rough demo from my upcoming Ukulele album

Can I Get Your Number?

Another rough demo from my upcoming Ukulele album.  

Pretty Pretty Moon

Raining on the Feathers of a Dead Bird

Recorded at 19 Gilbert Place, West Orange, NJ.
Released 2007

All Music, Lyrics & Performance by Jim Prior

A young man in an old attic...

01 Chamberghosts

02 To Disappear Without A Care

07 Beautiful Nonsense Sound

Spacemen EP

Jim Prior & the Band from the Moon
Jim Prior: Lead Guitar/Vox
Jose Sofio: Bass
John Picini: Rhythm Guitar
Jay Monaghan: Drums

Recorded in Hackensack, NJ
Released in 2005

Music & Lyrics by Jim Prior


02 StrangeCreek

05 My Year As A Fish

03 Atmospheric Ramblings

04 Devil

01 intro

Antennae
The End of the World (Heard from Underground)

Jim Prior - Vox, Lead Guitar
Jose Sofio - Bass
Jay Monaghan - Drums

Recorded at Gilbert Place Studios
West Orange, NJ
2008

The World is Gone (Heavy, Man)

Far Underground

You Think You're Headed Toward Land, But...

I’m alive
do or dive
or it’s all over for me tonight

You and me
soft and free
by the morning light we’ll see

Flashing scenes
on silver screens
of beauty queens in skinny jeans
she said…

Woe is me
Can’t you see?
I’m alone always it seems
she said…

Fair thee well
Hot as hell
The look you gave done rung my bell

Have a seat
Whiskey neat
Keep talking and sweep me off my feet

Philistine
Labyrinthine 
I can be so goddamn mean
She said…

Hold me
Give me
All of your lips, openly

I’m the king of no remorse
and I feel it’s getting worse
she said…

Come again?
What’d you say?
I get lost in the way you sway

Brown bags
Skin and bones
Don’t throw stones in my glass homes
she said…

Free me
Be me
You really don’t have to tell me

and I do believe you left me
with my hands all tied in knots
then swam away



Recorded by Tom Harris October 2014
Words and Music by Jim Prior
Jim Prior- Guitar, Vocal
Pat Moley- Guitar
Geoff Haba- Drums

Beauty Queens in Skinny Jeans

Super Secret Working Demo recorded at Clavius Moon Base April 2016
Words by Jim Prior
Music by Geoff Haba and Jim Prior
Jim Prior - Guitar, Vox
Pat Moley- Guitar
Austen Young - Bass
Geoff Haba - Drums, Keys (Piano, Organ, Clavinet, Stylophone), Percussion

Tape Deck

just messin' around at the studio - summer '16

Pennies

Fossil fuels so hypnotizin'
We can't let 'em go
Boring folk, well okey-doke
Such cobweb radio

Pretendin' not to recognize
This third of worldly wars
You don't got to wind me up
And leave me without oars

What happened to the girl I knew in high school?
She was the first skin I got to know
What a shame...

Drugg'd up freaks and the ceiling leaks 
But I've nowhere else to go
The floor's my bed
A lure's my head
All tangled in branches above

And I'll go slow and let you know
Just when I will release
Oh, just say so and I'll let you go
Or rather, just swallow the key

What happened to the girl I knew in high school?
The prom queen of in between the known, unknown, and overblown

What happened to the girl I knew in high school?
She was the first skin I got to know
What a shame...




