Album: Your Majesty
Artists:
- Michael Guy Bowman
Cover Artists:
- Alice Hu
Date: August 9, 2024
URLs:
- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/your-majesty
- https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mCULaO4C21RpqtIPN2cn-NShRYBTbf_Nk
- https://open.spotify.com/album/04PD4zgt0ZdyCwn4Ap5wuV
- https://music.apple.com/album/your-majesty/1757139886
Color: '#deb24e'
Groups:
- Michael Guy Bowman
- Beyond
Art Tags:
- Bowman
Additional Files:
- Title: Album booklet
Description: >-
Stylized booklet featuring lyrics for all tracks, and artworks by [[artist:alice-hu]]; included with the album download on Bandcamp as well as in the physical CD album. Included on-wiki [[media:misc/your-majesty-booklet-permission.png|with permission]].
Files:
- Your Majesty - Booklet.pdf
Commentary: |-
Michael Guy Bowman: ([Bandcamp about blurb](https://bowman.bandcamp.com/album/your-majesty) / album booklet)
When the future is uncertain it can be easy to romanticize the past. In fairy tales we imagine that the world was once a more beautiful place where magic explained the mysteries of life. The probing tools of science were once the simmering cauldrons of alchemy. We trusted our leaders completely as the righteous defenders of a higher order which placed ourselves at the center of the universe.
We are tempted to return to this mythic era. The epic tales of old generations bewilder us with stories of glorious quests and lives of adventure. All of it seems to be disappearing just beyond the horizon of a new world that has become petrified with frightful complexity. We treasure the artifacts that remain from simpler times, believing in vain that they might unlock hidden entrances to unspoiled realms.
Though the arrow of time pushes us ceaselessly beyond the dominion of our half-remembered past, we hold onto a belief that we are meant for something more than the cold reality that we face - too obvious, too impersonal. We imagine this is only a dark age between the reign of two great kingdoms, the next greater than the first. It is a seductive belief, and potentially dangerous.
And yet, occasionally, we must indulge these fantasies. We romanticize the past because we remember once that we were able to romanticize the future. To permit legendary origins is to hope for a destiny beyond our crude surroundings. We have the choice to see life as a brief epitaph or as the unfolding chapters of a grand saga. Which way will you turn?
Michael Guy Bowman: (Bowmantown Discord, 8/11/2024)
> how exactly do you decide on like, the musical style of an album?
This time around I wanted to focus on working just with acoustic guitar and vocals at a couple of open mics, so I based the arrangements on that
And the strongest ideas that emerged early on were sort of fantasy based
So I was conscious of that both as an intent for writing and a guideline for what I picked to refine
And in the end it felt like [[track:your-majesty|"Your Majesty"]] the song was the centerpiece because it's about heroism which unifies the images on the album
Like the colorful characters you might find on an epic adventure
I think I'm sort of conscious of what does and doesn't go together on all of these and picking which ideas to develop is a bit strategic
Michael Guy Bowman: ([Twitter](https://x.com/mguybowman/status/1821024053702103081), 7/18/2024)
Something's coming...
Michael Guy Bowman: ([Twitter](https://x.com/mguybowman/status/1821024053702103081), excerpt, 7/19/2024)
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT
*([YouTube mirror](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYXTTXPxx0M))*
Michael Guy Bowman: ([Twitter](https://x.com/mguybowman/status/1821024053702103081), 7/25/2024)
Your Majesty
Coming August 9
Michael Guy Bowman: ([Twitter](https://x.com/mguybowman/status/1821360726054769031), excerpt, 8/7/2024)
Bijan Eghtesady drums on all the tracks on the new album! He is the drummer for approximately 500 bands and can crush coal into a diamond with his bare hands. Check him out on my last 2 albums and also with [@bonehengeband](https://x.com/bonehengeband), [@whydogswhy](https://x.com/whydogswhy) and his solo stuff!
