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released 29 December 2008

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Track Name: $6000
$6000 is a long time
it'll hit you later at the wrong time
$6000 is a thorn that's digging into your brain
it came out of nowhere
and was gone again

I imagine the things I could do
with no limits on my resources
I'd shame those corrupting forces
by staying simple and true
undeterred by the millions of choices
until awoken by voices
and the voice says

$6000 is a good time
it was over in such a short time
$6000 was just one step on a longer journey
a journey that ended
two steps in

and I can't guarantee
the next time will be a different story
but there won't be a next time

$6000
Track Name: the design
the education of a gray afternoon
it came upon a cold and crystaline moon
I never thought to ask whose breath
was in the balloon
I just assumed...

And everywhere was a puzzling sign
obscure expressions on the face of the design
I'm thinking back before I knew
that someone was lying

before I knew
I didn't know
in any event I'd have lost my soul
if I had waited to find
you can leave the design
but you'll never get home

it's been a long time with the stars in decline
and it means a little more right now
to find a place in the design
I'm thinking back before I knew
that someone was lying
before I knew
Track Name: she will survivie
i'm about to be immortalized
my limbs will seize
cast away like a leaf on the tide
but she will survive
she'll be around for those better days
that i cannot provide

i was dumb i guess
i took her love, i left a mess
don't be surprised if i just curl up and die
but she will survive
she'll be around for those better days
that i cannot provide
Track Name: the great living ocean
great living ocean

- lyrics adapted from 'by the shore' by edward carpenter

(1844-1929)*


all night by the shore the obscure water
the long white lines of advancing foam, the rustle

i am a bit of the shore
the waves feed upon me
i am not sure anymore
is it pain or joy?
i do not know - my sense numbs

i am a bit of the shore
the waves feed upon me, the desire is over
i am the great living ocean itself
i be everywhere

all night by the ever-beautiful coast-line
take thread from the fingers go on with the work
of all and mine


*public domain, bitches
Track Name: orion (and the lion)
A long road, an empty road
lead us back into the summer
when we made peace with the natives
and drank what they gave us
and they showed us orion
and the lion
so we made peace with the natives
and drank what they gave us

I learned about humility
at the feet of a famous teacher
he led by example
snuffed out my candle
'less the light keep shinin'
and blind the lion

so we made peace
for a little while at least
briefly released from all our cares

and we climbed trees
clouds parted like the seas
as the lion breathes the midnight air

It's been a long time tryin'
to find that lion
Track Name: danse russe
lyrics adapted/cribbed from "dance russe" by william carlos williams c. 1917

I am lonely, lonely.
I was born to be lonely,
I am best so!

If I when my wife is sleeping...
and the sun is a flame-white disc
in silken mists
above shining trees,--
if I in my north room
dance naked, grotesquely
before my mirror
waving my shirt round my head
and singing softly...
"I am lonely, lonely.
I was born to be lonely,
I am best so!"
Track Name: the sybilline
lonely nights are returning
turning into a bad dream
I'm coming face to face
with the sybilline

I'm free of supervision
but I gotta work for my ice cream
I keep the topping hot
incase the sybilline...

the sybilline is so silly really
she's a figment of my mind
when I'm not thinking clearly
she's what I find
and if you want her to smile then she'll smile
but if you just wanna love her for a little while
before you face forever
so you'll face forever and soar
she just can't say for sure

lonely nights are returning
I gotta learn what the signs mean
so I can speak in code
just like the sybilline

lonely nights are returning
unlike the sybilline
so say...
return...
Track Name: beloved cub
no awe, no wonder
just a sense of dim dumb and dumber
cruel detachment
I'll never know where Alice and the rabbit went

