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The K​-​Mart Tapes Volume Five

by Bill White

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Bill White and Nadia Cripps - Kindness Shines 01:36
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into this world dark and grim kindness shines the light breaks in throughout the valley of the left behind through shattered clouds kindness shines into the heights where birds fly blind the cold earth cracks till kindness shines angels dance on the head of a pin kindness shines the light breaks in shadows of you shadows of me kindness falls on land and sea
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Assassin, Promenade! 03:25
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Below the bell tower. Paralyzed in milk, Below the bell tower. Paralyzed in milk, A child in metal habit, refusing Communion, jumps rope on the holy ground. Bulls kneel to their benefactress Paralyzed in milk, she cripples the estate, Covering the seas With murderous devotion. Below the bell tower. Paralyzed in milk, she cripples the estate, Covering seas With murderous devotion. This child in metal habit, refusing Communion, She jumps rope on the holy ground. She jumps rope on the holy ground She jumps rope on the holy ground Bulls kneel to their benefactress Paralyzed in milk, Below the bell tower She cripples the estate She cripples the estate,
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bill white and wyatt - Earth Abides 02:21
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lyric by wyatt Grass grows in the sidewalks And in the streets as well They're mostly torn and jumbled From where the rockets fell There's now a living jungle On land they once called parks It teems with many wild things Especially after dark Th e ravaged hills are green again The rivers run pristine Earth has near forgotten That man had ever been Hulks that once were cars Are home for mice and rats So in natures wisdom. There's also lots of cats In a hundred thousand centuries That have marked the earthly span There's a little blip there somewhere That notes the time of man Man is like a ship that passes in the night But the earth abides
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Waiting for the Movie to End 03:11
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what we gonnna do this morning what we gonna do tonight what we gonna do in the space between the darkness and the light you say our life is glamorous hey baby dont pretend we are just a couple boring people waiting for the movie to end ive got red carpet invitations we could catch a world premiere but fashion week is over so youve got nothing to wear soyou make love to yourself while i talk on the phone somebody is knocking on the door but we both want to be alone what we gonnna do this morning what we gonna do tonight what we gonna do in the space between the darkness and the light you say our life is glamorous we have beautiful friends but thery're just a crowd of boring people waiting for the movie to end i just fnished post production dubbing jean renos lines youre cleaning out your closet of yesterdays designs not much work now for a girl like you unless you go down among the sharks and theres nothing left for me except a summer of shakespeare in the park repeat first chorus
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The Art of Drinking 04:17
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Thirty years ago I put the bottle down Last night I went to the corner bar and bought the house a round Every single glass was raised to cheer me with a toast I touched the glass to my lips then poured the liquor down my throat I hadnt tasted paradise is thirty sacred years the warmth spread through my body and brought my soul to tears Then I set my glass down and waved the bar goodbye I knew what might have happened had I kept on drinking with the guys Drinking may well be a sin but it isnt a disease Its a moral inclination like a frenchman with his cheese An alki is a junkie who cant resist another pop Ive learned the art drinking is knowing when to stop some say one drink is too many and ten are not enough ex smokers go back to a pack a day after daring to take one puff as if a human being is too weak to work his will a sober drunk is still a drunk who walks the edge of hell so if you need a label to keep from falling in call yourself an alcoholic and put the shine back on your skin but i think this AA business is just a lot of bunk if you keep on ordering another round, you are going to become a drunk but drinking is a pleasure that most people enjoy girls night out or a night with the boys a glass of holiday cheer or a baseball park beer sometimes when you tne you want to share a bottle of wine but there are some who get up in the morning and the world is dead everything comes alive when the liquor hits their head its an alternative reality the ones where the drunkards well theres heartbreak, sickness and loneliness in the jack daniels hotel
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Bellyaches 01:27
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if im bellyachin its because my belly is achin from the bellyaches you have given me you were born with a lie on your lips so you call everyone a liar you go through life with fire in your brain so you say the house is on fire you say night is day and day is night whatever you say you are always right you cheat at scrabble you cheat at cards for truth you have zero regard
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Mama, Papa, Baby 04:05
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Music is No Escape from Poverty 07:05
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Band Out of the Box 03:21
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Y'all sound fantastic with your virtual apps I'd never guess you recorded those songs on your telephones It sounds like you were in Nashville playing with the cream of the crop Not in a rooming house singing all alone I havent had a band since two thousand and five The bus crashed on a mountain nobody was left alive I was traveling by air and when i showed up at the gig nobody was there i played the show with my guitar and my vox the bus went off the cliff and and my band is in the box i wish i could take my band out of the box theyre out there somewhere beneath an avalanche of rocks wish i had real people in the studio with me wish i could put it all back where it used to be crouched over my computer with my guitar and my vox wish i could take my band out of the box Bill Bagley on the bass Johnny O on lead guitar Playing the drums tonight Gregg Kelpinger On alto saxophone Doug Hamilton Doctor Jim on tenor sax and trumpet, Toni Marcus on the violin and on the piano, the maestro RobCook but if i have to write my songs alone ill lay them by myself the best i can although the technos turn me off and mock ill sing my song without a band in a box
