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On The Ground
04:04
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Another time
When you think you’re better
All out of rhyme
In the snowy weather
In front of line
But sublime
A gilded shrine
But the priest in leather
Get down below
Like a sunken treasure
Throw out a line
Not to find
I don’t think I want to flee it
On the ground looking straight to see it
A flawed design
And the leagues together
A tilted hat
With a broken feather
You're out of line
But divine
A hand too kind
With a mind to fetter
A fleur-de-lis
But no word nor letter
We’re out of time
But so fine
From the brink you won’t believe it
Once you see you’ll cease to feel it
Kind of thing I don’t want to flee it
I’m on the ground looking straight to see it
We try to make something from
But you refuse it and use it to rake your sum
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2. |
For Myself
04:35
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Don’t look at me
I’m tired of waiting
For myself, I’m fading
On me again
Don’t need a friend
Or anybody’s interest
Won’t do that we
Are lying complacent
In our self-effacement
Signs can align in places
On the shelf that faces
Minds can unwind the traces
To pick up the paces
All we had been
Only if then
Try to turn it around now and again
Unknown when
I’m waiting for a feeling
Hardly a ten
Don’t look at me
I’m wide awakened
But my head is shakin’
Don’t look at me
I’m tired of waiting
For myself I’m fading
On me again
She’s only a friend
Is anybody with me?
Every now and then
I coulda dropped another dime you wouldn’t listen again
Does anybody hear it?
Don’t need a pen
Haven’t thought of the words and there is nothing within
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The cast died the mold is on your shoulder
Your mind is filled with glitter and gloat
To out-shill them all you’re not just bolder
You thrive as a philandering pope
Tying up your words leaving us
Hanging on every rope
People’s voices heard explaining it
The good that ever did for a joke
Write it on the blackboard
Tell us your secret
Tell us who keeps it
Say it on the line so
We better receive it
In times you’re deceiving
Live map purée underperforming
The wires they keep coming late
Go to sleep with the door a little open
And dream of a deplorable fate
Flying undeterred believing when
You’re blinded by the engine smoke
With a rule of thirds they’re leaving us
Heedless in a pillowed yoke
Mark it on the blackboard
Tell us your secret
I swear that we’ll keep it
Lay it on the line so
We better receive it
To never repeat it
Count me down to sleep man
To hell with the sheep and
The company keeping them
Mind full of all distractions
In selling what he says
They’re tearing to pieces
In light of our inaction
A swelling unfounded
Can’t tell what the sound is
Chemical infractions
You see their reactions
Compelling in masses
Deny your clever retractions
If anyone cries well
They do it at night now
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4. |
Lavabo
03:38
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Lavabo, a placebo
Put on yourself
Before you go
It’s kicking in, far as you know, tell me
A seed you think
You have to sew
You’re getting ready
They’re willing to wash it down
And business steady
Your clients they love a clown
Bravado, braggadocio
The little ways
You keep control
I’m listening, Arecibo, hear me
You make the news
Before you know
The song of SETI
You bet he would turn it down
A hand that heavy
To keep us from making sound
In time to see the fire show
Then fail to flee the lava flow
No mind for making sparks fly
Headlong you feel it’s worth a try
This might not seem offertory, sorry
Suggesting that which
Would unclothe
The order’s ready
They’re starting to scarf it down
In time to feel the light go
No eyes to see the dark below
Lavabo, clean as you go
Do you ever think
Before you know?
