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Suit of Bone

by Mildsparrow

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1.
Summer Lover 03:51
Have you got a Summer Lover? One you like to run when it gets to hot And in the shade, you take her hand Yes in the shade, where you stand Not alarmed but alert to the dangers of love Do you hear the Summer Lovers? Do you hear her giggle When he tells her what he earns And where he lives, and what he’s worth But who really gives, a little or a lot To what he’s got Do you want a Summer Lover? Do you need to make your mark Under the sun And when it’s done, you’re always free to run Into the arms Of an autumn girl Did you find your Summer Lover? Did she let you stand above her On the beach just out of reach The lesson’s that you teach And those you learn but forgot to burn Well everybody wants a Summer Lover Everybody wants to let it out, Let it in Let it grow too tall to see over Let it grow too thick to get in
2.
I want to be the first man to walk on the Sun I want to be the first man to walk on the Sun I wont need no cigarette lighter I wont need no fire fighter And I want to get there before the American’s come I want to be the first man to walk To walk on the Sun I want to own the first home on the moon Yes I want to own the first home on the moon Love to live there with my wife and kids My own backyard, TV and fridge And maybe one of those little space ships that go zoom Oh I want to own the first home there is The first home on the moon I want to be on the first submarine to Atlantis I said I want to be on the first submarine to Atlantis Get to find out that my aquatic friends Are all fucked in the head from the shit they breathe in And I get to see the last carcass of the Blue Whale Oh I want to be on the first submarine to Atlantis Set sail, set sail I want to be the logger who fells the last tree I want to be the logger who fells the last tree God told me to do it, he said clear this land And after I did he gave me his hand And said look now, all this room to graze your cows Oh I want to be the logger who fells the last tree Cut ‘em down, cut em down I want to test the A-bomb one more time I said I want to test that A-bomb one more time I’ll drop it right there in the middle of the sea No harm will come of it you know you can trust me And that little cloud above it is just a mass of fungi Oh I want to test the A-bomb one more time Watch my ears go crunchy And I can have them for lunchy When I get the munchies Some of it’s crunchy………..
3.
Afterglow 04:15
We’re submerged in Times of motion And I haven’t even opened the door Please be holding onto something Of the way things looked before Now we’re reading Lines of numbers Many I’ve never seen been before Please be flying a kite of something In the winds that came before We’re approaching Several sections And I didn’t even pull the string Please prepare the docking station If their gonna let me in And the lights Are always bright When they land But sometimes the people Don’t understand But they don’t know why They had to come from the sky But you and I We don’t need to know It’s written in Our after glow I’m magnetic To the notion Of what everybody already knows Please be gentle at the crash site If you want to soften the blow We’re all submitting Points of reference In a language we don’t know Please be quoting from your index Written in you after glow And the lights Are always bright When they land But sometimes the people Don’t understand But they don’t know why They had to come from the sky But you and I We don’t need to know It’s written in Our after glow
4.
Looks colder outside than before Looks colder but the suns in your heart Looks colder outside to me my love Looks like the clouds will never part But your golden to me my love Yes your golden just like the sun Gets harder and that hills looking big Gets harder when I see you take the load The softness of your eyes will get you there When you cant see the end of the road But your stronger than them my love Yes your stronger than me my love Raining and it wont seem to stop Blaming it wont make it go away Your quiet till the storm has a break When its raining and it wont seem to stop But you give everything my love Yes you give everything you got And its dark outside when your peering out And nothing take shapes between the owls Dark outside but I love your skin Its dark and who knows what is peering in But your lightness of being to me my love Yes you really way nothing at all
5.
Been away in space to long Want to come back down This place is getting busy You know that I don’t like a crowd Sometime I find When I stare out my portal A city sticks out Much more than it ought to My heart retains gravity My head starts to whirl I want to set foot back into the world of those Melbourne Girls –oh ah oh Those Melbourne Girls Been under water too long Time to come up to the air The mariner of the sub sonic’s Got it chronic to get out of here The periscope goes up Into a familiar bay I’m already wondering what’s the first thing I’ll say As I break the surface And swim to shore There’s a perfume a’lingering and I know it belongs to those Melbourne Girls – oh ah oh Those Melbourne Girls Now boys put down your beer And take a look around ya And see there is already one who has already found ya Now don’t look away, I can hear your heart pounda Something like a drum or tram It just kinda sounda like Melbourne Girls – oh ah oh Those Melbourne Girls – oh ah oh
6.
Suit of Bone 04:32
