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Peripheral Love

by Jamal Traub

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1.
Anticipation 04:09
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CORNER OF YOUR EYE The other night when you left the room And you were gone for quite some time When you returned your hair was parted in a slightly different way Was it just me? No, I'm not blind And other times when you walk about the room I catch the whiteness of your eye And though we've spoken scarcely more than a few words I've burning questions on my mind And I wonder... Do you see me seeing you seeing me from the corner of your eye? We may hide our faces, but never break from curiosity I'm terrified & nervous, piqued & stimulated just to get to know you My peripheral love, peripheral love When you're around I feel the air rise thru my toes I catch a fever, breaking highs And when I try to speak my words come out a choke I do not know the reasons why But when you move away, my gaze is drawn to you All company becomes a blur The shuffle in your step, the funny things you do I can't resist, much less ignore And I ask myself... Do you see me seeing you seeing me from the corner of your eye? We may hide our faces, but never break from curiosity I'm terrified & nervous, piqued & stimulated just to get to know you My peripheral love, peripheral love Do you see my seeing you seeing me seeing you...
3.
The Fall 05:02
THE FALL Leaves make a lovely bed Why don't we head up to the hardware store And buy the biggest rake we see on sale Fall over laughing and play dead For just a few bucks more We'll afford a small terrarium Scoop every snail that follows the dewdrops Of every leaf that hits the floor We'll make the rules up as We go........... There's nothing to prove in This world.......... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh Soon we'll have a mess of snails Who leave their sticky trails upon the glass The toads are croaking it's no joke, they're hungry It's time they had a midnight snack Once we catch a warty toad The night explodes into a slugger race, but The winning snail is not the one in first place But just the last one to be food We'll make the rules up as We go........... There's nothing to prove in This world........... Ahhhhhhhhhhhh Leaves make a lovely bed Why don't we head up to the hardware store And buy the biggest rake we see on sale Fall over laughing and play dead And, if you take my hand We'll jump & land into the pile from high up Get swallowed in a sea of reds & greens & Browns & purple autumn hues We'll make the rules up as We fall........... There's nothing to prove At all........... Ahhhhhhhhhhhh
4.
Last Dream 05:02
LAST DREAM I'm just a dreamer That's all I am I would travel miles & miles & miles Just to go to sleep I'm underwater Like the Mario Brothers One could not rouse me for a talk I'm in too deep But you----- You wake me up child! Pull the seaweed from My diving screen Yeh you----- You wake me up child! Cuz You----- Are my last dream I'm just a lover That's all I am I would be locked up for years & years Just to be set free I'm undercover Like Danny Glover No one can ever know my True identity But you----- You've found me out child! Peered beyond the pines Of my fir tree Yeh You----- You wake me up child! Cuz You----- Are my last dream INTERLUDE I'm just a dreamer That's all I am I would travel miles & miles & miles Just to go to sleep I'm underwater Like the Eurasian Otter One could not rouse me for a talk I'm in too deep But you----- You wake me up child! Pull the seaweed from My diving screen Yeh you----- You wake me up child! Cuz You----- Are my last dream
5.
BEAUTIFUL BLUR Holy cow what have I got myself into now? Thought I was a bobber with my head above the water Now my body's sinking deeper And my mind is growing farther And this day Is a beautiful blur, to me Blur on Beautiful day Everyone's face Looks 'zactly the same, to me Here Fishy fishy fishy fishy fishy fishy fishy fishy fishy Each past moment lighted brighter than the snap of a flashbulb Inner child awakened to the monster I'd become All my loves Swirling round me in a whirlpool of rainbows New heart growing On the bottom of the sea And this day Is a beautiful blur, to me Blur on Beautiful day Everyone's face Looks 'zactly the same, to me Here Fishy fishy fishy fishy fishy fishy fishy fishy fishy
6.
Ladybug 04:30
LADYBUG Looooovvvveeee Someone give me a piece of that pie Break me off a slice right before I die Is that what's in it? Something so sweet it makes you Diiieeeee Wrap me up in a great big hug Put your arms around me don't you know baby you're my Druuuuugg Someday I will go where it's warm Buy me a chicken a cat & a goat How'ma gonna get there? Don't you know I'll take my boat Cuz it's gonna be uh island Plant me a tree like Johnny Appleseed Live off sweet delicious On my farm But come Monday I'll be singin those sad blues Drownin my sorrows'n cigarettes & booze Seems like I should have probably taken you Come Monday I'll be singin that old song In your arms is back where I belong I don't wanna be right, if lovin you is wrong Looooovvvveeee Someone give me a piece of that pie Break me off a slice right before I die Will someone please tell me What's in this Piiieeeee? Wrap me up in a great big hug Put your arms around me don't you know you fit me like a Glooovveee Someday I will go where it's cold Buy me a coat & a blanket & a scarf Find me a husky dog who when he speaks says ARRRRRFF Hahahahaha Curl up by the fire at night Read all the books that make think And never grow old Looooovvvveeee Someone give me a piece of that pie Break me off a slice right before I die Cuz I'm just a pie-lovin guy Wrap me up in a great big hug Put your arms around me Don't you know that you're my ladybug You have a ladybug, a chicken, a cat, and a goat How do you make it across the water in your boat?
