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Free Winter Sampler EP

by Amber Rubarth

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    FREE Winter Sampler EP!

    Warm up your ears with a song from each of Amber Rubarth's albums!

    All 5 songs are FREE (sweet, right?) All you have to do in return is love them and care for them (and maybe tell your friends, if you're so inclined!)

    Enjoy! May your ears and hearts be warm this winter!

    xo

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released 12 December 2010

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Amber Rubarth was a chainsaw sculptor.
Then she started writing songs.
Soon she had 1.5 million listens on ... more MySpace and was touring through the US, Europe and Japan.

NPR Mountain Stage New Song Contest chose her as this year's Grand Prize winner. Jacquire King (Tom Waits, Kings of Leon) produced her latest album A COMMON CASE OF DISAPPEARING which features Jason Reeves & Jason Mraz.

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Track Name: Letter From My Lonelier Self
Here is a letter from my lonelier self
To the one that's in love once again
I couldn't find you so I thought that I would tell
You a few things with my favorite blue pen

This year's been a hard one
Yeah I made so many big mistakes
I lost the heart that I'd been given
So when it's love don't wait to say what it is
When it's love don't wait to say what it is

After the fire is when the neighbors all come out
Their sadness dripping with relief it wasn't them
And all your thoughts turn solid
Cause you've lost everything else
And you need a place to lay your head

And in the vacant silence of a lost Manhattan Boulevard
You'll hear the answers if you listen
When it's love don't wait to say what it is
When it's love don't wait to say what it is

And I see couples kissing
With their arms and fingers locked so tight
I hope they say the words we didn't
When it's love don't wait to say what it is
And don't trade love for an aimless embrace of the wind
Please don't lose your love the way that I did

Here is a letter from my lonelier self
To the one that's in love once again
Track Name: Pilot
Hiding out from the world,
Calendar days roll over,
think I'll stay in again tonight.

My heart's finally waking up,
but every day just gets colder,
Always one step, I'm always one step behind.

I'm slowly pouring out into the room and I can't control it,
My head is empty, time is running low, oh, oh.
Fuel's just a leak without a flame to heat it up inside.
I need a spark to ignite, a pilot, oh!
I need a spark to ignite my pilot, light.

Thumbing through photographs,
Paintings and old notepapers,
That I put with the charms I found.

Trying to find myself, or reinvent something greater,
Turning it up, I'm turning it upside down.

I'm slowly pouring out into the room and I can't control it,
My head is empty, time is running low, oh, oh.
Fuel's just a leak without a flame to heat it up inside.
I need a spark to ignite, a pilot, oh!
I need a spark to ignite my pilot,

I tried to find a falling star in the sky, but they don't come when you try.
They never come when you try.
It's all in time, it's all in time.

I'm slowly pouring out into the room and I can't control it,
My head is empty, time is running low, oh, oh.
Fuel's just a leak without a flame to heat it up inside.
I need a spark to ignite, a pilot, oh!
I need a spark to ignite, my pilot, oh!
I need a spark to ignite, my pilot, light.
Track Name: In The Creases
You’re the smell of the toast that you made in the mornings.
You’re the page in my book that I keep to myself.
You’re the unlocking sound when I turn my door key.
You’re the scar that I have from the time that I fell.
I can’t describe the faces.
I can’t recall the names.
But you remain...

I keep you in the creases.
I hide you in the folds.
Protect you from the sunlight.
Shield you from the cold.
Everybody said they were glad to see you go.
But no one ever has to know.

You’re the part of the moon that blends into the blackness.
Even though we know it’s really still there.
You’re the song that I sing and I don’t need to practice.
You’re the green shoes I keep though they’re too small to wear.
I can’t describe the faces.
I can’t recall the names.
But you remain...

I keep you in the creases.
I hide you in the folds.
Protect you from the sunlight.
Shield you from the cold.
Everybody said they were glad to see you go.
But no one ever has to
No one ever has to know the things that I refuse to see
And all the nights I still can’t sleep.
I curl up in the sheets
Between the creases where you used to be.

Once love wakes it never sleeps...
Even when you love a dream....
Track Name: Washing Day
Walking past my lover's house
Bitter taste still in my mouth
Too much whiskey, too much smoke
Last night's tears hang on my coat
But now the rain has stopped its fall
Streets shine like a mirror ball
Sun comes on, it's just enough
Watch the flower's waking up

It's washing day
It's washing day
Colors run and they fade away
It's washing day
It's washing day
Feel the threads like new again

Big machines all in a row
Mother with her child in tow
Change old paper for silver coins
Lose myself in all this noise
Wake up from a peaceful rest
Counting down, one minute left
Cotton stops its jog in place
I hold it warm against my face

It's washing day
It's washing day
Colors run and they fade away
It's washing day
It's washing day
Feel the threads like new again

What's this in my dungarees
In my back pocket, curled and creased
My old notebook, filled with you
Our secrets now just streaks of blue
It's all a mess, but beautiful
This emptiness, a gift I hold
I write a poem with you in mind
And leave the memories behind
I leave the memories behind

It's washing day
It's washing day
Colors run and they fade away
It's washing day
It's washing day
Feel the threads like new again
Feel the threads like new again
Feel the threads like new again
Track Name: Party On The Fence
Sign says right or left
But I can't decide
I guess I'll stay right here
A little while
The day is halfway through
And my shadow disappeared right underneath me
It disappeared right under

And if I don't decide
I could stay in the middle
Where everything's just fine
Maybe, kind of, just a little

Consensus says yes
So I guess that's right
I'll keep an open mind
To what I like
The question's halfway through
And opinion disappeared right underneath me
It disappeared right under

And if I don't decide
I could stay in the middle
Where everything's just fine
Maybe, kind of, just a little
Maybe, kind of, just a little

And if I don't decide
I could stay in the middle
Where everything's just fine...

I ride my bike across the bridge sometimes at night
Watch my reflection as it trembles in the moonlight
Imagine I am the river flowing by
Never questioning direction
Never wondering why

Never making up my mind

Never wondering why
Never making up my mind

Wondering why I'm never making up my mind