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Rolling Wave

by Matt Epp

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1.
Made For Love 03:16
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You can toss it like a coin You can roll it like a joint You can watch it like a weathervane to see which way it points You can grow it like a plant You can hide it in your hat You can mark it with an X on your pirate’s treasure map now Woo hoo, you were made for love Woo hoo, you were made for love You can shine it like the sun You can howl at the moon You can get out of the way ‘cause this train is coming through You can build it like a cabin You can raise it like a roof It’s the shelter and the storm and it’s raining down on you Woo hoo, you were made for love Woo hoo, you were made for love You can paint it on your face You can play it like a game You can take it by the arm like a link upon a chain Love is to the hammer what the wood is to the nail It’s the water ‘neath the boat It’s the wind up in your sails Woo hoo, you were made for love Woo hoo, you were made for love You can right it if it’s wrong You can write it in a song You can sing it from a stage while the people sing along Making angels in the snow We create the things we know And when there’s nowhere left to go You were made for love Love is what you came for And that is what you’re made for You were made for love
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Live Free 03:03
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I’ll start slow, try to keep up Refillin’ your coffee cup Picking up speed, rolling down the hill Scraping your knee is just part of the thrill Do you bleed? Are you taking chances? Have you got loving arms around you? Live free, whatever that means Deep Sea, I’m a Rolling Wave I lit a fire in your darkest place That’s me a shooting star I’m there, I’m where you are Do you bleed? Are you taking chances? Have you got loving arms around you? Live free, whatever that means What do you need, will you take a chance? I know you want my arms around you Live free, whatever that means
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Touch Yourself 04:13
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Baby baby, come real close Baby baby, come real close Tell me baby, when you get close And whisper in my ear Tell me baby do you touch yourself Baby tell me do you touch yourself Mmm baby baby, touch yourself Are you thinking about me when you do it Tell me baby, what do we do Baby tell me what do we do now Tell me baby, what do we do In your mind when you touch yourself Tell me baby do you touch yourself Baby tell me do you touch yourself Mmm baby baby do you touch yourself Do you think about me when you do it Oh now your legs are shakin’ and your knees are weak Your legs are shakin’ and your knees are weak Legs are shakin’, knees are weak Oh baby when I lay you down So tell me baby do you touch yourself Tell me baby, do you touch yourself Mmm baby baby do you touch yourself Think about me when you do it Would you touch yourself Let me see the way you…. (breaths) Thank you baby Are you thinking baby that your hand is mine Tell me baby that your hand is mine Oh I love it when your hand’s on mine I love it when you take me down there Baby tell me do you touch yourself Tell me baby, do you touch yourself Mmm, touch yourself Thinkin’ about me when you do it Mmm sweet baby when I touch myself I’ll tell you baby when I touch myself Mmm I touch myself I’m thinking about you when I do it, Tell me baby when you touch yourself Tell me baby when you touch yourself I know you baby, you touch yourself You’re thinking about me when you do it I see you baby thank you baby Sweet baby when you touch yourself I wanna see the way you yourself Mmm touch yourself Thinkin’ about me when you do it Yeah, touch yourself Are you thinkin’ about me when you do it
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Treehouse 03:27
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I’m building you a treehouse in the forest I’m filling it with all your favourite things There’s a rainbow trout swimming in the river There beneath the waterfalls where we will bathe Oh I hope that you enjoy our little hideaway Mmm maybe you will even want to stay I put a lot of love into this little place And when your world turns inside out darlin' You be the melody, I will sing your harmony Together we will live out all our days In our treehouse I made a table out of seashells Driftwood is the frame beneath the bed There’s an arrow in the door, but it’s not pointing anymore No, that was just a lousy shot I made Oh I hope that you enjoy our little hideaway Maybe you will even want to stay I put a lot of love into this little place And when your world turns inside out darlin' You be the melody, I will sing your harmony Together we will live out all our days In our treehouse
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Architect Eyes 04:07
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The waves were breaking over us You said you’re building your home and you’re not in a rush Well if it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing it right - am I right? Mm-hm Yeah it’s worth taking your time Erika — Erika, are you thinking of me right now The pull of the tide brought us together I’m building a life in your architect eyes Moonlight, laying down by the water It feels right, throw open your windows tonight Erika, we can take our time The waves keep breaking, we hold on tight And I’m healed by your touch of phosphorescent light Baby the love worth making is worth making all night We can take our time Erika — Erika, I am thinking of you right now The pull of the tide brought us together I’m building a life in your architect eyes Moonlight, lay me down by the water It feels right, throw open your windows tonight Erika, we can take our time Time is the rest between each breath the rise and fall of your heaving breast the tears that fell on the day you left the sun went down but it didn’t set our love may fade but it won’t forget and I can’t wait to see you again
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Blade Fine Edge 03:31
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It’s a changin’ world and a changin’ time We all know what’s next Water’s high and the risin’ line Is creeping up our fence Mmm hum a tune underneath the moon Pretend that all is right But the sun the comes soon and we’ll face our doom In tomorrow morning’s light Oh please Lord help me change my ways Please Lord in my final days Oh these mistakes we made are surely grave Now girl we must be brave No longer science fiction lying harmless on the page It’s a changin’ world and a changin’ time C’mon we know what’s next We’re on thin ice ‘tween death and life We ride a blade fine edge It’s a changin’ world and a changin’ time It’s just the consequence This way of life was suicide And now we pay for it And whether or not we knew the cost Won’t comfort any pain It’s hard as rock to make change with talk This is why we sing
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The Girl Who Walks The World 04:38
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Come now friend, we lost our way We lost the scent, it’s washed away Mountains bend and flowers fade But the songs will always find you As we walk in our dreams where the wild things stalk us As we move on the earth, hear the animals talk to us And when you wake in the shadows, you can laugh It’s just a night full of tricksters… that’s all you’ve had Oooo and she walks so soft The wandering girl Oooo oh the light she brought The girl who walks the world Oh the girl she is young and her body is small And the place that she’s from is nowhere at all She sings like wind and she sleeps like the dead When the Northern Lights are dancing… like newlyweds Does Creator speak through burning trees? Or do we walk together through forests green? Well if the rivers run red or the river runs black If the river runs… she won’t come back
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Inside Out Man 01:57
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I got a quiver full of arrows and a recurve bow I smell new life under the snow April, May, June, July I look my target in the eye I shiver when I’m hot, sweat when I’m cold I do things backwards I’ve been told I see you want to be alone Do you want to be alone with me ‘Cause I am the inside out man I’m so inside out, man If inside’s outside, I need to go out Would you go out with me? We can stay in When I’m living outside I’ll be right side in The real outside’s inside, my friend I’ve been on the wrong side, wrong side out No one even knows what I’m talkin’ about ‘Cause I am the inside out man They call me inside out Can I hold your hand? Tell me what’s your name I’m inside out man - don’t run away But I’ll run away ‘cause my heart is broken Might say things should not be spoken
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Present Moment 04:08
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I think you’ll be around for a long, long time But I don’t know It’d be a while before we fly But we don’t, don’t know Your clock don’t know your time to go No it don’t know Your to-do list won’t list it to do No it won’t Whenever you go, whoever you’ll be Here and now, you’re here with me And I see you in this present moment - yeah I do Your next form could be a rose You don’t know A slender stem with a pointed thorn I don’t know Whenever you go, whoever you’ll be next Here and now, you’re here with me, yes I see you in this present moment - yeah I do Are you light or does light surround you? I don’t know are you life itself or is life inside you? Don’t know Wherever we go then, whoever may greet us Here and now, there are people who need us I feel them in this present moment - oh no Whenever you go, whoever you’ll be Here and now, you’re here with me And I see you in this present moment - yeah I do Whenever you go, whoever you’ll be next Here and now, you’re here with me, yes I see you in this present moment - yeah I do Wherever we go then, whoever may greet us Here and now, there are people who need us I feel them in this present moment - yeah I do Whenever we go then, whoever may greet us Here and now, there are people who need us I feel you in this present moment yeah I do, this present moment I feel you in this present moment

