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Four Cantos

by John Roseboro

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1.
How To Pray 03:10
Search my heart and know my ways If there's anything impure take it away Ouu, here comes the pain... How many times have you saved my life And put the sunshine in my day I've seen so many many good things But I still don't know how to pray My mind has a mind of its own You already know... The ultimate test of my faith A testament to what I believe I've done so many many bad things But I still don't know how to pray Search my heart and know my ways If there's anything impure take it away Search my heart and know my ways If there's anything impure take it away Ouu, here comes the pain... Doesn't need to be a three mile jam Just want you to know who I am Don't worry too much what to say Just don't say you don't know how to pray
2.
Change my name to John Doe But I feel like John Dee Forget my ego Still say the wrong thing Show me mercy How to love right Turn the evil Into something light I'm trying to be patient I'm trying to be kind Trying not to be jealous I will love you right Show me mercy How to love right Turn the evil I wanna love you more and more Make it stop I don't want to fight Take the edge off I will love you right
3.
Close my eyes I’m in your arms In no time I’m surrendered I’m in Heaven In your arms In the present Truly kismet Who needs fiction I’m in Heaven Close your eyes Your in my arms In no time Surrendered In Heaven In my arms In the present Truly kismet Who needs fiction We’re in Heaven
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How To Cope 03:29
山の奥に 迷子の羊 谷の向こうに ランプの光 赤いリボンと 鈴がついた 首輪 素敵な音鳴らして Soft white ears Pink snout Smells like The fields out by Your house I jumped from the Stone wall Thought I’d end it all My heroes are left in the past But it feels like I’m holding your hand Sink, swim Float, flail, or fly You have heard the call You have seen the signs When its pure Love endures So here's my heart My hope My whole life My heroes are left in the past But it feels like I’m holding your hand My heroes are left in the past But it feels like I’m holding your hand

about

A reprise record following John Roseboro's Johnny (April, 2023), the Four Cantos EP shows a subtler side of the artists' one of one voice and vision, exploring the existential in a way that makes the difficult feel delicate and the weighty themes, light.

Each song from Four Cantos gives itself to meditation, doing exactly what it says it will do: How To Pray, a song about not knowing how to pray that is, in itself, a prayer, to How To Go To Heaven whose lush string and woodwind arrangements keep their promise to transcend.

The record also hosts a choir of familiar faces and fan favorites including Brad Stank, Juliana Chahayed, sign crushes motorist and a co-write and performance from Mei Semones on the closing track “How To Cope”.

The defiantly tender record is being released alongside a book, eponymously titled “Four Cantos,” a self help primer, exploring the same themes. Available November 1, 2023.

credits

released November 1, 2023

Four Cantos by John Roseboro
All songs written, performed and produced by John Roseboro
"How To Cope" cowritten and performed by Mei Semones
Engineering and co-production by Luke Jr
Assistant Engineering by Reid Walter Devereaux
Recorded at home in Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY.

Drums and Percussion (2,4) by Luke Jr
Bass (2) by Reid Walter Devereaux
Bass (4) by Michael Barnes
Flute and Tenor Saxophone (3,4) by Daniel Robinson
Violin (3) by Claudius Agrippa
Clarinet (3) by Regina Regina
Guitar and Vocal (4) by Mei Semones
Choir (1): Audrey Cibel, Mei Semones, Michael and Katherine Barnes, Brad Stank, signdrushesmotorist, Yamp, Nico Violet, Luke Jr
Choir 2 (3): Lizzy and the Palm, Kid Hastings, Juliana Chahayed, Luke Jr

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