Michael Guy Bowman: ([Twitter](https://x.com/mguybowman/status/1821024053702103081), excerpt, 8/7/2024)
Caught up with Bonnie Maddox who plays accordion on the new album! Listen up for her on [[track:overboard-your-majesty|"Overboard"]] đŸª—
Alice Hu: (cover artist, [Twitter](https://x.com/coccoderma/status/1819545928799519203), 8/2/2024)
Some concept sketches of the cover art for Your Majesty!
Bijan Eghtesady: (drums, [Twitter](https://x.com/melancholy_robo/status/1821967799683838279), excerpt, 8/9/2024)
new mgb album is out today! it's all bangers imo go listen
---
Track: Julia Verne
Duration: 3:36
Contributors:
- Bijan Eghtesady (drums)
URLs:
- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/julia-verne
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuM7VFAJHWw
- https://open.spotify.com/track/6d8GxzSAmlAXdphXMSoGgB
- https://music.apple.com/album/julia-verne/1757139886?i=1757139887
Lyrics: |-
Long ago we used to lie
Beneath the summer evening sky
The moon and mars and all the stars
Were in our eyes
You made a wish and it came true
But what it was I never knew
Until one night I saw your light
Was up there too
Julia Verne - she's on a journey to the stars
Leaving behind these worldly binds
For something new
Julia Verne - will you return to mend these scars?
I've got to hope, my telescope's
Always on you, on you
I found the note beside the bed
The strangest thing I've ever read
"I've got to go, that's all I know"
Was all it said
So off it went, a loaded gun
To shoot you right around the sun
Are you insane? I can't explain
The things you've done
Julia Verne - she's on a journey to the stars
Leaving behind these worldly binds
For something new
Julia Verne - will you return to mend these scars?
I've got to hope, my telescope's
Always on you, on you
On you
How many nights and days
Since last we parted ways
It must be hard to count them out in space
Lay down your landing gear (Ooh, la la la la)
You know I'm still right here (Ooh, la la la la)
Forever wondering why you disappeared (Ooh-ooh-ooh)
But if I could I'd take a ride
Across the great cosmic divide
And maybe then I'd once again
Be at your side
For if it's true that what you've found
Way out there where there is no sound
Is worth it all, I'll never fall
Back to the ground
Julia Verne - she's on a journey to the stars
Leaving behind these worldly binds
For something new
Julia Verne - will you return to mend these scars?
I've got to hope, my telescope's
Always on you, on you
On you (on you, on you, on you)
On you (on you, on you, on you, on you)
---
Track: Vampire State
Duration: 3:07
Contributors:
- Bijan Eghtesady (drums)
URLs:
- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/vampire-state
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSYi5x0aU8U
- https://open.spotify.com/track/19xl0O3ujAfT3362KrLWY9
- https://music.apple.com/album/vampire-state/1757139886?i=1757139888
Lyrics: |-
Come one, come all to the midnight ball
There's trouble brewing in the banquet hall
Take a leap through the line and you'll be just fine
I've seen your face all over the unwanted signs
Have a toast to your host who's got the least
He's secretly something of an awful beast (Oh)
With a bulletproof plan for the also-rans
And an awful lot of time upon his idle hands
Everybody's going on about the end of the world
In fact they seem a little excited
It's a party and your pity's invited
Dinner and dessert provided
Vampire State - home to all the miscreated
Where nightmares are related and dreams annihilated (Oh)
Vampire State - pierce the moonlight with your steeple
We're not your kind of people anymore
Slow down, look around, take in all the sounds
Your cup ranneth over ‘til it nearly drowned
Take a few small sips, leave a few tall tips
And you can keep on dancing when the record skips
Don't you try to sneak out of any exit routes
‘Cause the scent that you're dispensing is a sense of doubt (sense of doubt)
If you show off your back, you're just an easy snack
You must impress upon them that you're always on attack
