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I wonder how these little minds can conceive of god
when they confine him to one spec of dust in the universe?
- George Van Tassel channeling Ashtar Sheran, 1956
Muddy water like a piece of ancient church glass flowing
We're on the darkest stretch, but the bend ahead is glowing
Float past the trees, bent by the breeze
Toward the lost, the always existing
Behind the wall, not quite showing
Above the muddy water
Staring from the banks are the old lies I've been throwing
Yeah a lie is still a lie, while the brightest minds are blowing
One day I'll see all of the eyes
Of the ones who swore that I won't die alone
I won't cry when I'm going
Know my name
Swear that I
Made my noise
Paid the debt I'm owing
To the muddy water
Would you take me in this peculiar way I'm showing
What's left of the mind after love, silence, and home?
One day I'll be joined to the breeze with the lost
The always existing, behind the wall, always knowing
What's beyond the muddy water
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Just got back from the line of fire where the holy light freezes
Just got back from the line of fire where the holy light freezes
Just got back from the line of fire where the holy light freezes
Hallelu-Hallelujah
Sometimes Darkness in the mind, Sometimes it leaves us
Sometimes Darkness in the mind, Sometimes it leaves us
Sometimes Darkness in the mind, Sometimes it leaves us
Hallelu-Hallelujah
If I wake up tomorrow with my mind, I will set it on Jesus
If I wake up tomorrow with my mind, I will set it on Jesus
If I wake up tomorrow with my mind, I will set it on Jesus
Hallelu-Hallelujah
(“Railroad”)
In the valley of the railroad bridge there is a garden lush and green
And unusual flowers blossom there
It was there I saw my true love talking to the wind
And it played with a strand of her hair
Are you coming for to carry me home?
Are you coming for to carry me home?
In the blinking of an eye I saw the two of them had gone
They disappeared without making a sound
I walked among the sleepers, along the path of steel
Out a trace of my love can't be found
Are you coming for to carry me home?
Are you coming for to carry me home?
(“Reprise”)
Just got back from the line of fire where the holy light freezes
Sometimes Darkness in the mind, Sometimes it leaves us
If I wake up tomorrow with my mind, I will set it on Jesus
Hallelujah
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D’you still dread the morning, all its force and light?
Wake up every hour, scream out in the night
You can’t understand what went wrong with this land
Tilt back the bottle, hold my selfish hand. Shit’ll kill ya
But Jesus took the fall, mhmm
Lay down in the fog
Hallelujah, good seein’ ya, I was the fortified wall
Wake up, Mary-Anna, tie your shoes up very well
I’ve come to tell you how the quiet nation fell
Hallelujah, good seein’ ya
I ride the Old Swingin’ Bell
And if the Swingin’ Bell goes wandering by
Get exposed to my stereo light
And if the old Father tells ya, “The great receiver won’t receive ya”
Believe what you like, but when I saw with my own eyes
He said, "We all go out together, it just happens on different nights"
Old Swingin’ Bell, Old Swingin’ Bell
When will you tell all that you know?
Want to make it hopeless, crawl into your shell?
Find a friend to push ya down into the well
If you can’t understand what went wrong with this land
Tilt back the bottle, drive into the Grand Canyon silver
Where Jesus took his fall so well
Bide your time in hell
Hallelujah, good seein’ ya
I'll ride the Old Swingin’ Bell
And if the Swingin’ Bell goes wandering by
Get exposed to my stereo light
And if the old Father tells ya, “The great receiver won’t receive ya”
Believe what you like, but when I saw with my own eyes
He said, "We all go out together, it just happens on different nights"
Old Swingin’ Bell, Old Swingin’ Bell
When will you tell all that you know?
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Ross, Rabbit, John, your father was a clown
I never made you laugh, but one time you smiled at the ground
In the company ranks from age of entry in year 25
Through some days way darker than a fallen soldier's eyes
You screamed toward the shots, "I see the sky falling down"
You ran to catch it like rain from a hellfire nation falling out of the clouds
Yes, in war you'd never have a chance, you were too strong
You were thrown to the dogs and died like your father
In the rodeo
Damn
Did ya know him?
-When you walk by his grave
When the afternoon light lit his face in the old wooden frame
Did you slow down to walk with the mourning, did they pass you by?
Do the words "Did ya know him” when spoken sound strange?
Ross, Rabbit, John, an aimless blade knocked you down
Right now, you would be up all night, rolling heavy to a promised land sound
We know it's too late to heal you, boy, but we still sing this rhyme
Take the chains from your body, open your heart, put your hand in mind
Did ya know him? Did ya know him?
-What you say after speaking his name
When the afternoon light lit his face in the old wooden frame
Would you slow down if you saw his wheels were falling off right now?
When the words "Did ya know him" are spoken, can you hear the sound?
Sometimes we stare at the bathroom wall
Wondering if the stucco on the ceiling's pointing in
Sometimes people stare till they can't see at all
Wait, in your bedroom
Pace, until dawn
Breaks a stream of light
Over your desk drawer
Write words "I’ll be fine"
Oh so many times
When your hand is sore
Time to open the door
Take my advice
Wander open field
Head pointed to sky
Trace the pattern, Walk
Till your hope runs dry
Place your hand on the ground
Listen to me, Freeze
Till night falls down
Watch the shadows in moonlight
Point, you will survive
Dig a hole there now
Bury yourself inside
You will be alright
Dig a hole there now
Bury yourself inside
You will be alright
Time to go down to the place of childhood dreams
Time to go
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I was only two days old
When the violent, flashing horrors started creeping in
It was an ordinary sin
I just couldn’t sleep
So I dreamed while I was awake
Wet my blankets in a common void
Under faded fresco of shooting stars on the mission floor
I saw what universe was for
It had all just begun
Somehow, I’m 31
And Theia brings me an angel carved from exploding sun
Now, how did I deserve that love?
