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Hard Times EP

by Olenka and the Autumn Lovers

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1.
Your eyes try to tell me he treated you poor. Those men in the factories love nothing at all. Your sorrows confess that you loved him the best. But that don’t make sense. Means I ain’t got a chance to love you at all. Now I’ve had my troubles, and I’ve had my trials. Been lonely and ugly for many a while. But deep in my soul I been purer than gold. Oh why can’t you see all the promise in me ’stead of nothing at all? Your hands always tremble; my words always fail. Our hopes are our prisons, our lovers our jails. I ask you to dance, but you stare at your hands. And that don’t make sense. Means we ain’t got a chance for nothing at all.
2.
Only Arms 03:32
I left my city. I left my home. I left my sanity too. I went running to the only arms I knew. The streets were dirty. The streets were cold. The streets were bitter and blue. Yet I went running to the only arms I knew. She was pretty and she was kind. She was honest and true. Still I went running to the only arms I knew.
3.
Misaligned 02:27
Ooooooh, what a waste of time: to cling to things and be left behind. Ooooooh, what a foolish heart: to dwell on dreams and be torn apart. Ooooooh, what a selfish game: to draw it into an endless pain. Ooooooh, what a waste of time: to cling to things and be left behind.
4.
Grey Morning 03:35
Grey morning, why’d you come so soon out of comforting darkness? I could sleep for days. Slow waking to an angry storm off a New Brunswick highway. I could drive for days. Hey morning, been out on this freeway for a year and a Monday, but I can’t find a good way home, so I wake alone to your monochrome. Say something; don’t just stare at the cracks in our holy ceiling. You could pray for days. Grey morning, why’d you start so soon in uncomfortable silence? We won’t talk for days. We don’t talk for days. Hey baby, I am what you make me: a lover or lackey, a fog on a freeway, a tone in the misty pale of your monochrome. Grey morning, you come for me lately to mock and forsake me with love like a thorn in my side, which I must abide. And I must abide.
5.
Hard Times 03:01
Hard times leave you lonely, sometimes. Leave you staring down at the feet, of the folks you pass in the street, sometimes. Hard times leave you breathless, sometimes. Suffocating at home, waiting for someone to phone, sometime. Hard times make you distant, sometimes. Make you tell comforting lies, not look in their eyes, sometimes.
6.
Winterlude 03:17
Lake on the outskirts of the town by my home, all alone. Tracks from the toolshed to the lake in the snow, all alone. Where were you going in the night like a ghost, all alone? Leaving me all alone.
7.
Annelies 03:26
Once, once upon a time, before I felt so old, and soldiers roamed the earth, I used to feel the sun warm upon my face, fragrant in the leaves, sweet upon my lips, bright within your eyes. Once I walked beneath an azure field of stars. Now, now in corridors, crevices, and cracks, I feel your dormouse hearts pounding in my veins. How I love you all.

credits

released October 2, 2012

recorded by Simon Larochette at The Sugar Shack
mixed & mastered by Dan Weston

artwork by Trevor Carter
design by Andrew James

produced by Olenka Krakus
all songs written by Olenka Krakus
arranged by O&AL
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musicians:
Olenka Krakus | classical and acoustic guitars, vocals
Evan Brodie | bass, electric guitar
Sara Froese | violin, backing vocals
Simon Larochette | electric guitar, bass, pedal steel, lap steel
Jeffrey Moon | drums, acoustic guitar
Kelly Wallraff | cello, piano, backing vocals

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Olenka and the Autumn Lovers Montreal, Québec

Olenka's music is enigmatic: never fully committed to one genre. It has been labeled folk, but moves across times, places, and moods. Olenka mixes classical and jazz arrangements with complex finger-picking patterns, irregular time signatures, and pop melodies. The band's diverse instruments provide a distinctive backdrop to Olenka's provocative lyrics. ... more

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