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The Whalestoe Tapes

by Grandpa Was A Lion

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1.
hello from the farm is it noisy where you keep your heart? hello from the farm is it magic when your dress falls off? at home in the barn the drugs we took wore off at dawn at home in the barn I wished you well and you wished me love hello from the farm hello from the farm hello from the farm hello from the farm
2.
down in Mobile Alabama with a banjo on my knee singing glory hallelujah I am free had the sense to sit and get real high on you a bird upon a wire in Tallulah baby and the devil rides along
3.
Whitecaps 03:19
you can't come home again the house feels different in all wild bright colors you've been everywhere I've been pressing my ear close to the ground soil drunken symphony it plays in harmony with all my failures alright emma ride on me now oh hello my girl and falling like icicles (my mother mary she's been talking to me) (holy smokes lenore the house is burning to the ground now)
4.
oh my bird has flown and sends all her love from Montana up in the mountains she haunts me everywhere I go and back home oh my bird has flown but sends all her love from her pa's mansion on the ocean she haunts me everywhere I go and back home January jones January jones she haunts me everywhere I go and back home its autumn in new york city town my baby singing all you need is love their ghosts are gonna follow me way up town I sang your blues and you paint the town your dancing shoes and my sad guitar your garden grew and I shot my gun I'm on fire (she loves you yeah yeah yeah) I'm on fire (she loves you yeah yeah yeah)
5.
Dancer 03:06
dancer come on comet come on cupid suspend my disbelief lover are you lonesome? are you keeping the wolves at bay? the people in their house show their bones and lie in their beds the prophets on the mountain all came down I wished them well dancer come on comet come on cupid suspend my disbelief dancer come on comet come on charlotte suspend my disbelief
6.
London 04:04
london we're on fire tying our tongues breathing the oxygen cousin happy birthday I hope that your well I hope your giving them hell went and made the record on the waterfront played some notes into the analogue machines made you come i miss you so lighting up my darkness the automobile it swerves the ides of march singing pagan war songs we sang along up a cliff out of step out of sight and in the bed the ghost and the body wander back home out of lines out of luck making money making love swore I believed you down to my bones up a cliff, out of step on your skin and in my head the sea and the rhythm calling you home in a dream in a haze in the city on the stage I tried to remember everything
7.
Flying Birds 02:55
last words and flying birds getting you down haunted hotels and southern belles smiling at you all down the road a storm it brews old wars and dinosaurs getting you down and these rich girls they're animals asleep in their beds down the road a storm it brews put away my things and thought back on the year fondly took you to bed lions in their cages they prayed to a king to come and give them all names everything they said about the city and how it will swallow you hole was a lie darling don't you worry your pretty little head about a thing cause I'm gone gone gone
8.
The Light 03:32
the light in the ally caught hell for the places it spilled the fire in the gutter burned back to the town it was built poor Medgar Evers was buried from the bullet he caught and Maria said nothing chalked it up to just "bones in a box" the girls in the stairwell trade tricks and shove shit up their nose the boys in the kitchen talk big about things they don't know the piano man is playing them songs that he learned at a kid the bible man is selling them truth that's been carefully edited the ghost in the cantina drinks hard and sings songs that he learned mostly old folkies and old Irish traditionals and I sat their thinking Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ has come back I counted my money finished my drink and left as quiet as I came
9.
elizabeth you are a failure
10.
its autumn in new york city town my baby sings her favorite Beatles song their ghosts are gonna follow me way up town its autumn in new york city town the girls are all trying on their crown they stand in the vortex on the grounds (they sleep inside sail boats on the sound) I sang your blues you paint the town your dancing shoes and my sad guitar your garden grew and I shot my gun I'm on fire I'm on fire I'm on fire
11.
On A Train 07:34
baby let me go baby let me go baby let me go the train rode on the tracks and broke our backs and brought us back to Jackson it broke our backs and brought us back to Jackson and the waves were crashin' (shot our mouths like tired guns) break down alright now break down alright now break down alright now alright now in colorado in new york city down in denver all i did was die in colorado
12.
mississippi dreams and amphetamines they helped you through the fall lion-hearted fools with a lot to prove laid down their lives for some land i put my heart in a box and locked the drugs in a drawer left the sex on the bed cause I've seen the movie before the water weighed a ton and brought us back to life and worse at war I've been waiting so long my girl the rebellion at the gate in a simple twist of fate all went home and made love to their wives mississippi dreams and eternity they keep you here on earth and it was always you no matter how i try I crossed an ocean and hung a picture up its rocket science it wears a bible belt but mama's dying in mississippi in mississippi dreams
13.
dear Marla I heard you gave your body back to the island dear Mama I rode my motor bike all down through the badlands and we listened to the radio and we listened to the radio

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released March 2, 2011

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