1. |
Red Earrings
05:19
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Black Brook, thatâs place where you go
If you really want to kill your girl
But itâs not the type of thing
You want to print on your brochure
But when thereâs no cure for the girl
And the slightest thing will get her peeved
You will sink or swim
And she wants you to sleep with the fish
Lift up your covers on your blanket of flies
And sweet Red Earrings
Kills every living thing with her eyes
[CH] She wore red earrings (x3)
With blood on the ground
Uncle Geraldine was good to loan me her truck
But she hugged the ragged road to roughly
Open the door and all you ever tasted was mucky
She ainât a fan of no frog
She wonât dine in no ditch
She get ugly and donât wanna talk
I start missing my old lonely self
Those visions of harmony
Are hard to conjure for me
And to get some peace and quite
Might wind up the penitentiary
[CH]
Good lord!
It was an August nite
We took a drive on down olâ Hamburger Road
Got me so wound up that nite
So hot I had to change my stroke
Red Earrings on a billboard sign
Nearly enough to make me change my mind
Guess I donât have that drawl
Guess I really ainât a killer at all
WOO!
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2. |
Family Car
03:46
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Where now, Mom and Dad
Where now for the new kids, my brother and me
Weâve been on the move since he was five
Buckle him in
Making sure heâs fine
Heat of the sun always magnified
On the road in the family car
Next stop could be anywhere
New friends are sure getting old to me
A few clicks and weâre out of sight
Chain of command keeping me in line
And with every new town
Mom and Dad still fight
Weâre back in the family car
And weâre about to take another ride
Weâre driving away in the family car
Losing my way
Where am I now?
Where now, Mom and Dad
Open road is always calling to me
Iâm just looking for some peace of mine
Kickinâ a crab apple down the line
And all of the signs you recognize
Whenever it rains, it pours
And Iâm about to get another life
Weâre driving away in the family car
Losing my way
Where am I now?
And weâre about to take another ride
Weâre driving away in the family car
Losing my way
Where am I now?
And Iâm about to get another life
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3. |
Moonflower
03:56
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Heart shaped leaves
No two of a kind
These thoughts in my head
That bloom in the nite
And if she had a little girl
A little girl just like her
Well, that would be alright
[CH] Oh, my moonflower
You canât hide your love
You give it plenty of light
No, you canât be afraid
She wants to see you fight
And never leave her in the cold
You gotta show her you care
[CH] Oh, my moonflower (x2)
She just needs a little proof
And you know that she is right
AhhhhâŠ.
And even when itâs really raininâ
Sheâs tryinâ to tell you without saying
Oh, I love you my child
Oh, my moonflower
And if she had a little girl
A girl like you, I will adore
And I will treat her right
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4. |
2020, pt. 1
04:14
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It was 2020
And the plan is clear to me
A vision of a heaven that seems real to me
I donât need to prove you wrong
I donât even need to prove Iâm right
I just want to see what Iâll realize in hindsight
Open the doors to the future
Feel the feel and come inside, baby
Slow dance to the future
Lover, let me feel my love inside
The echoes of silence
It gets inside my head
Once you check the situation
You wanna scream instead
Become one with the water
Tryinâ to shed this skin Iâm in
Watched it raining on the river
For an entire year
Primordial lovers
They been fighting since way back in time
Primordial lovers
They are the left and the right
They are partners in crime
[CH] See the year here before us
The symmetry between the lines
And itâs the year of the reckoning
The ones and zeroes realign
It was the year 2020
And you saw everything clearly
From the depths of despair
All the words come a-flowinâ
Like a champagne babbling stream
When once it seemed best to forget
What you thought youâd seen
Rebirth in the summer
Stretched out on a hill
If youâre wondering if Iâll join ya
Well then, you know I will
[CH2] Spent all my strength to feel nothing
Such a waste of space
In changing tides
Itâs such a beautiful vision
To rid the Gods
From my skies
And do it a little bit slower
You know itâs still 50/50
We donât know how this ends
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5. |
In the Summer
02:24
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Iâm in the clear
From this space I can manifest things with my thoughts
(In the summertime)
And my dreams of us
In the summertime
In the summer
I live in illusion
I own the confusion
And Iâm willing us into being a thing again
In the summer
(With her long hair a-flowinâ)
In the summer
(Sheâs growing it long for me now)
In this new age
And now weâre back in the seventies
You and I and me and you
In my mindâs eye
You were fire clothed in black
In my mindâs eye
And I couldnât sleep last nite
Thinkinâ âbout whatâs in store
And even God himself isnât himself no more
In the summer
In the summer
In the summer
(With her long hair a-flowinâ)
In the summer
(Sheâs growing it long for me now)
In the summer
(With her long hair a-flowinâ now)
In the summer
(Sheâs growing it long for me now)
In the summer
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6. |
Gold River
04:28
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Weâre gonna shoot a movie in Peru
Universalâs got a million buck
Hookups on the cocaine for the crew
Weâre gonna shoot a parable on life
Prospector sees a river of gold
Arms himself to the teeth
To give it all to the poor
Cousin up and ramblinâ in the aisle
Holy rollinâ and breakinâ down
Cuz the devil and his band wonât be denied
Gonna build a âlil boat for my candle
Watch the river push it on down
And the lighter with a flicker blaze
In the thick of the crowd
Take me to the river
The legendary rovers of the Gold River Band
Take me to the river
Cousin starts a-groovinâ in the bandstand
Take me to the river
The legendary killers of the Gram Parsons fan
Take me to the river
Cousin start a-groovinâ in the bandstand
I guess that we could never let it go
Feel the gold between our hands
And watch the river flow
Weâre gonna build our castles in the sand
Down by the golden strand
The place we found our Golden River Band
Weâre gonna build a luxury liner
Duck that sucker down to Brazil, I suppose
Let the country and the samba fuse
On our little banjoes
[CH]
Take me to the river [etc.]