Everybody keeps talking while their mouths are full
But you know every word they're saying
And you get the feeling you'll be staying
It's an urge you can't resist obeying
Vampire State - where the jawline meets the collar
It's a real hoot and holler of opulence and squalor (Oh)
Vampire State - rising over the horizon
You'll wish that you'd been wise enough to run
High on that heathen tower (Oh), clock strikes the midnight hour (Oh)
Down from the belfry comes a cloud of wings (Cloud of wings)
Kaleidoscope of teeth and shadows underneath
Eclipsing all these wretched things (Oh, oh)
But at the end of the night, if your cards are right
You might get out of there with only just a couple of bites
Keep your sleeves rolled down when you reach the ground
And no one else will have to know when you get back to town
Everybody looks different in the light of the day (Oh, oh)
At the masquerade's adjourning (Oh, oh)
But when the midnight oil is burning
You know that you will be returning
Vampire State - climb the hundred-story talon
A crimson Irwin Allen exploding by the gallon (Oh)
Vampire State - calling all the anti-saviors
Be on your worst behavior at the
Vampire State - dreaded fang as high as mountains
An oozing scarlet fountain a billion served and counting (Oh, oh)
Vampire State - where the wounds are freshly severed
You'll wish that you had never heard its name
---
Track: Hermit of the Half Moon Rock
Duration: 3:44
Contributors:
- Bijan Eghtesady (drums)
URLs:
- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/hermit-of-the-half-moon-rock
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7cmG64swV8
- https://open.spotify.com/track/6m4d4NjMpT06vye30DCsw5
- https://music.apple.com/album/hermit-of-the-half-moon-rock/1757139886?i=1757140099
Lyrics: |-
He stood on the top of the hill
He said "This isn't a drill - I'm gone"
"I'm headed up to the dome"
He put his life on his back
And headed out at the crack of dawn
To make himself right at home
Out where the river shimmers in the night
And the stars speak words if you listen to them right
The crazy little creatures hidden out of sight
They come out and talk
To the Hermit of the Half Moon Rock
It's him and the hawk
Hauling up the vertical walk
Of the Half Moon Rock
Why don't you give him a knock?
Follow the trail of chalk
Up the Half Moon Rock
Up the Half Moon Rock
Up the Half Moon Rock
The Hermit of the Half Moon Rock
He sewed the leaves in his dress (oh yes)
And if it was hot even less he wore
And sometimes nothing at all
The hawk was all that he had (all that he had)
And if he was lonely or sad, he'd roar
And echo through the canyon walls (Aiaiaiaiaiaiaiaiai!)
And the mountain lion came running to the sound
While the whole hog herd would gather all around
The [[album:comfortable-bugs|comfortable bugs]] all living in the ground
Would raise a few stalks
For the Hermit of the Half Moon Rock
It's him and the hawk
Hauling up the vertical walk
Of the Half Moon Rock
Why don't you give him a knock?
Follow the trail of chalk
Up the Half Moon Rock
Up the Half Moon Rock
Up the Half Moon Rock
The Hermit of the Half Moon Rock
He's got the ink on his hands (ah-ah-ah)
The beetles lend him a gland
For the testament he scrawls inside his cave
(Shooby dooby mm-bop, shooby dooby)
He carves it out with a tooth (ah-ah-ah)
He's on a mission for truth
In a world he does not know if he can save
(Shooby dooby mm-bop, shooby dooby)
And he thinks he might be leaving
But he isn't ready yet (Oh yeah, yeah, yeah)
'Cause under every stone there's a spirit to be met
Oh yeah
And when he'd finally rest
There with the hawk in his nest, he'd pause
And think about who he was
Out in the world all alone
His life completely his own, his laws
Only written in the things he does
But if the buffalo bunch could stand the monsoon
And the choir of crickets could learn to sing in tune
Could the prince of the primates rise pretty soon
And find his own flock? (Oh)
Oh the Hermit of the Half Moon Rock
It's him and the hawk
Hauling up the vertical walk
Of the Half Moon Rock
Why don't you give him a knock?
