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1.
Same ol’, same ol’ Can’t look at these four walls anymore And the time has been told Feel like I’ve lived my life once before My phantom career Left me behind a sabbatical year Same faces, same names My mind is numbing in all the mundane I’m not discontent I’m just restless in a sense I’m just desperate for a spark of the same Uncharted anything (maybe the west coast) I’m selling everything (we could become ghosts) Ooooohhhhhh Ooooohhhhhh Landscapes coming towards us Sunsets pulling forth Small towns look familiar Lives that we’ll never know
2.
Winnipeg 04:23
winter coats, you keep us like our mothers heavy snowflakes tumbling after one another christmas trees, they wave at me from living room windows like shiny cloaks that hide the things not for me to know the snow is deep, my nose is pink and my toes are cold my mouth is quiet, my hands are hidden and these memories are getting old street lamps lead down white lace ribbon boulevards i somehow end up at your parents house i'm standing in your yard and that window, that you watched me through you said you'd get well, you said they'd let you walk with me the snow is deep, my nose is pink and my toes are cold my mouth is quiet, my hands are hidden and your memory is getting old
3.
Bookmarked 02:30
If I were a rambler I would wander back to you If I were a runner I'd wish you were there when this race was through If I were a pilot It'd be you to give me wings Fly over the ocean and I'd conquer this terrain But I wrote letters out to you And I made certain that you knew That I was out here all alone That I was out here on my own, like a bookmark Please come home Befriended the neighbors I might get a dog or two I painted the bedroom In the saddest shade of blue I planted a garden But the seeds refuse to grow Now that it's Christmas I miss you more than you could know (chorus)
4.
Runaways 03:24
ohh, all of these tired towns we pass through all of these has-been avenues and i'll write to your father if you'll write to my mum spare them the details tell them we had run, we had to run ohh, it's already begun ohh, all of these yellow lines mark the miles all of these unsaid thoughts about the child and you will call your father and i will call my mum we'll spare them the details we'll tell them we will come home we will come home mmmm, but for a while we'll roam
5.
Hope & You 01:40
hullo. what's new? let's not talk about the news because darling, i can barely, bear to look at the world it's broken, it's burdened like a sea-sodden pearl now I don't subscribe to "Ignorance is bliss" but baby, there's beauty and random acts of kindness there's new life, and they have new minds so that's a new beginning so take heart, and find hope......when you can. but darling on this day... my wish is rather simple just want my records....my coffee....and you.

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This past summer while on a road trip, we both decided it would be nice to make a Christmas or "Wintery" EP. About 15 days ago, we realized time was rather rapidly slipping away from us. We only had the sketch to 1 1/2 songs, and so we wrote out all of our winter thoughts. Without planning for it to be, it became an agglomeration of nostalgia, regret, hope and a definite stirring of change on the horizon. If you were to create a film of this album as a whole, it would be flickering frames of 8 mm film saturated in fond nostalgia as you drive out of your small town and down a road until the thermostat rises almost as quickly as the sense of something out of the ordinary.....anything.

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released December 26, 2011

French Films About Trains is thrilled to be releasing this EP via HI54LOFI RECORDS. Definitely visit them here hi54lofirecords.com to discover their eclectic library.

All songs written and recorded by French Films About Trains
Produced by French Films About Trains
Mastered by Chad Wahlbrink at The Wall, Nashville, TN
Cover design by French Films About Trains

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French Films About Trains Minneapolis, Minnesota

Hullo.

We are French Films About Trains.

We like to sing and play.

Mostly, She sings while He plays the guitar.

Sometimes, when we are feeling wild & crazy, we switch places.

This is how we do.

Come be our friend at the book of faces.
We'll feed you crépes!
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