swimming pools (k. lamar)

so it goes
of course - a ghost
last in line for a century
all your bucks 
and all your hosts
are coming up to get next to me
now your probably thinking 
theres no way back
to not scared
to come free 
to pose here instead
if theres onne thing I've learned its that the world will keep turning
if your turning blue in the head
one thing I know that I know that I don't know for certain is gone
days to me, to breathe, the jersey turns, to find, mine, to a thought, to an idea, its a revolution or its not, babe, its me. I've been down not like you, not like this, in time, between, and a thirst that just wont quit yeah, I would be scared if I wasn't so young enough to die, no one ever wants to say what you got, despite the difference between you and I. I got a revolution on a small scale, I got a headstone on my little jail, I got a cemetary thats calling my name, I got wet cigaretts cause all it does here is rain rain rain, I'm so tired of the little things getting me down. I'm so tired of the little things hanging around. So, light it up, burn it down, take a sip, pick it up, make it through, I've noticed a thing or two about you. Maybe I noticed it too. Say so to me.

Mark Bridgeman's Album

a thing i've learnt

Stranger to a friend (feat. Short Term Emery)

I got my mind made up
and I can't slow down
tired of conversations
keeping you down
say what you seen
it reeks like shit
down you go
make your bed in it 
no one sings a love song about the rain (about the rain)
no one sings the love song about today (about today)
I am what you like
Calm before Time
Time Time Time 
Say what you mean 
what are you doing to me baby
I got my mind made up and I can't slow down

Time Trial Redux (demo)

you sell out ya of course you do
its an uptight world (its like a zoo!)
ya! i'm down with the entire state
down in the factory working for change
calm now think about me
think about you and both us living free
calm down think about me
think about you and you and us living free
oh yeah
Sell out till the entire state
is down in the factory working for change
I came up to the right side of scene
looking like you, like you looked to me 
oh I don't know 
no I don't care
thinking of the stand out days
oh I don't know 
how I get there
thinking about the good old days
where they been?

its a zoo (demo)

writing hooks (demo)

call it what you want to call it 
your girlfriends an alcoholic
she keeps getting high and wont leave me alone
jumping out a car half driving
keeps insisting that she's flying
turn off all the lights she still thinks I'm at home
its all on you 
you should move through
you'll forget about the girl at my house
it dawns on you that you should move through
i'll take my leave of you
it dawns on you
it dawned on me
no ones listening 
everybody free
till you want another day to go

call it what you want to call it (demo)

We didnt start the fire (cover)

RIP Robert Johnson

4321 go out to the shed and find a gun
my darling and the crooked world sleep outside tonight
calm down crooked state 
all the young lovers are still awake
all of this time just filling up my strain, so made up
take me up and hold me down again
till you go, my friend, my friend
go to the bar
wont you drive through the stars
i'm all made up 
cause I'm (dead)

hold

I climbed the mountain
far atop the hill
in the misty morning
I drank my fill
I wont admit to nothing I didnt do
oh whoa
better sell your world before its broken
I wont admit to any god given truths
colour me a pretender cause I have spoken
oh I climb the mountain
far atop the hill
in the misty mornings (where)
I take my pills
oh I climb the mountain far atop the hill
in the misty morning
I drank my fill

I've climbed the Mountain

fix the books

(you said we're not in Texas but the Texas of your mind)
(except not your mind, but somewhere you learnt that you can keep time)

As the nights grow darker the days grow bleak
my old carousel is breaking down
Days go slower as the knees grow weak
no ones even want to hang around
baby please don't laugh out loud
I  don't want to be let down
I've been holding up all day 
I've been trying to make you pay
I been holding all the sea
in between the days journey
won't it come away for free
it won't go away until you leave
all my thoughts are at the radio station
all my days you know, you've seen before, you see your turning up
I see your turning off
My my Alibi soaring off through the clouds
you driving not to be around but to be found 
yeah babe you know its so old man, the buildings go way up, no one gives a fuck
I will try try for half of my life to explain
Time you have seen
I can't be out a byzantine
no way, no way

LOLZ

you can try to get high
if you want to its a free fucking world
in fact you can do all the things you like honey
whether your a boy or a girl
we all tried to get paid
and now I'm trying to cast doubt
we all go to admit sometimes
thinking out loud
didn't you ever touch down

Its a freeeee fuckin' world

the government man

inevitability (beautiful mr sunflower avec party pooper) - the Nova Scotia via internet jam session

i go where i'm supposed to go
still theres ghosts hanging around my head
so i head on down to the graveyard where theres a shallow bed
im not thankful for hte shit that you kind of did to it
no I don't even try to find out its too loud to raise my hand
all waves are breaking, so we're running naked, always
no ones coming up phantom and questioning every day I dont know
I want to go sleep but I want to know, no se mas o menos
a motormouth and a cannoball
don't we go where we belong, long?
don't you think it way too long, long?
we still drink the same water
we still swim in the same grass
we still get high if as we want to
and no one even thinks to ask 
drop the mic
shut it down
its time for sleep
its getting to loud 
no se 
mas o menos
a motor mouth with a cannonball

