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Ghostyhead - 1997

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Little Yellow Town|Close

Low tide tonight, low tide little yellow town

Green life teems up from the underground

Glows in the dark, sifts the sands of garbage

Reach hard in for the ragged star fish

And only her lipstick bleeds,

And the color seeds into all your paint by number schemes

What was yellow, what was white, what was day, what was night?

And now in soft detective voices the past rises And follows you in shapes

of rain and dew

And you walk through the Fun House,

those sonic faces hit you like a bus

till you're knocked down by

Doppler waves of trust

And over here I scare myself

And over here I scare myself

day after day, cube after cube,

dot after dot

laying down on the kitchen floor,

tapped into the secret code

she's a down girl,

the acid's eating out her mind...

Ahhh,

the altered universe,

step right up

Door swings both ways, ha ha

and now as tattooed children,

(two-legged potions)

follow us

while lightening bugs circle overhead,

while lightening bugs circle overhead...

We tear their wings off

and memorize what they said

It's down rain, down time,

she's a real down girl,

the acid's eating out her mind...

Till all is new and all is changed,

the altered world

Spells out your name,

 

 

Road Kill|Close

What's the matter with it? Why's it look that way?

What's the matter with it? What's it trying to say?

What's that on its back? Where's it trying to go?

A mystical vision got dressed up one night

Locked the door, walked through

the misty porch light

Was headed over to somebody's house

For an occasion long awaited

And as it crossed the road, Vista del Mar,

A big red car, big black tires, nice Corvette,

And the future has not arrived yet!

Moonlight on the hill, lights up the Road Kill

Moonlight on the hill, and the future is a Road Kill.

What's the matter with it? What's it trying to say?

What's the matter with it? I just saw it yesterday...

The police came, the neighbors too,

They tried to pick it up - what else can you do?

Meanwhile, somebody's waiting back at the house

For the future to dawn bright across the sky

Moonlight on the hill, lights up the Road Kill

Moonlight on the hill, lights up the future

What's the matter with it? What's it trying to say?

What's the matter with it? Why won't it go away?

What's the matter with it? Why won't it

close its eyes?

What's the matter with it? And who are

those guys?

 

 

Matter|Close

What you wish for, what you think

The photographs you carry around

What whispers to yourself

When you're finally gone,

What you take when you go

Adds up to the Big Number

What you leave with who you know

Makes the Big Picture matter

It matters

It doesn't matter if you're fat

Wear a helmet or wear a hat

If you're sorry or if you're sure

Who you are is who you were,

and who you were matters

It matters

You're so deep inside yourself

Looking out at everyone else

You think a thing

And in a while you meet it on the street

Because it matters...

It matters

(A house across the sand) Matters

 

 

Firewalker|Close

Julie got some ecstasy, she laid down on the steering wheel

Love comes to the first thing love sees

Love comes to the first thing

that makes it real

Everybody's been hit,

E verybody's been hurt

Everybody's been kicked,

Everybody's been dirt

Everybody had to drive all night

To reach L.A. in the morning light

I try to lighten up, I always bear down

I want to back you up

But you just back down

Julie got some Brown girlfriend,

Got it for a coin

Her landlord threw her clothes out on the Street in the Tenderloin

Everybody's been a dog

Everybody's had to beg

Everybody's been a moth, been a moth,

When she woke up on her knees,

Everybody made her say please.

I was in a wild place where I go,

I couldn't hear you

Julie found God in a bus station

And she liked it a lot

You put your money in the basket that comes,

You remember the first God you bought

Everybody starts out innocent,

Starts out ridiculous,

Starts out beautiful

But nobody wants to be alone

Out here I'm all on my own

I try to lighten up, I always bear down,

I want to back you up, but...

Julie found a sailor boy,

Sailed off to the deep blue sea

So Firewalker

You can walk on me

 

 

Howard|Close

The spirits of her abortions...

The spirits of all her abortions

Manifested themselves into the furniture in the room

There would be a chair waiting, smiling,

the pictures on the wall watched her in disbelief.

She'd go carry the garbage out

to the sidewalk and come back in and

sit with all her children

inanimate, petrified forever.

A little boy named Howard,

everybody knows one of those guys in school

who kills everything he finds,

every little cat, every mouse,

every dog,

likes to burn his sister with cigarettes.

