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Folk Quixote

by Cougars in America

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Time fills the ocean and You drink the water so cold Bet you don't worry 'bout when you grow old Silence is broken The wolf on your shoulder Grows innocent and grins As if smiling ain't nothing at all All great things growing brave and small How could you fall? Sirens in motion While voices grow distant and thin Bet you don't worry 'bout where you have been Lightning strikes sober This storm passes over Magnificent and quick As if some things just ain't over All great things growing brave and small How could you fall?
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Between 04:52
Between the Buddha and Bukowski Shone the light Sang the song Broke the heart rang the gong Built up Tore it down to make it right Built it wrong And there was nothing to be said to anyone who was seen what was there didnt speak didnt care and only spins around and round and round All is whole, I am clear One is nought Sound is ears Who is who, what is what It is nothing that you hear And it sings and sings and it sings And it sings and sings and it sings And it sings and sings and it sings and it sings and it sings and it sings and it sings Drunken saints and peeling paint in an old house by the sea While old Li Bo and Laotze laugh with me Creeley keeps measures Good for him, must me fun Blake is screamin in my ear, a flower in the sun Williams pushes garden tools while simpler folk push crack The world's for sale, it doesn't scale And noone gets their money back All is whole, I am clear One is nought, sound is hears Who is who, what is what It is nothing that you hear And it sings, and it sings, and it sings THe lights are off, the house is dark I am a toddler in the park THe days pile up like mountain chains And in the morning same is all the same Same is all the same Same is all the same Same is all the same FUck happiness With pristine earty, the eyes and mind collide Between two things There is no thing And I fit perfectly inside Inside. All is whole, I am clear One is nought Sound is ears Who is who, what is what It is nothing that you hear And it sings and sings and it sings And it sings and sings and it sings And it sings and sings and it sings and it sings and it sings and it sings and it sings
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Echoes 05:19
Hey, what you almost didnt realize In that moment you idealized When the sky was burning blue Well your eyes were burning, too And your heart only notice Whisper words of truth Whisper words your body knew your body already knew You could be gone tomorrow Longing for the wrong tomorrow You could be shackled onto a mountain made of ashes made of dust This wind could change tomorrow, blow away the chains tomorrow Why do I keep hearing we are stuck Do I keep feeling we are fucked That all the answers arent enough You walk through the forest of your memory Through some ancient mystic revelry But the trees are falling down With a sound so frightening loud And the wolf is crying uncle And the bears are tapping out Pounding down to the ground with fists clenched tightly round That thread of hope that found When you woke up, lying naked Crawling back to your mother crawling after your shadow after you shadow cant be found I hear the echoes on the mountains all around me I'm calling out they're calling back That forest you walked into disappeared And all that's left is what surrounds you What has found you What has bound you to the ground you painted black Your watch is ticking but it's broken Your sleeping mind awoken All your dreams are coloured grey YOu keep dreaming you could walk away from here Like there's some other place but here Like there's some power in your fear that makes your mirror image disappear You're staring out the window ONto a room where you are sitting struck with fear staring out the window onto a room where you are sitting Struck with fear, staring out the window onto a room where you are Sitting struck with fear and staring out the window Out the window You could be gone tomorrow, longing for the wrong tomorrow You could be shackled onto a mountain made of ashes, made of dust THe wind could change tomorrow Blow away the chains tomorrow Why do I keep hearing we are stuck Do I keep feeling we've been trumped That all the answers aren't enough That all that's left has come undone YOur faith was bonded to your hope Now it's swinging from a rope unwinding slowly From that coca-cola castle in the sky that towers over in it's shadow your grow colder In it's shadow you sober You can't fathom what you've shouldered yet I hear the echoes on the mountains all around me I'm calling out they're calling back That forest you walked into disappeared And all that's left is what surrounds you What has found you What has bound you to the ground you painted black I hear the echoes on the mountains all around me I'm calling out they're calling back That forest you walked into disappeared And all that's left is what surrounds you What has found you What has bound you to the ground you painted black
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100 Year War 03:30
Unmake your heart Unbreak your soul Take back all the fantasy, the illusion Forsake your gold All your diamond dust turns to rust in the 100 year war All your diamond dust turns to rust in the 100 year war You're the only body you're dying for One day will come Hanging west with the setting sun Laid to rest with the smoking guns Heaving thunder breast beating brand new drums Rip the medals of your chest and Run! All your diamond dust turns to rust in the 100 year war All your diamond dust turns to rust in the 100 year war All your diamond dust turns to rust in the 100 year war All your diamond dust turns to rust in the 100 year war
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Undone 04:38
You could tell he was alright By the way the he could talk into your eyes Wave away the pain you feel inside Hide behind a veil of ancient lies But he got to be an honest man, got to be an honest man, got to be an honest man in time.
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Welcome None 04:29
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Walls 03:46
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Weary Mind 03:57
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Für Alles 04:15
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Return Trip 03:47

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released October 14, 2019

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Cougars in America Brussel, Belgium

Cougars in America is the new alt-folk project of Canadian-turned-Bruxellois singer-songwriter, Scott Hamilton. Poet, multi- instrumentalist, and troubadour, he transforms his world into song. His music has been compared to Bonnie Prince Billy or Sufjan Stevens, and serves in equal measures American Folk, Blues, and Indie Rock. ... more

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