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A Man Without a Human Head

by B.R. Mt.

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1.
Traveling down to the ocean’s tide I saw a man there sitting in starlight, starlight I asked him what he thought of heaven and of hell He said the one seems nice but it’s (speculation) just as well “Here’s a shot in the dark and a universe to maintain And i live with my past each and every new day All i want is to stay here by the sea At least i’m away to watch the gulls succeed I left all I know for a chance to feel the rain It’s people that made the world, the world we see today I was given a life, a personality and such And i threw it away ‘cause sometimes everything is just not enough." I traveled back from the ocean’s tide…
2.
I stumbled right into a place that seemed like a magical land. There were dances and shows done up with Ribbons and Bows. But underneath the surface, I said, "It must be like a circus, oh no." There were elephants and goats tied up with strings and with ropes. And all the men and women, they put on their masks and they carry on and dance around the fireplace. And they make their sacrifices and they sing about their vices while the others just have to sit and wait. What I saw among the light projectors and the music shakers was a book of divinity. It was wrapped in scrutiny. It was like nothing I'd ever seen. The only way to see it and the only way to read it was to join the festivities, to wrap yourself in white and green. And all the men and women, they put on their masks and they carry on and dance around the fireplace. And they make their sacrifices and they sing about their vices while the others just have to sit and wait. When they saw I wasn't one of them, they told me right away to go home, so they led me to the road. The one that leads to Megiddo. I asked them why they had to be like that and why the put on that act. I said, "You don't need a show to walk on the right road." And all the men and women, they put on their masks and they carry on and dance around the fireplace. And they make their sacrifices and they sing about their vices while the others just have to sit and wait. As I began to walk away, I turned around to see a scene to been seen. They took those Ribbons and Bows and hung a noose around each others' throats.
3.
Fairy Tales 03:47
Love is the bottom line he said. Love is the bottom line we gave up, love to walk away on the road of code, where the endings rise and the smoke of love debates with all the sounds of what one sentimental ear could repeat to the temperamental flames of the guns of the fightings of the saved, that the Fairy Tales forgave. And the knight who had to slay the dragon had to be amazed by the wings that the dragon flew by. In the ocean where the sharks lie the artist gently floats by while the builder runs out of bricks, upon an old abandoned ship that gave away the script because the lines had been filled in. It's a shame to fan an open flam where love is heard and action fades away. It is the same that the Fairy Tales forgave.
4.
She was singing from a camp stove, watering the coals' glow. I never felt so old, never saw her hair grow. I left a message in a tin cup, went to see what she had made up. She had an image building on mud and a secret hidden by flood. Make sure that you keep them safe from the Devil's Son. Make sure that they stay close and can't wander on their own. Don't Leave Home without your gun. She was singing on to Joan Baez, drinking with her brides maids, talking to a strange man, hoping for a new mess. She asked me why I stood still, so I told her of a love lost. With a wobble and slurred word, she said she felt the whole world. Make sure that you keep her safe from the Devil's Son. Make sure that they stay close and can't wander on their own. Don't Leave Home without your gun. She was following and old maid, making up a deep grave, flying off a steal rail, learning how to be frail. I was watching from a high post, she was looking for the west coast. I tried to lead her back home, she was emerging with her sailboat. Make sure that you keep her safe from the Devil's Son. Make sure that she stays close and can't wander on her own. Don't Leave Home without your gun.
5.
Salt 03:00
We give, we take, we give, we take another look We’re after all the same, the plain, the fame, the heaven we can see, the heaven we can be Alone we grow, we flow, we float above the green The green we cannot see unless the rest is fully make-believe Like the salt inside the see Because it’s what We were supposed to be Like the salt inside the see, was it what we’re supposed to be?
6.
Interlude 01:44
Will I see the light? Will I make it out alive?
7.
Anyone can find beauty in sex beauty in gold Anyone can find beauty where the grass is green beauty where the air is clean Anyone can sing what everybody knows and feels But he chooses not to close his eyes He chooses against failing his mind when he sees what happens every time we flee to look past the golden sky Where can we find the answers hidden deep inside If we only look out past the mountains we climb? This is what we are Boasting cows on grassy knolls Apples of cider we find With disregard to the walls behind So he loses what's rustic refined And chooses the elf and the crimson shine when he tells what happens every time, we don't see the past or the present light It's our job to find beauty in death beauty in life It's our job to find beauty where the grass is brown beauty where the air is foul It's our job to show what others can't seem to find what's hidden inside the light
8.
Stay in, stay in Keeping the fire out and bring the fire in I'm just a hermit in a room Waiting for something new These walls, these walls Reflect what I care for Efface all that I know Restate the metaphor Light up, light up The book and the coffee mug A frame and a whisky jug A pane that's all wall Look out, looking out The darkness I fought off is distance to write off It's soft as a stained cloth Let the room, the lights go blind A ghost appears, a ghost And outside the window It shows the night glow The tree and the star flow It tells me what I know Make sure, The more you know, the less you know
9.
I left my homely body searching For rest and hoping angels yearning And I lost all of my happy innocence My home, it wandered free and growing But where did I go? A cowboy with a pistol on his hip Sent me alone to find his grip I could have left him with almost anything But all he had was a prayer's whip I said where did I go? And how was I supposed to know? whoa whoa I stumbled across an open ocean Riding the ripples in the water I left my help hiding from enemies And felt the open ocean's waving So where did I go? And how was I supposed to know? whoa whoa Caught flailing, I swam just like a fish While sailing, the sailor took me in He brought me down, to the only open town I fled with pockets full of nothing God, where did I go? And how am I supposed to know? I never left my home
10.
Heaven 04:28
She bows down out loud, bows down out loud A high note, a paint brush, a white moth overlooked "Heaven can't be found, found right now, found right now," they said His eyes closes, his hands clasped, his ears shut every time A snowman is seen, a wintery scene, the snowman can feel all that is missed "Heaven is for me, not for them, not for them," they say a loud noise, the glass closed, a box glows of ribbons and bows they lie still, inside filled, they float down like the salt "Heaven is a place that I know, that I know I'll go" Heaven can't be found, found right now, found right now," they say We've got to be, we've got to see, we've got to break through this mold of factories, inside the mind, the snow is melting We can bring The bushes decayed can come to life The seasons that change can always replace The rock in ground, the salt in the sea, the heaven above can make itself seen We can be The dark is not dark unless there is light The child can't laugh unless he first cries The winter can't last through bloom and palm trees Knights amazed Guns left home Time stopped
11.
Sense 04:57
Jesus, Jesus, is Jesus more than his name? They left a number to lend over but it could not stay Because, because, because all numbers are the same When long dividers take abiders out of their own place How do you make it make it make some sense? Amen, amen, amen is what we ought to say? When other people make a steeple out of righteous thought We ought, we fought, we seem to fight a lot When blinds are open, mouths have spoken, and minds have been closed off How do you make it make some sense? I saw, I saw, a man without a human head His eyes they blinked, his mouth did speak, his body leapt instead Of mine, of mine, because I did not get What he was feeling, an unrevealing sense to make a sense How do you make it make some sense?

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released July 13, 2012

Produced by Zach Sorensen
Artwork by Dan Toro
Feature guest vocalists, Kim Lockhart, Jordan Bishop, Chloe King, Grant Gardner, Denver Bohling, and Zach Sorensen.

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