"STORIES FROM INDIA"

MATTHEW HALSALL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMH4R903EOc

 "DISTANT LAND"

MATTHEW HALSALL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz2sXBu8fDg

"THE END OF THE ROAD"

DAMIEN JURADO 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMf0C5qaODI

 

I spent a lifetime looking for you
Patiently waiting to fall into view
And now that I've found you, my running is over
I have made it to the end of the road

What's that you say you spoke with us at?
Afraid to move forward when it isn't our time
But don't let it keep you from walking beside me
I will be with you at the end of the road

And the road it is long
I can't go it alone
The road is long

There will be times when you'll face the storm
Afraid and not certain in which way is home
I'll be there to guide you when you don't know
Just how to find me at the end of the road

And the road it is long
I can't go it alone
The road it is long
I can't go it alone

I need you
I need you
I need you
I need you

 

"JOHNNY CARAVELLA"
DAMIEN JURADO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5cgftu8F_Q

 

Dear Johnny Midnight, dear Johnny Cool
I'm consulting the cards after hours in my room
I know I should leave, but I don't have the shoes or the courage
What do you see when the shades are removed?
High on knows what, as you start the next tune
Eclipses are tea cups, and we're drinking the moon 'til you've landed

Removing the clouds so we all can go through
God is alive and the world, still in tune
Don't change that dial, here's another word from one of your sponsors
"Say there my friends, are you tired of the pain?"
"Is the weight of your ego the knife in your veins?"
Collecting the dimes 'til you've choked on the chains of your excess

Birds of Wyoming in flight
Still are mourning the loss of our withering spring
Who'll wear the crown when the change is approaching
Of some other season renown?
Winter arrived and the bells all but ringing
Nature it yawns at the sounds of you singing
All is begone, and yet we pretend to be dreaming

And not long ago I was caught in your line
In your design, and sewn to your mind
Pulling me through like some thread in the eye of a needle
I'm awaiting my turn in a long train of thought
Here in the back, nearly second to last
Tempted to leave but I know once I do I'll start over

And yes, I could say that I quit my whole life
Erasing my name at the top of the page
Moving my pen when the audience got too acquainted
I was tired, I was weak, and my jaw nearly broke
As I exited north the radio spoke
"All is not lost even if you're without a direction"

Go west, go west, 1972
The sun hasn't set, the stars very few
Just stick around'til the light pushes into the darkness

 

 "12"

ALEXI MURDOCH 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdyR0WnfB2o 

 

So today I wrote a song for you
'Cause a day can get so long
And I know its hard to make it through
When you say there's something wrong

So I'm trying to put it right
Cause I want to love you with my heart
All this trying has made me tight
And I don't know even where to start

Maybe that's a start
'Cause you know its a simple game
That you play filling up your head with rain
And you know you are hiding from your pain

In the way, in the way you say your name
And I see you

"ALL MY DAYS"

ALEXI MURDOCH 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_WDelQbJE

 

Well I have been searching
All of my days
Many a road, you know
I've been walking on
All of my days
And I've been trying to find
What's been in my mind
As the days keep turning into night

Well I have been quietly standing in the shade
All of my days
Watch the sky breaking on the promise that we made
All of this rain
And I've been trying to find
What's been in my mind
As the days keep turning into night

Well many a night I found myself with no friends standing near
All of my days
I cried aloud
I shook my hands
What am I doing here
All of these days
For I look around me
And my eyes confound me
And it's just too bright
As the days keep turning into night

Now I see clearly
It's you I'm looking for
All of my days
So I'll smile
I know I'll feel this loneliness no more
All of my days
For I look around me
And it seems you found me
And it's coming into sight
As the days keep turning into night
As the days keep turning into night
And even breathing feels all right
Yes, even breathing feels all right
Now even breathing feels all right
Yes even breathing
Feels all right 

"GASOLINE DRINKS"

DAMIEN JURADO 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWDEKu8cKlo

 

This gasoline makes one fine drink
All I need is trouble
Flicker in the sunlight dawn
They'll find my dead body cold
I used to wither just like winter
And now all I am is useless

So now is the time
To say all I wished I could have said
But I can't get my tongue out
And I can't get my sword to work
I'll just talk loads of bullshit anyhow

Your mother in torn garments
Like Jesus Christ denied
Blood in all her pockets
And you inside her eyes

Let's shut it down

Let's kill the lights

 "HOQUIAM"

DAMIEN JURADO 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U3vPLoyuhI

 

Standing with my feet deep in the ground
Was I nothing but a landslide in your mind?
Am I no one until someone calls me out?
Are you just pretending when we talk?

