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Keepsake Mill
03:14
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Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson from "A Child's Garden of Verses"
Over the borders, a sin without pardon,
Breaking the branches and crawling below,
Out through the breach in the wall of the garden,
Down by the banks of the river, we go.
Here is the mill with the humming of thunder,
Here is the weir with the wonder of foam,
Here is the sluice with the race running under—
Marvelous places, though handy to home!
Sounds of the village grow stiller and stiller,
Stiller the note of the birds on the hill;
Dusty and dim are the eyes of the miller,
Deaf are his ears with the moil of the mill.
Years may go by, and the wheel in the river
Wheel as it wheels for us, children, to-day,
Wheel and keep roaring and foaming for ever
Long after all of the boys are away.
Home from the Indies and home from the ocean,
Heroes and soldiers we all shall come home;
Still we shall find the old mill wheel in motion,
Turning and churning that river to foam.
You with the bean that I gave when we quarrelled,
I with your marble of Saturday last,
Honoured and old and all gaily apparelled,
Here we shall meet and remember the past.
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Around Your Tongue
03:32
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Around Your Tongue
You made me
You ate me
I am you
When I am
I watched you
When I came
I hid from you
All the same
You were smoking by yourself
Looking out a window
Painting with your breath
I was sleeping between your gums
Slipping out your nose
Around your tongue
I am dead now
As you
Born, it seems
As me
I miss you and myself
Maybe you'll come back
As me
© by Evan Hause
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Flicker
03:02
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Flicker
Who was standing
Here before you
Before it was me?
I try to catch a glimpse
On your face
An afterimage on your expression
I'm not allowed to ask
You're not allowed to tell
So we read each other
In silence
That quick flicker
In the corner of your eye
Was that you or someone else?
Or me?
Everyone stays
No one goes
We all carry the weight
Of those we've ever known
So me and you
Are two lightning poles
In the same vast universe
Of souls
Let's share ourselves and create
A momentary flicker
That outshines all
Briefly.
© by Evan Hause
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Easy
03:54
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Easy
Who said lovin' you ain't got its little perks?
I didn't need no frills but with you I've got the works
I didn't want nobody, ya know I tried to turn my head
Now I'm shinin' up my shoes so I can walk with you instead
You don't ask for nothin' but you give me everything
You're a Queen Bee, baby, and your love is like a sting
You give me things I did not know that I would ever need
Now I can't go back to those lonely days, I'm yours, yes indeed
"What can I do for you today?" you say
"Just sit back and let me make your troubles go away."
Lovin' you's the easiest thing someone could ever do
I could do it in the dark, easy as turning a screw
You make the day a game that I can never lose
You make the night all choices and I never have to choose
You make the Spring a story where I'm in the Pleasure Dome
You make the Fall a journey that always leads back home
I thought that there'd be trouble holdin' on to someone like you
I thought that there'd be hoops-a-plenty for me to jump through
But you make lovin' easy as fallin' off a log
Your directions are simple as the day is long
© by Evan Hause
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Straw House
05:00
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Straw House
There is hollowness in our heads
There's a memo on our shelf
We've had blues and we've had reds
You are sleeping by yourself
There is wine in the cellar aging
There's a cactus in our house
There's a wildfire raging
Round our straw house out in Taos
There is sunshine on my shoulder
There's a flower in your hair
Our blanket makes me colder
Than the touching that we share
There's a jet airliner landing
And there's no one left on board
The scarecrow is understanding
Of the kisses that you hoard
Defectors of dubious status
Are swarming in like ants
They are banging on our lattice
They are begging me to dance
And as you lie with your armies
And I with my defense
The in-laws have been swarming
To our straw house in Vincennes
We are sleeping less than ever
Our bed has had no rest
Even though my head is severed
And chained upon your breast
Now as the day is breaking
You will find yourself alone
There's a head in the oven baking
And a memo by the phone
At 5 o'clock in the morning
Or whenever your day begins
There's a high water river warning
By our straw house in Vincennes
© by Evan Hause
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Bachelor
03:19
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Bachelor
I got hideous wallpaper, spaghetti sauce vapor
One pair of shoes and an iron I don't use
Flea market tables, wrong address labels
An entertainment center, a perennial renter
