Ephemera

by Adrian Morse

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outtakes, single songs, miscellaneous stuff...this is a place to deposit random songs that don't fit elsewhere.

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released 01 January 2011

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tags: acoustic alt-country folk folk pop indie singer-songwriter Philadelphia

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Based out of Philadelphia, Adrian is classically trained in composing for computers and a self-taught destroyer of stringed ... more instruments. He is a veteran of countless musical missteps, unrealized bands, and aborted projects. His latest releases include an album of tracks built on a phone ("Natural History") and an acoustic singer-songwriter album ("bright smile black eyes"). less

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Track Name: Codebreaking [youtube version]
when I sing for you, is it secret code?
caesar ciphers, one and zeroes
backward tracks and inverted chords
is our rosetta stone somewhere obscured?

are you threading a needle between danger and hope?
thinking, “I'd do anything to crack the code”
lord, just help her find the note
lord, just help her find the note

lord, just help her find the note
lord, just help her find the note
I should just say I'm in love with you
you know, I should just say I'm in love

I try to read between my own thin lines
holding back my hand when I want yours in mine
thinking, "I'd do anything to pause this moment in time"
I'd do anything to pause time

lord, just help me find the note
lord, just help me find the note
you know, I should just say I'm in love with you
you know, I should just say I'm in love with you
Track Name: Precipitous! [phone outtake]
all I wanted was to hold this light and for what? I just get crucified here I am hoping that the page hasn't turned holding out while the whole damn book gets burned of how I've laid you bare just flesh and bones
and from there I'm like a falling stone from when I laid you down and held your hand in fist darling this is precipitous yeah I'm grasping mostly nitrogen flailing while still barely hanging in the thinnest branch on the tallest tree it's not safe but the view it's still pristine but then one day I'm hanging by a thread just tightening around my neck self-preservation is her signature but the mark on me is only ligature oh how I've laid you bare your flesh and bones and from there I'm like a falling stone from when I laid you down darling skin to skin and then you let me down after you let me in
Track Name: Oh! [phone outtake]
oh, god! I just can’t grasp you with a tighter clasp!
and someday, I’ll put you in a box, I’ll have images to dig for
crushed and crumpled away like silly little love notes I received from a girl in 1994
tell me, what’s a memory but something that isn’t happening anymore?

once…these…thoughts…get…excavated, we’ll probably be eviscerated
will you still think of me when spring’s in the past?
and summer’s head of steam comes roaring back?

o the joy! ocean in view!
but you’ve stolen the scene; it’s cropped so clean, rocky shores against a backdrop of Pacific blue
you’re the jewel of the tourist trap when you tie your hair back, it’s all so true!
but, tell me, what’s a memory but something that is remembered each time distinct and new?

oh, God! I just can’t grasp you with a tighter clasp!
and someday, when I’ve put you in that box, I’ll have your images to burn
crushed and crumpled away like silly little love notes I’ve received, tattered and torn
and, tell me, what’s a memory but something that can never be reborn?
Track Name: Violent End [phone outtake]
diving headfirst into the shallow end running too quickly with scissors in our hands a cartoon accident, like an anvil or like tnt or like the second coming of jc I WANT TO MEET A VIOLENT END WITH YOU I WANT TO MEET A VIOLENT END WITH YOU it could be a car crash or asphyxiation it could be the collapse of a building brought on by dilapidation it could come riding on the crest of a mushroom cloud or it could be slow and leave you lying in a hospital gown I WANT TO MEET A VIOLENT END WITH YOU I WANT TO MEET A VIOLENT END WITH YOU will it come to us in our sleep? will it be pills or pistols, will people think us romantics or just cheats? and then what will our tombstones read? what will be left of us to be buried underneath? I WANT TO MEET A VIOLENT END WITH YOU I WANT TO MEET A VIOLENT END WITH YOU I WANT TO MEET A VIOLENT END WITH YOU I WANT TO MEET A VIOLENT END WITH YOU I WANT TO MEET A VIOLENT END WITH YOU I WANT TO MEET A VIOLENT END WITH YOU I WANT TO MEET A VIOLENT END WITH YOU
Track Name: Whistles & Bells
we were a bad match because we only loved ourselves we dressed it up in platitudes on pedestals and shelves we were a bad match because we only loved ourselves I sent for you in the morning told you I was ready to run at first there was hesitation and then there was none I sent for you in the morning but you never did come we were a bad match because we only loved ourselves we dressed it up in platitudes with ribbons and bows with whistles and bells we were a bad match but darling we were whistles and bells we were a bad match but darling we were whistles and bells