James Rabbit’s ‘The Blizzard’

 

 

 

Recorded August-November 2001

At the Estate Audio Tracks recording studio in sunny Fresno, CA

 

 

Tyler – singing, guitar, keys, winds

Conner – voice, drums

Alex – lead guitar on ‘Smarter’

 

All Songs Written by Tyler Martin

 

Thanks to - Grayson and Ian for leaving the pedals and amps,

the Frank family, Max Power, Albertson’s, Antonio Flaviolio and even Evan.

 

 

Left umbra down    -        -        -        2.32

Downtown girl        -        -        -        2.15

Sleeping cars        -        -        -        2.07

Amuusig      -        -        -        -        1.22

Fashion boat         -        -        -        2.44

Crooks and spiders         -        -        1.32

Stressed               -        -        -        2.06

One shot      -        -        -        -        2.05

Smarter       -        -        -        -        2.44

Glamorous family   -        -        -        3.13

Planet aviation       -        -        -        2.43

Cult called America          -        -        2.07

The plumber          -        -        -        2.54

Witless (overall)     -        -        -        2.10

The other end        -        -        -        2.27

 

 

Lyrics-

 

 

Left Umbra Down

 

Back from the grave, back for the day

Can’t I just say ‘Canada stays in tow’?

Going home

 

Left on the ground, left umbra down

More than just ‘care’, more than a stay in the air

Going home

 

And this so-called problem you have here

Is your problem with disconnecting, my dear

You can’t escape it, no, just erase it from your memory

And we’ll ditch this scene

 

 

 

Downtown girl

 

I’m so jealous of her fake smile and hand grenades

She detonates me right on time way down at the lake

Recommend me, words are not enough where we’re going

Like a sign in the dark

 

Wary of the walking dead, they complain

That we aren’t clean enough to contain

Glimpses of the grey area, come with me downtown girl

Think I’ve got it under control

 

Quicker than you thought, we fall apart

Who had ten months, twelve days?

Faster than the average, we kill each other

We have ways to bore each other to tears

I said ‘that is why I’m someone else’

 

Can’t stand the ability to go on

I’m ailing like a twentieth century fawn

Waiting for a bus towards anywhere but here

It’s not going to appear

 

 

 

Sleeping cars

 

Sleeping in cars, those vague movie stars

Go down and out and down again

Why wonder if that old roof will give?

Just place your faith on that flagpole

 

And it’s all out of control

This room turns upside down with it’s new soul

It’s new soul

 

Digging in dumpsters,

Looking around for anything that vaguely resembles food

Posing for shots, the glam astronauts

Go take those smiles outside please

While pacing around, she noticed something out of place

You’re looking at a fate you’ll soon have to face

 

 

 

 

Fashion boat

 

Have to get my hair dyed for the police

Stock market is booming on my day of release

Bought my freedom with an autographed guitar

Smoke that scenic reverie and fine,

I hope you choke on dinner tonight

 

Painful spike ran through my leg

A drill that even I can’t save

Got you a stethoscope to fix

Got some bad health news though

 

Have to get my hair dyed for the police

The best of westerns parading on my day of release

Gone to buy my freedom with an autographed guitar

Smoke that scenic reverie and fine,

I hope you catch that train

 

A vicious wish is all that I can say

Shot in your general direction lame

As the facts bounce around in your skull

I say nothing more, but I’m walking away

 

And I have to get my hair dyed for the show

The stock market is plummeting, look out below

I’ve gone to buy my freedom with an autographed guitar

Smoke that scenic reverie and fine,

I don’t care if you leave

 

So I guess we’ll walk towards different poles

Roundabout, we shake and away we go

Smoke the scenic atmosphere and choke and cough

Tell the bellhop that this is why you’re off

 

And I have to get my hair dyed for the police

The stock market is calling on my day of release

I bought my freedom with an autographed guitar

Smoke that scenic reverie and fine,

I hope you choke on dinner tonight

 

 

 

 

Crooks and spiders

 

Sunday night they kept me up with stomping

Monday night they had a real fun party

Tuesday night they kept me awake by making pool noises

Wednesday night was video games

Thursday night was reserved for tales of failed communication

Friday night they talked about the dance

Saturday I was home feeling afraid of crooks and spiders

 

 

 

 

Stressed

 

Mixed some mechanical with animal instincts

Said it would go wrong but they did not think

So see that razor wire covering the Midwest

 

She must have been stressed

 

Picked a new tractor at the farming goods expo

Called her old agent said, ‘hey baby we should go

Out to lunch sometime’, you gotta throw off the press

 

She must have been stressed

Hercules’ vague apostrophe

Skim milk, skinned knee, such a part of me

Archangel come step aside, going to waltz and glide

Living like a homesick Amazon

How to party without a record on?

Teller six, going to fake a heart attack, waltz and glide

 

Called some reporter drone on paramount dispatch

They sent some locusts, said she did not match

Back to the castle, the girl’s gotta change her dress

 

She must have been stressed.

