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Ballad for Beatrice
04:16
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She upset the downtown crowd with swagger worthy of the uptown set
Her facepaint is regret, her breath is tainted by the scent of cigarettes
Her hands are sometimes clammy, her makeup sometimes runs
Her stammer isn’t glamorous, her posture rarely stuns
She says "stop acting hammy," when I'm up for merry fun
But my thoughts revolve around her like the planets round the sun
She is perfect
She is flawed
She is worthless
She is God
She is nurturing
But never spares the rod
But she cares about her man and I’m the one she’s got
Hates her teacher, loves her preacher, prays the rosary
Won’t give speeches, scared of beaches, burns too easily.
Won't do tasks for me and hates to pay for groceries.
Luckily I’m never one opposed to toast and tea
She is perfect…
And when her smile darkens harkening a dropping in her mood
I’m always there to comb her hair and later bake her comfort food
She’s too short her cohort aren’t great sports they’re all a bore
Forever clumsy, bumbling stumbling ‘cuz her feet are sore
For she bought missized heels at Mrs. McNeill’s goodwill store
The size that fit her feet-petite-she really can’t afford
I don’t know why I’ve got this itch
She ain’t beautiful and surely she ain’t rich
Won’t even whip me up a single damn sandwich
But still I somehow love my charming wicked witch
She is perfect…
My dearest Beatrice
Finer than tea and biscuits
The idealest breakfast
For days full of sweetness
When night falls upon our home
And I’ve got you here with me alone
Let’s take our creaky chrome plate schooner
Cross the shores of abalone
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2. |
Madeline Smile
04:26
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Madeline’s smile unwinds in its fine time in spoonfuls, like spools full of beautiful twine wove from jewels still aglisten with movement in color like dewdrops, a magical fabric that whispers to listeners and dimples that wrinkle like paper-thin craters in space her still face a palatial oasis in wastelands of misplaced creation, the chalice of malice’s acid libations have never trepassed through her mouth like a pilot who dials his plane to fly south to the tropics and miles of islands so mild removed from the arctic lethargy is Madeline’s smile.
Madeline’s smile melts childish guileful wiles, like witnesses called on in trial who cry for forgiveness inspired by quiet revile of eyes that will pierce through denial sight bright like mangata moon melts like ricotta spooned over the tide-fighting white winding dunes bottle-strewn like a flying balloon flies immune to the piled-up highway is Madeline’s smile.
Madeline’s smile is subtle but sly like coyotes who steal ‘cross the spring-budding fields full of foliage on voyage to hunt all the sun-loving livestock but coy in avoiding their master and faster and fiercer than eagles in treetops yet clever and deadly a medley both fearsome and tender like spider-veined brick cracks that wander and winnow through garden walls slipping and swimming like miniscule minnows in waterfalls spinning and dripping like droplets from alcohol bottles the old farmer’s calls over frost-frozen miles of composting piles is Madeline’s smile.
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3. |
Marmalade Hill
01:37
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Lying supine
Sipping sunshine up on Marmalade Hill
Past the town line
Lie such fine times
Where nature gives to each his fill
Concrete sunbath
Red skin sun wrath
Catch the laughter as children run past
In the long grass
On the wrong path
But the afternoon’s forgiving, and the evening’s yet to pass
On the back roads
We took rowboats to go sailing through moats
Of castles crowned with thistled tassles
An urban antidote remote
Kissing dimples
Distant whistles
Dancing revelries sickled by prickles
Leaf brush tickles
Head rush giggles
We should claim a spot forever, here beneath the lover’s willow
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4. |
Although
03:36
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Upon taking awkward steps
Jolts, spaces, pauses
Raking up what I kept
Shocking truth for the first time
Re-lived, and re-dreamed
I explored the red glow
And eyes that were clean
And a face that shown red
The chapter before broke, and skidded
The character simplified
But when looking for more, instead of being ridded
They joined with friends, and smiled, and cried
Although,
Although…
Though lost in a day, to lose in a night
And dropped to the depths of life’s density
The motions still play, still move in bright light
Scale the brain with red intensity
Can’t wait, can’t wait to see
Arriving in another day he awaits dawn
Slamming into existence he whispers with glee
“Finally the place awaits, and the time had drawn!”
