Shayfer James

Hush! hush!
Listen to the Varied Thrush
The freezing rain has
Pushed them down into the valley
With the rest of us
Flushed
From the comfortably lush
Forest floor
They draw their bows across
Serrated edges of
Musical saws and crush
The frigid, sharply pointed hearts
Of icicles like us

Crush, crush, crush,
Crush, crush, crush,
Crush, crush, crush,
Crush, crush, crush,
Crush, crush, crush,
Crush, crush, crush,
Crush, crush, crush...

Swish! swish!
The Osprey hovers seeking fish
The glassy pond
Displays the menu but won't serve the dish
To birds who wish
To linger when
The air turns cold
Defying pressure
To defer to Cackling Geese
And Western

Gulls, wish, wish,
Wish, wish, wish,
Wish, wish, wish,
Wish, wish, wish,
Wish, wish, wish,
Wish, wish, wish,
Wish, wish, wish...

Who doesn't wish they could
Begin
To leave?
Who doesn't wish they could
Believe
In letting something end?
We have these wishes
But we're hung up
On a superstitious
Focus on the family
We see in Collared Doves
With love much stronger
Than we probably
Should ever hope
For ours to be.

Are we a "we are" today?
Will we be a "we will be" tomorrow?
Were we a "we were" already
Long ago?
We don't know
What price makes sense to pay,
So we settle for indebted sorrow,
Never knowing we could dine and
Dash into that nullifying snow.

Thrash! thrash!
The so-called trash birds
Taking baths
Betray their cuteness
In the recklessness with which
They lash
Their lustrous feathers
Petroleum with flecks of ash
In an unseasonable
Puddle
Glaciating fast

Splash, splash, splash,
Splash, splash, splash,
Splash, splash, freeze,
Splash, splash, splash,
Freeze, splash, splash,
Splash, splash, splash,
Splash, splash, freeze,
Splash, splash, splash...

Hush! hush!
Listen to the Varied Thrush
Hush! hush!
Hush! hush!
Listen to the Varied Thrush,
Hush! hush!
Hush! hush!
Hush! hush!
Hush! hush!

Varied Thrush

Emphatically Mo' (b-sides)

Ted Talk City

A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO LUCK & LIABILITY OUT NOW ENJOY !! <3

BAD LUCK! (Acapella Version)

Live recording of unreleased song at Rockwood Music Hall 4.29.14

For Wolves (Rockwood Music Hall 4.29.14)

Element Two: Earth

One Foot in the Grave

When I was a kid, this is the song my father sang to be rather regularly.  Eventually I would sing it quietly to him on his deathbed.  So.  In celebration of his Birthday (6/9) I threw this together.  Enjoy.  Here is a link to the orignal:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj4nJ1YEAp4

The Gambler  - Shayfer James - Kenny Rogers Cover

From the new EP "Haunted Things" 
Purchase:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/haunted-things-ep/id1029606139

https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Shayfer_James_Haunted_Things?id=Bz5y5ibazdcb7xm5bmahi6vswky

https://open.spotify.com/album/0FxNacW8P6Q3QKPeTC8vcJ

https://shayferjames.bandcamp.com/album/haunted-things

http://www.amazon.com/Haunted-Things-Shayfer-James/dp/B014BU2EKS

Devil Throw Roses

Bremen

Insincerely Yours

Tombstone Road

Shayfer James - Weight of The World

From the album "Counterfeit Arcade" (2011)

For The Departed

The culmination of a lifetime of work between two best friends, and two of their best friends, More Silver mixes an authentic and ethereal Northwest Indie sound with elements of Pop-Punk, Folk Rock, and catchy hooks.

Saturday Night

The digital release of 'Len't - the single includes  the radio edit of 'Lent' and 2 b-sides; the Danton Supple produced 'Foolishly Wrong' and the band's self-produced early favourite 'Stalker's Tango'

All 3 songs can be purchased on iTunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/lent-single/id586010772 

Foolishly Wrong

Red Room Vol. 1

Room By Room

Shayfer James has built a creative world entirely his own—where poetic lyricism collides with cinematic arrangements, where darkness waltzes with whimsy, where rebellion and vulnerability share the same breath. His work explores the dual forces of isolation and belonging, of longing and defiance, all delivered with theatrical flair and unmistakable swagger that both welcomes and unsettles.

Tombstone Road

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