Follow the trail of chalk
Up the Half Moon Rock
Up the Half Moon Rock
Up the Half Moon Rock
The Hermit of the Half Moon Rock
---
Track: Oracle
Directory: oracle-your-majesty
Always Reference By Directory: true
Duration: 3:11
URLs:
- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/oracle
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vVHumukLgA
- https://open.spotify.com/track/6rAxSqrahsnWhdE4ppKet8
- https://music.apple.com/album/oracle/1757139886?i=1757140100
Lyrics: |-
Oracle awaken
Tell me where to go
The course of life has taken
Everything I know
Show me a tomorrow
Free from all the sorrow
I will beg and borrow
Anything it takes to make it so
Oracle astound me
Tell me what's to come
The world all around me
Leaves my body numb
Show me a horizon
I can fix my eyes on
Destiny, it lies on
Distant shores beyond where I came from
Oracle imbue me
Purpose for my soul
Something's running through me
I cannot control
Read the constellations
Share your observations
I could conquer nations
If you'd only show me, oracle
---
Track: Breakers of Dawn
Duration: 3:41
Contributors:
- Bijan Eghtesady (drums)
URLs:
- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/breakers-of-dawn
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iOx5H6oOsU
- https://open.spotify.com/track/1y8sbfAuVLfMojBJp2izIg
- https://music.apple.com/album/breakers-of-dawn/1757139886?i=1757140101
Lyrics: |-
Dawn calls to you
Rakes its ragged claws across the eastern sky
Day bursting through
All at once you're certain of the reason why
The night and its terrible kingdom has finally gone
The nail of the crimson horizon has fallen upon
The breakers of dawn
The breakers of dawn
Steel razors climb
Scatter 'cross the borderlines of no man's land
Cruel winds of time
Move the mounds of sacred grounds and shifting sands
Where vultures and vipers lay waste to the lives of our spawn
Look to the few and the crazed who ride vengefully on
The breakers of dawn
The breakers of dawn
They cannot be made, they can only be born
Proclaiming tomorrow has come with their horn
A power far greater than any could ever control
I know you have felt it for all of your days
The white-hot injection of turbulent rays
Which penetrates down to the depths of your undying soul
Now turn the wheel
See yourself as seeing eye and as the seen
Break off the seal
Re-engage the light from where it's always been
From fringes where faces of heroes and villains are drawn
We're graced to awake in a world which embraces their brawn
The breakers of dawn
The breakers of dawn
---
Track: Your Majesty
Duration: 3:32
Contributors:
- Bijan Eghtesady (drums)
URLs:
- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/your-majesty
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUq1wMXqb8A
- https://open.spotify.com/track/5RQXeDG8PMymcypC7LIkeM
- https://music.apple.com/album/your-majesty/1757139886?i=1757140102
Lyrics: |-
Every corner of the city's lined with shadows
Every stranger in the street averts their eyes
All the people locked away behind the windows
They're all waiting for a hero to arise
All the men remember days when they were stronger
Every woman hides a dagger in her gown
But you won't cover up your faces any longer
On the day when I come riding into town
So put a light on in your window, put your face against the glass
Don't you know that I'm your hero? Won't you whistle when I pass?
I'll move a mountain if you just rely on me
I'll be the one you want to call "Your Majesty"
Every year it comes with trials and tribulations
And all the answers are revealed to next to none
But I recall a time of grand imaginations
Long before you learned to say "it can't be done"
There is a storm to come that none alone can weather
But if you'd like to learn I'll gladly show you how
And in the days ahead we all will band together
For your liberator walks among you now
So raise a banner from the tower when you open up the gate
Don't you know this is your hour? I have come to bear the weight
I swear I'll set your body and your spirit free
I'll be the one you want to call "Your Majesty"
Now is the reckoning of wretches and the meek
For the champion that you seek is at your door
I'll rectify a world of impotence and rage
And not only for an age but evermore
In times of trouble we are torn in all directions
You may be dazzled by the roads you travel down
Do not beleaguer in the burden of selection
You'll be lighter when you learn to lay your crown
I've heard the wailing of your city in the distance
I know the strain you must endure to still believe
But I could steer a steady course with your assistance
Toward the things that only power can achieve
So now awaken from your slumber, wipe the worry from your brow
Don't know I've got your number? Can't you hear me calling now?
