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Lost and Returning (collected recordings 2005​-​2015)

by Jack Harlan

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1.
Promise 03:15
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We’re sending solders home to God before the world’s end Claim every life spent is a means to defend Fundamental zealots and the President on strings Taping conversations and the songs that free birds sing We’re taught less about love and more how to be afraid Spending billions on a message about a enemy at our gate It’s always a war for the sake of a few men’s needs We could use all that money to get New Orleans off its knees Citizens’ get fooled by patriotic schemes Solders fighting for reasons not what they seem Commander wants more money to get the job done While the land of freedom has a lot of people with none Love come around Love come around We have been divided and the hounds have come unbound Love come around Won’t love come around? Come on stick together Don’t give up on me now Cause my door is open My sign says come Economy of Love Let’s grow it Let someone you don’t know Let them know that have been loved tonight What have we been learning since a Vietnam Is how to kill them in the jungles now how to in sand What have we been learning since the two towers fell In the name of heaven we raised a lot of hell We fear each other when our government should fear us Think the rest of the world should be living like us Distracted, dumbfounded, disease of decadence NWO laughing while we feed inside the fence Love come around Love come around We have been divided and the hounds have come unbound Love come around Won’t love come around? Come on stick together Don’t give up on me now Cause my door is open My sign says come Economy of Love Let’s grow it Let someone you don’t know Let them know that have been loved tonight
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Empty Hand 03:04
You don’t know what to do with your Fridays anymore All you know is where you will be on Monday when you go out the door Time like a hammer and nail on your casket and on your courage again You got an empty hand Give me your hand You got a empty hand I’m not a empty man But you got empty hand Don’t you know love demands a starling You think you are free Don’t you know your fear gives all the orders Say there’s no love in your heart It was never anyone other than you who built the borders I kick at the jukebox ask why it plays trash You put in another quarter You got an empty hand Give me your hand You got a empty hand I’m not a empty man But you got empty hand Don’t you know love demands a starling Starling Don’t loose me tonight Starling Open up your sky Starling Don’t loose me tonight Cause were too young to die But too old to tell such lies
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I was lost but I am returning Like a new born baby In a old world turning Do what I fear to do let fear loose itself Down a darkened hallway That I have now stepped out I was lost but am returning Descending doves Lift me up from my hurting The mistakes I made Become thin air Luck a choice to answer What’s always been there I was lost but I am returning To the place I was Before I started learning The failures of others And their truths over me Without fear or force But trust in harmony
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You can’t kill this love that I’ve been born with Put you in mazes to places that look the same as other places Becoming complacent with water fluoridation Give you an education and they don’t care if those roads lead nowhere. Manipulated seeds, the flight of bees Lost in darkened seas with silent screams Cashless society, marks of beast Exhausted from computer screens, tv reality scenes It’s only when you close your eyes you can truly see it The child transmits and I am receiving In the arms of the forest no churches needed for believing Defined by only what you go, let go We are awake now Dancing around this fire My body, heart and breath now Are one with the beating of a drum Putting things in cages, circuses, breeding ground, zoos, in front of children’s faces We talk of freedom when we are the ones who live in really big cages Keep us in the state of relating to what you propagate A sickness and a cure, both of which you create Makes me sicker the more I take The more sickness there is the more you make But your not going to make it from me I don’t need a flu shot for free We are awake now Dancing around this fire My body, heart and breath now Are one with the beating of a drum
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These eyes have been blinded By the ashes of American dreams Can’t afford to call the doctor Hard believe in the land of the free It’s a masquerade of peace Using mothers sons in every useless war These days everyone got the fight inside them More fight than reasons for They’re sure to give us fear Be prepared to be profiled Watch out for what someone could be hiding Could be a gun Could be the latest style We are going to rise up Off of our knees And catch that wing of a dove In the dirt and blood among the leaves When there is no will for power When we care less about whose won It is then we will know The secret behind the sun I am sun I am the sun that gives light to the sun Maxed out in isolation Intoxicated by the seeds We no longer want what you’ve been feeding us We know what goes on behind the scenes We don t need to kill in the name of religion Your religion is an enemy of God I am not sure these days where God is But I surly know where he is not We are going to rise up Off of our knees And catch that wing of a dove In the dirt and blood among the leaves When there is no will for power When we care less about whose won It is then we will know The secret behind the sun I am sun that gives light to the sun Come on people rise Say it like you mean it Peace could be a smile For someone who has never seen one
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We Are Alive 04:36

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Lost and Returning by Jack Harlan is a collection of various unrelated recording sessions that took place at Jonathan Anderson's studio Protection Island in beautiful rural BC between 2005-2015. This blend of ethereal indie rock, americana and alternative folk, sees Harlan's lyrical firestorms associated with a 60's era concept of love, peace and revolution. He encourages us to strip away the greed and needs of the few. This lyrical banter is balanced by deeply personal vulnerable songs of struggle. A self-help handbook/Ted Talk encouraging us to dismantle the thoughts and beliefs that block us from the best in ourselves.

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released March 9, 2018

All songs recorded,mixed and mastered by Jonathan Anderson at Protection Island:http://www.protectionis.land, except tracks; 1, 4 and 10 mixed at Vogville Recording in Vancouver by Jonathan Anderson and mastered by Suite Sound Labs, Vancouver;Track 11, recorded and mixed by Dean Malton at Groundloop, Ridgeway, ON.

Jack Harlan - guitar
Samuel Heard - drums and percussion on all tracks except 1, 4 and 10.
Jonathan Anderson - guitar,bass guitar, keys,backing vocals and effects

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Lyrical firestorms, foot stomping and soft introspection of Alternative Folk, Indie & Experimental Roots.

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