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Calamity Dance

by Flowerstalks

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1.
Flash 03:33
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Flash Far far above The eastern skyline by the ocean blue Just beneath your window Stretch the chimney spires and gravel roofs I had so much possibility And in my fine prime In the age of my sweet unknown Oh I was so well Put together now I’m all adrift Strung marionettes Borrowed from a devils box of fools Whisper spells of scandal That break like waves on all you have to lose I had so much possibility And In my fine prime In the age of my sweet unkown Oh I was so well Put together now I’m all adrift And though I’d try I’d try I’d try to tell myself at some age I was so Right good innocent and blameless in the eyes of God I know in my hidden darkest thoughts My souls been broke from times untold
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Reid Up 04:30
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I’m feeling alone I feel old I feel sold I feel cut up I feel restless and Directionless With time for a thought Now I can see clearer than ever before The more that I learn the more I feel absurd Perhaps just tonight I’m not exactly sure but I feel Lost Lost The constitution will bring resolution A little elbow grease you just wait and see Don’t be a bum get something done Yea get smart swift kid Come on and read up But I can see clearer than ever before The hipper I get the more I feel bored I’m wise to the ways yet still to be sure I barely know my own way Now do the colors of time spin through your mind From green to grey from black to white And is tomorrows day taking its place on the ways of your face Are you afraid that some how you will be late Now do you fantasize making some flight Out of some dark And into some light Out with the old and in with the new Is it where you come from that you want to lose But I can see clearer than ever before, The more that I learn the more I feel absurd I’m wise to the ways yet still to be sure I barely know my own way back to where I began
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Taking It In 04:18
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I need my hush-hush fix how romantic You looked at me like friends do when they share some secret from the crowd But it doesn’t draw them close and it’s not something you could know by asking I looked back didn’t turn into salt didn’t see the fires engulf Just flashing lights and cannibal The decadence carnival Phone booth confessionals where is the priest He’s workin the suicide lines Nine to five But when the sky darkens up the day and the flowers have all been thrown away When nobody knows your name and nothing really feels the same Listen to me baby this tune will change Skyscrapers like Egyptian pyramids Will they be perplexed by them will they find dead executives Clutching their briefcases Pharaohs of market sales and tall tales Land is land and hands are hands Pitchfork pawns and dead presidents are still running these governments I anticipate an end Yes by and by they’ll crumble like they’ve always done There’ll be nowhere to run. But when the sky darkens up the day and the flowers have all been thrown away When nobody knows your name and nothing really feels the same Listen to me baby this tune will change But when the day is done darlin I’ll put on a just for you grin, and caress the crease of your chin And take this moment in
4.
Tangled Anger 04:27
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Calamity Dance 03:18
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Say would you care to dance To a grooving beat to bounce along tap your feet and sing this song The way to live they say is living without regrets put to rest Happy immune to wounds and free of pain Find a cloud to lounge around on And pass the days without a trace Throw up a cocktail of untouched ideals Onto some gasping laughers at your parties ball You’re sure to be a hit and show you’re conscientious It’s good politics man you can’t hardly miss It’s the turn of a cure into a new disease It’s the the ring of the truth inside the lie that we are all free Money changes hands don’t be so naive These are the steps of Calamity Dance Now come dance with me I’ve been shown just how to have Everything that I want and taught that’s enough To adapt believe you need what’s made to crash Buy some more of this to waste away with Paid to the hand that’s tied you fast But in a fever under the lions paw What would you barter off to keep your buzz strong You got some cough syrup you got some rooms to let Fresh out of work and straight into debt yea It’s the turn of a cure into a new disease It’s the ring of the truth inside the lie that we are all free Money changes hands don’t be so naive These are the steps of Calamity Dance Now come dance with me Well I’m a child of my times I’m a son of my age I heard a ghost of rock and roll shaking chains across some vinyl He said it’s plain to see it’s all calamity So from here on out I just gotta laugh
6.
Come Down 03:32
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The face The face The face Of adversity is mine I’ve broken my exoskeleton I’m bleedin’ my complexion Come down Come down Come down Come now… I cannot hear I cannot see I’m withering Clutching blonde I’m reaching for my brain All you know some things are hard to change Some voices are all dark and grave And I get so irate when I get out of place I’m searching I’m searching I’m searching For a masterpiece I’ll amputate it out of me And serve it raw oh hem and haw I guess I guess I’m just trying to Come down Come down Come down Come now And on my good days babe I’m so happy I could scream But this isn’t one of those so please hold me Clutching blonde I’m reaching for my brain All of you know something are hard to change Some voices are always dark and grave, And I get so irate when I get out of place Come down Come down Come down Come now
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B-Line Dreams 02:56
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And you ask me all these complicated questions that I could not answer unless I had A little bit of liquor in me to loosen up my tongue Well I’m doing alright I’m doing jut fine it’s been a good while since a good sunrise But I’m doing alright I’m doing just fine I’m doing alright I’m doing just fine And it’s getting late and people are leaving and I’ve been drinking So I’ll ask you this Question that I know that I know is probably reaching But picture me and you living like royalty baby don’t you worry I’ll take care of everything I’ll make it so just like just like inside your dreams Make a b-line to the west with me baby Make a b-line to the west with me baby See I wanna feel your hands on my back when I am playing my guitar now in the middle of the night cuz you know I can’t sleep when I dream cuz my dreams and nightmares they collide Make a b-line to the west with me baby Make a b-line t the west with me baby Well dreams and nightmares They collide She’s thinking why oh why did I move to the west with this guy why did I choose to live this life to watch the sunset Out here in the west too close He’s thinking what oh what oh what went wrong that finding this dream should take so long and I why can’t I provide for my meant to be wife Well being strung out on dreams isn’t at fun as it may seem Cuz there always comes that time When dreams and nightmares they collide
