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Four Stomachs

by Dead West

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1.
Someone is dying on the highway Not miles from me And I’m here under a tree Sitting with the cactus Watching the air turn into the breeze And I’m thinking I’m glad it’s not happening to me But at least that mans free Or at least he’s in a helicopter riding to place where he just might be Somewhere other than Sitting on the highway in traffic looking for another way to get out of this doggone desert of a mountain landscape sprawling in front of me monotonous and roaming But that’s all it is. It’s just one big world It’s just one big wheel that’s spinning and breaking and burning on the highway With the rubber and the gasoline and the stones Thinking about how I would just like to go on. But I’m suffering nothing compared to the man whose probably lost his arm [Chorus] And the cars on the highway they think It never could be they Think It Never Could Be them But we are all driving as fast as we could be as fast as we could be and then and then and then All it takes is one false movement A slip of the tongue [C] One angry person on a highway full of guns And the people on the bridge looking down at the nature They’re trying to get to But haven’t because they don’t know that they’re in it And have been for a while But are driving further to where they thought would be More nature More nature probably And the cars on the highway they think It never could be they Think It Never Could Be them But we are all driving as fast as we could be as fast as we could be and then and then and then All it takes is one way of doing undoing itself One side pushing the other end giving out And I know you're gonna live the way you gotta live And I know that the deal is that it's gonna feel like You’re running over cat eyes and scraping the rails But tonight there'll be singing and music and wails Because tonight, TONIGHT! Is a night so ripe for life
2.
Cow Power 06:47
Well, no ones gonna tell you how to die in the dirt No one's gonna tell you how much it can hurt No one's gonna teach you how to take your first breath No one's gonna give you an honorable death You’ll have to do it alone The burden of dreams! The burden of dreams! I challenge you to the burden of dreams! No self culture, a sorrowful thing But who knows Who knows what it could bring? A mind that’s empty, the souls a spring Spilling, spilling unconscious dreams Not a single original thought in the world But a feeling that must be caught and unfurled The rocks are weeping ancient water Pure as the day it fell from the sky Go on tell your sons and daughters You can’t help them when they die They’ll have to do it alone Discord in an open tuning Music like a storm looming Funnels off on the horizon Monsoons and the waters rising You know that nothing you own Will be a comfort for you That what you seek is a home That door is open for you The laboring class, the laboring class I wanna be in the laboring class Brothers, brothers, brothers of dirt I believe in the labor of man A bell, a belly, a belly of lead! The soft spot in a baby’s head The river dives beneath the land Nothing goes quite as planned The best of us will not survive it Crossing to the other side Breaking through the caliche Death will take us, not our bribes You know the song that I sing Oh, I’m singing for you Yes, this hammer that rings Oh, it's ringing for you Work one day Just a day, just a day No I don’t belong to you I belong, I belong To the cow power crew! Everything is all consuming Happening in every thought It's a question of digestion There's a hunger in the rot This old world is but a stomach Cattle rattling in your head Ruminating on the thought That they are wanting to be fed Hear them moan at dusk and dawn Baby’s crying for the boob I don’t know what's goin' on I’m just hungry for some food Let it pass right through my body Discard what I cannot use Cow power runs the farm This manure is our muse Buried mirror, show yourself! We are digging for you now We are blind without reflection We are lost and won't be found Show us now the headless serpent Crawling creases in mothers face Show us mountains dreams of lava Show us now the human race Lost wax cast of ancient forest We dream the dream of land escape Land escape but we are bound Pressed into the living ground Our dreams become one dream now Dreams become one dream now Our dreams become one dream now Dreams become one dream now And I can’t do that alone I can’t do that alone Can’t do it alone Yeah I can't it alone, No I can't do it alone I can’t do it alone
3.
Mt. Monsoon 04:12
When the rain falls down on the town below The rusted streets run wet yellow Wash away the piss Wash away the stains Nothing but this metal heart remains When Love has done all that Love can do Well then nothing stands between me and you I will stand And you will see nothing That I see Yes I’ll stand And you will see nothing That I see
4.
Ampersand 03:53
Ain’t no use for the ampersand When you & i could just be holding hands Walking down old chestnut street Elizabeth cotton underneath our feet the borders in between us growing paper thin Soft and tenderly I let you into me The Spirit in the body of a baby is maybe all there is to see Freight train rolling by pick me up and open my eyes Hopping up on old number nine If they ask you tell em i’s flying Bringing you through the great divide Watershed into my eyes The answer is a question and the question is is and answer now sing that song for me The question is an answer and the answer is a question now sing that song for me Waiting / aaaa For the / eeee Patience / tooo To be / meee Waiting / aaa For you / oooh Spirit in the body of the dog on the couch whos nods himself to sleep Ain’t no use for the ampersand When you & i could just be holding hands Walking down old chestnut street Elizabeth cotton underneath our feet the borders in between us growing paper thin Soft and tenderly I let you into me hand that guitar to the maid and see how she can play