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5. |
I Don't Mind
04:21
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Ten thousand scenes in a dream somewhere
Well these don’t compare
To the theme in here
Leave your insurgents in a field out there
You can take their prayers
To your man upstairs
And I really don’t care
And I really shouldn’t stare
But I might
I tried to wish it wasn’t there
But I been planning for a scare in the night
It’s alright
Don’t sell me something when it’s free in here
They see you there
And do what’s fair
Well I thought it was the end
I can tell you as a friend
I don’t mind
Forming clouds seething blur this evening and the water
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6. |
Say Goodbye
04:37
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Don’t say we’ll be alone baby
Don’t figure out what I’m doing now
Not right within to just give a shout
Some things they spin more than peeling out
To fight with them is improvidence
Marching astride here in the worst defense
Don’t listen in what I’m on about
Lullaby
Sugar pie
Say goodbye
Running under a wire with arms to battle wits
Unknown soldiers getting blown to bits
Go figure out why they’re gonna die
Lullaby
Can’t decide
Sugar pie
Say goodbye
Won’t say we’ll be alone baby
Wouldn’t believe it if I didn’t see it
It’s upside-down
I started digging and found it’s time for taking it
Underground
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It’s been a long time there was a savior
Song that fits the shoe
Any consolation
When you’re feeling better
No it isn’t you
To live a sleep-life under the table
Dreams not even free
Secret operation forces
Bubbling up
For everyone to see
Whoa whoa whoa
We’ve seen enough
Please don’t go
I’m feeling hardly
In the flow
Too high to be
Whoa whoa whoa
Don’t say the wrong thing
We don’t need
The suits on Wall Street
In the know
To break my reverie
Whoa whoa whoa
I feel unlucky
Look at me
I found the lost sea
Was for show
My disbelief
We lit the seaside up with a feeling
Down when I met you
But if there was an evening we should be together
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8. |
Reservoir
04:38
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Tonight
We ride
Along the reservoir
To find our brides
We tried
Them on the telephone
But they declined
The light
Is on holiday
To our surprise
They swam in the sea when there was no one around
Now we don’t hear their toes on the ground
Yeah when we talk well we don’t make a sound
Beginning to feel that they don’t mess around
Our lives
Are long
But not for everyone
The tides, they dry
Insight
Is meant for anyone
Now we can see that our ship’s run aground
And the people dragging our goods through the town
Everywhere you turn the faces look to the ground
Dare to conceal precious stones of the crown
Do you think they’d stay in a hotel?
Try the life outside a cell
Do you think we’re paying for the bill?
And I guess we might as well
Tonight
We dine
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9. |
Your Way
03:48
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Just name a time of the month
While I’m weak, any day
To be around to roll your way
I’ll be your man of the hour
Just need a shower
And a moment to pray
Now I’m a diamond but rough
With a part in the play
Not around, so roll your own
I’ll be there in an hour
To settle under your glower
And lay
Don’t worry bout it
Hey, why not fuel a flame
But work around it
Who finds us in the maze
Won’t live to tell about it
Stay silent in the fray
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10. |
Again
04:23
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We were the only ones
Never went to town
Now on around the bend
And the light of day here again
She was alone the one
Never hit the ground
I was the only one
Shoes that never make you hear a sound
Again
And we fled
And they said
We always go for something better ahead
In light of all of it
If ever was a time
We sailed around a bit
Water makes you lay down and then
It was the land ahead
Rudder in the hand
Now we’re around again
But someone’s always making a plan
Again
And we sped
And they said
We always slow for some poor pleasure instead
And we fed
Enough said
You never know if something’s wrong in the head
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11. |
All Your Love
05:20
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To spite the voices in your head
You make the choices in their stead
Unwitting walls are all around
You built without making a sound
Can’t hide a feeling deep inside
This time hearts they will collide
All your love
Will define your part, Baby
While your head
Is inside of mine, Lady!
It’s been this way for a while
You laugh without cracking a smile
We’ve seen you suffer for your art
But now you take the patrons apart
All your world
Is inside your haunts lately
Find your heart
Deep inside your vault, Baby
All your love
Will decide a start maybe
What I’ve brought
Is it all for naught, Lady?
Our star above innumerable skies
Begin a sentence with “I”
Gave hell but you started the fight
To think you were just starting to try
Did your money make you?
In the blinking of a wandering eye
Did you think about wondering why?
Ring a bell for our stock ticking by
Give in and take a minute to cry
Busy operator
Did your money make you?
All your love
Will decide your heart, Baby
What I bought
Is it all for naught maybe
Did your money make you?
Dance hall days
Busy operator
Entranced all day
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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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