released June 10, 2011

1. Payday Sky
2. Carry On (prelude)
3. Carry On
4. Eyelids
5. Here With You Now

Payday Sky
(Geyer)

I want to dance with her under a
Chandelier
Make some love on a night
So clear as a
Pistol made of crystal, jade,
And diamonds
Because the moon is full as the
City streets you and
I laugh with all of the
Kids we meet and the
Bass drum comes and
Rises up as
Soon as it’s
Behind us
(ooh, ooh…)

And there’s a pair of eyes peering
From a crack where even
Darkness seems like
A neon black the only
God some know is a
Blowhard keeping
Track;
But I want to
Go get a signature, that I’ve sought
Within if
Liberty can’t deliver me
From sin go send my
Kin and if you render me
Helpless call me
Selfless if
That’ll count!
(ooh, ooh…)

The day they die in the payday sky…
Even god is going to cry

Carry On
(Geyer/Margitich)

It’s not that you’ve not got the
Style grace and charm you’d
Need to do me harm
She’s all about it and
Without it all she’s
Got will take me down
I’d let it happen if I
Let her back, now

(ooh, ooh
ba-ba-ba, ba-ba-ba…)

The joke’s on me like broken
Knees on athletes’ legs
You broke my heart like
Ten dozen eggs
What’s gone is gone
And gone as a past
By any name
Will I be remembered for my
Mistakes? Oh!
Who’s to blame?

For the checklist in your eyes
That the reckless sympathize
With? It’s not a feeling I recall
I’ve felt,
I’m sure the notches they too
Need your belt
To carry on

Carry on
I knew we both could pull a
Punch but I’d no clue
You were that strong to
Carry on
Carry on
When life feels

Long
Longer and longer still
On, we go
Onward and onward still

Eyelids
(Margitich)

Underneath my eyelids
All I see is violence
Planets that collided
Into silence long ago

In the midst of crisis
I’ll keep my heart at hand and
Do as time advises
Leave the company that would leave me

Don’t you know there’s but one way through
Way through
Way through

Lies and window-dressing
Left me so far behind
I’m always second-guessing
And I’m trying hard to change my mind

Harmless chrysalises
Staring with your false eyes
I know you ain’t no pythons
And I see your oh so thin disguise

Don’t you know there’s but one way through
Way through
Way through
That’s to become nothing and have nothing inside you

Here With You Now
(Geyer)

I knew from a young age
Everything dies
And if no one cries
What good was it worth
When it was alive?
Has it got to hurt to mean
Anything at all?

So we say we know
This protocol
Better than books of worship
Can ever solve
Dissolved now into fiction
Where everyone dies
And nobody listens
To the girl,

To the girl
To that girl
Screaming at the
Top of her lungs

The girl
Oh that girl
Screaming at the
Top of her lungs

Oh but I’m here with you now
I’m here with you now
And we’re far from the crowd
I’m here with you now more than ever before…
My love, my love
Ooh, my love

Esperanto was

Produced by Anymen & Pat McCusker
Mixed by Pat McCusker
Engineered by Drew Arndt & Pat McCusker
Mastered at The Record Company Inc. by Brian Arnold

Devon Clarke Geyer –
Vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, melodica, bottle, rainmaker
Alexander Margitich –
Vocals, electric guitar, glockenspiel, keys
Jeff Butcher –
Mandolin, vocals, chair stamping
Brenden Pajak –
Drums, percussion

Featuring

Lorely Rodriguez – background vocals on track 5
Adam Moskowitz – violins on tracks 4 and 5
Ro Rowan – cello on tracks 4 and 5
Brian Arnold – horn in F on tracks 2, 3, and 4
John Egizi – trombone on tracks 1, 2, 3, and 5
Stevan Rexroat – clarinet in Bb on tracks 2, 4, and 5
Erisa Ogawa – flute on tracks 2, 4, and 5
Kajito Noda – baritone saxophone on track 5

With artwork by Jesse Weiner
And typography by John Burns

a special thanks is due to:
Erin Pohl-Fairbanks, Stephen Geyer, Lawrence Margitich,
Joanne Butcher, Richard Butcher, Ann Margitich, Lorely Rodriguez, Lauren
Taylor Berkman, John Burns, Jesse Weiner, Austin Collins Badgers, Jesse Lee Weiner,
Susan Rogers, The McCusker family, Pavement Coffee House,
Zeb, Lizzy, Deana, Kamal, Adam, Aaron Meusing, Yes.Oui.Si,
Mitchell Stewart, Tamsin Wilson, and all of the old and new
friends who made Esperanto possible on a virtually
non-existent budget - Thanks.


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