lyrics number 26. five percent of the way there… on an odd association, his son’s war experience shifts into his experience in the armed services in the early fifties, which reads more like a vacation. a singular shapshot of freedom and ease and shameless hedonism. how much is real and how much has been rung […]
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monday song #25: time flies
lyrics i thought i’d write a few little ditties before getting back to the story line. my new music room has windows. there’s grass and sky out there. i can even see a piece of the space needle. i felt the happy songs coming… no such luck.
monday song# 24: i.v.
lyrics with monday song number 24, I have released as many songs in the past five and a half months, as I officially released in a decade of billie burke estate. the power of deadlines. and simplified production values. and ten years’ practice… i was planning to head to the ’60s for our next chapter, […]
monday song #23: first communion
lyrics number 23. a mystical number for fans of psychic tv and throbbing gristle. and the chicago bulls. i realized after i posted last week’s song that that the memory parade of our protagonist had begun in the late 30s with a 30s style song. figured the next milestone should happen in the early 50s, […]
monday song #22: a long long time
lyrics here’s the second installment of ‘connect the dots.’ after framing the protagonist’s delirium, we fly back through the years to a time of relative happiness. but unbeknownst to the narrator, all is not as well as he had hoped in his past. it is an escape for him into his childlike mind, but there […]
monday song #21: the night sky
lyrics number 21. as promised, the first in a song cycle of unspecified length. in the first installment we meet the central character in the last hours of his life. it’s something of a prologue to the stories that will follow: memories and reflections of a life now past. the door is wide open. though […]
monday song #20: the devil’s dictionary
lyrics song twenty. it took me ten years to release 24 songs on two albums, and it has taken five months to release 20 songs. i am really enjoying this process. so i had the general idea “shy is just another word for unfriendly” for at least three years now. i just couldn’t turn it […]
monday song #19: high dive
lyrics number 19. not much to say about the number. but the song is a sad one. last week my mother asked why the last set of songs were so sad. i hadn’t noticed. they are monday songs after all. but I listened and thought, there isn’t the little pithy number to break up the […]
monday song #18: you and only me
lyrics eighteen. voting age. no longer a minor, but not yet a drinker. this would fit nicely in the real life high school musical world begun in number 16, “lowe valley high.” hell, the subject of this crush could even be meghan. it’s a small world after all. on this one, there might be a […]
monday song #17: a great fall
lyrics number 17. dave balon’s number. he scored four goals against the north stars in the first ranger game i ever saw way back in 1971. he became my favorite. my brothers laughed, cause he was not a star. he had a monstrous comb-over. i meant this as a random reference, until i looked him […]