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Fill the Shelters

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by Freeminer Birds

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released 25 June 2010
All songs written and recorded by Freeminer Birds. Produced in the Browns' living room, Rochester, NY.
Copyright 2010 Bowen/Brown/Polanski/Salotto

Freeminer Birds are Steven Bowen, Emily Brown, Neil Polanski and Anthony Salotto with Guy Higgins. Guest vocals on "The Auctioneer" and viola on "The Operator" by Corinne Bowen.

www.freeminerbirds.com

Cover photo by Jez Coulson. www.Jezblog.com

Warm thanks to Lail Brown, Corinne Bowen, Orin Neal, Dan Lansberry and Jez Coulson.
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Track Name: If You Were My Woman (I'd Carry a Gun)
Car’s running
Waiting for us in the road
We need to leave before the sunrise
Sweep the floors
Take the photos off the walls
Lock the front door behind us
I’ll never miss the poison air in this part of town
I won’t miss the sirens
Each angry word I spit out to you last night
I’ll take it all back this morning

Now home’s in the tail lights
We’ll open our god damn eyes
This war that I’m waging
A race to the state line

And if you were my woman, I’d carry a gun

First thing you said, “don’t let me die in Maryland”
Don’t believe what they’re saying
America they see in a Time-Life Magazine
And if it’s for sale then they’re buying
Don’t let them bury me I won’t let them bury you
Lock homes
Lock eyes
Hey, Columbus. We’re treading the same shores as you
Turn back or move on
Track Name: The Missing
As we draw in steam through our teeth we wish all of them well
They go missing while we sleep
The streets will shut down under us while we grieve
They’re sinking under buildings, our uprooted seeds

Hardly anyone passes through these doors anymore
Smoke billows in just inches from the floor
And it rains, and it pours like before

The boxes stacked
The curtains drawn to the sill
We wait for each light to burn out
The hills will sink down under us in the flood
They’re shrinking in the concrete, our lifeless blood

Hardly anyone passes through these doors anymore
Smoke billows in just inches from the floor
And it rains, and it pours no more
Track Name: Angels & Ghosts
This heart’s just another heavy load to crack our bones
You balance when your knees are weak
That’s why I like you
Our halos are dim against the city neon lights
The angels and ghosts of our roads sing “Hosanna, Rejoice! Rejoice!”

We are, we are alone

Somewhere there is a man searching for you
Somewhere there’s a woman who can’t wait to see me dead
Thank god we share this key to share this room
The angels and ghosts of our roads sing “Hosanna, Rejoice! Rejoice!”

We are, we are alone
Track Name: Pike County Fair
Don’t want to go to the Pike County Fair
Bored, idle stench in the air
Single file
All lined up
Not far from home

Fit to serve
They’re taking all they can
What to do, poor Pike County man?
Sign ‘em up, send ‘em off
Oh lord, we’re going to war, going to war

God knows forty year ago I’d have burned the card and run
The heart’s dead and we’ve been misled
Savio, where did you go?
Track Name: The Operator
Cold against my ear
The receiver sings
Penitent in a penitentiary
Pick up, it’s me
Hello, hello

Your father’s house
I thought I’d catch you there
Shaking on the other end
Aware of how scared you are
Pick up, it’s me

A man of god came by and anointed me
Mercifully allowed forgiveness for forgetful eyes
The oil on my head he washed away
On the mattress of my cell
Oh well, oh well
Pick up, it’s me
Track Name: From the Water
It’s easy to stay on the shore
Instead, we are drifting away
I don’t mind being lost as long as we’re found

And if we have drowned by the morning
Our souls will rise up from the water
I don’t mind being lost as long as we’re found
Track Name: Cut a Switch
Mon amie, I’ve been gone such a long time
Your joy de vive has been slipping by the way side
All disease and no cure
Just a slow death in stereo

Living the good life in America
Your father wasn’t fair to ya’
So you’re lashing out, hysterical
But please stay out, please stay out
You’ve got no chances left, my friend
Track Name: Worms of Lake Geneva
Met you in New York at JFK
Four hours still before we hopped that London plane  
What could we do but sit on magazines and smoke cigarettes?
Two beautiful American losers

Headlines of subway bombs
We almost paid for sex
You got a sunburn and had to wear your luggage like a baby on the night train
Out of Barcelona Station
Finally free from Catalunya 

Hop along the Seine from Australitz to Notre Dame
Got to find a pay phone to get in touch with Marisol
Stay ‘til bastille day
Just long enough to see Paul fake-fuck Olivier on the hood of that sports car near the firehouse 

