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Conjure

by Vagabonds

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“Conjure” meanders through my stream of consciousness from a park bench in Eastown on a bitter cold Michigan day. I wrote this song while having an out of body experience, gazing into an endless dismal sky, and reflecting on my late teens and early 20s. I drifted through times spent on tour while losing friends and a sense of self, grasping to find peace again, and dreaming of being elsewhere.

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If I live long enough to live
As long as I have again
I’ll write it in a paperback
Call it “There & Back Again”

A wink at the fable
Of mountains and magic
Not all that far off from
A life spent in transit

Some words on the wilderness
From a failed high school poet
With half written metaphors
To buffer the sadness

Erase the names
Sub out the dates and
Blur out the passage
Those years in the forest
When I foraged and forged my own truth

Conjure a ghost I once knew
Conjure a ghost I once knew

These days it’s uncertain I’ll ever leave Michigan
Been bound by a spell or some incantation
I gaze in the absence from a park bench near a campus
With eyes still wide open
I channel and I drift

To a place through the evergreens
Out in the morning breeze
My breath in the air
The dark wood before me
Somewhere in the firmament
Or how I imagine it
The crunching of snow
Summons me to the present view

Conjure a ghost I once knew
It was you
It was you
It was you
Conjure a ghost I once knew

credits

released October 17, 2022
vocals, guitar & bass by Luke Dean
additional vocals by Jackie Kalmink
drums by Nathan Coles

engineering by Matthew Frank,
Jackie Kalmink, & Luke Dean
mixing by Calvin Lauber
mastering by Will Yip

photo & video by Ethan Cook
single art by Adam Vass,
Ethan Cook &
Luke Dean

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