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Santa Monica Sessions

by Steven Gullett

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1.
She goes down stairs The wood would creak She goes outside The forest deep She comes back late And smells of smoke We wake up early The cock would crow We could ignore it and often we do This fracture forming between me and you I’ll see you on the devil’s side of the bed I’ll see you on the devil’s side of the bed The day is long And so are nights Did so much wrong And not much right And if it ends I’ve found my peace I can’t decipher What’s underneath We could ignore it and often we do This fracture forming between me and you I’ll see you on the devil’s side of the bed I’ll see you on the devil’s side of the bed
2.
The mud priest is checking in To somber town I’m dead in the valley so Rough me down Another nest of leopards Inward bound The ghost army’s coming fast so Rough me down Unlucky 13th year Depressed to the nines They try to pull me out The thoughts they lie Nothing in moderation Except the sky Fixed on the interests hidden The thoughts they lie Please keep your seatbelts on Til the end of the ride I can’t say if I’ll see you all On the other side I’m playing back these disasters in my brain Cannot resist the urge to be entertained Can you help that you’re the rabble Can they tell? When you have been vandalized You miss yourself I’m spending all my nights in Low company This bottle has light, light fingers So comfort me I’m feeling more distortion Than I do usually They go away it’s sad So comfort me Please keep your seatbelts on Til the end of the ride I can’t say if I’ll see you all On the other side
3.
Oooo she’s so heady Her greatest work of fiction is herself Oh she’s so edgy Her self defense was learned right off the shelf And nowadays nobody goes down with the ship No nowadays the captain gets off first You think it’s really bad but if you pay attention You realize it’s actually much worse Oh she’s so pretty Yeah outta be for all the work she does Mmm she’s a city That never sleeps and always has a buzz The last and the best of the old Peter Pans No one here is telling their real age We’re building up the boogeyman But real life is harder Excuse me while I crawl back to my cage The maze has fallen The bagpipes are calling But no one can remember what that means We used to have the others To pass on information Then decided to keep our slates real clean Oh it’s complicated Cause we decided simple’s not enough Oh it’s complicated Did we forget that simple’s hard enough Oh it’s complicated Cause we decided simple’s not enough Oh it’s complicated Did we forget that simple’s hard enough And nowadays nobody goes down with the ship No nowadays the captain gets off first You think it’s really bad but if you pay attention You realize it’s actually much worse
4.
I felt the left hand of darkness And It pulled me down Rubbed my eyes until I saw stars In this nowhere town I tuned in to the hum of the whirl Got turned by professional girls The world is gonna shake you and stir you But you’re fireproof Out with the sunshine And in with the rain But I don’t mind it I’m used to the change Out with the sunshine And in with the rain I don’t mind it Cause I’ve been saved That's what the soft boys do but Girls they like soft boys too Run back and tell a younger you That it’ll be alright Out with the sunshine And in with the rain But I don’t mind it I’m used to the change Out with the sunshine And in with the rain I don’t mind it Cause I’ve been saved Mark my words instead of daggers Stumbled in looking tired and haggard But I believe in more than me That will set your anxiety free Forever the young men rage Keeping all the young girls afraid I wonder why they like that cage? When they hold the keys Out with the sunshine And in with the rain But I don’t mind it I’m used to the change Out with the sunshine And in with the rain I don’t mind it Cause I’ve been saved
5.
From book to screen We strip away what can't be seen With your preference or beliefs I will challenge your conceits I'm a sucker for a cigarette girl I'm a sucker for a cigarette girl I'm a sucker for a cigarette girl I'm a sucker for a cigarette girl I'll kiss your scars I don't care for champagne Don’t like like cigars I'm a sucker for a cigarette girl I'm a sucker for a cigarette girl I'm a sucker for a cigarette girl You may not be happy all the time If they tell you you will be it's a lie You cannot happy all the time But it’s alright we still get by Who's playing who No one here’s in charge In the time of mediums She will read your cards
