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Where Else Would I Go?

from Marginalia by Jordan Klassen

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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

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from Marginalia, released October 20, 2023
Written and performed by Jordan Klassen
Produced and mixed by Jonathan Anderson
Recorded and engineered by Jonathan Anderson at Protection Island Studios, with additional recording at Glory B Studios in Vancouver, BC
Mastered by Harris Newman at Grey Market Mastering

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

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