Thursday, August 13, 2009
The History
Him:
Are you ever wondering
What's become of Sullivan?
She and I we took a drive
As studded stars lit up a moonless sky.
When we hit the watershed
Thoughts of only you had filled my head.
And so to Cambridge we would drive
Somehow Sully read my drifting eyes.
Them:
I would wait
I had closed my eyes
For you to sleep
But I was still awake
And called the one who has my only heart
She has your only heart
And I sang
I heard you sing to her
I could sing to you
You could sing to me
But we both know it wouldn't mean the same
Her:
Are you ever wondering
What's become of him?
He and I had motored North
As fireworks lit up a moonless Fourth.
When we hit 500 miles
My hand coupled his hand for a while
The way his eyes had held the road
I could tell he wished for your hand to hold.
Them:
Do you talk?
I've got a heavy mind
A heavy heart
This is not the time
A purple elephant sits in the back.
A purple elephant sits in the back.
I heard you sing
I could sing to you
What would you sing?
You love someone who doesn't love you back.
There's a faint line in the sand
From when I drew a heart with my hand
Well the water had to rise
The twilight fades to grey
We're northbound on the Palisades.
Friday, July 10, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
Make Music New York
Jealous Guy as made famous by John Lennon:
Meditation by the late, great Filomath:
Friday, June 19, 2009
Creative Commons Salon NYC
I love to share.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Let's Kick Fire - Yours For The Taking
It's been just over two months since the album was released, and I've been really happy with the responses I've been getting from it. I can not wait to start writing and recording the next one. I've decided give the album away via free download. You can now download the album in full, without penny's charge. The album is finally on , but that is sort of like a tiger peeing in the forest to mark his territory, if you catch my drift. I want everyone to have this music and share it freely.
Friday, March 20, 2009
Simplify Your Life
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Irish Lullaby
I've rewritten the verses, in case you didn't already notice. Here is my rendition...
Irish Lullaby
over on the island
many years ago
my sister played a song for me on grandma's piano
sure, the chords were simple
but the words they fit so well
and till this day i hear them
ringing like a bell
too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra
too-ra-loo-ra-li
too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra
hush ye now don't cry
too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra
too-ra-loo-ra-li
too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ra
that's an irish lullaby
oft in dreams i wander
to a grayish past
among the rows of blooming birch
we would fall and laugh
still my heart beats heavy
but of course those days are gone
so hold me till the morning
tell me i belong
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Having Kicked Fire
After they finished up, I played a few songs from the new album.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
In Preparation
Hello, Internet...
It's been an exciting week. I've really been feeling the love of my friends as they help me prepare for the album release this Friday night. My valentine this year was silk-screening, and believe me when I tell you I've fallen in love. It definitely won't be my last screening session. Kaydee and I went to the Salvation Army and got a plethora of tees and sweatshirts. Don't worry guys, I washed them... I even used fabric softener. The kick-it cricket continues to manifest itself in all aspects of designing this show, and the tees are no exception. You'll see them soon enough. Just last night we printed out posters for the show and flyered the campus. Hopefully they will turn some heads.
I truly can not wait for this Friday night. A few of my dear friends and family are coming up to the school to show their support. Performing for you all has been the only thing on my mind. For now, I'm going to head over to the coop, where WPSR is having their weekly open mic coffee house. It's always a good time. Maybe I'll see you there.
Love always,
Adam
Friday, February 13, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Esmeralda Lyrics
well, i tried to paint a picture but it didn't look a thing like you
i say, i tried to paint a picture but the watercolors ran on you
i put your eyes in your mouth 'cause your, your eyes say so much
so i start to drive to your house but the stereo left in my car just gave out
i could use a pair of speakers but i'll take a pair of sneakers
if there's no way out
if i'm gonna end up walking
i expect you meet me halfway
oh, you swore when you took off your clothes and jumped in the flood
oh, look love, where you signed it in blood
and oh, it's cool, esmeralda, it's fine, you're technically mine
darling, i thought you knew, only the best for you
you say you kicked it with the devil, well, the devil said he's never heard of you
("esmeralda, who?")
you sayin' you and him full throttle hit the bottom of the bottle
well who should i believe?
