"DON'T YOU KNOW THAT"

FRUIT BATS 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6uztdPKGQ0 

Let's take it easy

on ourselves

Things aren't getting

any simpler

And the world will still turn

without us The sun will still shine

Don't you know that?

Don't you know that?

Let's take it easy

on our boy His skin's not getting

any thicker

And he'll be fine

off the fall

When it's time

He'll slide by Uncharred

Don't you know that?

Don't you know that?

(solo)

Then take it easy on yourself

You're not getting

any younger

And the moon

will still pull The tides without you

The stars will still shine

Don't you know that?

Don't you know that?

Don't you know that?

"MORNING IS MY GODMOTHER"

BILL CALLAHAN

 

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

Morning is my godmother
Loving me like no other
Yeah, morning is my godmother

Loving me like no other

She comes to me in the setting up
And the breaking down
She shows me what is infinite
And how it fits within the grasp of man

Yeah, morning is my godmother
Loving me like no other

Morning is my godmother
Loving me like no other

"747"

BILL CALLAHAN 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIDVASxzA-A 

Is it going?

I woke up on a 747
Flying through some stock footage of heaven
This is the light right here
Before clouds bittersweet and with suggestion
This is the light
Bald and bold as baby crawling toward adulteration

There was blood when you were born
And the blood was wiped from your eyes
This must be the light you saw
That just left you screaming
And this must be the light you saw
Before our eyes could disguise true meaning
And this must be the light you saw
Just as you were leaving
Leaving

We walked on the moon
Like flies on a mule
We walked on the moon
Flaws in a jewel
We are flies on a mule
And we're good at what we do

"SHEPHERD IN A SHEEPSKIN VEST"

BILL CALLAHAN 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvJ3a9KfWkY 

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/bill-callahan-shepherd-in-a-sheepskin-vest/ 

“Well, the past has always lied to me/The past has never given me anything but the blues”

“There was blood when you were born and the blood was wiped from your eyes/This must be the light you saw that just left you screaming/And this must be the light you saw before our eyes could disguise true meaning/And this must be the light you saw just as you were leaving.”

"THE BALLAD OF THE HULK"

BILL CALLAHAN 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2yE9x--1cg 

Well, I've been looking back
At the old whales
Over my shoulders
Like salt or sugar
Well, I'm just talking about the old days
Groundwork or footwork
Well, after this next song we'll get moving along
Out of this vein
It's called "The Ballad of the Hulk"

You know I used to share a tailor
With David Bruce Banner
That's the Hulk
Traveling jackets and traveling bags
Future rags
And shoes good for walking highways
But never quite far enough away
To see how good and easy it could be
If I just got angry
But I never got angry
Maybe I should have
I could have cleared some things away
In those old Bill Bixby days

The master of reiki he
Waved his hands over me
And said I eat too much steak
And hold on too long to ancient takes
And both are so hard
On my heart
Oh, I try to be a good person
I wonder if it's annoying
Or worth pursuing
And pursuing
And pursuing
Down highways

At the risk of the road

 

"NEED IT JUST A LITTLE"

FRUIT BATS

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PabUIMD9nfo 

All the flowers in the meadows, and all the salt in the sea
Tripped over three shadows all the way to Tennessee
Pushed out by the hand of man, and carried by the lovely trades
From the lucky Jack of Diamonds to the deadly Ace of Spades

And you need it in the middle, when the needles in the red
And it needles just a little with a buzzing in the head
And you need it just a little, and it's more than you can take
Like a baby in the middle of a many layered cake

Killed by sugar, killed by sparrows, fog wouldn't let 'em through
And they tipped all of their arrows with poison drops of dew
And you need it in the middle, when the needles in the red
And it needles just a little with a buzzing in the head

And you need it just a little, and it's more than you can take
And it's more than you can fathom, and it's more than you can fake
And you need it just a little, and it's more than you can say
A canary in the coal mine, meets the needle in the hay

"FILTHY WATER"

FRUIT BATS 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WbxkPdP8EM 

 Icebergs are scraping big holes across the bottoms

Of luxury liners across the crooked seas.

Mantises are praying in the dirt in fields of garlic.

Ooh, filthy water.

Purple mountains and golden hills and silver boulders,

Where wagon ruts fill up with water that rolls away.

The thought of the distance is a big old weight off your shoulders.

Ooh, filthy water.

Honeycombs drip with royal jelly up in the tall pines.

The stinger digs in & it burns like a forest fire.

Suck out the poison with your mouth you're sure to be fine.

Ooh, filthy water.