Fun With Word Clouds
As I work on demos for the next album, I’ve been thinking a lot about lyrics, naturally. Then I decided to have a little fun with the lyrics on our releases so far, and make word clouds out of them. Here’s what happens when you plop all 40 Sci-Fi Romance original songs into a word […]
Go Set a Railroad Man?
Am I crazy, or does the cover of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman resemble the cover of our album The Ghost of John Henry? To Kill a Mockingbird means a tremendous amount to me, as it does to millions of other people, and though I’m firmly in the camp that there’s something fishy in the release of Go […]
John Henry, Part 1
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We Used to Sing
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/42867039″ params=”color=ff9900&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] We used to sing of glories yet to come How the troubles of this life would soon be done We’d raise our eyes up to darkened skies And pray for angel wings to bring us home But I can’t sing those songs the way I used to The […]
Tomorrow May Take You
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/42867035″ params=”color=ff9900&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] It takes so long to fall asleep, when you’re gone This aching house just moans and creaks, when you’re gone No wishing star to shine for me, when you’re gone When you’re gone But when you’re here You’re here and I can make some sense of this life […]
Steam Drill Blues
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/42867029″ params=”color=ff9900&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] The morning come Sun-burnt sky Swing the hammer Drive the spike I got a girl Left alone ‘Cause I’m too many Miles from home Gotta go where that money flows ‘Cause love don’t buy too many clothes It’s a job that breaks your back and soul But it’s […]
Broken World
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More to Rust
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/42867009″ params=”color=ff9900&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] My strength, my enemyGone the days I thought I had ahead of meMy strength, my enemyWork my hands have done I’m told is obsolete You use words like “Progress,” and you use words like “Change”And grind your brothers down beneath this onward-rushing trainThe world keeps spinning faster, but […]
God In His Wisdom
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/42867000″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] I once heard an old and broken man Say that he wouldn’t change a thing All the pain and life’s suffering Had made the man he was that day But who can say what could’ve been? Who can say what could’ve been? I think of roads I might’ve […]
The Morning Breaks
[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/42866992″ params=”color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] The morning breaks It smiles on me I know what I’ve been But not what I’ll be Today they’ll see When fate calls my name I won’t shrink away …Today they’ll see The devil takes He takes my hand And tells me that I’m nothing Just a broken […]