Rocks are rolling in my head And I’m breathing in a lung of lead So I watch the TV instead talk of madness Carpet’s bleeding in the hall And vines inside grown on the wall The telephone is too bashful to call up the landlord And birds are singing song’s of loss As Jesus sick of growing moss Has crawled down from his bloody cross to rethink it He knows she can never win Cause outside as the day begins She’s inside on a drinking binge going nowhere The river decides to run uphill And the wind makes peace and lies dead still Mother Nature pops a pill from peer pressure And somewhere in a different place A man has found his inner space He’s hoping to redecorate come next tax time And the coffee’s hot upon her lips As glancing up from in between sips She wonders at what if she’d missed the cruise ship But the day is long and filled with streets And people walking different beats It’s easier when you got three feet in a circus Well standing at a traffic light A car has hit a mountain bike And exchanging names, his is Mike, his is Tony And Susie’s found out what she likes She’s riding on a motorbike She’d love to plug a hole in that dyke in Amsterdam And a car with 18 monster wheels Just revved to show its sex appeal While all the transvestites on the street they squeal Unbeknownst to he behind the wheel And she is calling on the phone And wants to know if I’m alone As I pull on my suit of bone and foxtrot
7.
Window Panes 03:18
It’s all shattered, all that mattered in the end Was a simple second delay In the transmission relay A lack of reason from the start When it’s covert and in the dark And the wires have been crossed And the signal has been lost Your eyes are window panes My hands are aeroplanes We will wake to a different sun If we survive until the morning comes And nineteen seconds was all it took For the Kings to break their look On the day that their gaze fell away And the nose drowned out Everything I was trying to say to you Your eyes are window panes My hands are aeroplanes We will wake to a different sun If we survive until the morning comes They were broken and we all knew That the bubble was cracked and see through And the headlines reflected in your eyes Were obscured by the blood red sunrise On the ashen faces we passed No stir of questions being asked Hypnotized and mesmerized By the colours of you by my side Your eyes are window panes My hands are aeroplanes We will wake to a different sun If we survive until the morning comes
8.
Empty Alive 05:58
The first thing I did when I was woken Was broke the corner off the clouds Looking out my window I got displaced in the crowd All the sounds are shattered Cannonballs of ill content Smash the silence he was building As a makeshift supplement Cause all I know Is the weather is changing outside Cause all I know Is that I’m empty alive No waves upon the high seas All the pirates hang their heads And Neptune weeps a coral reef Was the last words that he said Cause all I know Is the weather is changing inside Cause all I know Is that I’m empty alive Well sometimes the equation Is more than the sum of its parts And I swore the last time I looked into you I saw your broken parts Scattered in the dark I woke up inside a desert I spoke up towards the sky I tied a rope of sand around my ankle To pull me through to the other side Cause all I know Is the weather is changing outside Cause all I know Is that I’m empty alive And the pinnacle of decision Is in the precision of its parts And the last time I let you looked into me I showed you my broken heart Showed you were it came apart
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10.
The Captain’s daughter Sick of water Took off for the coast Her father’s sorrow made her wallow But he still had his boat She thought about the waves and gulls But what she thought of most She kept a secret to herself And made off for the coast The farmer’s sun With the loaded gun Out shooting at some birds The Sun it shone, the wind it blew And upon a voice he heard He wandered over to the carcass pit And tumbled over the rim His father thought he heard some laughing When it came time, to fill it in High above on the balcony There stands a corporate wife She’s making cheques and balances For what she’ll take to the afterlife The dinner’s cold on a table of gold Her husbands always late Maybe he’s with a client Maybe she shouldn’t be so reliant Maybe its time, its time to sedate The taxi driver, no luck either Stuck out at the lights He’s driving for his family But he drives away his wife He day dreams about Nigeria But is called back to post An ocean girl is calling Says she needs to be picked up Along the coast

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released September 11, 2010

Played, Produced and Engineered by Matt Davidson

Mastered by Paul Fox and Cassidy Van Bloom @ Indie Masters

Songs and Lyrics by Matt Davidson

All songs Copyright Control – Copyright in this sound recording is owned by Mildsparrow/Matt Davidson

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Matt Davidson is Mildsparrow – vocals, guitars, bass, keys, synths, VST’s

Cover Design by Lou and Steve Fogg @ Design Duo

Photo’s by Pia Richardson

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Mildsparrow is a musical tailor. He uses melody and narrative as his threads and seamlessly stitches together diverse elements of life to form the fabric of songs that are timeless, full of emotion and emphatically honest.

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