either way if im out drinking, i'm gonna bring an extra sleeve
so you plant a patch of posies but the soil didn't have you all that much
so you wait around an hour for the chance you see some flowers
oh i wish you luck
if you're hands are very dirty, maybe you buried them too deep
Dandelion Days Lyrics
co-written by richard edghill
we'll look back on our old ways
and call them "dandelion days"
but never, no, never go back
and we'll look back on easy times
and wish that there were dandelions
but in our hearts, you know we can't go back
a flower in a field so plain
says her name is magdalene
she doesn't mind all the change
well, that's just maggie acting strong
her yellow face is battle-born
she never, no, never looks back
well you cut her stem and break her class
put her in a bottle made of glass
fight me on this
if you love me you'll fight me on this
fight me on this
if you love me you'll fight me
love gets warm as loving gets
and you give up meat for cigarettes
and one taste ought to hook her
because it's sugar, yeah, pure sugar
she'll live her life in ginger brew
i wish that i could talk to you
well, a flower's just a flower
if only so an hour
magdalene it's alright to cry
(x1,000)
everything will be all right
Wanderlust Lyrics
close yours eyes
and visualize a place where we can run and hide
a shoebox diorama we can step inside, once it's dried
paper, glitter and glue.
open up
just like a thirsty flower, like you're all grown up
and turn the morning raindrops into nothing but,
your daily cup of love, love, love, love, love.
still, i feel i'm missing pages
love never dies it just changes.
girl, our love's dimensional, like the work of vince van gogh,
impasto and always unpredictable.
the unknown will be good to us
and please my wanderlust.
if you play my heart strings i'll be sure to burst into confetti and
shower the morning with these rosy feelings i've for you.
close your eyes
and give the globe a spin.
see where your finger lies
and plan to leave at daybreak with these tattered maps from travelers
past.
the road calls me, does it call you?
wrap your scarf
and gather all the paperbacks we love and can
and pour our awful eyesight into every word on every page.
the world as we know it will change.
lover, come.
you can't hold out forever, like the morning sun.
the daybreak waits for no one.
well, either way, i leave today.
the road is wide enough,
and calls out to both of us.
let our wanderlust roam.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Black As Crow Lyrics
we left town, the woods we loved lost fire
we threw our shoes over the telephone wire
my streets were spinning and needed help
i left a memento to remind myself
now lemon loves the schoolyard, and she's a hit
says she's gonna graduate lickety split
she sat up turning couldn't get through the night
i felt real bad but i slept alright
and all the things you swore would never change
they changed too
yeah they changed too.
maybe you don't know what's good for me
well, maybe you don't know what's good for yourself
lemon bought a dress that's white as snow
but lemon loves the night that's black as crow
i said, lemon loves the night that's black as crow
i knew i was to see you i wanted to look good
i got the hair off my face like my mom said i should
i bought an orange pack of disposable blades
and you said i did a bad job of shaving my face
to you it was nothing
a remark that you made
something you'd forget by the end of the day
well, i sat up turning
couldn't get through the night
you felt real bad but slept just right
maybe you don't know
(maybe you don't know)
maybe you don't know
and it goes to show
everything you once loved black as crow
oh, no maybe you don't know
and it goes to show
you got your lipstick holstered black as crow
said, maybe you don't know
and it seems to me
when everything you once loved black as can be
i said everything you once loved black as crow
Darling, It's Day Lyrics
you don't have to be so hard on yourself
heaven knows the world will be hard enough on you and me
you can take a breath, darling it's day
we made it through another spin of this world's crazy kind of way
sunlight through the blinds, darling it's day!
Lady Courage Lyrics
you said a lot of things
and made us think twice
and for my best friend
my handful ready full of rice
but all the things said
went down like medicine
harder than your skeleton
lady courage, hold it in
on your way you go
to new mexico
i feel terrible
but what else can i say?
