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The Mockingbeards

by The Mockingbeards

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Lyrics by Alex Ford New Year, new socks Already got, already got holes In my heels Holes in my heels Where’d you, where did you go Yeah I want to know I want to know Don’t think I could ever let you go So bring in the others, And bring in their mothers Searching for some true Harmful hopeful disappointed youth Taken, taken for granted Carved from the granite stone So alone So alone right here at home Talk to, talk to new people Under the steeple They take your hand What they know you’ll never understand So bring in the others, And bring in their mothers Searching for some true Harmful hopeful disappointed youth Wander, turn to the right and turn off your light And waken, to your strange alarm I still don’t see the harm Careful, reckless For come what may I’m happy to say I know You won’t be long No you won’t be long So bring in the others, And bring in their mothers Searching for some true Harmful hopeful disappointed youth
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Salty Air 05:06
Lyrics by Jeremy Betterley it's time to go back once again to breathe the salty air feel sun on my skin let the car roll down the road find out where it goes hear the lobster boats I'll be there in the morning and you'll be right behind dip a paddle in the water feel that warm sunshine though you feel so far away now I won't forget how it feels to be there realign my furrowed brow I'll be there in the morning and you'll be right behind dip a paddle in the water feel that warm sunshine
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Cannonballs 02:47
Lyrics by Jeremy Betterley Why do the stars resemble animals? No one ever knows, no one ever knows Why don't we all just live like cannibals? No one ever knows, no one ever knows Why don't we all just live like cannonballs? Crash Into the walls, crash into the walls Leave nothing behind us but a smoky pall Crash into the walls, crash into the walls Let's walk our dogs to the peninsula In Siberia, In Siberia I think I'd like to get to know ya In Siberia, In Siberia Let's walk our dogs to the peninsula In Siberia, In Siberia It's hard to tell what's a peninsula In Siberia, In Siberia
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Lyrics by Alex Ford Wait for your phone call Listen for sounds outside my window Oh, nothing ever works out So call your bookie now Call me when you’re drunk I’ll put paste onto your toothbrush Oh, love me like your books Oh, give me a second, third, or fourth look Date me again, So I can be miserable Date me again, I want to be miserable Lonely already At least I have a reason Oh, make me wait til five No, you won’t be home tonight One night we’ll be drunk I can lay there you’ll just hold me Oh, love me like your books Oh, give me a second, third or fourth look Date me again, so I can be miserable Date me again, I want to be miserable Date me, date me, oh oh, date me again Date me again, so I can be miserable
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Trout Pond 04:10
Lyrics by Taya Win You voice is the first thing I hear through the drear of the morning I was to be leaving Amid recollections of solemn processions I dwell on our next chance meeting And the warm rain was pouring as if it was mourning the day of our parting As I walked away unperturbed by the rain while my mind played the ghost of a love song Out the window you gazed through the blue and grey haze over fields where we know we just belong And I swear in the air I can hear the faint whisper of words I wished I could say So I sing to the empty seat you’d watch from if you were here today And I close my eyes cuz the lids insides can remember the shape of your face But when we unclasped our hands and went on to separate lands there was only so far we could stray If the universe is so big and the world is so small then we’re not that far apart anyway Not the far apart anyway And as we walked together Up the hill Fall hadn't yet claimed We made our way up to the lake As blue as the perfect day We stood a moment on the shore And then at the same time We ran and jumped and swam toward A little rocky isle And on that rocky isle we sat For how long I don't know Pretending that we were stranded there But we really didn't want to go And though we swam back over Walked back down and said goodbye There's a piece of us together Stranded on that rocky isle So I sing to the empty seat you’d watch from if you were here today And I close my eyes cuz the lids insides can remember the shape of your face But when we unclasped our hands and went on to separate lands there was only so far we could stray If the universe is so big and the world is so small then we’re not that far apart anyway Not the far apart anyway
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I Want You 02:54
Lyrics by Alex Ford Stiletto heels and fire wood Ended up here like I knew we would I want you so bad I need you, what we had Mosquito bites all down your back Photographs, a full wine rack I want you so bad I need you Growing plants out on my roof Leaves fall down, it's the proof I want you so bad I need you, what we had
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Skyline 03:54
Lyrics by Jeremy Betterley I was looking out across this town Where the skyline met my eye as I looked down and saw the carpet of cracked pavement Does anyone have the time? Does anyone have the time? Does anyone have the time? I was looking out across this field Where kids kicked soccer balls wearing cleats with worn out heels And I saw that neat lawn stretched so wide Does anyone have the time? Does anyone have the time? Does anyone have the time? And where did it go? Another day slips away from our reach And I'm not sure where they float off to Maybe they pass the asteroids and join the stars Or stay somewhere in our hearts I was walking alone down by the shore Where the seagulls called like harpies and the boats bobbed on the surf And I sat a while and watched the tide Does anyone have the time? Does anyone have the time? Does anyone have the time? And where did it go? Another day slips away from our reach And I'm not sure where they float off to Maybe they pass the asteroids and join the stars Or stay somewhere in our hearts
