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WITNESS (Track 10 DEAD RECKONING)
Before they came you could drink out of any river.



The Red Selectric in the kitchen 
I always will remember  how I left it there.
The Pax Britannica in a flooded water tower
in the god forsaken desert 
I was just trying to rescue you
Got stuck in the mud
now watching fast food people 
who can't see me behind the glass
so where does that leave me
alone where I always seem to land
The prairie dog the white tailed squirrel pink salmon rivers running pure and free
I've been trying to rescue them to save me
Their life will go on without me just fine
Today it's like an all you can eat buffet
It's gotta end some time
It's now full circle cause I say to myself that it is
So now I'm just trying to rescue me
It started when they wheeled me down that tunnel tranquilized
& I realized it was the same tunnel as a child 
was told later I'd been color blind
that proved to me we make the world we see become
Cause I saw all the colors ,the colors I think I see 
becoming stars and galaxies 
Just trying to rescue dreams
I write letters to dead and dying people 
I admire they speak to me 
in an immortal language of wilderness and love 
I run a distillery for divine fools
only a few come by to visit me they never stay on the open road 
where love takes you. But I always keep the light on
a candle burning always hoping you'll come visit me
Hoping you'll send a love letter back to me 
(before it's late) 
I'm just trying to rescue me
I'm just trying to rescue you
I'm just trying to rescue them to save me
I'm just trying to rescue dreams (the hour is late) 
(background ….love,love ,love will save us)

Witness

RULES ( Track 8 from Dead Reckoning) THE Lizarus In Wonderland Radio Show Podcast 12/9/18 
is a totally unrehearsed improvisation of a show live we do whenever the spirit moves us in front of a live audience of 2 cactus wrens ,2 desert cottontails ,2 mourning doves,& 2 crows in an Arizona Christmas tree by way of Taos.
Leaving 4 in the hand and 1 in the bush and #1 Individual person of interest we can't bring ourselves to mention. Thanks to Shelley Clayton for asking WHY are they rounding up all the wild horses? She is the collaborator today! 
A bluegrass ,old timey sort of day,clouds hanging grey and low. Eating hot butternut soup with anaheim chile peppers and praying with milagros
made of Serpentine
in cowgirl boots that don't fit over the broken ankle
and the steam engine's charms are waning to the strains 
of the NFL in Spanish who knows who's playing
or who's on first down on our knees
but that's not the same game
the 2 compete for the grace of Robert Clemente
playing by the rules 
he was born to break down
on that ball field
Things go better when you're braver
when you were carelessly hijacking the billboards on the burma shave 
highways always lonesome
ain't that the truth about the Western sky this movie where everyone dies
including the baseball hero.
RULES 12/9/18 New song in progress as part of all day podcast Lizarus in Wonderland Radio Show Created Live in B's beautiful space in the desert evening of the day getting to the truth.Has that church sound we love. Prepping for new album recording on decent gear once again. Needed the right place. This is lo fi though. Music for Stringbands and Androids.

If playing by the rules
had an ethical compass
I could buy off the internet
help me see in the dark
turn the headlights on and off and off and on 
to get to the truth
of what I will and will not do
I'd do it in a heartbeat.
(If Playing by the Rules
which you will or will not do
what you will or will not do
in getting to the truth
what you will or will not do 
in a heartbeat       matters. )

If not playing by the rules
made up by someone we never knew
made brainstorming all afternoon
in their room in the basement
is the way we get things done these days
in getting to the truth
what we will or will not do 
in a heartbeat matters 
(Chorus…)
YOU TUBE at birth of the song https://youtu.be/z14U1SwNotY

Rules in progress

A bridge track for the album Dead Reckoning,in process right now.

The Amp & I

Hobo's Song

Maybe think of this like a day's work in progress that took years to make the simpler the better. Poem=song=painting=snapshot miniatures=fossil
Can it hang in the gallery?
No Apologia?
Credits: Slowed down blues grass some with the Android WHo Loved Me. Realizing (thanks Matteo)- everybody must get a little bit stoned,pick your poison, to follow the thread somehow. ?

Hobos Song

Think if you were on the side of the lions in the coliseum. Project ; Raw reference tracks. Invitations forthcoming.
Dusty old harmonica i stole from you
incomplete sentences  on a wind up radio
rented rooms in an empty saloon
where the ghosts shuffle and sway
to wait out the monsoons
but they never came our way
leave me always praying for rain
on the tin roof 

Bertha comes round to say hello
because she can cool with a striped one piece pajama set
cause she's a cool cat she can do whatever she wants to
cats are just cool like that 
(I never know what she's dreaming
is she sleeping or waiting to pounce 
she's a lover and a stone cold killer
Nothing I can do about it now it's a cat and mouse game)
She massaged my head with her claws last night
it felt like i was part of  A PRIDE OF LIONS…
You may think I think of you sometimes
I do sometimes but not so much anymore as before 
Drank the milk of amnesia but it was no cure
not like the mushroom tea and peach schnapps we drank out by the Rio Grande river that night

(But we're trying hard to care  we only broke your hand this time
shaking you up emptying your pockets
turning you upside down  still didn't learn your lesson from us 
if the truth be known )
Here comes the conquistador
she's got the false eyelashes and monster hair
she does whatever she pleases you think she cares about you
like the 
 holy Jesus.
(Maybe you care and maybe you don't
mirror mirror on the wall you are your very own periodic table )
See, tonight I feel like I'm in a pride of angels
tonight I feel like I'm in a pride of lions

Running rapids with the maestro
of forgetfulness and rock n roll 
who lives high in the mountains somewhere in Mexico
in some legendary band and I will kill you if I can
when I'm hungry enough for justice in this world
to be a dragon slayer.

( Looks like I been doing it wrong 
let the weeds grow too tall  around
what i'd been cultivatin for so long

Still all is forgiven

Cause tonight I feel like I belong
Tonight I feel like I'm living in a pride of lions 
Yes, tonight I feel like I'm living in a pride of lions…

Prideoflions1

Lady of the Lake  Quick Sketch today 10/22/20 
You waited so long for us to go North
like I promised
You left without me
so I could follow your lead now
as I place rosemary marigolds for remembrance
on the medicine wheel
I am building with children
7 generations out seven within and behind
I'm in the middle 
paddling a canoe 
in my mind's eye
with you.

I will meet you on the shore
where the birches quake
in the silvery moonlight
Our home in the forest once again
will there be Indigo Buntings
blue birds of happiness ?
Say Yes! 

( The Earth is our floor
The walls are the forest
the sky is our ceiling
I'm not asking for more
than to trust my heart's path
be gentle as deer
as she rules the place
where I was born.
Lake of the WOods
Our Lady of the Lake of the Woods 
I'm coming home.

Lake Of The Woods

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