Project 14 - 2020-02-19, 12.31 AM

there is something you might find
that i think might blow your mind
spend some time staring at the blank blank blank blank eyes
here is something for your time
maybe something for your mind 
spend some time with the grey grey grey grey skies

Project 24 - 2020-04-02, 10.08 PM

read a complete book on freedom of self
now i'm troubled troubled as hell
i'm only going to die for the arrogance of the state
so low you know its a dream
all the cigarettes are getting to me 
i'm too occupied by half of my life too explain
city girl will you listen to me
its not what they tell you on tv
its all types things
its all kind of things 
its all more complicated than you'll see
your friends wont know 
they'll pretend they told ya
about all kinds of things you didnt want to know
but i dont think its still going to be the same in the morning
tied up with fear of my own hate man
listening to the tapes i bought when i was in japan
i got my mind made up 
i got my favourite bands
tired again thinking about me 
tired of you thinking about Cream
all day no ones trying to explain
so tired of you whining about me 
smoke your cigarette and just let it be
all tired things are tired until they be
trying to get me like your trying to get free
no one wnat sto know how lonesome its been
i dont want to speend days climbing out of the holes you dig
you can save your try outs 
you can swim up stream
you can be a bad fish if you want
you can see wwhat i mean
there is no turning back 
theres no time left to explain
you say my musics too loud 
when im going on stage
playing that shaker
like its not worth anything
i’m too occupied for half of my life to expalin
people like you and people like me don’t even get each others routine
no i’m on duty for half of my life to expalin
i don’t need your rythm kid
i dont need it but i thought that i did
no ones trying to see how life can be

city girl

she seen the future
she says its dismal
she says the weather man 
is a weather prophet
it will continue bad
she says it will continue grim
she says these tea leaves are talking about him
she says your part of the problem man
freedom is just a choice you make
its not about the words you say
its certainly not the drugs you take
we cant over complicate
i was only sleeping in
though another year its been
i can't over complicate
i can't even take my pain
she says i see the river overflowing
its not gonna be a flood man
its gonna be a fuckign drought
she says get down off your fucking cross
she says get down off yoru cigarette cross
she says get down off your heroine cross
get down and say what your thinking of
freedom is just a choice you make
its not about the words you say
its not about the drugs you take
i'm here to only complicate
its not a good shape i'm in
when you come over you think of him
i can't overcompensate
for the questions you fail to state
stay up all night
chopping wood
stay up all night your sleeping
stay up all night your making paintings (maybe)
staying up all night your writing poems (who knows)
stay up all night your thinking of things
staying up all night your drinking spanish coffee
staying up all night your reading a book
freedom is just a choice you make
theres no time 
and theres no reason
and theres no feeling 
unless theres feeling
i can feel this
but not right now at home
can you feel this?
this constant sorrow
freedom is just a choice you make

boris is a weather prophet

hey
hey 
what did you touch down? 
was it the same clowns
during the day
golden dreams, what did you see? did it concern me?
cause the river came down
the river didnt slow down
no one wanted to witness a change
witness a change from me
somehow we go out
part of witnessing anything
and anyone
between the day and the bullet and the gun
all my armies are loaded up for a  time right now
you can say but there is no way i'm not
gonna hike across hte pyrenees
gonna get my dirty knees
gonna get to say i dont
you got a bullet and the gun, who wants to have some fun
all day i dont look back
i'm no longer an option till your coming down
ohhh what did you think could it be a future
could it be a drip
plug in my drip ya
plug in my scene
plug in my garden
call it my knee
call it my future
calling me
come into my garden
i'll get on my knees
so you know space time
from outer space
all the above man
i cant replace

What do you think about freedom/

cowritten with Chris George

darling i'm asking please
i got my own way
of trying to breathe
its my secret
i'm addicted to your face
darling whoas me
I got my own way of asking please
its my secret, put ourselves in place
3,2,1 and I am ready for fun
I can go steady or not 
darling please
In my glass house
the world's so loud
ohhh ohhhh ohhhh 
capture the scenery
its a long way to drive in debris
its my secret
i'm addicted to your face
my doctor even agrees
my girl is ruining me
its my secret
put ourselves in place
3, 2, 1 and I am ready for fun 
i can go steady or not darling please
in my glass house 
the world's so loud
ohhh ohhhh ohhhhh ohhh 
city girl wont you try to be
right there next to me
for at least a few theoretical time and space
what do you think?
i've been breathing funny since we met
ya my heart goes beat beat beat
my heart goes pound pound pound
i keep thinking about all the time i didnt have you around
all the calm, and all the lost and found
now i know how its gonna play out and what your thinking about
city girl city city city girl wont you listen to me
city girl city girl city girl wont you listen to me
be my freak be my freak be my freak

