Sunday, November 8, 2009
Monday, June 15, 2009
eden was a garden, you know
There's a pine warbler sitting on a hollow limb
He seems to have the whole morning out right in front of him
And everything he sings from the branch that he's sitting on
It seems to hush the leaves and the colors all around
Now first he sings and then he goes.
And what it means? It's hard to know.
Baby works down right off of Barbur Boulevard
writes down everything on the back of a business card
Everything she writes will turn into a song or two
She puts it on the stage and all goes still
Now if she sings a forest clear
She puts a tree right in your ear.
Now why can't you stay with me?
Why don't you tell me it cause it makes a fool of me
Eden was a garden you know
The birds were in the trees until the place was gone
They scattered to the wind and then they just kept moving on
Just the other night the clocks were moving awful slow
I heard a woman's voice coming up form the street below
I got up from my bed that song was so enrapturing
And found my real to reel just to see if I could capture -
By the time I turned it on, and turned an ear
that voice was gone.
Now why can't you stay with me?
Why don't you tell me cause it makes a fool of me
Eden was a garden you know
The birds were in the trees until the place was gone
They scattered to the wind and then they just kept moving on
- Eden Was A Garden, Roman Candle
He seems to have the whole morning out right in front of him
And everything he sings from the branch that he's sitting on
It seems to hush the leaves and the colors all around
Now first he sings and then he goes.
And what it means? It's hard to know.
Baby works down right off of Barbur Boulevard
writes down everything on the back of a business card
Everything she writes will turn into a song or two
She puts it on the stage and all goes still
Now if she sings a forest clear
She puts a tree right in your ear.
Now why can't you stay with me?
Why don't you tell me it cause it makes a fool of me
Eden was a garden you know
The birds were in the trees until the place was gone
They scattered to the wind and then they just kept moving on
Just the other night the clocks were moving awful slow
I heard a woman's voice coming up form the street below
I got up from my bed that song was so enrapturing
And found my real to reel just to see if I could capture -
By the time I turned it on, and turned an ear
that voice was gone.
Now why can't you stay with me?
Why don't you tell me cause it makes a fool of me
Eden was a garden you know
The birds were in the trees until the place was gone
They scattered to the wind and then they just kept moving on
- Eden Was A Garden, Roman Candle
Friday, May 1, 2009
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
four winds
Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe
There's people always dying trying to keep them alive
There are bodies decomposing in containers tonight
In an abandoned building where
A squatter's made a mural of a Mexican girl
With fifteen cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl
She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world
Four winds blowing through her hair
But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon
She just can't sustain the pressure where it's placed
She caves
The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute
If you burned them all together you'd be close to the truth still
They're poring over Sanskrit under Ivy League moons
While shadows lengthen in the sun
Cast on a school of meditation built to soften the times
And hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds
It's knocking over fences, crossing property lines
Four winds cry until it comes
And it's the sum of man
Slouching towards Bethlehem
A heart just can't contain all of that empty space
It breaks, it breaks, it breaks
Well, I went back to my rented Cadillac and company jet
Like a newly orphaned refugee, retracing my steps
All the way to Cassadaga to commune with the dead
They said, "You'd better look alive"
And I was off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps
In the black hills, the bad lands, the calloused east
I buried my ballast, I made my peace
Heard four winds leveling the pines
But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon
She just can't remain with all that outer space
She breaks, she breaks, she caves, she caves
- bright eyes
There's people always dying trying to keep them alive
There are bodies decomposing in containers tonight
In an abandoned building where
A squatter's made a mural of a Mexican girl
With fifteen cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl
She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world
Four winds blowing through her hair
But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon
She just can't sustain the pressure where it's placed
She caves
The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qur'an is mute
If you burned them all together you'd be close to the truth still
They're poring over Sanskrit under Ivy League moons
While shadows lengthen in the sun
Cast on a school of meditation built to soften the times
And hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds
It's knocking over fences, crossing property lines
Four winds cry until it comes
And it's the sum of man
Slouching towards Bethlehem
A heart just can't contain all of that empty space
It breaks, it breaks, it breaks
Well, I went back to my rented Cadillac and company jet
Like a newly orphaned refugee, retracing my steps
All the way to Cassadaga to commune with the dead
They said, "You'd better look alive"
And I was off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps
In the black hills, the bad lands, the calloused east
I buried my ballast, I made my peace
Heard four winds leveling the pines
But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon
She just can't remain with all that outer space
She breaks, she breaks, she caves, she caves
- bright eyes
Sunday, March 8, 2009
recycling revenge
Friday, March 6, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
recent sketches and other things
to the song "monster ballads" by josh ritter.
there's this sight on i-40; it's nestled in the ozarks, where the hills touch the sky. if you look up at the right moment, you will see a cross between the mountains, in the clouds. as you draw closer, you think salvation has come.
and then... it is nothing but a fading blur in the rearview mirror.
there's this sight on i-40; it's nestled in the ozarks, where the hills touch the sky. if you look up at the right moment, you will see a cross between the mountains, in the clouds. as you draw closer, you think salvation has come.
and then... it is nothing but a fading blur in the rearview mirror.
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