Saturday, October 10, 2009

Black Art

I apologize that much of this is nonsense - but it's what I hear in the recording. If it were easier to make out I wouldn't be asking for the collective help of the internet. This is the fourth song, "Black Art."




the truth that all cats know

alone is best

it's a state of rest

let your ghost go west

and a paint yourself

space age thank aid

I'll put paint in a couch of shame

the world was here when I valued you

little thing

just let me down easy

and I would smile, and walk that mile

and your heart breaks east

favors a raincoat

color taught

what's left to lose

I could be your friend

we could be raintroops

when the world was bright

it's a knuckle fight

and trickle night

but there's more to life

then killing bulls and fish

could have said excuses learned

and we're alive

and we can't stop

show our eyes

another night

so lets come find

the complex

I could be your boy I guess as cool as this

no matters in my mystery

I don't want to be alone anymore

not enough scare or bored I just do


(guitar solo)


til then be shima

which one belongs to a pycho cyst

and hara kare with a smith corona, what the fuck

left arm on the right way

we can't go back, or we can't go on

I could be your boy

and you could be this song

so you better pack

your gonna lose this kid

I am not your sordid boy

with so much to give

5 comments:

  1. I'm hearing this part as: "i'll walk that mile in your hobnail boots, in your famous blue raincoat with the collar too"

    and then a little later "we could be rainproof"

    ..."fuck or fight, drink all night, but there's more to life than killing..."

    "...so let's combine and get complex..."

    then later "there's no malice in my mystery. i don't want to be alone anymore. not because i'm scared or bored, i just don't"

    "...ritual suicide poses and hari kari with a smith corona..."

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  2. 5 years late

    the truth that all cats know
    alone is best
    it's a state of rest
    let your ghost go west
    and amaze yourself
    state a serenade
    a ballpoint pen in a couch cushion
    the work is huge, but I value you, little thing
    just let me down easy
    and I would smile, to walk that mile
    in your hobnail boots
    and your famous blue raincoat
    with the collar down
    what's left to lose
    I could be your boy
    we could be rainproof

    Hemingway was right
    you can drink or write
    you can fuck or fight
    but there's more to life
    then killing bulls and fish
    the perfect sentence still says a lot
    and we're alive
    and we can't stop
    cause you're all eyes
    and I'm all I've got
    So let's combine
    and get complex
    I could be your boy (mumble mumble blake never enunciates this)
    There's no malice in my mystery
    I don't want to be alone anymore
    not because I'm scared or bored - I just don't.

    (guitar solo)

    Felt like Mishima
    Ritual suicide poses
    and hari kari with a smith corona, what the fuck
    the left arm of the right wing
    we can't go back, but we can go on
    I could be your boy
    this could be your song
    so you better act
    your gonna lose this kid
    I'm not your sordid past
    there's so much to give

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  3. 6 years late, but I think "there's no malice in my mystery" should be "there's no manners in my mystery" given that "Manners and Mystery" was the name of a Flannery O'Connor essay and the lyrics are stuffed to the gills with literary references -- Hemingway, Mishima, and Cohen all getting references, and I'm sure there's more I'm just missing.

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  5. 7 years late but it's a play on Manners and Mystery but it is Malice in my mystery. This IS Blake Alexander

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