Enough dead weight to feed the worms in Lake Geneva
Not enough time to bend the girls in sweet Firenze

Geneve on Sunday when all the shops are closed
You laid in flowers, I climbed a tree
We heard The Clash on a radio from a car driving toward the sea
Got to get back to Catalunya 
Track Name: All Mine
Morning cracks the door on a long night
Strange to see your face in the daylight
You never stayed before but it’s alright
Alright

Every time I swear it’s the last time
Every night I’m crying you a salt mine
Though you took their hands, you were all mine
All mine

I never told a soul but they all knew
They all would glance my way when they held you
But you gave me mine for free and it was all true
All true

And every time I swear it’s the last time
And every night I’m crying you a salt mine
Though you shared their beds you were all mine
All mine
Track Name: The Auctioneer
On the sly, I’ve been selling my blood
You ask why I’m weak
What more can I say?
Knew before times would be tough again
We’re bound by these rings
Do you know what I mean?
I don’t know

Gripped so tight
Let it slip
Auctioning off our home to the auctioneer

Cover’s blown
They’re collecting the loan
The bank’s on the phone raising voices with me
They can wall us out brick by brick
They can black out the windows but we’ll always see in
I don’t know
Track Name: The Dust I Carry
Oh, I remember the look he gave me and how his fingers spread across my face
I bid farewell to the walls that kept me
There were too many branches and thorns
I left him there struggling in the tangles
I know he’ll come for me
Hear me now
I won’t be long

Now here I’ll stay completely still and let the trap take hold of me
But with this void, I won’t be wasted
Good things will come around
They’ll know my worth from the dust I carry
It rests about my head
Hear me now
I won’t be long
Track Name: Sweetheart, We're Gone
They bring the mallets down
The sacrament begins
The strongest hit the bell
They’re ushered through the halls of subtle factories
The palace lights the way home

Speak up
Scream it
It’s your communion
Speak up...

They bring the mallets down
The sacrament begins
The strongest hit the bell
Baptized in champagne in the backs of limousines
The driver hits the gas and we’re gone

Speak up
Scream it
It’s your communion
Speak up...

Cast aside to clean it up, man
Freedom is a song you sing for them
Begging for scraps
Hold the notes in
Sweetheart, we are gone
Track Name: Plea Bargain
Hey, I saw you on the street today
Several months ago, you wrote me long and said you’re gone
You see in me my father’s face
You see in me all those mistakes he made
The family that he gave away
And I said okay

I know I wasn’t always kind to you
I did as much as the drinking let me do
I know it seems I was a different man
We lay in bed
You said you felt alone
Ashamed, over I rolled and slept
And you said okay

Tired of my excuse
Tired of making due, you left
I know the last thing you want is to get back in my arms again
But hey, c’mon
Hey c’mon, in a hundred years we’ll both be gone
Hey c’mon

We smile
Please call me when the baby comes
You’ve got a thousand reasons not to but, please
I’m trying to do right by you
Squeeze the poison out of very vein
So dizzy I could faint for you
Please say okay
Track Name: Fill the Shelters
It’s time to go when the police flood into the streets to split you and me
We’ll scream our goodbyes above the siren’s wail
Think of home when the billy clubs rattle your bones
The sticks and the stones
But your name’s written on my heart- hey
Clean the streets
Rinse out the blood
Explain it away
On your feet
I fall to my knees in a room with a hundred beds

Think of home when the billy clubs rattle your bones
The sticks and the stones
Together our love will fill the shelters
We’ll scream our goodbyes above the siren’s wail
Your name’s written on my heart- hey
Track Name: Hereafter
The devil lives in here and he sings me to sleep
Since I put the pillow over his face
He won’t drift away but he won’t speak to me
No, I’m not gonna make it here, in this place

An angel lives in here and she stifles my voice
Since I put the pillow over her face
She won’t fly away but she won’t sit with me
No, I’m not gonna make it here, in this place
Track Name: Other Man
I’ve been in a happy home
And I’ve kept the holy days
I’ve felt so all alone
I’ve felt so out of place
I’ve been the other man
Wrecked a happy home
Just when things got bad, I hit the open road
Track Name: Trade Wind
We pulled off the road nursing your black eye
The engine goes quiet
We lay on the hood
Bathe in the black sky
No prayers
No lies

Trade wind’s the breath I use
I use to commune with you
Start at the end
Mind to the tongue
It’s you

It’s all that I see in the glow of the dome light
We may not wake up
But you know what I am
You’re what I’m made of
You know what they’ll say