MyGlassHouse (telkwa daze demos)

Lyrics: 
I won't admit to nothing I didn't do 
better sell your world before its broken
I won't admit to any god given truths
colour me a pretender because I've spoken
oh I've climbed the mountain far atop the hill
in the misty morning I take my pills
I won't admit to nothing I didn't do
better sell your world before its broken
I won't admit to any god given truths
colour me a pretender because I've spoken
oh I climb the mountain far atop the hill
in the misty morning I take my pills
oh I climb the mountain far atop the hill
in the misty morning I drank my fill

I've Climbed The Mountain (telkwa daze demos)ft.ChrisGeorge

i dreamt it when the road was straight
i kept thinking much worse things
falling in between the day
to dream it over and over again
all these things of course you know
i didnt mean to talk down too
wait until your between the day
you'll ride until you fell right through
i'm trying to reconstrue
i'm trying to say i do
you broke my heart
between the rains
now underwater i must go to see you again
make time for the people whose song sets you free
where you might go i swear it dont mean shit to mei dreamt it when the road was straight
i kept thinking much worse things
falling in between the day
to dream it over and over again
all these things of course you know
i didnt mean to talk down too
wait until the windows shake
then you'll try to ride right through
i'm trying to reconstrue
i'm trying to say i do
you broke my heart
between the rains
now underwater i must go to see you again
make time for the people whose song sets you free
where you might go i swear it dont mean shit to me

Broke my heart(underwater demo)

(here is one about rainy days)

hello where are you
I'm still pretending
all the games we play
I know the ropes
its 7:30am 
on a sunny day
so blue I'm begging the town to find you
"won't you stop hanging around those guys"
now i'm waiting, probably contemplating goodbye
hello how are you 
i'm still pretending
on a sunny day
i know the ropes
its 7:30am
all these games we play
so blue i'm hanging around to find you
wont you give me some goodtimes
now i'm waiting 
probably contemplating goodbye

sometimes lover mostly friend

long distance operator (basement tapes - bob dylan and the band cover)

bluebird at your window
thinking of things betcha she'll never know
my bluebird sing in the trees
down by the river wet to my knees
tongue tied you feel so special
when your not so tired of your own shame
bluebird you already know
i'll tell you the things that you don't want to know
my bluebird its getting routine
and all your affection brings me to my knees
ohhh ohhh
gypsy, what do you want with me? 
A gypsy world?
bluebird outside my window
i'm taking up things that I dont want to know
bluebird i'm out of tune, who sings a real tune, who sings a real tune?
the fields are months away
a golden day?
hunger in the valley hunger in the fields hunger in the mountain hunger till it yields i'm always a young man

Mark riffing on Keith

bluebird with keith

they

its not useful to getting free
its not useful they'll have you believe
i got drugs, i got weed, three little birds are laughing at me
before you think (before you think)
just a thought (just a thought)
its a revolution (its a revolution)
or its not (its not)
I got drugs
are they free? three little birds are laughing at me
here I am at the radio station
no ones even talking about the radiation
karma kids and plastic breeders
all them hipsters hanging at the worlds freezers

(repeat)

I'm not dumb I'm just free
I'm just scene
I've been blue
why you looking at me

Three Little Birds Laughing At Me

I don't want to have the conversation
but I'm sick of laying in bed
all of the stars now are winding their way through my head

I don't think that she bought it
but now I'm sick of paying rent
your explosions are too much and they get stuck in my head

Oh you know she has seen you at your worst
but your not nearly half as bad as you were

cause right now please don't reply 
while you occupy the back of my mind
I say it begs a question, are you only in my head? 
I dont deserve this, its you latching onto my bed

Klingeron

(I don't know what to do about it)
The state of my mind
the state of the world 
and all that shit
I don't know why you think you can just FIX
I don't have time for your cemetery shit
I don't know what to do about it the state of the world
(architect of love)
I don't know what to do about it, I'm digging aplomb
I'm tired of singing its not about right and wrong
wait until they pass you by
and then choke on the water that used to get you high
wait until I pass you by
because I'm so high on the water I can walk in the sky
transistor, resistor: resist it
architect of love
matter fact its love

