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Listen, Love, The Thunder Calls

by Quiet Child

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Caio Claro
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Caio Claro This work shows how talented and brilliant Peter Spiker is! Favorite track: Morning Fog.
Michael Reilly
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Michael Reilly Quiet Child continue to evolve and explore highly intelligent progressive sounds, resulting in great depth and scope. I love the pacing and shifting force found within these compositions – the unique characteristics of each song is given life through obvious care and attention. A mature and impressive release. Favorite track: Ground Floor.
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1.
Forty Years 03:32
Listen, love, the thunder calls Let's hurry through the slowly thickening air at once 'Cause when we get home we're welcomed With endless energy and a tuneful song in her voice We've made this hermit's paradise a fortress Listen, love, I've found some words And for a moment I'm untroubled and alert To still be feeling love like this... How deeper will the ocean be in forty years? It feels we might just be as good as we appear It doesn't take too much to dream Of a winter house with dogs as far as the eye can see A fireplace and a feature wall The promised time when I don't work at night anymore I'm so lucky seven years ago I married you And I honestly live every single day for you
2.
Morning Fog 04:57
Ready? Now closely follow Floating, moving through sweet smoke She's the keeper of my secrets And we're ready In all earthly combinations I must wrap you up in bed We clear the morning fog by making more Breathing weed and coriander Breathing together
3.
Late Entry 02:15
Grin ear to ear In this place there is ocean all directions you can face We embrace above the spray And we amble off to meet some friends we've made Every day we look to play In an atrium of elevator lights As the day turns to night We did it right and just in time You have left the country as you'd hoped you might Tomorrow night we drink to life And we'll celebrate that we're husband and wife For life We can't ignore How good it felt to stand our feet on foreign shores We'll have more
4.
Hum 03:54
When I pass our door I feel the need to pause And briefly take in everything I see Hidden in the waves By breath given away A sleeping face and then I move away Cold But not so cold that it groans By computer glow A silent kind of spirituality There's a change coming in me With percussive knees A fading of frowns Just having you around Sound And the stillness breaks Pulses elevate Distant wall-muddied sound I can hear you moving around Keep the lounge door closed I await your pose Your radiant dance Known, with love, throughout the land
5.
Ground Floor 02:45
We let our thoughts collide We make our positions to one another Not every time I'll think twice But if I'm mistaken, then I'll know it This is where we get our strength This is how we stay interwoven with each other Maybe we'll both prove right That would be so satisfying I'd fight a million times If it led to a greater understanding And before long all's right And in trickles our happy little noises
6.
Late afternoon Sun fills the room for an hour With one missing cog Both human and dog guard the window Trying not to loiter Pelley Coming home to me With evening in bloom Our joy fills the room with invented language At moments it feels Torrential love might engulf me There's so much comfort in that face
7.
Silvan 03:23
On the morning of our bitter disappointment You came home to me And while I didn't cry I felt lost and I was glad to have you here So no moving day No rain forest No big life change, at least not today Back to rat race, but we've had a taste And we will have more We'll have more
8.
Auditorium 05:12
The lake froze early this year The icy cracks match the lines of your palm How lonely could it be? This hidden, echo-filled auditorium I still look north To capture wild silence I plant our flag on the coast And breathe mountain air into oven lungs With sunburnt country blues No love for he at the helm Oh to lay on our frozen lake
9.
Stare Off 05:53
Let her sleep In a moment she'll wake up Come with me Why don't you wait where it's warm? Admit defeat Why don't you wait where it's warm? Silly girl, don't wait by the door Don't be a fool Impatient, determined What does it even signal? When you're in you only stay for a minute Then you're gone Don't wait by the door Don't be a fool Sad eyes don't work any more Don't be a fool And in the morning she comes Her body announced by song and coughs That freshly broken silence The music that buoys me up, head above To speak of futures and fortunes Enamoured and palm to palm Arm in arm, arm in arm

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released June 18, 2016

Written and recorded by Peter Spiker.

Mastered by Nick Russell.

Cover photo by Miranda O'Keefe

Thanks to Pelley and Puff, Ashley Spain, Gary Spain, Miranda O'Keefe, Darren Hincks.

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