Super Secret Working Demo recorded at Clavius Moon Base June 2016
Words and Music by Jim Prior
Jim Prior - Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Lead Vox, Claps
Pat Moley- Guitar, Backing Vox, Claps
Austen Young - Bass
Geoff Haba - Drums, Claps

Deathcords

Starry, starry night
Paint your palette blue and gray
Look out on a summer's day
With eyes that know the darkness of my soul

Shadows on the hills
Sketch the trees and the daffodils
Catch the breeze and the winter chills
In colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free 
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

Starry, starry night
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze
Swirling clouds in violet haze
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue
Morning fields of amber grain
Weathered faces lined in pain
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Now I understand
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free 
They would not listen, they did not know how
Perhaps they'll listen now

For they could not love you 
But still your love was true
And when no hope was left inside 
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do
But I could have told you Vincent
This world was never meant for one as
beautiful as you

Starry, starry night
Portraits hung in empty halls
Frame less heads on nameless walls
With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

Like the strangers that you've met
The ragged men in ragged clothes
The silver thorn of bloody rose
Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know
What you tried to say to me
How you suffered for your sanity
How you tried to set them free
They would not listen they're not listening still
Perhaps they never will

"Vincent" by Don Mclean
Arranged/Performed by Jim From The Moon
2016
All Rights Reserved

Jim From The Moon's Album

Vincent (Starry, Starry Night) - Don McLean Cover

F
Is this the real life? Or is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality
Open your eyes, look up to the skies and see
I’m just a poor boy, and I need no sympathy
                 Am            F           (repeat chords)
Because I’m easy come, easy go, little high, little low
                                                                   G
Any way the wind blows, doesn’t really matter to me

(kinda pick/strum)
Am              C
Mama, I just killed a man
       Dm
Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, now he’s dead
Mama, life had just begun
But now I’ve gone and thrown, now I’ve gone and thrown it all away
Ooh, didn’t mean to make you cry
If I’m not back again this time tomorrow
Carry on, carry on…as if nothing really matters

Too late, my time has come
Sends shivers down my spine, my body’s aching all the time
and goodbye, everybody, I gotta go
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
Ooh, I don’t wanna die
I sometimes wish I’d never been born at all, at all

Dm                   G
I see a little silhouetto of a man
                Am     C            F
Would you like to do the Fandango? 
Dm                             G                           Am
Thunderbolts of lightning, very, very frightening me
      C          Cb      F             G
Galileo, Galileo, figaro magnifico
I am just a poor boy, nobody loves me
He’s just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity
Galileo, Galileo, figaro magnifico

                          C5
We will not let you go
      D5                           F5
Oh, no, we will not let you go
              G5
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go
No, no, we will not let you go
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go (never, never, never let you go)
Bismillah! No!
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me!

Am                         C                              Dm        G
So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye?
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
      Dm         G
Oh, baby (Ooh)
                            Dm        G
Can’t do this to me, baby (ooh)
I just gotta get out
I just gotta get out
Just get right outta here

Dm                           G
Nothing really matters, anyone can see
Am 
Nothing really matters
      C                 Cb         F
No, nothing really matters to me

"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen
Arranged by Jim From The Moon
©2017

Bohemian Rhapsody

"She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals
Arranged by Jim From The Moon
© 11-11-17

She Drives Me Crazy

from  "The Year I Grew My Hair Real Long" album, 2011

Lyrics:

I like you more than I'd like to
I like you, and you like me too
I fit you just like a grave blanket
but you don't mind as long as you're warm

and when you're gone, I can't go on
as pathetic as it sounds
when I'm alone I whisper jokes you'd find funny if you were around

I like you more than I'd like to
I'll live with you if you'll live with me too
you make me feel 22 again
I make you smoke during the day

and when you're gone I can't go on
as pathetic as that sounds
when I'm alone I whisper jokes you'd find funny if you were around

and all the leaves agree
they're safer in the trees
though, a golden death below...
and all the trees agree
that summer always leaves
their skeletons stark against snow...

