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Hurricane Coming

by Shawna Caspi

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    Note: These postcards do not contain music! There are no download codes included with them. Just pretty art, inspired by each song on Hurricane Coming, that you can tack onto your fridge, or tuck into your notebook, or weave into your bike wheel spokes, or send to a friend in the mail.
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1.
Wait Love 03:33
Wait, love Show me what you’re made of Tell me that we tried it all And came to this retreat Say, love Maybe what we gave up Wasn’t ours to spin around Wasn’t ours to keep But every time you say my name I lose my bearings And I wouldn’t dare to ask Sometimes Bargains turn to hard lines Words go off like land mines And tear the earth apart So we paid up Bet the rest to break us What a way to wake up Reeling from the start Every time I see your face I lose my bearings And I wouldn’t dare to ask So tell me if it’s all too late And I won’t come back No, I won’t come back Slow down Here’s what I know now If we really came to do our best Then I can’t be second-guessing If you go now Go with everything I’m missing I won’t pull you in No, I won’t call again If I’m gonna walk away and lose my bearings I won’t have to ask I’ll know that it’s all too late And I won’t come back No, I won’t come back
2.
Lay me down to rest I can’t carry any more No, I can’t keep looking for Another sign above the door For the travelling poor It’s a funny kind of storm Where the wind blows through my chest When my house is bright and warm And I’m nobody’s guest Is it where we stay? Or where we’ve been? No one makes a break that clean Maybe absence is an old excuse Who could say where the knots got loose Leaving came easy Leaving came easy to me Lay me down to rest This game I never won The world weighed a ton But I’m not blaming anyone For how I’d run To where the long night stretches I gave it all that I had left Turning over engines Just to catch my breath
3.
Ghost Town 02:55
I feel like the worst kind of person most of the time A big city bully when I’m stuck in line With the postal clerk who types too slow And I make a sign like I gotta go I stick out like a shiny truck At the last chance stop to fill ’er up I catch a kind word on a stranger’s ear Closer than we first appeared I come in peace Not in fear I’m not from around here I’m not from around here I love the Main Street throwback The corner bar that just takes cash The cowboy in the produce aisle I flash my foreign smile And he knows He knows by a mile That I’m not from around here I’m not from around here Out where the road folds in And the sky unwinds Don’t let the cold get in And we’ll be fine They say it’s different in the summer and I might come back For the rodeo and the race track The roof is worn but the paint is new I’m waiting for coffee with the paving crew It’s a ghost town And even they pass through I’m not from around here I’m not from around here
4.
Echo 03:46
You were my favourite summer My empire orchard row We heard the hum of the hurricane coming And had an acre to go You were the cloud in the cover I was the rue in the rain We had enough over which one of us Was the weather or the vane What a howl it makes when the last bough breaks The sky will forsake the ground Didn’t know how to save it Couldn’t turn it around All we could grow, it fell to the crows Oh what a terrible sound We were done by December That’s when our hands and our hearts got cold Sold our spades on the darkest day Traded our stalks for gold What a howl it makes when the last bough breaks The sky ignites and the earth shakes The echo rings where once we were kings Those who tend will someday take You were my favourite summer My empire orchard row We heard the hum of the hurricane coming And had an acre to go
5.
This time I will do no harm I’m a straight shooter with a broken arm Got one eye closed and one eye blind But not out of sight or out of mind I need one more chance I need one more chance I have learned my lesson Please give me one more chance Now I know what I have missed I’m a good luck charm on a broken wrist For what it’s worth, in my defence I had no form to go against In all I’ve done, I told the truth I’m a scotch on the rocks to a broken tooth I can’t bury my mistakes So I’ll lay ‘em out for all it takes I need one more chance I need one more chance I have learned my lesson Now I’m asking For one more chance I need one more chance I have learned my lesson Please give me one more chance
6.
Hope Lives 03:19
