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They've been building a crescendo ever since I've been around
And you can start to hear its buzzing from the hilltops of this town
And there's been word of people trying to do exactly what they want
But they've been trying to keep that quiet since the microphones are still turned on
And all the light we've strung up over our promising streets
Well it just bounces back so quickly in its little leaps and leaps
And everything that's young is moving and everything that's old is still
So we can put our eyes upon the past when we have time to kill
And we're so sure the more we know, the more we know we know
And the more this place it spins around the faster it must go
But I have seen good men so frozen in the bright headlights of choice
And the moment brings them silent when we've fathered them a voice
A young man who sits with books and theorems he knows all too well
Well he sits beside the most beautiful girl as far as he can tell
But the only way he can have her time is 'cause he's good at math
And he's confused out of the tension when his eyes dart where her clothes are lacked
And all he can do is watch, is watch...
Well there was a great sailor man who had a painter wife
And all he wanted was to sail the world with her for life
But he fell ill and had to stay inside the dark cabin
And though at bay she'd paint the windowpanes as great seascapes for him
Now I know people who would think that she had done him wrong
And others who'd think 'cause she made him happy was true love
But I would like to be the one to think nothing at all
'Cause it's the second that we try to play God when we fall
And we've spent all of our history trying to make notions of reality
We devote entire majors to say what there is in front of we
But there's grandmas spending whole days worrying bout folks they've never met
And there's great grandchildren who already want something to help them forget
And I've climbed up in the bleachers but mostly just look around
And I've found if I cheer what everyone else cheers my voice has no sound
And I keep trying to find some champion and I keep trying to find myself
But I keep superimposing me in the motions of someone else
And all we can do is watch, is watch...
And sometimes I look around and I just think there has to be
Some kinda grace I cannot see to save a wretch like me
And I could paraphrase just anything you throw my way
To suit your needs or make it what my mind wants it to say
And all the great editorial spaces that claim to give just what they see
Have mounted a campaign to give the truth that makes the most money
And every list of top whatever hundred things to make us look
Are exact replicas of the senior superlatives in our yearbooks
And they've been building a crescendo ever since I've been around
And you can start to hear it from the hilltops of this town
And there's been word of people trying to do exactly what they want
But they've been trying to keep that quiet since the pinstripes have been here so long
And there's a guy, and I'm not gonna say who that guy is
When he first started listening it was to a big black disc
He watched that turn magnetic then to lasers then to bytes
He watched the music lose to a commercial in a fight
And all he can do is watch, is watch...
-Copyright 2006 Puppet Show Named Julio Records
NEW LIVE CD "A Letting Go" !!!!!!!
greetings ravenous people of the planet earth..
many of you know that i have long been sending out audio demons and helping saints with laptops and caffeine to the live shows in order to garner documented helpings of the ever-morphing changeling that is the live show.
after a huge period of wait for so many processes involved, it is now time to set this vessel free and hope that it may pulsate and sparkle in little white earphones and big grey speakercones everywhere.
i am so critical of the process of taking a real-life experience where a big huge room is filled with the energy of people and the big big sound of P.A.-system amplified music, and then converted to audio files that try to capture what that moment in time was like. i am fairly used to going back and listening to live recordings and it only messing up my memory of what everything was like because all i hear are the not-perfect notes, the places where i didn’t quite accomplish what i possibly had thought i was …which is why this has taken so long. i wanted to make a live CD that truly captured in the best way possible the kind of spontaneously dictated energy that this catalogue of songs can have live. and since the songs are constantly changing, the process of getting ‘definitive’ sort of live cuts would merely be nothing more than choosing takes of them that really captured the emotional pull that they have to offer, in a high-fidelity way that was full and able to translate on a home speaker system. i couldn’t necessarily insist on them being perfect in every way in terms of notes and beats and all of that, but just a perfect audio snowflake of a moment of belief.
so i have finally come to a moment of time where i am ready to release a collection of cuts that piece together like a boat and hopefully as a unit hold together and stay suspended as something fully functional and purposeful.
and so i give you A Letting Go—a collection of takes from every sort of venue: from huge halls with heaps of standing people to listening rooms with the sitting silent to little basement-floor house concert intimacy to the tiny suctioned space of an XM radio studio.
the collection bounds all the way down the coast from the NYC to the ATL, and the formats vary from solo DL to duos to trios to full band.
what is unique about this release though, is that it is not being released as a physical CD. the buyer can of course make that themselves from the files we send them. but it is instead a sold collection of files in keeping with the day and age we are in, where the mp3s can go with immediacy to your computer and then into your pod or a burned CD. there are artwork and info files, and also 3 live videos from the ‘Genrecide’ release at the Strathmore mansion. since there aren’t any CD manufacturing costs it is cheap, and since it is digital, it is immediate to wherever you may be in the country.
anyway, im all excited about this and hope that i get some good feedback, this time without my guitar.
here’s the tracklisting:
1. Grapefruit- Spokane, WA
2. Uniforms- College Park, MD
3. Superfish- Athens, GA
4. Celebrations and Wanderings- Bethesda, MD
5. Starboard- Silver Spring, MD
6. All You Got To Do- Vienna, VA
7. Moving, Shaking- Silver Spring, MD
8. Sanctivilification- Bethesda, MD
9. The Importance of What We Just Can't Say- Atlanta, GA
10. My Grecian Urn- Falls Church, VA
11. Us, Therein Potential- Bethesda, MD
12. Mountains- Silver Spring, MD
13. Sitting on Sides in the Eve of Decision- Bethesda, MD
14. Ownership and Beauty- Silver Spring, MD
15. Road Song- New York, NY
live video songs:
16. Proof
17. The Importance of Being Furnished
18. Sitting on Sides in the Eve of Decision
anyway, to get this crazy thaang just go to http://www.DanielLeeMusic.com/live