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Take A Day Off and Walk (you’ll feel so much better) – Supersmall 2013

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Below are the lyrics to a song I tested for the album we’re working on at our last rehearsal. I don’t think it will make the cut it but I liked the lyrics and am posting them below. It’s a fun melody but doesn’t really sound like, well, us. It’s based on advice my wife once gave me when I wasn’t feeling my usual self. I called in sick and walked to Williamsburg and spent the day watching the world moving perfectly on by without me.

Take A Day Off and Walk (you’ll feel so much better) – Supersmall 2013

You unwound this twister on the plain,
Turned down the earth until all that remained,
Was a picture of you, hanging back up the moon,
How could I do what I do without you?

I’m tying knots in myself again,
So I won’t forget that I still have friends,
Sink or sail on a wave, with the time we have left,
Who could I possibly be without them?

I’ll fade in the light,
Of an impossible daydream,
‘Coz I know a bar,
Can’t twist me back to right,
And i’ve tried, and i’ve failed,
So I phone up excuses so impeccably said,
For a perfect day, to lose myself in.

Everything’s new when the shadows are long,
Walking reverse into the long morning’s end,
But I know you’ll be there, and without the parade,
Of a dead saint nobody has heard of.

‘Take a day off and walk’ is all you could say,
So I took the rain over granite grey shade,
Watched the sun press the sky, and bruise it into night,
How could I do what I do without you?

I’ll fade in the light,
Of an impossible daydream,
‘Coz I know a bar,
Can’t twist me back to right,
But i’ve tried, and i’ve failed,
So I phone up excuses so impeccably said,
For a the perfect day to lose myself in.

Free From Harm – New Song

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Supersmall @ ZirZamin

Supersmall @ ZirZamin pic by Stephen Dempsey

Tonight we had our final rehearsal before the big CD release tomorrow. I’m not as anxious as I was last week for our first official gig at ZirZamin. An hour long set had to be padded out with some new material as our E.P. is under a half hour. Two songs in particular stood out the most – “Home (Turn off the lights)” which I posted before and “Free From Harm”. We’ve already discussed the next record and these two will make the cut methinks. I posted below the lyrics for “Free From Harm”, hopefully tomorrow we’ll get a chance to play it.

Free From Harm – Supersmall June 2013

Lie down, step one and two
Lights out, see the outside glow
A cool room, makes for sweet dreams here
And if they come, you’ll never see me again.

Leave it all where you can
Try to find a space where
I can lay my poor head
Free from harm.

Days end, circles like the moon
Just one face, and it pierces right through you
I need sleep, but it never comes
And if it does, you’ll never see me again.

Leave it all where you can
Try to find a space where
I can lay my poor head
Free from harm.

From the dusk to the dawn
A moment in time where we belong, to anyone
Between the light and the noise, and beyond
A place to repair, a place to upright and start again.

Leave it all where you can
Try to find a space where
I can lay my poor head
Free from harm.
Leave it all where you can
Try to find a space where
I can lay my poor head
Free from harm.

