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Endless Summers

by Peter Arvidson

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1.
Wild Woods 03:25
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I feel a need to purge I feel a need that's great The darkness rising's hate Get it out of my space I feel a call inside I want to feel alive But if I retreat What does it mean to me? I feel the pull to be of greater kind The only love I ever left behind Was the kind that never ever saw eye to eye Eye to eye In these wild woods, carry all the hurt Carry through the pain, if we love her In these wild woods, we take off our masks And we run around this crazy track Feeling kind of obsolete Feeling like rotten meat Shooting through the only stars Since I left that place for mars
2.
Starstruck 03:26
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And I hit the dance floor And I ask for a little more DJ turn up that song now I want to feel you right now And I see you turn my way And I see you get that way I see we both are awake So, let's fly across the dance floor And we spin around, and our arms go And we look like we're about to tango And we feel each other's breath Right upon our necks And we look up to the sky And we feel it passing by Spirits all in a line All you need is love We're nada nada nothing We're nada nada nothing We're nada nada nothing Except space dust, we are star stuff As the tequila hits our throats I really think this is no joke And the streets, they're pouring in To every little thing that we win Went through that way Go through that phase Can you bring it? The vibration's ringing In my ears, I feel it like we've been here for years And we both look at each other, and we know that We'll hold each other dear Well, if it's only going to be this night Can you keep me alive? Can you keep me in line? We are star stuff We are space dust Diamonds in the rough Struck, middle of the road A little curious about each other, and we're furious How did we get here, are we stuck here? How do we get out of here? It's so heavy I don't know if I can hear you We are starstruck we are space dust We are diamonds in the rough And we can feel the thrust And the heat, and the combustion Makes us feel that suction Makes us feel that everything We are starstruck now
3.
Puppy Breath 02:14
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Bombs go off in my head They sound like puppy breath And they feed it instead The way back from my head Want to run away Into the trees from yesterday Into the sky and fine lines Into the ocean at night Into the breeze that I find Into my friends they come in On earth, you mind knocking? Am I going crazy? That's what it's going to be Backpack on my back Walking through knapsacks Coming up hills I come at you, attack now That's right, I'm ready for the fight Bombs go off in my head Coming back from where I left my lead foot Feeling like quicksand sinking Down from the place I came Yesterday, that I still blame my hurts on Now I'm on
4.
Forest Fires 03:38
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Get out your hose Spray those garden gnomes Setting fire to the bushes You can feel your stitches Coming out every day, and its ok When they come out at night for you to play And they drive in the knife to your soul And you feel in your bones you're growing old And you fight every day for your right To put out all the fires in your mind And you can't align And that's fine, and that's fine I went to the store to get a bottle of milk But I came back with 30 yards of duct tape I don't get it, I don't get it I don't get it, nothing makes sense for me now I don't get it, I don't get it anymore I don't get it, forest fires burning down I've been walking to the room Its the same one that I left yesterday at noon But now its different colors, shades of green, and blue, and red And yesterday I could have sworn it was yellow instead But I guess I have to trust my internal rhythm The clock's telling me that I'm just having another vision Of what was to come, reality it seems, has me on my knees I don't want to be free Don't tell me those pesky gnomes are back I don't get it, I don't get it anymore I don't get it, I don't get it anymore I don't get it, nothing makes sense anymore Coming for me, forest fires are burning Forest fires are burning Forest fires are burning Forest fires they are burning We're learning Start with the stump and take it down Can't char it anymore, its been around I swear I saw it last Thursday looking like it was flying Towards the sky, the trees deep in the soil now Forest fires burning Forest fires burning Forest fires burning down Garden gnomes are running around You've got to take your hose and put them all back Spray them off when they're catching fire, you've got to attack Fires burning, forest fires burning more Fires burning, forest fires burning more Fires burning, forest fires burning more
5.
Anxiety Rising 02:37
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Dripping Dripping A little hot in these britches Hot temperatures reaching the high digits Triple at least, at least that's what it seems I could turn on a fan or AC But I don't want to ruin the flow you see You'd hear some background noise And other toys, and forget the void Avoid the void Avoid the void Don't think about it Anxiety feelings are rising All throughout the horizon And those monkey mind thoughts They trip them breakers in my circuitry Well, I don't know if I want tea or coffee But it's hard to say, or refreshing dream Refreshing things are the only things I think about They rise to the top of my brain And they feel like I'm going insane In sync or some sort of different way I wait for it, that feeling to calm me It never comes through and I quickly grab my blanket And I'm like, wrap it around The thunder comes down and I feel around I feel my mind racing back and forth My heart beats faster than it was before I'm feeling like I'm freaking out inside No one knows if I'm really alive I feel that anxiety rising Feeling hot with the monkey mind Thoughts they drip, I am, I am I am with unity Where is the information circuitry? Firing around in my brain you see In the back, to the front, to the top, to the side I need to calm down inside I don't know where my mind's at I don't know where my kind's at I don't know where they bite back My mind takes a baseball bat...
6.
Bicycle Days 03:10
