When I Leave This Town

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Wonderkind: 1.A feeling of surprise caused by a person, persons or things holding characteristics of beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable traits. 2. A curiosity or sense of caution or suspicion due to the benevolent disposition of a person.

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Wonderkind: 1.A feeling of surprise caused by a person, persons or things holding characteristics of beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable traits.
2. A curiosity or sense of caution or suspicion due to the benevolent disposition of a person.

Produced by: Darryl Neudorf & Language Arts
Guitar/Vocals: Kristen Cudmore
Drums: Neil MacIntosh
Keys/Accordion: Joel Visentin
Bass/Mandolin: Joe Ernewein
Trumpets: JP Carter
Violin: Randy Lee
Cello: Alex McMaster
Gang Vocals: Teen Ranch Ensemble
Engineer & Mixer: Darryl Neudorf at Operation Northwoods in Orangeville
Trumpet Engineer: David Sikula at Demitone in Vancouver
Album Art & Layout: Gordon B. Isnor
Photograph: Wayne Eardley
Song Compositions & Arrangements: Kristen Cudmore (SOCAN)

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Who is going to love you when I'm no longer around?
And what will become of me, when I leave this town?

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I started a new book
And then I moved house
Picked a new city
Held my mouth

I didn’t say much
Nothing’s left to be told
After that night
The veins in my temples exploded

I took flight
Many times before
My head it felt like cracking
My heart became a door

I think I served a purpose
But no one will ever know
I’ll think of these chapters fondly
And I’ll go where I will grow

But who is going to love you
When I’m no longer around?
And what will become of me
When I leave this town?

I hear a distant whistling
Like it is calling me home
Sleep sweet to loons calling
In this palindrome

‘Cause every time I sleep
I see it, it is not really there
Every time I sing
I get really scared

Feeling tired
From this bed in the sky
Flounder in wonder
Like I am a child

A new beginning
Become a new place
With a new place full of stuff
Becomes a new face

Then landing on arms of friends
My armor fell too
And it landed down there
With the fireworks crew

Becoming full blown motion
With many mixed matches
Simplicity is a state of mind
That fumigates and ashes

And the sound of it all
As it sets fire
It blasts out the stories
As my eyes tire

It forms and makes shapes
Of sailing away words and vowels
And then I take flight all over
Like a flock of midnight owls

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from Wonderkind, track released April 1, 2014

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