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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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from Folk Quixote, 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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