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1. |
Blarney Jim
04:26
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Blarney Jim (Kerwell/Taugner/Nelson)
Night comes, night goes,
Shadows, you can't hold.
No one knows where they are.
No one knows they fell so far.
Old you, late night,
Cloudy sky, you lost your sight.
No one sees what is shown.
Someone needs to get back home.
How far you travel here.
This is nowhere, nothing is clear.
Hey, bartender,
Make it right.
Uber me,
Home tonight.
Trail on, on you go,
Road to rail, rail to road.
Your boots pound the stone.
Can't you see you're not alone?
How far you travel here,
This is nowhere, nothing is clear,
Hey, bartender,
Make it right.
Uber me,
Home tonight.
Suitcase on the stair.
Move away, drop the glare.
Heavy blame, ends the day.
Where you are, is where you are.
Night comes, night goes,
Shadows, you can't hold.
No one knows where they are.
No one knows they fell so far.
So far you thought it clear.
This is nowhere, there is nothing here.
Hey, bartender,
Make it right.
Uber me,
Home tonight.
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2. |
Château Ego
03:21
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Château Ego (Kerwell)
You might take me on a ride,
You might take me to a big surprise.
You might take me on a trip,
I will go but it's too cold to strip.
I know I'd like some spring.
Bad time, bad line,
Bad grade, bad fine.
Bad Axe in Michigan,
Separation, who could win?
I don't know what you see.
Madam, you call me to the party.
You call me in with your fame.
Overriding my pick up.
Audio, audio, Oh!
Begging down on a wounded knee,
I can't believe you gave me tea.
Didn't have no place for me,
Didn't have no place to be.
I can't pretend that I love you.
Mixing around on these winter days,
It's so dark, I'm not phased.
Every hand I touch I hold,
The sound, the sound, the sound is cold.
I can pretend that you're sunny.
Showering up in your jewelry.
Your heels make my ears ring.
Every nose is pointed skyward.
Chateaux Ego, ego.
Running around in the traffic light,
Every road is such a fight.
You go in, can't get out,
Takes a year to move about.
Temperamental beehive.
Hunkered down in the snow,
Wrapping up the furnace blows.
You told me that you were fine,
Why do you cry all the time?
It's the audio ego!
I don't know where I want you to go,
I don't know where you are.
Bad Axe, bad line, bad anything.
Go to Michigan, you wait for the spring.
Big splash, big cash,
You might get another ass.
You are reaching, oh, so fine,
Candy jar is past the prime.
Chateaux Ego, we go!
You might take me on a ride,
You might take me to a big surprise.
You might take me on a trip,
I will go, I will flip.
I know it's time for spring.
Madam, you call me to the party.
You call me in with your fame.
I'd like your head on my pillow.
You're so delicious, indeed.
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3. |
One Dark Dog
04:42
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One Dark Dog (Kerwell)
I would find me, sitting in the cold.
I would find me, fearing to unfold.
I don't mind the whisper in my ear.
Do you wonder where it all goes?
Do you feel how it hurts to be alone?
I can feel the cold in my bones.
I am sitting under the moon.
What can you bring, bring to sooth?
Empty, empty, empty room.
Cold and void.
Broken tears keep the night.
What could be so still?
I will watch me rising from a fall.
I have seen me, crying to the wall.
I don't mind the blurring in my eye.
Do you question all that you hold?
When you shutdown you can eat your gold.
Do you feel empty in your soul?
We're so fragile, we're made of glass.
I understand the sky won't last.
I can see how we try to hide;
We're afraid to look inside.
I am trying to make sense
Of my breath in time.
Can you find you? Can you find you?
Can you watch you? Can you watch you?
Who is knowing what's on your mind?
One dark dog will make you blind.
Find you, watch you.
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4. |
Here Comes Mr. Anafrost
03:06
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Here Comes Mr. Anafrost (Kerwell)
Here comes Mr. Anafrost.
Here comes Mr. I. M. Lost.
He don’t know where he’s in,
He don’t know where he’s been.
He don’t know where he’s been,
He don’t know what he’d been.
Where do you belong?
Where do you belong?
Here comes Mr. Anafrost,
Tight- fisted struggle boss.
He sees his second hand,
He breathes in a dream land.
He sees a shattered hand,
He breathes in shifting sand.
Where do you belong?
Would you like to come home?
Here comes Mr. Anafrost,
Digging in boots, what a cost.