You should have seen me
Keeping watch at dawn

Picture now a car ride through the plains
Where east meets west and only sky remain
Were you faking death to only gain concern?
The cut out lights and signals told us wrong

You should have seen us
Carefree behind the wheel

Lover I am still here breaking chairs
Will I ever be the hero in your song
Or forever in your shadow so unseen?
Trapped between the lines that you write down?

You should have told me
Broken jaw and all
Crippled in your glory
Restless till my death

 "BAD DREAMS"
DAMIEN JURADO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Mo54C4FgM 

 

I have fell victim to you
Troubles I have seen many years
From high windows I have called you
So come save me from this fire

Forget all who hurt you, they don't know you
Come rest your tired body in my arms
From the bedroom I have called you
So come save me from this fire

And I have bad dreams
Done so many bad things
So come save me from this fire.

 

 

 "AMATEUR NIGHT"

DAMIEN JURADO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPEO6uwOftA

 

First came the screams and blood on the floor
The alcohol and magazines
In my flashlight you're a star
Razor blade that cuts you clean

Smile for the camera
Take off that dress
Twenty dollars for a kiss

It's me who made you
It's me who will take you

I am not an evil man
I just have a habit I can't kick
It starts with an urge and ends with this
Hang up the phone, I ain't finished yet

"REEL TO REEL"

DAMIEN JURADO 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjA9izqaDvw

 

You're a smooth talker
With eyes like lightning
And the radio
I sing like our mother

Put away the hairbrush and maybe something you don't know
I read it in the tabloids the trust the thunderstorm

You're an escape artist
And the bathroom mirror
And the autograph seekers
You've imagined outside the door

Yes we love a statement, is it true you're not in your room
From the light out in the basement we knew that there'd be trouble coming soon

Intuition
Mathematics
Invisible audience
Ten hit records

Listen through your tin can as the road cuts circulation to your tune
I fashion myself after you from my suicide electric puzzle
The greatest songs I'll never hear from a band you started in your mind
Leave us hanging on your legend as you exit through the tape recorder

Reel to reel
Reel to reel
Reel to reel

 

"MARAQOPA"

DAMIEN JURADO 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evL70OLRpm8

 

It's your oldest fear, that the love you can hear will go
It's a deafening sound, we become light on the ground, then soil
To be one with the sky, where the souls all collide, turned to gold
We are rain, we are rain

We are stones to be seen, in the meadows we are dreams to be free
It's where we bow our heads to pray, we are echoes god creates in the shade
It's where the light can come in, your breath becomes the wind in the trees
We are free, we are free

All are welcome in
All are welcome in
All are welcome in
All are welcome in

 

"BEACON HILL"

DAMIEN JURADO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neV-e_uuG7Y

 

Keeping you close, falling behind
I lost my voice, you lost your mind
You say you're not well, I say that you're fine
Walking with me through the aisles of a drugstore

If you return to me, oh, if you return to me

Your mother's a fake, a phantom who steals
The smile on your face is not what you feel
I'll check you in if you check me out
Some lonesome wrist cutter who says I'm her brother

Oh, if you return to me, oh, if you return to me

Was I the ghost or one of your voices
You hear in your head when you're out killing horses?
Who's taking my place, who's taking you home?
I don't think it's safe to turn out the nightlight

And if you return to me, oh, if you return to me

I read your reviews, I studied the lines
I know them so well, my life's now a tragedy
One for the road, two for the plane
And I will be fine, as long as you take me

And if you return to me, oh, if you return to me

It's all right, baby
It's all right, baby
It's all right, babe
It's all right

 

 "KALAMA"

DAMIEN JURADO 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUme0lrZNHU

 Mother do you know how
All of this has changed us?
I was a fool who
Would always defend you
Was I wrong to like the other
Sisters and brothers abandon?

