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Round 24, Week 8

by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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1.
It’s a "crazy world" and it was back then If it was all possible, do it all again Hair was getting longer Didn’t need a thing I had the Scorpions and Maiden AC/DC The sound of 1990 Coming back to me, coming back to me The sound of 1990 Sounds so sweet, it's on repeat And it sounds like home Dreaming of a fake ID, looking for a band Freedom for the fist time, hard to understand Hellicot Hall was home Hours free to dream I had everything and nothing in between The sound of 1990 Coming back to me, coming back to me The sound of 1990 Sounds so sweet, it's on repeat And it feels like home Now it's up to them, not dwelling in the past Doesn't mean we can't rock out, on a Friday after class L prefers the Hurricane, Dudes will rock the Beast! Haven't gotten Angus yet... but I do believe....
2.
well, I never was a smoker not so much you’d say I was but this Winston-Salem perfume always gave me such a buzz and Tobacco Town ain’t nothing more than history’s broken name like Cleopatra, Waterloo, or any ash that once was flame and it’s such a nasty habit all this trying to recall ‘cause nothing good can ever come from trading shot for cannonball but here I am, still wondering where you are and did you ever get it right when I smell the smoke of a cigarette on a cool October night the boldest hickory, true and mighty from a bitter nut begins but I swear my aim was true in simpler days, with simpler sins when I watched you in the dusklight and the coil of crimson glow and I tried so hard to picture where our autumn blaze would blow and it’s such a nasty habit all this trying to recall ‘cause nothing good can ever come from trading shot for cannonball but here I am, still wondering where you are and did you ever get it right when I smell the smoke of a cigarette on a cool October night and now they’ve shut down all the factories and the auction house gone dark and as for me, I must confess I’ve gone and lit my last good spark and I pray you’re out there somewhere with a fire yet in the chill but I am childlike, out of season trying to trace that fragrance still and it’s such a nasty habit all this trying to recall ‘cause nothing good can ever come from trading shot for cannonball but here I am, still wondering where you are and did you ever get it right when I smell the smoke of a cigarette on a cool October night
3.
watercress growing round the stones in the creek bed hard to fathom such a thing as childhood with it’s trembling joy and vulnerability as i taste it now suddenly i find myself there somehow wading in the water with my brother and my mother near me and the trembling joy and vulnerability precious little leaf pure as a Celtic reel bring me sweet relief let me feel how I used to feel when the world was new and shot through with wonder can i stay a little longer? innocence fair and fragile as a spider’s web gleaming in the sun are you traveling right along beside me with your trembling joy and vulnerability precious little life quick as a Celtic reel filled with love and strife and still there’s so much left to feel in this world that’s new and shot through with wonder can I stay a little longer? watercress growing round the stones in the creek bed hard to fathom such a thing as childhood with it’s trembling joy and vulnerability
4.
The messages paint the wall that splits the city in two divided parts They turned an ugly reminder of a bloody past into a work of Art A message of peace between a black and white increasing gray the message is vast but it’s continually harder to say Black cab Belfast Gates and barbs, burnt out fires Why does everyone looks the same? Houses on this side, houses on that Different only if you ask them their name Does your life depends on if you know your neighbor or not If no the cabby takes you across the line To visit a gate of hate that time forgot Black cab Belfast Many years have come and gone But a wall remains with a guarded gate To the sides it’s different as Black and white to a stranger it’s hard to separate You can tell by the accent if you’re ears are sharp Children raised with hate in their hearts As you watch out a window passing by Black cab Belfast Cabby said I’m not taking sides These are the facts make up your mind Here’s wall and here’s a fire And a film of a riot in ‘69 Peace walls Bloody Sunday UVF and IRA Tit for tat and eye for an eye And everybody ended up blind Black cab Belfast Cease fire campaign Victory parade Nationalist Unionist Martin Luther king One man one vote Gerrymander low road Police brutality Questionable morality Civil rights Riots fights Hopes and dreams War machines Black cab Belfast
5.
Ice Cream Truck Baby baby baby don’t talk to me I’m sleeping oh so gently baby baby baby don’t wake me up unless you hear the ice cream truck The ice cream truck coming up the block The ice cream truck is what I want Baby I’m a waiting for the ice cream truck Baby baby baby I’m feeling sad I’m feeling down I’m really mad Baby baby I’m all messed up can’t help myself my down looks up The ice cream truck coming up the block The ice cream truck is what I want Baby I’m a waiting for the ice cream truck An ice cream sundae is what I want An ice cream sundae is what I want An ice cream sundae is what I want And make sure there’s a cherry on top Baby baby baby don’t talk to me I’m sleeping oh so gently baby baby baby don’t wake me up unless you hear the ice cream truck The ice cream truck coming up the block The ice cream truck is what I want Baby I’m a waiting for the ice cream truck
6.
I can act like your perfume doesn't take me straight back to your bedroom rosewater in the air, you'd run your fingers through my hair and so I act like I don't care But goddamnit if you touched me, you’d take me back to the days before we knew what this was when you would kiss me kill me and will me to believe this love was good enough for me good enough for us good enough to fight for But what if good enough ain’t good enough no more? No more I can act like hearing your voice doesn't make me reconsider my choice It tears me up inside so I am practicing my lines so I can act like I am fine But goddamnit if you touched me, you’d take me back to the days before we knew what this was when you would kiss me kill me and will me to believe this love was good enough for me good enough for us good enough to fight for But what if good enough ain’t good enough no more? No more No more no more no more no more No more no more second-guessing No more no more drunk undressing No more repairing and regressing I can act like seeing you cry doesn't make me regret saying goodbye I'd kiss those tears away you'd ask me to stay So I act like I am OK But goddamnit if you touched me, you’d take me back to the days before we knew what this was when you would kiss me kill me and will me to believe this love was good enough for me good enough for us good enough to fight for But what if good enough ain’t good enough no more? No more
7.
v1: The cat on the couch won't know your name Pink for black, it's a mighty fair trade All the gifts you got, you won't give 'em away v2: The weight on your heart won't let you go Broken from the start on a twisted road Throwing all you got into the great unknown ch: And you step outside your mind The air goes completely still You count a million stars, just like you're walking in Weaverville You could live your life with joy, but you've had your fill v3: The wind at your back is all you need Sometimes the song inside your head is your decree You make your stand on the in between ch: And you step outside your mind The air goes completely still You count a million stars, just like you're walking in Weaverville You could live your life with joy, but you've had your fill ch: And you step outside your mind The air goes completely still You count a million stars, like you're walking in Weaverville

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This week’s challenge comes from Daniel and Lauren Goans, better know as Lowland Hum. I first ran across these guys when we shared the stage years ago at the Garage at a Dylan tribute, and I was mesmerized by their hypnotically beautiful songcraft. Since then, they’ve put out four albums, toured the world with the likes of Josh Ritter, and gently rocked NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts. Well worth your time to check out their work, I tell you, and I’m pleased as punch that they’ve agreed to spend a little time with us.

Here’s the challenge:

"Write a song that includes something about being transported into a specific memory by a sound or flavor or temperature etc. — thinking of the way some tactile experiences act like a time machine/unlock our memory.”

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released October 14, 2019

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