1. |
Shine Out
03:22
|
|||
|
Can this be real
Not like anyone said life would be so easy
But right now I feel like maybe I'm going a little crazy
Maybe you'd say I'm just getting carried away
There's just not a way to solve all the problems in just one day
But there's nowhere to go and the dangers will grow
(You're just getting carried away)
I think you don't know just how dark I can go
But oh the wind blows and the embers still glow
Feed it so it can grow to a fire
Go let your light shine out
Stoke the fire, make it brighter to light up the way
Don't let the light go out
Every night ends when sun comes to bring in the day
I can't tell what's real
When waking and dream lives are interleaving
Follow a beacon of light that'll lead back into reality
And there'll come a day when all of this washes away
And we'll find a way to live for today
Go let your light shine out
Stoke the fire, make it brighter to light up the way
Don't let the light go out
Every night ends when sun comes to bring in the day
|
||||
2. |
Back to Happy
03:10
|
|||
|
Back to Happy
So this is what it looks like
No clouds to block the view
Just sun and skies of blue
All around me, all around me
So this is what it feels like
With open heart again
Smiles and loving eyes
All around me, all around me
I’m back to happy
Fought my way through the pain
I’m back to happy
Found my way home again
So this is how my life is now
I’m back on solid ground
Friends and family
All around me, all around me
When I started down this road
I never thought that I would make it through
Fear and complication
Ruled my world
It took a long, long time
But, I’m back to who I am
...fought my way through...
...found my way home again…
I’m back to happy,
I’m back to happy,
I’m back to happy,
I’m back to happy
It took a long, long time
But, I’m back on solid ground
|
||||
3. |
Hoaxes
05:22
|
|||
|
Hoaxes
They won't tell and they won't show
What goes on around us
Under our noses
Try to learn all you want to know
Take it somewhere
There's nowhere to go
Yet we blindly follow
Distract and indulge us
With racing pulses
You’ll discern what you've got to know
Take it nowhere
Cause where can you go?
Do we really want to know?
Could they just be hoaxes?
Some fatal doses
But we yearn for a way to cope
Quiet your concern
There’s always tomorrow
|
||||
4. |
Our Saving Grace
07:24
|
|||
|
Our Saving Grace
See the future in our children’s eyes
Looking for some blessings in disguise
Hoping beyond hope for a reason to believe we’ll all survive
Not like we all can move to Mars
Or find a home ‘round some distant star
You and I won’t travel far
We’ve got to live right where we are
One Earth, One Human Race
Where is, Our Saving Grace
Mother Earth will heal herself one day
Question is will we be ‘round to see
How do we find a cure when we are the disease
The doctor’s out or so it seems
How will our children live their dreams
Dying Fat Cats, burning trees
Can’t deny the rising sea
One Earth, One Human Race
Where is, Our Saving Grace
The time has come to clear the air
You can keep your thoughts and prayers
Our children ask,” what hope lies there”
Will they say we did not care
One Earth, One Human race
Where is, Our Saving Grace
|
||||
5. |
Yellow Dye
04:11
|
|||
|
Yellow Dye
Race the sunset
Sunburn and skinned knees
Playing at twilight
With cicada shells and mud pies
Floating in color
Directing beams of light
Did you use dandelions or fireflies
As your childhood yellow dye?
When your eyes light up like
A whole field of fireflies
Chase the butterflies
Get blisters and grass stains
Soaking in sunshine
Picking weeds and mosquito bites
Mixing the colors
Manipulating light
Make a wish on a dandelion or a dragonfly
May your childhood never die
When your eyes light up like
A whole field of fireflies
This moment never dies
|
||||
6. |
Another World
06:33
|
|||
|
No longer did our hearts seem open
I hope to never understand
How could the very earth be broken
To which I dedicate my hands
I thought that we were lost and hopeless
Deep down beneath the fright and greed
Still know what every healer told us
Within is all the power we need
And time has run out on our poor little world
Why can’t we live like we’ve learned what we heard
I want to live, I want the world to live
I want the world to live and everything else follows (follow)
I hoped that it would all seem different
I wish that I could just lie down
Fly off and leave the world untended
To let the universe sort out
We were the only ones to see it
I know we haven’t got more time
Together we must try to heal it
Doing nothing is a simple crime
And why did we waste our will day after day
Time was just waiting for our turn to say
I want to live, I want the world to live
I want the world to live and everything else follows (follow)
Ain’t got another world (we say)
And time has run out on our poor little world
Why can’t we take the good one we deserve
Why would we sit here and wait to die, oh
I want to live, I want the world to live
I want the world to live and everything else follows (follow)
|
||||
7. |
It Doesn't Hurt Anymore
01:56
|
|||
|
Instrumental
|
||||
8. |
Fantastic Fires
08:03
|
|||
|
Sensation, by way of observation
Streaming a forest of flames on a tiny screen
Within the fire, we can hear the screaming
Perspective owns the news of the day
Such magnificent fantastic fires
When you’re not in play
A heathen, a storm, and disabled radar
Don’t forget to pray
Scales can’t track the burning on the land
Blaming won’t do it, will you lend a helping hand?
