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Birth of Jazz CD EP

by Modey Lemon

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Rainbow Beard (Boyd) I was just a boy When I lost my pants Running through the fields Learning how to dance I should’ve known By the moon’s glow That my hair would strain To ever grow In the churches Flirting with the chumps In the hospitals Getting stomachs pumped In the elevators Printed on the sheets You buried your blood Underneath my cheek Tiger-eyes and Apache tears The morning time my sister says I’m weird Mountain peaks with rocky hats Roots are red where claybeds pack My minute hand is long and gold Silver mines explode when I get old All the tots rotting in the moss What did you smoke to make it grow so long I met myself in a way I hadn’t imagined any other day I met myself it was in a way I hadn’t imagined any other day Take a strand from your man in the East Another from your brother with the Ivory teeth Paradise’s freaky fowl Till the spectrum streams from the lighthouse tower Tiger-eyes and Apache tears The morning time my sister says I’m weird Mountain peaks with rocky hats Roots are red where claybeds pack My minute hand is long and gold Silver mines explode when I get old All the tots rotting in the moss What did you smoke to make it grow so long I met myself in a way I hadn’t imagined any other day I met myself in a way I hadn’t imagined any other day I met myself in a way I hadn’t imagined any other day I met myself it was in a way I hadn’t imagined any other day
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Vision Quest 10:06
Vision Quest (Boyd) To the Wart in the water While you were up their fishing You became a rainbow man Your body split in sevens To the ants in the window Who drip in on their mission Just one body blocking satalites From their position Now lifting up from my cocoon Where I’ve been hidden I’ve found that waking with the sun Can help me with my vision To the lizards who crawled back to seas While escaping teeth Of the fishes who had claimed the land Then made that trip complete When their eyes were tired And obscured in the blur They feathered out their flakey skin They made themselves to birds Now lifting up from beaches Where they’re buried in just wishing They’ve found that striking down with sun Can help them with their vision Now I know you’ve seen that lady Up in the sky Who combs her hair off mirrored jewels And gives the night some light To the people of the east Her face looks like a rabbit To the people of the west We see something more human But we know that she’s been sent here To give us goodnight kisses And awake our minds To arouse all of our sleeping visions Now every time I scrape the dust Off stretching eyes I see the Aztecs and the Incas And see Superman in skies And pilots who were drowning Under the weight of flags That parachuting falling planes And cushioned up their crash And the shaman who sits in saunas While his body’s dripping And assures me that sweating with sun Can help me with my vision
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Half of a Hermaphrodite (in Bed)- (Boyd) I was all alone I shook the rust And then I slept When i awoke the streets were dust My blankets lead Half of a hermaphrodite in bed Out of sync with the star in your head Fly through night and up for hours Beneath the smoke and radio towers When you find you’re on your own and all alone You’ll see that I can be your friend We made it on to New Years Day I sang my song I lit a flame inside my stove It kept me warm We were nearly old With heavy hands and stubborn jaws But i was wrong, we’re what we are We’re never young Half of a hermaphrodite in bed Out of sync with the star in your head Fly through night and up for hours Beneath the smoke and radio towers When you find you’re on your own and all alone You’ll see that I can be your friend

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Written, Recorded, Performed by Modey Lemon 2007-2008

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released March 8, 2008

Phil Boyd - guitar, vocals, synth, effects
Jason Kirker - bass, keyboard, synth, guitar
Paul Quattrone - loops, drums, effects

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