Lyrics

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This Other World

Close your eyes, toss a coin, let it dance until it falls
Place the cards upon a table, let them sing it to us all
Fame and fortune’s counting raindrops
When you don’t have (no) shoes on
Stranger days I have had just sleeping with the TV on
Here lays the ghost of what could have been
So I’ll carve you out of this other world
I’ll carve you out of this other world
All the roads that bleed you empty
Under stars that always burn
Twist and turn these worn out tires
Making sure you can’t return
Spinning wheels past the barn stars
That leads you to the end
Hoping luck can somehow find you
In the words of a good friend
Here lays the ghost of what could have been
I’ll carve you out of this other world
I’ll carve you out of this other world
I’ll carve you out of this other world
Blue Skies (The End)
I can’t wait ‘till it’s over
All blue skies and green fields baby
I’d push it off for a cool breeze
I’ll take my chances on my own
Here’s where it ends
Just make it quick ‘coz I can’t stand blood nor pain
If this is a blue sky
I drink to stop thinking
I think that it’s time to stop
If I could change you
Take you and break you and make into something your not
Here’s where it ends
Just make it quick ‘coz I can’t stand blood nor pain
Here’s where it ends
Here’s where it ends
Here’s where it ends
Just make it quick ‘coz I can’t stand blood nor pain.
Goodbye Old Friend
Goodbye old friend and ghosts of good times past
You faded through the years and disappeared at last
Now you’re a stranger I know everything about
Looking for a reason and finding shadows of the past
Everything is changing
Everything but you
(but) When darkness falls inside my heart
I’ll go walking back to you
You’re better as a memory
less now as a friend
I look to where you used to be
These phantom pains won’t end
Then you go and lose yourself to a safer side of life
Like a pleasant dream that leaves you
In the darkest part of night.
Everything is changing
Everything but you
(but) When darkness falls inside my heart
I’ll go walking back to you
What we had was a house of cards
That we built in bars around this town
Mother’s ruin, long afternoons
Hearts confessed, times I won’t forget
No I won’t forget at all. 
Everywhere
You’re a star
And you’re the air
You’re all I breath
You’re everywhere
You’re everywhere
I see you
The things you do for me
I smoke you up
You come to me
You’re everywhere
You’re everywhere
Wherever We Are 
A cool cold embrace
Stars strangled high
A cobblestone road
Can drive you wild
Shaking your bones
‘Till your warm inside
The sharp taste of home
From a whiskey sigh
Love is a high, love is a low
Blind to misfortune and wide as is long
Sometimes a stray dog that follows you home
From here, or wherever we are
Break like the morning
Melt like the sun
Night working sleeper
Holds your stars above
Words are a stranger
In your disco head
But I’m harbored from danger
In your granite bed
Love is a high, love is a low
Blind to misfortune and wide as is long
Sometimes a stray dog that follows you home
From here, or wherever we are
Love is a high, love is a low
Blind to misfortune and wide as is long
Sometimes a stray dog that follows you home
Love is a high, love is a low
Blind to misfortune and wide as is long
Sometimes a stray dog that follows you home
From here, or wherever we are.
This Grenade Will Love You
I have to hide, have to crawl
Deep inside your heart
After everything you’ve done
I travel wide, can’t escape
Those words like butcher’s knives
The past, a rising tide
Conversations playing ‘round
My empty head, both soft and loud
This grenade will love you
You say, this grenade will love you
Each and every time
Echoes in the night, and you lose your mind
And you drown yourself in light
Then watch all sorrows taking flight
Leaving you here, a ship without a wheel
And you’re anchored to the vine
Oh grenade tell me that you’re mine
Conversations playing round
My empty head, both soft and loud
This grenade will love you
You say, this grenade will love you
Each and every time
It’s a shame you’re going nowhere
You can’t move forward, can’t remember
A troubled heart sleeps, a troubled heart sleeps
and it floats in cheap wine
Conversations playing round
My empty head, both soft and loud
In libation’s wake we sail
Try deny it, I’ll see you in hell
This grenade will love you
You say, this grenade will love you
Each and every time
Haunted House
I see your face at the window
I feel your touch when the wind blows
I hear your voice in the blackbirds
There is a ghost in this house
It doesn’t feel the same
Fear is the game that you play
and as night turns to day
A spirit in the shadow waits me
You slam a door, I close a window
You turn off a light, I light a candle
I talk to myself so I can’t hear you
I close my eyes and you’re there
It doesn’t feel the same
Fear is the game that you play
and as night turns to day
A spirit in the shadows waits me
Some twisted evil what could I expect?
A house that’s built of elder and blackthorn
Deep in the dark, I hear you laughing
So I take a match, and light up the night sky
It doesn’t feel the same
Fear is the game that you play
and as night turns to day
A spirit in the shadows waits me
It doesn’t feel the same
Fear is the game that you play
and as night turns to day
A spirit in the shadows waits me

This Grenade Will Love You – Demo

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*Very rough demo above*

This is a new song added to our E.P. list. It’s a fast one with a country/blues feel to it. The guitar is in an open D tuning. Leslie does a great piano riff over the verse while Daniela keeps a steady rolling beat throughout with brushes that’s not too overpowering. I still need to work out the bass which always changes the entire color of a song, maybe this weekend over a few beers. Regarding the lyrics, I think we’ve all been close to someone like the person in this song at sometime. I’ve known far too many.

This Grenade Will Love You

Verse #1
I have to hide, have to crawl,
Deep inside your heart,
After everything you’ve done.
I travel wide, can’t escape,
Those words like butcher’s knives.
The past, a rising tide.

Chorus
Conversations playing ‘round,
My empty head, both soft and loud.
This grenade will love you,
You say, this grenade will love you,
Each and every time.

Verse#2
Echoes in the night, and you lose your mind,
And you drown yourself in light,
Then watch all sorrows taking flight.
Leaving you here, a ship without a wheel,
And you’re anchored to the vine.
Oh grenade, tell me that you’re mine.

Chorus
Conversations playing round,
My empty head, both soft and loud.
This grenade will love you,
You say, this grenade will love you,
Each and every time.

Middle Eight
It’s a shame you’re going nowhere,
Can’t move forward, cant remember.
A troubled heart sleeps, a troubled heart sleeps,
and it floats in cheap wine.

Chorus
Conversations playing round,
My empty head, both soft and loud.
In libation’s wake we sail,
Try deny it, I’ll see you in hell.
This grenade will love you,
You say, this grenade will love you,
Each and every time.