Love Songs For The Long Game

by NQ Arbuckle

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Reassuringly familiar, if a little bit flashier, the longsuffering but thankful NQ Arbuckle wins another battle against the urge to cut and run with "Love Songs For The Long Game," his first new music in six years. For an artist whose songs have always grappled, at least in part, with the panic that comes with both asking and answering the question "Why am I doing this?" NQ Arbuckle has found his place writing seafarer songs for drinking on dry land, for our labours of love large and small. These are songs to magic our straw into gold, songs to keep the dread at bay. Songs that keep promises, long after those ships have sailed.

Not fully nostalgic, not simply regretful, "Love Songs For The Long Game" is for those who seek balance between constancy and recklessness, between last call and first light. The song, like the rest of NQ Arbuckle's catalogue, is both a grand gesture and a humble offering, honouring our commitments to family, to love and to keeping that creative spark flickering. This is no bird's eye view, but a view from the ground, in all its messy wonder.

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I'm talking to you
When will we be worthy of the summer?
I'm feeling so 14,000 miles an hour

What are you doing America?
When will you be worthy of Ginsberg?
I'm feeling so crazy unsure about the future
It's a wonder that we ever sleep at night
Win or lose, O it just feels the same
Why am I in this backyard of twinkle lights?
Writing love songs for the long game, the long game

Leaning over the rabbit hole
Surfing across the stupid internet
It's really had to figure out where all the time went

It's a wonder that we ever sleep at night
Win or lose, O it just feels the same
Why am I in this backyard of twinkle lights
Writing love songs for the long game, the long game

Here comes the sun
And the saints go marching in

It's a wonder that we ever sleep at night
Win or lose, O it just feels the same
Why am I in this backyard of twinkle lights
Writing love songs for the long game, the long game

Do you wanna get out of here?

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released April 22, 2020
Written by NQ Arbuckle
Recorded at the Bathouse in Kingston, ON
Produced by Luke Doucet
Mixed by Howie Beck
Mastered by Nik Kozub

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