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Those October Feelings

by Bill White

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THE LAST VOICES YOU HEAR 04:49
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hey are everywhere they are flesh and bone some are obscure some are well known they are writing songs they are far and near and they just might be the last voices you hear voices of struggle voices of unrest the warnings of a rebel or by love possessed voices of children losing their way from the darkest night into the bristling day voices from sweden voices from spain hunters from the rhineland suicides from the seine in lonely desperation or social harmony voices of the chain gangs longing to be free they are everywhere they are just like you they see what they see they do what they do they are the last of a dying breed the last conscious breath of humanity voices of war voices of peace some from the west some from the east voices of love vpoces of hate listen to them before its too late from the stages of man to the age of robotics when science turned left to the land of psychotics somewhere in the caverrns where lost memories are hung someone might discover the songs that we sung we are everywhere we are flesh and bone some are obscure some are well known we are writing songs we are far and near and we just might be the last voices you hear
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THOSE OCTOBER FEELINGS 02:54
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There was a feeling in our hearts When we rode that train We sealed the feeling in our hearts on that train When we rode that train The tracks rumbled with feeling But I cant ride that train no more I dont remember the feeling Those October Feelings Never last By the first of November They are lost to the past I wonder what our shows of love Were concealing now it is easy to shed those October Feelings there was a feeling in the room when we were together I trapped the feeling in the room with that song When I sang that song I filled the air with feeling But I cant sing that song no more I dont remember the feeling Those October Feelings Never last By the first of November They are lost to the past I wonder what our shows of love Were concealing now it is easy to shed those October Feelings
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SPITTING IN MY OWN FACE 03:01
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every time i get choked up telling about somebody who did a heroic thing my wife tells me not to cry its got nothing to do with me im not crying for that other guy someone from another time and place im crying for myself because while he stood up and showed the world who he was i stayed home spitting in my own face why do i cry when celebrities die they are not friends i never even knew them but they stood up and showed the world who they were sometimes they won, sometimes they lost the race while i sat home spitting in my own face i was given these songs to share them not to edify myself in a one man relay race standing in front of the mirror worshipping the work of my hands i was spitting in my own faceSPITTING IN MY OWN FACE i was worshiping the work of my hands spitting in my own face
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BY THE TEARS OF THE MOON 02:42
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BY THE TEARS OF THE MOON In the sweat of the sun by the tears of the moon we mistake a warm breeze for a raging typhoon more movement in the stillness of your face than in the rustle of the childrens' corduroy at the end of our nine alloted symphonies will we sing an ode to joy? a day of framing visions a night to light a dream real/unreal on sheets of glass my song emerges from a scream from a scream
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ALICE STUART. QUEEN OF THE BLUES 04:40
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on that night in 1989 Bonnie Raitt won a grammy for Nick of Time I was with Ellen McIlwaine She said God must have decreed There be but one red headed woman playing blues on a slide guitar. and the music industry agreed Alice, she was lucky She didnt use a slide She played blues with her fingers And she sang them til she died There never was a kinder person Behind a blues guitar Than my friend, Alice Stuart The queen of the blues bar The first time i heard her voice Was on the telephone She asked if she could sing a song At my tribute to Phil Ochs She had known him in the village And loved his honest songs And both believed that music Was a force to right the wrongs She caught a ride with Joan Baez Down the coast highway To the Berkeley festival Where both were booked to play Alice she was nervous About singing for that crowd But Joanie gave her confidence To raise her voice loud After auditioning for the mothers She said Frank liked but couldnt use me Said I had a strng musical sense But could not play Louie Louie She put out some pop records But the competition was mean So she moved up to Seattle And made the folklore scene The years they passed and friends got old The world seemed born to lose But Alice found her voice again The day she sang the blues For twenty years her guitar raged And expressed the pain within Now she is gone ill never see The likes of her again Alice, she was lucky She didnt use a slide She played blues with her fingers And she sang them til she died There never was a kinder person Behind a blues guitar Than my friend, Alice Stuart The queen of the blues bar
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THE WHEEL OF TIME 03:14
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hey baby lets take a spin on the wheel of time spill the milk across the milky way get drunk on wine there is a tree in the field of life i have been wanting to climb so cmon baby take a spin with me on the wheel of time i am troubled by everything i see in the passing parade of eternity are we the multiplications of a million rhymes or a single bet on the wheel of time? how can we get the rainbow back when the only colors are red and black and the only place to place our dime is one square on the wheel of time
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A BIRD, A DOG, AND A MERMAID 03:40
