1. |
The Foldback Song
04:00
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I prance around in my town
Just like a toddler in a gown
This helps the men in dresses to feel safe
You'll find you're heard in the third
After you've reached into enough dirt
You'll tap the rushing water
It'll give you strength
Dragons are a metaphor for
Something you can't name
You may sit and draw it up on paper
- it's an interpretation describing mostly about you
4 winds that blow for to say
We need all directions today
Remind us be getting our hair out of the way
The view reflects me and you
You and I reflect what what we see
You hold a mic to the speaker
And it folds back on me
Face and hands that make our minds up
For what we can't put a finger on
As actual husbandry of the natural world
The chaotic world, the gentle and docile world
But if we listen this day
We may pick up the play
And that we dropped the ball
Will soon be a faint memory
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2. |
'Erica
02:16
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A castle in the sand
It plays out just as planned
Or did you forget
That the tide would claim its land? - Oh!
Bells ring by the hands man
Also by the wind
When the sand blows in your face
It's hard to keep a grin
Shouting my own name just to wake myself up from a dream
Shouting my own name just to wake myself up from a dream
Shouting my own name just to wake myself up from a dream
Erica! Erica! Erica!
Hearing my own name, sensing a definite lack of state of being
Hearing my own name, sensing a definite lack of state of being
Hearing my own name, sensing a definite lack of state of being
Erica! Erica! Erica!
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3. |
Seaweed Tea
02:27
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You promised me
A cool, refreshing dip into the stormy sea
Naked as can be
Be my baby, mama, would you sit
and sip seaweed tea with me
Seaweed tea! Seaweed tea! Seaweed tea!
The sand stays cold
Just beneath the surface there
You could keep your heavy cream
A pot propped over fire
Flames cast shadows
stretching the caverns of our minds
Seaweed tea! Seaweed tea! Seaweed tea!
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4. |
Chattanooga
02:28
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To hear the name Chattanooga
Doesn't it sound fun?
And when I call "Chattanooga"
I'm not the only one
I fell asleep to caterwauling
Like I know what's to be done
And in my dreams Chattanooga
Shines like it's the Sun
But have you been?
Chattanooga calls
Am I to think that
Because the falls approach
The fall out should guide me
To a name I can't seem to shake
As an artist -
I leap before I look
Like an ink spill
That's longing to become a book
I've got my eyes on the surprise
A mystery to live
We shine a light on the pages
For chance that they will give
I feel the name Chattanooga sing
I strain my ears to understand
Ringing of the unknown unfolding
Unbeknownst to me I'm giving myself up to chance
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5. |
7 Sisters
01:09
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6. |
You're In The Garden
02:07
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Wake up
Shake up
Next thing you know
You're in the garden
Stand tall
The wall
Is low when you
Step In the garden
You're in the garden
You're in the garden
Work up
String up
Letting it show
You're in the garden
In the garden
You're in the garden
In the garden
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7. |
Open Exit
02:27
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Open exit
Exciting patterns of the past
You're a head shot
Shooting up and out at last
As the hex eats tail
And clearly breaks its fast
Round the bend
Will you bend the rules for me
And meander aiming fecklessly
For foraging is often
Stumbling upon the goods in surprise
Like an "X"
As I make a mark of where I stand
When outstretched
I'm a sign that here is but a man
But a man may not understand
He's got the whole world in his hands
He's got the living world
At the mercy of his hand
Close at hand
Fan the flames and invoke the change
Change it up, up, up and away
Out of its cage
For a spell you had bound your arms
Now you're pullin' out all your charms
To heal the hurt
Then get back out in the dirt
Heal the hurt
Then get back out in the dirt
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8. |
Along The River
04:02
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A love gone sour and left to rot
Come back from land that time forgot
Along the river they come to lay
Any leaf may in any shape
The water bleeds out from under rock
Tomorrow borrow my shoes and take a walk
All hours of love we give away
When they return they wish to stay
The river bed teams with ghosts of fish
Once a bloody flow now beggar's wish
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9. |
Fresh Disguise
03:03
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Some will tell you a lie
I will sell you the lie
Some will tell you a lie
A lie, a lie, I'll sell the lie
Oh what am I
To tell a lie?
A lie, a lie, to tell a lie?
As common as a house fly
A fly, a fly, a common fly
I see your shape against the sky
You tower high and block my sight
I see your shape against the sky
You tower high and block my sight
You're in my teeth, in what I eat
A lie, a lie, to feed a lie
You're in my teeth, in what I eat
A lie, a lie, I fed a lie
To face the Sun, make water run
From your eyes
Just try and lie out of the shade
Your shadow bright
Can hold a form, a shape, a size
A lie a lie, I tell a lie
Each time I rise - a fresh disguise
Each time I rise - a fresh disguise
Echoes of the sunlight
I can hear those babies scream
Echoes of the sunlight
I can hear those babies scream
Can't have bright of Sun
Without the darkness as a trade
Can't have bright of Sun
Without the darkness as a trade
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10. |
Big Kalimba Blues
03:00
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11. |
You Shampoo'd His Beard
05:14
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In the early morning
The procession of everything I've ever feared
Recedes back from whence it came
From the dust
The dust from whence it came
Once again shakes loose from my beard
My beard
My beard
You shampoo'd my beard
In the early morning sun
See colors fall back into place
Already knew you were the one
And now this tingle on face
Already knew you were the one
And now this tingle on face
Traces back to care
In this dewy morning air
Was that a cat fight over night?
Bits of fur caught in the light
Was that a cat fight over night?
Bits of fur caught in the light
Your love embraced me in the chair
Held me down to just a stare
At first you trusted me to stay
I wriggled free and broke away
At first you trusted me to stay
I wriggled free and broke away
Lathered up a wild raccoon
In the hopes just like the moon
He'd get clear and bright again
In the hopes just like the moon
He'd get clear and bright again
Didn't know he'd never been loved
In the midst of being feared
Until you shampoo'd his beard
Under the stars who wave goodbye
Stripes were showing on my tail
Your lIght is filling up the sky
Laughter spilling down the trail
Your lIght filling up the sky
Laughter spilling down the trail
Before I could play hard to get
Our shadows tangled on the lawn
You know I never will regret
Your smile at that fading dawn
You know I never will regret
Your smile at that fading dawn
Lathered up a wild raccoon
In the hopes just like the moon
He'd get clear and bright again
In the hopes just like the moon
He'd get clear and bright again
Didn't know he'd never been loved
In the midst of being feared
Until you shampoo'd his beard
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12. |
Karl Blau Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
These records are all over the place. My latest studio record Love & Harm consists of a modern country rock sound featuring the pedal steel of Jon Hyde (Introducing) and amazing players you'd recognize from playing on stage with me. Living in Germantown, Philadlephia, started a recording project called Opal Eskar, check that out too. ... more
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