6.
Cold War 06:18
An unreasonable mind Confiscates my time And numbs my senses Count your pennies & pensives Anesthetic found down In the trenches In a Cold Cold War Locks on all the doors In a Cold Cold War What are we fighting for? In a Cold Cold War When all what we want is more In a Cold Cold War What are we fighting for? And I always knew you’d make this about you Yes I always knew you’d make this about you Shanghai is tomorrow already We’re still draggin’ around This old confetti He believes the lies in his head Inside thoughts Are better left unsaid In a Cold Cold War Locks on all the doors In a Cold Cold War What are we fighting for? In a Cold Cold War When all what we want is more In a Cold Cold War What are we fighting for? And I always knew you’d make this about you Yes I always knew you’d make this about you If he's a family man myth How do we go on and on Like this The Teenage Years of Oona O'Neil Taught us how to live Not how to feel In a Cold Cold War Locks on all the doors In a Cold Cold War What are we fighting for? In a Cold Cold War When all what we want is more In a Cold Cold War What are we fighting for? And I always knew you’d make this about you Yes I always knew you’d make this about you
7.
How can silence be so loud? Why is Heaven in the clouds? How am I lonely in a crowd? How can silence be so loud? Who will be there in the end? Do I have disappearing friends? Is too late to begin again? Who will be there in the end? Who put these lies up in my head? Is that the devil in my bed? Can I trust what people said? Who put these lies up in my head? When it’s over it’s not done Doesn’t matter who has won I hope we all at least had fun When it’s over it’s not done How can silence be so loud? Why is Heaven in the clouds? How am I lonely in a crowd? How can silence be so loud?
8.
Her eyes of cellophane blue And all I've lost in you But losing's nothing new Her eyes of cellophane blue And all I've lost in you You don't mind if I do I think she's gone sometimes Away deep in her mind I don't know what I'll find Her eyes of cellophane blue And all I've lost in you You don't mind if I do
9.
I keep my conscience clean Can’t hide what’s underneath I know there’s fronts and sides But these things I won’t abide You’ve been to dust I’ve been to dirt One of us will end up hurt Both of us will end up hurt You dealt from the bottom I feel betrayed You’re gonna leave me someday I hear the wheels they squeak You won’t get all that you need Without wings you cannot fly All this is a long goodbye You’ve been to dust I’ve been to dirt Both of us will end up hurt You dealt from the bottom I feel betrayed You’re gonna leave me someday
10.
Come on, tell me how it used to be I grew up in a good place to leave Wore my heart out on my sleeve What do we do with worn out hearts at the end What do we do with worn out hearts at the end Come on, tell me how it used to be We can't protect you from this world It's out to break every boy and girl But broke ain't dead Even dead broke can be your friend What do we do with worn out hearts at the end Waiting for answers To come to me Waiting for answers in a dream I saw you become politically cruel Wrapped in religion like someone I knew So long ago These memories are shadows There’s always a war Going on somewhere What do we do with worn out hearts at the end What do we do with worn out hearts at the end I'd give you so much To make me not really care
11.
Tumbled Lace 04:38
It's so quick we fall apart Pulling stitches out my heart Cannot trust the hands of fate Tired lives and tumbled lace Throwing scrapbooks in the fire Two less people we admire Now the hour's getting late Tired lives and tumbled lace Pillbox futures, tainted past I want to know who stained the glass Keeping tallys while we wait Tired lives and tumbled lace For each hello a long goodbye Watching sunsets in their eyes Some with violence, some with grace Tired lives and tumbled lace I have no answers this is true But all my questions left with you Cannot trust the hands of fate Tired lives and tumbled lace

about

I was dog sitting in Santa Monica for 2 weeks in March of 2022, and songs just started pouring out of me. It was a song a day or so, and I wrote 14 songs with lyrics. Nine of them are on this record, along with 2 I'd written previously that I thought fit the mood.

Everything was started on the iPad and then finished/overdubbed in Logic.

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released November 4, 2022

Steven Gullett did most things
Tod Weidner played guitar on Cold War

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