Such magnificent fantastic fires
When you’re not in play
A heathen, a storm, and disabled radar
Don’t forget to pray
Sensations, by the way of observations
Flames that flow like water on the screens
Flowing lava burns the trees and the
Oceanic sounds are screams
Fantastic fires
The ashes speak
Thoughts and prayers
Are words of the meek
Sensations, by the way of observation
Oceanic sounds are screams
Fantastic fires
The ashes speak
Thoughts and prayers
Are words of the meek
|
||||
9. |
Sirens Sing
10:05
|
|||
|
Where storm clouds swirl
And the tide sweeps you away
Where Sirens sing
And beckon you to stay
Come with me
Come with me
And we can be at home
In this toxic world
Where skies are dark and grey
Where anxieties swirl
And monsters come out to play
Follow me
Don’t follow me
Just let me be
Just let me be alone
|
||||
10. |
||||
|
Death by happy hour, death by misadventure
As the sun struggles up again over old New Hampshire
I don’t know what killed him, baby, but I could guess
Asa Brebner is dead
Like myself he became a father later in life
“Those kids will kill you” he gave me counsel one night
“Don’t hit ‘em Johnny, don’t hit your kids”
Asa Brebner is dead
Porter Square’s always kinda sucked, y’all
Now the suck is complete
Asa always played from the heart
Then stumbled home cross the street
I know alcoholics have a disease
You don’t have to tell me
But now is not the time, brother, please.
I was watchin’ news about a plane crash in Ethiopia
When I received a group email from Ms. Sullivan
Won’t forget the time he bought a long player for me by Mose Allison
When he was hustlin’ used paperbacks in Wayne’s shop to supplement his income
Maybe Asa Brebner really was the seventh son
But Asa Brebner, the great Asa Brebner is gone
|
||||
11. |
||||
|
They won't tell and they won't show
What goes on around us
Under our noses
Yet we blindly follow
Distract and indulge us
With racing pulses
You’ll discern what you've got to know
Take it nowhere
Cause where can you go?
They won't tell and they won't show
What goes on around us
Under our noses
Do we really want to know?
Could they just be hoaxes?
Some fatal doses
But we yearn for a way to cope
Quiet your concern
There’s always tomorrow
|
||||
Conduit Of Humanity San Francisco, California
In 2018 Fred Jeske went to ToddStock West at Camp Navarro hoping to widen his artistic collaborations. He made new friends and realized that this could become a lifelong project. 9/20 brings the first of a 2-part series named Equality, a mix of men and women, established and up-and-coming musicians. Most songs were made by sending tracks via DropBox and adding to each other’s ideas. ... more
If you like Conduit Of Humanity, you may also like:
featured on Bandcamp Radio Jan 26, 2016
go to album
Lost Themes IV: Noir
by John Carpenter
The latest installment of John Carpenter’s celebrated “Lost Themes” is now available for pre-order.
go to album
Anthology II: Movie Themes 1976-1988
by John Carpenter
featured on Bandcamp Radio Oct 27, 2023
go to album
featured on Bandcamp Radio Oct 28, 2022
go to album
Soulful pop-rock from this Washington crew, that splits the difference between pop sparkle and proggy structures.
go to album
Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998
by John Carpenter
featured on Bandcamp Radio Oct 24, 2017
go to album
Sacred Bones drop LP by cult moviemaker (of classics like Halloween and Escape from NY), who also scored OSTs.
go to album
