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When You Were Living Here

by Slug Comparison

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1.
I wake up and stretch my hands in bed hum a few lines for the day ahead boot up my drive, what a lovely whir I’ve stumbled on a life I can fully endure I’m out of work, it’s an incredible high all day creating my own musical ride wake up each morning loving living the dream I know exactly what to do patchwork demo building on my screen stacking up waves is the greatest thing guitar on my lap, mic is in the air hours slip away and I'm so unaware I’m out of work, it’s an incredible high all day creating my own musical ride wake up each morning loving living the dream I know exactly what to do I’m out of work, it’s an incredible high all day creating my own musical ride wake up each morning loving living the dream I know exactly what to do I spend my day adrift in song to a desk I’m chained, but moving along five pm flat out on my bed coming back down, heavy spirit fed I got up so high, thought I might transcend I’m hoping that tomorrow I’ll do it again I know exactly what to do (I’m living the dream, I’m living the dream) I know exactly what to do I know exactly what to do
2.
Hyperslump 04:10
pissin’ around, been just pissin’ around going in each room and coming out again there’s nothing today to envelop the mind and onward goes the search for captivation nothing to show high energy is burning (it won’t stay inside) I’m pacing all around rutting with motivation (it begs me to try) but I’m in a hyper kinda slump (a hyper kinda slump) it’s been a half a day (a hyper kinda slump) I just want to hit upon something but I can’t engage I don’t hear music when I play guitar for drop dead beauty I have no desire there’s not one being up among the stars who can help me fill a minute of my time pissin’ around, sweet pissin’ around it’s not even a case of indecision nothing to show high energy is burning (it won’t stay inside) I’m pacing all around rutting with motivation (it begs me to try) but I’m in a hyper kinda slump (a hyper kinda slump) it isn’t going away (a hyper kinda slump) I just want to hit upon something but I can’t engage I don’t hear music when I play guitar for drop dead beauty I have no desire there’s not one being up among the stars who can help me to fill my time I tell myself it’s only temporary another hour it’ll all be fine the body doing a recalibration and soon I’ll tap into a juicy line to escape from this, to escape in bliss (I need some fuckin’ bliss) I wanna dive where a passion thrives but it’s elusive I don’t hear music when I play guitar for drop dead beauty I have no desire there’s not one being up among the stars who can help me to fill my time today, nothing seems to click (I’m in a hyper kinda slump) I wanna dive where a passion thrives, but it’s elusive (a hyper kinda slump) I don’t hear music when I play guitar (a hyper kinda slump) for drop dead beauty I have no desire (a hyper kinda slump) there’s not one being up among the stars who can help me to fill my time
3.
been trying to let some light creep out and make its way to the world I have so much more contained been living with love a long long time but keeping my face the way it hung before I have so much more within but it’s waiting underneath this mighty stone that I dragged inside many years ago I was young then, imagination wrapped in thorns what light I had wished it was never born for too long I’ve let myself twist up in darkness all of the shine as if happiness were shame a halloween joke is what I’ll be if I carry on dressing myself in illusions of tragedy when there’s so much light within but it’s waiting underneath this mighty stone that I dragged inside many years ago I was young then, imagination wrapped in thorns what light I had wished it was never born feeling sick of the dark, sick of this heavy cloak got to undo the black, the pressure isn’t going away I’ve been living with love, feeling so glowingly wonderful much of the time the burden of this light must be exposed been trying to let some light creep out and make its way to the world I have so much more contained been living with love a long long time but keeping my face the way it hung before I have so much more within but it’s waiting underneath this mighty stone that I dragged inside many years ago I was young then, imagination wrapped in thorns what light I had wished it was never born but it’s waiting underneath this mighty stone that I dragged inside many years ago I was young then, imagination wrapped in thorns what light I had wished it was never born underneath this mighty stone waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting wrapped in thorns wrapped in thorns waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting
4.
Fine With It 03:54
I have relented in negotiating let the other ones have their way I have lost any sense of devotion I am walking alone, as they say a decision in the guts below me has overturned the shit in my head I was up many nights wondering how we'd survive but I've let that all go and I'm fine with it I'm fine, dealing so far I've gathered up a little momentum it's easier with no one to blame when it's time to accuse or abandon in the dark I'll be hearing my name and I'm fine with it I'm fine with it this way I'm fully engaged I'm fine with it alone at this stage I am tending to my inspiration a nervous little clutch of songs among them I have found some communion and pride for how they're coming along still I toss in the night when a change isn't quite to the specs that I had planned there are days though I try out a thousand variations I get nowhere but where I began and I'm fine with it I'm fine with it I'm fine with it I'm fine with it
5.
Thoughts 04:58
huddled in the ocean, people boil alive to escape the rising flames in the sky when the planet’s nothing but a morsel of char see the moon drift in the darkness kind of lonely but alright with it (kind of lonely but alright with it) (kind of lonely but alright with it) armageddon fantasies help me unwind a little stress won’t matter at the end of time let the secret service fear I’m hatching plans yes I dwell on our extinction but I’m harmless as a kitten most of the time I get along with those around me at my job they like me well in the realm of normal conversation certain thoughts I know not to tell certain thoughts I know not to tell and they’re here right now I got a yearning for annihilation I got a hankering to cross the wires an introvert in overstimulation solitude will come after the fire wanna be a wanderer of ghostly shores tallying the bodies like they do in wars wanna feel emotionless, removed as I can a post-apocalyptic nomad, empty-eyed and without a memory of the crime I get along with those around me at my job they like me well in the realm of normal conversation certain thoughts I know not to tell certain thoughts I know not to tell and they’re here right now I got a yearning for annihilation I got a hankering to cross the wires an introvert in overstimulation solitude will come after the world has burned away (I’ve got the yearning) (I’ve got the yearning) well you can hide in the mountains or crawl underground buildings are melting, it’s all coming down molten sidewalks, a vision surreal when it’s all over I wonder how better I’ll feel yes I dwell on our extinction but I’m harmless as a kitten most of the time I get along with those around me at my job they like me well in the realm of normal conversation certain thoughts I know not to tell and they’re here right now and they’re here right now they’re here right now they’re here I got a yearning for annihilation I got a hankering to cross the wires an introvert in overstimulation solitude will come after the fire
6.
