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Legend Recognize Legend (Deluxe Version)

by Lazerbeak

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1.
Dream Team 03:20
We’re driving all the way through the night We’re passing by the things you only really read about And now the sky is rolling out for you tonight We’re creeping all the way to the coast We’re checking off the things we only ever kicked around And now the waves are crashing down for us tonight We’re frozen at the foot of the falls We’re floating toward the light And all the things we plan to do are all the embers burning through for us tonight We’re flying with the fault lines in sight We’re racing past the tide and all the things we plan to be are all the creatures in the sea with us tonight Don’t it make you satisfied? Make you sacrifice, I know Don’t it make you glad inside? Make you act alive, I know
2.
Land's End 04:09
In the city where the tall shapes live In the valleys where the walls cave in Let the walls cave in If you really want to float past the fields and canyons Let the walls cave in On the edges where the falls face in In the crannies where the small snakes swim Let the walls cave in If you really want to row all the way to the land’s end Don’t ever allow it, don’t ever allow it Awake in the waiting sea, awake In the city where the crawl space lives In the tunnels where the walls cave in Let the walls cave in If you really want to float past the fields and canyons Let the walls cave in In the shadows where the claws break skin On the ridges where the guard rail thins Let the walls cave in If you really want to row all the way to the land’s end Don’t ever allow it, don’t ever allow it Awake in the waiting sea Awake and we’re waiting Home will push you outward Hope will pull you upward Awake in the waiting sea, awake When the time is right to raise some children, we will then Like a roaring noise, filled with all the joys this life allows When the time has come to lie beside us, they’ll find us Like an open flame, let our smoke remain against the clouds
3.
Let It Go 03:14
Down the slopes of the silver streams By the banks of the riverbeds Past the sand and the shifting trees Through the floating fire ahead Let it go Up the hills and the highest peaks From the perch of a falcon’s nest Through the space that is in between Into the dregs of the darkest depths In a million miles from now When I ain’t got nothing left With all the joy that this life allows I hope I take in my last breath And let it go Let it go And the winds from the west will rise with the open skies and the birds will sing And the rays of the sun will shine where the waves collide and then turn to steam And the silt and the stones combine and the soul survives and the trumpets ring Why don’t you let it go, let it go
4.
Bound 03:58
Blame it on the rolling hills I can see, I can see Sifting through the roaming years I can see, I concede You’ll leave Blame it on the calm routine I can see, I can see Chasing after times less tame I can see, I concede You’ll leave Blame it on the coiling soil I can see, I can see Waking up to fading days I can see, I concede You’ll leave My heart it is breaking Oooh, I’m bound to die
5.
Wild Life 02:10
6.
Salt and Sea 04:01
We find ourselves in a valiant vision On top a raft many miles from shore I guess at times we make some tough decisions It’s never easy when you’re stuck between the current and the ocean floor Lately I know we’ve been sinking Don’t let storms get you down Baby, you know I’ve been thinking I feel the best when you’re around Out where the salt and the sea get mixed in Up where the steam and the stars divide I know I make a lot out of made up missions It’s never easy when your stuck between the urchins and the twisting tide Lately almost without blinking Storms have rolled in to town Baby, you know I’ve been thinking I’d be a mess without you now Out where the salt and the sea get mixed in Up where the steam and the stars divide Down where the ground turns the rock to liquid Until the choir and the fumes collide
7.
Pearly Gates 03:09
You start out as a dove and the wind becomes a monster And every time you fly there’s a little less to know The fires in your eyes but the feeling’s kind of awkward Cuz how do you survive if you don’t know where to go? See I’ve been lied to I think I know But time will blind you At least I’m told You hover for a while and the land becomes electric And every time you dive it’s a bit further from home There’s a stinging in your side and the feeling it’s infectious Cuz how you gonna thrive if you’re out there on your own? See I’ve been lying too I think you know This life will try you Or so it goes
8.
Cannon Falls 03:06
Round and round and round and round, round and around and around Round and round and round and round, round and around and around The summer ended and the frost started making us shiver We’d go to sleep at night and dream of the Cannon River It started feeling like the winter had been keeping us captive We closed our eyes and then the room morphed into some rapids This is what happened We went round and round and round and round, round and around and around Round and round and round and round, round and around and around We floated forward and the falls brought us straight to an island And all our friends were hanging out as the sun started dying We lit a fire and then wondered where the morning would take us We closed our eyes and then the sand shifted into a spaceship This part is my favorite We flew round and round and round and round, round and around and around Round and round and round and round, round and around and around
9.
Tempest 03:50
Trials creep up slowly Triumphs come and go Oh when times get troubled I’ll lean on the lord Decades drift out deeper Good health fades to poor Oh when I get to the end I’ll lay down my sword Hope will pull you upward Grace will let you roam And when decades disappear I will take you home This is the starting of the tempest rising up This is the parting of the seas within our clutch And when the calmness washes over every ounce of wavered trust Then the fog will overload, and the thaw will overflow
10.
Foothills 03:02
Everything clings to the canyon Everyone longs for the past The future is in the foothills on our path Everyone floats to the surface Everything ends in a flash Fire on the water, let it last … At last, at last

about

With elements of indie rock, pop, and hip hop production, Legend Recognize Legend is one of Doomtree's most ambitious projects to date. Beak played, sang, or arranged almost every note on the record for a full sound bolstered by layers of live strings, horns, drum breaks, and earnest vocals.

94/100 — Reviler

4/5 — Potholes in My Blog

“The dazzlingly ambitious Legend Recognize Legend is a formidable fusion of giddy synthetic Euro-pop, confessional ambient balladry, and the occasional block-rockin' beat…landing in a surprisingly sweet and melodic middle ground so effortlessly that genre distinctions are the last thing on the listener's mind.”
—City Pages

“Applies hip-hop's recording methods to the production of lush indie soul.”
—Chicago Reader

“One of Minnesota's most prominent young hip-hop producers… Where some artists try to approach R&B from a grounding in indie pop, Lazerbeak appears to be taking the opposite route, and even the lightest, most subdued moments here ("Let It Go"; "Pearly Gates") have some real rhythmic snap behind them.”
—Pitchfork

“If he gets tired of being behind the scenes in underground rap, Legends is a great first step towards a career as an indie-pop star.”
—Alternative Press

credits

released September 29, 2010

All songs written and produced by Lazerbeak for Legend Recognize Legend (ASCAP)

Additional Instruments
Viola: Erica Burton
French Horn: Mark Billingsley
Trombone: Scott Agster
Trumpet: Kyle Borchert
Timpani/Crash: Matt Scharenbroich
Rhodes: DeVon Gray
Pedal Steel: Jeff Marcovis
Additional Vocals: Joe Mabbott, Dessa, P.O.S. & A Gang of Ultimate Homies
Brittany Mader sings on "Salt and Sea"
Dessa sings on "Bound"
Recorded, mixed and so much more by Joe Mabbott at The Hideaway - Minneapolis, MN
Mastered by Bruce Templeton at Magneto Mastering
Executively produced by The Dream Team (Beak, Dessa, P.O.S.)
Artwork & hand drwn lettering by Matt Scharenbroich (mattscharenbroich.com)
Design & Layout by Desk-2 (www.desk-2.com)

To my incredible family and friends, for filling my world with all the joy this life allows.
In loving memory of the one and only Harvey "Guts" Mader

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