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Illusions

by Trinsicate

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1.
Expanses 03:48
Expanses Never ended up calling you up Didn’t even enter your number in my phone Never ended up dropping by When you were down and out and all alone Never ended up sending you that text What is this distant sphere That prevents us from sharing our needs? We try to interact, but it keeps on Pulling us back How will expanses recede? Never ended up on the bus, Didn’t wanna walk the extra mile Never ended up on the ferry, over to the island Too busy washing out ashore Never ended up packing it all up, Couldn’t even find a box Never ended making my way out the door Couldn’t even get my feet off the floor What is this distant sphere That prevents us from sharing our needs? We try to interact, but it keeps on Pulling us back How will expanses recede? Never ended up boarding the flight; I didn’t arrive on time Never ended up becoming a long distance traveler Couldn’t handle all the delays Never ended up in outer space Couldn’t handle the gravimetric shift Never ended wishing on that shooting star I’d rather hop in my car What is this distant sphere That prevents us from sharing our needs? We try to interact, but it keeps on Pulling us back… How will expanses recede?
2.
Bitten Off 04:19
Bitten Off Wound up biting off a little more than I could chew All my critics know exactly what they’d do Paranoid allusions that ignite a desire While you’re laughing at the incessant liar Found myself searching null and void of the truth Present reality turns itself into a spoof If the future finds a way out again It’ll be laughing as you lift your pen Catapult your bleeding heart beyond To become inflated Ego reasons with no one Movin’ backwards lately Living out here on our own Bitter compliments bemoan the fact that we are all alone If we make it, who’s it for? Candour lasting as we’re closing every last and final door Wound up slicing off the biggest piece of the pie Every monarch has its own time to die Bookish hermits wriggle lithe and secure Bacchanalists wish for something pure Found the aging infant lying cold on the ground My only wish was the she’s safe and sound Moments of trauma make life real again But they’re laughing as you lift the pen Catapult your bleeding heart beyond To become inflated Ego reasons with no one Movin’ backwards lately Living out here on our own Bitter compliments bemoan the fact that we are all alone If we make it, who’s it for? Candour lasting as we’re closing every last and final door
3.
Invictus 05:28
Invictus The weather is changing In both extremes Storms have been brewing These nightmarish dreams The forecaster taunts us With visions untrue They tell us the sky is Blood red not blue If walking it off is Is the next best advice Pairing each homeless heart Like a roll of the dice For fear of the waking dead As they wrap at the door You’ve startled and taken flight Not oft to ignore Wicked games playing out The cruelest offence Poking and prodding Jokes at your expense Package the remains In morbid toupees She’s hidden the damage Underneath the fray Ponder to bitter men An art with no deal; Women must lead us Toward logic and feel Our thoughts and our prayers That leave us confused The message, the mission The Rhythm, The Blues Elvis and Joni, Dylan, St. Vincent Become the next icon Prodigious completest Otis, Aretha, Santana and Lauryn The future resides With all equal voices Paying attention Past the trends of correctness; Will clearer minds prevail When rights are observed with invictus Convict us with invictus Convict us with conviction Convict us with invictus Convict us with our conviction
4.
Forever 03:04
Forever You’re so new to me, and yet I feel like I’ve known you all these years And as old as that sounds, I don’t care These feelings have never been so real My heart butterflies, when I’m around you It feels so warm, beside you If I could hold you forever Everything would be alright If I could hold you forever Everything would be alright You’re so beautiful, when you smile So precious from afar I think of you for hours, (yeah, yeah) I’m losin’ sleep over you My heart butterflies, when I’m around you It feels so warm, beside you If I could hold you forever Everything would be alright If I could hold you forever Everything would be alright Why can’t you see You’re the light of my day? Why can’t you be here Forever? Why can’t you see You’re the light of my day? Why can’t you be here Forever? Everyday… Everyday… Every, Every, Every, Every, Everyday…. Everyday…
5.
Something 04:28
Something Something about the way your voice soothes me Something about the way this air disproves me Something about the way this moment grooves me Something about the way your love moves me You’re the song that lifts me in the darkest hour You’re the shelter through the endless storm When I listen to my heart it fools me Competes for attention I just can’t give it Something about the way this moment deceives me Something about the way this error completes me You’re the beauty of the briar and the rose You’re the spring that’s laughing through the cold and snow Give it another try, Give it…Another try… It’s fading Something about the way your voice it soothes me Something about the the way your love moves me Something about the way you choose me Something about the way it all consumes me You’re the vision that brings comfort to my dreams You’re the clarity that helps me realize If there is a way to bring this moment back I’m gonna try I’m gonna try
6.
If The Walls 04:18
If the Walls (Fall Down) Many years ago, when we had it all put together You were the one who couldn’t be bothered to fix anything at all When hopelessness becomes, an echo of your future’s past An echo to nothing, you retreat into another void And the walls all fall down Keep on… And the living hearts do bleed, we’re all looking to survive When we all become lost, lost to the wind And our reckless souls do plead, as we begin to realize That we all become lost, lost to the wind… Keep on Keep…on……. When your ship has come adrift, and you’re sinking into the sea Grab what you can, a lifeboat is waiting on the edge As we all fall in And the living hearts do bleed, we’re all looking to survive When we all become lost, lost to the wind And our reckless souls do plead, as we begin to realize That we all become lost, lost to the wind… Whisper… Sweetly… Where are you now? We can’t even seem to communicate or relate There is a bridge that can be crossed if we only care to see And it all falls down
7.
Thoughtless Times When thoughtless times cure my mind I remember star-crossed days A place in line with hopes I find We are lost to hardened ways The picture pure but fading fast Leaves a hole that’s near and real In its absence we are left Without a need to feel At moments passed a memory lasts To take away the faded day A dream unending grew too fast Broke our soul, No More to Say The picture pure but fading fast Leaves a hole that’s near and real In its absence we are left Without a need to feel The songs we sing good thoughts to bring I saw no end in sight The show without a queen or king A light burned all too bright
8.
Quantum Generations Walked out to winter Exit into spring Wonder about summer You’re fallin’ again When you’ve lost all important thought All that sustains comes undone And you become, a shadow Whisper, Scream out the name Chant forever An echo lost in time In a canyon elevated Streams flow apart Quantum generations You forgo reparation
9.
Grain Elevator Stood outside the storehouse Climbed up the ladder After the fog had dissipated At the top of the ladder, looking out amongst the whole town I saw everything as it should be And the wilting flower, in your hands, became laughter astray Up on top of the ladder, looking for something unpredictable While you try to not to care a little bit sometimes Quote another quote, off the spray painted walls Tell another joke at your expense No one lasts forever, nothing is for long And the hope that’s in your eyes, is faded Looking out from on top of the grain elevator I fell down five stories Fell with my face to the ground I broke three vertebrae, and cracked two ribs But the burning bush broke my fall My soul on fire, as you’re left to die

