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big serf

by Gen Gorman

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    Four power-pop anthems cleverly pressed onto one CD. Great for driving, games night, the gym, and blasting on your home stereo. Crank it and make a splash at your next meeting!

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1.
Don't let him get messed up too soon he's got the booze and he's waiting for you grab your bag and it's out the side door dying trying to find what to live for down by the old school and he's smoking his last cigarette that day we hopped the fence and hoped we wouldn't get caught you got the keys and you stole your mothers car sleeping pills, an absent father pull the plug on the bathtub water draw the shades but don't get too close it's coming on, it's coming on yeah that night we drove away and hoped we wouldn't get caught x2 you got the keys and you stole your mothers car singing you'd love me forever along with the radio and all the pretty things that sat collecting dust upon your bedroom shelves your mother never had the strength to throw them out and all the pretty things this city couldn't show ya a fifty dollar fill up got you past the border as the years go by you try to turn around and find a picture of your mothers face as clear as ever in your mind after the golden dust has blown away, the glory fades, another kid who sold her heart, got lost down in Los Angeles you got the keys and you stole your mothers car singing you'd love me forever along with the radio you got the keys and you stole your mothers car singing you'd love me forever
2.
I never sleep on Sundays unless she's next to me where the ring and the eyes of the church can't reach manufactured regrets, manifest jealousy a sef-defeating prophecy slow it down, just slow it down I go out of my mind slow it down, just slow it down I didn't want to go I changed my mind I missed my chance, the light if I could, I'd do it differently the lights on e are trailing this town has torn ya down a broken wing, a stunted seed slow it down, just slow it down a life of little passings wish I did not believe wish I could discard destiny I go out of my mind slow it down, just slow it down I didn't want to go I changed my mind I missed my chance, the light if I could, I'd do it differently and I go out of my mind I go out of my mind slow it down, just slow it down I didn't want to go I changed my mind I missed my chance, the light if I could, I'd do it differently and I go out of my mind at first I didn't want to go, I changed my mind, i missed my chance the light, if I could I'd do it differently
3.
Slow Train 03:15
lines bar her eyes when she moves slow a sleeping vertigo I'm not far from where you and I said we'd go slow, awake vertigo I'm not far from home, I'm not far from home yeah do they dull your nerves when you're sleeping? cut your hair when you're dreaming? I guess I just thought we'd be getting out of here we said the same thing last year I'm not far from home (home home) I'm not far from home (home home) I'd catch a slow train even if you don't I'd catch a slow train even if you don't when you waste my time and I'd rather leave I'd catch a slow train even if you don't we'll take our time and just say we'll leave do they dull your nerves when you're sleeping? cut your hair when you're dreaming? I guess I just thought we'd be getting out of here we said the same thing last year I'm not far from home (home home) I'm not far from home (home home) I'd catch a slow train even if you don't I'd catch a slow train even if you don't it's always the same I'd catch a slow train even if you don't when you waste my time and I'd rather leave I'd catch a slow train even if you don't we'll take our time and just say we'll leave I guess I don't care if you don't we'll waste our time and just say we'll leave yeah
4.
On a sidestreet right off the avenue there is a house known as the get-well-soon she had been there since Tuesday afternoon she needed to get herself straight her name was Evan, 27 and she did it well found out young she had a penchant for alcohol and a tendency to wander off and never call don't worry about it growing up in a house with all the lights off sick of saying yeah well my mother says, my mother says, mothers say she was handed repentance on the corner it wasn't Sunday, she was sure a goner and her hands had been shaking since the morning she needed to get herself straight just one or two bottles everyone's got their problems (everyone's got their problems when) sick of always saying, sick of want, don't want to talk about it growing up in a house with all the lights off sick of saying yeah well my mother says, my mother says, mothers say and every bottle on her shelf holds a note that she wrote to herself except the one that's still full and the lady madonna will shine shine, shine, shine until her lights all gone growing up in a house with all the lights off sick of saying yeah well my mother says, my mother says, mothers say growing up in a house with all the lights off sick of saying yeah well my mother says, my mother says, mothers say

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"Old-school indie leanings...rockin' debut EP" -CMJ

"Gen's latest record Big Serf is a modern take of 90's alt-rock...With badass vocals and a grunge guitar, watch out for this chick!" -The Deli Magazine

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released April 15, 2014

recorded & mixed by Ian Blurton
recorded at Pro Gold Studios in Toronto, Ontario
December 2013-January 2014
mastered by April Golden at Golden Studios

Gen Gorman: vocals, guitars, bass on tracks 1&3, piano, Moog
Ian Blurton: bass on tracks 2&4
Damon Richardson: drums

art/design by Genevieve Gorman
all songs written by Genevieve Gorman (SOCAN)

We would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.

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