7.
Lowly 06:34
LOWLY lowly........ and lonesome kind of day speaks....... volumes in a different kind of way Your throat, dry from a good cry Your hands shake But you don't know why Wild eyed child Spoke..... in hushed tones Desperate dog Scrap for his bone Leave me be In my own home Leave me be By my lonesome --------------------------------------- lowly....... and lonesome kind of song speaks...... volumes when you listen long Your feet tap to their own drum a fly buzzzz'z but you don't know where from Wild eyed youth In a skate park Razor tooth like a white shark See his neck draped in rat bone Hear his pulse Like a head tone Lowly..... kind of boy Lowly..... kind of boy --------------------------------------- He came from the dust Rustled around Spoke a few words Then he left town Is that all... this poor kid was to be? For try as he might To get up off the ground He never took off Just made a faint sound Tell me his story From pebbles or bark on the tree? ----------------------------------------- lowly......... and lonesome kind of night speaks........ volumes in a different kind of light You can't shake Off that old coat You can't unsing A blue note Restless child Lay.... your head down Restless child Put.... your head down Lullabies From your old town Distant cries From a ghost town Lowly..... kind of man Lowly..... kind of man He came from the dust Rustled around Spoke a few words Then he left town
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WHEN I CLOSE MY EYES Remember when we woke up at the crack of dawn and gathered walnuts among the autumn leaves When little Jay made it thru the barb-wire fence and fell into the wild horse out back You chased that horse down You chased him like mad and he ran away I love you Love you Love you So dearly And I miss you Miss you Miss you Severely I miss the way you were with me Assured & calm & fair It seems to me I lost you when I needed you most I miss you Miss you Miss you So dearly Yet I can see you See you See you So clearly I see your face in dreams at night Or when I'm by myself It seems to me You're closest when I close my eyes But I still see you If only in my dreams Yes I still see you If only in my dreams (2x) I love you Love you Love you So dearly And I miss you Miss you Miss you Please speak to me Please tell me things you haven't told and things I have forgot Please tell me how To be strong when you're not around don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone
9.
My Bird 09:25
MY BIRD -- In time, in time I will train my bird to sing Most anything In time, in time I will train my bird to speak Thru wounded beak But you will never hear My bird sound so clear Cause you have never heard A whippoorwill cry In time, in time I will train my bird to fly A gusty sky In time, in time I will train my bird to soar Like a winged dinosaur But you Will never see My bird fly majestically Cuz you have never seen A soulfly Ooooooooohhh baby Get up off the ground You can feel the cold pavement leave ya Ooooooooohhh sugar Now come on back down You've already made it, cuz you know it's in ya In time, in time I will train my bird to feed on nutritious seed In time, in time I will train my bird to grow Even though You tried to kill my bird thru meanness and ill will I forgive you that But you can't get near my bird In time, in time I will train my bird to love The sky above In time, in time I will train my bird to give And to receive All the things you took from her My bird will pass you in a blur Your words will fall to shreds Upon the grass Ooooooooohhh baby Get up off the ground You can feel the cold pavement leave ya Ooooooooohhh sugar Now come on back down You've already made it, cuz you know it's in ya In time, in time I will train my bird to sing An ode of spring In time, in time I will train my bird to speak A rune mystique But you Will never hear The cries of joy that pierce our sphere Cause you were not around When the whipporwill cried In time, in time I will train my bird to fly A gusty sky In time, in time I will train my bird to soar Try to ignore All the streaks across the sky My bird will live and you will die So long as you decry My bird's strength Ooooooooohhh baby Get up off the ground You can feel the cold pavement leave ya Ooooooooohhh sugar Now come on back down You've already made it, cuz you know it's in ya In time, in time I will train my bird to feed On abundant seed In time, in time I will train my bird to grow But so you know You will be OK If you apologize someday But please don't tell me Talk to the bird In time, in time I will train my bird to love The sky-above-the-sky, above In time, in time I will train my bird to live And to achieve All the things you took from her You give them back if you prefer Then someday my bird may be yours

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Red Crow Studios, North Chattanooga © 2016

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released May 27, 2016

Jamal Traub - singer, songwriter, acoustic guitar
Ross Carlson - producer, drums, bass, electric guitar, keys
Ernie Paik - violin ("The Fall)
Matt Slusher - mandolin ("Last Dream")
Susan Alcorn - pedal steel guitar ("Ladybug")
Jedidiah Jones - harmonica ("My Bird")
Will T.C. - cover art

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Jamal Traub Chattanooga, Tennessee

I was just a boy
Grew up in the grass
Biking down a dirt road
Falling from a tree
& scraping my knee

It's all coming back to me now

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