I'll make you one with wonders none before could see
I'll be the one you want to call "Your Majesty"
I'll be the one you beg to call "Your Majesty"
I'll be the one you dare to call "Your Majesty"
---
Track: When We Take The Sky
Duration: 3:47
Contributors:
- Bijan Eghtesady (drums)
URLs:
- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/when-we-take-the-sky
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epr19iwqZzk
- https://open.spotify.com/track/79DVfwJJvA80OKkdv7AdeU
- https://music.apple.com/album/when-we-take-the-sky/1757139886?i=1757140103
Lyrics: |-
There's love in the air
And I'm taking you there tonight
So let's hang like a key
Flying fancy and free from a kite
The morning edition and trusted magicians
Say all the conditions are right
So up we'll be travellin' where they're unravellin'
Jupiter's javelin smite
Climb up to the clouds
We're the few and the proud here tonight
(Tonight, tonight, tonight)
Indulging a dream
Like the smoke and the steam taking flight
(In flight, in flight, in flight)
The evening papers can peer through the vapors
Which cover our capers from sight
(From sight, from sight, from sight)
Where static explodes from our five-finger nodes
Into plasmatic roads made of light
(Of light, of light, of light, hey)
What a thing to behold
We'll be way up high
When we take the sky
We've ridden the wheel
That hangs at our heels tonight
(Tonight, tonight, tonight)
There's dozens around
Who are holding the ground very tight
(Very tight, very tight, very tight)
But cool are the cats who'll be hanging their hats
Way up here where the bats couldn't bite
(Couldn't bite, couldn't bite, couldn't bite)
Few mortals would dare to the mischief we share
In the throes of such hair-raising frights
(Such frights, such frights, such frights)
So widen your eyelet
‘Cause I am the pilot tonight
(Tonight, tonight, tonight)
And all those behind
May they pay me no mind, but they might
(They might, they might, they might)
I've stolen away for an evening of play
And I wish I could stay at this height
(This height, this height, this height)
To linger the level where angels could revel
Or are these the devil's delights
(Delight, delight, delight, hey)
What a thing to behold
We'll be way up high
When we take the sky
At last we're descending
We're reaching the ending tonight
You're shook to your tail
And your lips are so pale, nearly white
Let's go get some rest, it is all for the best
If the atmosphere's guests are polite
Again we could treasure a night of such pleasure
So long as the measure is slight
---
Track: Overboard
Directory: overboard-your-majesty
Always Reference By Directory: true
Duration: 3:17
Contributors:
- Bijan Eghtesady (drums)
- Bonnie Maddox (accordion)
URLs:
- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/overboard
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8ypGOYWxME
- https://open.spotify.com/track/3HbV2xPU2bN6KgWTPLyxG1
- https://music.apple.com/album/overboard/1757139886?i=1757140104
Lyrics: |-
Gentlemen, listen right now as I speak
I fear that this ship of ours has sprung a leak
The sea, she is coming to take us an inch at a time
It's roaring in faster than buckets can fill
I fear it's a matter of minutes until
From belly to mast we'll be deeper than any can climb
And all of this now with the shore plain in sight
We might make it yet if the load could be light
But what sort of life do you think we'll afford
If we have to throw all that we have overboard?
The gold in our coffers is weighing us down
We shan't spend a cent if we're certain to drown
And none can come with you at all in the life after this
So gather your treasures and cast them away
And if you are swift then I hope and I pray
We won't soon be up to our eyes in a watery kiss
And if one among you at all hesitates
Remind them this is for the lives of their mates
But what sort of life do you think we'll afford
If we have to throw all that we have overboard?
