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Hide And Seek

from Faces from the Static by Ian Marquis

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Hide and Seek is an almost progressive rock song that started life as a single riff and mutated into the most complicated thing I've ever written. There are so many guitars in the finished mix (particularly the chorus) that the riffs all bleed together into a single wall of sound - and I love that about it.

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Touch down on broken glass
I know that this will pass
Touch all the broken skin
Beaten brass is paper thin

Down and down and down again
Garments burned and soil turned
Down and down and down again

I'm gonna find you...

I'm over the mountains
And I can't land
But baby, I'm gonna find you

A burden of proof
On an innocent man
Oh, but they never mind you

My father sent me off to sea
With a broken back
And an apple tree

She is an ark in a wounded land
But the hangman knows
That you laid your child in the sand

Down and down and down again

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from Faces from the Static, released July 1, 2013

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Ian Marquis Portland, Maine

My songs are tiny ecosystems: self-sustaining, self-contained, intricate, and densely layered. I'm captivated by found sound and immaculate production. I sample my own work. I chop up my guitars and create arrangements I could never have played. I treat my voice like an instrument, pushing and pulling it in otherworldly directions. I polish each track until, sonically, it feels like it sparkles. ... more

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