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≠ Evelyn Wreckage - guitars, vox
≠ Ken Price - bass
≠ Brendan Waters - keyboards
≠ Casey Lewis - drums, percussion

≠ Dave Alcock - Engineering
≠ Jamie Foulds - Mixing, mastering

≠ Copyright 2011 Here Is The New There Music

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Mama Bear picks up her cub
coming home from the casino
she dodges the landlord up the fire escape
and climbs in through the back window

She was sweet on her boyfriend
For the first two weeks that he moved in
Then somehow he lost his delivery job
He reassured “Don’t worry, babe,
‘cause time is on my side these days”
She didn’t like how that sounded...
At least there was a bright side
her son couldn’t’ve been more pleased
She caught them in a beautiful moment
over cereal one morning
He was wondering if William Tell
would’ve shot Apple Jacks as well
Then put the bowl on his head like a joke
the boy laughed when it slid off and broke
he said “Now that’s not how to have a balanced breakfast”

Mama Bear puts her cub first
Climbing in through the back window
He sits on the floor and pulls off his boots
As she reads the note on the table

At work she was under the gun
While her boyfriend played all day with her son
Mostly first person shooter games
Later one night in bed
She confessed her fears about keeping them fed
So he promised that he’d find something
Then he surprised them all
With money for groceries
Then he treated them to the circus
restaurants and bought nice things
A glow appeared on her son’s face
that she had never seen
He thought the guy was the king of all-time

Then the bottom just fell out
Her tip jar was cleaned right out
He hadn’t even left a cent
And now she couldn’t make rent
She kicked him out of her bed
And threw the jar at his head
And screamed at him as he bled
To leave and never come back again
He screamed back, he didn’t know
Where that money was meant to go
He’d get his buddy on the phone
And borrow from him what he owed
She said, “The lies never end with you, do they mister”

Mama Bear chokes back her tears
After reading the note on the table
Later that night it crushes her to hear
her son crying hard in his pillow

‘Cause it broke his sweet little heart

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from Does Not Equal (​≠​), released September 18, 2012

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Evelyn Wreckage Calgary, Alberta

Evelyn Wreckage is your left hand man, your trial by fire, your conscientious objector, your internal clock, your compass in the dark, your believer in a burnt church, your prayer for the dying, your voice for the voiceless, your reflex in the crisis, your defender of innocents, and your last leaf stubbornly clinging to the branch even as the snow is falling.

But don't expect too much.
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