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Lyrics by Taya Win The Toaster Song There was a toaster in the kitchen Who always followed all the rules He said to no to drugs and petty thugs And stayed in Toaster school Every morning he'd be waiting For the misses and the men They would come on down in their dressing gowns And breakfast would begin There were marmalades and syrups There were breads and buttered rolls He would toast them all He was ten feet tall The ruler of the fold But then one dreary weekend morning The people left him all alone they went away when they came back that day They brought a new microwave oven home the microwave said to the toaster Hey man you think you're pretty cool But I can cook all this food if I'm in the mood Go back to toaster to school The toaster oven answered Who do you think you are? I will toast this place right up in your face You've gone a step too far There was panic in the kitchen A cloud of fear among the fruits the starches were inconsolable They were shaken to their roots And so there was to be a contest To see which appliance was best The toaster understood his enemy was good But he was up to the test The microwave said to the toaster I'll one-up your toast For I was chosen to heat that which is frozen The new appliance did boast But the toaster oven answered With pride in his voice Try to wrap your head around heating bread You're just gonna make it moist And os it was decided that who the people cooked with next would be crowned the lord of the kitchen horde and the loser would be second best But they forgot about another All caught up in their self-loving The people didn't want toast or defrosted roast and they used the conventional oven The wise old conventional oven Soft-spoken and seldom used Baked a cake so sweet for the people to eat and said my friends you are confused We appliances in the kitchen Both electrical and gas We all have our way of making someone's day Now show a little class So the toaster said to the new guy Hey man welcome to the crew I'll make it golden brown but for the quickest in town I'll send them straight to you And so from that day forward the kitchen lived in harmony Everyone threw down to make the best food in town And the people lived happily
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Lyrics by Jeremy Betterley I have a habit of finding Itches I can't scratch But you always seem to know Where on my back Needs attention but lately I have been sensing You my dear need to go And find what it is that you have been missing You won't be gone too long I hope And I have a habit of minding Things that I can't change The future's so distant, you tell me I know And I can't rearrange My life in the present for every second that I could be throwing away But darling I fear that if I let you go I'll still feel this way But itches you can't scratch never seem to go away They find me at night while my mind wanders And keep me awake And sleep is hard to find when losing love is on your mind But it's always on my mind And I have a penchant for trying To keep my eyes away From the problems I see when I walk by them Almost every day and I try to remember the world looks much better when you practice selective attention But I've always found that it seldom works to ignore my initial perceptions And itches you can't scratch never seem to go away They find me at night while my mind wanders And keep me awake And sleep is hard to find when this hard life is on your mind But it's always on my mind But please don't go Please don't go Please don't go Please don't go Or I'll be like a broken string Or a songbird without a tree And my guitar won't ring If you don't come back to me
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Lyrics by Alex Ford Fall reached its peak a week ago The North winds caught a cough Cried all night my window crack I couldn't shut him up Maybe just maybe I'm crazy Maybe saying it makes it so Wandering around and I don't know where we are My lips are chapped they're bleeding Still I bike on through the night Angel halo headlights Burning fierce and bright So let's make believe that we're sailing Across a green salty expanse There's nothing to drink and I don't know where we are Oh what a day for a one-way ticket Bombay Oh what a day to commiserate Lonely nights, lying in the same bed both of our tongues tied I won't steal your blanket tonight Dear girl I might start walking Leave this town behind You'll not get hide nor hair of me I'll be that hard to find Maybe just maybe we're crazy Maybe we're just two of a kind I'll butter your toast and you'll get there on time I'll butter your toast and you'll get there on time Oh what a day for a one-way ticket to Bombay Oh what a day to commiserate Lonely nights, lying in the same bed both of our tongues tied I won't steal your blanket tonight Oh what a day for a one-way ticket to Bombay Oh what a day to commiserate