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are you a bird or are you a dog high in the clouds or low in the fog they were designed to move like ballerinas but then they hit the bricks now they bump and grind and tantalize the men with monkey tricks the mermaid will die if she comes out of the sea if she remains in the water she will always be free to live as she is always to be the daughter of neptune princess of the sea you dont have to believe but if you come inside at least light a candle im not asking for 100,000 prostrations just that you take a closer look at the situation because t you are stuck at the junction between emptiness and function dog, and the Mermaid im reading books i dont understand its the only way i have of finding out things that i dont know
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NEVER TRUST A SHORT MAN WITH A BIG REAR END 03:02
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there walks a short man with a big rear end on thoughts not his own a rock is a rock is a rock is a rock giving birth only to stones hatred finds a home in his heart such hatred makes him grow a swamp made strong by parasites feeding off his rocky soul i wish i could think of something so stupid that it would make him laugh something so idiotic that he would break through the robotic but when open my mouth to speak and spark in him such nonchalance that instead of prodding him to laugh vocabularies of ideographs amass everything he thinks and sees into an expressive emoji i gave him a stick to plug the hole in his prick a turbulent breath he blew he blew so hard the roaches flew out of the hole in his digeredoo never trust a short man with a big rear end his life is not his own a rock is a rock is a rock is a rock giving birth only to stones hatred finds a home in his heart such hatred makes him grow a swamp made strong by parasites feeds off his rocky soul
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Every Suicide Sings A Curse 02:42
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Every suicide sings a curse Life was bad But that son of a bitch made it worse Every day of her life Was a miserable slog But she would have endured Were it not for that dog he lotd her he loved her but it was just a con she couldnt see it at first he was playing it long he didnt show his cards til she couldnt get out she was in too deep when the hammer came down Every suicide sings a curse Life was bad But that son of a bitch made it worse Every day of her life Was a miserable slog But she would have endured Were it not for that dog she didnt want to die but she didnt want to live she couldnt forget and she couldnt forgive but that mangy piece of shit that done her wrong Will suffer under her curse Till his days are done Every suicide sings a curse Life was bad But that son of a bitch made it worse Every day of her life Was a miserable slog But she would have endured Were it not for that dog
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WE ALL LOVED EACH OTHER SO MUCH 03:01
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Standing on his head Shoeless, he memorized his daily Emily Before spilling his long, white beard into his soup Then bare-footing it to the theatre Where the actors and I Were rehearsing his translation From the Latin of "The Captives" It was rat-stinking hot that Summer And we all loved each other so much Lugging all his gear Wheezing, up the hill to the studio He had to go horizontal for half an hour Before gathering the breath to sing While the drummer and I Made sure everyone had their charts And were ready to kick some ass It was slippery cold that Winter And we all loved each other so much Numb to dead, drinking Alone, listening to all their chatter Shop closed. the writers one and all unemployed It was a funeral of the dead After living our dreams We awoke to oblivion It was the end of the free press The last goodbyes on a lovely autumn afternoon between all of us who had once loved each other so much
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FOR NOTHING 03:49
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over the mountains of the moon into the valley of shadow we came all this way...for nothing we walk through the shadows of the valley of death we came all this way...for nothing from the jaws of the lion to the belly of the whale we came all this way...for nothing give color and shape to the rocks your writing can be done by robots from the dark wood to the bright lights we came all this way...for nothing to the printed page from the spoken words we came all this way...for nothing give language to the rivers and streams and music to applied machines the grid is wiped ourselves, unplugged we came all this way...for nothing
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THE BOOK ON LIFE 04:16
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verse one we used to think it would last forever being alive now we spend our days trying to stay alive trying to scrounge some thing to eat trying to find some place to sleep we start each day empty-handed pretending to be alive and it takes all the strength weve got to survive chorus love will level all who live and who refuse to close the book on life OH, OH, OH verse two being was only and would always be being alive we never gave a thought to what it might take to stay alive i wake up some days and cant move my legs cant get out of my sleeping bag feels like cement is filling my veins i try to convince myself that im still alive when i no longer have the strength it takes to survive chorus love will level all who live and who refuse to close the book on life love will level all who live and who refuse to close the book on life bridge an ancient woman in a wheelchair her flesh scarcely holding in her guts her son by her side i asked him why she held on to life so fiercely she wants to maintain consciousness, he replied oh oh h she does not want to die, chorus love will level all who live and who refuse to close the book on life love will level all who live and who refuse to close the book on life dont close the book on life please dont close the book on life

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released July 13, 2023

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