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Hard Holidays EP

by Jon Athans Project

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    'Hard Holidays' was a six track debut EP that was given as a stocking stuffer on Christmas Eve '07 by Jon Athans Project. On New Years Eve it was released as a free download on jonathansproject.com. This free re-release of the original demo EP comes packaged with several remixes and two old unreleased tracks.
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AM Alarm 01:49
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LYRICS: It's the last of November, the first of December and I almost lost it today. With you not here and this holiday cheer it's shapin to be a hard holiday Yeah it's a hard, yeah these hard hard holidays. And I keep dreaming like the movies and coloring TV trying to make things beautiful so by new years you'll see I'm okay and you should stay I'm trying not to be alone on this sad hard holiday. I'm so sorry I'm so sorry and I'm, and I'm, so sorry. Silent Night Holy Night All is calm All is bright Round yon virgins mother and child Holy infant so tender and mild Sleep in heavenly peace Sleep in heavenly peace.
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LYRICS: I'm falling down where my feet can't touch the ground Like a forest full of leaning trees with no one around All alone hit the ground, will you ever hear the sound Think I'll never go outside cause it's humid, Humid in town. You told me you were in love with me I told you you were my everything And now we are left with nothing To say Or do To make you want to stay Won't you stay Won't you stay
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LYRICS: Hey how've you been I've been thinking, about the end and how the pages still turn and the memories still burn. Used books stores with torn pages in fictional stories, of love from the ages I'd hold the ladder while you scanned the top shelf joking maybe someday, someday, we'd read about ourselves. I should have kissed you that night before that subway in the rain If I'd kissed you that night maybe everything would change and we'd have a perfect start a story for the times bound on a bookshelf meant always to remind us of why we have to stay and how I touched you that day first kissed in the rain, used books & subways (they just want to say, throw it away) They say its just a memory and just to throw away they say its just a memory its just another day but it's not just a memory and I've my very best it's not just the day she came but also the day that she left. Used books stores with torn pages in fictional stories, of love from the ages I'd hold the ladder while you scanned the top shelf joking maybe someday, someday, we'd read about ourselves. I should have kissed you that night before that subway in the rain If I'd kissed you that night maybe everything would change. And our chapters almost done And the book stores all gone So I must be moving on Our chapters done.
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Nations 03:59
LYRICS: i think its time you noticed me i think its time you stepped into the fight remember, november, you held yourself up to the light i think its you opened up i think its time you felt our memory remember, november, december, holidays you spent with me i think its time our nations looked deep inside and close at what you took remember my whole, my whole nation that you shook oooh oooh remember november remember december ba ba da ba so tell me what you know and tell it to me slow i'm sorry i can't let you leave until i can't let go so tell me whats within please tell me how to win i'll interrogate you till the end just to find out where you've been alone. half the reasons you've gone away are still the ones that i would stay and i can barely sleep at night with pounding drums as our memories fight i surrender here, i have no more your treaties signed, you've won the war you still wage war while i can't sleep withdraw your troops its getting deeper it's been three years since you've seen me but i see you you haunt my dreaming i'm begging now, i'm on my knees come back to me or let me sleep hold me close, or let me loose our nations signed you have your truce please just let me sleep tonight stop the drums and the memory fights im leaving you and im moving through im rebuilding more since since you won the war
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Jerry Jack Johnson was a one man show Sometimes people ask him why his head hangs so low Sometimes he would answer sometimes he would just say no But when he would answer he'd say I don't know and This is how you hang your head Is this what you think you said So long I'm going to bed tonight The weathers right.
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"a gorgeously understated listen" - mp3hugger.com

"a seductive combination of electronica and hushed vocals" - lostinyourinbox.com

"frequent yet never excessive beats, engaging ambient effects, ethereal guitars in shoe-gazing style, melody thrown randomly here and there and a slightly strained voice that appears every once and a while. this album is perfect for clearing your head and staring out the window at the raindrops, light, and cement." - indieforbunnies.com

"nice and relaxing - makes you feel good on a rainy day" - allthepeoples.com

"a slow burning tale of regret that I’d forgotten I had" - It All Started

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released December 25, 2007

rereleased 25 December 2009
written & recorded by jonAthan pretz
recorded in my bedroom
art by Tia Ninzeheltzer

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Jon Athans Project Reading, Pennsylvania

Jon Athans Project (Jonathan Pretz) is an American singer/songwriter and musician from Reading, Pennsylvania.

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