From the sunny skies of Brooklyn, New York,
you and I drove into structured suburbia.
Drove to avoid the stench of the city,
and leave our problems behind for the summer;
but you found yourself in the morgue again,
staring into the time machines there.
I found myself in the strip mall again,
with the addict's delusions of the Wiccans in the parking lot;
we checked ourselves into the hospital again,
which welcomed us with open arms.
You watched us like ants under a microscope,
your corpse somewhere distant and betrayed.
Visited me in that hospital again,
with a young woman, a friend of yours.
Saw by the twitch in her eye where she was from;
somewhere deep in the hidden depths of America.
Dark, painful fragment from the past.
That day, she stood bright and beaming, with a sharp, lightbulb smile;
the other night's nightmare she decided she was ready
for dreams of death.
Got back from that hospital again,
was thrown out with open arms.
Found someone I could be stupid about again,
with smooth, dark hair resting on my chest;
troubling, violent fantasies,
boring parties,
and dreams of death.
We all had supper again,
and you drank a tall glass of the reddest blood,
and you almost found out where it came from.
We thought you knew!
Came from down the road.
Came from somewhere distant and betrayed, and it
came from somewhere far behind.
5 NYC antifolk luminaries, and 1 Cannonball, all did a couple live recordings for William Blake's birthday in 2014. I got a concussion jumping off a chair during my first song. It was tons of fun. Cannonball Statman
Live EP recorded in Berlin during my 2017-'19 world tour, a few hours after Cannonball (the Labrador retriever I was named after) passed on to the next dream. Cannonball Statman
The latest from sean thornton explores dark themes, but they’re handled with a delicate grace in these beautiful bedroom pop songs. Bandcamp New & Notable Apr 25, 2022
San Francisco singer-songwriter and trumpeter Max Daniel gilds straight-shooting pop hooks with orchestral splendor and wry lyricism. Bandcamp New & Notable Aug 26, 2020