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Moved On From Dreams
01:51
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I took a long, lonely road
Just to sing before you now
Actually it wasn’t all alone
There were bodies all along the shoulder
One of them was waving
Or was the arm stuck in the air
Or was it a leg?
And none of them asleep
They had moved on from dreams
Dreams of peaceful meadows
And the distant hum-of-autos
Sometimes a trail of smoke
Drifted ahead like a dragon’s body
And then a snake
And then a parade of worms
Purple clouds of fireweed
Vines too drifting away from the street
Just like me - they long to be
Getting out of Dodge
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2. |
Make Love That Lasts
03:26
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Well it’s been longer than you know
You thought that was me
But I didn’t show
Body snatchers got nothin’ on this girl
I can act like a zombie on top of the world
Face like a TV - food is my DVD
Wanna see a scary movie
Just feed some soy to me
Advertising this thought your way
I’ve got a steel-trap mind
And a body of clay
Be cautious when you cross my path
If I wanted a race car
I woulda gone straight to the track
But you’re like a Benz, bro
Dependable and strong
So let’s breathe together
Make it last real long
We could make it last real long
We could fake the club out
Find some decent substrate
There we’d make love that lasts
I’m like a chemist
Inventing new potions
Words like children
Flow from my oceans
Deep throated moans of gears in my machine
The tides out and the table’s set
And again I’m washed clean
The whir and hum of ancestral voices
Choose who you listen to
Or they’ll make their own choices
They’ll pick earthly delights if you let them
Best give in sometimes
Before you upset them
(ooh make love that lasts)
We could walk to the park
And there dance in its darkness
We could crack this code that is safe and warm
And we could make love that lasts
We could fake the club out
Find some decent substrate
We could break this club in half
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3. |
Before Telling Dragons
04:09
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Before telling dragons where to lay
Point out all the ruins where the chicks can play
Common sense pray pay my way
Wrong in song-ing well there’s no such way
Ring the wronging in the silent day
Common sense may pave my way
In brambles sometimes
But the birds do give glittery warbles
And I’m pickin’ up every marble
I’m flicking tear-drops back into the bay
Before I tell myself that I have nothing to say
Let me sing a line that leads into waves
Underwater
Bite the hook and
Feel much hotter
Where there’s a jig
You can’t be bothered
But hold onto the things that matter
You wore the scales of the mad hatter
Whose clothes were made to fit your father
But surface now and breathe another
Breath can fill your chest with better weather
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4. |
Nothing In the Way
02:55
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What is this fiery furnace?
There is nothing for me in this way
That’s what I crave
Release my life the same as it came
And for this I need not wait
Close my eyes to joy and pain
As for delight I can dwell in this light
See my molten body in the shining moon
Oh! To feel nothing
Betwixt the tomb and the womb
Oh! To feel nothing
Betwixt the tomb and the womb
There is nothing for me in this way
There is nothing for me in this way
Nothing waits for me in its way
Nothing waits for me in its way
There is nothing for me in its way
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5. |
Carry and Rob
03:12
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Carry would you help me with this package
Thanks to you I’ve come this far
Rob I’m still taking you for granted
What I wouldn’t do for a brand new car
She’s a good gal a perfect friend
Uh, but who’s this guy Rob
That she hangs out with?
Who is my friend
When I’m in need
Of a new place to start?
Someone that takes advantage
Of a sunny disposition
Who may have a bad back
But has a forgiving heart
What’s enough to make you cry
Losing your sight or opening up your eyes?
She is a friend when I have a thing to fetch
He has more fun and he’s harder to catch
Carry’s always got a hand to lend
But it’s a nighty-oo and hashi tens
She’s a heavenly civil servant
Heavy handed Rob he doesn’t deserve it
Don’t know what you got til its gone
Wonder what else I’m sittin’ on
Should it remain any day all known
Uh have uh set al pino of this precious stone
What’s enough to make you cry?
Losing your sight or opening up your eyes?
She is a friend when I have a thing to fetch
He has more fun and he’s harder to catch
I will Carry
I will Rob
I will Carry
I will Rob
I will Carry
I will Rob
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6. |
Ghostly Appearance
01:45
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A ghostly appearance
Into an unfamiliar place
A shine to your picture
Of paint on face
Dead to that world
But it held with its hooks
The corpse of a moment
To be frozen in books
You followed some call
That wasn’t your name
Now you’ve learned what to let pass
Overhead like the clouds
I’ll take the hissing of noise shelf
Any day
Over a crushed, compressed spirit
Made to stay in its cage
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7. |
Mockingbird Diet
04:25
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Nature’s got a way
Of keeping herself occupied
Of keeping track of who lives
And who dies
Not that there’s no inbetween to report
I know a few creatures
Alive with a sort of
Death-defying look in their eyes
It’s not fair to say we know
Just who is who
We can’t walk in their shoes
Just by reciting their lines
But it seems like we can say
We’ve been there many times
Like the mockingbird eats
The black widow spider
Piece by piece to eventually hide her
Beneath his dark feathers
Surrounding bones
Heartbeats will accompany moans
You’ve got a long list to trade
You’ve got a lot to let go
Spiritually would you believe
We’ve got a lot of baggage to leave
Would you believe
We have a lot to let go
Simple can at first sound so terrible
It can sound so vague and like
What is there for me to hold onto?
