Ledy Pa Records 008 (1997)

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Produced by Stü Art
Created in My Room Studios, Troy, Ohio; August through August 1996-97

 

The band...

Guest musician...


The album...

  1. Big Mighty Going
  2. Infandous
  3. Pie Cherry Pie
  4. Fast
  5. Pay for Your Sodie Pop
  6. The Scourge and the Hominy
  7. Jim Blow
  8. Where We Are
  9. Runt
  10. Five Bullets in the Head
  11. Yellow Mountains
  12. A Pinewood Party
  13. I Write With Pencil
  14. Lonely Evening
  15. A Trip to a History Museum
  16. The End


The reviews...

  • Stü Art: The Perfect Response (Ledy Pa Records 008): Eleanor Ferguson, resident critic - **** (out of 5)
  • "Overall, this album is good. It is musically decent and a lyrical improvement. In addition, it has a number of songs that are a pleasure to listen to and are worth hearing multiple times." Read Full Review


    The songs...

    Big Mighty Going (M.Nickras)..........0:45

    Some people are just confusing
    Yesterday I was confused
    Childlike and once amusing
    Yesterday was screwed all over
    Won't they give me what
    What's that they told me
    Big, mighty going
    Yeah that's it
    Big, mighty going somewhere
    Big, mighty going somewhere
    Yesterday I was confused
    Big mighty going someone
    Big mighty going someone
    Yesterday was screwed all over

     

    Infandous (J.Nickras)..........0:56

    We died when we 42
    Doing what we do
    We thought we people
    We thought we people thought
    We thought
    We people
    We big head
    Breaks up the waves
    A shallow grave for a shallow man
    We thought we people
    A flock of birds
    We thought we people
    A coat of fools
    We thought we people

     

    Pie Cherry Pie (J.Nickras)..........1:25

    I went there
    Way over there
    Yes I'm there
    Why am I there
    Pie cherry pie
    My cherry pie
    The car is stalled
    There is an emptiness inside
    Pie cherry pie
    My cherry pie
    My cherrie pie
    Life is a cherry pie
    My head is in a pit
    Should have quit long ago
    Why did I finish this song
    A forceful write-up
    My cherry pie
    I gets the pie
    I gets the pie
    I gets the pie
    I gets the pie

     

    Fast (M.Nickras)..........1:35

    I see, at least I want to see you
    I saw, where the sky seemed quite wonderful
    The purple haze, while the sun set
    Brought me back down
    The houses that I walked past
    Brought me back down
    Our gaze was so fair
    But the distance, untraveled
    Brought me back down
    I, friend, the one who was there
    I saw, where the light seemed so wonderful
    You stare, in the night warm clear
    I see, with a knife, through yards of thick
    A yellow dusk, while the sun set
    Brought me back down
    Houses that I walked past
    Brought me back down
    Our gaze was not there
    The distance, the void, came
    It came so fast, it comes to me here

     

    Pay for Your Sodie Pop (J.Nickras)..........1:06

    There's a little hole in a city
    Where the people come for food
    The timing was so right
    The crowds crowd it every night
    There's a little hole in a city
    Where the people come for food
    The hole got so old
    People no longer came-would rather not eat
    Now there is no hole in the city
    Empty buildings, growing older
    That people drive by
    And look at

     

    The Scourge and the Hominy (J.Nickras)..........1:45

    No more fears
    No more beers, no more tears
    You don't need any of this
    No more school, or being the fool
    No more thought, no more action
    You don't need any of this
    You don't need any of this
    It's only your life
    No need to make a fuss
    Open windows and crowded streets
    Missing in action and missing the action
    There's no need for that
    It's only your life
    No need to follow the rules

     

    Jim Blow (Stü Art) [instrumental]..........0:26

     

    Where We Are (M.Nickras)..........2:06

    Do they want us to stay where we are

    (chorus)
    It feels so long
    And I want more
    Since it feels so wrong...to me

    That is me for you, for you
    But you are there
    When you are there
    I see your face
    And you are wasting away
    Alone...you're always alone
    That is you to me, for me
    It is wrong, it is gone, it is wrong
    You are more, you are there, I am here

    (chorus)

    We are not, each is it, we are not
    I see your face, I see your face, I see your face
    And your thoughts, and your thoughts, and the answers are there
    I ask and you ask and together decide
    Do they want us to stay where we are?

     

    Runt (Stü Art) [instrumental]..........0:30

     

    5 Bullets in the Head (J.Nickras)..........1:07

    Sunday
    Sleep, sleep, me sleep
    Monday
    Sleep, sleep, me sleep
    Funday
    Sleep, sleep, me sleep
    Some people say to grasp life
    To live it all
    Be happy all your day
    But when all that is between us
    Is a pile of food
    And all you can taste is your pillow
    There is nothing to say
    I want to eat your chocolate bunny
    I will chew off your head
    And then go to bed
    Wanna sleep all day
    And then sleep all night
    But it will never be
    All you bastards of having a life

     

    Yellow Mountains (J.Nickras)..........1:24

    Last year I told the mountains
    To leave me alone
    Wait around another millennium
    It all comes crashing down
    Upon our little backs
    Without our little whispers about
    What is right and what is wrong
    But now I'm fourteen hundred years old
    And I am kind of tired
    I'm fourteen hundred years old
    Don't throw me a bone for crying out loud

     

    A Pinewood Party (J.Nickras)..........1:43

    I'll miss the dawn
    And the coming of sleep
    And the light's escape
    I'll miss the lifeless field
    Of harvest in the winter
    That pass our eyes as we move from city to city
    I'll miss faces and thoughts
    Of your habitats
    Who always had their ways

     

    I Write With Pencil (J.Nickras)..........1:52

    Go ahead and save the day
    What difference does it make
    I'll be a 'leavin anyway
    We've overstayed our welcome
    I've grown pessimistic
    And you've grown bigger
    Do we really need any of this
    Really any of this
    I remember the good old days
    When the good guys were so bad
    And we'd forgive them
    And they give us all back
    My hero would stab another
    In the back and break a window
    Then run away free
    Do we really need this
    Any of that

     

    Lonely Evening (M.Nickras)..........0:44

    Won't you let me run away
    Don't you see, I hate this place
    Can't you see, It doesn't change
    Won't you make me whole again

     

    A Trip to a History Museum (J.Nickras)..........1:03

    I am a god to my people
    That's what I tell myself
    But I have no people
    And I don't have the right
    Divine right to a manifest destiny
    I never did
    My slave and servants don't amount to matter
    They never did
    Then the head on the wall stopped talking
    The head was never speaking

     

    The End (M.Nickras)..........1:20

    It's so dark in this place
    Far away from home
    A light in the corner keeps people awake
    I just want to sleep
    They've made it so light outside
    People are so unkind

    (chorus)
    Flares are that way
    Night from day
    As we all fade away

    Children, children
    You must play that way
    Forget about that potential today

    (chorus)


    Thanks to...

    anyone and everyone who deserves to be thanked

     

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