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A Year of Living

by Jeromy Darling

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Conqueror 04:36
LIVING Conqueror More love Your love Was enough to make me crazy for love Long nights Endless fights It was an enigmatic notion I don’t feel it, feel it But it was fun while it lasted By the way, I tried to love you But love wasn’t good enough You would speak of something perfect And that’s what I’m dreaming of More love… Pure Love… The cure that ends the suffering of all man More love, I’ve heard it, but it’s not real Cause it’s not love you feel Have you seen it, seen it? Was it something fantastic? By the way, I tried to love you But love wasn’t good enough You would speak of something perfect And that’s what I’m dreaming of By the way, I tried to love you But no one had shown me how “Love one another” is a cup we’ve emptied And that’s why we’re dying now
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CONTACT BOOK US A YEAR OF LIVING Conqueror More love Your love Was enough to make me crazy for love Long nights Endless fights It was an enigmatic notion I don’t feel it, feel it But it was fun while it lasted By the way, I tried to love you But love wasn’t good enough You would speak of something perfect And that’s what I’m dreaming of More love… Pure Love… The cure that ends the suffering of all man More love, I’ve heard it, but it’s not real Cause it’s not love you feel Have you seen it, seen it? Was it something fantastic? By the way, I tried to love you But love wasn’t good enough You would speak of something perfect And that’s what I’m dreaming of By the way, I tried to love you But no one had shown me how “Love one another” is a cup we’ve emptied And that’s why we’re dying now Ferris Wheel Cry your eyes out You can try hard to live without It’d be so much better if you’d never met her Her face is like a cloud Pour your life out You can kill what you cannot live without And you found a lever that could change forever But your hands can’t help you now So clean up all the powder And cry a little louder Cause she don’t want nobody else And she ain’t got no reason now to keep you for herself So come ride around on my ferris wheel So come ride around on my ferris wheel Cause it’s not like we were in love And it’s not like this was something I wanted And it’s clear when push came to shove That my love was dust and that’s what I’m made of So come ride around on my ferris wheel So come ride around on my ferris wheel So breathe in all the power And crucify the powder You broke the walls of Jericho And all the nightmares of a life you’ll never know So come ride around on my ferris wheel So come ride around on my ferris wheel
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I don’t want to make this long I’ve been dying just to move I’ve lost my mind so many times I’ve been broken down low for you When you slipped into my heart love I embraced you from the start Like a little child reaching for a blade And I’ve got no one left but me to blame Let me make this crystal clear So that when I walk away You won’t try to justify yourself And the hell you put me through You’ve broken every bone I have inside And kissed me every time you lied And no one else can help me believe So write this down now, “Take your hands off of me.” I can breathe, I can learn, take me to the river Make it bleed, make it burn, make me a believer Show me love, show me love, show me your deliverance When you slipped into my heart love I embraced you from the start Like a little child reaching for a blade And I’ve got no one left but me to blame I can breathe, I can learn, take me to the river Make it bleed, make it burn, make me a believer Show me love, show me love, show me your deliverance Let me go… So brace yourself, my will has come alive I can breathe, I can learn, take me to the river Make it bleed, make it burn, make me a believer Show me love, show me love, show me your deliverance
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Make Me 04:48
Tear down the shrine Drink all your wine This golden calf is burning Turn down the lights Speak all your goodnights This holy man is dying Kings will hide It’s my love that shakes the ground And you heard me right I said I will not bow down Make me Show the light, and now your eyes Give him kisses when he cries When words break down They shatter Kings will hide It’s my love that shakes the ground And you heard me right I said I will not bow down Make me Tell her I’m fine If I don’t come home tonight Kings will hide It’s my love that shakes the ground And you heard me right I said I will not bow down Make me Kings will cry It’s my love that burns their eyes And you heard me right I am not afraid to die Take me

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These songs are old, even for me. All written somewhere between 2004 & 2005 as I tried to process what was happening to people I cared about. Drug abuse, betrayal & and shattered dreams were tearing apart some of my closest friends, further solidifying my own decision to embrace Jesus as the only sense in the madness that was another year of living. I recorded them back then but never really felt like they were finished. So this was my attempt to finally put them to rest.

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released September 12, 2012

special thanks to Steele Croswhite - we will do this forever brother. Annex Recording, Clocks & Clouds, Brianna Millett, Steve Martin (for the hand-drawn cover), Halland’s Paradigm, Jamie @ Chamber of Sounds, Cynthia Lin @ Lucky8Letterpress, Patty Keith, Bob Burt’s reverb pedal, Orbit Electronix’ Psychoplex Tape Echo pedal, Keith Alan CBGs, Billy Rowe @ Rock n’ Roll Relics, Palir Guitars, Jason Fry @ Free State FX, Mark Finkelpearl, Jeff @ Savage Amps (you rock so much), Nick Sellors (2013 is going to be fun!), Eric @ Foxtone Music, Peter Hoodes, Alex Nikitin and all my cassette friends, old japanese guitars, Pigtronix, Electro Harmonix, ZVex Pedals... but most importanly, the Rock, my family (including in-laws &nieces/nephews) - what joy you bring to my life! My wife of 10 years and our 2 sons - marriage and parenthood has been better than I could have ever imagined, and my God - my greatest love.

Produced by Steele Croswhite.
Engineered by Annex Recording
Mixed by Lucas Shogren (Conqueror, Demon & Make Me) and Derek Powers (Ferris Wheel)
Mastered by me, to cassette on my A.N.T. modified Tascam 122 MKIII
Cover by Steve Martin
CD prints and letterpress by Cynthia Lin

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Jeromy Darling Minneapolis, Minnesota

Jeromy is an actor, songwriter, speaker and advocate, plying his wares in Minnesota with his wife (married '02) and 4 children.

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