I like you more than I'd like to
when we go out I only talk to you
that night we drank all of that wine on your friends kitchen floor
the time we got stoned in that family friend's bathtub

and when you're gone I can't go on
as pathetic as it sounds
when I'm alone I whisper jokes you'd find funny if you were around


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I Like You More Than I'd Like To

from  "The Year I Grew My Hair Real Long" album, 2011

Lyrics:

long ago I was born
far away I will die
of other certains, this is love
stick a needle in my eye

won't someone come and rescue me?
too much talk of the economy
great forests they must sometimes burn
and raindrops sometimes fall on me

can you just turn upside down?
pardon me, my love
can you just turn upside down?
I need you more than light

I was born to live to roam
and whatever you're ever wearing is my home
do you think these times are crushing us?
all sharp corners veiled with foam

and you look like new york when you smile
and the truth depends, how heavy was his tongue?
my subconscious lips are taut too young
I wanna be with you for the rest of the while

can you just turn upside down?
pardon me, my love
can you just turn upside down and face the other way?
I need you more than light


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To Live To Roam

from the "I am going to steal you" EP, 2011

Lyrics:

you called me up the other day
with bad thoughts and razorblades
promise me you won't kill yourself tonight?
maybe...

then came the night you nearly did
you showed your mom her bleeding kid
they checked you in when you were trying to check out
ain't it funny?
maybe...

I really wish you didn't cut yourself
I know, I know, it's easy for me to ask of you
I wish you really didn't get so sad
at least not when I'm without wheels and weeks away from you

you stayed a bit in the looney bin
no phone to tell me how you've been
you're painting pictures of castles in the clouds
trying to ween the voices from your head

then things were good on medicine
until the day you did it again
you carved alarms all down your arms 
and my head is pounding

I really wish you didn't cut yourself
I know, I know, it's easy for me to ask of you
I wish you really didn't get so sad
at least not when I'm without wheels and weeks away
without wheels and states away from you


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Alarms

from the "I am going to steal you" EP 2011

Lyrics:

I woke up with a hole in my head
filled with the feeling I was better-off dead
you rolled over and said, it's Thanksgiving Day

I made the couch, but I missed the parade
cause it's back home and we're so far away
you fell asleep, and I watched a show about war

I would like to find a girl who mends my bones and gently licks my wounds

money drips through my cupped hands
I need a job, but no job needs me
or my junky-looking hair

and it seems to me there is no love
not unless it's hiding in a darker place
I really shouldn't go

I would like to find a girl who mends my bones and gently licks my wounds
a pretty girl who makes me laugh, picks me up and holds me like a womb

oh, you gotta let me open the shades
cause I just need a bit of true light
absence and a bit of true light

my throat is raw, I smoke too much cause I'm out of touch
but oh, anyway
my days are filled, busy finding God or busy rotting away
we shall see

oh, you gotta let me open the shades
cause I just need a bit of true light
absence and a bit of true light
absence in a bit

and if you're done then let me go...


Thanksgiving Day

watch the video here...https://youtu.be/gv4zq-K6pkI

elemental heavy metal jacket is too big for you 
still I wonder, torn asunder, how my aging body creaks and speaks to you?

speaks to you, my flailin' heart’s a decaying tooth

Turn on t.v., hello repeat, ok, logo what’s your fee?

I haven’t finished all your pages, but the general gist is jumping out at me

jumping out so quickly I got a wolf so sheepy now

politician pole position funny how it all works out

carpet-bagger have-not-haver teach your tepid throat-hole how to scream and shout

jumping out at me so

I got the best damn woman that I’ve ever seen in my life


fundamental existential temperamental cavity

should my mine-shaft pass inspection

please allow extortion to be one with me


one with me so sweetly

kiss me discreetly please

speaks to me so sweetly

got the best damn woman that you’ve ever seen in your life

words and Music by Jim Prior

Jim Prior- lead and backing vocal, hubcap, electric and acoustic guitar
Geoff Haba- drums, organ, claps, tambourine, hubcap, rototom rims, congas, shaker, cymbal rolls, toms, backing vocal

Elemental Heavy Metal Jacket Is Too Big For You

Working Demo - Summer 2018
Words by Jim Prior
Music by Geoff Haba and Jim Prior
Jim Prior- lead and backing vocal, electric guitar
Geoff Haba- drums, keyboard (piano, clavinet, organ, synth, flute, bass, strings), backing vocal, glockenspiel, tambourine, bass

middle-
Jim Prior- electric guitar, vocal
Geoff Haba- drums, keyboard, tambourine, sound effects

