credits: written, produced and performed by Michael Calvaresi and Sean McGuire
lyrics, cover art and concept: Michael Calvaresi
all rights reserved 2010 ©
track list:
I Miss the Boy
White Dwarf Mother Sun
When We Were
Stand and Be True
I Miss the Boy
Heaven
My Mary is a Rock Song
Oh My Fellow Minstrels
Useless Romance (Trying to be Blue)
I miss the boy
White Dwarf Mother Sun
exosphere
thermosphere
mesosphere
stratosphere
troposphere
slingshot around the sun
only to get back home
using earths gravity
picking up energy
gathering comet dust
coming back all around
white dwarf mother sun
gravity brings me home
my heat-shield-skull protects me
from re-entry
and as I’m born out of my capsule
the blues and greens, they blind me
cast me back through the vacuum
just so I can slingshot back home again
white dwarf mother sun
everything is going faster
dark energy
the stars are moving faster and farther away
hold on
When We Were
in the west wind lands we wait for the desert to grow
in the valleys inland we wait for the hot winds to blow
and we know
when we were lads we’d travel through the creeks and the snow
we would travel on cycles to school in the morning cold
and we know
now we travel to cities and lands that we do not know
we stand in line and wait for the street lights to go
and we know
I Miss the Boy
there was a house
and there was a green yard
that stretched to the flat blue horizon
and in the fall the leaves would change
suns of gold approaching cold
first to run across the snow
and there were no fences
and I miss the boy that I was
the common ground,
the circle, the creek
summer night games and lightening bugs
red rover red rover send everyone over
as fast as you can climb a tree
cicadas singing you to sleep
and there were no fences
and I miss the boy that I was
our fortress of imagination
being built in the basement
hot lava on the stairs
charging like heros
ricochet here we go
swimming in circles, running til we drop
and I miss the boy that I was
Bud and Monday beaking us in our sleep
the incomparable friendship formed called MSC
nothing could stop us and we didn’t even know it
but hat’s the beauty of magic isn't it?
when you’re there, you don’t even know where you are
and I miss the boy that I was
Heaven
Mary my love, Mary mi amore’
Mary my love, marry me love
love me when I’m gone
I will wait for you in the clearing
heaven to me, is watching you sleep
My Mary is a Rock Song
my Mary is a rock song
she don’t let doen
she got that back beat that i love
she drive shard and kisses sweet
my Mary is a rock song
my Mary is a rock song
I stole her heart
and I love her so hard
she is so good to me
so special, gentle to me
my Mary is a rock song
Oh My Fellow Minstrels
oh my fellow minstrels
we gave up our ticket to the great parade built the house and walked away
so fortunate were we to virtually succeed
opportunities like sand falling through our hands
oh my fellow minstrels
oh my fellow minstrels
I truly believed the podium was holy and oh the unforeseen fortune and glory
and the magical romance of communication
oh my fellow minstrels
oh my fellow minstrels
I would have preferred to make one last stand
dedicating purpose to the time spent at hand
to build something so strong
to stand and be true
instead of fading out
oh my fellow minstrels
Useless Romance
(Trying to be Blue)
this is the best way to say
this is the best way to communicate
objects material conceptual and classical
loving you or killing you
coincidence or miracle
this is the best way to say
if you're here then you'll hear
if you can't then you won’t
if you won’t then i'll still try
(and after so much time
after so much crying
all there is, is this blank page, right where I began
no mater how hard I
try no matter how loud I cry
I will never be able to say
so why do I stay?
all the rage in my youth
all the fear in my dreams
the empty echos from my screams
I've spun tales through webs
and I have contrived
beaten the bush to death
around and around I’ve burnt it down
grown again and burnt it down
the ashy grey my face will make in the busy mirror
I strive to change
the ashy grey my face has made
I want to be blue as the sky I knew
swimming in cool shades
I want to be blue)
if you're here then you'll hear
as many points of view as galaxies swirling above you
as many points of view as galaxies swirling about you
as many points of view as galaxies swirling inside of you
as many points of view as galaxies swirling around you
if you're here then you'll hear
and if you can't or if you won't then I will be here to try
if you can't then you don't
and you won't hear anything at all
just a voice, a string, a drum.
deaf, blind, paralyzed and dumb