when you were living here in the attic room none of us would bear the house went into a state of pure wonder at night you’d sit on the floor in a mess of wires and old motherboards once I woke in a dream to strange bleeping and climbed up the stairs I followed the sound half asleep I saw you composed you held out your hands between them a radiant ovoid was floating when you were living here all the neighbourhood saw the light upstairs it hung like a muted star until morning you’d sleep half the day, your skin almost grey and mystery swirled all around you a painter of lands that no one has seen the natives looked well in purples and greens and sometimes their oval-shaped heads would remind me after you were gone, the house lost the wavelength it was on we hoped you would return but forces unknown, they took from you one night alone the globe I had seen I climbed up the stairs I followed the sound half asleep I saw you composed you held out your hands between them a radiant ovoid was floating a painter of lands that no one has seen the natives looked well in purples and greens and sometimes their oval-shaped heads would remind me I climbed up the stairs I followed the sound half asleep I saw you composed you held out your hands between them a radiant ovoid was floating
7.
Becoming 03:43
when I try to sleep it takes so long and I’ve been losing hair and finding them around you would think that change would make me strong guess I’m proving that the wisdom isn’t sound I had hoped my stomach would leave me alone but it’s taunting me still, months on haven’t learned to deny the nerves that give rise to all these feelings of dread I will break or I will grow but in this state I don’t know how long I can force myself to go there were days when I could rest my mind got along with life and hoped it carried on there were evenings when I felt just fine didn’t feel the need to slow my breathing down but now I’m contemplating yoga or some coloured pill never grasped at either one of them before it’s a struggle each night to put brooding aside every worst case locked in my head I will break or I will grow but in this state I don’t know, day to day do I abandon this or dig in to stay trembling heart, guts opposed, it’s a mystery how long I can force myself to go (force myself to go, force myself to go) (force myself to go, force myself to go) (force myself to go, force myself to go) I will break or I will grow but in this state I don’t know let me break or let me grow one good day is almost cruel in a way giving hope that anxiety will fade trembling heart, guts opposed, it’s a mystery how long I can force myself to go
8.
so ya got a great guitar and you’re tryin’ to learn to play every chord you make a buzz but your friend is so amazed says he knows a shitty bar where you’ll blow the house away be a crazy fucking star so you practice everyday you will be the center of the stage, the focus of the crowd and you’ll hear’em screaming out (you’re the greatest thing in my life) you’ll solo to the sky, open channels to the gods once you’ve done your time so you’re shreddin’ Zeppelin think you’re better than Page and your mom’s been nagging to get your own place one night a cutie waitress fuckin’ knows your name it makes you wonder how you’ll handle all the fame you will be the center of the stage, the focus of the crowd and you’ll hear’em screaming out (you’re the greatest thing in my life) you’ll solo to the sky, open channels to the gods once you’ve done your time your friends no longer show your wife says let it go you’re undiscovered clubs want covers no band for the road have I been wasting my life have I been wasting my life have I been wasting my life have I been wasting my life you play your songs for three old men at a pub that’s not too far they raise their beers and one comes up he says you got yourself a great guitar it’s the greatest thing in my life (it’s the greatest thing in my life) so ya got a great guitar a fuckin’ great guitar so ya got a great guitar you got a great guitar so ya got a great guitar
9.
Hold Of You 04:31
rolling over, blankets gone sunlight streaming the day has begun and I’m still drifting shower going, distant song it feels like hours and when you return I’m pretending I haven’t woken yet your knees up on the bed still I play at playing dead in the glow there’s a changing surface kaleidoscope turning around, I watch it in the flow there’s a mutual tension with eyes still closed I take hold of you in our bed a shadow on me ebbs and flows there’s a rhythm to the day we are quietly at play there’s a rhythm to the day we are quietly at play in the glow there’s a changing surface kaleidoscope turning around, I watch it in the flow there’s a mutual tension with eyes still closed I have hold in the glow (I hold you in my life) there’s a changing surface (you hold me down to the bed) kaleidoscope (you hold me in your life) turning around I watch it (we hold each other there) in the flow (I hold you in my life) there’s a mutual tension (you hold me down to the bed) with eyes still closed (you hold me in your life) I have hold (we hold each other there) I have hold I have hold of you (with you I’m drifting) (with you I’m drifting)
10.
beings far away used their static and their rays they told him to come, said his post here was done and he messaged back, okay and left behind a strange new time his alien mind was a wondrous kind beings far away drew his vessel around the blaze the state of his room and the ends we presume just vapour on his way left behind in a strange new time his alien mind was a wondrous kind true, he never learned to make this home true, he bore the scars of a wanderer kept awake at night by an alien light that was glowing under his skin true, he never learned to make this home true, he bore the scars of a wanderer kept awake at night by an alien light that was glowing under his skin left behind (beings far away) in a strange new time (used their static and their rays) his alien mind (they told him to come, said his post here was done) was a wondrous kind (and he messaged back, okay) left behind (beings far away) in a strange new time (drew his vessel around the blaze) his alien mind (the state of his room and the ends we presume) was a wondrous kind (just vapour on his way) (beings far away) he walked among us, blew smoke into our skies (beings far away) his stories crippled us with laughter and incredulity they say he danced alone in his attic room the night he left us
11.
purple monkey’s lost in your bed from your arms she must have fled now she’s somewhere in your jungle sheets somewhere cold, past your little feet home again, home again she’s thinking about how it feels to be held in the arms of a girl with such heart she needs you mama hears you groaning in your sleep and straightens out your twisted sheets purple monkey falls from within mama puts her underneath your chin home again, home again she’s dreaming about how it feels to be held in the arms of a girl with such heart she loves you home again, home again she’s dreaming about how it feels to be held in the arms of a girl with such heart home again, home again home again, home again she loves you
12.
one more step to help this creation for when it’s time to move on a good set of words to carry emotion that others might understand with love it is made it is all that I gave through the hours and the trials, the unknown there was something alive I remember the cry when it first was born make me proud, make me a million daddy’d love to retire but if you return with tales of rejection that won’t matter, sweet one with love you are made, you are all that I gave through the hours and the trials, the unknown such will to survive, you were destined to thrive you have grown so strong with love you were made, you are all that I gave through the hours and the trials, the unknown though we fought, you and I always settled and sighed you challenged me right to the end and now I hear you just flowing along nothing I could improve yeah, I hear you just flowing along nothing more I could do (flowing along) through the waves of creation you’ve come out a pearl a treasure that no one should hide it’s time that I sent you off into the world let the other creations decide with love it is made it is all that I gave through the hours and the trials, the unknown there was something alive I remember the cry when it first was born with love you are made, you are all that I gave through the hours and the trials, the unknown such will to survive, you were destined to thrive you have grown so strong (with love, with love, with love) it’s time that I sent you off into the world let the other creations decide
13.

