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John the Bastard

from Compass Prose EP by Maps Of Cartographers

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    This is MOC's most story-based song to date. Keith's vision was to write a story about a man who is lost at sea, will inevitably die, but is able to find peace as he visualizes his floating corpse as a map for generations to come. His life lessons are written in the wrinkles in his face and the scars on his arms.
    John is a Map of a Cartographer.
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Fun Fact! We went out and recorded the water sound on Lake Champlain and recorded the radio static.. from a radio.

lyrics

Only dogs can hear you
Only fish can understand your words
Your paper bullets of the brain
Lose one dimension, try again
Just try again

Forget the boat and all this jagged salt
This Atlantic is no longer your fault
Can't drown yourself, you scurvy dog
There's a solution, just close your eyes and stop

Will you drink all the water in the world
Just to help us find our way from the ocean back to the burning sun?
Go find a bottle, slip in a rum-stained page
Scrawled across so we can never have our fun

credits

from Compass Prose EP, track released March 20, 2010
Keith Pidgeon-- bass-ey guitar, vox
Shannon Stott-- rhythm guitar, violin

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Maps Of Cartographers Plattsburgh

What started as a series of unstructured jam sessions turned into a dedicated co-ed songwriting duo. The band is currently situated in Plattsburgh and has written and recorded two albums in their apartment.

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