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Marginalia

by Jordan Klassen

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    When I set out to write Glossolalia, I tapped into a new creative well. In the midst of recording that record, I found himself continuing to write, coming away from the process with two distinct yet complementary bodies of work. Marginalia rounds out the collection from this period. I composed Glossolalia mostly with guitar, creating a subtly blossoming record that perhaps nailed my “fairy folk for troubled times” approach better than ever before. The arrangements on Glossolalia were reduced to the bare essentials to support my voice with minimal production. While troubles are not a thing of the past, times are now different, and thus, Marginalia is the other side of the musical coin. It is smoother, fuller, and more elegant than its predecessor. I like to think of these two records as sisters to each other.

    Thanks to Alex Wyder, Taylor Swindells, David Vertesi, my sweetie Olivia, Alexandria Maillot, Jonathan Anderson, and Bubly
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1.
You Yourself 03:20
I’m still the one with a wish in his lung and his ear up against the wall Just hoping to catch the news from anywhere else Deep in a page or the chronicled ages is somewhere soft to fall And drifting away is a game I can play on myself But every time I wander far Far away from one north star Well you yourself, in touch and taste and smell Arise You’re still a gale in the evening pale that takes me by surprise Was trying to hold you, to bend you and fold you to me Swimming in fantasy everything ain’t broken And I’m still the one who cannot see But every time I wander far Far away from one north star Out under a pipe dream sky Watching from a glassy eye
2.
Casey 04:06
Just ‘cause the embers are under the water Just ‘cause the leader is leading disarray Just ‘cause the spirit won’t take any offer It’s gone away So Casey Blow the whole thing open I’m waiting Desperate for a change I love you Holding onto hope and So Casey come and rearrange I was a baby inside of its mother I was devoted to everything you say Just when I needed you more than any other You’ve gone away So Casey Blow the whole thing open I’m waiting Desperate for a change I love you Holding onto hope and So Casey come and rearrange Turn your eye it’s blind Delirious and playing out my time I remember when I didn’t have to force the words to rhyme So Casey Blow the whole thing open I’m waiting Desperate for a change I love you Holding onto hope and So Casey come and rearrange
3.
Floating my loves on the wind Eros is pirouetting He draws my eye Bleeding me dry as I wait in the wings Back then I built him a shrine Hope tied together with twine And hasty dreams That he could turn the old waterwheel in my mind Oh but those greener hills Calling me home until They’re slipping like sand in the breeze Like the rusty fall leaves to find Greener hills I left you on the first day of June Red rhododendrons in bloom And turned my eye As you deflated like a tired balloon Susan, I can still hear you laugh Holding your tears in your hands And asked me why But I was out searching for what I don’t have Oh ‘cause those greener hills Calling me home until They’re slipping like sand in the breeze Like the rusty fall leaves to find Greener hills To find greener…
4.
Cocoon 03:31
If love is a blindness then I am in the dark with you It closes the curtain, extinguishes the spark And wraps me into your cocoon I thought I saw you illuminate Jumped down the fire escape In my heart there’s an undertow That steals me away to where I don’t have to know If love is a madness then I am howling at the moon Because I am certain as soon as you peel back The covers I’ll be naked too I thought I felt me hesitate Jumped down the fire escape You’ve got facts but I’ve got songs That sweep me away to where I am never wrong
5.
I was born in springtime Cherry blossoms in the trees On the equinox, a sign So my mother told me The world was bursting just for me Every budding flower was mine Come and set the table Bring the feast and pour the wine I cannot live on only bread I need endless summers I need shivers down my spine Need a lover in my bed Tell me again how a man is not an island ‘Cause I am alone when the feeling fades away King of the empire A part that’s bound to break my heart Now my empire’s falling My dominion turns to dust All my dinner in decay I am washed and naked I am winter to the touch Laying down to wake again Tell me again how a night becomes a morning ‘Cause I am alone while the music fades
6.
Overstep 03:34