 

 

 

 

One shot

 

Airbrushed out of existence, the spawn of a thousand suits

Assistants clamor calmly at their glamour-impaired follies

Their recently disfigured souls

 

And it shows in the structure of their great days

And it seems like the old days

 

Well, just one shot out of the dark and the people prayed for safety

Crowding around down the streets and the malls are closed now

While they’re pushing down the barricades, go take your bow

 

And it shows like your going to freak out any day

And it goes, and you still don’t seem that crazy

 

 

 

 

 

Smarter

 

Shuffling riot, Venus M the codependent

Insipid, and quiet, and when invented so defend it

 

Perspective is dim; I won’t be your partner in crime

Sunlight so grim, and when called to the end of the line

 

Maybe I’m trying to sabotage myself

And maybe I happen to find safety in numbers

Perhaps I’d like to destroy a conglomerate

For sure, I’d like to shoot myself in the leg

 

 

 

 

Glamorous family

 

Going to get hit with the news any day

Staggers down an alley tumbles another iron rage

And this designer gravity plummets through the earth

 

Lacking all tone

 

Born into a glamorous family,

Laughs and sleeping outdoors

 

Walking a bit sideways, he slipped into the street

Car splashes water on his face, restores some memory

And all this nouveau rage is swept up off the road

 

Lacking all tone

 

Born under a perilous kind of sign

Parents fighting out loud…

 

 

 

 

Planet aviation

 

Descend staircase right on time

Planet aviation

Father Christmas, don’t be cruel

Baking five o clock shadows on the moon

 

And this attitude, keep the getting famous for yourself

Pardon my accent, leave intoxication to the rich

Man, we’re getting poorer

The door slams in my face

 

Hey trustbuster, love thyself

Lonely manager

Doctor changeling, you’re right on time

To witness my collapse

 

At this altitude, you could run out of self-respect real fast

Pardon my cleanliness, the germs are pouring in through my pores

Me another glass, man

Living in the city of throwing rocks

 

At this altitude, you could lose dependency real fast

Pardon my class mates, they all think that Galileo’s dead

Wait, the year’s over

Of course, I still haven’t found my place

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cult called America

 

I am cult America

It’s in my vein’s, the other half

It’s in the air, but there’s no air

I am dust and I am dust

 

And I’m on call, a pager slave

Don’t let me down while I’m feeling grave

I’m not there when needed most

At the coast, and I am dust

 

 

 

 

The plumber

 

Fate is smiling down on you, the gall of all the hours

 and the pretense of survival have combined to sell a house in this neighborhood

You could be home now if you want…

 

And what’s up with this karma and the dharma?

 and the scene’s feeling shallow like the sink is full of water but the plughole isn’t working

I’ll call a plumber in the morning

 

It’s time to give up the chase and leave it to professionals

 

Save me, won’t you drop me off a cliff into the sunroof of some multimillion-dollar deal;

the Cadillac is smiling through the neighborhood

And all the people say, ‘I bet you wish you had one of those…’

 

But what’s up with this karma and the dharma and the scene,

it feels real shallow like the kitchen it has flooded, we’re all sinking

I hope you know your house is full of water

 

It’s time to give up the chase and leave it to professionals

Girl, I hope to see you in the morning                                                                         

 

Listening to Vegas calling out the window screaming,

 shouting ‘don’t you hurt another brother’,

girl I hope to see you in the morning

This is the last of my complaints.

 

 

 

 

Witless (overall)

 

Yukon to friendly castle to finally find out how get rid of the taste that blinds with ambiguity.

Sifting through rapids, the rising wry sureness that permeates even the hardest hearts of December

I’m witless of course, cannot find myself a place to stand

 

Why fight the power, when you could get hit by that pang of disaster or even change the course of history? 

Lite brights, the turban slides, winter winter I deny thee the right to ignore my ignorance, but if you must, I can always move

I’m witless it seems, couldn’t dream me a dream of dreams.

 

Bummer, the angels went flying through night school. 

Their faces are smug and their wallets are full of cash. 

Last of all heaven went tourist trap overnight, the seagulls, the bagels the coffee got colder still…

I’m witless overall, save me for walking the malls.

 

 

 

 

 

The other end

 

At the first difficult sign,

Want to shrug away in terror

Summer’s over, the wait is lost

On a cardboard cutout of someone else

Last lines are on time…

You are sticking your paw in error

Right wrongs on your own behalf of

Something is better than a quarter to one

 

It’s all done in the name of ventilation

More news from the numbness in us all

 

You thought faster than light

Hung up on your own invention

Glummer than a big sad bear

Hung up on a noose of pretension

Bleed backwards marines,

Shallow over the countries waters

Peace campus the farmer’s daughters

Harbored (Harvard) deep inside our hearts

 

Its all lost to a passive, passing fancy

Praise be to the numbness in us all

 

You might be a winner if you could even move your body

Sorry denizens rule quite heartily,

This place we call a safe haven

Called home on a whim

Found out they have moved again

Electronics malfunctionated,

Wound up deep inside our hearts

 

It’s all gone, though we remember it like Flipper

No news from the other end.

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