See now the spoils in motion
Straight to the heart of the ocean
Down in the drink, every glimmering piece
You watch as they sink while the waters increase
Just slow enough to renew life's intolerable lease
At last we arrive clinging onto the sails
And leap to the dock when it finally fails
The ship where we spent seven months as we circled the globe
The price that we paid sure is awfully steep
Behind us the trail that shines in the deep
Could only be seen by an angler's most luminant lobe
We came as we left now with only our lives
The glory is gone but the story survives
So what sort of life do you think we'll afford
Now we've had to throw all that we have overboard?
Yes what sort of life do you think we'll afford
Now we've had to throw all that we have overboard?
---
Track: Venus Fly
Duration: 3:16
Contributors:
- Bijan Eghtesady (drums)
URLs:
- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/venus-fly
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm9sCOCvuUo
- https://open.spotify.com/track/00yJcVssMuPIS1kR85ey3I
- https://music.apple.com/album/venus-fly/1757139886?i=1757140105
Lyrics: |-
Little fly, don't you die so easy
I know you only live a day
Weathered by the winds so high and breezy
Don't you let this evening slip away
Little legs hatch from eggs each morning (ooh)
Silhouettes hardly ever change (ooh)
Stomach begs the musky dregs adorning (ooh)
For a taste of something new and strange (ooh)
Oh, open up your eyes
Can't you see you're falling for the venus fly?
Oh, won't you tell me why
You keep living like you're never gonna die?
Little speck, don't you wreck your wingspan
The beating of which gives to you your name
Keep in check below your neck for things can
So easily be plucked upon your frame
Spiders crawling forest walls you've thwarted (ooh)
You circumvent the snatch of froggy tongue (ooh)
The birds who call from perches tall you've shorted (ooh)
But on this fang you let yourself be hung? (ooh)
Oh, open up your eyes
Can't you see you're falling for the venus fly?
Oh, won't you tell me why
You keep living like you're never gonna die?
Never gonna die
Don't you know that it's a lie?
You were only passing by, for a try, another high
Now the jaws will never pry
"Come and play," you hear it say so sweetly
Nothing else had ever been so bold
But where you lay it's had its way discreetly
With all the rest who never grew so old
The same disease that lures the bees to pollen (ooh)
Pulls you where no free thing should involve (ooh)
In the squeeze of this the tease you've fallen (ooh)
Now to feel your body be dissolved (ooh)
Oh, open up your eyes
Can't you see you're falling for the venus fly?
Oh, won't you tell me why
You keep living like you're never gonna die?
Never gonna die
Don't you know that it's a lie?
You were only passing by, for a try, another high
Now the jaws will never pry
---
Track: Merry-Go-Round
Duration: 3:02
Contributors:
- Bijan Eghtesady (drums)
URLs:
- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/merry-go-round
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtjNKebhdZo
- https://open.spotify.com/track/69YIvXKF1e0cau6feSDKwW
- https://music.apple.com/album/merry-go-round/1757139886?i=1757140106
Lyrics: |-
There is an ivory horse
Upon a platinum post
Down at the bumper car breaks
Of the roller coast
Where all the riders go on
In an exotic parade
You were there long ago
While the organ played
And although you aren't sure when
You know you will be there again
Upon the merry-go-round
Merry-go-round
Merry-go-round (Merry-go-round)
Merry-go-round
Merry-go-round
Merry-go-round
Out of the strollers they rise
Up to the saddles they crawl
To seize the world by the reins
Standing ten feet tall
I saw the mayor and his wife
Wearing their funny old hats
Sat in the carriage behind
With a herd of cats
And they rose to the sound of the pipe
Which blows a peppermint stripe
Upon the merry-go-round
Merry-go-round
Merry-go-round (Merry-go-round)
Merry-go-round
Merry-go-round
Merry-go-round (Merry-go-round)
Ah, merry-go-round (Merry-go-round)
Ah, merry-go-round
Many a person's lost in the crowd of faces
But up on your horse you're the star of the rodeo
Many a year you'll wonder just where your place is
But when you're there in the round you're certainly bound to know
For when the lights flicker off
And all the riders depart
They are sure to return
When the new day starts
