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Will You Still Love Me? EP

by VON BIEKER

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1.
Run 03:14
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If it's not a weight on my shoulders Then it's heavy, heavy on my heart If you're not working at pushing me down Then you're pulling me apart I want what's easy I don't want the truth So I'm gonna run Run, run, run, run Will you still love me if I do? You can call it a calling Oh you can call it curse But they both feel like falling And I'm not quite sure which is worse But I've got these memories Of when I've been blessed So I'm gonna run Run, run, run, run Oh I'm gonna run Run, run, run run Haven't you got what you wanted? You stripped me right down to the bone Why won't you leave me alone Oh don't leave me alone Cos I'm gonna run Run, run, run, run Oh I'm gonna run Run, run, run, run Will you still love me if I do? Will you still love me if I do?
2.
You Could Stay 03:16
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Baby you could stay You don't have to go to work tonight Just call your boss and say Something in you don't feel right The city will keep on breathing Just outside our door I could get some wine It's been a while since we both had the time And the kids are out ti' 9 (maybe 10) We should just unwind The planets will keep on spinning Just like they done before I'm pretty sure I am pretty sure You can never it all A paycheque and a decent night's sleep But we could have tonight babe The time is ours to lose or to keep Oh and that phone can keep on ringing That's what the machine is for I'm pretty sure Hey baby where you going Just sit awhile and dream with me Maybe we can make it true if we both believe Maybe we can make it true if we both believe
3.
Move With Me 04:32
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Darlin' would you join me on the dance floor tonight Oh we both know we don't have the moves down just right But if you hold me close and I hold you tight Let the world spin around us Blurring these shimmering lights Move with me Move with me We don't gotta go nowhere Yeah there's nowhere that I'd rather be Than right here with you Would you drive with me out under these stars We can go past the motel and the last open bar Yeah we'll roll back the moonroof on our cheap compact car Let the Northern Lights teach us Just how small the two of us are Oh move with me Move with me We don't gotta go nowhere Yeah there's nowhere that I'd rather be Than right here with you You've got beautiful shoes on both those left feet Your blue eyes got me singing this song on repeat Sure we get tangled up and we fall off the beat But let's never stop dancing baby Even after we leave Won't you move with me Oh move with me We don't gotta go nowhere Yeah there's nowhere that I'd rather be Won't you move with me Oh move with me You don't gotta go nowhere Yeah there's nowhere that I'd rather be Than right here with you
4.
One Of Us Is Right 03:34
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Maybe you were right Maybe we were built to break Maybe that last fight Was one more than we can take See I don't know what is true Not like I used to It was all just a little too good I would fall just as soft as I could Whenever you looked at me The way that you looked at me Maybe we were wrong There's so much I thought I knew But I swear I heard a song Every time I thought of you Now I can't remember it Just comes out disjointed I guess it flowed just a little too easy How it rolled through my heart and my lungs Now the music is leaving me Ah, the music is leaving me Oh, the music is leaving me The music is leaving me I guess it flowed just a little too easy How it rolled through my heart and my lungs The music is leaving me Oh, the music is leaving me The music is leaving me And maybe you were right One of us is right
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Doorstep Of Mercy 04:50
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There’s a moment that comes When the begging is done And you drop to your knees with a sigh And you don’t know what was going through your head You can’t figure out why you did what you did And you cry On the doorstep of mercy This isn’t the life he was running toward Spent one more mistake than he could afford But he met a girl before he got put away She sends him letters, those are the good days If he could go back to that night on the street Just never show up, just none of them meet If all that desperation weren’t running through his veins There’d be two lives returned, he’d stand out in the rain And just let it fall There’s a moment that comes When the damage is done And you drop to your knees with a sigh And you don’t know what was going through your head You can’t figure out why you did what you did And you cry on the doorstep of mercy She was a vision, floated into his office his heart was a lost cause, but his hands could have stopped it his wife took the kids, the board took the church He can’t decide which loss is the worst And that’s the part that hurts There’s a moment that comes When the begging is done And you drop to your knees with a sigh And you don’t know what was going through your head You can’t figure out why you did what you did And you cry On the doorstep of mercy Mercy Mercy And you don’t know what was going through your head You can’t figure out why you did what you did And you cry On the doorstep of mercy

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Will You Still Love Me? is a 5 song EP 4 years in the making.

These songs showcase Von Bieker’s broad soundscape – from the “bowtie rock” opener Run to the heart-haunting folk conclusion, Doorstep of Mercy. The lyrics explore ways we run toward and away from lasting love, only to wind up “on the doorstep of mercy”.

Back in 2018, Von Bieker got to work with engineer and producer Harry Gregg at Edmonton’s Riverdale Recorders. Their vision for these songs quickly grew to include some of Edmonton’s best session players. Not wanting to take on debt, Von Bieker hit the studio as the money came in. Which was slowly. And then COVID happened.

The isolation forced Von Bieker to pivot, self-recording his debut album Long For This World at home. That collection spent three weeks on CKUA’s Top 30 charts, reaching number 3. Navigating pandemic restrictions, Von Bieker toured the album across Alberta and Saskatchewan yards, raising enough money to finally complete Will You Still Love Me? in the fall and winter of 2021.

credits

released June 24, 2022

Produced by Dave Von Bieker and Harry Gregg. Written and performed Dave Von Bieker in Edmonton, except;

Dave Babcock – saxophone (1)
Brennan Cameron – organ (1,5) & piano (3)
Harry Gregg – bass (1-5) & synth (2) Brendan Lyons – drums (2-5)
Audrey Ochoa – trombone (1,4)
Daniel Stadnicki – drums (1)
Bob Tildesley – trumpet (1)
Lindsey Walker – backing vocals (1, 3)

Recorded and mixed by Harry Gregg at Riverdale Recorders (Alberta)

Mastered by Philip Shaw Bova (Ontario)

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VON BIEKER Edmonton, Alberta

Von Bieker plays bow tie rock and folk to haunt your heart.

Retro guitar twang sets a reverb- soaked soundstage for Von Bieker's resonant writing; his voice pushed until it cracks into free-fall falsetto.

Von Bieker performs both solo, and with his three-piece band as Von Bieker and his Small-Tones. ... more

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