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Starry Sounds

by Todd Warner Moore

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1.
Footprints sink Where the Sea meets land Tiny hands Carve their Moats in sand If only for a while Their towers Will arise From the pile And right here On this Moonlit beach A water wall Rushed those Great palm trees Submerged This iidyl place Uprooted memory Left no trace At this time Of magnificence Castle lives Lift in eminence I just can’t Write it down Or capture these Starry sounds But I’ll try... Stretch my days And they wash away Distant light Across the Milky Way I just can’t write it down Or capture those Starry sounds But I’ll try... But I’ll try...
2.
Ebb and Flow 03:02
Outside they sit and sip their tea Newspapers under the banyan tree Their cups are chipped and steep Their breakfasts decades deep In the shade of this tree While some Have broken apart And others have Lost their heart They are still Their better parts This ebb and flow This touch and go These highs and lows From the bending To the blending To the tending To the mending To the sensing All the endings Of their fences Every subtle augmentation The give and take of situations The plans they think about And how they feel today Are the days that roll their way The ways which they respond And how they move on Are the things they build upon And when they’re running around And when they’re Losing their ground They still hear one sound This ebb and flow This touch and go These highs and lows From the bending To the blending To the tending To the mending To the sensing All the endings Of their fences
3.
Ruby red sunset A cotton candy moon Fishing boats On the indigo And I am going home They say things Have a way Of working out In the strangest Ways And it’s all Happening Today Emerald island of birds Where no human goes From the window Hear you their chirps And I am going home They say things Have a way Of working out In the strangest Of ways And it’s all Happening Today Solo They say things Have a way Of working out In the strangest Of ways And it’s all Happening Today They say things Have a way Of working out In the strangest Of ways And it’s all Happening Today
4.
Every time I feel in synch I don’t Need to even Think think think Quick as a wink I’m right on the brink Of someplace I have never seen It's as if I’ve Shed my skin skin skin Starting again Starting again I don’t know How to describe it No way to revive it It just seems An unexpected bolt A song arrives In notes And I’m Fine fine fine Fine fine Said I’m Fine fine fine Fine fine But sometimes I will share my songs With people I don’t even Know know know A sense of regret Stomach upset And I don’t know Why I care But I know I’ve got to share share share Starting again Starting again I don’t know How to describe it No way To revive it It just seems An unexpected jolt I open up myself And I Crawl crawl crawl Back home Said I And I Crawl crawl crawl Back home That's the paradox Of songs Once we've formed them They are Gone gone gone Movin' along At the crack of dawn And if perchance We meet again The songs that once flew Like some long lost friends Starting again Starting again I don’t know How to describe it No way even To revive it It just seems An unexpected bolt A song arrives In notes And I’m Fine fine fine Yeah fine And I’m Fine fine fine Fine fine Said we're Fine fine fine Fine fine And we're Fine fine fine Fine fine
5.
Way out there The Borealis Ether and air Scattered where Particles Pass everywhere You’re the drops of rain Silver sounds remain And way back when We knew a way my friend To see So clearly A light It is Will be All right And back then Everything unsaid Of times ahead I can hear you sing From the sapphire sea Waves pass through me You’re the drops of rain Silver sounds remain And way back when We found a way my friend To see So clearly A light It is Will be All right I’ll meet you there At the water’s edge A window walk Between now and then Now and then To see So clearly A light It is Will be All right
6.
Lapis Largo 04:11
7.
Sometimes when they loved It was like they were breathing together And their bodies were musical saws Calling where to be touched They'd give and they'd give And they'd be what they wanted to be 'Twas these times in their love Where everything came to the surface But it was so hard in this love of theirs To find it back back back Back to the middle Oh but when they distorted The sound could bring blood to the ears Was that feeling of being alone When they're right there beside you Everything that was said Was turned into some kind of poison And they fed off this poison It made its way into their bones 'Cause it was so hard in this love of theirs To find it back back back Back to the middle But it was 4:30 in the morning She should have been sleeping Couldn't tell if she was waking Or dreaming this They met in the middle 'Twas the calm between all or their storms Found its way through their bedroom window And they floated floated floated away And they met in the middle Met in the middle Meet in the middle Will meet in the middle
8.
You post your pictures on the wall You comment on the pictures Posted on the wall But you don't talk much anymore And you don't get past The front door through Look through the glass All those autumns with Your friends Where coffee conversations Couldn’t end You’ve traveled far Inside your phone You’ve found a way To stay together and alone And you don't talk much anymore And you don't get past The front door Look through the glass All those autumns with Your friends Where coffee conversations Couldn’t end It seems like they are from a dream Your words and alchemy Or stones found in the sea But you don't talk much anymore And you don't get past The front door Look through the glass All those autumns with Your friends Where coffee conversations Couldn’t end
9.
City light bouquets And the people are Fixed and gaze Skyscraper Fireworks displays Turn night into day And the Ferris wheel lights Shine from A towering height On the harbour so bright Shimmering sight All the lives we live How we take or give Lead to this river blue Into morning dew A cicada knows Nothing of Spring Or of Fall The mushroom too Will never know Of a twilight Or dawn How you shaped These words Thousands of Years ago To pine needles Falling below Into melting snow All the lives we live How we take or give Lead to this river blue Into morning dew And inside our hearts The tattooed charts The remnants Of stars All the lives we live How we take or give Lead to this river blue To morning dew Let's sink To the ground To the faint hum of Starry sounds To the spiralling Ferris wheel lights Alive tonight
10.
Slate 05:42
Shifting into twilight days The waning of the Sunlight on the boats The wood the water movement Liquid crimson undulations As they float Frequently He meets his daughter Brings her food She tells him Of her day And they sit Beside the pier And watch the flickers In the bay Beside those boats This is their moment This is their time Recall All the times They’ve Spent away To this spot By the sea Where the ease of the foam And water spray Reconcile To degrees To see Each other once again To the sounds Of the sea Exchange their kisses And farewells She’ll go back home To supper With her mother And he’ll watch The fires in the sky Dissolve in might Above the sunken sun The way he fled When he was young Still follows him Though he’s not Who he was Correcting Threads Of old decisions Consequences Long ago undone This is his moment This is his time Blank slate Across the Ceiling of the sky The insight To make right All The loose ends Of a fly by night life Out of time To see Himself For the first time To the sounds Of the sea

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released August 10, 2019

Todd Warner Moore: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboards, Starry Sounds
Leah Hart: Backing Vocals
Michael Kentish: Backing Vocals
Roberto Diana: Electric Guitar, Nylon String Guitar, Mandolin, Banjo
William Stewart: Violin, Viola
Daniel González: Cello
Sashko Temelkoski: Clarinet
Issar Schulman: Double Bass
Larry Salzman: Percussion

Mixed & Mastered by Oliver Wagner at SoundTheoryLab, Taiwan.

Hamurabi Rubio: Album Cover Photo

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