Well how about a dirt clod?
A ripe strawberry?
What about a nightingale’s song?
The mockingbird eats the black widow spider
Piece by piece to eventually hide her
Beneath his dark feathers
Surrounding bones
Heartbeats will accompany moans
Heartbeats will accompany moans
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How real is a scream
When it’s pointed out from your face
When you’re not even conscious
Of your feet, of your place
Wake
Rise from your body
Move
Move on from dreams
Sleep
Sleep left you longing
For one thing you could touch
And keep
Love don’t own nobody
A song heard in time
A mantra ringing in infinity
Echoing in the divine
But to go against God
Is to invite a new start
Is to invite a new start
Say a thing
Say a thing enough times
You say the thing unsaid
Sleep
Sleep left you longing
For one thing you could touch
And keep
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9. |
Stream of Ganders
04:19
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To tie rocks to the clouds - you’re willing
Lean your head on a puddle pillow
Check the sky filling up with feathers
Hear the calls from the stream of ganders
Soft as down let us go together
Settle down and the rains we’ll gather
Light as trot ne’er a thought to struggle
Ours are the colors of the rainbow puddle
Once upon an island
A tumbleweed cartwheeled in from out there
Some call it home
The place where some roam
It couldn’t be a mountainous high rise
Cause you would feel the rivers pull downward
You’ll stand and stare at majestic mountains
Bare feet in tideflats
Sinking past your ankles!
Driftwood tugs at your hands and shoulders
Take me home it softly mutters
Near a trail head is nodding enter
Them baby nettles cradle in the crib of winter
Once a seed caught in breeze
Thought to be a weed
From far the wind did take you
Over oceans and a nation
It couldn’t be a mountainous high rise
Cause you would feel the rivers pull downward
You’ll stand and stare at majestic mountains
Feet in tideflats
Oh
What is this place that you get a window
To look through but the shudder is closing
You’ll tap the glass mouthing the words “thank you”
Blinds unfurling
Will they open again?
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10. |
That's the Breaks
03:21
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When you hear me comin’ round
That’s the breaks
I’m getting so used to this sound
That’s the breaks
I found pieces on the ground
Told myself - that’s the breaks
That’s what it takes
Took pieces flying off my ship
To see what’s at stake
It’s all over town now
Though I’ve already wound down
It’s looming like a cloud now
It has exhausted my clown now
Now my fear is of stopping
As my breaks go on copping
An eagle’s diving call
My heart at the bottom of the fall
Awaiting devourer
That’s the breaks
That’s the breaks
That’s the breaks
That’s the breaks
That’s the breaks
That’s the breaks
That’s the breaks
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11. |
2 Becomes 1
07:04
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When two becomes one
That one will always return
Just like water turns to steam
It runs back again out from the dream
Ah - ah - ah - ah - ah - ah
When two becomes one
One looks into one’s self
And is startled at the scene
Of the brightness of entangled beams
Ah - ah - ah - ah - ah - ah
Your arms stretched out to the sides
Your feet walk in a line
And though you’ll wobble at the knees
Keep your head up on this balance beam
Ah - ah - ah - ah - ah - ah
It’s true that how we are one
Look close you’ll see no seams
In that the fabric and the thread
Are of the same sheep
Ah - ah - ah - ah - ah - ah
When your hands find
They’re holding others too
All the hardships sail away
All the hardships sail away
All the hardships sail away
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12. |
It's the Stars
02:46
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Top of the mornin’ baby
You were born at the top of the world
Doesn’t matter that you’re boy or a girl
Born at the top of the world
Don’t let the problems of this world get you too down
You were born with a flaming crown
And as royalty of fire
The stars watch your life
To guide and admire
The route you choose will be your own
And I’ll always be here as if inside your phone
It’s the stars
It’s the stars, baby
It’s the stars
And it’s easy to say that it’s the stars
Cause it’s the stars
It’s the stars
Top of the morning baby
You were born at the top of the world
Doesn’t matter you’re a boy or girl
You were born at the top of the world
You will see such amazing sights
Watch a hawk catch a rabbit in headlights
Peer down on a giant amoeba
Creeping slow through the night
It’s the stars
It’s the stars
It’s the stars
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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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Here's a band I sang and played sax in. We are working towards putting a best of release out here in the coming year!
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This is recording project I got into a few years ago with Chet Delcampo and John "Heyward" Howkins and featuring Charlie Hall on drums and Robbie Bennett on keyboards.
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