pen kissed paper soft
the ball-point rolled the break of dawn
could have sworn we worked it out
two full pots of coffee gone
blue screen sound sleep
no one turned the lights out
television, television
tell me what to dream about
we'll make the monsters go away
we'll make the monsters go away
we'll make the monsters go away, i swear
you said you found a rope bridge, cross it if i did
you said you found a rope bridge, cross if it i did but it's a long way down
you said you found a rope bridge, cross it if i did, just don't look down
whatever sara says
i know you'll find home soon
we'll make the monsters go away
ruby pills and waiting rooms
Dream Sequence Lyrics
so long island got that flood
the one that they said would come
it didn't seem to bother anyone
the coastal lights went down like sand
just as they prophesied
well no one really seemed surprised
we all headed for higher ground
and we took the whole damn town
and in a tavern high and dry
you won't believe who would come by
billy joel played his old song
at my gal's request
the one that she likes the best
then my friends we took the fifth
all at the same time
well billy didn't seem to mind
i can tell what we're made of
i can hear my whole town sing
so please don't go there's nothing out there
your world, tonight, is here
in a tavern on a hill
that my town would come to fill
when the power came back on
we turned it off and sang a song
so long island got that flood
the one that we all had feared
worst one in eighty years
nobody shed a tear, no no
Wishful Thinking On Seagrass Shoal Lyrics
straight from the witch's brew
there's colors just for you
but no one can see them, or touch them,
or magic marker on their sleeves
lemon lover give 'em hell
let grandma hear your rebel yell, oh no
i say pierce it, dye it, rip your jeans any which way
little green knight mow the lawn
there's always work to be done
uh oh, but workin and working too hard
will make you go pop
doctor up that smile for me
and tell me it's alright
(tell me it's alright)
a little lie would help me sleep tonight
"the change will do you good," they say
yeah, well i've heard that one before
(i've heard that before)
so make believe
and lie to me once more
mrs. kellner make a toast
for you say you saw your father's ghost
they don't believe you
forget them
'cause i truly do
swan he didn't want to wait
took a bus across the continental united states
and saw denver and cleveland and scranton
and tasted the wine
i hear it makes you go pop
round and round we go
and not a day goes by
without changing my mind
they say it's in my blood
to get like this
a fear i sometimes feel
so i breathe your woes
the world is flat
the world is round
it doesn't matter in this small town
because no one leaves
and no one comes
this is all that it will ever be
and no one's gonna argue me now
i don't want to fight you in this made up land
(x1,000,000)
smile just a little more believably
esmeralda take my hand
i'm going to candyland
and you'll fit in much better
as a construction paper cut out
Shake Me Endlessly Lyrics
dark devotion on a cold blue slope
tell me old friend where did you go?
so the snowflake melts on your tongue
tell me brother, what made you run
tell me brother
the constructs breathing, no, your eyes play tricks
one more hour one more fix
"you can't let me fall fast asleep.
adam shake me endlessly,
adam shake me!"
you went disappearing for so long
and now you're gone for good
so explosions in the sky
will keep us starry eyed tonight
underneath elephant tree
swear and shake me endlessly
say so if i let you down
you fell silent when you came to town
we take that silence onto dead air
let's say nothing 'cause no one's there
let's say nothing
all in all i feel like heading home
well at least i feel something
could it be the moonlight?
there's no way that it pulls at the waves and does nothing to you
so if it sways an ocean and draws at your veins
well that would explain everything
well if it ain't the moonlight...
let's go disappearing once and for all
here's your opus on the emerald moss
dark devotee i'm at a loss
with no goodbye, you will leave
it will shake me endlessly
Song 66 Lyrics
now boy, say you like this girl and girl, says she likes you too if only it were simple like it seems now, girl says she don't need boy well boy knows it just ain't true a four-door ford's the next best thing to home that shady looking lady couldn't be my esmé esmé, oh esmé, they said you went crazy that's why i don't trust a soul the woods are dark, so let's kick fire now boy, say you change your mind (well come on!) and girl, she could change her's too i can't tell who's doing what for who esmé she's a fighter, but she's still scared of spiders (spiders) and brooklyn is broken, esmé picked up smoking to keep the cold away the woods are dark, so let's kick fire tonight. dashboards and stardust and leather and rubber morals and brandy and ludo on shuffle black hair to blonde hair to blue hair and back we only got one more night let's kick fire now, slowly, so slowly, you need to breathe slowly |
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Release Date
First off, thank you all for joining the group.
On Thursday, February 20th, the "Let's Kick Fire" Extended Play will be released on physical CD. I'm putting together a show for that night that will be first-rate. The Boomerangs said that they would play (woot!), and I'm going to be doing a couple of numbers from the record as well.
Lyrics and track listings will be posted later this week!
Love,
Adam
With One Month To Go...
I'll release the official track listing tomorrow, and I'll have lyrics up by the end of the week. By then, I'll also announce the official release date, which will coincide with a first-rate show, most definitely in the SUNY Purchase Food Coop. Well, there is still plenty more to do before we kallakwits tonight, and I'm not even tired... swear.
-Sir Daniel Fortesque (Adam)