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Jar Me Awake
03:27
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I wake up and stare at the skies of Toronto
Though it feels like I've never before.
I take the elevator down to the ground floor
And walk straight out the front door.
I take out my keys and unlock my Mercedes
And step out on to the road.
I drive with my hand hanging out the window
With no mind to the wintery cold.
A foot on the gas and a foot on the brake
Oh, those pricks they'll never even know
I'm fading away
Oh, I'm dying for an escape
So, jar me awake
Only one more day alone
Only one more day
Only one more day alone
Only one more day
Til the angels take you home
Til the angels take you home
Arrive a few minutes late to the high rise
Where I work my hands to the bone
I'm taking my breaks on the roofs of skyscrapers
Just staring at cars below
Too god damn scared to let go
A foot on the ledge and a foot o'er the edge
Oh, those pricks they'll never even know
I'm fading away
Oh, I'm dying for an escape
So, jar me awake.
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2. |
Okemah
03:06
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Down in old sorrow
The champions of the dust-bowl
To wrestle my troubles away
I'm lonesome for a dollar
I'm lonesome for the colour
Of the skin that once warmed this old hand
Oh, Okemah I'll pray for a little bit of rain
To wet down this old blistered shore
Oh, Okemah I'll fall for your withered old heart
To fill it with seeds once again
Thirsty yields cracked and keeled
Where gold once grew
Capital dawn greets the break of day
We'll be praying for rain
Lip-burned impression on this dust-blasted forehead
The hinges hang off this old door
With black clouds too thick for this cancerous new trick
We'll pack up our cars and we'll go
Oh, Okemah I'll pray for a little bit of rain
To wet down this old blistered shore
Oh, Okemah I'll fall for your withered old heart
To fill it with seeds once again
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3. |
Ragtime War
02:55
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Drawing the lines on your furrowed brow
Wiping you sweat with a bloody towel
Taking your time with a borrowed clue
Holding the line like I've been holding you
I'm bound to the same vein that'll taker her life
The sound of a chain gang at the railroad side
Tying her down while the whistle blows
Time won't allow for the train to approach
The morning won't ache when it comes to pass
Pick up what's left of this evening crash
And I'm falling like walls that have crumbled to the floor
I'm heeding your call for a ragtime war
The afternoon it kills you in the high-strung heat
Why can't you see what this is doing to me
The train derailment was a pale attempt
To slow down to nothing when the steel track bent
Blades of cocaine rise and hit your throat
Numbs out the pain in the afterglow
I'm falling for you by the bathroom sign
Fighting those tears in your bloodshot eyes.
The morning won't ache when it comes to pass
Pick up what's left of this evening crash
And I'm falling like hell against your bedroom door
I'm heeding your call for a ragtime war
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4. |
Northumberland County
03:24
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Don't you come back, son
To Northumberland
They'll skin you alive and leave you to die
In Northumberland
Don't you stop here, boy
Lest you be in the soil
You'll dig all day your own shallow grave
In Northumberland
Old Northumberland
That's where I'm from
They'll invite you in and eat your kin
In Northumberland
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5. |
Get Through to You
03:13
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I know that time is running out
If I'm gonna get through to you
Somehow I've gotta figure out
Just how to get through to you
'cause when I hold you in my arms it feels so right
Then I saw you, you were out with him tonight
Yeah, you go back to him
And leave me wandering
Somehow I've got to figure out
Just how to get through to you
I know that time is running out
If I'm gonna get through to you
Yeah, you go back to him
You leave me wondering
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6. |
Wishing Wells
02:22
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This morning I awoke and I thought you'd been a dream
But my darling there you were inside my arms
So I close my eyes up tight and I wish never to return
But to feel your beating heart against my brain
But you tell that your sorry about the times you couldn't see
Then I just wished for you and yours to come back home to me
You are a wish, you are a dream that I never thought would take
And now each second I'm awake you're in my mind
And my heart can hardly think about the ways you must be real
Your velvet hands upon my skin could never lie
And your eyes are kind of grey and I guess mine are sort of blue
I think there's something in them there that keeps on drawing me to you
Your heart is one I never thought I'd find
And your eyes just keep on floating 'round my mind
With your hands pressed up against my aching spine
I only wish that I could stay in your arms for the rest of time
This morning I awoke and I felt your lips on mine
You are the ghost inside my bed, you are the clouds inside my mind
In my dreams I've longed to hold, in my thoughts I thought you'd stay
So now that wishing wells are granting, keep the best ones so we'll stay
Now that wishing wells are granting, you and I will surely stay
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7. |
Saint of the Coast
03:41
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In what order shall we go
Who is to say and who is to know
Will you quicken and leave this world,
Or simply let you body go?
