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Polyester Day / Pine Overcoats

by Cale Hawkins

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I'll meet you in the polyester day Would you care to step away into the past? In the mist, my autumn dreams are stained with you Like windows in cathedrals 'Til you came and broke the glass Something in the way you love is strange The crow calls overhead to say the season's truly changed, and every day feels like a masquerade Every day is polyester fake without your touch, and what I crave is something deeper than your cold December fever I need you when my moment looks the bleakest When my will is at its weakest I believe your toothless lies I'll meet you when the centers of our stars collide, and cast a supernova through the fabric of the night Something in the way you love has changed Yes, you've become a poison left to course within my veins, and every day feels like a masquerade Every day is polyester fake without your touch, and what I crave is something deeper than your cold December fever Oh, what is it for? I'm just a shadow of myself, nothing more Oh, what have you done with all your love? What have you done? Every day is polyester fake without your touch, and what I crave is something deeper than your cold December fever Every day. What I crave is something deeper than your cold December fever.
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Face to the ground, blanket of clouds, and a monochrome army of friends. I'll fake my way out of this, I'm only playing pretend. But you play for keeps, now I need my release. Tore through the ice and found tacks underneath. You can't deceive what is already clear, it's a sin. Wrap me up tight in my pine overcoat, and we'll dance our way out to the end. Tumbling over like drunken toy soldiers, I'll play the part of the sergeant who swears he would sacrifice everything, anything, nothing at all. Stagger stage right, as vermilion lights exit and nod off to bed. It's always been dark in my head, all the candlelight's dead. You held the match, but burned it too fast, now the pilot light's filling my head full of gas. Surely, you know, even iron corrodes in the end. Dress me up nice in my pine overcoat, and we'll dance our way out to the end. Tumbling over like drunken toy soldiers, I'll play the part of the sergeant who swears he would sacrifice everything, anything, nothing at all. Nothing at all, so don't waste your time. I was already lost before you. The storm's in my mind, and it rains all the time, and the sun don't shine. You look so divine when you wear your pine overcoat too. Wrap me up tight in my pine overcoat, and we'll dance our way out to the end. Making up plans that we'll never undo, and I'll be the fool who would think they'd come true. I would sacrifice everything, anything, something I hold very dear to the end. But this isn't real, and we're only playing pretend. This isn't real, and we're only playing pretend.

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released March 1, 2017

produced & performed by Cale Hawkins
music & lyrics by Cale Hawkins
except "Polyester Day," lyrics by Cale Hawkins & Cameron Galpin

engineered by Cale Hawkins & Ben Talmi at Greylock Records, Brooklyn, NY and Eric Tait, Jr. at The Farm, West Chester, PA
engineer assisted by Stephen Maxwell
mixed by Ben Talmi
mastered by Andrew Sarlo

cello by Ansel Cohen
violin & viola by Anthony Bracewell
all vocals & other instruments by Cale Hawkins

Copyright © 2017 Litonika Records/Cale Hawkins

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Hailing from Bemus Point, NY (population: 364), Cale Hawkins has toured, written, and produced internationally since 2012. Credits include Quincy Jones, Charli XCX, Linda Perry, Bilal, Raveena, and Amber Mark.

He produces, mixes, writes, and performs all of his music. His debut LP "I Broke My Shoulders" came out in 2023 via Switch Hit Records, and was featured on NPR's "All Songs Considered."
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