Alternate World (Alternate Age)

Vocals - Ieva Berberian, Cameron Schenk, Aaron Strumpel, Shara Worden 
Mandolin - Chris Thile / Pedal Steel, Bass - Christopher Wray  


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Alternate World (Alternate Age)

An early mix of a lullaby about seeing through words...

The Meaning of Words - alpha

Crazy for her

You’ve been talking trash for hours
about how I’ve been wasting all your time;
how you’ve had enough of this,
you swear you’re gonna call it quits,
but I’m not changing any time.

So if you can’t live this way forever,
then maybe take this as a sign.
If you’re so convinced I ain’t your darling prince,
then it won’t be hard to say goodbye.

You keep waging all these battles,
when you know I’m not the fighting kind.
Then you swear that I’m insane,
while you bitch and you complain—
Well, I ain’t so crazy that I’m blind.

So if you can’t live this way forever,
then I wonder why I even try.
If you’re so convinced I’m such a lunatic,
then it won’t be hard to say goodbye.

You’d have me on the straight and narrow;
locked up tight with key and chains;
kept so tame I wouldn’t know my name
and I’d only have myself to blame.

So if you can’t live this way forever,
then, baby, I’m happy to oblige.
If you’re so convinced I’m just some hopeless hick,
then it won’t be hard to say goodbye.
Yeah, if you’re so convinced then I’m so over this,
and it won’t be hard to say goodbye.

(c)2018 DJ Lekich

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Won't Be Hard to Say Goodbye

Thump my pillow, start tossing and turning—
the night’s are kinda long when your mind keeps churning.
So I get on up and with my PJs on
I open the curtain and I gaze upon
that glowing face in the summer sky,
a midnight buddy for a lonely guy.

Well, he’s hanging in the sky like a big balloon
and his arms are reaching for me in my troubled room,
and I find myself a-hummin’ a familiar tune,
so my worries in the end 
are put to ease by my silver friend.
And she may not be coming back anytime soon,
but that’s alright because tonight
I’ve got the moon.

All the good times that we shared together—
I wasn’t quite aware that it wouldn’t last forever.
I keep getting hung up on the things she did,
but Mr. Moon reminds me that’s no way to live.
He tells a joke about a mastodon,
and keeps me laughing all night long.

Well, he’s hanging in the sky like a big balloon
and his arms are reaching for me in my troubled room.
I start thinking about a cow and dish and spoon,
so my worries in the end 
are put to ease by my silver friend.
And she may not be coming back anytime soon,
but that’s alright because tonight
I’ve got the moon.

All it takes to stop a heart from achin’
is a willing ear and a little conversation.

And, he’s hanging in the sky like a big balloon
and his arms are reaching for me in my troubled room,
and I find myself a-hummin’ a familiar tune,
so my worries in the end 
are put to ease by my silver friend.
And she may not be coming back anytime soon,
but that’s alright because tonight
I’ve got the moon.

Me and Mr. Moon are going to shine, shine shine.
Me and Mr. Moon are going to shine, shine, shine.

(c)2019 DJ Lekich/John Vaughan

I've Got the Moon

I should have known it long before
from the quiet ways you seemed
to hold your breath.
I feel so bad it felt so wrong
to share this secret
you’ve so closely kept.

Did you fear I would never love you as you are?
Did you think I wouldn’t be the friend I was before?
Well, relax—you know it now.
So breathe.

All the jests and droll asides—
how you hid yourself
behind your smiles.
It makes me sad to realize
I never really knew you
all this while.

Did I say something unforgiving or unfair
to betray the trust I made you doubt was really there?
Well it was, and it will always be.
So breathe.

I’m sorry I was blind, 
that I could never see . . .
in the who I thought you were 
the who you’re meant to be.
And I just want to let you know
I’m so glad you’re finally free.

Did you fear I wouldn’t love you as you are?
Did you think I wouldn’t stand beside you all the more?
Well, relax—just close your eyes.
Sit back—your future’s open wide . . .
So breathe.

(c)2018 DJ Lekich

So Breathe

Text & musik: Thomas/Phil Frank

I patient 107:s journal 
I patient 107:s journal

Har lätt för att tröttna
Har svårt för att se
Det vackra i varda’n
Jag antecknar de’
Vill alltid springa, sjunga, dansa
Och skråla med
Fast vaknar ofta upp med ångest
Jag antecknar de’

I patient 107 journal
Med en not i kanten: ”möjligen
något postpubertal”

Svåranpassad 
till ett vanligt kneg
Naivt romantisk, 
men oftast ganska så feg
Vill alltid fly iväg till något annat
Och tror att det e 
Det samma som att gå sin egen väg

Jag antecknar i patient 107:s journal
Med en not i kanten: ”ganska få 
kvarvarande behandlingsval”

I patient 107:s journal 
I patient 107:s journal

Har svårt för att somna
Säger att en del
Tvångstankar förekommer
Som att livet är nåt slags spel
Hävdar att hen inte alls är envis
Men att andra oftast har fel
Samt att jag citerar fel
När jag antecknar de’

I patient 107 journal
Med en not i kanten: ”bör påbörja
medicinering, helst inom nån da”

I patient 107:s journal 
I patient 107:s journal

Har gått någon månad
På rätt tung medicin
Säger inte så mycket
Men känns liksom mera lugn och fin
Måste dock upprätthålla kontakten med
Psykiatrin
I form av ”moi”

Jag antecknar i patient 107:s journal:
”Nu går allt som det ska”
Jag antecknar i patient 107:s journal:
”Nu går allting bra”

I patient 107:s journal

Patient 107:s journal

Written by John Prine and performed here by Gearóid O Duinnín (Vocals & Guitars) Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh (Vocals) David Murphy (Dobro) Jeremy Spencer (Fiddle) Siona Knepper (Double Bass) Martin Leahy (Percussion) Mixed & Mastered by Donal Finn.

Patient 107:s journal

Thomas Frank

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