The Polka Queen, by Day of Wrath

The Polka Queen

by Day of Wrath

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1.	Window to a Soul 03:40	lyrics	buy track
Another bird trapped in the loft got in yesterday Goes for the square of light it sees and strikes the glass It's got a skyview, won't seek escape in the stairway down; Better the vision should repulse you than that you turn away. I throw myself at glimmers too They parry when you close in Another day of that I'm set to throw myself Into the wall. You climbed from my shitbox in your socks with your shoes in hand Wandered over, sat down in the dirt to put them on Well you never know how some mundane thing might be perceived I couldn't help myself I said you are beautiful you said so are you. Locked in the loft since then Obsessed with a glint of freedom The hinted promise teasing through your dirty glass And throw myself into the windowpane. August 2022
2.	Side Drum 04:04	lyrics	buy track
No priest, mad priest She sets my breakfast, cleans my sheets Jess is a mess oh yes Never put yourself above the least I'm making for the lowest seat At the storied feast She likes it in the kitchen heat Jess is a mess oh yes Low Sunday tarts and chat I yawn my way through fake goodbyes Pass through the kitchen oh yes See what's up with Jess Leaving hypocrites behind I got honesty At the stove fires we were that blessed Jess is a mess oh yes Sometime round episode ten Jessica filled me in Can't hide your child She was cryin tried to calm her down This is for the best Ite missa est Scandal pigs and tickets west For me & Jess At the stove fires we were that blest Now deal with the rest. August 2022
3.	Segue 01:01		buy track
4.	Twilight in a Frozen Marsh in December & Overseas 06:10	lyrics	buy track
Twilight in a Frozen Marsh in December - Wilton Land Conservancy, December 2021 Overseas Ann walks alone The streetlights are stronger than the moon That pulls the tide She's a streetlight lycanthrope Shuffle through the broken gold Fallen halos of trees of bones They're ahead of you Already overseas Crossing the wide sea. Gets wider ever year The gap you got to bridge Between the sky And everyone who says he sees the sky You lonely thing You heartbroke chameleon It's not about a friend. Crossing the wide sea. November 2021
5.	Last One to Room Here 04:33	lyrics	buy track
As you can see those twigs don't quite reach the window At night they do It cannot be explained When Lucy roomed here a star fell out of the sky To the widow's walk She's the polka queen Put it in your head She kept it in her dress She was the last one to room here Guy in a car can't stop his mouth Gets out there is no change That it could ever come to this After she taught me boards' veins Can be made to run Spun in a thong on the rooftop in the dawn I had that dance for two Each night it's a little worse at the panes Like fingernails Cracked enamel of the soul Don't know if I dreamed she said don't cut me or not But I'll take those branches down one day And look for blood on the blades July 2021
6.	Shadowherd 03:21	lyrics	buy track
You would never know, he said What once was here What used to be You'll never see Overgrown's overrated Only an outlook can ensure your privacy Your generation Has no place to stay No tale to tell How dare you live? I spent my days collecting shadows Never knew what I brought home till after dark Woke from an arid dream In an ice cold bed Beside my head A paper scrap and pen Her note said I loved a man I made up You loved him too What a surprise – he showed up My shadowdays are through. Take an awful chance like that Come crawling home The one who did it right He sold his soul He's innocuous now Outliving us all ~June 2022
7.	Leaf-Catching 02:08	info	buy track
8.	Only Way to Stay is to Leave 03:54	lyrics	buy track
Saw you walking with your cute kids how ya doin You wondered had I heard that you were leaving in a day For years I'd thought such things powerless to move me Half the time I mix up your name with someone else I never stepped off of my path for you Not really something that I chose with full intent Or that I asked you to play this role for me You never chose to symbolize those I lost Don't know how to approach the one I need Life is lived so far from what's called reality Either way you end up choosing emptiness You're better off to seek it in your soul I'd fantasize that when I died she'd meet me in a dream There'd be a graveyard and we'd make out by a dead tree She'd wake up cryin and wish she'd got to know me So much cleaner than lowering my standards in real life When you've got a roller coaster in your mind You tend to live there all the time You couldn't have done more to signal the light was green I disbelieved my senses cause I'd decided it was red Don't know how to approach the one I need & etc. June 2022
9.	The Strangler 04:40	lyrics	buy track
Air this dense you can't breathe I'm a summer casualty Without a glimpse ahead World won't wake till winter again Who'll die to bring it? She pulls each day like a shawl Around herself Till the color's right And she's painted out the aberrations No telling who'll see her tomorrow Bring the winter again. September 2021
10.	Long Dusk 02:32	lyrics	buy track
Treading moss Slope so steep With trees like spears One of us was seated The other drunk For the green mindshare Just last year I Could not imagine how We would outlive the spoken silence And summon the mute past To a muted present Severed seasons Another era gone Each one's a little colder I still seek our voices in the leaves And impress in the green September 2022
11.	Adapt or Perish 03:52	lyrics	buy track
The truth is out there Pol Pot knew what plastic's really for Sensory information isn't valid anymore The right way to talk about this After some years of therapy Awaken the new man Death of a friendship leave you sick Death of a friendship He upset your mind, that's an injury You can make a steady wage now Pills apps & counselors address the need With a new line weekly Plug in, I've got your update here It's a virtual autocracy We never saw as much Of each other as TV Just don't take my drugs go head and have my liberties No need to gather no more The biggest threat's the penniless Distrusting their live feed September 2021

about

Augmented by former Initial Ascent double-reedist Michael Albert and vocalist Rowland Hazard the Day of Wrath enters previously inaccessible musical spaces; angelic choirs back the raw lead, cor anglais and oboe polyphony are married to electric discord. Melancholy folk-rock to eruptive angst, contrapuntal elan is everywhere in evidence, an album for connoisseurs. Lyric narratives are illustrated by Meister Seth Goepel – pdf booklet included with purchase of the album. The polka queen enters the dimming wood, last slashes of sunset in the dying leaves and about her a substanceless retinue – we would be fools not to follow. With all respect, Philip JC Fournier.

credits

released October 31, 2022

All songs written & played by Philip JC Fournier.
Additional voices – Rowland Hazard.
Cor anglais and oboe on Side Drum & The Strangler – Michael Albert.
Artwork – Meister Seth Goepel, laudate eum.