Sure there's a sunny side
while I've been alive
it's taken over mine

tied to the tree outside
a flyer says it's alright

trouble came all buttered up
warm like some beloved cub
spilt like urine in a cup
filled like magic from above
no more sir for me i've had enough
Track Name: (the) fat man's ghost
out in the storm
look for a place to stay
anywhere warm
the other way

taken inside
compliments to the host
gracious and wide
the fat man's ghost

tell me your name
did a siren seduce your ear?
when you first came
who was here?

here lies his heart
here's where his hands would play
here we'll be home
Track Name: getaway day
four in the morning
nowhere to go
and it's quiet
on the street below
a flicker
in the window
at four in the morning

and my getaway day is here
gonna getaway free and clear
but not without one more warning

why you do what you do
I don't even want to know
where you go when you go
I don't ever want to go

It's four in the morning
I'm wide awake
in the first throes
of a bellyache
no more red wine
with my cornflakes
at four in the morning

and my getaway day is now
gonna getaway from this house
where I'm a monkey performing

four in the morning
no mystery
is a match for
so much clarity
but it won't last
soon it won't be
four in the morning
Track Name: kid concern
wyalusing, on a sunday afternoon
hidden camera in a private room
call me
Kid Concern, kid adirondack
call me

down by the bank some token breezes in
escort the coffee as the camera freezes him
call me
555, 215
call me

an xmas cone, pot-bellied all through June
fins and ankles, speak a language from the moon
call me
broken shouldered, average fingered
call me
Track Name: in spite of the fire
i hit the wall
i'm exactly as portrayed by
that fool you've seen around
no need to waste anymore of your day, 'cause

i'm too proud for suicide
who knows, i might be hypnotised
to remain
in spite of the fire

amusing olympians
who watch me fall and get up again
are you the voices i hear
in the night?

again, the morning
will come to guide the way, but
the shadows learn to hide
in vacant places
my hopes are baseless but

i'm too proud for suicide
although it might be by design
i'm alone
in spite of the fire

reliving some history
learning how to make that fire
do all the work for me
it's gotta eat, it's gotta breathe

i'm exactly as portrayed by
that fool you've seen around

you know, it might be by design
Track Name: quasar's revenge
I was dreaming when I wrote this
so if u prefer
I'll get up and turn the music off
and get to work
on a complicated rhyme
but it's easy to sing

so tonight my love
these eyes are opening

they told me to forget
about the satellites
and keep chipping at those rocks
till they resemble dice
with a tiny, servile smile
I turned back to my wheel

but tonight my love
those stars will fall for real
Track Name: see how the orient dew
lyrics adapted very freely from Andrew Marvell's "on a drop of dew"


see how the orient dew
shed from the bosom of the morn
into the blowing roses
careless of its mansion new

for the clear region
round in its self incloses
and in its little globe's extent
frames as it can its native element

so the soul, that drop, that ray
of the clear eternal day

within the flow'r be seen
remembring still former height
remembring its blossom
it shun the leaves and b green

and, recollecting
light, in its pure and circling
on earth: but does, dissolving, run
into the glories of th' mighty sun

so the soul, that drop, that ray
of the clear eternal day
Track Name: eliot crib
(excerpted from preludes III by t.s. eliot)

You tossed a blanket from the bed,
You lay upon your back, and waited;
You dozed, and watched the night revealing
The thousand sordid images
Of which your soul was constituted;
They flickered against the ceiling.
And when all the world came back
And the light crept up between the shutters,
And you heard the sparrows in the gutters,
You had such a vision...
Track Name: the hippy
What did that hippy say
to make you so angry, anyway
it didn't sound so bad to me
you say we both need a little sleep
go back to counting sheep
a twist of lemon in our tea

and I know that back in New York City
where you cannot relax
you never turn your back
we wouldn't have to wonder
we wouldn't need to ask

