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(Invitation)
00:46
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2. |
Laugh On Me
04:07
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Wonderful
Awful spirit
Tell it all
Announce my secrets
I don’t care what mine
I don’t care what me
Happening
Funny spirit
Laugh on me
That I might hear it
I don’t care what mine
I don’t care what me
Beautiful
Blinking spirit
Hurry though
I want to feel it
I don’t care what mine
I don’t care what me
Let out the bottom sorrow
Beauty as it spills
Sudden and surreal
And as I’m taken I’ll go
Willingly I’ll go
Horribly I’ll go
Winking at you though
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3. |
Imaginary Crimes
05:26
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You twist an apple = the ditches dry up
You turn a stone = the farm ignites
You lay in the brush until morning
You hide in the thicket through night, scared stiff
But aren't you fleeing imaginary crimes?
You lay in the brush until morning
You hide in the thicket through night
Sure, but aren't you fleeing imaginary crimes?
Come on shatter that picture
Come out as a beautiful child
Another innocent body
Glowing under the generous sky
You scuff the meadow floor = the earth opens up
You shrink and block your eyes while it divides
You flee as it swallows the horses
You flee as it swallows the pines
Sure, but aren't you escaping imaginary crimes?
You flee as it swallows the horses
You flee as it swallows the pines
Sure, but aren't you escaping imaginary crimes?
Don’t orphan a kid inside
Don’t let him dim in the failing light
Bless a hole and dance him through
Spilling over you
Hold hands through the noise
Leap over the bitter voice
This beauty now
you’ve always been
Loved and innocent
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4. |
In The Body
04:02
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All the other boys sit on me
On my belly
All the other girls rest with me
All the other kids huddle me
At the body
All the other girls laugh on me
Body don’t let me check out
Don’t let me numb the feeling now
Gladden the blood
Arouse
Surround me
Body I’m so afraid
Let up a mood that I can brave
I wanna be awake
Hover easy song over me
Over the body
Bellow and belong beside me
When I carol too
I improve
I am better
So let the singer happen to me
Body go big and bright
Open the treasure on my life
Suddenly realize
Promise of breath come true
Loosen the love and pull it through
Happen to me so soon
A chorus of mothers
hold me as I open up
Several others there watching
Body parade me through time
Marry their voices into mine
I think I’m willing to try!
Scatter a smile on me
Every touch a tambourine
Every face is sweet
Don’t hold back tonight
Spill every bell against my life
Treble into me and move
Like streams giggle through
Spangle my chest with happy dew
Flower into me and bloom
C’mon wake me up
Pull my blood quick enough
How many trys until I get to move?
Don’t leave me stuck in here
Tangled in time
Stiff with fear
Muscle into me and plume
Dance my body through the noise
Cheering my friends as they join
Laughing into me they move
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5. |
Cuddle
02:59
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Lost cuddle found while kitchening
So shutup and get in
Nervous needer known, now caressing
Kiss busted up
Cops rush in
But then calm at the huddle
A cuddle of carols
The caroling easy
All easily settled
Allay. ally. cuddle.
Ally. okay. sure.
Caught sharing under kissing bag
Sudden hands are kid glad
Much wobble
Much too tickling
Blankee tugged, fort falls in
So tease in the tumult
A tunnel of tickle
The tickling easy
All easily funny
Allay. ally. cuddle.
Ally. okay. sure.
Mellow and coo
All calming down
Weeper and carolling
And bless allways
And wept all the way out
Body mellow bloom and simplify
Honey do the glad eyes
Tummy purring
Teaser tunnelling
Hush
Alright
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6. |
Your Body Is Yours
04:07
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I try to make it all funny
As we’re getting undressed
I can’t stay in a feeling
(Fire in the garden!)
But can we try again?
Breathe against my chest
Cause we are more than just friends
Wake this motionless lover
Move into me
Don’t move into me
Place your lips upon me
Put a medicine there
Every kiss I take I’ll make another to share
Look into me
Don’t look into me
Honey yes of course
Take the time you need to open up
Your body is yours!
Seven men with their hands upon my chest
Drawing pictures on me
They didn’t have my permission
(Robbers in the temple!)
When I woke there were stones around by bed
And where my body had been
An indescribable hollow
Move into me
Don’t move into me
Cuddle up my belly
Make a medicine there
But every time I catch an eye
I’m suddenly scared
Look into me
Don’t look into me
Honey yes of course
Take the time you need to open up
Your body is yours!
