Song Review
Canadian alt-country balladeers NQ Arbuckle teamed up with singer-songwriter Carolyn Mark this past year for a collaborative release. The result was the full-length “Let’s Just Stay Here”, released through Vancouver’s Mint Records mid-October. The album marks the first release from NQ Arbuckle since their 2008 Juno-nominated released XOK, and the first from Carolyn Mark since her 2007 LP “Nothing is Free”. Driven by the strong storytelling one comes to expect from an NQ Arbuckle piece, and harmonies from Mark that often impress over the melody, Officer Down is one of many songs from the album that warrant at least a second listen. For more from either artist, their respective MySpace links are posted below.
http://www.myspace.com/nqarbuckle
http://www.myspace.com/carolynmark
officer down
Juliet Echo November
and the room falls apart but we’ll pick it up
and put it back together
wake me up early and get dressed
and take me to breakfast
and I don’t even notice you coughing
into my coffee
it’s a shot in the dark but I don’t think that
I’ve fallen further
beautiful storms dancing like
vodka December
like vodka December
drunk while you’re asleep
I sneak around the bed like a burglar
and you don’t even notice when
I knock over your glass of water
it’s hard to be a good man listening
to the Drive-By Truckers
but you’re so good to me it’s weird
I think I’m happy
it’s a shot in the dark but I don’t think that
I’ve fallen further
beautiful storms dancing like
vodka December
like vodka December
pick me up from work
Juliet Echo November
how was you’re day, I’m ok
what do you want for dinner
tired and kinda of crazy
what would you name the baby
but for everything we’ve got
and you mean everything to me
it’s a shot in the dark but I don’t think that
I’ve fallen further
beautiful storms dancing like
vodka December
like vodka December
like vodka December
like vodka December