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7. |
Slob
04:10
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My babe, I canât deny his taste
But my God! I live with a slob
He just eats and sleeps
And never leaves his seat
He needs a J.O.B.
He needs a job
[CH1] Son of Lillian and Stan
From the state of Alabama
Thatâs when my life, you could say, it went south
He donât read, he donât write
But he loves me right at night
Chain smokinâ babe
And I live with a slob
And my old man
He never had no plan
Pour that cool, cool wort in the garage
As thick as cement
Heâd mash and heâd ferment
And he was just like Y.O.U.
He never cleaned up
[CH2] Just a freeloadinâ man who could never lend a hand
Never saw a dish that he wanted to wash
Amplifier pilot light
Keeps me up at night
Sings his white man blues
And I live with a slob
Who is this man?
Just a freeloadinâ man (repeat)
I live with a slob [etc.]
Who is this man? I live with a slob (etc.)
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8. |
If đ Could B Prince
04:27
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Come all ye bitches, itâs a celebration
Iâm gonna party like Iâm on vacation
In 1999 (party!)
Got this groove on lockdown
Just like that guy who flew too close to the sun
Felt it was time to do my own Black Album
And you just canât stop me now
Iâm flying
Iâm watchinâ little Nikki grindinâ
They say, âGay, act your age!â
(No way!)
I had a bubble bath with my pants on today
(CH) Hey girl, just your kiss
Could turn this frog into Prince
Hip hooray, my parade
The coming out of this Gay
If I could be Prince [repeat]
I held a séance for the prince of darkness
And this song was part of the deal
Rising up through the air, Darling Nikki
It was my anger and my bitterness
Come here, ye bitches
Itâs a time for dancing
Summon up the purple
Get a taste of the action
âCuz you just canât stop me now
Iâm fine
(Oh yeah, heâs fine, heâs fine, heâs totally fine)
You try to funk me but I still get down
Got this groove on lockdown
Theyâre never building a wall between us [x2]; [CH, repeat]
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9. |
Home Truth
04:34
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I might be driving nowhere
Way past city limits
And I know Iâm tired
Might be fearing something deep inside
Holed up and gone into hiding
These home truths could be yours
If youâll take them
If you donât disintegrate with them
[CH] These are my home truths, darling
Iâm afraid Iâll be alone forever
Reincarnated
And destined
These are my home truths, darling
You canât kill this kid with kindness
Not too cool to be cruel
So Iâll be driving all nite
In my mirror
I keep seeing your reflection
Moving in the wrong direction
These home truths have nothing to do
With me, my friend
Gonna make ya see itâs for the best
[CH]
Every day, the message changes
Signals start to fade
My mind is running so it never has to face the home truths
The home truths
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10. |
Sing to Me
02:54
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Sing to me
I love your song
Sing it just for me
Thereâs a line
Gets me every time
I might have to steal it
Sing your song to me
Weave your sorcery
Enslave me
Sing to me
Enslave me
Sing to me
Sing to me
Thereâs lots of space
To fill with harmony
Hear the waves
Inside my shell
Reverberating
Sing your song to me
I can tell how you feel
When your heart is singing
Sing to me
When your heart is singing
I can tell how you feel
When your heart is singing
Sing to me
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11. |
2020, pt. 2
08:00
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It was 2020
She said, âI donât know how this endsâ
On a barren country road
âThat all depends,â I said
The trees are a-swayinâ
Red sun versus the rain
And the branches sag
From the heavy weight
I feel much the same way
Cinematic expanses
Breathe it all in
On a country drive
We hit the road here together
To take it all in
In real time
Out of focus
In the mist
In the corner of the frame
It could look just like a normal year
Or any normal day
Am I dreaming of this romance?
Of this perfect carefree girl
Or am I starring at a reflection of my life before?
[CH1] Waiting for something to happen
Itâs in his DNA
To wait it out
All his life heâs stargazing
A mechanism
To fake them out
And thereâs a fire within us
All consuming
Engulfing us
I donât know what we are doing
Like so many
Tryinâ to feel my way out
But thereâs something Iâm dying to tell you
To answer all of your questions
Before the year ends
It was 2020
The year they flipped the switch
Have to lock yourself up for days
Just to get out of phase
And itâs 50/50
There are no guarantees
Youâre your own worst enemy
When you think it all comes for free
A glass of champagne is shaking
While soldiers march outside
When this whole thing is over
And the dust clears
You will realize
An abandoned mansion
The base where we conspire
The old manâs fireplace
We gather âround the fire
Running wild like a child
When we finally hit the streets
With the sun behind the clouds
The night, our accomplice
Primordial lovers
In the throes of passion
Our love is blind
Primordial lovers
They are love and hate
They are born to fight
[CH2] All those echo of silence ringing in my ears
I realize
Cascading reverberations
Echo waves of fear inside
And you canât blame mother nature
She came imposing her changes
Before the year even began
It was 2020 and before she could decide
She gave me a little taste and I buried myself inside her
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Jeff Gay Nova Scotia
TOSSING RECORDS is filled with beans and joy to announce the newest Jeff Gay album, THE MONSTER. Coming to you: Dec 8, 2023. First single from the Monster: Moonflower, Dec 1. In addition to Jgay and Dirtmouth titles, TOSSING RECORDS will release the entire Jeff Gay catalogue on Bandcamp, so make sure you follow for digital transfers of dusty DATs and demos/unreleased tracks ... more
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