5.
Amelia 02:47
You got holes in your pockets Cracks in your coffee mug Limes for lemons And a bucket for a sink But you pay your dues And let your hair down Every so often Elusive like a lynx Oh the endless heartbreak of letting things go All that red hot passion coming down with a cold Got a heart full of air like miss Amelia And it’s falling up the stairs with my disappearing love It’s easier to take things apart then to put em back together There’s a crack down the heart Of all your plans plans plans Gods dam is gonna break And where will you be Blood on your boots Lip stick on your face Oh the hollow sensation of a leap of faith The Blackeyed Feeling of a fall from grace Got the heart of a brute but at least it’s brave I’ll be jumping in headfirst to my earthly grave It’s easier to take things apart Then to put em back together
6.
You are my queen of industry the essence of divinity my poster child posing With a sickness long dead Mothers will tell their children There's a way to win the war and they'll cast you in bronze in the park by the shore You are the streets of famine The river runs with salmon I am touching you when you are furthest away There is goodness inside you Better let it find you Hold that water in your mouth And put those flowers in your you hair Rain come a rustin’ Steam trains’ dust has scattered absolutely Every thing Every where Yes I’ve known you in a familiar way I've known you in a million ways Yes I’ve known you in a familiar way I've known you in a million ways You are my queen of industry the essence of divinity my poster child posing With a sickness long dead Mothers will tell their children There's a way to win the war and they'll cast you in bronze in the park by the shore Way to win the war Park by the shore Way to win the war Everything Everywhere Everything Everywhere Everything Everywhere
7.
Gila 02:39
8.
Travertine 06:13
In the naked hours of morning at a time when noone's sleeping I will breathe again Hot water, now steaming God talked her into leaving She said 'not again' Are we all alone inside our head? River runs to me beside my bed killed the dove of love with my two hands Do you know why you dream? Fountains of travertine In the watchtower I will bring you flowers For your Hair For your hair For your Naked body comes upon me Touch the carpet feel the eddy the walls of stone a sky so bare Tell your holiness its sacred there taste the water floating in the air Do you know why you dream? Fountains of travertine In the watchtower I will sing dead flowers For your head For your head For your head Every space is Evasive Replaced with Retraces Down the canyon Down the canyon In the naked hours of morning It is image It is vision A Prayer to fall Every space is Evasive Replaced with Retraces Down the canyon Down the canyon In the naked hours of morning It is image It is vision A Prayer to fall
9.
I have a window Made of stained glass You can see me through it As you pass Different colors in the daylight Different colors at night I have A table of wood And I know If i wanted It would burn good And melt all the sand In my hands Into glass You plant an orchard Of pecan on fruit You let those good old boys Go out there to shoot The sunlight Turns to pie And the land gets used And the bullets Lodge into the wood Into glass Into sand In my hands Into Glass Stained Glass
10.
Humidity 05:13
Cold on the mountains This is where the cold stays Two tall mountains Its a lonely place I am rising Far away from this place I am rising With the heat of the day Due to all the moisture in the air Stuff is rotting Everything is rotting The soil’s soaking in it Death is life life is death is life life is death is life It doesn't ask permission We wear and tear condition And bring only fission Not united, subdivided, indecision Speaking on the topic of despair Stuff is rotting Everything is rotting Our souls are soaking in it Death is life life is death is life life is death is life It doesn't ask permission We wear and tear condition And bring only fission Not united, subdivided, indecision It takes away your breathe the way it's falling forward Mind spilling out some change before the light is over He’s a pretty nice guy if you catch him on the right day It will eventually turn over Lava lamp melt it down into nobility There's pretty much only one way To fuck it all up with me Yeah there’s pretty much only one way To fuck it all up with me
11.
Homestead 04:26
Rock and Roll has killed my dreams Of living on the farm All the songs that I sing Make children run from their mothers arms The highway call comes piercing ears A tattoo of a breadcrumb Rolling river of the years You lose and let your loss become The melody of moving through The desert's open arms A homestead now is sheltering The lions in the dark Now you feel The sun in your hands When you steal from God And lay your own plans So sign your name As you board the train And your friends Will know you've come and gone Run towards pain This is not a game It's not something That you trade For a song My son You’re leaving Dear Ma Don’t grieve it I swear I feel your feeling I sing to still my demons Now you steal The sun in your hands When you feel like God And lay your own plans 'Cause rock and roll has killed my dreams Of living on the farm A homestead now is sheltering The lions in the dark

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Four Stomachs

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released October 17, 2022

Recorded with Craig Schumacher at WaveLab studio in Tucson, AZ.
Mixed and mastered by our friend Geoff Traeger at Way Out studio in Woodinville, WA.

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Landscape songs from longtime friends, written and recorded in Tucson, AZ and Seattle, WA

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