I Will Never Die

Working Demo - Summer 2018
Words by Jim Prior
Music by Geoff Haba and Jim Prior
Jim Prior- lead and backing vocal, electric and acoustic guitar, bass
Geoff Haba- drums, percussion (shaker, claps, snaps), backing vocal, glockenspiel, keyboard (piano, organ, synth, clavinet, bass, drums), sound effects

Come Together- 
Jim Prior- lead vocal, electric and acoustic guitar, bass
Geoff Haba- drums, percussion (shaker and tambourine), backing vocal, keyboard (piano, flute, bass)

Mantra Ray

better leave on time...


Working Demo - Summer 2018
Words by Jim Prior
Music by Jim Prior and Geoff Haba
Jim Prior- cassette electric and acoustic guitar, vocal
Geoff Haba- drums, keyboard (organ, marimba, flute, bass), tabla, tambourine

Ghosts of 1001

Working Demo Summer 2018
Words by Jim Prior
Music by Geoff Haba and Jim Prior
Jim Prior- electric and acoustic guitar, vocal
Geoff Haba- drums, keyboard

Investigations of a Dog

Working Demo Fall 2018
Recorded September 21 2018
Words and Music by Jim Prior
Jim Prior- acoustic and electric guitar, lead and backing vocal, ukulele, bass
Geoff Haba- Casio PT50, stylophone, shaker

Puss Puss Aquarius

music and lyrics by Jim Prior

Jim Prior- guitar, lead and backing vocals
Austen Young- bass
Pat Moley- lead guitar
Geoff Haba- drums, backing vocals, keys

original recording by Tom Harris October 30 2014
overdubs September 22 2015, September 22 2018 and October 27 2018 on a Tascam DP-03SD

Recorded in West Orange, New Jersey in 2009.

Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Harmonica, Piano & Vocals: Jim from the Moon
Bass, Piano, Electric Guitar, Harmonica & Drums: Sam Lehmert
Drums & Percussion: Mike Neglia
Engineer: Sam Lehmert

Oh, Gravity

Time will tell a lie if only for the night 
You stay, wake & wonder where the time has gone
Holy cow stripped of all her skin and forced to 
Feed the world, her stitched up scars in luxury cars
Holy hell, these petty fights with parasites I knew too well, 
Sex & drugs & voting rights for all mankind now
Future kin, concede to her the night 
& let the light shine in to 
Bathe us in the majesty of man & sin
Behold the master race disgrace they’ll never win 
Their holy wars of dinosaurs
And oh, what luck! to be born a dumb fuck!
Such a waste of flesh & time & space
Alright, so long
Hold tight, it won’t be long
It’s alright, the rope was made por vouz

Recorded January 14 2019
Jim- guitars, vocals, bass
Geoff- drums, keys, backing vocals

Holy Wars of Dinosaurs

Paper Castle

hologram cam girl 

last year we didn’t have winter 
but all summer we had snow 
the ocean keeps gettin’ my feet wet  
no matter where I go 

I pray to a hologram cam girl 
with a good, kind digital soul 
for pictures of her portal 
that’s where all my money goes 

so build me a beautiful sea wall!
give me that nuclear glow 
I wanna hack into your cloudspace 
& delete everyone that you know 

I hop on a train to the city 
when my connection starts to slow 
to sync up with some smartblow
cause I’ve been feelin’ kinda low 

& you’re coughin’ up black tar-paste 
sittin’ stoned in a virtual field 
while viruses and bullets 
penetrate my weakenin’ shield 

oh, get in out the rain

makeshift power grid landfill 
& other words that remind me of home 
subterranean social status/standing
is the only world you know 

I gotta pay to keep you out of my vervestream 
ads everywhere that we go 
bypass all surveillance 
'cause I got a bomb under my coat

oh, get in out the rain
'cause your future starts today

Hologram Cam Girl

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