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.

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

With One Month To Go...

on January 18, 2009 at 1:08am

Is it really 4:00AM? Wow, with the exception of working on our hockey stops for about an hour, Shaun and I have been tracking since 8 o'clock or so. Unfortunately, a pipe burst last night right above Overbite Record House, and a great deal of the gear got pretty wet. But alas, we are back in business, and determined more than ever to get these tracks done and printed by late February. If I may paraphrase Leeland Nadel, nothing worthwhile ever came without persistence... and that includes my hockey stop. 

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)