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St. Francis and the Wolves

from Can't Get Right With the Darkness by Clementine Was Right

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St. Francis is maybe my fourth favorite Frank, after O'Hara, Stanford, and Lima. I like how all the deer stare at him. One time I was moving from one coast to another, and someone sighed and said "goddamnit, I love you, alright?" right after we'd made some fruit salad. I wrote the song about knowing you're free to have a more dramatic ache when you know the reality will never line up.

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Will you still say “I love you, goddamnit alright"
When you ain’t drank half your body in rye
Will you still say “I love you, goddamnit alright"
When the wolves aren’t searching up your spine

Will you still say “I love you, goddammit alright"
When the syrup bottle’s plastic and the sitcoms are trite
Will you still say “I love you, goddamnit alright"
When the menu seems different and they don't serve all night

And St. Francis he dances
In an old dining car
And I can’t say what I need
Without leaning in too far

Will you still say “I love you, goddamnit alright"
When you come across your old wedding ring
Will you still say “I love you, goddamnit alright"
When the rust comes right off in the bathroom sink

Will you still say “I love you, goddamnit alright"
When we can't name the ghosts that eat at our night
Will you still say “I love you, goddamnit alright"
When we're too tired too laugh, too scared to cry

And St. Francis he manages
An old tire store
And I can’t say what I need
Without leaning in for more

And I'd lick the light of the moon
Right off the face of the lake
If it would mean anything
If it would mean that you'd stay

Will you still say “I love you, goddamnit alright"
When the wolves aren’t searching up your spine

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from Can't Get Right With the Darkness
© 2022 Clementine Was Right | The Blue Turn
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All songs written by Mike Young
Arrangements by Clementine Was Right
Executive producers: Jude Brothers & Gion Davis

Jude Brothers — Vocals, field recordings
Dick Darden — Drums, vocals
Gion Davis — Vocals
Hayden Johnson — Bass
Lisa Kori — Vocals
Kole Oakes — Accordion
Alissa Nordmoe — Lap steel, vocals
Nathan Smerage — Guitar
James Williams — Vocals
Mike Young — Guitar, synths, vocals

Recorded in September 2021 by Scott McEwen
at Memphis Magnetic Recording (901-310-8386) in Memphis, TN

Mixed by Scott McEwen
Mastered by Garrett Haines at Treelady Studios
Art by Lyndsey Lesh

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from Can't Get Right With the Darkness, track released March 6, 2022

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Clementine Was Right Denver, Colorado

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Clementine Was Right is the songwriting project of Denver- based poets Mike Young and Gion Davis.

Chronicling years of uprooting, the music gallops and sways through lyric-driven, hook-smeared bootgaze and western emo, harmonizing and storytelling.

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