Although…
But as soon as he skids and streaks in
He is lost in a world of shy overbalance
And suddenly he knows within
He had left in a trance
“No, No, just go away, from me…” he screams
He hides in the corridor, in the out-of-place
This vision is nothing like those of his dreams
He must look no more, he must hide his face
And when he reaches safety from those clear eyes
He slumps, and thinks, and drinks
He had not a need for disguise, he realizes
He nods his head back, and blinks, and cries
Although…
The time he had waited for
Was now in the past
And so he knows, at last
That he had a chance, but no more
…
[And here is the cause of all this trouble.
Do not let the rooster count the eggs of the hen
Do not twice count your own thoughts again over
For when choosing time comes, and you must pick your clover
You will not know which is folded over, again]
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5. |
Tuneful
05:20
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She
Is a fire-talking wire walker dire times have fallen on her
Pallor in her cheeks pronounced, creases eat around her downcast eyes
Southbound tears slip ere she cries bearing orbs of fair surprise
Clouds of crowds of craven ravens gather round in airless skies
Gawking frothing mocking stalking socking rocks and gossip talking
‘Cuz they saw things or they heard things trusting words the carrion birds sing
Bearing grudges carrying anchors buried deep in seas of rancor
Only see fit to harangue her, eyes wrapped shut in sacred paper
But when the moon’s full
She knows the muse will
Arrive at her bedside where the floods subside
Into tidepools full of colored lights
She floats away like lilies on a riptide
In a world so full of noise and fleeting joys
Life feels unmusical
A dirge verging on rueful
But when her friend’s here she feels tuneful
She
Is an object of derision by the wizened missionary hypocrites
Whose vision is a fiction in which contradictions to tradition
Are relinquished to extinction, mixing hatred with religion
Deep suspicion of the different brothers sisters Mr. Christian
Is this your great proposition? Best defense of your position?
Set against a pestilence of whores who dare to wear dyed colors
In their hair or share of piece of mind not verified by Scripture
Show an inch of skin and declare that they’re Satan
But when the moon’s full…
She doesn’t want to be the outcast
Forever brusht past and outclassed
She doesn’t want to hear their prayers for her
Terrified before their vengeant Lord
She
Dreads awakening forsaken by the Savior they’ve mistaken
For some fake and pagan deity who feeds on blatant piety
Done in the baking sunlight making what’s wrong straight from what’s right
Demonstrations made for all to see to feed their weak identities
And worshipping their own displays the tribal dancing rivalries
The silly trivialities that feed their insecurities
Like God would damn a nation for a single word misspoken
Hide their hopelessness in others whom they call the lost and broken
But when the moon’s full...
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6. |
Bergdall's Remorse
03:49
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A castaway at sea amassed the lasting memories of countries
Passed away in history, the mast above a massive tree
The path of glass below so vast and deep, each night aghast with fastest sleeps
That flash with mapless dreams and brush against the walls of passes steep
He can taste spiderwebs in the cider sips
When the spices bright bite his tired lips
By the fireside from the trip he slips
To a state of mind where his thoughts are clipped
And old times unwind like a writhing whip
He drinks forbidden memories like hundred Sabbath absinthe
From a place beyond the singing ships
An exile’s eyes are ever best in finding isles next to hide
And time to steal a while’s rest while trial still awaits and friends still
Wonder at this twist of fate, a kind but listless man irate
Employs the pistol’s fatal weight, in justice done outside the courthouse gate
The only course escape of course infuriates the state
The case made worse the greater space between the crime and trial date
A child grows half-orphan, lives are broken, wives awoken in the night
To hear the dread words spoken: “Your love is dead, the killer rides the ocean”
And he can taste spiderwebs...
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7. |
Bringham's Reward
02:33
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This track proves that lyrics are not important
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8. |
I won't say I like you
01:39
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I won’t say I like you.
I won’t call you nice.
I will not compare you
to “sugar and spice”.
I won’t say you’re pretty.
I won’t ever stare.
I won’t compliment you,
But I will say I care.
You are amazing; fantastic; divine.
You fill my days with hope,
and my nights with sunshine.
I won’t say I like you.
I won’t call you nice.
But I will say I love you,
and I am willing to pay the price.
Love is worth more than a smile and a wink;
More than compliments that make you think
you like someone, and you might want to date.
I know it’s hard, but try to relate.