Forgive my living
Keep me from breathing
A house that is standing
Is no house at all

Mother is it easy
Knowing that I will die soon?
Will you keep me as ashes
Placed on the mantel or thrown out?

 Mother do you know now
Love is not painless it's poison?
Forgive my living
Keep me from breathing
A house that is standing
Is no house at all

 "HARBORVIEW"

DAMIEN JURADO 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqBlNlAB90k

 

Far out and failing
So they lead you away
Speak for me would you
I have nothing to say

And you would not notice
My hands have let go
Feel free to replace them
They are idle and slow

Mothers and fathers
You sisters all lost
The pending opinions
Are you worth what they've got

And they would not notice
Your hands open wide
Some Judas before them
With thorns in your side

Feel free to lay down
You could use a rest
Speak for me would you
Since you've taken my breath

And you would not notice
My hands have let go
Feel free to replace them
They are idle and slow

"CLOUDY SHOES"
DAMIEN JURADO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkZUestoc9Y&list=OLAK5uy_lo2aiGfF4Tbcc4m66TVBc1HAjiNszOgSE

 

I wish that I could float
Float up from the ground
I will never know
What that's like

You have a way about you
I wish that I had
Thought it was impossible
To live and love like you

Funny how we all can change
If we just try to
Thought it was impossible
To live and love like you

One day you will be taller
Taller than the sky
Until that day you will be
Here with us below

Magic will do what magic does
Living in your eyes
Do you think someday soon
You will have the time

I could use another hand
To help pull me through
Someday these hospital stays
Get the best of me
Trying to fix my mind

Still trying to fix my mind
Trying to work it out
I'm still trying to fix my mind
Still trying to fix my mind
I'm still trying to fix my mind

 

 "I'VE BEEN THE ONE"

BILL CALLAHAN & BONNIE PRINCE BILLY

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDf7D-MQIgc

 

I've been the one who has been frightened and almost borne away
By the very thoughts that I feared yesterday
And it must be dust or smoke that's in my eyes
How can I cry about something I can't see

Oh my friends all say she had her chance, let's go shoot some pool
You know a fool is just a fool
And I've tried everything that whiskey cures, but the pain endures
And now I'm feeling that pain
I put my pride in my pocket, that's how I'll spend my loneliest days
And it must be dust or smoke that's in my eyes

Don't know what to do, hold the lamp above the rafters
These smoke-filled rooms will not replace her
I've been the one who has been frightened and almost borne away
By the very thoughts that I feared yesterday
And it must be dust or smoke that's in my eyes

 
 

 "SEA SONG"

BILL CALLAHAN & BONNIE PRINCE BILLY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxxHeXQP8hE

 

You look different every time you come
From the foam-crested brine
It's your skin shining softly in the moonlight
Partly fish, partly porpoise, partly baby sperm whale
Am I yours? Are you mine to play with?
Joking apart, when you're drunk, you're terrific when you're drunk
I like you mostly late at night, you're quite alright

But I can't understand the different you in the morning
When it's time to play at being human for a while
Please smile

No, no, no, no

You'll be different in the Spring, I know
You're a seasonal beast
Like the starfish that drift in with the tide, with the tide
So until your blood runs to meet the next full moon
Your madness fits in nicely with my own, with my own
Your lunacy fits neatly with my own, my very own

My very own
My very own
My very own

We're not alone

 "ANOTHER LONELY DAY"
BEN HARPER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zr5mCBFejIE

 

Yes indeed I'm alone again
And here comes emptiness crashing in
It's either love or hate
I can't find in between
'Cause I've been with witches
And I have been with a queen

It wouldn't have worked out anyway
So now it's just another lonely day
Further along we just may
But for now it's just another lonely day

Wish there was something I could say or do
I can resist anything but the temptation from you
But I'd rather walk alone
Than chase you around
I'd rather fall myself
Than let you drag me on down

It wouldn't have worked out anyway
And now it's just another lonely day
Further along we just may
But for now it's just another lonely day

Yesterday seems like a life ago
'Cause the one I love
Today I hardly know
You I held so close in my heart oh dear
Grow further from me with every fallen tear

It wouldn't have worked out anyway
So now it's just another lonely day
Further along we just may
But for now it's just another lonely day
For now it's just another lonely day
For now it's just another lonely day