about

Rolling Wave is Epp’s 13th studio album; mostly recorded alone in a converted old rural ‘Art Church’ on Lake Huron’s shores during the second winter of the pandemic. It opens with the jubilant Made For Love (watch it’s playful almost nude prancing-in-the-snow accompanying video), then settles into the album’s mystic single Live Free and the sensual bluesy groove of Touch Yourself - celebrating a distant lover’s self-pleasure. The album sweetens with the innocent dream of Treehouse and Mexican ocean sounds of the love song Architect Eyes. Blade Fine Edge brings this collection back to Epp’s poignant lyrics and a sombre vision of the future, recalling the prettiness and spirit of Bruce Cockburn’s songs; with the stand out line “It’s hard as rock / to make change with talk / this is why we sing”. The lush and shadowy stalk of The Girl Who Walks The World was composed for a large land-based multi-disciplinary performance and film project called ‘Wandering With Wonder’ and will be performed with the Red Deer Symphony Orchestra during the album release tour in May. The playful John Prine-esque Inside Out Man was born during an introspective psychedelic journey, and the album closes with an earnest and prayerful Americana jam, Present Moment, which was channeled during a spiritual reflection on death, presence, and interconnectedness. Epp’s lightest album to date, Rolling Wave marks the transition into a new era for both the artist and his offerings.

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released April 7, 2023

All songs written by Matt Epp, MAPL (CanCon)
Album mixed by Stew Crookes
Album mastered by Philip Shaw Bova

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Award-winning songwriter Matt Epp is the quintessential troubadour. Born in the Canadian prairies, he has won the admiration and hearts of an audience that spans the globe.

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