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Rooms within Rooms

by Ty Maxon

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1.
I woke alone / blackwater wood I woke alone / blackwater wood cattail and mud / blood on the sand black feather lay / where white dove did land my lord below / made me understand my lord above holds / no helping hand my shadow moans/ blackwater wood my shadow moans/ blackwater wood calling my name / well understood skull in the flame / black sap on the wood my lord below / bid me stay for good my lord above / it's well understood hear me hear me / in the evening rain I want you, want you / do you feel the same? It’s easy, easy / if you say it’s so It’s hard it’s so hard / when you tell me no when you tell me no I do go down / blackwater wood I do go down to / blackwater wood I lay me down / blackwater wood I lay me down / blackwater wood deep in the dirt / sapling tree grows up through the earth / and out through my bones my lord below / you're no lord to me my lord above / you’re lower than he see me, see me / lonesome but alive I drank the rain up / just to keep you dry I made my home / where the sun don’t ever shine I want to go / any place is fine any place is fine I made my home / blackwater wood I woke alone in / blackwater wood my shadow moans / in blackwater wood I lay me down / in black water wood
2.
I denied the day / it never came my way I never saw the light / milk and honey right under her tongue / like Solomon’s bride learn the blues from motel rooms / inside New York nights my America is all but it my sights / my sights have you heard the news / Katie had a child it’s going on two / blinking eyes of blue / send her a song / call it I love you and your mother went / beneath the knife her heart don’t beat right / send her roses in the morning for the rest of your life / your life now I’m not here / the rocking chair / sits a shadow from the day dreaming fast / for fields of grass / and one willow for shade to lay me down / oh, to lay me down meet me in Tucson / walk me in the sun will you be the light? / it’s been dark all night I’ll do nothing wrong / I’ll do nothing right love a fool / and he’ll be true to you for a while but when / the sun is done the circus lights / run so wild / so wild now I’m not here / the room is bare everybody knows / a day is just a fist of thorns / wishing for a rose when I’m asleep / my shadow meets / the moon in the room I lay Victoria is in the bath / if that is her name I’m not here / that much is clear / I have gone away dreaming fast for fields of grass / and one willow for shade
3.
I can’t see my friend I won’t see her again she sleeps down the street but we both know how to pretend I can’t see her face I don’t know her name when she walks on by well, I will walk by just the same well, we used to say the first one to the grave must come back from hell to tell the ghost life is okay I know that it hurts looks like I’ll be first I’ll be back to shake your shutters and make each light-bulb burst that is when I’ll say the ghost life is okay that is when I’ll say that I have never gone a day where I don’t wonder what goes through your mind and if you too might say it’s okay it’s okay the ghost life is okay
4.
Mulberry 05:08
see the mulberry tree / growing up out of the dam come summertime / we will make mulberry jam stain our hands red / then braid a daisy ‘till we have a crown for a queen black laughing eyes full on moon / and a look for me mulberry jam / come summertime hickory creek / running so slow and so sweet like white honey wine / she’ll tell you take a drink beware if you do / for nothing is true when the words of a false gypsy speaks goodbye nightmare / I have dreamt you for weeks hickory creek / running so slow I was a child / I stayed that way for awhile I prayed by my bed / that my family would always be fed I spoke to the night / I listened for light and caught fire-flies in a glass barefoot and filthy / tell me, could it still be like that I was a child / for a while so tell me the truth / how do you say I don’t give a damn I stayed up all night / making you mulberry jam you know I’m afraid / for every new day and I don’t sleep that well anyway don’t break and don’t cry / and please don’t go away tell me the truth / how do you say goodbye see the mulberry tree / growing up out of the damn come summertime / we will make mulberry jam stain our hands red / then braid a thorn bush ‘till we have a crown for a king black crying eyes full ff moon / and a tear for me mulberry jam / come summertime
5.
Town 05:02
I have seen the sun go / up and down and I know every street that old star / will show me see the sidewalk / see Marie’s Saloon see the jukebox filled / with your father’s tunes holding on is hard enough / without a hurricane above in between the land and sea / the darkest storm you’ll find me In a broken town / I’m broke down cry too soft / laugh too loud tell that joke / tell it twice first time laugh / then you cry then you cry Oh, I get by / I kill the clock by wishing for nothing / nothing behind painted windows / busted lights but shadow share the night / where I’m a shadow, too walked upon the worn / road where you were born Katie sailed to sea / left a locust storm the sea is still / the sea is red the sea is far above my head what’s the harm in giving in / I’m going down before my death in a broken town / I’m broke down spin that rusted wheel around upon the spokes / hold a stick you can hear the minutes tick / minutes tick oh, I admit / I kill the clock by wishing for nothing / nothing every sorrow sold / was not worth weight in gold you borrowed and you stole / what was for free give it back to me / on the count of three watch the world burn / call it comedy look, another broken bird / falling from the sky to earth here, the lightening lasts all day / we fly our kites the people say in a broken town / I’m broke down every queen tires of her clown spend your time stacking sticks / throwing stones and laying bricks smoke too many cigarettes / watch the sun up in the west dig a hole and crawl on in / tell the lord too tired to sin playing them losing cards again / roll them bones one time then one time then oh, once again / I kill the clock by wishing for nothing
6.
