HOLE IN THE GROUND
(4/20/02 NYC)
There’s a hole in the ground where my foot fell in.
Hit the blacktop hard in the intersection.
Trash piled high on Mulberry Street.
The sightseeing bus got a laugh on me.
Hole. Hole in the ground.
There’s a hole in the ground. Cab ran the light.
Landed on my back when I side-stepped right.
With my knee banged up. Crawling to the beat
of the horns and the screams in the Soho heat.
Bring a shovel. Bag of sand.
Bucket of tar and a strong pair of hands.
Won’t take much in the sweat and the din.
Fill the damn thing in. Fill the damn thing in.
There’s a hole in the ground where the words all fail.
When the dust settles down on a thousand tales.
Spoken in the past into plastic ears
of the girls behind glass, frozen all these years.
PLAYERS
MICHELE VAN KLEEF - Lead Vocal, Harmony Vocal
ALBERT REDA - Bass, Hammond Organ, Background Vocals
JIM WALKER - Drums, Percussion, Acoustic Guitars and Solo, Electric Guitars and Solos, Background Vocals, SFX, Samples.
Recorded and mixed by JIM WALKER at Studio515. Portland, OR
Mastered by Ryan Foster at Foster Mastering
@fostermastering
All Rights Reserved.
All material written by James Stanley
C&P 2024 Thon Music (ASCAP)
21 May 2024
Fireman
FIREMAN
We’re cut loose. I’m all alone.
This blood flows. Cold as stone.
Watch them dig and scrape for gold.
Now it lives down in the hole.
Mother, what happens next?
With no judge in it’s eyes.
One by one is how we die.
Mother, what happens next?
Cause I can’t wait to see the thrilling conclusion to this…
When the fireman’s been burned down.
When the flames rage and the water’s gone.
Mother, what happens next?
PLAYERS
Michele Van Kleef - Background Vocals
Albert Reda - Bass, Lead Vocal
Jim Walker - Drums, Percussion, Acoustic Guitars, Electric Guitars, Piano and Solo, Synth, B3 Organ, Background Vocals
Recorded at Studio515. Portland, OR
Mastered by Ryan Foster at Foster Mastering
@fostermastering
All material written by James Stanley Walker
C&P 2024 Thon Music (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved.
9 May 2024
09 Big Game
I'll be releasing my new album, LITTLE BIRD, one track per week, here and on Bandcamp.
jvamusic1.bandcamp.com/album/little-bird
This is Track 9.
Big Game
I hope you enjoy it.
Thank you for your time.
Walker
www.jvamusic.com
BIG GAME
I’ve got big thoughts.
Sparks keep coming off rails that hum while the dreams are summoned. Uh huh.
I’ve got a big mouth.
Words go dark and it strains and bargains then begs your pardon. Uh huh.
Big will scream like a train in the rain.
It’s burning like a train in the rain.
I’ve got a big fist.
Clenched like steel it just can’t deal when things get real. Uh huh.
I gotta big heart. Big and broken it leaves me open but I keep hoping. Uh huh.
Big will pound like a train in the rain.
It’s pumping like a train in the rain, and…
Ooh, it’s all a big game.
Big game - that’s what you get.
PLAYERS
Michele Van Kleef -
Harmony Vocal, Background Vocals
Albert Reda -
Bass, Electric Piano, B3 Organ, Background Vocals
Jim Walker -
Drums, Percussion, Acoustic Guitars,
Electric Guitars and Solo, Lead Vocal, Background Vocals
Recorded at Studio515. Portland, OR
Mastered by Ryan Foster at Foster Mastering
www.fostermastering.com
All material written by James Stanley Walker
C&P 2024 Thon Music (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved.
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