Hope lives With the letter in the mail The porch light glow Where all else fails Hope will drive you home Hope lives In the first sign of spring An old habit quits A new day rings Hope lingers in the goodnight kiss The sunrise cutting through the clouds The gold in the grey The heart that knows it’ll come around someday Hope lives In the firewood and the flame One dry match The campsite in the rain Hope will guide you back Hope lives In a love worth saving Nerves worn thin From a long time waiting Hope will stand at the door, but you gotta let it in Every generation wants to hold it If it’s broken by the one that came before We can look for more
7.
I don’t want to take you home Let you move in with my fear You drove away my lovers And a lot of my good years Every time I trip up That’s your cue to reappear I know I’m drawn to the familiar But you’re not welcome here Sometimes you surprise me Drop by when I’m alone Holding up a coat that I could swear I’d outgrown It wraps around my rib cage Every pocket’s filled with stones I’m resigned to wear it But I ache all through my bones Lay low shadow I know my heart Lay low shadow I know you don’t go far I don’t want to be afraid of the dark I’ve seen you creep in slow Spread like water in the walls But that frame is gonna bend And this house is gonna fall You got me on my hands and knees I can only crawl my way out From under it all
8.
I’ve been in a rush I’ve been on a ride Sometimes I need a push To come back from behind Finally I’m following This racing heart And I will love you with a running start I will love you with a running start I’ve been slow to trust I’ve been quick to bail I used to keep my distance Complain to no avail Now I’ll show you All the good I pulled apart And I will love you with a running start I will love you with a running start I have given up too early I’ve been late to rise I have thought myself unworthy Of the finer things in life But the look you give me Is a priceless work of art And I will love you with a running start I will love you with a running start I’ve been alone, not quite alive I’ve let chances go right by But with you, I am compelled And I know it well I will love you I will love you I will love you with a running start I will love you with a running start
9.
Celebrate 02:59
Looking to the light When the winter’s been too long The answer that you find When the trouble’s gone The kind of love That undoes any doubt The weight that sheds When you finally figure it out We don’t have to wait There’s so much to celebrate And more to see In these little victories The song that tames a crowd At the start of the show The scan coming back all clear Five years in a row Choosing to forgive In the face of a fight The shy girl calling up her crush On a Saturday night Here’s to all the quiet voices Sounding for the very first time Here’s to all the early risers Standing at the front of the line
10.
You came from a house Of worry and fever No one talking about The wear and tear Now when you shout It’s a little bit meaner All of it seems To keep you scared I have been there too And I know the other side I can take you through If you hold the light Hold the light No reckoning day To settle the score Where every mistake Feeds a firing line You can be safe You can have more Where love doesn’t measure And it won’t run dry Hand me your fist I’ll read your fortune My thumb on your wrist Steady and slow It’s hard to exist In a city of orphans All fighting the force Of the undertow

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released August 27, 2021

All songs written by Shawna Caspi, except Wait Love, Echo, and Hold the Light, written by Shawna Caspi and Joel Schwartz

Shawna Caspi: vocals, acoustic guitar
Joel Schwartz: acoustic and electric guitars, banjo, mandolin
Devon Henderson: basses
Mark Mariash: drums and percussion
Scott Galloway: piano, Hammond organ
Sarah Hiltz: background vocals
Peter Stone: background vocals

Produced by Joel Schwartz
Recorded by Jeremy Darby and Julian Decorte at The Canterbury Music Company, Toronto
Additional engineering by Joel Schwartz
Additional drums and percussion recorded at The Dome
Additional keys recorded by Scott Galloway
Sarah Hiltz's vocals recorded remotely at Saint Stephen-in-the-Fields
Peter Stone’s vocals recorded remotely at The Bird-Shop

Mixed by James Bunton at Union Sound Company - Studio B
Mastered by Sage Kim at Lacquer Channel Mastering

Design by Amy Campbell
Paintings by Shawna Caspi

We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts

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Shawna Caspi Toronto, Ontario

Shawna Caspi – a connector of curious humans – is a singer, a poet, a painter, a fingerstyle guitar player.

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