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Lyrics by Alex Ford Well a rubber band and a paper plate were waddling down the road, Said the rubber band to the paper plate, honey there’s something that you should know Cause by the time we reach the turnstile it’ll be time for me to go But I love you, I love you Someday baby we’ll be happy, It’s closer now than it seems Someday we might be happy But I’ll see you tonight in my dreams Said the paper plate to the rubber band likewise there’s something that you should know Cause lately I’ve tried to hide something but I’m afraid it’s starting to show I love the things you do and your colors I love the clove cigarettes and your rubber But I love you, I love you only you Someday baby we’ll be happy, It’s closer now than it seems Someday we might be happy But I’ll see you tonight in my dreams Well honey I think you’ve convinced me And it’s better behind than ahead And darling tonight when you’re wrapped up tight I’ll put sweet somethings into your head But I love you, I love you only you Starting today we can be happy, It’s closer now than it seems Starting today we can be happy But I’ll see you tonight in my dreams
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Lyrics by Alex Ford Bending the rules like Gumby used to With Pokey behind him Wondering what to do Your grandfather's itch He'd move and I'd twitch Sullen old eyebrows Never no never did smile I remember the time you told me That somebody someday would break my heart Well it happened today And I'm happy to say That it hurts less every time I want to be lonely, and I want to be fine Bail out the boat Tell me I'lll write a not A wide briny graveyard Empty fathoms of smiles So come out of the night and come into my life And we'll walk hand in hand toward the morning Leave your cares at the door like you did once before And I'll take all your troubles away I'll take a look back The miles of track The track that did leave me Away from your arms The future's unclear So I'll sit by the pier and hum while I'm waiting For Old Lady time I remember the time you told me That somebody someday would break my heart Well it happened today And I'm happy to say That it hurts less every time I want to be lonely, and I want to be fine
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Lyrics by Taya Win Hand in hand we watched thee fire as its flames danced towards the sky Wondering if we'd ever meet again All those years ago it seems we looked at the night and screamed You cannot end and apprehend this thing we had So one day in late summertime I appeared among the red pines Acting like I'd been there all along What I saw was such devotion To bring anyone to emotion With those precious days that slip away No matter how we try I hear the stories and the sing alongs The echoes of the ringing gong I see the shooting stars who picked up guitars and grew up before my eyes somewhere out there on the water the old blue heron smiles and nods So one more circle game and one last refrain Of sammy's bar is song It was finding the old hidden roads to the hilltops I had longed to know It was finally capturing the flag Staring down the jabberwocky As it stares at Interlocken hands And friends it cannot hope to rend apart As the years go by I realize It was the PurpleLilacs all this time The hobbit homes and granite stones and thoughts among the pines I still carry these things with my I walk along in decent company But I know deep down inside I havent been inside So it's time for bollywogger to sip coffee with his logger friend It's time to kiss the elephant stone It's time to face the world and make them see This love wil not go quietly It's finally time for me to come home Hey the last boats are leaving Haul away the daighso
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Lyrics by Taya Win She knows where to find me I was clear where to look In the tempting perfumes of the whiskey afternoon Dipped in moss-covered brooks In the woods of New England In the crack of a stone Where a young maple tree is just trying to be even if it means being alone But she looks in the evenings Dressed in khaki and grey And in vain we both gaze through the chains That we've only ourselves to blame for We will meet in the morning I told her midday In the notes of a song someone wrote To a tune that has never been played I will be with the snowflakes That fell yesterday As we proudly regale our unusual tales Before we are all melted away Where we roll down the hillside To a river below And it welcomes us home like we're one of it's own And we don't need to know where it goes But she looks in the fables And the movies and stores That take pains to portray the details of today That we may or may not choose to ignore I will be in the fabric of an old favorite t-shirt In the clink of a glass raised to present and past and a future that no longer hurt She knows where to find me I was clear where to look In the tempting perfumes of the whiskey afternoons Dipped in moss-covered brooks

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Special thanks go out to all of our friends and family for their support in this and every musical endeavor. We also owe a tremendous thank you to the talented engineers we worked with including Trevor Thorpe for his expertise as a recording enginer, Corey Kunzman and Howl Studios for providing space for our two nights of recording, and Ian Stewart for his microscopic attention to detail and wealth of talent of in the mastering process. Thank you to Kim Shifrin for creating the beautiful album art and Leah Galant for providing her skills in wizard photography.

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released June 3, 2016

© 2016
All lyrics by Alex Ford, Jeremy Betterley, and Taya Win
All music by The Mockingbeards
Recorded at Howl Studios by Trevor Thorpe
Mixed by Jeremy Betterley
Mastered by Ian Stewart at Flotown Studio

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The Mockingbeards Ithaca, New York

The Mockingbeards are a folk-rock quintet from Ithaca, New York featuring guitars, mandolin, violin, and vocal harmony. Their influences include Michael Hurley, The Decemberists, Pavement, and Pete Seeger.

The Mockingbeards are:
Taya Win--guitar, vocals
Alex Ford--guitar, vocals
Jeremy Betterley--mandolin, vocals
Megan Silverstein--violin, bass
Paul Vidovich--drums
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