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Are We Good

by Hayden

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1.
East Coast 04:52
Oh I need you now Like I needed you then, Like I’ll need you till the end But I can’t recall This feeling at all. And I want you now Like I wanted you then Like I’ll want you till the end But it sure appears The surface is near. And just like that we were steered Now we’re what I most fear Oh the East Coast sure was clear I must fight for you my dear. Oh I love you now Like I loved you then Like I’ll love you till the end But I can’t refuse This kind of blue. Through partial ocean sprayed views A darkness ensues And as we become something new You must fight for me too You must fight for me too.
2.
We Danced 03:52
I dreamt last night that a Mustang went right through the trees, and ended up three feet from where we watch TV. And of a time when a piece of some flight, yeah it fell from the sky, on the lawn, between you and I. Everyone panicked, the neighbourhood vanished, but you and I, we took our chance. Oh we turned the ignition, yeah, rolled down and listened to “So Long Marianne” And we danced. I dreamt last night we were standing in line, and some guy who looked like L. Cohen buying wine said “I’m dying”. And everyone there opened up what they were holding and raised a drink to the man, and his great sense of timing. And as the walls collapsed, and bottles cracked, you and I took it as, our last chance. And right before I woke, I grabbed my phone, and streamed “Everybody Knows” and took your hand, and we danced. Yeah we danced.
3.
We’re on a beach, oh yeah we’re on a beach We’re drinking income taxes and there’s sand at our feet We’re on a beach, oh yeah we’re on a beach We’re drinking income taxes and you’re fond of me. Just breath out and In, keep your eyes on this ring As I swing it back and forth on this here string Eyelids are heavy wings, all the things that trouble you Fall right out of the room and we begin We’re on a beach, oh yeah we’re on a beach We’re drinking income taxes and there’s sand at our feet We’re on a beach, oh yeah we’re on a beach We’re drinking income taxes and you’re fond of me. Now you take your turn, concentrate the sound Of my voice or the spaces in between my words And find yourself in a world, where you can simply relax See most of your worries lapse or seem absurd. We’re on a beach, oh yeah we’re on a beach We’re drinking income taxes and there’s sand at our feet We’re on a beach, oh yeah we’re on a beach We’re drinking income taxes and you’re fond of me. I wanna see, yeah I mean really see All the beauty that’s right in front of me. I wanna be, Oh yeah I wanna be Where the sun rises behind palm trees. This ain’t meant to be, yeah listened to while we drive, or operate heavy machinery. X 2 We’re on a beach, oh yeah we’re on a beach We’re drinking income taxes and we’re out of reach. X 2
4.
When I was young, I thought every little thing weighed a ton But when I saw you, in Terry Cloth Blue I felt much lighter, it’s true. You, with your crimped blonde hair, You were new, and I just stared We’d meet in my dreams to “Save A Prayer” Whenever I hear it, I’m still there. When I believed in, I believed in, I believed in Every single thing. I believed in, yeah I believed in, I believed in Every single thing. I, I learned to play “Careless Whisper” on the sax so one day I’d come by your house and serenade But I never did and then you moved away. You had no idea What you did for me those two years Yeah I was the fool, Terry Cloth Blue Who you never knew. When I believed in, yeah I believed in, I believed in Every single thing. I believed in, yeah I believed in, I believed in Every single thing. Now that I’m not young. I think every little thing weighs a ton, But when I saw you, in Terry Cloth Blue I was much lighter, it’s true.
5.
There’s nothing wrong with you There’s nothing wrong with you There’s nothing wrong with you You are still my favourite creature, You are my past as well as future, My sweet destroyer of car mirrors. We’ve got to keep our heads while hanging on by a thread We’ve got to keep our heads while hanging on by a thread Keep our heads. There’s nothing wrong with us There’s nothing wrong with us There’s nothing wrong with us ‘Cause you are still my favourite answer, My one and only take-a-chancer, When your bra hangs from the dear antlers We are brand new. Got to lose our heads while hanging on by a thread Got to lose our heads while hanging on by a thread Yeah, lose our heads Lose our heads Lose our heads - Got to lose our heads while hanging on by a thread Lose our heads - Got to lose our heads while hanging on by a thread Yeah, lose our heads Lose our heads - Got to lose our heads while hanging on by a thread. Lose our heads
6.
Are We Good 04:30
I’m walking home alone Tripping over every stone Everything we never do Everything I put you through I’m turning every leaf I’m looking for belief In the promises we kept Always have a little left I know why you needed something else I put your love too high on a shelf You have the greatest heart I’ve ever seen Sometimes love ain’t always all you need Are you worried about the past Coming back to you too fast Are you worried about the sea And what’s going on underneath Do you think of me at all The way I think of you Everything we never say Everything we never do Are we good enough to get through this okay I don’t wanna be alone again today You have the greatest heart I’ve ever seen Sometimes love ain’t always all you need We never stop to count the cost Don’t worry about the time we lost, we never lost Are we good Are we good
