1. |
Plough King
03:10
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Plough, ripping up the canvas out my window
I'm so tired
Everything is changing all the time
Now, the things I want to stand for have been claimed
By my friends
Everyone is changing, I am being left behind
But I could be the plough king
Cutting through the hard things
I should be the plough king
Making new roads
Plough
Digging up the drifts
Dreaming worlds into existence
I'll make one for us to have
Down a lonesome white path
For a plough king
© 2017 Timothy Monger / Happy Maps Publishing Co. (BMI)
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2. |
Power Trio
02:54
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In my heart a power trio's
Banging out some blue-eyed noise
And everyone outside the practice space
Is someone to avoid
I'm tired of feeling shitty all the time
So tired of feeling shitty all the time
Beneath the satellites a 'blinking
Where beer is cheap and easy drinking
And pretty girls line up to see the band
With black bra straps and cigarettes
Credit cards and student debts
I'm dying just to make one of them mine
So tired of feeling shitty all the time
Pub crawl
Every abandon frozen in amber
Fearing last call
The sound of an empire's fall
In my heart a power trio's
Banging out some blue-eyed noise
And everyone outside the practice space
Is someone to avoid
I'm tired of feeling shitty all the time
So tired of feeling shitty all the time
Let them have their day as long as I've got mine
© 2017 Timothy Monger / Happy Maps Publishing Co. (BMI)
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3. |
Everything
03:25
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Everything has pain
Stretching like a tendon
Underneath the shale and lakes
And in between those things
Are moles and snakes
Dreaming what there is to dream
Down below our feet
How would they counsel us
Before we turn to dust and join them
So let's get this straight
Our love can be saved
Even though everything has pain
Everything has pain
Everything has pain
Everything has pain
Everything.
© 2017 Timothy Monger / Happy Maps Publishing Co. (BMI)
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4. |
Requiem For a Ramp
03:32
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August burning like a lamp
The sun is murder on our backs
Nearing summer's end
And nearly every hour spent
Among broken decks and friendships that got bent
Reverberating through the trees
The hollow throb of wood and wheels
I've been dropping in
Only to slam and try again
Impatient for the rest of life to begin
It will be September in a week
The summer slides into its sleeve
Then we're off to school
And the start of something new
Try not to let it make a fool of you
Now there's nothing but bramble and weeds
Where that old halfpipe used to be
Only whippoorwill
And the old Penosha Trail
Ground zero for path I'm seeking still
© 2017 Timothy Monger / Happy Maps Publishing Co. (BMI)
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5. |
Hayward
03:31
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On our map, this northern place
Long ryegrass where summer waits
All our days going la, la, la…
Your sunburned face
Tells me it loves me
Evening falls on strange wild lakes
Blue stars rise and constellate
La, la, la…
Your sunburned face
Happy and lovely
August moon in harvest phase
From our backs fall shadows
© 2017 Timothy Monger / Happy Maps Publishing Co. (BMI)
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6. |
Let Night Surround You
01:03
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Sound your instruments of joy
Let dusk receive them
May all your fears depart
Your sorrows with them
Be not afraid to harm
Nor to decree them:
Be gone and govern no longer my heart's freedom!
And when the sun has gone and set
Let night surround you
The cooling of the earth
Strengthen and ground you
The call of evening birds
Soothe and remind you:
Be free and open to the changes all around you.
© 2017 Lyrics by Timothy Monger, music traditional / Happy Maps Publishing Co. (BMI)
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7. |
Sleepless
01:58
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Moon over my shoulder,
Pale on the garage
While I try not to think about
Where I am going or where I've been.
Two paces out of my back door,
The collar of my dog
Jangling out from the shadows,
Is the world really so small?
Soon, night will be over.
I'll hear it in the chorus of birdsong,
While the neighborhood
Warms in the light of
The coming day.
What seemed so overwhelming?
What passed across my soul
To make me feel undeserving
Of a world so rich and full?
And as the day reveals its missions,
Tasks get done, miles get driven.
Plans are made, things are tough
Things are great, but soon…
That moon over my shoulder,
Beckoning me out.
Will it bring peace and slumber
Or another night of doubt?
© 2017 Timothy Monger / Happy Maps Publishing Co. (BMI)
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8. |
Outside the Venue
03:51
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Outside the venue
Everything's so strange
Outside the venue
I don't even know my name
There are conflicts and changes
And troubles I can't mend
Outside the venue
I can never be myself
There's no protection
No stage where I can hide
It's full of roads left untaken
And songs I could not write
My coat is thinner
My spirit is less bright
Outside the venue
All my fears seem justified
Inside the venue
I know what to do
Unpack my gear
Meet the soundman, order food
Here I'm respected
I'm given three free drinks
It's where the day gets disconnected
It is where my work begins
So come and see me
Five will get you in
And for an evening
We can become friends
This is the life
There's nothing to it
Inside the venue
I can always go through with it
© 2017 Timothy Monger / Happy Maps Publishing Co. (BMI)
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9. |
Amber Lantern Theme
02:17
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Amber lantern, guide me in the darkness
Leave your candle burning through the night
Keep me from despair when times are hardest
Help me see things kindly in your light
Amber lantern, amber lantern
© 2017 Timothy Monger / Happy Maps Publishing Co. (BMI)
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10. |
Grey's End
03:15
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Grey's end, where colors begin
Is where I'm going
Where it's seldom overcast
And the long green grass is calling
Grey's end, like salt on the wind
Sets my heart wandering
Wildflowers on the path
Telegraph where light is falling
I've been down so long
I thought my colors were gone
But it was just a port of call
I am a traveller, travelling to
Where there is no grey at all!
Grey's end,
I'll see you again
Before the gloaming
With the wind against my back
And your road laid out before me
© 2017 Timothy Monger / Happy Maps Publishing Co. (BMI)
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Timothy Monger Ypsilanti, Michigan
Solo artist, leader of Timothy Monger State Park, co-founder of Great Lakes Myth Society, curator of Log Variations, writer, and proprieter of Northern Detective.
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