FIX (the State of the World)

never been to paris
not for a couple of years
my friend gestures 
she says wipe away those tears
I'm a polyglot i'm a handgernaid 
i'm all kinds of things
but mostly i'm scared
darling, what are you doing here?
when we walk out of the cave, to the river
we're flooded beyond our years
mr. durrell is under duress
with the fate of saturn walking up the stairs
with the fate of all you got left
do you want to drop a glitter bomb
do you want to stay at my hotel
what if my hotel is the back of a crowded room
or sleeps not coming soon
and no one says farewell
do you want to drop a glitter bomb
do you want to climb to the sax motel
do you want to play a thousand chords
a thousand chords that you knew too well

Polyglot (feat. Sam on Clarinet)

I remember you well in the Chelsea Hotel
You were talkin' so brave and so sweet
Givin' me head on the unmade bed
While the limousines wait in the street
Those were the reason an' that was New York
We were runnin' for the money and the flesh
And that was called love for the workers in song
Probably still is for those of them left
Ah, but you got away, didn't you, baby?
You just turned your back on the crowd
You got away, I never once heard you say
I need you, I don't need you
I need you, I don't need you
And all of that jiving around
I remember you well in Chelsea Hotel
You were famous, your heart was a legend
You told me again you preferred handsome men
But for me you would make an exception
And clenching your fist for the ones like us
Who are oppressed by the figures of beauty
You fixed yourself, you said: Well, never mind
We are ugly but we have the music
And you got away, didn't you, baby?
You just turned your back on the crowd
You got away, I never once heard you say
I need you, I don't need you
I need you, I don't need you
And all of that jiving around
I don't mean to suggest that I loved you the best
I can't keep track of each fallen robin
I remember you well in Chelsea Hotel
That's all, I don't even think of you that often

(leonard cohen, in the style of Rufus wainwright)

Chelsea Hotel No.2 (Leonard Cohen cover in the style of Rufus Wainwright )

calm down
drunk sailor
say it out loud
i know what your thinking about ya
all now, drunk sailor
say it proud
i know what your thinking out loud
calm down
street danger
say it so loud
nobody wants to save ya
i know what your thinking about
all that failure
i know what your dreaming about
stranger
calm down beautiful stranger
sooo proud
i know what your thinking out loud
calm down
beautiful stranger 
right now 
i know what your thinking out loud
its still a mystery
(organ solo)
call it what you like
you can try to flaunt it
dream as if in a dream
so that you might want it
look out to the morning
look out to the day time 
take the devil elevator up
and wait until its night time
i got calm-o-down beautiful stranger
right now i feel that your in danger

Calm is Down (Drunk Sailor)

fall in love while the worlds exploding
I get it, out there, its all ready to go
In my nervous part of your open mind, I’m loco, knock knock
so you, are you trying?
I dont think the enemy is only in my head
but the doctor asks you why your alwyas in bed
you’ve got it all wrong
don’t readt he charts
don’t look to the stars
don’t read the maps cartographer of my soul
cartographer of my soul
I’m in love 
with a place
with a star that shines above mexico
so in love
with a girl I met once down in the sky 
so in love
with a place with a star that shines bright right above mexico
so in love
with a girl with a look with a careless station
a long time ago
follow sidewalk steps
all the patterns left by sleepy seven
listening to bonobo smoke a couple spliffs you know
I’m in love with a girl with a start that shines real bright above mexico
i’m in love with a style with an island shining above mexico
so this is the new year
this is the new year
watch the hand on the dial
spin out to the wrong time
watch the hand on the dial
spin to the right time

Listening to Bonobo

its a challenging time to be in vegas
it hasnt rained in weeks
the blackjack tables and all my favourite fables 
are full of freaks
they told me things were gonna get better
they told me "by the morning" came
i'm still putting it on red, putting it on red
until its summer again
one more year down in vegas
hanging out with the freaks
the blackjack tabless and all my favourite fables 
are full of creeps
oh.....(nothing we do matters)
oh.....(all that you built shatters)

Its a Challenging Time To Be In Vegas (or, How I Learnt To Love The Nothing, We Do)

sally doesnt dance with strange timing signatures
all they want to dream is in new england
call it what you want i'm a little out now
all as if in a dream, you got found out
I dont want to escape, though I'm an escape artist by trade
I just want to try to let you frame, every single day
no I dont want to get faded alone
faded at home by my aloooneeeeesome
now of course you know
all the time in life to argue
ya i'm so tired from being stoned
i don't know why you gave in girl
theres only so much time in this little world
i dont know why your in it city girl
I listen to the above and I get bored

Feb 27, 2021

this is where i post songs for partypooper after i hit record. i'll hit record and you are hearing what comes out at that moment. i then use that track i just wrote and recorded in that moment as a bass track and add a few random things to finish the demo usually in about a 30 minute period. for studio tracks check out 'this is franco' on Spotify, or Bridge on Spotify, or www.thepartypoopers.bandcamp.com. cheers.

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