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Summer Homes

from Summering by maxwell stern

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a song about touring and transience

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swore off the drink to start off the new year
my skin’s been soaking in solutions brown & clear
now it’s like someone turned the saturation up
and my friends are taking bets on if I can make it through the month
but i’ll do it cause you asked me

and i’ve got calls to make and texts to respond to
half-drafts of messages i can’t seem to push through
i sleep too late and haven’t seen the sun in months
so i’ll turn off my phone, try to just be here for once

so don’t wait up
you know i’ll be coming home just late enough
to catch you as you start to drift while i stay still
but every day is ours to fill and not a thing
could interrupt our summering

“you always fall asleep in towns i’ve never seen
so how could i compete with some unyielding dream?
your faraway communiques all leave me feeling cold
and i can’t relate cause you refuse to share the road

how long exactly do you plan to live like this?
the birthday cards, the inside jokes, the meetings that you’ll miss”
i’m relatively sure that one day i’ll slow down
it’s not forever but it’s what i need for now

so come on and hold me close
cover me in ink and code and smoke
my eyes pixelate, affix to screens
and ties of time rip at the seams
we’re drunk on what we should become
and freezing in our summer homes

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from Summering, released February 14, 2014

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maxwell stern Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Hailing from the post-industrial shores of Cleveland, OH, Maxwell Stern has been writing music and touring since the early 2000s. He has released a slew of LPs and 7"s, and has played shows pretty much everywhere including an abandoned restaurant in Wyoming, a mall in China, several squats in Germany and a pretty nice bookstore in Australia. He is definitely not the person writing this. ... more

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