I'm a bachelor, no one comes a-knockin'
I'm a bachelor jammin' out to Dokken
I come and go as I please, stocked with mac 'n' cheese
A hundred old routines, so much time to kill between
my job and my sleep, no promises to keep
Some candy for my brain, yankin' on my chain
I'm a bachelor, no need for me to wed
I'm a bachelor, sleepin' sideways on my bed
Some nights I'm the life of the party
Other nights I sit around just like Marty
I'm a bachelor, don't know if I'll marry
I'm a bachelor, tryin' not to live like Jerry
No one tells me what to think, dirty dishes in my sink
Optimistic just like Custer, clean my floor with a Dust Buster
Cap'n Crunch every morning, another landlord warning
Watchin' porn for a teaser, TV dinners in my freezer
I'm a bachelor, some say I'm half a man
I'm a bachelor, 'cause I haven't made a plan
I'm a bachelor, all my friends are married
I'm a bachelor, my tastes are strange and varied
Some nights I hit the dance floor just like a dancin' fool
Other nights I jam to Ozzy and kick it old school
I'm a connoisseur of clever, make my bed, well, never
My philosphic view falls between Camus and The Who
I've toured the Boone's Farm winery, boast a host of bourgeois finery
Start the day with chin-ups, end the day with pin-ups
I'm a bachelor, saving quarters for my laundry
I'm a bachelor, in another family quandary
Some nights I feel the freedom glowing
Other nights it's just a cold wind blowing
I'm a bachelor, no direction I can see
I'm a bachelor, who's lookin' after me?
© by Evan Hause
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Honor Among Thieves
05:26
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Honor Among Thieves
I'll never leave you in the dark
We've tripped up too many carts
I'll never fire across your bow
But I will always take a head start
You have to trust me when you can't trust yourself
You have to assume that I'm at my best
And when I'm trashing rooms with words
You have to sit and smile like the rest
And when we reach the conclusion
About our place in the food chain
We'll follow the illusion
Color the numbers that make us strange
I'm like you, you're like me
Sometimes there's no one to believe
The truth is in the lies we lead
There is honor among thieves
© by Evan Hause
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Wooden House
10:07
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Wooden House
There's a wooden house that's on my street
It's where we go when we can't take the heat
Kicked in a wall just the other day
It doesn't matter 'cause the landlord's gone away
There's a wooden house that's on my block
Belongs to everyone, we don't keep it locked
Blew out a window and bashed in a door
Nobody cares 'cause that's what it's for
We go there when we can't take no more
Nobody dares try 'n' fix up the floor
We all share it, it's an open sore
It's condemned by you
It's condemned by them
It's condemned by us
It's condemned by those
Who've turned to rust
Who have lost the trust
Who have missed the bus
There's a wooden house that's in my town
We scared the landlord now he don't come around
We beat the walls, it was a beautiful sound
We'll beat this house right to the fuckin' ground
There's a wooden house in my neighborhood
When we leave we're always feelin' good
Burned out a closet again this afternoon
It's alright 'cause we're leavin' there soon
We're gonna fly by the light of the moon
We're gonna try an' get out by June
It's been so long, I think we all know the tune
© by Evan Hause
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Wing and Wing
02:44
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instrumental
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10. |
5 Days and 17 Nights
04:50
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5 Days and 17 Nights
When I see a room full of people
Twisting and moving hard
It reminds me of everything good about you
And the things you used to tell me
And when I drive all day and all night
In my quiet, stolen car
I hear what I used to go through
I never knew it was about you
And when I walk under the cold city lights
I'm a soldier just growing older
5 days and 17 nights
Is what one hour feels like
All these years and I'm bad with names
I wish everything didn't seem the same
5 days and 17 nights
Is what one hour feels like
If I had a soul I would be like you
Instead I'm just a ghost who's paying his dues
5 days and 17 nights
It's out of my control
Now everyone's a wisp
And I see through them all
....or maybe it's me that's fading fast
I must have crazy to think that I would last
Now there's nothing that I haven't seen in my past
Nothing changes, nothing's new
How could I have known that it was all about you?
© by Evan Hause
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instrumental
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12. |
Okie Dokie
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Okie Dokie
Pat on the back, another moment down
This is the one they'll talk about for miles and miles around
End of the day, a man drives home
Turns left at the dead end
Takes one look at the setting sun
Then hits the trail to nowhere
And it's north, south, east or west
Who gives a damn?
