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A Brief Respite From The Terror Of Dying

by Tavis E. Triance & The Natural Way

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1.
When the Lightning rolled over the valley I lost my mind And oh there was a screaming and a crying, but it was no fault of mine You want love all you’ve got is people And they’ve got no love at all People just want to be there to watch you paint your face to the wall When I drove from the East out to Eden I ran out of time Nobody was, that wild ‘cause, in this city they’re scared to turn on their lights You want love all you’ve got is people And they’ve got no love at all People just want you to get loose so they can nail you to the wall They flash their eyes at me don’t they darling They cast stones all through the night But what their dumb eyes don’t see little girl Is I’m the king of the dead morning light But I’m a king with a castle and a wife And even the sword swallower’s wife she can’t follow him From morning until night Because the cuts might come clean out of nowhere Or from anyone if you like You want love all you’ve got is people And they’ve got no love at all People just want to be there to cut you and then cry as you fall
2.
There are angels with swords Waging heavenly wars in the walls of my mind But we're running out of time For it seems that my uncle who I thought was some crazy angel returned to the sky Or did he just die? Oh my baby I know it drives me crazy when I cry You said everything's gonna be alright if I quit drinking but you lie Because there ain't no mystery gonna save my soul There is nobody here gonna shed a tear As you’re growing old And the cold black hands wrap round your throat They are burying the corpse In their reckless words and their foolish thoughts Oh I get tired, of hearing people lie And the clocks don't even tick round here they just breathe Could they even tell me the time Is this funeral mine? Oh my baby, I wish I was a bird, oh lord I'd fly You said everything was gonna be alright if I quit drinking, but you lie You said everything was gonna be alright come tomorrow Then somebody died
3.
So you got your heart stepped on now you're wandering around trying to get some But it may not make a difference girl if you do Because we all suffer stones, in our own sweet homes In our own sweet ways we break our bones But there's always a price to pay it's true Gloria I think we did it You said to hold it I thought you said to hit it But Gloria, I did that too So you've got your mind made up now you're wandering around trying to fill your cup Saturday night bars, shuttered up eyes with glasses, tongue come and gone While the woman make passes So you can't drink alone, and you can't get stoned And what ain't yours can't be taken home To pick from the silvered vines as you've seen us all do Gloria I think we did it You said to hold it I thought you said to hit it But Gloria, I did that too Repeat: What a beautiful lie I've been told Oh the pathway to heaven is slick with the blood of the old What a terrible prophecy still that long legged devil is right there behind me
4.
Queen 04:33
Oh my girl you are a blossoming queen I never understood one thing you said to me It always seemed like you just chewed up all them words and spit ‘em out Standing round the kitchen punching holes in my lies I only feel good about half of the time I always thought that it seemed like you had it figured out You were always standing right there with your back shoving up against the wall It ain’t exactly like the mysteries of the world flung between us And I was always flying around chasing after some dumb bunch of dreamers Either that or getting high on harder drugs until my face just started to grow old But you know my love You just start to grow old And all of the things that I wanted to be Just stack up like daggers inside of me And there ain’t nothing more or less to know Oh my girl we’re getting rid of our wings We burnt so many bridges I know the smell of them things It just hangs heavy like a stone stuck hard inside your mouth And you aren’t as young or wild or bitten by dreams But you’re pretty you’re the queen of all the broken down things You hover there wildly between keeping it all sewn in and screaming out You were always standing right there with your back shoving up against the wall It ain’t exactly like the mysteries of the world flung between us And I was always flying around chasing after some dumb bunch of dreamers Either that or getting high on harder drugs until my face just started to get old But you know my love You just start to grow old And all of the things that I wanted to be Just stack up like daggers inside of me And there ain’t nothing more or less to know
5.
Bye-bye to the wicked one She said without a smile You burnt down every weekend for twenty years or so Well bye-bye to the wicked one And your unrelenting guile You know the thing that they all love in you is fucking up your mind Baby, baby, baby please I've been living on my goddamn knees Forgiveness is the air, we've been breathing But why am I the wicked one Was it the drugs that I was on While I was running through the subway ‘til the police had to come And why am I the wicked one You said something about your mom Well I guess there's no accounting for good advice Baby, baby, baby please Oh I'm tired of living like thieves I just can’t abide by what we’re doing So bye, bye, babe I'm gone There's a red sun burning up the dawn And bye, bye, babe I’m gone I close my eyes, and I’m a demon spawn Because there ain't no forgiveness, it's all falling down on me Bye, bye, babe I guess I’m not coming home But it’s still your world that I’m spinning on
6.
All my sadnesses are real I've got snakes for eyes and none of ya'll can deal I've got a stone inside me too I get to rolling round and it rolls right over you So I'm standing in the mirror Searching for my heart Trying to get back to your love But it's hard to get down inside a hole to get back to your love Because the hole just gets bigger and bigger And everybody knows what I want man So if I had a gun I'd shoot out the eyes of the sun I've got holes inside my truths I've done alot of things that none of ya'll would do There are bad dreams in my head Why are my promises so easy to forget When my hands are bleeding money, and I just wanna run To some blacked out death of the dead and gone Ain't it fun to climb down into a hole if the lid ain't on Because the hole just gets bigger and bigger And everybody knows what I want man So if I had a gun I’d shoot out the eyes of the sun Oh lord I hate your spinning wheel Should I fall before you lord or should I steal All of your sad and fearsome truths It makes you sick to see the folly of our youth So I'm standing in the river But I don't wanna die, on the aimless wings of your butterfly Ain't it hard to keep standing on the ground when you're getting high High on, every little thing I get my eyes on under the sun High on, every little thing I get my eyes on under the sun High on, every little thing I get my eyes on under the sun High on, the only living man to make a prize of, the sun Eyes of, the only living man to make a prize of the sun
7.
All of my actions Seem to hurt Somebody else But I just shrug and say I don't know Is there a beauty here I can't see That I might've felt Or is it just another reason why I should go Maybe my affections Might delight Somebody else I just see bloodstains in the snow Is there a heartbeat In my body That I might've felt Or is it just another reason why I should go You could call impatience Just a card That I was dealt You could say a boat don't need to row Is there some happiness That was hidden that I could’ve felt Or is it just another reason why I should go Repeat: If beauty were my bluebird And I rode upon crystal mountains Would I have shot it Lord and hung it round my neck? Until the world missed its beauty and came looking for its dead
8.
Sailin 05:00
I’m sailin up to God He’s a nice guy But he lives too far It’s a sunny afternoon Luck on all of my fingers I think I’m gonna shoot the moon Hey man Sing me a lullaby Oh Lord, I’ve just run out of old boring ways to die Don’t wanna talk about life I just wanna get high Don’t wanna talk about There’s a fallin angelry But I’m fallin on my own you see It’s a backwards, kind of fun Bruisin up all of my fingers And running out on everyone Hey man Sing me a lullaby Oh Lord, I’ve just run out of old boring ways to die Don’t wanna talk about life I just wanna get high Don’t wanna talk about I’m sailin, after God He’s a nice guy But he lives too far
9.
Were those footsteps I heard unraveling Off down the road, or did they come It's probably them women who were made at me Howling like the river beneath the red eyes of the sun Howling like the river beneath the red eyes of the sun They shot the message, then they shot the messenger I don't know why that had to be done But I've always thought that maybe woman like that Should be left to rule the world, Maybe then, some justice would come Ohhhhh, oh, oh, oh, oh Terrible beauty really ain't all that fun Ohhhh, oh, oh, oh, oh And it's a terrible beauty, that can't be undone Ohhhhh, oh, oh, oh, oh For righteousness and cruelty are the ploughing fields of the young Did you ever wonder if someone's listening Like at the doorway of the sun Went in the river cause it was glistening But nobody appeared so I just felt dumb Nobody came so I went home and wondered bout love I saw a pretty girl at least I think she was I felt so lonely I had to run Don't it seem crazy the way some people walk round As if their eyes were pools of lightening and roses, leaked from their tongue Ohhhhh, oh, oh, oh, oh Terrible beauty really ain't all that fun Ohhhh, oh, oh, oh, oh And it's a terrible beauty, that can't be undone Ohhhhh, oh, oh, oh, oh But confusion and wonder are like a kind of beauty, for some
10.
Oh red eyes of sorrow You're burning me down while you're dragging me through I cannot believe all the horrors I breathe when I greet you Oh red eyes of sorrow There's a burning black hole in the side of the room From my deathbed I see all the skulls in the trees rise to greet you Oh red eyes of sorrow, The sun I arise I to sleep am the moon Crowned here in fire I am sick with desire and I need you Sometimes things just get ugly and the bottom falls out it's true Sometimes when you look into your mind and then you look into your mirror you're a king there too And when you're drowned and you look back on what you've found and then you find that what you are was only half of you Don't let that bottle creep up on you Oh red eyes of sorrow, Oh I'm losing my mind don't know quite what to do I have borne all the seeds you have planted in me they are strange fruit Oh red eyes of sorrow, oh What shall I keep lord and what shall I lose Between the sting of your bees and your well-worded pleas I'm in debt to you Sometimes things just get ugly and the bottom falls out it's true Sometimes when you look into your mind and then you look into your mirror you're a king there too And when you're drowned and you look back on what you've found and then you find that what you are was only half of you Don't let that bottle creep up on you