Time passes, let it blow,
Over and out, mirage goes.
The time is false, it blows,
Over and out, it all goes.
Can you belong?
Can you let go of wrong?
Here comes Mr. Anafrost,
Flipping around in a loss.
Do you see through your cloud?
Walk through the cloud.
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5. |
Hands in the Air
03:17
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6. |
Goldmine
04:30
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Goldmine (Kerwell)
There’s a splitting to our face,
But our face forgot its eye.
There’s a ripping across time,
Catch the ripping expose a lie.
I was there standing, standing there with you,
Did we get the old selves to move?
We were turning across a field,
We were watching trees love their life.
The movement, on top of the trail.
The field was waving, waving unreal.
With that thunder, grit in my teeth.
Sky shifting and the lights went out.
I remember laughing, laughing out loud.
I remember moving on top of a cloud.
Didn’t they tell you, you made this up?
Didn’t they tell you, the world is done?
I don’t care about your ghost.
All this calling on the past.
Let it fade and leave your mind.
Turn away from what was time.
It’s a goldmine to see you dream.
It’s a wonder to leave your mind.
Consider, all that you’ve been,
You must leave it, leave it all behind.
It’s a goldmine to see I.
Consider, your thoughts lie.
Though our faces face apart,
We’re together beyond the dark.
I don’t know where you are,
But I know we’re not apart.
I know you are with me,
I know I am with you.
And it’s all alright, it’s all right, etc.
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7. |
Wildcat
02:21
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Wildcat (Kerwell/Nelson/Taugner)
Nails on my back,
Tongue on my heart.
You're so kind,
When you fall apart.
When I see you,
My eyes go blind.
You realize,
You've been hypnotized.
Oh, how you try,
Try to find I.
Nails on my back,
You're my wildcat.
Hold me so tight,
I love your wicked bite.
When I call you,
Now you fly.
You realize,
I've been hypnotized.
Oh, how I try,
Try to find I.
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8. |
Power
03:14
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Power (Kerwell)
You don't know me, you can't see me.
You are riding, in a limousine.
You gave me the empty meal.
The doctor told me, you have my need.
I don't believe him, you're not what you seem.
You are robbing the world.
You starve the boy and girl.
Cavity smile, corrupt tongue,
Faded eye, food undone.
You sit on the hill,
In your office, another bill.
Climb, climb, fork at night.
Climb, climb, the killing bite.
You don't know me, not with your greed.
You're so clever, manipulate seed.
You poison my well.
You will write all, of the recipe.
Chemical team, garden therapy.
You break the cell,
Changing Mademoiselle.
Cavity smile, fork tongue,
Faded eye, food undone.
You sit on the hill,
In your office, another bill.
Your hit, food factory.
Climb, climb, dead calorie.
Would you mind
Turning the lights on?
Rice is boiling,
Heavy curtain drawn.
You don't know me, you can't hear me.
You are screaming, in a deep dream.
It's your world gone ill.
You told me it's a good meal.
It will bite back, FDA seal.
Cyber meal eats the world.
You starve the boy and girl.
Cavity smile, corrupt tongue,
Faded eye, we're undone.
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9. |
I need the Rain
03:22
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I Need the Rain (Kerwell)
Take my hand, baby, take my hand.
Take my frown, you understand,
What it means when the world is so dry,
All the anger burns my eyes.
Feel the ground, hard beneath our feet.
The clay so cruel, what life can breathe?
Oh, your smile, lightens up my life.
The air so still, no one's right.
When I'm with you and I close my eyes,
I become you, past all disguise.
I need your rain falling down from the sky.
We'll be the same now, we're on the same line.
I need the rain.
I need the rain.
I see the faces hanging to the ground.
I feel the anger in every town.
What does it mean when you're so full of spite?
All this heat, all the fright.
Feel the rage pouring out of your heart,
All the flame burning us apart.
Who should mind what you're wearing on your head,
Or how you sleep in your own bed?
I don't care about the color of your clothes.
We'll take them off when we get back home.
I don't care how many legs you've got.
Who is your God, who is not.
I need the rain.
I need the rain.
There's a drop, a drop in the sand.
Some cool water, to quench the land.
Take my hand, baby, take my hand.
Hold me up, you understand.
I don't care about what food you eat.
I don't care about the shape of your teeth.
When I know you there will be no surprise.
When I know you we'll see we never die.
