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Charcoal Essex Park

by Black Pepper Sea

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1.
Calliope she never sees me Or much of anything Doesn’t know from day or night Or if it’s fall or spring She floats above the crowds Head up in the clouds So obvious how my love grows that Even Calliope knows Jesamine and Jacqueline Keep stringing me along Hyacinth and Penelope Just tell me that I’m wrong But nothing can compare The girl is hardly there Grew my hair and changed my clothes so Even Calliope knows Up and down Carnaby Street you’ll see her pretty face Don’t try to talk to her She lives her life in outer space Calliope I know she loves me Although she never speaks Follow her most everywhere For hours, days and weeks I don’t know how I’ll kiss A girl that don’t exist The constable said it really shows now Even Calliope knows Even Calliope knows Even Calliope knows
2.
Little Lorelei on the twelfth of July Decided she’d finally had enough She saddled up, headed south Left the body of the man that made her tough Little Lorelei never stopped once to cry The rooster must die for the hen Sometimes she wished he would rise from the dead So she could kill him all over again Cowboy sparrow Can I hitch a ride? Can I hitch a ride? Cowboy sparrow Where do you hide? Where do you hide? Little Lorelei made that pony fly All the way to the Sea of Cortez Lived out her life as the ocean’s wife Or so the good book says Cowboy sparrow Can I hitch a ride? Can I hitch a ride? Cowboy sparrow Where do I hide? Where do I hide?
3.
The linen was white as snow It was opening night for my one man show The man from LIFE is here Just pretend you’re working, my dear We have fifty million red-blooded readers And every week, they’re screaming ‘feed us’ You’re this week’s dream so give us that serious frown You would let fifty million dreamers down Do you know what your problem is You have no respect for fame No one tells me how to drive You’re sitting next to a household name People like me we have our own code When we’re flying down Fireplace Road I think I see Jesus and he’s standing near the rails And when I hit the gas I’m buying the hammer and the nails I had to take your innocence with me Number 32, 1950
4.
Late one night In black and white Dreamt that I saw you at a party My doe-eyed fawn I was Alain Delon And you were François Hardy I remember it well At the Minerve Hotel You laughed as I took off your sweater Rain began In St. Germain And you jumped on the back of my Lambretta It was dark When we walked the park Drinking sugared wine from a chalice So recherché In your red beret You make the city shine like a palace Late one night In black and white Dreamt that I saw you at a party
5.
Black Forest 02:30
Crowd’s moving in The lights go up and we begin Give the folks a hand they’re trying for a shot At twenty grand (“That’s the first time in a year-and-a-half... now really Bobby that’s the first time I’ve ever done that - really isn’t it the first time? Honest to God it’s the first time and I hope it’s the last time. Uh, you wanna put it up there, gang? Wh-uh-whu-what was the puzzle... I uh... ok.”) Ask them where they’re from In a few hours we’ll be done Don’t be a drag have the valet Fetch my Jag (“Well you all knew it then what’s the difference? [laughter] There’s no fun playing a game you all know the answer to — is it? Of course not... Let’s get a... wha... we’re going to break away here we’ll... no we’re gonna go on and play. You’re gonna make me die out here, aren’t ya? [laughter] Ok. Here comes the three hundred dollar puzzle.”) Flash a winning smile They all dig my Burbank style Ladies stop and stare at the Black forest of my hair (“What did you want him to do, go for ‘toilet’ for ‘flush?’ I mean, c’mon [laughter] That’s what you wanted, isn’t it? [Yeah!] Couldn’t give a classy clue. Ha ha ha ha... Gene said that I just gave away the second puzzle. Ha ha ha!”) The password is ‘raincoat’
6.
Feel the heat fall off my hands Nothing ever seems to last My heart is beating much too fast You’re the only one who’s noticed Wish I never saw you cry I know I’m a fool but You’ll always be The one that makes me high Broken blossoms in the rain Like paper boats they slip away I’m drifting further now So far it seems like I never knew you No one ever said goodbye I know I’m a fool but You’ll always be The one that makes me high My heart doesn’t make any sense My heart follows no rules So I sit On the fence And I know I’m a fool All the photographs are gone But the images still burn They haunt me every single night I feel them swimming through my veins Never knew the reason why I know I’m a fool but You’ll always be The one that makes me high The one that makes me high
7.
Moths 03:38
Innocent You looked so innocent Sitting on the handlebars Smoking the Dunhill’s you stole But that was so So many years ago Before the scars and the hope that you had Departed your soul Your soul If you want Find another house to haunt Caught between the real world And something you can’t see So curse the clouds And go mend your shrouds I’m not looking for that much Charity Now there’s glass in the streets and Moths in the water The man we thought was so sweet Hurts his daughter Bite all the apples To find the rotter But you’ll never sleep again Like you did before In between The gray serene We fool ourselves and think we’re Above it all But I might Come round tonight Turn on the light I’ll heed your call Now there’s dirt in my eyes and Moths in the water The girl I thought was so sweet Led me to slaughter I bit all the apples To find the rotter But I’ll never sleep again Like I did before
8.
Aleksandr 03:23
Aleksandr broke his glasses today Pretending he could fly Made a dollhouse out of crackers and paste Made the girlies cry (ok) Aleksandr slapped his sister’s face Pinned her to a wall Played another round of ‘Mystery Date’ Made the girlies bawl (are you ready for your mystery date?) Aleksandr had the prettiest girl She kept his t-shirts clean Hung up the phone went out and never came back Made the girlies mean (now who’s gonna make my supper?) Aleksandr broke his hospital bed Suddenly he’s old Gazing out upon the water/waste plant Made the girlies cold (all of it amounts to nothing)
9.
Sometimes it’s hard To get to the truth A bullet from Johnny Booth Remember the time You left me for dead Stars inside your pretty head A sketch is hanging In the hall A grey hotel a garden wall On the edges of a park The sun is down It’s nearly dark I wish I could climb Out of this stupid bloody mind I wish I could climb Out of this stupid bloody mind of mine It’s clear to me I never will be free So I wander round the town again I wish I could climb Out of this stupid bloody mind I wish I could climb Out of this stupid bloody mind of mine It’s clear to me There’s no such thing as free So I wander round the town
10.
Cut my fingers on your hip Wrote a novel on your back You say I’m drawing blood But I haven’t started yet And the water-carver, I Launch my boat in the street In your deep dark harbor sky Casting off incomplete Hold a message in your mouth Unravelled like a hook I’m tying up my nerves So keep it to yourself And the heaven-gazer, I Swallow whole every spark In your warm blue Parrish sky Drifting off in the dark The curtain drops on the meager stage We made We disagree about the course The tide revolves around the life You save So I turn And I drop my oars I’m tracing out a lie On a wall beside the shore You’re pulling out the nails That’s what I’ve waited for And the water-carver, I Walk my net through the waves In your sweet black velvet sky Offer me a kiss that saves And the water-carver, I Launch my boat in the streets In your deep dark harbor sky Casting off...

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Recorded for the 2010 RPM Challenge.

10 songs about parks, chickens, Abstract Expressionists, women named Calliope, Lorelei and Françoise, moths, the ocean, hope and hopelessness, unrequited love, and Bert Convy

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released March 1, 2010

All songs by J. Montgomery

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