I had an awful evening
got stuck and left stumbling
trailing blood back to the hole
that gives me shelter from the cold
putting pennies in a roll
to come and see you in the snow

and I know...
Track Name: release
baby jesus had us all in stitches
he did the water
he did the wine
he did his best with all those
weeping witches
but they cried, cried, cried
cried for a long time
and they cried all night

baby if you're gonna weep right thru my coat
choke and motorboat
it won't float
we'll never have
well maybe not 'never' have
hope, peace and release

baby jesus wasn't hung up or stuck up
or fucked up
he had a hammer
he had a pin
swung at the bugs in summer
that stuff was drawn to him and he cried...

baby are you're gonna keep hoein' that row
listen let it go
it's all coal
we'll never have...
Track Name: remember albion
do you remember me? remember?

those nights in avalon
at war with babylon
better get your armor on
remember albion

he just arrived in a humor
a stock puma
caught stalking sloppily
and he don't know what to do
but he remembers you

and those nights in avalon...

he thought he'd taste something local
a young hopeful
but unsocial apathy
put his plans in an awkward state
you're gonna be up late

on those nights in avalon...
Track Name: woods of saxony
two brothers working on a plan
to uproot the population
consolodate the land
two brothers with a wild gene
in their family
sweet revenge in the woods of saxony

wealthy women leave their doors unlocked
'cause it's not like that here
and we're just going 'round the block
wealthy women trust their babies
with all the jewelery
party time in the woods of saxony

pulling strings that might work this time
but don't you know who you've been betrayed by?

two brothers working side by side
get the shock of a lifetime
when right before their eyes
two others that they raised from babies
to share their dreams
set fire to the woods of saxony

pulling strings...
Track Name: secret keeping machine
it works when it's told what to do
it knows when hot to be seen
i showed it somebody new
now my secret keeping machine
is in the news again

no more running at the mouth now
if i was
come close enough to show you
i wanna show you what it does

the hum of the motors at night
they trouble my other's dreams
i thought everything was alright
now my secret keeping machine
is in the news again

no more running at the mouth now
if i was
come close enough to tell you
i wanna tell you what it does

the letter was read and it ran:
how about coming clean?
how much of yourself can you stand
now your secret keeping machine
is in the news again
Track Name: serendipity is the fifth beatle #1
can you help a brother
out of his mind
and into another?
an appeal to chance

'cause I'm gonna hold my head high again
and all through the dark I wave a needle
from under a mountain of debris
it shone like the skin of a golden steeple
serendipity is the fifth beatle

I consider us brothers
in this sylvan expanse

where I'm gonna hold my head high again
and wander the crowd in a weary sequel
to wait for her moonlighting fancy
her keys are behind a tower of speakers
serendipity is the fifth beatle

now it's out of my hands

so I'm gonna hold my head high again
lost in the sound of the shore in a seashell
the roar of an ocean years away
and the sound of a voice singing peaceful
serendipity is the fifth beatle
Track Name: stay goodbye
so long, said i
so what, whatever, say goodbye
but say it and go roll your wheels a while
and when a brand new sky
disturbs your daydream while you dream
remember your promise and stay goodbye
you can wonder all you want about it but
stay goodbye

my sad, sad eyes
have cried enough, you think i'm lyin'?
i'm sorry you do if you're truly dyin'
but there's a thousand miles
we need between us for a while
so stick to your promise and stay goodbye...
Track Name: talking dog
at night i'm listening for
for the sound of water and shore
in the city what's there to live for
gimmee a cause
and a talking dog

like a bolt from out of the blue
whatever that means to you
some revelation in the form of a light
through the fog
or a talking dog

how does he know
what i'm thinking
how does he know
that i've changed my mind one again
some revelation
was here and it waited
then it went

i'm being kept wide awake
this in spite of the measures i take
i could be happy
with the life of a lonely, spinning cog
with a talking dog
Track Name: life is a henway
if life's a mote inside a nuclear moment
within a boundless youll never get over
you put an awful lot of weight on your shoulder
if lifes a henway i might not have known

will people stay home?

