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NEAL MORGAN

by NEAL MORGAN

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    Neal Morgan's self titled drum and voice record on black vinyl. Comes with Party Damage stickers, and a gorgeous full-color insert of a Bion Mason painting with lyric sheet on the reverse.

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    Limited to 150. Hand-numbered by Neal. First pressing! Bright pink color 12" LPs purchased and shipped directly from Neal. Can be signed if you'd like. Includes MP3s, natch. Get 'em while they're hot!

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1.
We Are 01:44
We Are In the bright soft light Of a full sun on a day that’s not hot In a car On an empty street Shooting the breeze Waving cigars out the windows as we bounce along Evil deeds done And piled up in the back for all to see And we are without feeling One way or another Only moving forward Driving through the soft light The high-rises stare on Out over the pavement And the pavement’s pavement And the pavement’s pavement’s pavement Godless Scanning the city with black eyes like thick coin slots We go on and on and on just like this
2.
Ashamed And Escaping And escaping that shame or seeing about that I climb up the garage Sit down in the tarpaper And I look out Over the houses and equipment and mud And they’re all blurred in my breath I had a terrifying dream The kind that makes you resolve and resolve again So I set out to work Doing something Above the breath cloud, I think that must be The tallest nest In one of the taller trees Next to the tallest house in the city I’ve been up there and it seemed like some kind of yoga sex area Well maybe there’s some work I can do up here later on And tomorrow I’ll say to Robin: Robin, look at that nest The cold, the quiet, the morning dark have overtaken me
3.
Repairing A Wall and thinking of her In the emptiness And in the affirming repeat of an otherworldly song Beauty Spreading itself out And filling the house Taking its shape Bouncing off and sinking into infinite faces The fiber of wood Whatever is between the fibers of wood An unlit corner In the trashcan Through a pillow A piano on a route that I’ve made endless for now Through and into what I can’t describe Joy The soul The weight of living Why am I here? And I don’t care how this sounds to you: There is a higher power And I am made to know something of it today Pointed to it Brought to it In spite of my self and my mind And I sure don’t care how this sounds to you: But maybe she’s an angel Bearing the gift of god-finding, workingmusic Waking up and thinking of her It’s snowing out And I put on the song again And I become endless again Soaking in it Bathed by it Baptized Led around a corner by the hand to point me to it The show-er is so generous to me
4.
24 Hours In The City And on a park bench with her Twice Down the hill the workers plant a palm tree Cinched in a strap Hanging from a crane Near the boulders and dirt and other workers They’re turning this part of the park into a silicon valley-masonic-sacrifice-altar With the right number of trees and rocks Positioned so that on the eighth night It lines up with a constellation And all hell breaks loose We wonder who’s behind this Two parrots keep flying by And it’s probably time for me to start thinking about leaving And then I do And then I do I leave the city and come back And leave the city and come back To see her Killing time alone on a park bench during visit three A man selling pot propositions everyone around except me Then she calls And I’m up I take flight Pounding heart Striding down the hill in the grass And over the bum urine sidewalks to the corner where she’ll pick me up to go eat I could do this all the time
5.
At The Drumkit Writing in the dark Behind the curtain And the house music And the people filling in How lucky am I to play tonight To have drums To have played last night To play at all And to play again tomorrow
6.
Woke Up On The Driveway after a night Clothes in a ball and my skin in the air The coward in me and me go for a ride In the heat and the movement I’m taken in And join the noise And it bears down And I grip and stare Animate Through Sponge Pain on corner one: predatory focus Restlessness, loss, ache, corner two Five little children duckling by And the Prince in the next car, windows open Pushed back to me and in In waves as the other cars pass And the breasts pulling my eyes, moving in front of a business with brick façade I’m taken in And move through By the way, I did know teenage prostitution is a problem here And I know it now And I know it now I still know it And now, I still know it now And I still know it now
7.
Finding Rock Bottom In the wee hours My boy and I Loud then carom Loud then carom Loud then carom And I Aware of the softness of me and of his small body: So this is how it feels
8.
Walking To The Lake Drunk as hell I find an old girlfriend in the dark In the morning Up early Surprisingly buoyant Like a hundred dollars I jump on the cold water Then it surrounds me I become all-feeling An eel In some time, I’ll be the pure expression of myself
9.
In A Car 02:21
In A Car Neil Young songs the whole time Remembering a guest, a friend of a friend, back home one summer On a driveway Making fun of Neil Young Window cracked for a verse and one of the guitar solos Wind loud in my ear now Relief And I forget My mind goes eating at the bushes near the ocean I find an unused nest of grass folded in on itself and poke around in it And now, the wind in my ear And now, the window rolled up Facing Neil Young again But it’s not that easy: Recently, really feeling Helpless in an apartment Gaining understanding Both sides now Speeding through the hills and the mansions on the hills of California
10.
German Artist in his studio late At Night I’m out pissing on the weeds near the van And looking through his windows He’s turning his head this way and that way Considering a sculpture So this is something artists do even if no one is around He sits down with an apple and a hunk of bread Bites the apple and picks up a pad of paper and a pencil German artist at night becomes A German Artist At Night
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released June 17, 2014

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NEAL MORGAN Berkeley, California

Drummer and singer/songwriter Neal Morgan is best known as the trusted right-hand-man to some of the finest songwriters of his generation, including Joanna Newsom and Bill Callahan. Neal Morgan / Neal Morgan is a spoken drum and voice record. In The Yard is the second of his three total solo drum and voice records. ... more

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