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REVISITING THE PAST

from The Natural Sweetness of Cream by Stoney Spring

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A guided tour through the most tragic mental lapses of the 20th Century, and the musical responses to each of them.

lyrics

Philosophic rock never died
Didn't even die in 1985
No no, keep it alive, keep it alive
"And if life is suffering, then I know for certain that I'm far from dead."
Now that's one philosophic dread.

When the clock starts clicking
Everyone starts listening
to the sound of time
And then they lose themselves
in the rhymes of the sounds themselves.

And the muscles unfold,
and the mind unwinds
and the grapes are plucked and sucked
and the tongues are touched by time's tonic
flowing flowing
all flowers and fruit
unspooled, unspoiled

Time is a wire and a wine
Unspilled, unwound
and this is what we found:

Life is delicious
and deciduous
leafy and mellifluous
Dead and dying colors
Bold unfold
And that's the story of your life,
When they fall, they shrink time
So you can see their glory…

… on a shorter day.
Four seasons.
You think that was an accident?
that's rhythm, man
The rhythm of dirt
Can you dig it?
That's why sex is dirty. Thank God.


And that was life, and that is life
Famously abrupt
Joyously corrupt
It's the crushing battle of ego,
Not felt by fish.
A cat goes crazy, tears out fur
and screams in fear in anger
ten minutes later, takes a nap in the sun.

For a guy like me, protection from tyranny means a lot
Thanks for the freeway, and the parking lot
Safe from crime, more or less,
and for doctors who understand the schizophrenic mind
Pulsating with drugs...

...and afraid

…to walk outside.

As summer falls,
Life is deciduous,
I turn my eyes away,
from the blood-swollen god of war.

The guns of August blow again. For
Somme Girls
Verdun Girls
Ypres Girls
Reading 1917 Magazine
Rhymes and bodies and lime
Slip into the sea
Easily

If you can't be righteous
Be kind
If you can't be kind
Be still
If you can't be still
Be useful
If you can't be useful
Be peaceful
If you can't be peaceful
Be sane
If you can't be sane
Be righteous.

Rave on crazy brother.

credits

from The Natural Sweetness of Cream, released October 20, 2017
Jimi Hawes: upright bass
Rob Waller: lead vocal

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Stoney Spring Los Angeles, California

Featuring the founding members of acclaimed alt-country band I SEE HAWKS IN L.A., Stoney Spring still has one toe in American roots music. But songs like Revenge Rock, New Blood and Swimming Class bring to mind a bold hybrid of Captain Beefheart and mid-'70s Neil Young.
The driving force behind Stoney Spring is Anthony Lacques, the Hawks' original drummer and still one of its songwriters. ... more

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