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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.
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“Pobody’s nerfect, but it’s a difficult balancing act to write a song that acknowledges this universal truth without being completely self- lacerating. Von Bieker did it, though.”
Rachel Cholst, Adobe and Teardrops
Tracklist
1. Run
2. You Could Stay
3. Move With Me
4. One Of Us Is Right
5. Doorstep of Mercy
Streaming
Credits
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)
Lyrics
Run
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?
You Could Stay
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
Move With Me
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
One Of Us Is Right
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
Doorstep of Mercy
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