7.
One day work lent you a drone I took the kids out to the lawn It lifted off and went up high But disappeared into the sky, it’s true. We got the window washer blues We’re always outside looking through We got the window washer blues Looking in is all we do. One day we were walking soft Dangerously planning stuff Cloudless slumber, stirring wonder Into whirling, furrowed thunder, it’s true. We got the window washer blues We’re always outside looking through We got the window washer blues Looking in is all we do.
8.
Every time my case is packed And I’m leaving out that door I sell you you’re not missing much Out there on the road We play Buffalo, for ten people, and then load our shit Drive for under, half an hour, to some Motel 6 Watch some minutes, of some idiots, talking on some show Play some guitar to the mini-bar, fall asleep in my clothes. You get mad and say I should Enjoy this for us both So I decide to tell some truth With this tale from the road We left Toronto, for the first show, and everybody sang They sang along to, words about you, oh the whole place rang There was a party, and everybody, came to our hotel Character actors, beautiful drunk girls, getting along well Mirrors on tables, TV’s out windows, bathtubs filled with wine I wake up weary, with Miss Fort Erie, opening the blinds. Oh that last bit, about the blinds, shit That was said to make you smile. You’re meant to be right here, you’re meant to be right here With me, for all these miles. You’re meant to be right here, you’re meant to be right here With me, for all these miles.
9.
It's Just Me 02:45
Lock up the house, don’t burn it down, Leave it here We might be back around. Take the keys off the rings and leave them in the jewelry box under the lemon tree As long as I belong to you You’ll belong to me too But I find it hard to believe that we’re free I find it hard to believe that we’re free I find it hard to believe that we’re free I find it hard to believe it’s just me We'll drive the car Up to the swimming pool Fill it to the ceiling with All the heavy feeling As long as I belong you You’ll belong to me too And I find it hard to believe that we’re free Yeah, I find it hard to believe that we’re free I find it hard to believe that we’re free Yeah, I find it hard to believe that we’re free I find it hard to believe it’s just me I find it hard to believe it’s just me.
10.
Waves, how you love their ways How many times, when we were side by side In the nights we’d never hide Did you lay this in my mind Did you lay this in my mind And the skies, how you love their goodbyes How many nights when we were side by side In the pink and yellow light Did you lay this in my mind Did you lay this in my mind. We both know this place ain’t hard to find We both know this place ain’t hard to find So what’s with all this wasting of time. Lakes, oceans, seas or bay’s How many times when we were side by side, In the nights we’d never hide With our city in decline, And both of us just fine, Did you lay this in my mind Did you lay this in my mind. We both know this place ain’t hard to find We both know this place ain’t hard to find So what’s with all this wasting of time What’s with all this wasting of time What’s with all this wasting of time
11.
Please keep deceiving me baby, give me a line I feel like I’m losing you lately, but it can’t happen now I’ll fall through the earth, I’ll die from the thirst, I’ll shatter like glass, I’ll turn into ash I’ll melt into water, I’ll run to the slaughter, Go silent for years, then I’ll burst into tears I need you stick around a little while longer Just till the world ends, just till I’m stronger I need you to stay here tonight if you can I can’t explain ‘cause I don’t understand Don’t say it can’t wait when you know that it can It can’t happen now. You haven’t been seeing me lately, and I don’t know how You’re the only one that can save me, I know it somehow I’ll fall through the earth, I’ll die from the thirst, I’ll shatter like glass, I’ll turn into ash I’ll melt into water, I’ll run to the slaughter, Go silent for years, then I’ll burst into tears I need you stick around a little while longer Just till the world ends, just till I’m stronger I need you to stay here tonight if you can I can’t explain ‘cause I don’t understand Don’t say it can’t wait when you know that it can You know that it can (can't) My heart couldn’t take it You know what would make it You know that it can It can’t happen now

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The long-heralded king of Canadian slacker folk, Hayden will release his tenth studio album, Are We Good, a crowning achievement in his well deep catalogue of carefully hewn and heartrending indie folk – and his much-anticipated first new album since 2015's Hey Love.

Featuring guest vocals by Feist and co-writing by The National's Matt Berninger, the lead single "On A Beach" is easily the most uplifting and buoyant song in Hayden's downcast (and well deep) catalog, with its chorus of "we're drinking income taxes and there's sand at our feet." A spare bass groove, the gentlest of handclaps, Hayden's strained tenor, all explode into the honeyed melodies of the one Leslie Feist amidst a stream of harmonizing arpeggiators.

Hayden offers some of his best songwriting, painting with uncharacteristically broad strokes of emotion and sonic texture, like a cross between Pavement and Leonard Cohen.

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released April 5, 2023

Written, Engineered, Produced by Hayden
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