Shouts at Midnight

The Desert

Cool Story Bro

Featuring Janna Jennison

Who has dressed you in strange clothes of sand?
Who has taken you far from my land?
Who has said that my sayings were wrong?
And who will say that I stayed much too long?

Clothes of sand have covered your face
Giving you meaning and taking my place
So make your way on down to the sea
Something has taken you so far from me

Does it now seem worth all the color of skies
To see the earth through painted eyes?
To look through panes of shaded glass
See the stains of winters grass

Can you now return to from where you came?
Try to burn your changing name?
Or with silver spoons in colored light
Will you worship moons on winters night?

Clothes of sand have covered your face
Giving you meaning and taking my place
So make your way on down to the sea
Something has taken you so far from me


Clothes of Sand (Nick Drake cover)

Featuring Stephanie Miller on vocals and Joe Wells on bass

Tales are told after the ending
We grow old watching the tide
The water's cold, and it watches beneath us
Legends grow as the years go by

Won't you pour another glass for me?
Take me to a place time can't see
Won't you pour another glass for me?
What you say I just don't believe

Chorus:
Came up from the sea, screaming forever
With a voice so loud that I can't pretend
Came down from the sky, falling forever
And I wonder, does this never end?
It fell to the ground as the wood began burning
I can hear it and yet I can't see
But still I recall the regret and the yearning
On the day that it took you from me

Years have gone but I still hear the whispers
Years have gone but I still hear the cry
Years have gone but I still hear the singing
Echo around me through space and time

Years have gone but I still feel your imprint
Laying on the pillow next to mine
Years have gone, but I'm still waiting
Here for the day I can say goodbye

Won't you pour another glass for me?
Take me to a place God can't see
Won't you pour another glass for me?
What you say I just don't believe

Chorus

Legend (feat. Stephanie Miller on vocals and Joe Wells on bass)

Featuring Joe Wells and Marlyce Miller. Lyrics by Joe Wells.

The ceiling is spinning
The walls are closing in on the face
Paralyzed at the neck, the feet, the hands and the waist
He's bound and he's gagged and it leaves a terrible taste
Injected to make his eyes numb and to hear his heart race
Pictures of death appear
You will be forced to hear
Screams that will curdle your blood, and hope to inspire fear

Oh, my dear boy

Chorus
This classical conditioning
Will rid your soul of everything violent
You'll feel quite ill
Dear Ludovigo, stay still

Silent and incoherent speech passes his lips
Riding elephants in this graphically murderous trip
The essence of being reduced to insignificant dots
Hatred escapes from the soul, leaving his eyes bloodshot
Help me escape from here
Everything I hold dear
My every demeanor
My senses leave me with every tear

Oh, my poor mother

Chorus

Conditioning
Rid my soul of everything violent
This life that has come to be mine
Cured but emotionless all the time

Counting the years left on both of my hands
Living like this I just cannot stand
But I can't take another life, not even my own
It's the ultimate punishment

Ludovigo (feat. Joe Wells and Marlyce Miller)

What could she say to make them stay
A sentence or a phrase they never heard
Slipped between her lips
To this abandoned race that they've become

And as they turned to march away
The north and south were coiled into one
"We don't care where we go 
As long as there's a home outside of here"

Chorus
Watch the world turn life away 
An extra in a three act play
Watch the clock tick life away
Laugh when it's over

The summer passed, the seasons changed
And once again she found herself alone
Abandoned everything
Picked up all that remained to start again

And as she turned to walk away
The sun and moon recoiled into one
With nothing left to give
Against her will the cycle starts again

Chorus




March (feat. Marlyce Miller)

The Fall (feat. Marlyce Miller)

I'm Ted. And I make music. Thank you to my friends Joe Wells, Marlyce Miller, Stephanie Miller, and Janna Jennison for helping me make this otherwise bland and sterile music more interesting.

Ted Jach

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