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@@ -1,26 +1,26 @@
 Album: Ithaca
 Artist: Michael Guy Bowman
 Cover Art: Michael Guy Bowman
-Has Track Art: no
+Has Track Art: false
 Date: January 1, 2012
 Date Added: February 12, 2021
-Color: #c82537
+Color: '#c82537'
 Groups:
 - Michael Guy Bowman
 - Beyond
 URLs:
 - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/ithaca
-Commentary:
+Commentary: |-
     <i>Michael Guy Bowman:</i>
     <i>Experimental aircraft, lost civilizations, mythic quests, the Philippines, true love, utter loss, and the transience of life - the many subjects of Ithaca, the first independently released Bowman album. Scattergun in its genre and chaotically retro in its fashion, Ithaca is an eclectic mix of songs both personal and abstract. Bowman once again brings his familiar voice and ever-changing production style along with several friends from the Homestuck music project and elsewhere. Ithaca is calling.</i>
     After spending years making music exclusively for Homestuck, I branched out with 2012’s Ithaca, my first independently released album. Following up on my album-within-a-web-comic [[album:mobius-trip-and-hadron-kaleido]], I moved away from my palette of digital synths to focus on a classic rock style. Out come the guitars, the bass, the little toy harp. Shades of Eno, Bowie, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, even a swing tune. It’s a freaky affair.
     The ideas came from everywhere. There’s a song based on something I heard in a dream when I was eight years old, ([[Old Buggy Now]]). There’s one about an engineer who falls in love with an experimental aircraft ([[Tacit Blue]]). There’s a carriage ride through a Manila’s Chinatown district ([[Kalesa In Binondo]]). The title track [[Ithaca]] recalls Odysseus, a bowman himself. All of it is peppered with guest contributions from Internet friends.
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+---
 Track: Old Buggy Now
-Duration: 3:35
+Duration: '3:35'
 URLs:
 - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/old-buggy-now
-Lyrics:
+Lyrics: |-
     Riding through the night like a jaded vagabond
     No one else in sight I could be the only one
     Hear me radio, play the song I know
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Lyrics:
     Here inside my car I could be the only one
     Somewhere in the sky a satellite on high
     Watches with its lonely eye
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+---
 Track: Ascension
 Artists: Michael Guy Bowman, James Dever
 Contributors:
@@ -43,10 +43,10 @@ Contributors:
 - Andrew Huo (violin)
 - Solatrus (lead synth)
 - Peter Turner (synth solo)
-Duration: 3:55
+Duration: '3:55'
 URLs:
 - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/ascension
-Lyrics:
+Lyrics: |-
     Long before there was you and I
     The ancient ones lived in the sky
     A kingdom built upon the stars
@@ -73,15 +73,15 @@ Lyrics:
     And thus for now the world is ours
     And though it’s just a legend so they say
     Perhaps they will return again someday
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+---
 Track: Come With Me
-Duration: 4:47
+Duration: '4:47'
 URLs:
 - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/come-with-me
 Contributors:
 - Thomas Ferkol (guitar solo)
 - Tavia Morra (backup vocals)
-Lyrics:
+Lyrics: |-
     Your weak young heart keeps playing its part for show
     And though you never say never you never say yes or no
     Even if you never grow up you’ll still grow old
@@ -102,15 +102,15 @@ Lyrics:
 
     No place to run to, no use pretending
     Life in this moment, not in its ending
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+---
 Track: Tacit Blue
-Duration: 2:15
+Duration: '2:15'
 URLs:
 - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/tacit-blue
 Contributors:
 - Clark Powell (string arrangement and sequencing)
 - Nick Smalley (additional sequencing)
-Lyrics:
+Lyrics: |-
     Back in the lab I’m running the test
     If you won’t fly then I won’t rest
     Turbines turning in the tunnel of love
@@ -143,14 +143,14 @@ Lyrics:
     Home at last with cousin and niece
     But once I knew the other you
     Tacit Blue
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+---
 Track: Rodeo Clown
-Duration: 4:09
+Duration: '4:09'
 Contributors:
 - Marcy Nabors (flute)
 URLs:
 - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/rodeo-clown
-Lyrics:
+Lyrics: |-
     I'm just a good machine
     You turn me on and I’ll get by
     But you’re just like gasoline
@@ -182,62 +182,35 @@ Lyrics:
     But you have always walked on the tightest rope
     Is there no hope?
     Why can’t you see?
