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ThOUGH the LIGHT seem SMALL

by Art Of Flying

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1.
sleep little memory dream little memory fly you are color I am waiting for your lips we are question kiss we are answer fingertips that twirl inside the flower you were wings I was never falling forever once upon a time I was the child inside you darling lover now i am only hanging from moonlight & my little memory is your name
2.
this was the kind of song I didn't think I could get down with, but it's the kinda song my mama likes to sing along with when I feel this wicked & charming my Kalashnikov cradled in my arms again my darling we come back to take our riffs father Elvis from the phony punk-rock corporatists pretty Dolly & when the needle hits the tracks just say it daddy, "there's no turning back." We don't need yr dead to dream on we don't need yr head to scream we're sick sick sick of you know what I means bring me to my knees again holy lover Waking in the garden of yr fingertips I manifest in Memphis play homage to the hips don't worry baby if the wolf is in chic clothing his stomach stuffed to bloating what winters yet remain? we come back to take our dreams father Elvis from the televisions & the magazines pretty Dolly come out now Bobby D. come out & sting the bee that we might change the world again we don't need... surf music in the KaliYuga, baby I heard you said I was the combination of the two I will miss you watery planet my secret heart...let's just say you found it we come back to take our words father elvis from the greedy hippies with the managers pretty Dolly & if you dare remove the plastic our ritual schematic is perfect harmony we don't need....
3.
you don't have to tell me it's all about the money you don't have to listen this will still be yr song darling you're so pretty i wish I could believe you now the wind is blowing me back to where I belong BindWeed & AppleBlossoms space-shuttles & slot-machine fixers riddles & consequences god's chillen everyone of us ashes to ashes we fall down in the land of television you could think that god is broken but that's just yr mind our hearts could never feel that way when I tried to stop the drinking I couldn't hang with empty working now the pretty universe is begging me to sing BindWeed & AppleBlossoms... (bridge) & when the world asks you... will you come in? & when yr love whispers begin will you begin? Stranger when you found me some half-baked broken singer lost in wordy ruins so intolerably sad you took a drop from my tears & sewed it into a new dream stood up on the table & sang "go for it man." BindWeed & AppleBlossoms...
4.
When the bright unspoken light of Winter takes the world Gathering each solitary day, All the pages written you won't need them anymore Winter comes & Winds us all away & Winds us all away! & Though the Light seem small! Drop by drop drowns us all! All around a Sacred sound rains sweetness on the World In the pines & in our minds we lay. All inventions written you won't need them anymore, Winter comes & Winds us all away! & Winds us all away! & Though the Light seem small! Drop by drop drowns us all! Take the night out of your Eyes & give it to the World, Take the hinges off the Swollen day! All the Sacred written you don't need it anymore. Winter comes & Winds us all away! & Winds us all away! & Winds us all away!
5.
I tried to bring the Rain so You wouldn't leave my silly little Heart that could not believe I was under a spell who cares how I fell? for now I'm the Garden that you Rain upon. I'm sorry for the Mess I've fallen so far trying much too hard to be who we Are my Brother the tune my Sister the Moon & I am the Garden that you Rain upon. Pretty yellow Leaves my Secret alone I weave inside yr Mouth a Mystical Home come whisper to me that Nobody's Free & I am the Garden that you Rain upon. Flower my Love Flower undone I Wander through my World & Thank Everyone I spiral through Space & Smile through yr Face for Now I'm the Garden that You Rain upon.
6.
What Say You, MOON? (free) 03:29
what say you Moon? is it YES or is it NO? come ON show us what's so Explosive what you couldn't Breathe to me Anymore Does yr Garden my dear Love have a Door? who called You Rain? I impatiently await another Name it's all so thrilling to sing about Drilling until I woke a million Pretty pieces on yr Floor does yr Garden my dear Love have a Door? (chorus) FATHER! FATHER! point the WAY buried Deep beneath the seen though I can't Begin it i must begin to Destroy the white Lie You know I can't Diss/obey throw haunting Hugenesses in my WAY, but when yr truth gets uttered down here I dissapear & yr Tears flood through my Eyes. & NOW you Dream when there's nothing left of me to Scream I went wandering through yr Wiring just to Wind Up finding myself again on yr Shore does yr Garden my dear Love have a Door?
