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The Wit of the Stair

by Evelyn Davis

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i-am-an-architect a really really beautiful album. I'd love to hear more, someday. Favorite track: I Don't Want it Back.
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forcetengal Evelyn, this album means more to me than I could ever express. You are a brilliant musician and I aspire to be anything close to something like you. I chose You Knew You as my favorite track because it's the most warm and beautiful track on the album. When I first listened to this album, I would have chosen I Can't Make Up My Mind because I was in a much sadder place but things have changed for me, and I owe a bit of that to this album. So, thank you. Favorite track: You Knew You.
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Meredith Yayanos No one sounds like her. Brains and passion and technical skill and mischief and lyricism abound. <3 Favorite track: West Won.
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Preston Werner Stop reading this and buy the album! Or at least, like, read the lyrics or something.
This album is fucking fantastic. Favorite track: Singing in My Mouth.
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1.
Useless at last, the last of the glass no force of will, it makes me want to write you The same, the same glancing above here we be here below The fortunes of the ringers rang past are past
2.
Folklore 04:55
Most of our folklore composed of the things we ignore they sit on the floor boards in the cold of our wintertime porch Oh boy, they must be sore, sitting pithy with their fellows, idle and ignored No boy or girl child good is sneakin out to get to gran hear a tale from the end of the world Tearin up the floor boards killin all my past landlords angry with the good lord for watchin good grace become folklore Oh boy, she must be sore, sitting pithy with her fellows, idle and ignored No boy or girl child good is sneakin out to get to gran, hear a tale of the end of war
3.
Let Me Know 04:15
I have knives, you said When you awoke in the morning your half-lid eyes closed a little farther and you said Let me know when you go away one day on your honeymoon 'cause your husband shouldn't have to be bothered
4.
Singing in my mouth because my hands aren't free to make a sign 'cause I'm in a big crowd because I'm waiting in an endless line singing in my mouth You can sing, scream, or shout or you can sing inside your mouth you can see her now I'm sorry that she died in custody I'm sorry that she died I'm sorry she died in custody
5.
You need me to be in I don't want it back I don't want it back you don't see you hurt me I don't want it back I don't want it back I don't want it back I don't want it back I don't want it back I don't want it back You need me to be in I don't want it back I don't want it back you don't see you hurt me I don't want it back I don't want it back I don't want it back I don't want it back I don't want it back I don't want it back
6.
Capital 02:37
I was awake last night up upon the roof completely so ready for the truth Now when I blink my eyes I feel you blinkin yours the time is set I'm feeling for the door Oh but the time is mine and the time is yours I don't believe in time anymore I might love you but that doesn't mean I want to even if you seem to be amazing which means usually means trouble capital T you and me are trouble capital! you and me are trouble capital the trouble is I am beneath you
7.
You Knew You 05:23
Given the length of time of the average human lifespan I consider it a boon that I met you so soon and if there were news from the home front of you I now feel quite sure you would send it ashore given the length of time people usually love each other I feel like we've found each other in another time when I finally came to trust me in that period of heavy seas I knew self-desertion is a disease when I looked up to see you You knew you Waking by my one with no help from new spring's weak sun with aid from no one I can feel it's begun You knew you
8.
Most of the time, I run around, you know, feeling it out never feelin any better well you know I always have thought that the words never say never were really just a beautiful way to say I can't make I can't make up I can't make up my mind Much later on, dawn becomes- dawn I make a wish knowing that it does matter Well you know I keep my chin up 'cause hopelessness has a splatter It is with a dutiful weight that I state I can't make I can't make up I can't make up my mind
9.
West Won 06:06
Fine tune the fever pitch Answer evil with a greater evil You want a passport, you want a passport you wanna go there, you wanna show them You want a passport, you want a passport you wanna go there, you wanna show them what it means to you Into the maw of the war time monster the western answer We'll help you rebuild, we'll help you rebuild we'll help you rebuild another We'll help you rebuild, we'll help you rebuild we'll help you rebuild another in our image Into the maw of the war time monster the western answer I don't know why those people died my press pass burned You dreamers, wide receivers army dreamers you choose We dreamers, wide receivers army dreamers we lose Death receives us death believers death is free to us death is free Death receives us death believers death is free to us death is free free free free

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released April 6, 2017

Engineered, mixed, produced, and mastered by Todd Rittman. Recorded at Experimental Sound Studios, Chicago, IL, 2015.
Cover photo by Karen Goldman

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Evelyn Davis San Francisco, California

Detroit native and general wanderer Evelyn Davis is an inside/prepared/new music pianist, improvisor, pipe organist, composer, vocalist, synthesist, teacher, songstress, and maker of /participator in oddly shaped musics with an occasional side of performance art.
Evelyn fronts CHIROMANCER, a plate-juggly art rock duo and formerly fronted Frankenixon.
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