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+---
 Track: Cerulean Skies
-Duration: 3:22
+Duration: '3:22'
 URLs:
 - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/cerulean-skies
-Lyrics:
-    I never had the best of health
-    Just a lot of time and a little wealth
-    I never failed, I only tried
-    Just a moment too late, the dream had died
-
-    I never saw cerulean skies
-    Or the light of the truth behind the lies
-    I never received, I only took
-    From the few pages left of every un-burned book
-
-    I never once saw time well-spent
-    Or a wise man who was not hell-bent
-    I never spoke, I only screamed
-    As the men upstairs shot down my dreams
-
-    Come on (come right on) 
-    Come on (sit down with sin)
-    Come on (no way to win)
-    'Cause if you can’t kiss ass then you can’t begin
-
-    Come on (no chance in hell)
-    Come on (think for yourself)
-    Come on (you might as well)
-    'Cause a good student has nothing on a good sell
-
-    Come on (write your own role)
-    Come on (no lump of coal)
-    Come on (just rock and roll)
-    'Cause if you’re not damned yet then you’ve sold your soul
-
-    At first I tried to fight the law
-    But I never pulled the very first straw
-    I could not fight my mom and dad
-    When the sins of the parents were the ones I had
-
-    I fought for all the underdogs
-    Who turned out to be hive-mind cogs
-    I fought for love - of course I lost
-    But I was the one who named that cost
-
-    I tried to fight the last of my friends
-    But all i found were long-dead-ends
-    I’d lost my time, I’d lost my wealth,
-    And I’d never once tried to fight for myself
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+Lyrics: "I never had the best of health\nJust a lot of time and a little wealth\n\
+    I never failed, I only tried\nJust a moment too late, the dream had died\n\nI\
+    \ never saw cerulean skies\nOr the light of the truth behind the lies\nI never\
+    \ received, I only took\nFrom the few pages left of every un-burned book\n\nI\
+    \ never once saw time well-spent\nOr a wise man who was not hell-bent\nI never\
+    \ spoke, I only screamed\nAs the men upstairs shot down my dreams\n\nCome on (come\
+    \ right on) \nCome on (sit down with sin)\nCome on (no way to win)\n'Cause if\
+    \ you can’t kiss ass then you can’t begin\n\nCome on (no chance in hell)\nCome\
+    \ on (think for yourself)\nCome on (you might as well)\n'Cause a good student\
+    \ has nothing on a good sell\n\nCome on (write your own role)\nCome on (no lump\
+    \ of coal)\nCome on (just rock and roll)\n'Cause if you’re not damned yet then\
+    \ you’ve sold your soul\n\nAt first I tried to fight the law\nBut I never pulled\
+    \ the very first straw\nI could not fight my mom and dad\nWhen the sins of the\
+    \ parents were the ones I had\n\nI fought for all the underdogs\nWho turned out\
+    \ to be hive-mind cogs\nI fought for love - of course I lost\nBut I was the one\
+    \ who named that cost\n\nI tried to fight the last of my friends\nBut all i found\
+    \ were long-dead-ends\nI’d lost my time, I’d lost my wealth,\nAnd I’d never once\
+    \ tried to fight for myself"
+---
 Track: Noun
-Duration: 5:14
+Duration: '5:14'
 URLs:
 - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/noun
-Lyrics:
+Lyrics: |-
     Somewhere in a jungle grove a candle burns denoting Saint Therese
     A prayer that those we’ve left behind are troubled not with heart and mind at peace
     Nurse attending close at hand with wine to cast its old familiar spell
@@ -266,12 +239,12 @@ Lyrics:
     Familiar signs have gone away
     I’m sure if it was not today
     I’d be there now - I'd find my way
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+---
 Track: Ithaca
-Duration: 4:04
+Duration: '4:04'
 URLs:
 - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/ithaca
-Lyrics:
+Lyrics: |-
     I spent the best years of my life waiting
     For this moment
     A time to call my own, a place to call my homeland
@@ -310,23 +283,23 @@ Lyrics:
     Although I sing along
     That moment now has gone
     My heart still a restless sea where Ithaca is calling
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+---
 Track: Kalesa In Binondo
-Duration: 3:57
+Duration: '3:57'
 Contributors:
 - Nick Smalley (kalesa driver, additional sequencing)
 URLs:
 - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/kalesa-in-binondo
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+---
 Track: Underneath It All
-Duration: 2:33
+Duration: '2:33'
 Contributors:
 - Katie Carrell (backup vocals)
 - Tavia Morra (backup vocals)
 - Clark Powell (string arrangement and sequencing)
 URLs:
 - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/underneath-it-all
-Lyrics:
+Lyrics: |-
     Moving on is hard
     The more I fight the more I have to lose
     From the very start
@@ -351,20 +324,20 @@ Lyrics:
     All the things we could have been
     If I could have only shown you
     I would have known that you know what I really mean
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+---
 Track: Laughing Forest
-Duration: 2:18
+Duration: '2:18'
 URLs:
 - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/laughing-forest
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+---
 Track: The Roamin' Bowman
-Duration: 3:59
+Duration: '3:59'
 Contributors:
 - Erik Scheele (piano)
 - Clark Powell (string arrangement and sequencing)
 URLs:
 - https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/the-roamin-bowman
-Lyrics:
+Lyrics: |-
     Tangled in the ropes that have strangled
     All the hopes that were dangled in front of my eyes
     But when I'm near you, I have nothing to fear