Your body is yours
Your body is yours
If only for a moment
Your spirit is yours
Your spirit is yours
No one can control it
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7. |
Shutter Up
04:12
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I don’t wanna be tough
Among all these subtle feelings
But I just shutter up
So I’m sneaking the lane
Holding this momentary calm
Cause I’m honest like that
So I beg at my life
My mouth a cussing muscle
Cause I’m hungry like that
I don’t wanna be scared
I hear children on the lawn
And I cower and fit
When I enter my life again
I clutch along the edge
Cause I’m stable like that
But I don’t wanna be tough
So I soften up
And topple awful in
Okay Alright
I can be in my life
Okay Alright
Let me feel it my life
Okay Alright
Here it is
My life
Alright
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8. |
Settle
05:19
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I pull at my prayer
I struggle to
Undo the olden wound
So I’m pacing the porch
I weary the stoop
And I beg my childhood too
I try
Bosom loin mind and gut
To settle My heart
That’s the only way
To settle My heart
Holy hollering
To settle my heart
I straddle my prayer
It muscle me
Hold fast steady
Bear the swelling grief
And I cradle
And talk to my mystery
Don’t shut me out
Don’t deceive
Don’t embarrass me
I try
Despite the furious mind and gut
To settle my heart
Buck shudder cuss hiss and shake
My early mysteries
Veil dull weakening
Holy roarer wholly hollering
C’mon settle me down
Pit clench cuss piss and sing
My heated prayers collide
Wreck that throat tattering
You pulled the honey out while I was inside the belly
C’mon settle down
Holy horror wholly hollering
C’mon settle
Hold me down
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9. |
When I Calm Down
05:14
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When I calm down
A feather falls through my chest
The veil is opening
When I calm down
Great mothers purr into the earth into the earth into me
When I calm down
Mellow hands they cup the dirt beneath the room where I’m sleeping
When I calm down
Halo above protect my bones protect my breath protect me
I shook my pain
Over the ancestral well
Nobody came
No echo down the family line
No answer from inside
I cuss and shake
Hungry as I was
Don’t make me wait
Bawling at the temple door\
Crawling on the floor
No singing fills the chapel there
No one felt my prayer
Hungry as I ever was
Hungry as I was
Hungry as I ever was
Hungry as I was
Did I grieve all my honey out?
Lay your hands upon me
Put the blessing back into me
Don’t ask me to go without
I cuss and shake
Hungry as I was
Don’t hesitate
Pry open my unwept life
Pour me out as wine
Soak the veil and pull me through
Press me into you
Hungry as I ever was
Hungry as I was
Happy as I ever was
Happy as I was
Hungry as I ever was
Hungry as I was
Hungry as I ever was
Hungry as I was
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10. |
My Beautiful Friends
04:37
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I find fear in the home when I wake up
Do I love my beautiful friends enough?
Help me open up
Give me time
to know my luck
Did I leave a beauty on you?
Did it come true?
I know my love’s not easy to use
But did it reach you?
Say so
Let me look
Trace my hand
on your book
Did I make a problem for you?
I didn’t mean to
Don’t erase it
Go angry at me
And I will agree
Let me Clear that up
Rinse my name in your cup
As I walk under loving eyes
I brighten and pretty
At every gift you pour inside
I giggle like streams
My pleasure, though, is double
To see you laughing back at me
You’re laughing here with me
When I’m making funny or mean
Don’t worry
Let my kids come summering through every room
Join them
Share our luck
Use this time
To open up
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11. |
Sorry Maybe
02:36
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Sorry maybe
Sorry someone if I lie
I get honest too
Like me still
And I will maybe
Bring you flowers
Bring you mothers
I know I get annoying too
Like me still
You will
I know you
I cover my blemishes
I peak through my disguise
I pretend to be beautiful
Under other eyes
Now that you see me... what?
Now that you know
Holy Moly
My shit is phony
I know
It got instilled in me
As a kid
They got me early
Holy scripture
I used to kiss her
Now I know
It wasn’t safe inside
Some of us got out just in time
All of my friends
They learned to keep it all inside
I thought I was the only one
I didn’t realize
Now that you see me… what?
Now that you know
Sorry brother
Did I give you cover enough?
I get tangled up
Staring down that tunnel maybe
Will we stay good?
Even maybe honest?
Who knows
But I will like you still
Like me too
And maybe maybe
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TaughtMe Oakland, California
words and sounds by Blake Aaron Henderson
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