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Bill White and Corinnelucy - chasing the center of everything 03:41
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I was walking through streets that were paved with litter I was watching the rats in the verges mating I was looking for something I hoped might deliver I was finding it hard to remember my first name I was reading the signs in the sewage swirling I was hoping the undertow might take me I was meeting a friend I had known since the morning I was looking for salvation in whatever he could sell me And I suddenly stopped and I noticed the notice It said he who has nothing has everything And I knew it was speaking to no-one except me And I knew it was lying, I knew it was lying I knew it was lying even as I lay there I knew it was lying, I knew it was lying I was watching the sky as it threatened to burn me I was seeking an answer in license plates I was watching a stranger and I knew I was hated I was scratching an itch I’d been nursing for three days I was looking for someone who wouldn’t look through me I was never so happy as when I was weeping I was moving in spirals or circles maybe I was chasing the centre of everything And I suddenly stopped and the sign was before me It said you have a purpose and you must have faith And I knew I was expected to fall to my knees ButI knew it was lying, I knew it was lying I knew it was lying even as I lay there I knew it was lying, I knew it was lying I was talking to God and the faces in shadows I was meeting a friend in the devil’s lair I was telling the demons to get thee behind me I was nowhere and nowhere was everywhere And I suddenly stopped and I read from the reading It said heed to the word of the Lord your GOD And I knew it was placed in a place I would see it And I knew it was lying, I knew it was lying I knew it was lying even as I lay there I knew it was lying, I knew it was lying
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Testimony for the Defense of a Misogynist at the Last Judgement 03:36
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go ahead call me a misogynist but you come down here marry marilyn m try to keep playing god while she is playing hide the salami with albert e chorus im not claiming that you made me this way whe i was a boy i loved my mother but even as the critics hailed me, my moter failed me go ahead savage me name but you come down here and spend 35 years married to judy g she might make a monster out of you as she made a monster out of me repeat chorus bridge did you come running when i petitioned you? when i looked down from the bridge why did you block the view? now i stand before you, a miscreant shell has it come to this? am i condemned to hell? so go ahead and ask me why al the women in my movies are whores do i have to explain? these are cowboy movies i did did you expect a vassar girl to ride with billy the kid? repear chorus
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Big, Fat, and Sassy 02:05
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skinny little girl driving a porsche you give me a ride like a knock kneed horse skinny little girl leave me alone nothing you can do Can crack my bone i like em big fat and sassy big fat and sassy big fat and sassy shes by blubber ball when a big woman shakes the meat on her bones skinny girl loses her happy home skinny little giel hear what i say im going back down to where the big girls play
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Institutionalized Girls 04:20
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dont talk about freedom it spoils people rotten who never admit to what they are caught in shopping for junk to hang in the closet they dpnt know what they have they dont know why they bought it but i like institutionalized girls i like girls who drift around and run away and dont waste time with talk when theres nothing to say who break a window if theres a lock on the door and when they get enough they dont take any more yeah i love institutionalized girls she might turn around\and bite you like a dog\ but thats just because shes been living in a cage too long baby you got too many shoes you cant even walk and a vocabulary so big you cant talk so many tears that you cant cry you dont even knowthe color of the sky and like institutionalized girls more than you and they like me too
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Lose My Strength 02:01
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Verse one Time was I could jump off a cliff And swim across the sea Times change I cant stop The tides from pulling on me chorus now im lost in the fog of your silent charms and I lose my strength when m in your arms bridge back when the world was young nothing could bring me down I was happy to be an unsophisticated boy across town Verse Two Time was I could shatter a city With my naked fist Now the chains of changing times Have left bruises around both of my wrists Reoeat chorus twice
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Suicide Tide 03:45
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Bill White and Nadia Cripps - Kindness Shines (alternate version) 02:07
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into this world dark and grim kindness shines the light breaks in throughout the valley of the left behind through shattered clouds kindness shines into the heights where birds fly blind the cold earth cracks till kindness shines angels dance on the head of a pin kindness shines the light breaks in shadows of you shadows of me kindness falls on land and sea

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the k-mart collections began in 1975, when i went through all home tapes and edited them into two 90 minute casette tapes. since them ihave compiled oout takes, alternate takes, and live material onto teo Cdcollections.andnow with the k-mart tapes volume five, i make available 16 songs written and recorded in july-august-september of 2018 that did not fit into the five albums of music that were also written and recorded during these three months. these are not out takes. in fact, some of the best songs form those on this are on this CD.. the tracks range from blues to classical, from basic acoustic rock to esoteric folk, country western, and experimental music.

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released September 26, 2018

all songs written and performed by bill white, except where noted,

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