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Driving With The Numen

by Flat Mary Road

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1.
Hayfire 04:05
There’s a color in your mythology That grays the filter in the collective sight of things I was distracted and I went into the hall Of 30th street station to be dwarfed by the sound When I say, “you’re killing me” You know in some ways it’s true You know the year I’ve had You want to spread your wings You want to push away You want to cook your own book You say you’re soaring eagles But you’re barn owls Undercover Folded forever With the barn owls People are unwittingly prepared To change everything about themselves To satisfy the impulse The fresh impulse Of one tense moment I’m at the back of the train Feels like it’s heading for space I’m going to miss work again I tried and tried to explain And so I’m deep in your debt I want to cook my own book You say you’re soaring eagles But you’re barn owls Undercover Folded forever With the barn owls Hay Hayfire
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Littered 02:50
Days that find my life Littered with her The days define my life That powerful spark caught in the rain All the understandings so impossible to explain Boarded the train once and for all Watch the towers fade and fall Days that find my life Littered with her The days define my life My shoulder’s home to the demon ghost Keeps a log of me at the opportune moments Sifting through my neighbor’s clothes In the complex’s common hall I watch the colors fade and fall In her room It’s filled with potted plants An extension of her personality Which is apparent even in her absence Days that find my life littered with her
3.
Porch Stasis 03:49
Porch life stasis The sun is looking to kill Perhaps a death is looking for a son A woman dressed in skin And a dress that’s embroidered with little stars Dressing the porch swing Dressing the porch swing Just the lady And the singer Porch life stasis I’m toasting, sloppy and aimless And the heat mollifies the year The old girl is dead now And how silly, I’m finally ready to listen You’re making noise You’re making noise You only bellyache to make noise Honey, I cried until real pain was in me I tried to tell folks at the funeral that I’ve been busy I drove north, but carried southern heat with me And I came straight to you because you’re the only one that sees right through me The porch is crumbling Wants to marry the sidewalk But it deserves celebration just like anything else I’m telling you my entire family history Or at least all the parts that have stapled themselves to me Endure it, laugh at it, or cut it off My tea and whiskey Listen to my words or muffle them by Kissing me Drunk on love Drunk on love Drunk on tea and Seagram’s Breathing Grieving Cheering Comparing
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Quicksand 03:08
I’ve been letting myself think and letting myself sink in quicksand Two things I should never do I can’t help but think that you’ve done me wrong Though you’ve been so kind to me for so long Well, let’s spell out the truth All week, I’ve planned to tell you give in or cut me off completely You beat me to the latter punch I find words waiting for me everywhere Every dream I’m handling with care Another needle holds itself in place I stare into the eyes of Morocco and perhaps on their coastline Someone feels it on their shoulder I work myself into a panic, as if crawling into the attic To get away from the house And now the dream needs revisions Needs an outsider’s opinion A public surrender I work myself into a fever, cracking up in front of mirrors And thankful for reality I’ve had all that I can take today And to jar it up for the next day I’ve had all that I can take today And to jar it It’s so jarring I’ve been letting myself think and letting myself sink in quicksand Two things I should never do I can’t help but think that you’ve done me wrong Though you’ve been so kind to me for so long Well, let’s spell out the truth All week, I’ve planned to tell you give in or cut me off completely You beat me to the latter punch I find words waiting for me everywhere Every dream I’m handling with care Another needle holds itself in place
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It’s the beginning of a world It’s the seizure of light There’s a house a county over Where your brother was born I’m a violently ill mother I’m desperately in love With my life I’m a mean one but I’m right I get a little annoyed I’m an understanding mother I’m a bush of thorns I’m a mean one but I’m right I get a little annoyed You and your brother see right through me I couldn’t be more pleased It’s the end of a world There are worlds everywhere I can barely get home anymore with all these worlds It’s the end of a world And I couldn’t be more pleased I’m a mean one but I’m right I’m an understanding mother I’m a bush of thorns You and your brother see right through me I’m a mean one but I’m right
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Recorded by Kyle Pulley & Shane Woods at The Headroom Philadelphia Mixed by Tim Shrout in Portland, Oregon Mastered by Gus Elg at Sky Onion Flat Mary Road: Steve Teare - vocals, guitar Dan Papa - bass, piano, backing vocals Alex Irwin - drums, backing vocals Pete Clark - violin Alex Lewis - guitar, lap steel, backing vocals
8.
Numen 05:12
Bringing home the numen There’s nowhere to put it Tumbles off the mantlepiece Blinds me in the morning Can’t focus in its presence It’s time to get to work Polishing the Numen Time to take in a meal In two rooms over Can’t eat next to the Numen Time to get to work Time to go for a drive Driving with the Numen Hearing a ringing From morning to morning Suppose I’m a survivor Double windsor tie Dressing up for the Numen The world spins and I’m staring From morning to morning Suppose I’m a liar sometimes Lying with the Numen Time to get to work Lying with the Numen
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Lean On Me 03:18
Lean on me Lean on me If I’m not trying To do the things you want me to Lean on me Take the initiative Take the initiative and lean on me Trust Trust in me Trust in me To follow patterns I dangle on the spokes of the wheel Trust in me Take the initiative Take the initiative Trust in me Lean on me Lean on me If i’m not trying to do the things you want me to Lean on me
11.
Water Wheel 04:10
Innocence from the past Innocence realized Calling home to start the argument And bridge the gap In a sense I let you down because of principles I keep you around because of principles Calling home to latch onto the turning water wheel In a sense Pecked by birds In a sense Feathers float to the ground Feathers float But ultimately they fall The bearer of The frozen news I’ll read the news until you’re comfortable I’ll read the news until you sit still Calling home to latch onto the turning water wheel In a sense
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There It Is 04:20
The story begins again With some lightning and some wind My brother fighting traffic Until there’s nothing to fight Hoping to beat the projection And so we race into the night And that’s right There it is That’s right There it is The glory Of the crackling in the sky Texas plains Texas rain chasing the car Gripping seats just to grip seats Breathing quickly just to breath quick It seems as if the world’s behind us The CD in the stereo skips And that’s right There it is That’s right There it is We skidded out on a turn We flipped around on a turn We screamed about the turn The engine started to burn The wind fanned the burn We screamed about the burn My brother wasn’t concerned We watched the car burn We bled And it burned That’s right There it is

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"Driving With The Numen" is an album about wheels, cycles, patterns and tendencies; the things we continue to turn to for better or for worse. A collection of rock n' roll songs that channel these forces extant in our day to day lives.

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released January 13, 2017

Recorded by Kyle Pulley & Shane Woods at The Headroom Philadelphia
Mixed by Tim Shrout in Portland, Oregon
Mastered by Gus Elg at Sky Onion

All songs written by Steve Teare & Flat Mary Road

Flat Mary Road:
Steve Teare - vocals, guitar
Dan Papa - bass, piano, backing vocals
Alex Irwin - drums, backing vocals
Pete Clark - violin
Alex Lewis - guitar, lap steel, backing vocals

Cover design by Steve Teare

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