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You could have a happy birthday party if you wanted to bring A couple of 40's or something you can sing I can remember a time when I had to find my way Everything that I've been through brought me to this very day I can feel the grass on my feet I can feel the joy underneath I've just got to look Oh, the school bell rings, I'm out and I am free now Riding my bicycle with things towing beneath me I'm going up hills, I'm going down thrills I'm feeling all these things, I want to be every day like its my last Coming up from the class From the underneath, I pull in the rubble of every little thing That I want to pull off my gloves, but I don't want to handle things Because I have a kind of obsession with being cleanly and freaky Get at me, get at me, forget all these things and come at me With the truth or they honestly get a little dirty, its ok I don't want to be In my mid 30's never thought it would come at me like this Well everything hurts, and my back just cracks And everything makes a sound like this *pop* The every day version or the best of me, what even is that? I don't know, you tell me, come on How can we get something done, if we can't even relax? If we can't even have fun? If we can't even go back? Time never stops moving no matter what you do Take it back I want to be
7.
Ghost Town 03:36
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I feel the past repeating Inside my psychology I have to be wasted Or I feel copy pasted Where we go, you don't know What's lying around the bend Could be echoes of ghosts from yesterday Coming right around in front to say "hey" Look at me, dude I think it's kind of rude But if I haven't made myself clear I'm in the mood Your ghost town doesn't phase me But I don't want to be lazy I'm running around my hamster wheel Just feeling hazy, and I don't know what's coming next for me Or what's around the bend, just lately Your ghost town remains My anxiety lets the panic build up Where are we going from here, its 12am I'll watch another episode of Cheers, makes sense I guess my mind is churning thoughts out Before I can get control of them, I just want to be friends But we are enemies about 95% of the time I'm in the mood The panic comes back And its been a while since I've been on this track But I don't make any sense, I'll take those meds Make me feel alive until I have incensed The smells rise, the patchouli hides the rough scars inside That make up my mind I don't have to be projecting onto seas Waves of social calamities The media bee stings me
8.
Future Holds Forever 03:22
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It's hot as hell I want to spell The myth you told You know it when you grow old You know it when you are bold Crossing the threshold We bring it back I always knew What you were going through Who will you meet at the gates? We can escape this one We can all be old If we know the load Take it day by day If you want to play Floating in the air For this tiny now Somewhere over here Future holds forever Cluster together During unholy weather We can see the pods We can see the nectar Floating through Cornucopia hex pattern you Hear me out Hear me when we don't belong together For this tiny now Future holds forever
9.
Gold Flakes and Reverie 04:47
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Been feeling kind of sad about yesterday I went so I could play Replay it in my mind again Tell me, what's your version? We can write history We can be a family You can plant a new tree In your humanity I can't even see, two times you can mean If I had to dig any deeper, we can be We can be feeling speakers Vibrations, and soul, and solitude breaks the mold Break the messes and omelets, I'm told There's only going to be gold flakes and reverie Did you see it has to be cruel insanity? Forgot about yesterday, sad thoughts that take me away I folded far too quickly in the past It won't happen again, it won't happen again No faces are my medicine now Take my word I'll be coming Running for the guns Run and jumping Fears flapping Take me for the asking and I can make it here Food in my soul, show and I'm told Running the gamut, running myself to the ground Run my throat, I can be found, lost and I'm found I remember places I never saw before You tell me if that's just the way through the door They said come pick it up before four I don't see my things in here anymore Straight to the computer lab, Apple II, I want to last Hand me the feels, I've got to fail My fingers on the keys right under my nails Clickity clackity, clickity clackity Number munching through my machine Learning every day, a boy's dream Eight years old and I feel these things Are we going to get ice cream? Are we going to be happy? Are we going to be anything but sappy? I guess this is honesty You make the most with these things Hand me, hand me, hand me another tomato Grandfather planting carrots, or seedlings, or whatever it's going to be I feel my hands in the ground, in the dirt, and the sounds of the nerd In the butter cupboard I folded too quickly
10.
Indigos 03:06
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Let's welcome the new breed into the planet At a time when we need them, time's running short World's getting hotter, everyone's getting bothered Everything's changing Oh God it feels broken Indigo, you ought to know it won't be easy I've only been here a few years But I thought it might make a bit of sense That's silly Here is your earth, we welcome you Is everything as it was before you left? Indigo, you traveled here From your road, welcome here Hello, from the tear long before Let's make history Save humanity Can you help me Can we all be?
11.
Some People Will Tell You 03:27
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Some people will tell you That you'll never amount to anything What do they know? Some people will build you Up to break you down again What do they know? Keep painting white walls Everything you ever saw Keep painting purple hues Eventually we'll get to you Run around this town With your best friend All that's ever said Is, be different And when you call Make sure they hear You roar Not before Some people say you'll never be Much of anything Keep pounding the walls Until they feel all your faults Taking cheap shots Taking wheelbarrows And we say run down the mountain side With the hurt, and hurt lives Soothe, it's time to heal Take it all outside You're shoulder to shoulder Cheap shots in the side It's alright Because after this play We'll be souls on the other side
12.
No Ordinary Moments 03:48
