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Album Info

Featuring Jeff Lipstein on percussion. Recorded mostly in a nice barn (Nebulous-Kingston Studio), between August 2010 and May 2011.

Tracks

• The Wolf Got By (2:45)
• HCIHBTLY (5:18)
• Myth On Wheels (5:07)
• Paradise (6:07)
• Beautiful Dying Eyes (4:38)
• Red River (4:45)
• Wishes In The Well (4:21)

Lyrics

The Wolf Got By

Oh no, I let the wolf get by
With a wink and a knowing smile
Now it’s inside

Dressed up in soft clothes
Waiting for our eyes to close
Then it runs wild

Now this town has a torn-down feeling
All the ladies and all the babies are gone
Stripped down we don’t make a sound
All the preachers and all the speeches are gone
Too late to close the gate
The sickness travels through the air and it was already here
Take it back, I want to take it back
Take back the money, take back the fame
Take back everything

With a wink and a knowing smile
I let the wolf get by
Now it’s inside

HCIHBTLY

Rest in my arms my darling
And you will know that I love you
Stay long enough in my arms and you will see
That is where you belong

We ran for our lives
In parallel lines
Never crossing paths by chance
Then heaven steered us with a steady hand
And joined our shaking hands together

How could I help but to love you
Could a bird spend its life on the ground
Could a wolf greet the moon without a sound
I tried to run but my heart was heavy as lead
How could I help but to love you

Now tell me true is your heart blue
The same color your eyes reflect on mine
The same color the ocean shares with the sky
You and I belong together

I tried to run but my heart was heavy as lead
How could I help but to love you
How could I help but to love you

Myth On Wheels

The first time she sat behind that wheel she knew
This car would take her far into the center of it all
The first time she hit a hundred on that highway she knew
Those wheels were turning like four burning eyes staring at the sun

Everything inside her head was clay
The dogs of change will drag her heart away

Streets rolled back and in her tracks dreams were laid in black
Each time that trouble knocked upon her head she stuffed it in the trunk and fled
Everything she left behind is grey
The pictures in that rear-view mirror fade away

The windows on that Oldsmobile are fogging fast
Her tribe is headed west at last
A road sign in the distance tells a story of the past
A myth on wheels in a maze
In a candy store blown open by a friend
The headlights guide her way like crystal eyes

The last time she passed through this town her wheels never touched the ground
This time she saw a ghost by the side of the road, her heart and engine froze
The ghost was a man she laid to rest back in Pinecrest, he was flagging her down
She said I must be drunk, ‘cause in the trunk are all the men and memories I left behind

Everything she left behind is grey
The pictures in that rear-view mirror fade away

She stepped from the car but the ground never seemed so far away
She and that ghost took flight into the desert night, and the road will never be the same

Everything inside her head was clay
The dogs of change will drag her heart away

Paradise

Fire inside but not inspired
Nothing to say as the day burns away
Sit, wait, listen
You’ll hear a secret, one little word
It sneaks its way into the room
And it’s heard, through the discord
Clear as a tear on the floor of a white room
An loud, it’s LOUD
Fills up the void

Oh dear mother why?
Did it take so long to fly
To Paradise
Why did it take so long to make it through that night

Child inside, she wants to hide
Feathers and gold, she’ll never grow old
All eyes are paralyzed, when she enters the room
The impending doom is a coat that we all wear
Fits right tonight, by morning the threads will be frayed
And worn, cut loose from their form

We tried all night to say it right
First bells and chimes, everything rhymed
Alas, the poor child, she had to fly
Out to the deck, then a delicate neck
Was broken by the weight
Of a heart filled tight with wine and candle light
Too much to bear, life seemed better down there

Beautiful Dying Eyes

I fell into the light with nothing to guide me
And I was lost… lost in your blindness
Fell into a coma just getting to know you
It took a long… a long time to see

I was willing to die, willing to die
For a chance to find the true love behind those eyes
I was willing to die, this hell is on fire
With the lights that shine, from beautiful dying eyes
They were love in disguise

Dakota tornadoes twist hearts together into one
Lonesome times two
The sirens of summer calling me back home
It took a long time to get home

Held up to the morning light
I was thin and you could see right through behind me
Two thousand miles in between
One heart a desert, one heart a sea

Red River

Does the Red River run wild on Mars
Or is it deep in this flesh of ours
While others search the oceans blue
I have found the true color in you

Will she let her long hair down
Sweep me in her current
Bathe me in her healing clay
Red River take me away

I hear voices in the gentle wind
They long for the days when we were young
Dancing freely as the Dixie band plays
A tune called Red River Take Me Away

Red river take me away
To when the phonograph played
A haunting melody on her ancient shore
The bittersweet sound that I long for

There’s a riverboat captain with a Southern drawl
White-laced ladies spinning parasols
Hoping in some old-fashioned way
For a Red River man to whisk them away

Banjo Jim skips happily by
All the passengers wave and choke down a sigh
For memories of days gone by
And the sway of the river makes them cry

Wishes in the Well

There are wishes down in the well
That we promised not to tell
Til we’re old
And our stories can be told

There are pieces of this life
That we’re cut out with a knife
For a picture or a painting
But the eyes have all been waiting
For the tears that never come
For all the work undone

The poets will cry
While their precious children die
Because the shallow words of man can not describe

There are flowers on the ground
But their roots will not be found
For ten feet or a mile
We’ve been digging for a while

There is nothing on the wall
But a push to help us fall
In the right way, on the right side
With a face that can not hide
All the tears that never fall
From the old clouds in us all

As the song fades away
We’ll beg it to stay
But the sweet melody has nothing to say

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Album Info

Featuring Jeff Lipstein on drums. Recorded at Leopard Studio (Stone Ridge, NY) and Nebulous-Kingston, between August 2009 and March 2010.