Will you let go of your soul?
Will you stand or will you fall
When you hear the trumpets call
As you leave this mortal coil
And the splendor of your spoils
As you rest beneath the soil
Nothing left of the world you have made
Some folks pass by and others were changed
For yourself you've made a name
And you'll take it with you to the grave
When you reach the end of your days
And I pray you'll find yourself rest
I can hope that as things do unfurl
You'll be ready to take this test
And you'll remember the good things the most
And say goodbye to the saint of the coast
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8. |
Kinsey's Cabin
02:55
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Born in to riches and dumped into rags
In a broken down cabin lives what's-his-name
And he'll chop down the trees to stake his fiery claim
He wore out his welcome the day he came
Oh, I've failed you
As sure as the dead crow flies
Oh, I've failed you
So dry up those weather-beaten eyes
One, two, three, four; those trees they fell
five, six, seven, eight; like artillery shells
He'll bring down the bounty and bring down the bells
While he drives that old ax in to hell
He built that old cabin with bloody knuckled hands
He drove the foundation in to fire and sand
With the strength of ten lions and the brute force of rams
To live on Lucifer's land
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9. |
For Annie Tee
03:31
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I thought of you again last night
On the airwaves I was pushing
That song your wrote about us
On the Gretsch in open tuning
Through the radio's blank hum
The song rang out and ended
And the dead air hung like
heavy and inventive
I just sat and wondered why
You packed up and you left me
While the microphone just stared
Pointed at me sadly
I couldn't bring myself to cue
The next song on the playlist
They all reminded me of you
Broken, fucked, and shameless
Through the studio's dank light
I rang out in soliloquy
A poem to befit you
Spoken in a willowed key
And hopeless as it might have been
That just by chance you'd hear me
The most eloquent of praises
Echoed from me deeply
And when I finished, I hit play
On the song you wrote about us
Then I repeated it again
And on in to the darkness
I'd love to hear you sing above
Those chords with harnessed prowess
I could never hear enough of your alto's solemn grayness
And I wait, oh, I wait
And I'm saved
By the airwaves
It falls away from me
Please don't leave,
Annie Tee
If we end up strangers
I hope that you remember
All the songs you wrote for me
Softly crooned and clever
I've been holding on to you
Or at least the vague idea
When I push the faders up
And struggle to speak clear
I thought of you again last night
On the airwaves I was pushing
That song you wrote about us
On the Gretsch in open tuning
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10. |
Daffodil
03:08
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Through the night we'll drive towards the city
Carry on to the edge of the morn
Should the daylight forgives awful things that I did
You might let me do more
Oh, daffodil, my petunia
Daffodil, my rose
Find my tulips in the garden
And let yours be my home
Let yours be my home
Love of mine, we'll ride til it's over
Carry on, though the night is so long
If your heart needs a wish tell me now and I'll kiss you
And I'll say you belong
Oh daffodil, my petunia
Daffodil, my rose
Something changes in the darkness
And I love you right now
I love you right now
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11. |
Bottleneck
05:38
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In a bygone day
I'd have lost my head
I'd have lain awake
And my mind would race
As the pressure builds
To a bottleneck
In times gone past
I'd have lost my nerve
My frustration grew
As my thoughts would pass
I would walk in to
A bottleneck
Times I've lost
I'd been out of my head
I can float for hours
But be down instead
Til I found I was stuck
In the bottleneck
From now on
Foregone bottleneck
I've been lifted up
When I could hardly stand
From the bottom when I reach out for your hand
You pulled me up and now I know that I will see the end
You waited on me, I could see you are my one true friend
I'll be on my way and I will follow...
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Diane Motel Windsor, Ontario
An alt-folk band out of Windsor, ON which blends soulful harmonies with insightful lyrics to deliver a sound familiar, yet original all the same.
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