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If You Only Could Have Known Me

from Ego Jingles by Gabriel Hart

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    Recorded long before the plague was just a twinkle in our eyes, "Ego Jingles" is the first proper solo album by Jail Weddings frontman/author Gabriel Hart. His quietest audio effort to date, "Ego Jingles" is an avant-folk art-damaged test of nuance, a challenge to our sensitivity — often tender, occasionally antagonistic, sometimes cringe, yet altogether difficult to ignore or dismiss. Equal parts internal Seppuku and exterior dread, "Ego Jingles" is not without moments of existential comedy, as punctuated by his album-closing cover of Weird Al Yankovic's "One More Minute" as a band-aid — but after that, you're on your own.

    Hart's guitar/vocals are accompanied by Julie Carpenter (Less Bells, Jail Weddings) on violin/viola/cello as well as Dain Luscombe (Less Bells) with additional instrumentation/production.

    Recorded/mixed/mastered by Pat Kearns (Exploding Hearts, Blue Skies for Black Hearts) at his solar powered Goat Mountain Studios in Landers, CA.

    Cover photography by Austin Arthur Hart/art design by Reuben Kaiban.

    CD comes with handmade/signed lyric book.

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Written by Gabriel Hart

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IF YOU ONLY COULD HAVE KNOWN ME (Hart)

If you only could have known me
Before you came into my life
I was a calm, cool visionary
Nearly twenty-twenty hindsight
A harmless shark
Looking to dance
With anyone who cared to deep-sea dive
But you saw an artist as a con man
Hooking yourself on your own jive
You, the alarmist
Grabbed the wrong man
And before a trial
I was tried

If you only could have known me
Before you came into my life
You might have liked what you see
You might have seen that I don’t bite
Before you filed down my teeth
You left my lips to crack and dry
Before I would hear you scream
A litany of phantom crimes

If you only could have known me
Before you came into my life
What would have it taken to save me?
That flash of fleeting glitch in time
Where no judgement could be passed
On strange emotion I’d speak or write
Or my silence, born from fear
In the brief intermissions between each fight
And the tighter that you tied the knot
The further the veneer shall cracken
This “If,” now, as matter of fact
I know very well what happened

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from Ego Jingles, track released June 22, 2021
Gabriel Hart — vocals/guitar/tamborine

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Wilted Eden, the expansive third album by L.A.'s tarnished romantics Jail Weddings is one of those rare albums recorded in "real time" chronicling the intersection between the whirlwind birth and eventual death of new love, along with the sudden unforeseen deaths of many loved ones. Still standing in their 10th dizzying year, the Wall of Sound provocateurs return anew... ... more

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