Tracks

• One Is The Magic Hour (5:07)
• Mercy (3:35)
• Backyard To The Stars (3:15)
• Circle Of Gold (6:00)
• An Angel’s Gold (5:26)

Lyrics

One Is the Magic Hour

Four fathoms beneath the surface
Four years behind in school
Three strikes before you know
The loneliest things come in twos

Went through eight hours of astral travel
Through eight million miles to find
The one point of structural weakness
In the grand design

All together now
And we’re all in pieces now
We’re all inside our shell
And we’ll all be breaking out again

I’ve got two eyes to let me know
The four sides to every story
And one… it’s the magic hour
When all these wishes come true

Mercy

-by Tim McNeely

The day that they brought her home was the happiest,
The happiest they’d ever known
And all the while she shuddered
For the world was in her
Man, wife and a little house, and now a daughter,
A child they could make their own
And all the while she shuddered,
For the world was in her
They said let’s call her Mercy,
Our hopes and dreams have always been the same
They said let’s call her Mercy
So Mercy was her name

They bought her all the perfect things
Unlocked the doors and sent her out to play
But one wrong look from Mercy,
And the other kids stayed away
Parents cried “something’s wrong, something’s wrong”,
Our little girl shouldn’t grow up to be so strong

Something’s wrong with Mercy

I don’t want to be here but I am,
Because you asked me to
I can’t take the pain of life but I will,
Because you asked me to
I’d be gone if it wasn’t for you

When they put her in the ground it read Mercy,
And Mercy was her name
And all the while she laid still

Backyard to the Stars

Born in the breath of a storm
Running hard from the backyard to the stars
With calm in her eye, but hell on both sides
Tear me from my roots, and cradle me in tender arms
Will she think of me, when she’s out at sea
Boarding up my windows and waiting

Mother Nature’s child, spinning around on the inside
She’ll thrash you to pieces, and wash you with warm tears of rain

What can I do
When skies of blue turn to grey
And thunder is the only sound
That makes her feel safe

Paint the sky with colors of a black eye
Shatter the ground, leave behind only flowers
Will she think of me, when she’s out at sea
Boarding up my windows and waiting

I’m waiting…

Waiting for the heart of summer
When southern skies will turn their eyes to me
Waiting for the breath of her first wind
She whispers with thunder, and flashes her name across the sky for me

Circle of Gold

I’m gonna sell all of my things and buy a cheap ring
Worth more than anything we’ve ever seen before
Second finger from your left, that’s where it fits best
And time will tell if this circle of gold will hold

There are things in this life that can’t have a name
But you and I can see them just the same
This love is lighter than air but it hits like a hammer

I’m gonna work until I drop, and build us a little house
With sweat and blood built right in that walls
Fill the well up with good times, dig a little deeper
Every year ‘til we come out the other side

With this rising cost of living low
We’ll take each day and we’ll take it slow
With the circle of gold on one hand and nothing in the other

I promise I will let myself love you this time
I will let myself love you this time, and in time
You will let yourself love me so fine
I will let myself love you ‘til the end of our time

Deep inside this circle of gold
There are promises and stories untold
But for now… hold on to me now, hold on to me now
I’m here right now

But I’m gonna wait until next spring to pop my question
When love is rising right up from the ground
Then I’ll take you in my arms and kiss you hard
Because ‘yes I will’ will be the only sound that I heard

When the Autumn leaves roll into our view
I will say those words and know that they are true
With the circle of gold to hold everything in
I can say ‘I do’

An Angel’s Gold

Once in a lifetime you will find peace and happiness
For a moment then it’s gone, like the last hours of the sun
The taste of a peach, the smell of a rose, they’re soft on your fingertips
Hold on tightly as they slip through, like all good things do

In your dreams you can have everything, but not what you want
Deep in those nights we hide our faces, in lonesome places
Stronger than steel but thin as a shadow
Our will to live, and our love not forgotten, stand waiting to fall

Once in a lifetime you take a chance, and it burns you into ash
As the master plan dissolves into a flash of light
Once in a while it turns around, like the weather vane in a thunder cloud
And you know that an angel’s saving up her gold
To get you a chance to do all the things
There’s only once in a lifetime to do

Once in a lifetime there will be one who shares all your secrets
Without sharing a word, nothing between you
Once in a lifetime you will know the sorrow,
As it soaks through your skin and hollows you out
Leaves you a shadow with a doubt