it was summer in a garden of eden
my throat was burnin' and my eardrums were bleeding
well it must've been some book I was reading
said lifes a henway and youll never know

will people stay home?
Track Name: stars in the backyard
moving everywhere
rootless and despondent
breathing the midnight air
outside my apartment
isn't the same
it's like fishing for inspiration
and when it came
throwing it right back again

but when the stars in the backyard are shining
we can disappear with the light
and travel the whole wide world
on a single night

moving every year
so no ties can bind
but each blade of grass from here
can only remind us
nothing has changed

your saving your imagination
from an early grave
and then throwing it right back again
Track Name: buyer's remorse
well she's money in the bank
i'm guaranteed a futuree
but what kind of future
have i put my money in?

and she's feeling buyer's remorse
so when she tells me
of course she loves me, well
i consider the source

but she's money in the bank
I'm gonna make her work for me
though i know no one works for free
not in this world
you know this girl's no exception

when she was young
she was thrown from a horse
so when she tells me
of course she remembers, well
i consider the source

and she defies all the rules i enforce
so when she tells
of course she's on my side
well i consider the source
Track Name: robbery
I can see why
robbery is so
so maybe we'll just see
see for ourselves
what flies
when you flip a switch and the room is revealed
to the night

I can see why
jealousy is so
so maybe we'll just see
see with our own
two eyes
how easy the nights have been leading me
deep in disguise
Track Name: sister city
some mornings
when the silence is golden
not cold

into the open
half awake
silence is broken
too soon to sooth the ache

in the dawning hour
sister city i am under your power

some people
like to walk all over
your back

but out in the open
eventually
silence is broken
try holding this hour with me

in the waking hour
sister city i am under your power
Track Name: alien dope war
frizzle and fire
like some alien dope war
are you my desire?
what that would depend
are you more than the friend
i had hoped for

under a double sun
you tell me i'm not the one
but i'm the only one around

high in the air
over our headgear
they razor and tear
all for the war
they can't help but ignore
that we're down here
Track Name: the ombudsman
I would like you to talk to somebody I know
I know him, he's a friend of mine
he's the ombudsman
Tell him who cried at your party and stole
the spotilght, it's the daily grind
for the ombudsman

Step up to the microphone
closer, his hearing's gone
oh why are you talking to me?
Speak disrespectfully
that's fine, just give everything
oh why are you still talking to me?
why are you talking to me?

I would like you to talk to somebody you know
you know him as a quiet guy
he's the ombudsman
Follow him 'round the back and expose
the whole dirty mess for the very first time
to the ombudsman

He's right behind you
you concern is his concern too
so why are you talking to me?
It's your turn, you've got his ear
he's pointing at you, my dear
so why are you still talking to me?
why are you talking to me?
Track Name: here's the story
you don't wanna know
take my word
there's a lot I could say
[here's the story]

We met through a friend
things were good
up until yesterday
[here's the story]

You might want to grab a cigarette
I need to talk to someone before I forget
Just be thankful
that you don't even know her
dude, I've barely started and now lunch is over

She don't give a damn
and man,
there's a lot on my plate
[here's the story]
there's the girl that I lost
big bills
and a job that I hate
[here's the story]

you might know this story
you've been through the wars
it might seem like you've heard this all before
just be thankful that she lives
two towns over
here's the part you won't believe
lean in closer

you might know this story
you've told it yourself
you've been on my side as you've plied someone else
just be thankful your head is not as spinning
dude, I've lost my place
can I start at the beginning?
Track Name: morgantown volcano
there's a mountain where it doesn't belong
in another world where right is wrong
and the only news is a raging kong
on morgantown volcano

well it seems the curse of emptiness
is not unique to this address
and it don't hurt any less
on morgantown volcano

expect the unexpected
wherever you reside
you may think you're protected
and god is on your side
but then you wake up in the morning
somewhere you don't know
and you watch the raging fires
on morgantown volcano
Track Name: short square fingers
[taken from part IV of Preludes by T. S. Eliot]

