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An exploration of songs and songwriting via the music of Scott Simpson and Dancin' Moon Studio of Spearfish Canyon in the Black Hills of South Dakota
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Friday Sep 13, 2019
Friday Sep 13, 2019
Featured song from 2010's Letting the Sunlight Back In LP
Easy Come
Easy come, yeah, easy go
what you thought, well it just ain’t so
you can plan all your hours and days
but they’re all just gonna happen anyway, yeah
they’re all just gonna happen anyway.
Well I knew a man up to his eyes in stock
he was always buying low and selling on the top
then a fat-fingered clerk hit the wrong key
and all his numbers floated off into a bottomless sea
(chorus)
Now I saw a girl, she was hungry for love
and the lover she was with fit her just like a glove
but the winter ended and the ice was freed
and they both floated off like the cottonwood seed.
(chorus)
Now there was a country that would go to war
it was an eye for an eye—they had to even the score
every flash of a drone or explosive device
killed an enemy once and made an enemy twice.
(chorus)
Now there was a people and they were so smart--
they tried to build them a Heaven tearing the world apart
but when they opened the gates their faces all fell,
there was not much left but a customized Hell.
Easy come, yeah, easy go
what you thought, well it just ain’t so
you can plan all your hours and days
but if you’re not giving Love it’s gonna suck anyway
Not giving love, not giving love, not giving love it’s gonna suck anyway
you can plan all your hours and days
but if you’re not giving Love it’s gonna suck anyway
if you’re not giving love.
Friday Sep 06, 2019
Friday Sep 06, 2019
Featured song from 2000's Ozzie's Guitar LP
Man on the Mountain
The man on the mountain
he doesn’t come down but once a week
the man on the mountain
he’ll buy his supplies and never speak
the man on the mountain
he’s too lost to find, too blinded to seek
She died in the winter
when their baby boy was barely weaned
he couldn’t even touch her—
she and the child were quarantined
and then when he lost them
he knew that he’d never see the spring
Way up there upon the mountain
the air is thin as it can be
but he wants to get as close to Heaven
as a man in Hell can ever be
You have to dig deep there
to find enough water just to drink
you have to climb higher
to find enough space just to think
but memory is painful
it only leads him to the brink
(instrumental verse)
Way up there upon the mountain
the air is thin as it can be
but he wants to be as close to Heaven
as a man in Hell could ever be
Life on the mountain,
it’s not so romantic as they say—
whether you’re banished
or you choose to go away—
if your only companions
are the ghosts of yesterday
Way up there upon the mountain
the air is thin as it can be
but he wants to be as close to Heaven
as a man in Hell could ever be
Friday Aug 30, 2019
Friday Aug 30, 2019
Featured song from 2015's Circuitous & Before the Great Divide Remastered Double LP and 2017's Refuge LP
Refuge
You're not on your momma's hip
Anymore
You left your Daddy's shoulders—
Now you're standing on the floor
Always ready to open up
Another door
Sometimes all this world wants to teach you
Is how to keep score
There are hills you climb sometimes
Just because they're there...
There are things worth learning even if the grade
Isn't there
Oh, you've got to take them when they come—
They may not come again
Just like the desert flower
Always be ready for the rain
Everybody's got something they want from you
You're gonna need a refuge—a place to run to
You're gonna need some friends
Along the way
The kind that will stand with you
Not get in your way
And some are gonna last
And some for just awhile
It's more about the faces
Than the miles
The best advice
Will take you by surprise
It's okay to be scared
Just don't let it close your eyes
There's so much,
So much you need to see
And don't forget...
You can count on me.
Everybody's got something they want from you
You're gonna need a refuge—a place to run to
Some days you're gonna wonder what this world's come to
I want to be your refuge—the one you run to
Let me be your refuge—the one that you run to.
Friday Aug 23, 2019
Friday Aug 23, 2019
Featured song from 2018's A. Dream LP
Take My Heart
Take my heart and hold it tight
When the shadows steal my sight.
Take my hand, like a childhood friend
We'll climb the hill as the night descends.
Take my feet where e're you'd run,
Across the moon, beyond the sun.
Take my head, so full of dread;
Give me a dream of you instead...
Take my eyes, they're open wide;
You've shown me there's no place to hide
Take my ears with whispered tones;
Plant your secrets in my bones.
Take my chin and lift it up
From this ancient, lonely cup.
Take my mouth and help it to sing
This song of love and healing.
(repeat both verses)
Friday Aug 16, 2019
Friday Aug 16, 2019
Featured song from 2018's Gravitate LP
Gravitate
I won't love you tomorrow
The same as today
I can't beg steal or borrow
Enough time to say
Just how much pain and sorrow
I'd feel if we stayed
Only this close.
Like stars, no,
We must gravitate.
We must gravitate.
Particles this entangled
Don't notice the space
In between, all the angles
The curves of your face
All the demons and angels
Could never displace
These hearts we have wrangled
Together in grace.
Together in grace.
We must gravitate.
We must gravitate.
And the center will hold us
Together my friend
Even though we go spiraling
Out to the fringe
Every center is out on the edge
Of some other
Every homecoming teaches
How love takes us further.
How love takes us further.
Love takes us further.
Love takes us.
I will love you tomorrow
More than today
Though I'll still feel the sorrow
Of lost yesterdays
We can look to the stars though
To show us the way
Stardust deep in our marrow
Night spins into day.
Night spins into day.
Together in grace.
Together in grace.
We must gravitate.
We must gravitate.
Oh, we must gravitate.
Friday Aug 09, 2019