Zeroes and Ones
Zeroes and Ones
An album inspired by Gravity’s Rainbow, Eggleston. Carlos Zambrano, Martha Stewart, Edward P.Jones, long drives through the Badlands, and praying mantises among dozens of other bytes of information and experience.
Track Listing
- Dissolution
- Insincere Inspiration
- For Martha
- Latley I’ve Been Thinking
- New Rules
- Lost In The City
- Return Of Long Shadow
- The Lure
- From K To Z
- For Everything
- Pinwheels
- Journey With No Maps
Album Lyrics
Dissolution
The shadows are crossed definition is lost to the darkness
Seeking the ground the gravity found where there’s nothing
The point is what’s real the zero’s appeal is worth seeking
Joined at last in the heart of the past he will find her
I’ve come undone between zeroes and ones
The focus has lost its appeal
Searching for an edge or a border
At least there’s a fate to seal
A reflexive action return blood with passion no answer
An eye for an eye look at the other guy I didn’t start it
But if it didn’t start here it must come down to fear of some other
A substantial one set sights on a son and a father
I’ve come undone between zeroes and ones
The focus has lost its appeal
Searching for an edge or a border
At least there’s a fate to seal
I’ve come undone between zeroes and ones
The focus has lost its appeal
Searching for an edge or a border
At least there’s a fate to seal
No one saw the signs of deliberate unwind
Maybe with some time will reveal
I’ve come undone…
Insincere Inspiration
Gravity destroys my dreams shards of a vision rain down
As I look up hoping for a glimpse of a rainbow
I didn’t know what hit me
Insincere inspiration
I swoon to the flames
We play at playing
I don’t believe in the change
Looking for reasonable cause in an unpredictable world
You think the fix is in I for one am abstaining
And it’s still raining
My vision is blurred
In the face of an ending I’m ecstatically stirred, but
I don’t believe in the change
Gravity destroys my dreams shards of a vision rain down
As I look up hoping for a glimpse of a rainbow
I didn’t know what hit me
Insincere inspiration
I swoon to the flames
We play at playing
I don’t believe in the change
For Martha
It’s all in my head the beautiful sunset
It’s all in my head eggshell and violet
A broken sky when I close my eyes
It’s all in my head
It’s all in my head leaves rustling through the breeze
A muffling rain from billowing clouds
But it’s all so loud when my feet touch the ground
It’s all in my head
Keep my eyes closed for the things that I know
I have no use for what’s here
Wake me up when the buttercups
Are strewn beneath my feet
It’s all in my head life as I know it
It doesn’t exist if my garden don’t grow it
A tear in my eye and I love to die
It’s all in my head…
Lately I’ve Been Thinking
If I added up all of my time
I’d be standing neck deep in the mire
Analyzing reasons why
Count your blessings come up dry
Say so long to lullabies
Goodnight
‘Cause lately I’ve been thinking
Lately I’ve been thinking
Lately I’ve been thinking about nothing
I always walk until I disappear
Away from your cracked vase of broken mirrors
Lose the map I’ll get lost instead
I’m not hurt I’m just playing dead
You can’t lie until you’ve made your bed
But lately I’ve been thinking
Lately I’ve been thinking
Lately I’ve been thinking about nothing
Lately I’ve been thinking
Lately I’ve been thinking
Lately I’ve been thinking about nothing
‘Cause lately I’ve been thinking
Lately I’ve been thinking
Lately I’ve been thinking about nothing
Not you!
New Rules
I left a puzzle behind
Nothing says you have to finish
A room can change you
Before you can change it
Why wait expectantly
For who knows what
There’s lots of freedom in the deep end
Lean to rather than fro
For a straight path
There’s room to grow
On the fringes
Don’t hedge your bets
Don’t hedge your bets
Don’t hedge your bets
When you’re winning
I left a puzzle behind…
Lost in the City
Where I’m symbolic, you’re superstitious
If I’m lost at least I have something to find
To protect me is not there to bind us
Freedom is not something to be prescribed
To soar in flight is the best we can dream
Maybe it leads to utter disappointment
Grounded by what we need from each other
Falling freely in a spiraling dive
Aerial view lost in the city
Rooftop moods are descending
Silent muse flutter by
Don’t look down don’t look down
Don’t look down don’t look down
Lost in the city
Don’t look down don’t look down
Lost in the city…
Return of Long Shadow
I cast a shadow on a frozen lake
At the season’s end
Standing here too late
I missed the last light’s bend
It wasn’t long ago
That the sun was overhead
And I cast a shadow at all
I’m not sure how to begin again
So promise leave to me
A signal or a sign
The light has beamed to me
Dispatch dispatch
The Lure
Where’s the bait that jacked the fate wide open
What’s perfectly cast by the tragedian
On the bass and swivel hip
Once you’ve got them by the lip
Well your basket’s short on tricks
No no dance floor
No calling cards at your door…
From K to Z
What’s the bloody deal this time?
The grapes are falling off the vine
The field has been mined
The choice is made to see the red
The scripted note what’s said is said
Can’t put this feud to bed
I guess that one just got away
What’s one more to join the fray
Frustration here to stay
For Everything
There isn’t a word for everything
For everything there isn’t a word
Maybe that’s why you end up with nothing
With nothing to deny
There isn’t a picture that isn’t so perfect
Deserted in your mind
There isn’t a smile that isn’t too frozen
That you’ve chosen to keep you warm
If you can’t put a face on the enemy then wait and see
There isn’t a word for everything
For everything there isn’t a word
The moment can slide fly by unspoken
Not broken by anything heard
If you can’t put a face on the enemy then wait and see
Pinwheels
Soaking up the sun
Like a beetle on its back
Like a girl in the grass
All dressed in black
Wheels in the air
Rusted with indifference
In different times
Could mean something different
Pinwheels don’t blow on a day like this
Clouds don’t roll and two lips don’t kiss
Dogs drink out of puddles
Journey With No Maps (for Judith St.Clair)
Lost in Manitoba
Searching for the moon
Left behind in South Dakota
I won’t be back there soon
It doesn’t get more lonely
If you were there if only
Looking far behind for the highway’s great divide
I missed a step in old Quebec
Please pardon my French
Damn it all no time to stall
The parade’s back in step
I see your face in mine
Travel back in time
The mantis on the dashboard will remind
Lovely, must be something
Shadows on the rocks
Profiles silhouetted
Present more likely than not
Searching for the border
A journey with no maps
Van Gogh halo street light swoon
Beats the mortal rap
The needle sits on empty
My heartbeat disappoints me
I’ll be with you in my morning nap
Lovely, must be something
Shadows on the rocks
Profiles silhouetted
Present more likely than not