Okie dokie, west it is for the Young Man
Park the car, spit into the wind
Back in your face, it's no use to pretend
Change of clothes, a new haircut
Experiment with color
A month or two and then move on
Tip the man a dollar
Or it's two or three or four
Who gives a damn?
Okie dokie, three it is for the New Man
And it's up or down or all around
Who cares?
Up it is, we'll fly to where
The air's so thin you can
See past the walls of the
Cell you're in
And it's blue or pink or green
Who gives a damn?
Okie dokie, pink it is for the Used Man
© by Evan Hause
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The Two of Us
04:50
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14. |
Now You've Got a Gun
03:36
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Now You've Got a Gun
Now you've got a gun
I could tell that you felt
This whole scene was getting mean
or at least a little less fun.
But you were always a burn.
The smiles were guiles,
The course seemed forced,
But you knew you had a lot to learn.
So now you've got a gun
You take it to the bake sale,
You wave it at the slave trade,
I wonder if you've got more than one.
'Cause you were always adding things–
Degrees to the temperature,
Days on your world tour,
Verses to the songs you sing.
Who might you shoot first?
Your lawyer or your editor,
Your daddy or the janitor,
Or that gardener that you said was so damn cursed?
Now that you've got a gun
I guess we've all got to run.
Those dancing days are done
It's like you're telling everyone
You don't want to know who the winner is.
You've got your business to attend to
And your new friends are packing, too
Or at least they know someone who is.
Now you've got a gun
And it ain't no more fun
To play with you, to stay with you
To sit out in the sun.
And to think that it was my suggestion.
Friends can be so cruel
I challenge you to a duel
You've got a gun and I've got a pucker
When I count to one you draw, sucker.
© by Evan Hause
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Brick House
10:29
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Brick House
On the south side of a southern town
Where September winds can blow a pine tree down
A brick house stands, forged with grit and rage
A brick house stands against the force of age.
Parched white columns and shutters painted black
A shallow crick trickles among gardenias out back
A mourning dove calls as the sun's going down.
The kids were raised during troubled times
They kicked and cussed and crossed all the lines, leaving signs
Run-of-the-mill, Follow the Leader, King of the Hill, hopeless cheater,
Stab in the back, tattle tale
Blood brothers, loyalty frail
Sworn enemy, sworn to secrecy
"Fight, fight, a black and a white"
Jumpin' the ditch, payback's a bitch
"Four-eyed freak," "Hey, you walkin' kinda light."
Ancestral turtle shell picture frames on the wall
Old jigsaw puzzles in the chest down the hall
One hightop sneaker and a black baseball glove
Symbols of growing and a young mother's love
A ship in the bottle or a toy sword to wield
Things from the time when Time was well-concealed.
The old couple keeps different hours and different beds
Dementia creeps in to fray the bonds in their heads
The memories they shared of everything since they were young
Slip away just like their names off the tips of their tongues
The old man slips in rivers of shit he can't control
The old woman berates him for not standing up tall
And he just waves her off, and she just smokes and coughs
But every night at ten he comes by her room again
For a drink and a kiss goodnight
And the strong brick house keeps the night outside the door
But it's calling and screeching like a mighty silent roar.
The old mantle clock, the sundowner's block
The shadows grow long
The mourning dove coos, the man takes off his shoes
The night settles in
She thinks of way back when, all the things that have been
And maybe what's to come
Somewhere in the fog of old age resides a light
Akin to what blind folks might call a second sight
We don't really know just what it is until we're there
Everyone knows in their way they must prepare.
When we are fading and our ancestors waiting
Neighbors look on us with sadness or with hope
The best you can do is have a strong brick house around you
And wait for that thing we call God to throw us a rope.
© by Evan Hause
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Seems To Be Clear
06:04
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Seems To Be Clear
Two children legs entwined on a
Park bench in the evening time and I
Don't want to disturb them but I
Need to move by.
The days shine on like endless dreams and they
Don't mind if I watch, it seems, but I
Need to keep moving so I
Might find my way.
I never meant to get lost but the
Toll bridge was free so I crossed, now it
Seems to be clear that life is just a mere
Improvisation.
Well you could say I never read the news and you could
Say I never paid my dues but you
Have to admit that I have
Searched high and wide.
A fine mist in the air as my
Shadow falls on the road back there as I
Walk into the light as though I
Know where I'm going.
Strange how I never feel alone
Stranger still the love I've always known, now it
Seems to be clear that life is just a mere
Intoxication.
© by Evan Hause
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