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Transistor Coraz​ó​n

by Melissa Greener

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    ©℗ ANiMA Records, 2013

    Recorded and produced by Brad Jones at Alex The Great in Nashville, Tennessee

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1.
Far away Distant place Voice on the wire Nothing to say After all this time Same dead rhyme If I stay could I write a different line Everybody wants some Everybody talking, talking about nothing Everybody wants some love Hand to rope Face to rock Feet slip Long ascent to providence Don’t look up Don’t look back To climb or fall would both be like flying Everybody wants some Everybody talking, talking about nothing Everybody wants some Everybody.. Feel the storm come Wild winds, tearing down through When the sky drums Banging all around you That’s the heart that’s telling the whole truth Can I listen to it Everybody wants some Everybody talking, talking about nothing Everybody wants some love Lay me down Take me home Deliver me To the peace I can’t reach
2.
Running through the city Dodging all the cars Trip over the bridge Raging through the park Maybe I’m the hero Maybe I’m afraid Maybe I’m just running From the mess love made Feet punch the pavement Pounding out in vain Bloody-toed and beating The rhythm of your name I gave you everything Then stole it away I gave you warning I would not stay Do not go gentle into the night Rage the dying of the light Little by little, day by day Love is chasing away All that I once knew All that once was brave This is the mess Love made Good man cry Cry not for your deeds Wise man if Words could stir the storm in me Grave man If only you could see Wild man The setting sun you need not grieve Do not go gentle into the night Rage the dying of the light Little by little, day by day Love is chasing away All that I once knew All that once was brave This is the mess Love made Outrun the cup running over The poisonous spout Outrun the running of my brain The draining out my mouth Outrun the sun burnin down The shadow of my doubt The fear in my heart Outrun the love running out Do not go gentle into the night Rage the dying of the light Do not go gentle into the night Rage the dying of the light
3.
Deep in the heat of a late summer mind Waving goodbye to her lover Can’t trust her feet lest they follow behind In circles that spin as they hover Flowers bloom in her kitchen He cut them by hand for her jar She knows that she aught to pitch’em But she won’t go that far Days they pass by and though cooling his cries He wants her more with the weather Cyclones of why harken cruel angry skies His heart from her he cannot sever Trees bleed life off their branches Leaving a skeleton bone Brittle and frozen in trances Then covered with snow One day the sun came and melted the cold It lifted him out from his shadow The bird song he heard before long in his soul Carried his gaze out the window He saw lovers kissing on bridges Picniced on grass covered field A soft breeze blew off the ridges It warmed and it healed Just then once again she appears at his door Trailing her circles of weather Inviting her in unaware of the storm The kettle wails a whistle in fever
4.
Someone said your name Across a crowded room Someone from your history Someone who knew you well Well before me I felt the whispers And the blood in my veins Vaporize from sight I smelled the sulfur I heard the rattling chains All though out the night My lover is a ghost in the van Ghost in my bed My lover is a ghost of a man Ghost in my head We reach the same points On our maps But always separately We got a strange way Of doing that You’re my lover I never see Chasing footprints That only disappear Floating coast to coast It’s been the death of us After so many years But I won’t give up the ghost My lover is a ghost in the van Ghost in my bed My lover is a ghost of a man Ghost in my head Time zones Orange cones Rising, setting suns and moons Here and gone again too soon It’s so lonely loving you Now it’s late at night When I pick up the phone My fingers touch the key I hear the haunting drone Of the dial tone I hang up and try to sleep (but I can’t sleep) My lover is a ghost in the van Ghost in my bed My lover is a ghost of a man Ghost in my head
5.
In a dream the moon was low A rider cried, a horse did reared was he the one I want or the one I let go But the Drover’s face remained unclear C E7 Am F All that shone was silhouette Then in a flash off he fled When I awoke from my vignette A silver spur at the foot of my bed I'm a runaway machine Transistor Corazon Even as I live and breathe, even though I’m blood and bone I possessed the lonesome drover had him here beneath my thumb Thought that he was someone else 'stead of what he has become He once knew the circuitry to the box inside my chest now it shakes with rust and a rattle-snake curled beneath my breast The wires they corrode, from short circuits in my head hollow as a halo, heavy as lead Dueno de mi vida,
