1. |
I Did Dream Last Night
05:11
|
|||
|
I did dream last night
Of a gold haired woman
She lay her head upon my chest
And wept in happy song
Said I never want you leaving
Don’t forget the things you've done
Giving up on reason
When there’s no reason to be won
I called to her once more that night
I kissed her loving skin
I fell astounded into sleep
Her long blonde hair around me
Like the ivy up the keep
Or a web of sun dyed yarn
I wished I was all knowing
So I could tell her of all things
But when I awoke this morning
I lay lonesome in my sheets
I held in her memory
But she withdrew from me
Her hair was long and golden
Each touch was short and sweet
Baffled by the gesture
And what this gesture means
But at least my love you give me hope
|
||||
2. |
A Roman At The Gates
04:41
|
|||
|
There's a roman at the gates
There's a roman at the gates
Or its rain on my window
Oh don't go
It's streams that cheat my eye
It's streams that cheat my eyes
Making laps across the way
My my
You make the honey
It makes me sick with awe
And like leaves in autumn
I'm easy to fall
Your sticky frame
Your precious frame
Held the post, held the post dear
Held it near
|
||||
3. |
||||
|
As I approach the shore
I dream awake of her
Her softest songs of passing ships
And her sailors who belong there
The sea is still and lilac
With reflections of a foreign sky
I am but one man who has loved her
Granted passage to her soul
But to have been in line at all
Means to me my luck has turned
I can see her tower growing large
As I draw in close to her
“I have seen you only once before
When I slept beneath your star
Your eyes are blue as ocean tides
Your skin is bright yet coarse”
For all these days I’ve suffered
Toiled in the heats of loss
Now that I am almost fed and full
I shall crave these seas no more
She turns to me, untethered to this earth
Like a rose above the waves
“I have seen you only once before
When I slept beneath your star
Your eyes are blue as ocean tides
Your skin is bright yet coarse”
|
||||
4. |
Season Song
03:37
|
|||
|
Yellow flowers climb the trellis
in spite of all this rain
Honeyed scraps of summer’s song
in December’s bleak refrain
And though there’s thorns on winter’s lips
to pursue its kiss seems quite inviting
You’re lying low-down out of view
Sky white and milky blue
My thoughts and hands are far from you
And though these thoughts I must dismiss
and just resist the frost that’s biting
|
||||
5. |
Carnival of Sorrows
07:29
|
|||
|
When I heard you weeping
I lay silent at your side
Knowing nothing I could muster, could ever ease your troubled mind
So when the circus came to town
And I took you by the hand
Every gypsy boy was looking cool, and eagerly at you
The magician looked upon you
Aimed to separate your halves
But couldn’t in his passions conjure foresight
Then the teller told you softly
To let your spirit be its child
That ships inside of bottles never sink
The tiger tamer said its sorrow
Thats been eating you alive
Just one sip from a magic phial should do you
And in the back room of the spinner
There stood five large ladies lined
They said: “Listen honey, he has but one thing on his mind”
And when the man who stood like Atlas
Speaking wisely with a sigh
Said: "Are you bound inside a body or are you bound inside your mind?"
And pulling out his jacket side
Offering to sell you time
You said: "Which ones aren’t you selling? For I wish to make them mine"
The rider rode in late at night
And suggested you seek size
To embellish life with meaning, source and pride
The operator and the elephant
Were at arms with one another
The operator shouted out: “This great pork is no mans god!”
The scoundrel proposed he hold you
Have a teenage meadows affair
And after you have thrown him you may throw your cares
The conjoined and the contortioned
Pounded hard their chests like drums
Said: "The secret is a secret only 'cause there isn’t one"
The man with miracle elixirs
Charged only favours in return
But he left his wife and child and brother on the winding dusty road
When we took our seats inside
The leader of the top was tall and wide
With magnitude he sung out: “What beast does not fear fire?”
The somersaulting queen of diamonds
Knew there was nothing left to add:
“For wisdom is for scholars and squeaking is for mice”
But the spinners and the ringers and the dives
They mesmerised your pearlish eyes
Offered something of distraction as disguise
|
||||
6. |
Is It A Bee
03:51
|
|||
Bramling Records Brighton, UK
Independent label cataloguing folk featurettes, pop curios and rock-xotica.
If you like Acknowledgments, you may also like:
Zed For Zulu
by Those Pretty Wrongs
Jody Stephens of Big Star and Luther Russell of the Freewheelers team for a radiant LP packed full of slide guitar and pop smarts.
go to album
Echo Dancing
by Alejandro Escovedo
The legendary Alejandro Escovedo returns with another country-rock scorcher.
go to album
featured on Bandcamp Radio Nov 1, 2016
go to album
This sextet from Belo Horizonte, Brazil merge lo-fi, folk, rock, and country to create an ethereal sound.
go to album
Downey to Lubbock
by Dave Alvin
Soulful guitar interplay form the heart of this lovely Americana collaboration from Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
go to album
24th Street Blues
by Tom Heyman
Tom Heyman documents life in San Francisco circa 2023, refusing to succumb to easy characterization & instead capturing the city’s nuance.
go to album
The Good Lyre - Songs Of John Wesley Harding
by John Wesley Harding
Tanya Donnelly, Wreckless Eric, Rosanne Cash, contribute cover versions of John Wesley Harding’s songs for this charitable compilation.
go to album
