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An older song, re-loaded with new people and new ideas.
2nd track of our pre-release for our upcoming self-titled EP release.

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The Guiding – “Blue Hour” (C)2010/2015
Written by Adam Ashrafian


These fields I’ve spent eleven summers on, have long since gone and died
‘Cause the water you gave me to moisten the land was filled with pesticide
Now nothing grows there not even the grass, that used to cover the ‘scape
But the hills still roll and the dust it kicks as the wind blows it away

Her eyes they speak one thousand words, but they scream one thousand more
And like a video game it was so surreal, the morning we had spent on board
Of this old, lost ship that searches the waves for a crest to call it’s own
Well we found it one and we gave it a name, and we watched it turn to stone

So let’s watch it sink, deep in the ocean
And here she comes, in through the kitchen
Into a room, with just a bed
‘Cause that’s all she needs
And I wish that were me…

When the bluest hour strikes it’s chord and the sun reaches for the sky
Twilight dances crossed our lips and it’s ambience grasps our eyes
It’s at this time that I realize what I have been missing for some time
So now I’ll mend this lack of vigor with a fix for you and I

So let’s watch it sink, deep in the ocean
And here she comes, in through the kitchen
Into a room, with just a bed
‘Cause that’s all she needs
And I wish that were me…

And if this is what they call a good catch
Then why do I want to throw them all back
And if you don’t have the cards I lack
I’m bluffing ‘till the end, I swear,
I’ll never fold a match
And if you think you reap what you sow
Then where is my Eden,
I’m so conceded I know
And if I could write my own tombstone
I’m pretty sure I’d fill it with joke after joke

So let’s watch it sink, deep in the ocean
And here she comes, in through the kitchen
Into a room, with just a bed
‘Cause that’s all she needs
And I wish that were me
But it’s not.

credits

from The Guiding​(​Self​-​Titled) EP Pre​-​release, released February 2, 2015
Adam Ashrafian: Singer/Songwriter, Acoustic/Electric Guitar, Vox
Quinton Alltop: Lead guitar/Texturing, misc. inst's
Noah Ashrafian: Drums/Percussion/Harmony Vox

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The Guiding Indianapolis, Indiana

The Guiding is a band formed by two brothers Adam and Noah, and is now joined by Quinton on lead guitar. The band used to be known as People as Whole with just Adam and his cousin Cody on violin. Now has evolved to a three piece of Adam, Noah, and Quinton. The music here is to transcend you to your spiritual dwelling place beyond space and beyond time... ... more

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