Motion & The Modern Day was recorded and mixed on 8 track 1/4" analog tape at the hole in Providence, RI

Produced and performed by Meta James
Mike DeCosta: live percussion, backing vocals

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one of these days 
I'll scratch a hole right through my head 
wondering where the feeling went 
I miss the taste 
of salty freezing cold concrete upon your lips 
it's safe to say 
that we're alone now 
dancing for the taste 
of blood 
in a cold house 
at the edge 
of letting go 

I came to slide 
I like the underside 
you taste like tangerine 
I've got the wave machine 

hey little almond eyes 
I like the way you slide 
and your moon shaped smile 
I'd like to stay a while


Euphio

Motion & The Modern Day was recorded and mixed on 8 track 1/4" analog tape at the hole in Providence, RI

Produced and performed by Meta James

drum/sample sequencing: Paul Medeiros

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heat seeking missile 
laser-guided lover 
twisting so slow 
infrared eyes 
tail made of smoke 
you streak across the sky 
searching for that hot white glow 
you find me in my darkest hour 
you can see me through the snow 
I'm sleeping in your slipstream 
got nowhere to go 
I try to tell you where it is I'm at 
but you already know

Sidewinder

Motion & The Modern Day was recorded and mixed on 8 track 1/4" analog tape at the hole in Providence, RI

Produced and performed by Meta james

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I'm modern nature's slave
working in a bomb factory
if you don't love me when I'm waking up
then I'm going right back to sleep
if you don't love me by the afternoon
I'm walking down the street
going to see an old friend of mine
got what I don't need
what I don't need

you can call me crazy
but don't call me baby
I don't ever want to lose control
I don't even want to know

the way the moonlight dances
off your face
could peel the grey right off of a
rainy day
I got this feeling inside 
it's so surreal
think I'll take a walk to the water 
make a deal


Baby

Motion & The Modern Day was recorded and mixed on 8 track 1/4" analog tape at the hole in Providence, RI

Produced and performed by Meta James

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strap me to a chair
I'm leaving on a jet plane
leaking out the side of a stationary hole
been sleeping on my side
dreaming about you leaving me behind
you're sleeping on your side
and leaving me behind 
but I'm already gone

sleeping under seizure
sleeping under seizure
sleeping under seas

I'm trying to put my head 
through the mirror on the wall
thinking about the way things were before
I miss the way
we walked around that town 
like we owned the place
now I can't even see your face

Saisie

Motion & The Modern Day was recorded and mixed on 8 track 1/4" analog tape at the hole in Providence, RI

Produced and performed by Meta James  

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It's such a broad broad way
and at the end of the day
there's such a long way to go
but it's a bright bright day
so tell me why
tell me why I hide away
I'm drying up
haven't had enough
I'm so far away
I started seeing strings beneath the surface
now I'm seeing all kinds of things
deep below
there's a life giving glow
multiplying
and either way
there's no way to know
which way to go

Broadway

Motion & The Modern Day was recorded and mixed on 8 track 1/4" analog tape at the hole in Providence, RI

Produced and performed by Meta James
Fender Rhodes: Nick Dawson

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serrated edges line the sides of my highwire
my lady luck's gone and run away
so here's to sailing on an open sea of destiny
with love as my guiding breeze

I saw your face drowning in the golden light
now I'm in the garden crying
erasing time
if all of this at once is really one and all the same
then I know we gone be alright

you stay home
I'll put on my winter coat
you stay home
I don't mind my winters cold
stay home


Delta Skelta

Motion & The Modern Day was recorded and mixed on 8 track 1/4" analog tape at the hole in Providence, RI

Produced and performed by Meta James

additional synthesizer/combo organ: Nick Dawson
ambient guitar: Jeremy Joubert

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I'm done wasting my time 
living locked in a cage 
always searching for something 
want to run away 
I was walking the highwire 
heard you calling my name 
turned and fell and broke my head 
now things'll never be the same 
I'll never be the same 

strained are the days 
that we living in 
and also dying 
but I don't mind 

had an officer knock on my door 
he had something to say, he said 
hey mister what you smiling for 
can't you see that you're painted grey? 
turned around and laughed and said 
I wouldn't have it any other way 
it wouldn't happen any other way



Slim's Rims

Motion & The Modern Day was recorded and mixed on 8 track 1/4" analog tape at the hole in Providence, RI

Produced and performed by Meta James
Nick Dawson: synthesizer

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I still don't know
where we went so wrong
or if it was in the name of love
or in vain, my love
maybe they're one in the same
maybe we're one in the same
wasting away 
like a slow summer day
waiting on a way
back to where we came from
I just don't know anymore
but I don't mind anyway

Piney Needles

Motion & The Modern Day was recorded and mixed on 8 track 1/4" analog tape at the hole in Providence, RI

Produced and performed by Meta James
Additional synthesizer/combo organ: Nick Dawson

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sometimes I'm alone
standing on that overhead
I'm not looking down
standing all alone
over the interstate
at the edge of inner space
suddenly I'm on my way
a million miles an hour 
inside of a lotus flower

Meta James

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