credits

released June 23, 2017

Brad Barr: producer, enabler
Tavis. E. Triance: songwriting, vocals, fender rhodes piano, guitar
David Smith: recording engineer
David Carswell: Mmx engineer
John Jaenicke: primer mover
Kris Krug: photography
Rachel Horst: design, vibes

The Natural Way are:

Jeff Louch: synths, organs, backing vocals
Brad Barr: guitars, backing vocals
Jason Kent: guitars, backing vocals
Seamus Cowan: bass guitar
Mark 'Bucky' Wheaton: drums, percussions
additional vocals: Ngabonziza Kiroko, Simon Nixon

Acknowledgements:

Thank you Kate Wattie & Kali Malinka for your hard work and dedication.

This project is funded in part by FACTOR, the Government of Canada and Canada's private radio broadcasters.
Ce projet est financé en partie par FACTOR, le gouvernement du Canada et les radiodiffuseurs privés du Canada.

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Tavis E. Triance & The Natural Way Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia

Tavis E. Triance & The Natural Way is a multi-faceted project springing from the mind of singer songwriter Tavis E. Triance, formerly of the Royal Mountain Band and Spoon River. It harnesses his love of themes of darkness, absurdity and the unbridled madness of men, and imbues it with a lyricism and a swagger. ... more

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