I need the rain, I need the rain, etc.
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10. |
Come on Down
02:39
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Come on Down (Kerwell/Nelson/Taugner)
You will make my telephone ring,
You will make my doorbell sing.
I can feel you miles away,
I can feel your beautiful rays.
You will be in your van,
I will wait for you to land.
I'd like to see you here today,
I'd like to have you come over to play.
Come on down, come on down.
You know how the weather is rough,
You know now the highway is tough.
I'm trying to get you to come home,
I'm tired of talking on the telephone.
You will slide on up to me,
Your plans and your map set me free.
I'd like to see you here today,
I'd like to have you come over to play.
Come on down, come on down.
Let me wipe the smoke from your hair,
You can sit on top of my chair.
I will hold you all of the night,
You can eat all the candle light.
See the floor on top of the shelf,
This is your home, meet your Self.
I'd like to see you here today,
I'd like to have you come over to play.
Come on down, come on down.
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11. |
Who Talks to You Girl?
02:54
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Who Talks to You Girl? (Kerwell)
I don't know where you want me to go,
Bad light and a bad movie show.
You made the date and you seemed so kind,
You don't like the picture, it comes from your mind.
Who walks in your world?
Who talks to you girl?
You hold my hand walking down your street.
You keep me near until you have no need.
I will run before it gets that far,
I will vanish from your kiss with no heart.
Oh, you really got me down.
Who walks in your town?
Baby, I am just one of your creations,
You should realize it now.
You look at me like I'm standing before you,
I'm not standing here at all,
Nowhere.
I don't know where you want this to go,
You like the clatter, the rattle of the show.
I'll leave you here to fall on your own,
I saw past the picture, I knew you had no hold.
Oh, who walks in your world?
Who talks to you girl?
Baby, I am just one of your creations,
You should realize it now.
You look at me like I'm standing before you,
I'm not standing here at all,
I'm nowhere.
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12. |
Spark
03:35
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Spark (Kerwell)
There was a taste of dust in my mouth.
I wrote you about it when I was a child.
There was bad lightning, we were too afraid to hide.
There was a storm baby, and you called it life.
All those neighbors, running around the hills.
Beacons and beacons and one hundred girls.
The traffic was steaming, choking up the night.
All those hotels, they make me feel uptight.
I'm wide awake and I haven't been assigned.
I can't go on, another day.
I can't take you, not this way.
Can you slow down?
I'm off the ground.
You had some promise to bring me to some height.
I saw your mountain, it was full of gold and might.
Then I crawled all over your head.
I could taste all the sadness inside.
All those tears pouring out of your sighs.
That's a height I just don't want to climb.
We can go on pounding pavement.
We can go on pounding nails.
All your war paint hides your beauty.
This is your storm, let's hope it fails.
Where is your spark?
Crawl out of the dark.
Where is you spark?
What's the reason you summon me to you?
I sit in your room drinking your fumes.
What's the reason I'm on top of you?
You give me no truth , I'm lying back to you.
All the focus fell out of my glasses,
But my heart is clear inside.
I know you're afraid to touch me.
I can't go on, another day.
I can't take you, not this way.
Can you slow down?
You're off the ground.
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13. |
Question
03:38
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Question (Kerwell)
Look behind your door.
Look inside your heart.
Look upon your window,
Afraid to fall apart?
What are you listening to?
What are you watching now?
Cry at the visual,
Cry up and down.
You have all the questions,
You made the answer.
You have a moving shadow,
You will never catch.
I wonder why it plagues you;
What's with the net?
Digging holes in the water,
Digging holes in the sky,
Gets you nowhere quickly,
But it takes you a long time to find.
You have all the questions,
You made the answer.
You, the domineering,
What you get you ask her.
Question all the people,
That give you all the names.
Question all the stories,
They're told to have you made.
Question all the visions,
You gave them all the names.
Question all your stories,
You made them to be unmade.
People shop when they have to,
They don't have to, they want to.
Buy the toys they tell you,
Nothing satisfies.
Question all the questions,
Question, question why.
Asking is your set up
When you know you lie.
You have all the questions,
You made the answer.
You, the domineering,
What you get you ask her.
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The Royal Blue Appleton, Wisconsin
The Royal Blue is a 3-piece Garage Rock band based out of Appleton, WI. An eclectic mix of alternative rock, folk, blues, garage, 70s punk and power pop.
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