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Night, Unfold EP

by Paul Bergmann

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1.
I can't change the way I live Things don't stay with me for long I go back to my old ways I can't feign a change of heart When I long to feel the dark Wrap around my hungry skin And though I know, it's not to say That I can't grow, but I'll still pay To travel deep into the night And watch my eyes, the stars combine We can't revive the wings we've broken But we can mend what the morning lends But we don't change, we're all we see We traipse around this misery And peer into cementing eyes And watch the blood begin to dry And though I smile all the time It's 'cause I'm there so many nights Laughing with the strangest men And pushing hard against the brim I've slept for days, I've swam away To clear these lungs and fix this mind On better things, but I am wild You can't suppress the one inside So I drink up, light one for me And we can dance together free Just like the moon inside a song We're beautiful but so alone
2.
Don't you worry about a thing There's love in almost everything Don't be afraid to love what's near Even though what's in your heart's unclear Don't you worry about a thing There's love in almost everything If I had one thing to tell you, my dear It's keep me close when you are here Don't you worry about a thing There's love in almost everything If you don't talk to me again That's okay, I just hope that you'll be a friend someday But if not, well it ain't up to me Well it ain't up to me Don't you worry about a thing There's love in almost everything Don't you worry about a thing There's love in almost everything Don't you worry about a thing There's love in almost everything Don't you worry about a thing There's love in almost everything
3.
Love on this plane Is a wild sacred thing And the world down below Like a long night unfolds Is waiting for me So I can't feel free But Vallie looks pretty In the back of my mind And the window looks bad Against the big gloomy sky I hear people inside But the words lose their size As the quiet sets in And sleep starts to swim Well, sometimes I fear I got demons left here Though they're swallowed in time Still the voice speaks in rhymes All the time I followed you here And you weren't that clear But I made it a choice To follow you here But love on this plane Is a wild sacred thing But the world it looks cold As I gaze down below Yes, the world it is cold As I'm stuck down below Love on this plane Is a wild sacred thing Feels thick in my side Shoots miles from my eyes Love on this plane Such a strong aching thing And the world down below As I'm stuck down below
4.
I died in LA Woke up on the road It was chilly in Flagstaff and the coffee was bad I fell in love with Asheville Died twice in Atlanta Was numb and for longing some choices I made Now my chin's up up north And my best friend here Has a two-year-old kid and her husband's so nice Oh, the freedom I've give For the capacity to love Like a bird on a wire could be so much higher I played out the sequence and read from the script But the clouds hung real heavy on this mountainous trip I thought of old Sam as he smiled from the sky It's the daylight that churns me, it needles my life But I'm up now in Portland And the painter I've met Inspires my living and makes me forget She shows these colors I've known twice before And feelings I've left some two lives ago Yea, I'm up now in Portland And Vallie knows me She colors and shows me She lovers and holds me She fells me, she paints me She tells me she'll take me as I am As I am Some new life we'll grow Some new life we'll grow Some new life we'll grow Some new life we'll grow Some new life we'll grow Some new life we'll grow Some new life we'll grow Some new life we'll grow Some new life we'll grow Some new life we'll grow Some new life we'll grow Some new life we'll grow Some new life we'll grow Some new life we'll grow

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'Night, Unfold' was recorded over a number of months in a shed in rural Maine in 2017. A lot of it was recorded on a 4-track reel to reel tape recorder.

Paul Bergmann wrote all of the songs, and performed all of the vocals and instrumentation.

'Night, Unfold' was mixed by Paul Bergmann and Scott Barber.

Photo / design by Paul Bergmann.

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released February 2, 2018

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Paul Bergmann New Haven, Connecticut

In his relentless oeuvre-building, Paul has amassed an especially articulate kind of existentialism: what it means to persist, and to create, in a world which dies in the near distance. In No Masters in Paradise, the form of the songwriter’s ballad, in the hands of an expert, is turned inward for comfort, resisting the base lure of worldly approval. ... more

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