Diabolical schemes,

everything has been conspired,

the door's wired

That's because those South Americans tied him up

in a chair,

He was doing that dope deal,

he never got over that.

You're just made of words,

you're just made of sounds.

 

 

Ghostyhead|Close

Ghostyhead, Ghostyhead,

Standing in the door,

You think if you don't answer

I can't hear you anymore

Chains you hung from ear to ear

Finally drug your head,

But I can see through anything

I know what you bled

Ghostyhead, Ghostyhead,

You think that I can't see

The shadow of another girl

Each time you look at me,

People came from far away

to watch us drop you in,

But ghostyhead the crowd is gone

- - Come back up again

 

ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh, ohhhh

Ghostyhead, Ghostyhead

Come sit down on the porch,

There's a serpent caught in a fisher's net

And virgins light the torch,

But who this night would not stay warm

By any light they could?

You just eat your bread and cake

And tell them it was good

 

 

Sunny Afternoon|Close

Walking down my street

Here's the room where I live

Here's the neighbor children,

sometimes they bother me

Here's the window where you left

How can I forget to look,

Oh,

How can I forget?

A sunny afternoon

A plane goes by

Walking with my cat around

It's a sunny afternoon

Here's the window where you left

How can I forget to look?

Oh,

How can I forget?

 

 

Scary Chinese Movie|Close

And my hands are flickering

and the water turns to tracing paper

and I watch you dry.

I'm an army of stills

that you flick between your fingers

You will always make me be faster than I am

There's a banner rising

I know 'sorry' when I see its bones

We will always end up

washed up on the shore

And my hands are flickering,

Someone's reading the book over us,

White letters across your trousers,

we were always being dubbed.

 

 

Cloud Of Unknowing|Close

So he dropped the web of the spider of heaven down through the clouds,

All the way into the pool of blood at the bottom of hell

Far above in heaven a bird flies through the terrible cloud of unknowing

Trust can make a man into a wood, trust can make a man green

An Everything that longs to be,

Broken and small enough to see.

To be held in his hands,

To be a part and yet alone.

Here he is, reaching for the speed of light.

Here he is, reaching for the sound of forgiveness.

Now wounding 'round the waterfront

She listens for a voice

A sign of Mother God, a sign of God the Lad.

I long to enter you

W ith gentleness and compassion

But sorrow

Is always the open door.

I know many days go by and I forget to look up at the stars

I forget there are stars, I forget there is the rest

Thin threads of light follow you around

Through the pale blue, down your skin

Down your skin

 

 

Vessel Of Light|Close

A distant light

finds me

when I'm with you

A distant light

knows me

when I'm through

Once I mistook you

For somebody else

Mistook you for somewhere,

mistook you

For...

A distant light

that binds me

A distant sound

that finds me

When I'm through

when i'm through

when i'm through

True Vessel of Light

 

 

Discography|Close

Ghostyhead (1997, REPRISE)

 

 

▒ Track

1. Little Yellow Town (6:54)

2. Road Kill (4:41)

3. Matters (6:04)

4. Firewalker (3:56)

5. Howard (4:45)

6. Ghostyhead (5:36)

7. Sunny Afternoon (3:54)

8. Scary Chinese Movie (6:19)

9. Cloud Of Unknowing (7:03)

10. Vessel Of Light (6:30)

 

 

 

▒ Information

released: 1997

producer: Rickie Lee Jones and Rick Boston

Rickie Lee Jones performed vocals and played Taylor, Gibson L4, Gibson Mutt, Baby Bruno, Kay, Solid and hollow body Epiphone guitars, Kay bass, sleigh bells, drums, bowed dulcimer, 20kalimba, wurlitzer, rhodes, mpc-60, juno106, jx-8p, dx1000, wire recorder, and piano.

Rick Boston - same instruments as those played by Rickie Lee Jones/loops and programming

Boss Doctor - Additional programming

Lee Cantelon - Backwards Guitar

Robert Devery - Rhythm/Korg Trinity

Carol Es - Live Drums

Josh Friese - Live Drums

Janeen Rae Heller - Saw

Jay Lane - Foot Trunk/Cymbals

John Leftwich - Upright Bass

Ronnie Siago - Live Drums

Gerry Sutyak - Cello

David Zeller - Sheet Metal

 

 

 

 

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