I can not say I like you,
for this is not true.
Do you know what I feel?
Do you know what is real?
Here’s a clue.
(I love you.)
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9. |
Now
03:33
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Are you ready to open your eyes, love?
Witness the prizes and surprises which await us high above
Made of ethereal material far beyond the stuff that our dreams are comprised of?
Are you ready to dwell in the daylight?
To rub your eyes with sacred clay and regain your sight?
Are you contrite in heart and mind and in your penance hope to finally be free?
For see the seed of redemption within
For you to feed and nurture deep beneath the skin
Until the sleek unsheathed sword penetrates the weight which binds the heart in mires of sin
If you open your heart
The Lord will work his odd arts
And guide your life by strange ways
A range of great and dark days
But if you come through unscathed
You’ve made the greatest mistake
You see
There’s no elation without misery
No celebration sans despondency
Tribulation frames salvation’s qualities
If tears are dead then laughter offers no relief
The deepest mysteries of history are borne out in this strange dichotomy
So if you want to be mine, be mine!
And yes I want to be yours, I’m yours
And you and I will be erased replaced embraced in the unbreaking him and her
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10. |
Soupbowl Symphony
04:43
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The sunset from the Esplanade is, broadly speaking, godly
A dome of flame hemmed in by twinkling lights
Our daily sullen drudgeries weigh heavy on us, bodily
Til we forget God’s gifts are free for sight
Here wallowing in restaurants, consuming without thought
There expending time to never be reclaimed
We’re swallowed by our self-concern until our eye is caught
By a face that reawakens sacred flames
She’ll never know the boon she’s been to me
As I conduct my soupbowl symphony
Knuckled timpanis knock out the rhythm for a melody
A treat as smooth as seas of melted brie
Your touch would give such sweet relief to me
She takes my hand, escorts me to beyond the pale of death
To domain where consciousness tastes true release
Mistaken plans distorting thought expelled like exhaled breath
Til all remaining spirit cries aloud for peace
The costume of identity deflates in quick collapse
As every inner pushing-out surrenders strength
And lost soon in communion two engage in mystic grasp
A reaching-out with arms of neverending length
She’ll never the boon she’s been to me…
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11. |
Eva Everywhere
05:38
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Eva everywhere
As I survey the crowds surrounding faking level-headed stares
I’m on the lookout for her bevelled hips and eyes that never care
Her countenance ensnared by medicine-red hair
I dread to stare but chase with careful eyes the bed we’ve yet to share
She’s got a taste for jazz
An angel’s face and racy past
Her patience on occasion has
Been wasted on some tasteless lads
She’s paces past mistaken paths
Before she breaks, new chases had
She’s shaken, saddened, takes what’s happened
Sings a song that hits like baseball bats
Her voice anointing oil
That royals covet, bubbling boils
Found soft soil in my soul
Tough tendrils coil through aerioles
And when I see her face, I freeze in place
The keys displaced from my ignition
My big mission is to get a taste from her delicious kitchen
Eva everywhere....
She’s so fine it hurts
Reclining in designer skirts
Opining every minor flirt
Not minding my overt efforts
With every thoughtful line rehearsed
She says I’m not the one for her
But words that should burn now disperse
New seeds like forest-fired conifers
And nothing conquers me
Like promises beyond sure reach
No authored speech with proverbs proffered deep
Could jostle me from constant sleep
Or waking death, mistaking breath for consciousness
Now breaking bread is wasting effort
Food is tasteless till I take her to my breast
Eva everywhere… (2x)
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12. |
Stop Fearing Love!
05:46
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Her smile’s polished bright white fragile magic like an eggshell diorama
She weeps at lost virginities, realities of bitter fate and karma
She won’t inhale on principle but lives to fill her life with driveled drama
A dreamy queen of seedy scenes with ballerina’s pose and priestly honor
Stop fearing love
Stop fearing me
All you’re made of
Is dear to me
She comes to me with smile afire bubbling like soda over ice
Says that she aspires to be something more than just my crippled Christ
Envisions deeper love than simple backseat lukewarm Minnesota nice
She wants to take me higher and retire to a home among the skies
Stop fearing love…
So
She’s my dove from God above who bears the marriage gloves upon her wing
She rests abreast the west wind then emerges perches on the church to sing:
Stop fearing love....
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