And if you wanted to find me at home I live on fourteenth ave The shades are drawn and the windows are closed defending what I have I’m watching it all rise and fall Then you say Come and open up the skylight We might just get a glimpse of it all The horizon stretching out I’m afraid to think that I might Waste away inside of these walls ‘Til I overstep my bounds Overstep my bounds The traffic’s loud and the sun is too bright as I head out for supplies I’m setting my sight on the sidewalk because if I look you in the eye It might all rise and fall But you say Come and open up the skylight We might just get a glimpse of it all The horizon stretching out I’m afraid to think that I might Waste away inside of these walls ‘Til I overstep my bounds Overstep my bounds Keep my eyes on the horizon While inside I rise and fall Open up, I’ll overstep my bounds
7.
I caught on the fire on the feast day of St. Matthew Clamour of liars in the heat of the afternoon Said what I thought I knew I never knew And all the conversations never true So I live another life I live another life I live another life in my head I live another life in my head You went a’walking down the blood of an eastside street Discarded needles and delirium in your feet Do you know you know they didn’t touch? ‘Cause if you fear at all the jig is up So you live another life Yeah you live another life You live another life in your head You live another life in your head And in the morning Without a warning I am spinning all my tires again
8.
Old Flame 03:58
Bless me father, for I am afraid Of holding the hilt but being cut by the blade I am being pulled in two directions at once Blown by every breeze or trembling under your thumb Old flame, you cut me in half Laid out on the rack every day Old flame, you cut me in half Don’t know how to leave or stay Pray for me, mother well what could it mean? Asking for more since I was nineteen Gilbert says be careful what you search for ‘Cause you might Find yourself beholden to the answers you find Old flame, you cut me in half Laid out on the rack every day Old flame, you cut me in half Don’t know how to leave or stay Last time the air in the night Could easily lead me away But old flame, you cut me in half Don’t know how to leave or stay Put in on a whipping boy I know how to stall If I had to change my face Would you love me at all?
9.
You’re like a business card fading away A wallet passenger with coupons and change I said I’d get in touch, I told you call But the name is blurry, can barely see you at all And the pink-faced evangelist up on the stage says that heaven is mine for the taking But try as I might I am rarely ablaze, only peering inside from the railing I’m still half of a whole, but where else would I go? I hitched my wagon to a post-modern star Traded my answers for a sunburst guitar Princes and eggheads in their big ivory towers Have never had to wait in line for an hour And it’s oddly familiar, the way that I pull out the bricks that my forefathers left me So I’m starting to wonder if even a ruin eventually requires some assembly If there’s something to show, where else would I go? And then you asked me if I was heading south Packed up and leaving like everyone else I said where you go, that’s where I’m going too My heart is willing and the options are few All the candles of rapture light up the dark of my mind every time you’re arriving And from the right angle, the ink’s getting clearer and what I can read is surprising The push and pull have taken their toll But you’re tattooed on my soul So where else would I go? A million things heard but you’ve still got the words I’m a fool with an urge but you’ve still got the words A million things heard but you’ve still got the words Like a feast and a scourge well you’ve still got the words
10.
Vanya 03:55
Vanya you’ve got kindness in spades Your daughters delight and the hair that you braid Every long fingernail wearing away Strawberry trampoline life Sausage and vinegar every night Laying your body across great divides Your shoulders strewn out like a bridge Many feet only arrive ‘cause you did On the back burner your own pilgrimage Since we were young I have sat by the hourglass Waiting for impulse to touch Vanya you’re brave, you intrepidly gave What you had when you didn’t have much Vanya, I only admire you Why must the trouble persist? Holding your head when he shattered his wrist Oh serotonin can wander and drift You’ve never been one to complain Trying to fly a paper kite in a hurricane Little feet keeping dry out in the rain But no one would fault you to say you’re in pain Laudation, ovation oh It’s coming again, consolation Animation, elation It’s coming again Vanya, I only admire you

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released October 20, 2023

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Fairy-folk for troubled times from Vancouver, British Columbia.

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