THE SPRING BREAK SESSIONS, SPRING 2008
THE PARTY I NEED AND THE PARTY I DESERVE
Early to bash
The party was crashed
By the Lopez twins
I've got wine
On my mind
All the time
A country couple
Looking pretty supple
in their limbs
You turned my eyes
Upside down
With your ass
HEY HOW ARE YOU (PRETTY LADY)
Dudes can't fucking believe
You should talk to Adam and Eve
'Bout how to make love under the tree of knowledge
You've had time to think
I've had time to drink
And everyone else is in college
Come on down at the social dance
Party in circles a while
Let's take the final twist
You've had time to think
You've had time to drink
We've now both styled kisses
TORE UP BLUES
Why did I shred those records?
I might have needed them for something!
Why you scared of the FBI?
Why you told me bout the CIA?
Now I have to hide my records!
Those guys know the deeper truth!
Those guys keep going on the roof!
TAKING IT EASY
Don't want the evening to end
Pretty buddy easy
Can't stop dancing on you
Pretty baby easy
Takes her boots off
Jumps in the shower
Begs for more dancing
Pretty baby's buddy
The people always ask me
Who's your buddy?
I don't say nothing
To nobody
That's a good idea
You know it's easy
'Cause that's how we keep it
Going easy
SPLIT SYMPATHY (DEMO)
I cannot compare you to a gun
I cannot come for you with one
I cannot change the time we die
We watched a season burn
We watched a show turn
We watched the time go by so soon
AIN'T THAT LIVING (DEMO)
Just cause a man says
The cameraman says
Move to your mark
With bow and arrow
It don't mean be tight
Or forget the dim lights
Let's bump bone marrow
Just you wait til tomorrow
A cup of tea
Some coffee
Nothing heavy on your shoulders
A broke ass bitch
Ain't nothing on my mind
Ain't that living!?
THE ON MODESTY SESSIONS, WINTER 2007
SHAKE IT LOOSE (YOU BETTER LEAVE MARRIED WOMEN ALONE)
Shake it, shake it
Don't worry for what's next
Keep on shaking
Shake it loose
Remember your brothers
Remember your kin
Remember your sisters
The state that you're in
He's a killer
A Harlem Thriller
He's got it figured out
Imagination
Run wild in the aisles
Concentration
Philadelphia style
He's a ripper
A Honey Dripper
Drink and fornicate all night long
2008 AMBITIOUS
Love someone nice and smooth
Then gentle, and modest
The 2008 ambitious
A chestnut in foie gras
A bowl of grapes
for the 2008 ambitious
Give a goblet to the missus
Teach her how it kisses
Feel like a planet does the sun
Love someone nice and smooth
Love someone only one
C'mon c'mon 2008 ambitious
Be gentleman, modest,
Juicy juicy juicy juicy juicy
Ambitious, 2008 ambitious
2006 ambitious
So malicious
Wait a minute, 2008 ambitious
LONG STORY
They waited for you to get on the bus
When your car broke down
But for the whiskey on your breath
You would surely be here now
Now we're standing where the weeds grow
Now we're hanging all night long
From a train across the Congo
To a tea room in Tangiers
In a club or in the Press Room
We done had ourselves a ball
Spreading out from a thousand days
Dusty traces of every night
I lay across the ground - my my!
In a place I won't be found
Back on the train tracks
Time to relax
Now we're standing where the weeds grow
Now we're staying up real long
From darkness and despite
You sitting out all night
LOST BAR SESSION, EARLY DEMO, AUTUMN 2007
A SCIENTIST'S SECRET
She was an American mover
Rocking to a duplex beat
And I knew just how to treat
Her easily and sweet
Sugar for the pools
Making moves making moves
Quicksand in nice-looking shoes
Hang on in there
The horn is where
It all goes down
A Horse's command
The bottles and bones
Of contraband
Fire her up
Making moves on up
Put the secret to the world
Put the secret to the test
Keep the secret to the end
THE JOAN DIDION SESSIONS, SUMMER 2007, WE WAS THERE
BUT THIS COURTHOUSE I DID ENTER
But this courthouse I did enter
And I saw you front and center
Take my baby's life away
And I couldn't stand the stand alone
Not telling what I known
About the things been stolen
Like the whiskey and the time
The lover lies to no one
My lover lies with me
OUTREACH PROGRAM
Let us think together
I've been everyplace in the world
I got some ideas for you
Been by the courthouse
Had a sandwich in my pocket
Touched upon a note in my jacket
It said "Eat The Sandwich!"
I been in the white house
I talked to the woman
She has the heart of a liberal
In a jar on her desk
Looked over Miami
Saw shiploads galore
I watched television
in front of the shore
Had to be ready for the shipment
Had to be ready for the shipment
of your love -- had to contain it somehow
but it was waylaid south central
Came back to my hometown
I bowed my old head down
Signed up for the long crown
This is whyyyyyy
I'm
talking to you now
FAITH WHITTLES YOU for Faith Ryan Whittlesey
Met a woman named
Faith Whittlesyou
Brother man
She will rattle you
First I'll tell ya
She came from Pennsylvania
And reached out like a flower
In the battle for our minds
Hunker down
Hunker hard
It's the hundred years war
Minds of mankind
And mans of mankind
And minds that unwind
From Delaware valley to the hill
Faith'll rattle you
THINK!
Think!
Control your train of thought
Think!
Respect your state of mind
Think!
Party all night long
Think!
Time is on your side
This allows
A disavowal of
The friction in the air
Vanish into there
Where your body and your hair
Contemplate mine
Think!
Don't hesitate or go too slow
Think!
Been waiting such a long long time
Think!
I really need to know
Think!
If you're thinking what I'm thinking now
Then we'll both understand
A certain kindness in the land
A gentle pressure that withstands
The test of time
Think!
Of you and me in future days
Think!
Of two thousand and fifty five
Think!
Of flying in a flying car
Think!
It's so good to be alive
THE ONLY THING LEFT TO DECIDE
What is the future
No different from the past
What is the next time
No different from the last
There's no difference between two things
That don't exist
What did it do to you
When we split in two
Wasn't it in Providence
That led us to depart
We gotta stop thinking
We gotta go slow
Let's please just remember
Those ol' Poconos
I can't remember and
I can't forget
And I can't expect a thing
And I can't wait
And there's no diference between two things
That don't exist
There ain't no difference
'Tween anything you do
It just don't matter
Life will see you through