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I feel it coming down from the high score above I feel it coming down to my hands, my glove And I have the power, you say? To make destiny whatever it may And I feel the platforms are gumming up And I feel the attic is going up And I feel the skyline is open up To the mighty mind, and mind the gap We're swinging across the vine Thinking that we can only find Minutes until midnight, and I can't escape Driving through hills And the great escape, we want to know How to say, we've got to know You've gone home How far do you got to go? Let's get our seatbelts on As we sing this song Pedal to the metal Everyday we've got to arrive To new places by our side Open up our textbooks wide Take a page and learn How does it feel to have this kind of tilt, have chills? How does it go, that everyone is every moment? Is anything happenstance? Well, nothing really is a coincidence Nothing's a coincidence They say there are no ordinary moments No ordinary moments No ordinary moments Don't go until you know That there are no ordinary moments No ordinary moments, and that's not just hoping I think that it's normal where old stars go That's what it feels like to go home I'm told to give me up, give me something to hold onto Pain is on the road, and that's ok There are no ordinary moments
13.
A Family Together 03:32
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Completely in love Feels like from above Two puppies gently playing In reality, this is the heaven I've built with my two hands And a little help from all above I can't tell you how grateful I feel My whole world is so different these days I can't tell you how thrilling it feels to be out of that haze That lasted for years And it takes so much time To get back on that grind But when you find your flow You take your time to make it right And that's what I emote, it's no joke I've got three beautiful kids, puppies and wife in tow On this journey walking each other home Each other home I wouldn't have it any other way Holding on to every day Feels like a treat, you see Elliot, baby things, is coming out Leia girl, she's the one, she is all the world sometimes I can't forget about my Nory, she is the trail to all of this Holds a family together With imagination sparks Well, this is who we are A wife I celebrate I take every chance to take her on a date And that's why we'll be alright
14.
Goodnight is Not Goodbye 02:03
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Goodnight is not goodbye Rest your head until morning Goodnight my darling Count the stars until morning Goodnight is never goodbye Count those stars Now we are connected up Forever in our special way of dreaming Goodnight my darling Rest your head until morning Goodnight is not goodbye Count those stars in twilight
15.
Starstruck ft. Sara Arvidson (Ry Spears Mix) 03:24
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And I hit the dance floor And I ask for a little more DJ turn up that song now I want to feel you right now And I see you turn my way And I see you get that way I see we both are awake So, let's fly across the dance floor And we spin around, and our arms go And we look like we're about to tango And we feel each other's breath Right upon our necks And we look up to the sky And we feel it passing by Spirits all in a line All you need is love We're nada nada nothing We're nada nada nothing We're nada nada nothing Except space dust, we are star stuff As the tequila hits our throats I really think this is no joke And the streets, they're pouring in To every little thing that we win Went through that way Go through that phase Can you bring it? The vibration's ringing In my ears, I feel it like we've been here for years And we both look at each other, and we know that We'll hold each other dear Well, if it's only going to be this night Can you keep me alive? Can you keep me in line? We are star stuff We are space dust Diamonds in the rough Struck, middle of the road A little curious about each other, and we're furious How did we get here, are we stuck here? How do we get out of here? It's so heavy I don't know if I can hear you We are starstruck we are space dust We are diamonds in the rough And we can feel the thrust And the heat, and the combustion Makes us feel that suction Makes us feel that everything We are starstruck now
16.
Wild Woods (Ry Spears Mix) 03:22
lyrics
I feel a need to purge I feel a need that's great The darkness rising's hate Get it out of my space I feel a call inside I want to feel alive But if I retreat What does it mean to me? I feel the pull to be of greater kind The only love I ever left behind Was the kind that never ever saw eye to eye Eye to eye In these wild woods, carry all the hurt Carry through the pain, if we love her In these wild woods, we take off our masks And we run around this crazy track Feeling kind of obsolete Feeling like rotten meat Shooting through the only stars Since I left that place for mars
17.
Forest Fires (Ry Spears Mix) 03:37
lyrics
Get out your hose Spray those garden gnomes Setting fire to the bushes You can feel your stitches Coming out every day, and its ok When they come out at night for you to play And they drive in the knife to your soul And you feel in your bones you're growing old And you fight every day for your right To put out all the fires in your mind And you can't align And that's fine, and that's fine I went to the store to get a bottle of milk But I came back with 30 yards of duct tape I don't get it, I don't get it I don't get it, nothing makes sense for me now I don't get it, I don't get it anymore I don't get it, forest fires burning down I've been walking to the room Its the same one that I left yesterday at noon But now its different colors, shades of green, and blue, and red And yesterday I could have sworn it was yellow instead But I guess I have to trust my internal rhythm The clock's telling me that I'm just having another vision Of what was to come, reality it seems, has me on my knees I don't want to be free Don't tell me those pesky gnomes are back I don't get it, I don't get it anymore I don't get it, I don't get it anymore I don't get it, nothing makes sense anymore Coming for me, forest fires are burning Forest fires are burning Forest fires are burning Forest fires they are burning We're learning Start with the stump and take it down Can't char it anymore, its been around I swear I saw it last Thursday looking like it was flying Towards the sky, the trees deep in the soil now Forest fires burning Forest fires burning Forest fires burning down Garden gnomes are running around You've got to take your hose and put them all back Spray them off when they're catching fire, you've got to attack Fires burning, forest fires burning more Fires burning, forest fires burning more Fires burning, forest fires burning more