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Musicians:

Randall Stoll: drums on tracks 1-3, 5, 7 and 8
Sam Levin: all guitars on tracks 1, 3 and 7; leads on track 12; string arrangements
Jeff Caron: bass on tracks 2, 5, 8, and 12
Mike Young: bass on tracks 1, 3, 6, 7, 9 and 10; programming on tracks 6, 9 and 10
Dave Young: programming on tracks 6, 9 and 10
Rod Senft: drums on track 12
Scott Young: bass on track 4
Doug Harrison: lyrics; vocals; guitar on tracks 2, 4-6, 8-12; piano on track 12; string arrangements; programming on tracks 1, 3, 6, 9 and 10

The shout choir in “so ya got a great guitar” is Jeremy Tardif (Jeremy Tardif Band), Tatyana Dobrowolski (Tatters and Ravens), Sam Levin (Fen), Scott Archibald (Id), Nando Polesol (Fen), Bonnie and Shauna.

All songs by Doug Harrison, except “becoming,” co-written with Matt McCallum. The main guitar part in "beings far away" was inspired by some excellent jams with Jeff Caron.

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released January 16, 2019

PRODUCED, RECORDED, AND MIXED BY Doug Harrison with Doug Fury at Fortissimo Sound (tracks 1-3, 5, 7 and 8), Dave and Mike Young at Young Bros Productions (tracks 6, 9 and 10) and Scott Young at Alchemy Sound Studios (tracks 4, 11 and 12)

MASTERED BY Jamie Sitar at Outta Town Sound in Winnipeg (tracks 1-4, 7, 8 and 12), Young Bros Productions (tracks 6 and 9-11), and Doug Fury (track 5)

COVER ART & BOOKLET DESIGN BY C.A. Beckston / Blekkmark Design Studio
COVER CONCEPT BY Peter Wiholm

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Slug Comparison Victoria, British Columbia

After five albums with Canadian progressive rock band Fen, vocalist/guitarist Doug Harrison launched a solo project called Slug Comparison. So far the project has released two full-length albums, featuring members of The Devin Townsend Band, Bif Naked, and Fen. ... more

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