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The Return of

by The Multiple Cat

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1.
I can’t understand a word you’re saying Your buzzing mission is a game you’re playing in my mind You know it happens all the time Sometimes I listen and the world starts swaying Your blessed kisses to my eyes I’m praying for a life You know I’ve got to have a life And every time the day turns into night you’ll be coming home You’ll be right a home Curses wishes calls and crimes you ask me The kind of things you want are just so taxing I could cry You know I really want to cry All histories are mysteries you’re claiming I know the stories and the truths are shaking like lies You know I really got to fly And in and out the corners of my mind Trapped inside the prison of design Deep inside the fortress of my hide I can stay too long I can’t stay too long
2.
when you came down from the hill some fire had passed between us the light in your flickering eyes started to die later on there were pills there were nuggets of life in the séance there were tiny mites brushing by with wisdom inside and you were always oh so young the secrets came slowly and one by one bringing tastes wholly and gently formed to cry you’re crying on where the path led there were chills there were dark spots on the ceiling there were cries in the deep of the night, in the heart of the tide so roll on, rollup girl you got to pick a past to believe it you got to nail down a time to hold it in mind and you are still so very young the secrets raise up and they fall apart shoot straight out and are quickly gone, so blind oh, I can’t believe it oh, I can’t believe it’s real oh, I can’t just reach into the emptiness hold your hand and lead you back wipe your tears and tell you it’s alright you’re crying on
3.
the priest pulled back my tiny hat and said “I’ve seen ’em come like this one before” “the worthless brat” The water sat where it rolled off of my forehead to the floor I said “oh it’s you … they know you aren’t true in the other world” Uh huh So I trod on down the shining path Yes I could see light under every door The leaves on trees and the lover’s laughs Oh yes they soaked into my very pores Oh it’s true you know it’s very true It’s wonderful Oh it’s loose…the spirits got to choose it’s own reward It’s own reward Then there was you You came floating on down from above Bringing your memory calling “come” Over the city softly weaving a net for my love Bringing me gentle into sleep Into sleep
4.
Flood 07:57
I When the ridiculous truth begins to suffer you to tell it Your mind forms only lies and abstract thought I’ll be waiting where you go to bubble down the cellar And once we are inside we can talk We can talk about beautiful dreams Of summers running barefoot We’ll laugh all the time, our bitters gone You’ll see from above what was never true embellished With movement in life no, you were wrong And when you see that I… That I had died, that I had cried, Been brought to life There was a blur of light A greenish sky A friendly smile A heart behind II It was a beautiful day for going down down down So down we went to the tune of the beating hearts of children Our gods washed the sky The streets, cold hard, kind And the weight had blown out the mists of hot july There were things to do that only we know how to do I ran right home to show you, you didn’t seem to care The flood it tried to take me from your caress Out of your hair Out of your care III I saw a fox jump in a yellow field orange blur bouncing I saw three layers of mountain, green, blue, gray Stars moving away in the summer sky stars in my mind, in my body Small sparrows wheeling trading with bats at tag in the dusk Soft leaves in haze of august sun, the touch of my babies Out among the statues, sparkling in the air Everywhere the kingdom is you are there
5.
Disaster! 05:45
Delicate, your screams come down the hallway, Slipping through your hands on and up away Ghosts of eyes bony fingers barbs of wire and specters Ringed and gray they burrow to this day Limbs so high your toes just brush the branches As your winglets flit and sway on and up away Blink your eyes and roll into the doorway The shadows disintegrate They simply mist and fade What you gonna do when you can’t survive? You’re golden What you gonna do when you recognize The screen’s been pulled back, gentle veil’s been raised? Dreams of disaster, the world flipping over These things are gonna have to wait Lords of disorder, demons of the night Pardon me you’re getting in the way Chinks in your armor Holes in your plate Glimpses of the spirit stripped away Lights in the harbor, fog in the bay Seas of fingers scratching at your fate This pounding in your head’s got louder This sleep you cannot shake This beacon in the night so troubled My love will keep you warm A million light years on My love will keep you warm until you’re home
6.
No past, no future Just slipping sideways through your life all the time No cast, no sutures Your wounds they ripen in your mind, in your mind No crash, no movement No end to questions calls and cries all through time And you don’t know what to do Cuz you can’t change things Know past, know future Just slipping sideways through your life all the time Slow fast, slow clueless You reach for certainty and sigh, you just sigh Blow blast, blow ruthless Those candles flicker as they die, as they die And you don’t know what to do Cuz you can’t change things And you don’t know what to do Cuz you can’t change a thing You used to think there was a future you would land in and be true again You used to think there was a past that hadn’t happened and you’d disappear Now it’s all an event, a solid ball of you that’s barely here What kind of method can you use to open up and take a look around And stop the static ALL
7.
Vampire bats mall rats greasy stares and funny hats Listen to their radios and make a path to where it’s at And all along the boulevards they scrub the yellow grasses with their eyes Welcome mats, kitty cats drinking milk and licking laps Hiding slimy noses under rims of bowls they roll and bat And wonder where their mommies are so late into the chilly autumn night Driveway sets, immobile vets rollin’ dice and red corvettes Bleary-eyed replacements for the promises and hopeful gets The droplets in the river of a thousand vanished hopefuls trickled by Look who’s coming through the kitchen door He’s got some mud on his shoes…it isn’t reasonable Every time that boy comes breezing through another chance is met Another clouded, dimly lighted fuse Take your choice of myths to vet: Jesus Christ or Boba Fett They’ll lock you in the storage hold and freeze your ass and never let you Kiss your rightful princess with the frozen lips you traded for a smile Even so it’s pitter-pat listen low and breathing fast Slipping past security and waiting for another chance to snatch a grain of freedom from the beach of them they’re keeping from your sight Look who’s coming through the kitchen door He’s got some mud on his shoes despite the screaming and the last bruise Every time we turn he’s playing fool I will set things right it’s only reasonable to assume… There’s so much one needs to learn about love I will set him right I will keep him straight and narrow
8.
The River 02:23
When you come to the river will you go or will you row? Then you get to the water will you glide or ride? There’s a soft song a-blowing from the flow to your soul There’s a breath of a question you can’t hide Are you true?

credits

released May 21, 2013

Phil Sterk drummed on His Master’s Voice and played pedal steel on The River.

Phil Pracht played drums on The Flood, The Other World, and Know Past Know Future, as well as singing on Know Past Know Future.

Marty Reyhons Played drums on Disaster!, Vampire Bats/Mall Rats, and The Hill Part 1.

Sean Moeller sang backups on Know Past Know Future, and Jeff Konrad played a bit of piano on that one as well.

Jamey Cummins did the delay piano on Vampire Bats/Mall Rats.

Patrick Stolley did all the rest: guitar, bass, keys, percussion, vocals.

Thanks to Wes Haas for the main guitar riff of Flood.

This record was recorded at Futureappletree Studio Too in various locales … Rock Island, Illinois, The Pierce School Mall in Davenport, Iowa, and at home on 8 and 24 track analog tape, mixed to ¼" tape.

Produced, engineered, mixed by Patrick Stolley.

Mastered by Carl Saff, Chicago.

Sleeve design by Tod Foley.

This effort is dedicated to my parents, who died separately over the five years it took to see it through.

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