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I Blow My Mind
03:41
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I blow my mind
All the time
It’s not divine
I hear no lines
I grow my wine
On the vine
It’s always ripe
Before its time
The stars align
Baby, it’s not at all what you think
You know she’s crazy
I flushed it all down the sink
The place is stately
You’re finding everything you need
Just thank me greatly
As long I’m here to please
I know my lines
Upon your sign
You said goodbye
Was worth a try
A light to shine
To leave me blind
I’ve been resigned
It’s by design
Well the part in the play was beneath me
So I decided to go it alone
Took a ride through the states
Found it hard to relate
My mistakes were
Found by the clever police work
No escape but
Bound to a city of thieves
Baby, you thought about everything
I hope we’re trading
Fire and the gasoline
And the light it’s making
For candles burning in the sheets
I feel you shaking
No mistaking
The sun setting over the sea
Your elation
Comprising my disbelief
Lately
I blow my mind
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It’s everyone you know
And they’re driving so slow
You can leave the lane you’re in
Just to get in line
It’s understood
The rot under the hood
Will reveal itself
Just got to give it time
I know I’ve lived some other life
I’ve got another’s time on my mind
Cut to the Byzantine
In the cavalry
On our horses we go flying
Through the night
Coming to the scene
Of the wall that’s been breached
If you feel your way around it
You don’t have to fall
Now I may seem a little lost
But inside my head I’m your boss
When you clock in the time will slow
Til it’s safe to die
Just so you know
Where I’m coming from
We’re in the limousine
Speeding through the streets
Bend the forces and the lights
Enough to make us fly
Split the imaging
Is it just a fling?
Leave our arms aside to bear
As we go light
I may come on a little fast
But lift your head we’re home at last
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3. |
Control Me
03:52
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Got a message on the side of a box
On the corner at the end of the block
Helps to keep all the labels on
Sleep with one eye, limp when I walk
Hammurabi sent it straight from the top
I can translate Cuneiform
How does it feel to console me?
You never really could control me
I never really would comply
Write in the mail you’re postponing
You know I really can’t condone it
Send it to the next guy
Say it louder now you’re clearing my throat
Roll me over off the back of your boat
Now you found out your keys are gone
Going lower til your sinking in place
Breathing water but it’s better to taste
I can tread til your drowning’s done
Hit the streets when we flip the lights
Replacements lay just out of sight
Just you wait til the place ignites
Lit up like a day in July
I’m gon do what I feel is right
My face says I’m gon do it tonight
How does it feel to patrol me?
Even after what you told me
You never let me ask you why
Better decide if you know me
My letters piled up in your laundry
I’ve never even seen you cry
Returning the world that you loaned me
You better find something to hold it
Save it for the next time
I can’t pretend that I’ve known it
Just really want someone to own me
An ordinary average guy
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Settling
03:05
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Where have I seen that familiar disguise before
It’s always the same and so is the score
Load my dice so that I’ll win
Hit me again while I just look away
I plead the fifth
I need a lift
To give a gift
A little string
A simple thing
A guillotine in green
They’re editing you out
They’re leaving no doubt
Wake the babes and shout
Now where have I seen that look in your eyes before
There’s someone to blame, got something in store
I’m feeling thick
You’re leaving with
Me adrift
No big thing
A little fling
A diamond ring
Now let us sing
They’re settling you down
And taking your house
Now what to do about it
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5. |
Wanna Get High
04:45
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Moment of glory now
You finally got something to demonstrate
But then you turned
And I just couldn’t be found to participate
A shining example
I’m almost proud
A thing you wonder
You should say out loud
I believe I wanna believe
I wanna get high
I believe I wanna leave
I wanna die
Finding a story in the places
Where some others would hesitate
Sitting out on the wing
It’s hard to keep it straight
Just reckoning in the dead of night
If you say no I just might
Believe I wanted to leave
I wanted to fly
Lead you with a wing
Against the sky
Can you see I wanna believe
I wanna get by
Leaving all the dreaming out to dry
Don’t know what you mean
Feel as though I’m going to blow
Something in between
Seething so I’m going below
And I wanna get high
When they go low
If it makes you cry
Then let your tears flow
I don’t have to decide
Deal me so I’m someone to hold
Won’t make you fly
But feeling like you’re breaking the mold
Don’t know what you mean
Something in between
If you leave you better believe
I’m gonna survive
But need you
As you’re healing on the drive
I believe I wanna believe
I wanna get high
I believe I wanna leave
I wanna die
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6. |
21st Century TV
04:02
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It’s a lot you’re taking on
Policing the way that other business is run
And your time just takes a toll
The end of your day is a thing undone