His soul stretched tight across the skies
That fade behind a city block,
Or trampled by insistent feet
At four and five and six o'clock;

[four lines of my own equally good poetry]

And short square fingers stuffing pipes,
And evening newspapers, and eyes
Assured of certain certainties,
The conscience of a blackened street
Impatient to assume the world.
Track Name: something odd
oh god i'm only getting older now
the sweet surreal years
are they over now?
can i live without something odd about?

what are these images in my memory
i can't pin them down
or guarantee
they belong to me
who could that face be?

and it's real to me
as real as something should be
out in light of day
better to be suspended in space
miles away
Track Name: masquerading
at night when i go to bed
i worry 'cause i know you're getting strong instead
of laying where you fell
and staying dead

masquerading
unfamiliar to the dreamer's eye
someone waiting
'round the corner in the dead of night

the trap that i set for you
was sprung and you where screaming from the other room
and brick by brick i sealed you in a tomb

now you found me
and i never know the form you'll take
you surround me
sometimes the apple
sometimes the snake

and you might be distorted'but impossible to hide
you're not bound to any general
our either side

i'm still sursprised
though i know you're there
when i close my eyes
Track Name: the many moods of murray wilson
among the many moods of murray wilson
could there be
a little joy for his little boy
or is there only bitterness and jealousy

remember when he first played at the piano
you liked the sound you heard but you wouldn't say so
there's people in the world are gonna wish on his rainbow
later people i the know are gonna hand him his halo
but he don't care
he just wants someone to be there

among the many moods of murray wilson
should there be
a little pride welling up inside
to see him doing everything he ever dreamed

playing on the tv, ladies are screaming
shadowed by his cousin, all beady and scheming
always at the mercy of his emotion
lose it in a song about a girl in the ocean
under summer sun
but what happened to the fun, fun, fun?
Track Name: the trolley
i woke up this morning thinking
i heated life for kicking me
you gotta be sharp in the arc of
electricity
forgive a lazy melody
been stuck inside my head all week
i think i'm gonna write it down
i think i'm gonna set it free on the trolley
i heard some lady died
right at the stop up here
hey driver close your eyes

i was thinking of an occasion
near and dear to me
gotta be the last time i saw
the dark receding
i'm gonna seal this envelope
gonna lock the bedroom
i may or may not be on dope
i got my eyes set on the floor of the trolley
i heard some lady died
right at the stop up here
hey driver close your eyes
Track Name: 5th season
after spring
after summer evenings
autumn is cold
winter is colder
the edge of the world
your soon going over
after spring

golden ring
around the limb of some yearling
cut from the cast
but weak in the knees and
too pink in the ass
for a sudden fifth season
after spring

I thought the point of the whole affair
if your bad luck takes you there
was to be deathly still
but unafraid to kill
another season always will follow
after spring

serpent sing
there's some ill I'm consid'ring
turning away
rebelling from reason
and touring the world
as the latest fifth season
after spring
Track Name: in the dark
coming over the water
as big as a mountain
faster than sound
lost in the dark

lost in the dark
a giant thing left wandering oceans
and in the dark a homecoming
back into oblivion

people are tired
outlines are hazy
i need to tell someone
how does this feel

left in the dark
as creeping things draw close to my station
if in the dark my love would bring
relief and affirmation

in the dark
all alone or so i thought
better off before the grief you brought my body
Track Name: serendipity is the fifth beatle #2
I went to a party
to meet other people
we could agree where we stood on good and evil
pity's a martyr
and love is an eagle
and serendipity is the fifth beatle

sometimes your heart is a rat
and your dreams just seagulls
but serendipity is the fifth beatle

i had a friend
he used to play with needles
he'd spin for the brides as the night grew feeble
he said heaven's tonight
and hell's other people
and serendipity is the fifth beatle