Monday, June 26, 2017
Monday, June 19, 2017
A Star Fell Down on Indiana
Just like it did in the beginning of time
We all turned out to see what happened
Some of us laughed
Some of us cried
And together we held onto each other's hands
Until the last of us had died
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Far Country
I see justice
Just out of view
Yeah, I see justice
Don't have much to do
But I got no worries
Why give a toss
I'm already long gone from here
And I don't feel a loss
Friday, May 19, 2017
Juste Milieu
We could be oceans
Never drifting apart
We could be endless
Flow through my heart
If you want to ride my waves
Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Scary Guy at the End of the Hall
I got a dream in me
That nothing can quite kill
You may try to squash me
I know that's where you get your thrill
And I am gonna get myself up
And shake off these cliches
And I will see myself clear
Living in better days
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Friday, May 12, 2017
Stations of the Elevated
But all I can offer are these words
Write it all down, every detail
'Cause it will fly away like birds
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Wilderness Years
Days roll along
One into the other
All the time in the world, it seems
The next thing you know
There's one less day
And slightly taller weeds
Monday, May 8, 2017
Something Strange
Never fit in there
No matter how I tried
I never fit in anywhere
Did what I could
To accomodate
But all of my efforts were in vain
And that's how it always will remain
Saturday, May 6, 2017
Wishing Chair
These are daunting times
That much is certain
History in the making
From the man behind the curtain
No don't put the brakes on
Let us all run riot
When they hand you their deal
Just say you won't buy it
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Friday, May 5, 2017
Wolves
Of a wrong I did not do
And I sound nervous in my deposition
You see, innocence's a trick of paperwork
Whereas guilt is the human condition
Thursday, May 4, 2017
The Very Soul of Me
Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Eastern Standard
You flash an evil grin
"I am Henry the Eighth," you say
"And you're my Anne Boleyn"
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Los Feliz
It comes and goes
And you're left wondering just where it went
You're its slave
You're its prisoner
It leaves you in forever torment
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Sunday, April 30, 2017
Saturday, April 29, 2017
Ghosting
And you are not there
Nobody is anywhere, anywhere
I thought that I knew you
A humble boast
I thought that I knew you
But you're a ghost
Cover girl: Susan Gil, whereabouts unknown
Friday, April 28, 2017
The Man With the Glass Head
From one clammy hand to the next
It'd gone viral all around the world
Just like some scandalous text
And we were astonished and we were amazed
And we were perplexed
Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Harpo's Blues
Has blue-y blue eyes
She pulls at my heart
Each time she cries
I never knew
I wouldn’t have guessed
She holds my hand
And I feel blessed
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Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Higgledy Piggledy
Gettin' scarier by the second
Hate is blown' up all around
More than anyone could have reckoned
Who can understand it, yeah
Don't wanna participate
Rather live in my tiny bubble of love
Than to live in a world of hate
Monday, April 24, 2017
Promise
Sunday, April 23, 2017
Eliot Wilder's America
We spit into the brown southern night
We made a pact sealed with a prick
Somehow that black blood felt so right
Saturday, April 22, 2017
Barbaric Poems
The day it veers toward twilight
But it's not like you could tell
Snow's crunching under sneakers
In the distance rings a bell
A crow is winging overhead
Hello and farewell
Elsewhere
They fuck you up, your mum and dad
They may not mean to, but they do
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you
Friday, April 21, 2017
Thursday, April 20, 2017
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Witness
Or so I've found
Is being wide awake and at the ready
Pulling your head
Out of your ass
So your vision's clear
And your hands are steady
Quartet
An all-instro album based on "The Alexandria Quartet" tetralogy by Lawrence Durrell. Best heard in a single sitting with the lights off and the headphones cranked.
L'Avventura
Is what happens to everyone
Sooner or later
And later is sooner than we think
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Diary of a Plague Year
We look at how high we can reach
But like Sisyphus
We go a-tumbling down
We go to church
And we pray for our souls to be saved
The water's rising
And we're scared we'll drown
Can you see Him
God is sleeping
On an unrelated note, check out the 20th Anniversary Edition of DJ Shadow's "Endtroducing." It features lots of bonuses, including liner notes by yours truly.
This Lonesome Road
Through all your hard work
Sometimes you're not
And you go berserk
You hope for the best
But the weary don't rest
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Mercy
The quality of mercy is not strained
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath
It is twice blest
It blesseth him that gives and him that takes
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Songs for a Blue Girl
One day you are on top of the world. You are young, you are strong, you are beautiful. But then, slowly and almost imperceptively, your youth fades, your strength slackens and the person you see in the mirror no longer glows the way it once did. "Where did your long hair go / Where is the girl I used to know," Brian Wilson sang, mournfully. Eventually, life plays a cruel trick on us: just when we think we've got the world by the tail, it all gets taken away. No one is exempted, no one is immune.
Monday, April 17, 2017
Sincerely, Samantha Fuller
Before she passed away late last year, Samantha and I managed to lay down dozens of vocal tracks that I have now assembled into an album that, hopefully, pays tribute to her unique talent. Here, then, is the first - and last - Samantha Fuller record. Rest in peace, Sam.
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