Was it all too much truth?
So I dreamed while I was awake
Walked for miles through my common void
Toward an ocean, swelled up a rising tide
Through my fading core
By then I was 34
I was not yet done
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"We’re sitting here right now on a spaceship that we call the earth
Traveling a thousand miles an hour on its axis
yet we register no sign of movement
We’re riding on this planet, it’s our ship.
We were put on it for a purpose, for a purpose, for a purpose,
These latter days are here."
- George Van Tassel, 1956
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Don't feel bad about being alive
Even after, you know, many friends have died
Your life was taller
Cast a longer shadow on the ground
Night is still falling
Don't feel bad about being alive
Sometimes the ship rocks you side to side
Some hold tightly
Some watch the moonrise bobbing up and down
Beneath the water
Caught you reading from the book of dead
Head hanging from your shoulders
Put it down, go out and wear your body
For a little more time
Don't feel bad about being alive
Even if it was only you who survived
Crawled out the foxhole, named the fallen
Listed reasons you were not bound
Oh, look how they're numbered!
Now, meanwhile, we can dance beside
This cold future coming over
If it’s too bright, raise a pinhole fist to your eye
Best we can do is ride that opening wide
Through the days of milk and thunder
Pushing colder and wider out into the night
Or feel bad about being alive
Cause if you wonder why it’s so dim
While light changes over top of your skin
You might discover the right way to go
But once you leave, you can never go home
Don't feel bad about being alive
Even after many friends have died
They may haunt your dark corners at night
But they made a choice and chose to stay behind
Say I get tangled in the port side lines
You throw a buoy, but I've already died
Scream my name off of the starboard and cry
But don't feel bad about being alive
Draw my face into the stars at night
Use them neurons firing in your mind
They've done you good now for a long long time
While you sat around and felt bad
From the mounds on Mississippian fields
Over oceans so wide and surreal
There’s more love than one boy can feel
Raise that pinhole fist to your eye
Lord, my Lord, how are we going to save all the feelings
Scattered by the going of the day?
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You were supposed to be my babe
You weren't supposed to be Charlie's babe
I bought a new guitar today
Was gonna show ya how that song got made
"Night Walking, Alone" by The Desperation Play
Sha la la la la la la
Oh, the evening drifter
Sha la la la
Try to not miss her, it's easier so
But love still grows
And Nobody knows
I was supposed to be your man
Yeah, you know Charlie he don't understand
But if that's the way, then that's the way
Turn on the radio and fade away
"Night Walking, Alone" by The Desperation Play
Remember when they played at Dark Hollow
And the lights blacked out?
My head bled something real...
I was barely 18
My hands knuckle-white
Neck stretched out
When they played “Gripped on to the Steel”
Or was it “Spinnin' My Wheels"?
Sha la la la la la la
Oh, that’s right they played “The Superstition”
Sha la la la
That's when my spine started shivering from head to toe
They played “Love Is the Great Unknown”
into “Night Walking, Alone”
Someday, I will rise from the grave
Haunt that old pool hall beside the bay
Live in the jukebox, watch people sway
Late at night make the jukebox play
"Night Walking, Alone"
"Night Walking, Alone"
"Night Walking, Alone"
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"They said that in event an atomic war starts they would not interfere
until the people start crying to God for help and then they’ll put a stop to it
(I’m on the air!)
They are only going to observe and prevent any bomb being exploded
That would destroy this planet or our civilization"
- George Van Tassel on Aliens, 1956
Found the reason why it's gettin' so bad
All my life singing verses from a sick sad song
Till the light is all gone
But when that melody hit
You know it hit like an atom bomb
When it come
When it come
When it come
Oh Lord, you know it hit like an atom bomb
Tripped a breaker when my old man died
Now, I’m haunted by the fear of not feeling alive
Well, I’m on fire tonight
And when that melody hit
Y’know it come from the sky
Here it come
When it come
When it come
When it come
Oh Lord, it’s gonna hit like an atom bomb, bomb, bomb
I was born in 1984
I heard a chorus and the gold voice splintered my eye
You know the world only ends when you die
And when that melody hits
Ya gotta raise up and fly fly fly
When it come
When it come
When it come
When that melody hit like an atom bomb
When that melody hit like an atom bomb
When that melody hit like an atom bomb
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I wanna tell you a story about a future vision I once had from an old ancient god
Who sent down an army of machines to take the power from the land, bring it back above
They rode carriages without horses, brought electric light
Called it magnetic motion, lit the sad cafe
When the bullets rang on our doorstep, they'd done it "for the Lord"
Whole towns were mowed over looking for where power was stored
Do you need power?
Do you need power?
Do you need power?
It's in the heart of man
She said, "Don't worry, boy
You've won me over
Just be careful, be on time
And if I shake like a willow, hold me tighter"
And we'll stay up late with our radio
In case the raid comes at night
We'll go down listening to powerful sounds
Making pantomime, blown saxophones wail
Do you need power?
Do you need power?
Do you need power?
It's in the heart of man.
It’s a question that’s been asked from time to time
The answer, not hard to remember
One body who receives the light
Into the heart of man
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released October 23, 2020
© & ℗ 2020 Mama Bird Recording Co.
under license from Skyway Man