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Endless Summers chronicles growing up, becoming a dad, embracing where I'm at in life, and the road ahead.

I thought it would be fun to improvise lyrics and vocals over some laid-back pop tracks. This pushed me out of my comfort zone and into some brand-new territory, with an entirely different workflow. With that in mind, I'm super proud where it went! I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I had fun making it!

Also check out the 14 bonus tracks in the download, recording this was like pringles, I couldn't stop!

Album write-up from Beachsloth: www.beachsloth.com/peter-arvidson-endless-summers.html

Album review from BeAboutIt Blog: www.beaboutitpress.com/be-about-it-blog

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released May 1, 2022

Vocals and Lyrics by Peter Arvidson
Mixed by David Taro
Remix tracks mixed by Ry Spears
Bonus tracks mixed by Peter Arvidson
Mastering by Jim Gray
Instrumentals by Various (credited by track)
Additional instruments on remixes by Ry Spears
Backing vocals on Starstruck remix by Sara Arvidson
Album art by Wanderbrave Media (Sara Arvidson)

2022 Gold Hill Records

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"Peter takes the infectiousness and melodic sensibilities of pop music, blends it with the chiming coolness of indie and then delivers it with just enough rock swagger to create a sound that feels uniquely his own." - entropymag.org/peter-arvidson-a-new-wilderness/ ... more

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