gonna reach
Breaking my heart
Into pieces
Breaking my heart and I just don't feel it
Breaking my heart
Breaking my heart

All I never need from you
Is a life long pass to be
Attached from hand to hand
And never let go
You are breaking my heart
Breaking my heart