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Voodoo Moon

by The Black Fortys

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1.
you don't come around not like you used to my baby's waiting at the pearly gates she's got time to kill & a great escape there's a voodoo moon & an open grave where nothing is lost when nothing is saved i'm a water child acquiesced for you
2.
there are no walls between you & me there are no walls between you & me we are standing on the border line where you get yours & i get mine in the distance, a sea of palisades guard your heart when you hide your face we are tides in the moonlight at ease. at ease.
3.
she lays on the floor says "you got that far away look in your eye." i say "i've been thinking about oil wells & cold wars, table talk, & over sized cities incestuously crashing into each other. yes, i've been thinking about a transient jesus. i've been thinking about a transient jesus & i believe there are no more watchtowers. just pillars of giraffes tempting, flowing. tempting. flowing." "tell me what you see." "two angels staring. two angels staring back at me. that's what i see." we all got tired. tired of waiting & tired of choices i wish, i wish, i wish i could be anywhere but right here right now & see the blood red mooons & galileo. Galileo! Judas hanging from a tree, tell me what you see? "two angels staring. two angels staring back at me. that's what i see."
4.
there are thirteen ways to see the truth there are thirteen ways it comes back to you it comes back to you your sister's here she won't disappear but you don't need it now "how did you get so superstitious?" "when did you get so far from me?"
5.
you gotta watch it now cause they are coming round the bend in a lazy style, trying to make some friends but the weight's too heavy for their backs to carry you understand it ain't ever going to be the same again. but don't you hang your head down low forget everything you've known. everything you have known. now there's a new face, pale face in the in betweens of what you say & what you think it means. the angels & the devils, they don't practice disbelief & a loaded gun ain't what makes a dead man bleed. that don't make a dead man hang your head down low. you just forget everything you've known.
6.
Five Four 03:37
listen close. they are there.
7.
standing in shadows. standing in shadows & moons two white horses follow you. who crowns the living? who crowns the living in tombs when two white horses follow you? who looks for heaven? who looks for heaven in you? well...not like i do. running from shadows running from shadows & moons two white horses follow you
8.
i've been walking that long dirty road and there ain't no going home. lord how long?! how long will it take till i know my rightful place? then the lord said "See the blood red moons and then you'll know the end is coming soon." Hey Luna! Luna & the ocean deep, i hear your whisper reeling through the trees the river floods your home & them north winds chill my baby's bones. yeah yeah yeah
9.
The Wait 02:45
there's a trial, there's a trip you take down a lonely road to a lonely place where everyone leaving goes. there's a wait, there's a long long line to get what you need & to keep what you find when everyone leaving goes. the dark don't hide you from the face of the moon. you can't outrun what you can't undo don't look back now, you know what you might see... babe, i'd love you better if you only had eyes for me.
10.
the ghost of a face is my one enemy peering in on me when i sleep to deep. everything's familiar in these tiny cities nothing tastes as bitter as finding your hands empty. you can lead a horse to water, beat it till it's dead all that make believing, riddles in your head. "go get your dark horse. i'll get my gun. we'll go riding where the sun don't rise." "now whose got the big guns? now who holds the rain in the palm of his hand?"
11.
Voodoo Chatter (free) 02:54
the falling of the tower

about

basic tracks recorded live at Moon Studios an extension of Ski House Studios in West Frankfort, IL between June 11th - July 15th 2011 year of our lord by Carey Neal & David Allen on 1 inch reel to reel tape. no computers were used in the tracking of this recording. Mastered by Carl Saff saffmastering.com

credits

released October 25, 2011

cover photo by Bridget Ryan
masks by Ashley Gierke

words by Josh Murphy
music by The Black Fortys

except

"Dark Horse/Big Guns by Carly Lappin/Josh Murphy/The Black Fortys

&
"Hang Your Head Down Low" by warmguns/blackfortys

Orchestra:

Metiney Suwanawongse-Moore - violin
Becca Perry - violin
Aaron Moore - Trumpet
Alex Francois - cello
Ken Trimble - Trombone
Kevin Ohlau - Saxophone, Clarinet, Melodica
John McCowen - Bass Clarinet
Rob Jacobs - violin
Ray Maragni - accordion

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Indie Rock from Southern, Illinois.

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