Works For Tomorrow
Works For Tomorrow
An album inspired by family trees, Kentucky back roads, High Bridge, thunder storms, V.W. buses, Judy Henske and Jerry Yester, dark lullabies, Howard Zinn, Rashomon, APTP, and Pennsylvannia.
Album Tracks
- Vanishing Point
- Works for Tomorrow
- Cheap Gasoline
- Snowblind
- Go Tell It
- The people’s History
- Requiem for 4 Chambers
- The Unknowing
- Deep Lakes
- End With Me
Album Lyrics
Vanishing Point
I’m gonna take it on the inside
I’m gonna take it slow
I’m gonna take it on the inside
I’m gonna take it slow
Take it slow, take it slow, take it slow
Works for Tomorrow
Acting/ Like it’s the end of the world
Hoping for someone to hold on to
Midnight/It’s all so clear
The future/ the stars crystallized
You see her /This must be
The beginning or the end of whatever that was
Acting / Like it’s the start of the day
Hoping for someone to be there with
I’ve got no advice to share
I know nothing anyway
The truth bends on your hopeful ears
It works for tomorrow
Acting / Like it’s the end of the world
Floating above it all
Hoping /That what you see is real
Calendar girl 1963
It works for tomorrow…
Cheap Gasoline
Counter culture counter
Downer getting downer
Revolution spinning
Winners keep on winning
Coffeed and complacent
Everything adjacent
Personal assistance
Bacteria resistant
Gatefold sleeves and magazines
Jimson tea and waking dreams
Driving with no destination
Cheap thrills and cheap gasoline
Rocky Mountain higher
Fires getting dire
Warming in denial
Innocence on trial
Festival redundance
Photos in abundance
The ME’s are getting MEer
But no one’s getting freer
Snowblind
Go Tell It
He hit the back road with his high beams
He took his troubles head on
The answer came to him/ it was a quick one
I gotta get out of this place
He went to High Bridge but he couldn’t look down
The tracks began to rumble
The answer came to him /it was a quick one
Better hold on tight
Go tell it on the mountain
Go tell it on the mountain
Go tell it on the mountain
You’re not gonna have to save a place for me
The People’s History
Just when it looked like I was shooting straight
Somebody moved the target
The way I shuffled my feet became a craze
But it made me feel lethargic
My head is spinning in a spiral
The peoples’ history also lies
My heart is strung up on a timeline
There is no end and no design
You’re pretty angry for a pacifist
You got me quaking in my boots
Better reach out and get a grip
You need to lay down some roots
My head is spinning in a spiral
The peoples’ history also lies
My heart is strung up on a timeline
There is no end and no design
The captain called for the arrival
prepare for all of this to bend
The turbulence is all archival
This surely signals for the end
Requiem For 4 Chambers
A heart’s got dirt
A heart’s got ice
A heart’s got roots
Struggling to reach the light
A heart’s got nothing
It did not seek
Or was prospected
By another heart in need
A heart seeks death
A heart it feeds
On a restless urge
For another heart to grieve
A heart it builds a house, a home
A heart will eat its very own
A heart will scorch its own right hand
While the left seeks proof and to understand
The Unknowing
Light poured down through the canopy
Found you there underneath the trees
I hope this message finds you well
Illumination cast the spell
Where are all the crows today?
I’m looking for omens to cast away
Beyond the darkness of this space
I see the contours of your face
The storm knocked the power out
Everything started melting down
But I didn’t, I didn’t feel any pain
The unknown leaves everything to gain
And I swear that when I heard the rain
I knew I’d never want for anything anymore
The night saved up all the shame
Left no way out and placed the blame
But the morning lifted all the weight
And the wall opened up its gates
And I swear that when I heard the rain
I knew I’d never want for anything anymore
And I know/ the unknowing/ the unknown/ the unknowing
Deep Lakes
These days / any days / displays / in which I believe
Contrails / set sails / derail / don’t leave
I’m alive / yeah, we survived / so realize / you’re free
Seascapes / deep lakes / waves break / your heart
I’m alive / Yeah, we survived / so realize / you’re free
End With me
I’m gonna walk the streets of Germantown
I’m gonna look out from the banks of the Alleghany River
I’m gonna find my people where they were laid
Gonna find mistakes where they were made
I don’t believe in original sin
So it must trace back to depression and kin
Ends with the one who’s standing so near
I’m gonna take a hard look at my face in the mirror
It all has to end with me, end with me
It all has to end with me, end with me
Did you walk did you walk until your feet were blistered
Did you stand in the shoes of a brave man enlisted
Did you marry the girl/ the first to say yes
And did she die in your arms held close to your chest
It all has to end with me, end with me
It all has to end with me, end with me
When I look in those brown eyes with your long brown hair
I can see years gone I can see something there
The stars and the bars from way back when
And I know/yes I know/ that I’ve got to bring it to an end
It all has to end with me, end with me
It all has to end with me, end with me
It all has to end with me, end with me
It all has to end with me, end with me