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Hallelujah Halifax!

from Eastward + Onward by audio/rocketry

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Hallelujah Halifax!
Rolled into town on rusty tracks
Hallelujah Halifax!
We made it looking our worst and feeling our best

For the past month I’ve been trekking to you
Eastern port city upon the Atlantic blue
Once just a dot on a map, a purpose, a dream,
Beyond a foreign city of streets and people to meet.

We dropped our anchor into splashes and sighs
Of relief that soon drowned in a triumphant cry
All truth be known we should’ a sunk long ago
But our optimistic effort kept our vessel afloat.

Chorus

Against the flow of the migrant tide
Two Albertan refugees distant for the Maritimes
In search of a treasure, one which we did find
Buried beneath the surface of humankind

Although rough sailing was felt throughout the course
Across the fierce terrain of the mighty great north
Each day’s adventure gained momentum toward
The coast while becoming a reckoning force

Chorus

And we’ll toast to the stories in our journals
From the first page until our arrival

When we slept in a booth in Toronto
The Trans-Can became my second home
I felt inferior beside Superior

Our luck it did come and go
I held my head high and I hung it real low
But all the while I was thinking of you

Chorus

I was tossed in the drunk tank in Sylvan Lake
I learned how to flat-pick in Winnipeg
I was bootlicked by moonshine in PEI

I tore up my old ramblin’ shoes and I had spell of hitchin’ blues
Between the two I was still dreaming of you

Hallelujah Halifax!

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from Eastward + Onward, released March 5, 2010

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audio/rocketry Edmonton, Alberta

Friendship has been a pillar of audio/rocketry’s blistering rally cry from the start, with the core duo of Joe Vickers and Matthew Murphy expanding to accommodate a rotating crew of some of Edmonton’s hardest working musicians. After a decade of touring the continent, the band finds itself distilled to its strongest bonds and purest sound with the addition of Blair Drover and Jerome Tovillo. ... more

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