7.
wake up little susie & come out of yr head the movie's over & the world's on fire go tell yr mama there's a band in yr bed go tell yr papa that the leaders are liars wake the wine-dark sea wake the snot-green sea wake yr beautiful bride wake the lover by yr side ooh laa laa went the radio dark ages we're down in davey jones' where they push & shove & the groovy little surfs want their minimum wages & the pretty little freaks want their food cooked with love wake... bang!bang!bang! on yr crying places thank yr papa that the world could never leave us alone & yr mama's pretty smile looks so wicked on yr faces I want to talk about it all night long wake... wake up little susie though I know it's so frightening but it never really matters if yr friends find out go tell yr mama you get off in the lightning go tell yr papa that you twist & shout wake...
8.
BirdFeathers 02:22
9.
Thank you Brother Larry Yes for sending me a Lull-a-bye I hum it when the Morning's Blood is Rising until Night's Smoke gets in my eyes & then I Anchor to the misery & bench another dozen Rhymes & Hollar out that 'Everything in this Life is just a Job 'cept when we Harmonize.' (chorus) O YOU HIP-HOP HOKEY-POKEY ROLL-Y-POLL-Y CHOKEY-SMOKEY BEAUTIFUL WORLD,... I wanna be yr LIP-LOCKING FUTURE-SHOCKING CRAZY WITH the HOLY-STOCKINGS ONE & ONLY GIRL! o Flower Flower on the Hill Here's what the people call advice they say: "don't put yr eggs all in one basket & you'll go straight to paradise," but I know you want to throw yr Pedals all away don't you Pretty Poppy Flower? cuz you Know that throwing everything away is really How we Live Forever... o YOU... Now I'm supposed to call up my best friends & ask them what to Sing about next Pedro saw the Hezbolah in Texas buying all the bullets & the bullet-proof vests & I want to runaway want to change the world make it some Pretty thing to say, but I can't afford to dream anymore & I don't want to Sleep all Day. o YOU...
10.
Kiss Kiss 03:17
i sing goodnight to my insufferable bitch they call you 'land of the free' I call you when you know what freedom is you say if I don't love you leave i say just look in my heart you know I'd rather fight than switch (chorus) we believe immaculate regeneration we dream impossible collaboration (please) don't leave yr tongue out of this kiss (kiss kiss goodnight sweet dreams) somebody shot a hole in my sleep all in a dream of us girl making love beneath the water whispering that 'this waking world is over when yr mom busts in & slaps our pretty masks back to the maker.' (bridge) & after dying I'll go make some bread in HOLLYWOOD with all my pie-ing sky-ing shanty-peeps in HOLLYWOOD our bodies crying & crying "IF YOU WOULD MY DARLING DANCE WITH ME MY DARLING DANCE WITH ME!" say good-bye but just don't leave me baby I've been freaked about the world & crying way too much already let's skip back to the records we knew with yr ghost in my throat my fingers gambling in yr casino.
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sleep (free) 00:58

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This album was recorded at the Barn Recorder, Questa, NM
Engineered by Mike Stanioch & Mixed by David Costanza & Anne Speroni--08/08/08-04/05/09.
Mastered by Jason Ward at Chicago Mastering Service.

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released September 9, 2009

Peter Halter: drums
Anne Speroni: bass, vocals, piano
David Costanza: guitars, vocals, trumpet, piano
Sesshu Morgan Pappert: trombone, vibes, oud, clarinet
Chris Schoen: guitar
Diana Senechal: cello
natalie Carlton: synthesiser on 'what say you moon?'
Ben Wright: trombone, tuba
Scott Moore: vocals on 'love song for larry yes.'

All songs written by David Costanza except: thOUGH the LIGHT seem SMALL: music Anne Speroni, words David Costanza. "everything in this life is just a job 'cept when we harmonize," is lifted from a Catherine Irwin/FreakWater
interview.

ANALOG rules our BRAZEN HEARTS, but without
THESE friends, well
GO AHEAD...push RECORD...the THING WON'T START!!!
Dan Alexander, Eddie Ciletti, Scott Jarrett, Murali Levine
& Steve Sadler. Nick Hearman recorded the piano & guitar for 'though the light seem small.'

All songs: (ASCAP) littleheartlittledove

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