Dime, dime donde estas?
 Dame un besito,
Un besito nada mas How I miss that man of mine, who I never used to know Now he’s easy to define, so now I have to let him go When the spark was new it was nearly cardiac Now those days are far and few and I want my stranger back Dueno de mi vida dime, dime donde estas?
 Dame un besito,
Un besito nada mas I'm a runaway machine, mujer sin corazon Even as I live and breathe, even though I’m blood and bone But that’s just who I am, who my mama made of me Transistor Corazon, half lover half machine nada mas
6.
Jackson 03:52
Forty miles outside Jackson Forty miles from your porch light Cut the wheel turn back to Jackson Hope there’s time to set things right Screaming tires and a slamming back door Was the way we said goodbye If I could walk back through that back door I’d lock that door with us both inside Talk comes easy let me show you More than broken promises Want to be a good man for you That’s the kind of love this is Leaking oil from a burning engine The highway signs are blurring by Rust where the paint was worn down too thin Through smoke and dust is one more try Talk comes easy let me show you More than broken promises Want to be a good man for you That’s the kind of love this is Four more miles till I reach Jackson If I can finally see the light Never again will I leave Jackson Let me prove we’re worth the fight Talk comes easy let me show you More than broken promises Want to be a good man for you That’s the kind of love this is I crossed the line in Jackson
7.
Why 03:00
Frosted window, fourth floor Steam leaks out the kitchen door The two of us, these four walls We thought that there’d be something more We said, “I do” Never after seeing eye to eye Pages turning Now there’s only in between the lines Why? After all this time The bed is warm, the couch is too Been a while since I slept next to you We waste our days, but the bills get paid farther away when we’re back to roost Passing time after the work is through I said, “I’m fine” Even if it’s only in my mind I’m pre-tending Fiction is a blessing in disguise Why? After all this time Snow falls sad and slow Covering the ice below Streetlight flickers out Telling tales that never show You say you’ll stay Long enough to see the spring arrive Why? After all this time Frosted window Fourth floor Steam leaks out the kitchen door
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If I Fell 02:58
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Always 03:17
Every Tuesday at the café You know me now, you knew me then Through the chatter dishes clatter Doesn’t matter what’s said when Through the years you’ve always been there Always Good and bad times, laughter and tears Always Last night across town my pickup broke down You came to rescue in your SUV Deep in your pocket, last piece of chocolate Were going to save it, but you gave it to me Through the years you’ve always been there Always Good and bad times, laughter and tears Always Ooo, when I can’t find the way Ooo, you forgive my mistakes Always Remember last year we had that big scare And you stood right there next to me You held my hand till I could stand You helped me land on my own two feet Through the years you’ve always been there Always Good and bad times, laughter and tears Always
11.
Inisheer 05:15
Can you show me the boat to Inisheer On the port of this city I’m travelin from For I’m wanting to go to Inisheer To stand by the side of my one true love I was born in a house on Inisheer We were young as our hearts grew fonder But a’wandering far I landed Now with grey in my hair I’m returning Island, stone and sand On the edge of the world suspended Island, stone and sand In the midst of the sea I am landing I remember the ropes and the nets in his hands I remember his eyes as oceans My shawl holds the shell that he picked from the sand And gifted the day of my leaving Island, stone and sand On the edge of the world suspended Island, stone and sand In the midst of the sea I am landing Instrumental Island, stone and sand On the edge of the world suspended Island, stone and sand In the midst of the sea I am landing At the end of the voyage to Inisheer It’s been many long nights since I set sail Through the mist chims the bell of the church yard near And I know for my love it is tolling I will never again leave Inisheer So long as my heart half beating There’s a grave on the hill on Inisheer And in it my love lie waiting

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released March 25, 2013

produced, recorded and mixed by Brad Jones, mastered by Jim DeMain

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