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All songs written by Tim Friesen. All songs arranged & produced by Craig Boychuk & Tim Friesen. ©2021

Album Recorded & Balanced by Craig Boychuk. All songs recorded at Melanie’s house, Edmund Partridge Community School, and Exchange District Studio in Winnipeg, MB from (March 2019-January 2020).

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released February 5, 2021

Tim Friesen – Lead & Background Vocals, Melanie’s Yamaha Upright Piano, Keyboards (Korg SV1, Roland Juno Di Synthesizer, Micro-Korg Vintage XL), Jupiter Flugelhorn, P. Mauriat Trumpet, Timpani

Craig Boychuk – Percussion (“Bitten Off,” “Invictus”)

Sean Irvine – PJ Perry Ed. Alto & Phil Dwyer Ed. Tenor SeaWind Saxophones (“Expanses,” “Forever,” “Something”)

Grant Trippel – Gretsch Electromatic Electric Guitar (“Something,”), Rudy’s Goya Classical Guitar (“Invictus”)

Sara Clefstad – Harmony Vocals (“If the Walls”)

Cover Art and Album Design – Amy Wood

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Trinsicate Winnipeg, Manitoba

Trinsicate is a Winnipeg group featuring the songwriting of Tim Friesen. The project is an artful and soulful blend of jazz, classy psych pop, and smooth sonic textures. Trinsicate began in 2016 with co-production, drumming and recording from Craig Boychuk and the debut album, Solutions was finished in Dec. 2020. The follow up album Illusions, was released in Feb. 2021. ... more

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