Produced by Byron Kent Wong (David Usher, The Crystal Method), this six song ep is a stripped down prelude to a fully fledged LP due out in 2010. If you listen carefully you will hear three propsals in these songs, a dry run for the real thing this year. Reid is currently a regular member of the CBC’s Vinyl Cafe Orchestra. Reid moved from his hometown of Toronto to Vancouver BC in 2005. http://www.cbc.ca/vinylcafe
http://reidjamieson.com/courtingjuniper.html

TRACK LISTING

1. Summer School Of Blue
2. Rail
3. Don’t Forget
4. My Green Thumb
5. Staring Contest
6. Guarantee

CREDITS

All songs written by Reid Jamieson.
Except Rail – Lyrics by Carolyn V. Mill & Reid, + Music by Reid Jamieson Produced by Byron Kent Wong. Reid’s vocals and guitar recorded in Vancouver by Michael Frost, Blackfish Sound. Lovebirds (from silver pendant) by Kurt Morrison, Hornby Island CD artwork, Web Site Design & Management: Carolyn Victoria Mill .
Drawings by Reid Jamieson. Lovebirds charm by Kurt Morrison. Executive producer, Management, Design & Photography Carolyn V. Mill

LYRICS

SUMMER SCHOOL OF SCHOOL (Reid Jamieson)

Wait for me on the swings in the park
 Behind your house before it gets deathly cold outside
 I hear this winter is gonna be a bad one
 I barely knew you in the last one
 But I went to the summer school of blue
 I have grade four secrets to give to your ears
 The prettiest sculptures of flesh
 Have you heard that I think you’re cool
 You unspool me and rule my mood
 Attendance was high 
 at the summer school of blue
 Let me propose a Koolaid toast 
 to marriage in twenty years
 Who was that sandy haired boy 
 with the glossy teeth at your party?
 He looked like your cousin, 
 I hope he’s your cousin
 or this winter ,this winter 
 will be a very bad winter.
 Wait for me in the emergency room
 Accidents happen, I wrongly assumed 
 I could jump from that high in the air
 The leaves on the tree were yellow and red
 And falling for you, 
 I’m falling for you
 All my answers were right 
 in the final exam
 In the summer school of blue
 The summer school of blue
 The summer school of you.


 RAIL (Reid Jamieson / Carolyn Victoria Mill)

 Put your ear to the rail, you can hear my love come down
 Where hearts and heroes fail, I won’t be turned around
 Sleepwalking these rails, I let the grass grow long
 Oh my memory fails, and I forgot my song
 Blackberries grow wild, smell of pitch in the sun
 Weeds roll over my mind, and they almost won
 But I said no more, no more, no more, 
 no more, no more, no more, no more
 Put your ear to the rail, you can hear my love come down
 Where hearts and heroes fail, I won’t be turned around
 Tearing up these weeds, blow the smoke in my stack
 Sound of steel on steel, and there’s no going back
 I got a head full of coal, hear the lightning crack
 Light a fire in my soul, and get me back on track
 Put your ear to the rail, you can hear my love come down
 Where hearts and heroes fail, I won’t be turned around
 No more driving this blind, time to throw that switch 
 Drives a spike in my mind, and makes my fingers itch
 You better get on board, or get out of my way
 Hauling heavy and slow, but I’m leaving today…
 And I said no more, no more, no more, 
 no more, no more, no more, no more, no more
 And I know that I’ve been here before,
 And it’s taken its toll on me
 But I’m not giving up anymore,
 No I’m not giving up on me…

 DON’T FORGET   (Reid Jamieson/Carolyn V. Mill)

 You know how much it’s gonna hurt
 'til that needle is inserted in your vein again
 You try to pretend there is no pain
 But I see it in the stains under your fingernails
 Hold on tight, Keep looking for an answer
 Hold on tight, remember younger days
 When dreams were something you could say you had
 Don’t forget because the world forgot you
 When night falls is the newspaper your bed
 Does it have you seeing red 
 What the people with money complain about
 You’re drunk on a can of aerosol
 And your tales are getting taller 
 Than the will to make it work
 Hold on tight, keep looking for an answer
 Hold on tight, remember younger days
 When dreams were something you could say you had
 Don’t forget because the world forgot you
 You spoil your self while asleep
 With sweet precious dreams
 Held in the arms of your mother
 It’s gone the fire in your eyes
 The face you recognize is just another sad memory
 Hold on tight, keep looking for an answer
 Hold on tight remember younger days
 Hold on tight, keep looking for an answer
 Hold on tight, remember younger days
 When dreams were something you could say you had
 Don’t forget because the world forgot you


 MY GREEN THUMB   (Reid Jamieson)

 My green thumb
 I hate to think of what I would become 
 Without your hands to guide me through the mud and rain
 It’s a sorry, sorry sight
 I’ll plant a kiss
 Upon the forehead of the girl whose mysteries 
 Unfold like blossoms on a day in spring
 It’s a beauty, beauty sight
 You shovel hard
 The golden rule and it sometimes smarts 
 To peel away the layers of my throbbing heart
 It’s a gory, gory sight
 Let me be your garden gnome
 I’ll clean your knees, I’ll clean our home
 Anything to keep you turning
 Tilling soil till we turn to dust
 Put on your gloves 
 And pull my weeds out with your gentle touch
 I’ll use my seed to grow a song to save the world
 Or at least make you stay mine
 My green thumb 
 I dare not think of what I would become
 Without your love to guide me through the mud and rain
 You’re a pretty, pretty sight
 A compliment that fits just right
 What are you doing for the rest of your life? 
 My green thumb


 STARING CONTEST   (Reid Jamieson)

 Oh I long for the touch 
 of your hand in mine
 Oh I long for the touch 
 of your hand in mine
 Yes I’ve been waiting for you
 Yes I can wait just a little longer
 Now that I’m facing the truth
 It’s a staring contest 
 between your heart and mine…
 I can move past things
 I can learn language 
 that no one else will learn for you
 If there are secrets at all
 they will be small enough to evaporate 
 like tiny evening tears
 You open your baby eyes
 Watching the moon rise 
 from the window of our bedroom
 Another day with you
 It’s a staring contest 
 between your heart and mine
 It’s a staring contest 
 between your heart and mine
 Oh I long for the touch 
 of your hand in mine


 GUARANTEE   (Reid Jamieson)

 People like to say they have somewhere to go
 People like to feel they are needed 
 People like to do what they can to ease the pain
 Have you become a person like me?
 In the first year of our life
 We learn to use our eyes
 Following the smiles of the giants
 In the last years of our life
 We learn we are afraid to die
 But are you afraid to live like me?
 Are you afraid to live like me?
 Are you afraid of the changes
 That are racing through your body?
 Pushing you towards the end of all you know
 Are you afraid to be alone
 And left with no one there to hold you
 And tell you that it’s ok to go
 People like to stay in one place for a while
 Change may be the hardest thing to do
 Would you like a guarantee
 That I will never leave your side
 Cause I would like that guarantee from you
 Yes I would like that guarantee from you
 Yes I would like that guarantee from you