The Reluctant Graveyard
by Jeremy Messersmith
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Lazy Bones
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Dillinger Eyes
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Organ Donor
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Violet!
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Knots
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John the Determinist
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Repo Man
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Deathbed Salesman
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Tomorrow
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about
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released 04 May 2010
Produced by Jeremy Messersmith + Andy Thompson
Mixed by Andy Thompson (www.andywho.com)
Recorded by Andy Thompson + Jeremy Messersmith at The Library (www.thelibraryrecordingstudio.com), Instrument Landing (www.instrument-landing.com), Echo Boys
Additional Engineering: Ross Nelson + Bo Bodnar
Mastered by Ed Brooks
Artwork by Nick Schubert
Produced by Jeremy Messersmith + Andy Thompson
Mixed by Andy Thompson (www.andywho.com)
Recorded by Andy Thompson + Jeremy Messersmith at The Library (www.thelibraryrecordingstudio.com), Instrument Landing (www.instrument-landing.com), Echo Boys
Additional Engineering: Ross Nelson + Bo Bodnar
Mastered by Ed Brooks
Artwork by Nick Schubert
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To call Jeremy Messersmith a musician is half-truth: He’s also a storyteller, who has carefully crafted a trilogy of songs that narrate life. His first full-length, release The Alcatraz Kid, is a moving collection of acoustic-driven lullabies with titles like “Novocain” and “Beautiful Children” that innocently question the purpose of things to come. ... more
discography
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Sep 2012 -
Oct 2010 -
May 2010 -
Sep 2008 -
Sep 2006 -
Dec 2004
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- Track Name: Lazy Bones
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He plays all night then sleeps all day
Waves at the dawn
With a stretch and a yawn
He has to go to work at eight
But he might have a cough
So he's sleeping it off
Lazy bones
Never worked so hard
I hope you never break
Lazy bones
Oh you're working so hard
He sleeps like he's got something to prove
Somewhere to explore
With a wink and a snore
He's at the end of misspent youth
Just a blur in a dream
Too quick to be seen - Track Name: Dillinger Eyes
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I found honest work and lord knows I tried
I found honest work and lord knows I tried
Robbed a bank and ran from the fuzz
They asked the teller just who I was
She said “I don't know, but he had John Dillinger's eyes!”
For five long years I was wanted by the FBI
For five long years I was wanted by the FBI
I was shooting pool at the hall
Saw my poster up on the wall
“Ain't that you? You got John Dillinger's eyes!”
I caught one in my chest and two in my thigh
I caught one in my chest and two in my thigh
I saw a man rush to my side
Took a photograph as I died
And all because I was born with John Dillinger's eyes!
That newspaper man won the Pulitzer Prize
That newspaper man won the Pulitzer Prize
He keeps it by his bed on a shelf
But one thing that he'll never tell
Every day he thanks god for John Dillinger's eyes! - Track Name: Organ Donor
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I was born in a mortuary
Full of worry
Ice water in my veins
Gave my heart in the school library
Never knew her name
Lost my tongue in the sanctuary
“Heaven spare me!”
Hands raised above my head
Sent my brain to the seminary
Never seen again...
Swing low
Grey bones
I don't know
If I'll ever be whole again
Left my spine in the wedding chapel
Full of people
Feet turning into lead
Lost a leg at the iron foundry
Where they found me dead
Drained my blood at the mortuary
No more worry
Ice water in my veins
Took my bones to the cemetery
Where they still remain
So swing low
Grey bones
I don't know
If I'll ever be whole again - Track Name: Toussaint, Grey, First in Life and Death
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Racing up and down the halls
Footsteps echo off the walls
Summertime is here again
I'm not thinking of the friends
I'll leave behind
No one wants to be the last one home
Bell rings out at 3 o'clock
I fly out of the starting block
I may be small but I've got speed
Trail of sparks behind my feet
No one wants to be the last one home
Racing up and down the halls
Footsteps echo off the walls
Summertime is here again
I'm not thinking of the friends
I left behind - Track Name: Violet!
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Violet
Streaks of earth matted in her hair
Beaten down, but she won't scare
Blinks her eyes, battered green and blue
Ignorance can leave an awful bruise
So get up!
Get up!
Come on and get up, Violet!
Blade of grass in her aching fist
Sets her jaw, no she won't quit
She'll take the fight to streets and avenues
A little dirt can make a flower bloom - Track Name: Knots
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Black sweatband, sticks blur in her hands; she's the drummer
She weaves a beat through Kinks and Deep Purple covers
Can't shake her off
She keeps me tied in knots
I'm tangled from the inside out
Strung out and tired, a funeral-crier; I'm heartsick
So I twist and turn till the ropes start to burn and I'm frantic
All those uptown boys making noise but she just yawns
With a wicked back beat, she flips them off and then she's gone - Track Name: John the Determinist
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Polished up and standing in a row
Wind up the gears, watch them go
People made of spring and sparks
Humming with electric hearts
Hoping for a ghost inside the shell
But if it's there it's hidden well
All we are is ticks and tocks
Seconds in a pocket watch
Oh you silly things
I've got you figured out
Walking on a January lake
I feel the ice around me break
One more ripple in the pond
Stretches out until it's calm - Track Name: A Girl, a Boy, and a Graveyard
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Lucy takes the long way home
Meets me in a field of stone
She says I don't know how I'm supposed to feel
My body's cold my guts are twisted steel
I feel like I'm some kind of frankenstein
Waiting for a shock to bring me back to life
But I don't want to spend my time
Waiting for lightning to strike
Underneath a concrete sky
Lucy puts her hand in mine
She says life's a game we're meant to lose
But stick by me and I will stick by you
I'm like a princess in a castle high
Waiting for a kiss to bring me back to life
But I don't want to spend my time
Waiting for just another guy - Track Name: Repo Man
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Fourteen years I was sober
I worked hard for my pay
Left my tithe at the altar
Closed my eyes when I prayed
But I'm the repo man and nobody weeps for me
The ground is cold in Minnesota
Cotton falling on the town
I share this hill with a willow
But he never makes a sound - Track Name: Deathbed Salesman
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I can tell you've got taste
You shouldn't have to settle
You deserve the best
So why not rest in style?
What's that you say? You're feeling fine?
Well, if you want my opinion
In this line of work
It never hurts to plan
This is how it has to end
So love somebody while you can
No, you won't need to pack
You've got a reservation
But you don't have to wait
If you don't want to
And you won't feel a thing
All your friends are there already
Once you're gone
You'll never want to live again - Track Name: Tomorrow
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Will I see you again?
Same time tomorrow
Well, I hope so
Let's watch the midnight sky
I won't say goodbye
Until tomorrow
Yesterday is gone
Today is almost over
Come on let's stay up late
We'll turn our today
Into tomorrow
Today is all we've got
A moment here then not
And if tomorrow never comes
I'll be standing with the one I love
It's time to say goodnight
And then you kiss me
Sweetly
Let's watch the morning break
Some things just can't wait until tomorrow