I know the hue your lips have shown red to blue / white as snow come a little high / come a little low come by anytime with your tall shadow creaking of the floorboards know to wake me right / before you go come a little high / leave a little low to where the weather / suits your clothes it’s alright, you say / it’s alright, okay it’s alright that way / down you go up in smoke and flame I did not heed the words you told me I will not be in love and lonely I’ve been down, now I’m only waiting to be treated kindly owl in the tree calling hoo hoo only me and a top hat, too twirling a cane, laughing at the moon the night don't frighten like you do don't come around here / shoo fly, shoo I'm all patched up / like brand-new a knock at the door can't be a blue bird come back / home to roost it’s alright, you say / it’s alright, okay it’s alright that way / call it a life call it another day in the past / I saw you solely the light you cast / bright and holy I've been down / lower than the grass to the ground come treat me friendly say what you may / but don't come again and do what you do / what you do is a sin so say what you may / but you must understand when you do what you / the light don't get in come another morning / moon and sun both lock eyes and / hold on burn for the night / burn for the dawn burn let it be the brighter one I hope I'm right / I need a win let that light come shinin' in stay for the day, sun / say you will the night don't frighten / it just kills it’s alright, you say / it’s alright, okay it’s alright that someday / upon the water one will walk my way and I will go down to Manassas I'll find my friend / fill our glasses forget the cold / slow way time passes eat some corn and sweet molasses
7.
fine, go take the road / back to California start at the center / circle out westward and tonight my mind / is drained of dreams It's Halloween / Halloween and I feel something strange the wind and the rain rattling the bones that you broke deed was done when your silver tongue spoke and when you wake / you will be the lonely liar city grown cold / California on fire empty out the night / to fill with song 'cause I'm alright / I'm alright when nothings wrong with the way / your wearing your face carrying the cards / cut to the wicked one darkening the sun / queen of spades oh no, scream like a kettle whistle don't speak sweetly to me / green eyed ghost grab your gun / aim it at the sun slay in the morn' / so long, so long grab your gun / aim it at the sun slay it the morn' say/ so long, so long come tomorrow / I'll be dreaming of a nightmare a willow in the wind / shadowy lady, i'm scared clutch a fist of sand / it's my body much less than a man take yourself to California / I'll never understand why we spoke / out of turn light a smoke / let it burn twist your mouth / say the word my song / sung your silver tongue / broken
8.
winter chilled upon your skin / tried to warm you but i went I lost my hold and so / you froze within take my fault and take my fear / make one day one hundred years no matter where you go / I stay here here, where minuets strike / heavy on a young man's life it's hello / hello / goodbye it's been too long / it's been too long in the hollow where you lay / like a wounded bird of prey waiting for the weak / to fall your way here I am / take what you may the golden ring you gave / the copper locket stained green in the rain oh lord, lows get low / trinkets turn to solid stone they're too heavy / for this so and so it's been too long / it's been too long I can't go on / I can't go on I can't go on with you the same way today / somethin' in the way how come you said the worst parts over how come you said the wort parts over now you tremble when you sleep / safely in your mother's keep the lion killed the lamb / without knowing in the morning when you wake / you will often feel afraid for the light of day / showing what you lost / is what you've gained I'm tired of this boneyard / full moon shining on the shards and I'm tired of nursing broken hearts it's been too long / it's been too long been too long I can't go on / I can't go on I can't go on with you the same way today / somethin' in the way but for you, the worst parts over I'm glad for you, the worst parts over hip hip hooray, the worst parts over
9.
Manitoba 03:40
flowers for the king and queen / were not grown for the giving all left to hold and slow wilting / let them go let everything go the way the wind will blow / winter rains and April snows 19 holes upon your clothes / drop the coin and let it roll on home mowing on over / hill grown in with four-leaf clover coming undone / cloud roll over fill my mind up / rain and thunder and if you come to stay a spell / drop my name down wishing well and hold against your ear a shell / hear the sea clear as a bell and if you ask for cigarettes / I'll only have the one I lit press it soft against your lips / it will be a broken kiss to go mowing on over / hill grown in with four-leaf clover coming undone / cloud roll over fill my mind up / rain and thunder asked me what was wrong / and I played for you this song coming undone again / coming undone tell me I'm wrong / tell me I don't belong here mowing on over / hill grown in with four-leaf clover coming undone / cloud roll over fill my mind up / rain and thunder no, this ain't over / haunt the hills in Manitoba you gotta gun / it ain't loaded fired your tongue / my mind exploded
10.
I see yellow daisies / white gardenia, too they sway to either side / as you and I walk through it may be the breezes / the moonlight, silver-blue I would die tonight / if I could live this lie with you I would live a lie / to tell the honest truth to wake up by your side / see sunlight peeking through it would fall upon your skin / it would shine on my skin, too I would die tonight / if I could live that lie with you 'cause it's and empty little ritual / to tie the minuets through everybody does / what nobody wants to do wait with deepest wishes / for saint and angels who know better than to come and try / to live a lie with you but I don't want to go down / that dark avenue too many souls go down the hole / to seek a sky of blue I just want the eternal / for a minute or two I would die tonight / if I could live that lie with you so paint the petal purple / if that's what you want to do don't be shy, don't hide your eyes / there's nothing you must prove I don't want love forever / just the once would do I would die tonight I could die tonight I will die tonight / if I can live this lie with you

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released March 20, 2020

Khari Parker- Percussion
Kevin O'Donnell – Drums
Ben White - Cello
Christopher Jesurun – Drums
Corey Brekher – Drums
Quin Tsan - Vocals
Jordan 'Tallman" Armond- Additional Percussion
John Francis Gran- Bass
Gerald Bailey - Trumpet
John Cicora - Bass, Piano
Ryan Suzuka - Harmonica
Gerald Bailey - Trumpet
Ty Maxon - Guitar, Vocals, Piano, Hammond Organ, Ukulele, Percussion

Engineered & mixed by Jeff Breakey for Good Wolf Music
Mastered by James Auwarter for Coda Room Audio, Chicago/ London

All songs written & performed by Ty Maxon

Album Cover by Ty Maxon Illustration by Donald K. Robbins

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