And I hear it in your tone
Well enough to leave it alone
And the plot keeps taking turns
A friction that slowly burns
But the thought of reading it through
Is more than you can do
I get it I’m wrong
Later tonight, I’ll be gone
21st century TV
Is on
Overdid it, I’m undone
Sealing my fate while I’m in the sun
They believed it all along
Fell for the lines I that was hanging from
But you read it all wrong
Save me the noise that keeps on coming from
21st century TV
That’s on
Put on the channel with the fire
A line in the sand for my desire
Now I’m coming over to please you
So what if anybody sees me
21st century TV
Is on
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7. |
A Trace
04:33
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You wave your knife around so bravely
Til the time comes
And then you flee
We know that you could do it in your sleep
Til the lines blur
In between
It said the words were better not to see
But if you name me
Well there I’ll be
I tried to phone ya to say
That I’d be in line
Do something for ya
That I would be on by
They plant the messaging to mislead
With our eyes closed as they seed
I chased a rabbit down just to see
Where the time goes
Just to see
And I save delusion
To get the space
To be allowed
Just wheel me in the day room
To play
To think out loud
And California
They say will calve away
I tried to form yeah
A phrase to feel about
The tidal pulling
At my lines before they’re out
Now swim me in the rollers
This is my wave
I’m feelin’ proud
And then the ride is over
A simple trace of me around
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8. |
Play Dead
03:08
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Got a line in my head
For every time that I was spoken for
An open mind so the words are read
That you were are waiting for
You’ll come from nowhere
Find my hands are in the jar
Without the money
And my head between the bars
So I play dead
And you can roll me over and over again
If I’m not ready
I guess you got a wool to pull over tonight
Taking your aim and hunting the game
That never tires of
Staking your claim to hang in your frame
But do it out of love
It’s like you know just where
My trail is coming from
There’s no outrunning
When my wheels are going numb
Then I’ll play dead
Looking like something passed over before
I clear my head
Emptying the matter all over the floor
And every helping hand is just aces and eights
But I don’t have a heart to say
That I can see to the end of this life that your living
Though I’ve been so blind
Well we can walk to the end of this land that we’re filling
Carve it in the rock, your words against mine
And I could get to the bottom of the case that you’re building
I just need to find a jumping off point
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9. |
John Ponderosa
03:47
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John Ponderosa he’s coming closer
Don’t it make you wanna up and leave town
Child in the poster, he’ll wave you over
We’re turning for the door to find a way out
On a limb
One of them must have saved him
There’s no way that he could‘ve made it out
It’s kinda late to allay them
And I don’t think he’s really that devout
And now it’s time to pay the jailor
Another dime to bail him out
So he can walk upon the blotter
The people scream and shout
John Ponderosa is getting closer
Though he’s known for being out of bounds
Living near the ocean, he’s made the most of
The setting and the soaking of the sun
Child from the poster, he’s coming over
Running for a door to find the way out
It doesn’t take much to believe him
You just stand where the fear is the best
Put on a face to achieve it
Just not the one that you’re saving for the rest
Behind a temple in their robing
Designed to wear you down
With all the words to be forgiven
Before their lights go out
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10. |
Wanna Feel Sad
04:22
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In the time it takes the speed of light
The eyes can change, a mind can lose sight
Drown out yourself, you’re in the way
And sagging in your seat I’ll just say
Just try to get some sleep tonight
And everything you’ll see will work out
There’ll come a day we’ll set it right
Stop waiting in the wings and we’ll fly
The sea was rough
And you were scared
The time was tough
But you gave up
So you wanna feel sad
And only blue can do
A mind in the past
Is like being without you
The sound it makes when you wink an eye
Is louder than the sea at high tide
There comes a time you have to lie
Don’t let this little part be goodbye
I nearly fall right out my chair
Each time you’re making something up
So you wanna feel bad
And break a fool for you
Cooked up in your lab
You got something for happy?
It is time to do blue
Then make some room for two
You set up the scene
I’ll keep it rolling
Every time that you’re through
I’ll try to prove to you
It’s overcast
The show we’re wrapping
I found a face in the clouds
Just watched it laugh while turning around
If the stratosphere learns
Then I’ll be down
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Jaco Birmingham, Alabama
Vulture Whale time-keeper Jake “Jaco” Waitzman releases his 3rd solo record on 12-3-21, which includes a wider range of sounds & sonorities, touching on everything from the dour melodicism of Morphine (“Control Me”) to the alt-country riffs of Son Volt (“A Trace”) and even the psychedelic grunge of Screaming Trees (“I Blow My Mind”), all woven into pop-centric tunes w/ catchy, overdrive dynamics. ... more
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