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Tattered Photographs 04:17
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It took six quick wretched years to stumble from the bar stool And three long afternoons to shuffle back I possess an old old thorn I keep pulling it out and pushing it in all over again I’ve heard many tunes, about this old haunt And how I will grow to love it I guess that part has come and I guess that part has passed Cuz all that I have is a coffin made of glass I’ve been thinking over ways to buy back the days honey But I just can’t muster up the money Sometimes I take these tattered photographs And I hold them up and over the edge of the flames My hands they quiver and my hands they shake As they reach to retreat for another drink Well cradle me cutie speak your reasons Hum them lovely in black and pink I have been fading in sickly dens I am splintered laughter I am wasted I’ve been thinking over ways to buy back the days honey But I just can’t muster up the money Sometimes I take these tattered photographs And I hold them up and over the edge of the flames My hands they quiver and my hands they shake As they reach to retreat for another drink It defies me beneath the light of neon kaleidoscopes Another missed call volleyed from point to point oh what’s the point oh what the point You say you wish you were another one with a simple life who never told a lie and you could keep control of some things and not be so weak tore up Always sorry Repent Repeat I’ve been thinking over ways to buy back the days honey But I just can’t muster up the money Sometimes I take these tattered photographs And I hold them up and over the edge of the flames My hands they quiver and my hands they shake As they reach to retreat for another drink We have all thought over ways to buy back the days But not single one of us carry that kind of change Sometimes we take our tattered photographs And we hold them up, and over the edge of the flames Our hands they quiver, and our hands they shake Cuz we know the decisions that we’ve made Yea we know the decisions that we’ve made
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House Requiem 04:22
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There’s something in the mind something that you see There’s something in the mind something following Back road weary smiles I’ve walked this road for miles and miles But never found a place Where the time would stop for long enough to keep my steady Pace Teenage gypsy in your jazz caravan tell us Will you grow old Or will you remain sustained in youth but in truth Arrested a coward And boring House Requiem It’s empty and it’s done House Requiem You knew that this would come House Requiem All things under the sun are in the House Requiem The House Requiem That being said oh to that end I am the skin trinket animated Oh I grope about in the dark of my doubt A vision of life with endless time House Requiem You knew that this would come All things under the sun Are in the House Requiem It’s a haunted hallow silhouette of family and wind A shell of ages a ghost abode it’s a home Left alone
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Darlenes Bend 04:28
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Three boys talk next to train tracks underneath long days Do you know about that girl named after the road No it was the road named after the girl Whatever same difference My brother says she sank to the bottom of the river But I hear many stories I heard she lit up like a burn pile in the wind My father says she lost her life to the farm A day of work a day in church a tractors tragic casket I’ve been told somebody did it with a piece from the quarry spoken like a secret My uncle calls it fast living says that was her way That teenage corners come awful quick I heard she had sick, spread through her body That slow was how she left Three boys talk next to train tracks Tossing stones kicking dust I’m thinking she was hit on this very line By a locomotive that couldn’t slow down in time I heard they found her scattered all over the county My cousin says she died swinging from a tree But that’s all just myth and legend Hey what say, we all take A stroll down Darlenes bend We’ll think on what it is to be young And how this all will end
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Burning Hands 03:28
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Woke up this morning woke to the bells toll Woke up this morning woke to the bells toll Well the dreams I’ve had have filled me with angry ghosts Ah the undertow of my impulse Ah the undertow of my impulse I can’t wash my hands from what I’ve known I got these burnin hands I ain’t never heard the devil talk no nonsense I ain’t never heard the devil talk no nonsense Seems like every time he’s got his good reasons I got these burnin hands I’m civilized and I’m progressed Answers and demands at my fingertips Ill equipped to resist just a taste I insist And now’s the time where we all sing I got these hard hearted blues I got these hard hearted blues Ya know the blues you choose Oh yea Uh huh I got these burnin hands
12.
Misfit Friends 04:11
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All my dreams spring from wells of weeks I’m gonna move on down to central south I’m gonna pay my bills and heat my house With a Costa Rica sun You know what I think I was born to surf Honey, how’d you drift so far away from me I need you now More than ever This feeling that I get about things it is just so good Another change in choice I think I’ll wear this other voice An infinite mirage There sits our poet prince Playing his charades I’m erratic And lonesome And all I want Is to help someone I wouldn’t wanna hold you back from this or that I’m just a flow of thought inside a bone machine It’s all the vanity it’s crackin me up and I can barely breath And all I see is me and me Lost inside a looking glass a And your so sweet This cannot last Every which way that I look My alien transient misfit friends We bite the chains that bind our giant crimes But it would be nice to slow down with you To understand a pause And it’s true That I love you

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released September 28, 2012

All songs written by Chris Vogel
Produced by Flowerstalks and Chris Moore
Recorded and Engineered by Chris Moore, Pat McCusker, and William Whitney
Mixed by Tom Herbers and Chris Moore (B-Line Dreams, Taking It In)
Mastered at Mastersuite Studios by Jay Frigeletto
Artwork by Susanna Vagt

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