The EP starts with a song called Aware, We Go From Here. Austin spent a summer in Europe with his girlfriend and came home with this music and those words, I think it was “where do we go from here” originally. It was nighttime, he bought this Spanish laud there and was playing looking up at this castle and the birds just circling it. I think he just got that feeling, you know, everything is so perfect right now – where do we possibly go from here? I like the words a lot..it means something to me. I've left something here, it may someday reappear. That’s sort of the epitaph for every musician. We did that song in one take, and later put those trumpets on.
lyrics
And aware we go from here
And aware we go from here
And aware we go from here
One thing that's clear
I know, I know, I know, I know by now
This too shall fade away
But I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't allow
A life of yesterday
And aware we go from here
And aware we go from here
And aware we go from here
One thing that's clear
I know, I know, I know, I know that I
That I've left something here
But I won't, I won't, I won't, I won't deny
It may someday reappear
Birds, they circle
Circle a castle
But they don't know
Quite what they're after
If they shall capture
Soon it won't matter
Onto the next one, you'll see
And aware we go from here
And aware we go from here
And aware we go from here
And while the story's not quite clear
We go on without a fear
Which direction should we steer?
I pray that path shall soon appear
And aware we go from here
Where we go from here
Where we go
This bond I so hold dear to me
credits
from The Hood River EP,
released August 10, 2013
A. Roach, B. Scartocci
Former members of Phenomenal Handclap Band expand on their “everything but the kitchen sink” approach, adding rich vocals and finely-textured arrangements. Bandcamp Album of the Day Sep 30, 2016