And though the faces have changed
It's still the same bumpy ride
You've seen it all before
And from every side
And it calls you to climb up the stairs
Where it all still waits for you there
Upon the merry-go-round
Merry-go-round
Merry-go-round (Merry-go-round)
Merry-go-round
Merry-go-round
Merry-go-round (Merry-go-round)
Ah, merry-go-round (Merry-go-round)
Ah, merry-go-round
---
Track: Charity Bizarre
Duration: 3:08
Contributors:
- Bijan Eghtesady (drums)
URLs:
- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/charity-bizarre
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljht21vJ0-g
- https://open.spotify.com/track/5rmtvbed6LYQoRNcH7ErAR
- https://music.apple.com/album/charity-bizarre/1757139886?i=1757140107
Lyrics: |-
Oh, here it goes - they're all in rows
All the madames and mademoiselles
Decked to the nines and hanging signs
From the cupboards and carousels
The old bric-a-brac is out on bail
But you know as I that what's for sale
Is more than what's above the bar
Charity Bizarre
That's all you are
You steal their hearts
But you never take it far
Charity Bizarre
Oh, look at that - the tails and spats
They are lining around the block
A tip of the brim and you know him
He's aware what you have in stock
It's all for a very worthy cause
And last that I heard there were no laws
On doors getting left ajar
Charity Bizarre
That's all you are
You steal their hearts
But you never take it far
Charity Bizarre
The wives and widows play so posh
But this is not the Sunday wash
The price is high but the talk is free
Underneath the canopy
The lines we keep so clean and clear
Are just a little jagged here
Where dollars line the lips of mason jars
What have we here? The auctioneer
Strikes the podium gavel down
Out goes the maid and marmalade
With the newcomer in this town
The school on the hill will lay its stone
But lest that the rest should leave alone
I'm sure that two will share a car
Charity Bizarre
That's all you are
You steal their hearts
But you never take it far
Charity Bizarre
Charity Bizarre
That's all you are
You steal their hearts
But you never take it far
Charity Bizarre
Charity Bizarre
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Track: Mister Mirror
Duration: 5:12
Contributors:
- Bijan Eghtesady (drums)
URLs:
- https://bowman.bandcamp.com/track/mister-mirror
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td1MlnMBZ-4
- https://open.spotify.com/track/1BaLM9gQ0EMvzog7sV8Rnr
- https://music.apple.com/album/mister-mirror/1757139886?i=1757140108
Lyrics: |-
I have a secret power
That lets me change my face
Every bone in my body
Is replaced
I've been the baker with his heavy hands
I've been the soldier in a foreign land
I've been every kind of person so very many times
I'm not sure who I was when this began
I'm a copy, I'm a clone
I have no face of my own
And the mask I wear before you
Hides a fool who's all alone
You can call me Mister Mirror
Though I might not be a man
For the life that I am living
Is forever secondhand
Secondhand
Won't you please understand?
Oh it's a wild transformation
To move inside another person's skin
Still I remain in isolation
For the faces never fill the space within
But if you'd like to see it
It isn't hard to do
Just reach over here and touch me
I'll be you
Won't you let me draw you nearer
See yourself a little clearer
In the eyes of Mister Mirror
History's greatest disappearer
Bring to me the mouth and nose
The tensed brow, the fidget toes
The rib that aches, the heart that knows
The love and hate a lifetime chose
I'll taste the sweet and bitter upon your tongue
I'll choke the smoke and glitter that glaze your lungs
I shall know you as no other ever has or ever will
Though I know that you could never do the same
I'm a copy, I'm a clone
I have no face of my own
And the mask I wear before you
Hides a fool who's all alone
You can call me Mister Mirror
Though I might not be a man
For the life that I am living
Is forever secondhand
Secondhand
Won't you please understand?
I'm a copy, I'm a clone
I have no face of my own
And the mask I wear before you
Hides a fool who's all alone
You can call me Mister Mirror
Though I might not be a man
For the life that I am living
Is forever secondhand
Secondhand
So if you'd like to see it
You know what to do
Just reach over here and touch me
Oh, won't you please just reach over here
And touch me