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Collier Canyon

by Oceanography

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1.
Marcellus 04:31
Marcella’s broken bones were blackened and her flesh was never found All the people who keep looking walk the streets with their heads down Dumb luck isn’t helping and we knew it never would So keep your inside jokes inside from the steeples to the hills Unsettled minds can’t be satisfied On the street they keep talking about what might have been if the pattern in the carpet reared it’s ugly head So they throw their suspicions at anything that moves and keep making the same mistakes without checking their books Unsettled minds can’t be satisfied While you were sleeping, they took it all and you did not notice, that everything was gone You kept walking with that white noise in your ears down to the orchards where the highway disappears I do not blame you for burying those bones because I know it’s the only protection that you will ever know Unsettled minds can’t be satisfied
2.
Picking flowers from the trash pressed beneath your daddy’s stack of Wall Street Journals I’m pretty sure that he won’t take notice He threw them out with last weeks Economist And you know it’s not your fault it’s always been women and children first On the steps of the Ivy League Every time they throw you underneath the uptown bus That ain't no way to treat your flesh and blood It's not what you would choose if it were up to you And you think it’s of no use because you’ve been told this world is cruel and they serve a higher purpose It don’t matter where you came from kid It only matters where your head is So split the pick in two They're gonna love you no matter what you do Breaking bottles in the trash Smash them all up into powder bits against fluorescent bulbs your mother just can’t stand She says the light as false, she always turns them off And you know it’s not your fault these things burn hot before they burn you out It don’t matter where you came from kid It only matters where your head is So split the pick in two They're gonna love you no matter what you do
3.
Lovely Mess 04:45
Major cities are miles apart for a reason you claim Ordinary people living ordinary lives But the distance in between can become a tangible thing Quit trying to clean me up I never meant to spill my guts What’s good in life isn’t so easily defined You've been having bad dreams about good things gone badly Crossing borders for better futures can only add to your confusion Quit trying to clean me up I never meant to bare my throat Polish your past with your family crest Show me a life with no regrets You claim to see the accident twelve cars ahead You’ve been keeping one bag packed to follow shadows your marksman cast But even as the icecaps meltyou can’t unbuckle your hangman’s belt Quit trying to clean it up I need a place to hang my coat Always the last one to be impressed Always the last lovely mess And I’m busy busy busy making my ends meet And I’m busy busy busy trapped in the scenery So I’m changing my lucky number to one
4.
Bow Ribbons 05:48
Everybody’s busy driving by with expensive teeth straight and white While the trains may run on time my loose ends remain untied Wasted days turn to wasted nights I need to recognize convenience when it strikes Calm rivers turn to rapids over rocks Bow ribbons aren’t bow ribbons without knots Why not take what you need for the summer time before it’s too late to come running back for more I may not want to be there to welcome you but you know what you need better than I do I know there’s nothing left for us to say so keep your head turned away I hope the cyclone fence on you fingertips keeps you company as you walk hip to hip I know we’re looking out for absolutes What we depend on has turned for the worse Calm rivers turn to rapids over rocks Bow ribbons aren’t bow ribbons without knots Why not, take what you need for the summer time before it’s too late to come running back for more I may not want to be there to welcome you but you can get what you need one more time Why not, take what you need for the summer time before it’s too late to come running, back for more I may not want to be there to welcome you I have my needs to consider and they won’t let me go
5.
Kathleen don’t leave Sit tight for the time being It's old hat, I know We can make it up as we go Collier Canyon will calm you down as the rodeo rolls into town Tie you down I know those cowboys have their eyes on you Sweetest thing on their whole damn tour I put my arm around you like I should I show them I’m one you’re sticking around for Sticking around for
6.
Days grow short and lose distinction as time passes I’m thinking of you now I can’t put out the torch, it has to burn out on it’s own So I pull out your old Maxell tapes and play some radio songs And I scuff the kitchen floor with my Sunday shoes like you and I used to do Just before I fall apart the blood in my head ends up in my heart Old times old times weighing heavy on the mind so I ditch my day job for a day and lock it all inside Shining by the light of the stereo Taping pop songs off the radio I remember you in eighty-four knocking it around to Purple Rain in the record store Playing songs we can’t afford now the tipping point has tipped and our fountain of youth has turned to shit So I scuff the kitchen floor with my Sunday shoes like you and I used to do Just before I fall apart the blood in my head ends up in my heart
7.
Let’s start a gang we’ll shoot up this town Start at the ampm and end at City Hall downtown I don’t matter who we hit because it won’t make no difference you know my aim is for shit and I’m pretty sure yours is too We'll have to steal a car one of reliable means A brand belonging to the common kind of a color that won’t attract any eyes My neighbor’s got one down the street station wagon with vinyl seats I’m pretty sure she keeps the gas tank full full enough to get us out of here Now I’m your son of a gun from the Year of the Dragon Your my saddle tramp sidekick from the Year of the Snake And we ride on the mischievous side stair dancing over the firing line They say if you don’t obsess about it then it’s probably better to live without it So we cross the Arroyo Bridge as the rubbernecks spit at what we did and all the sunlight on the vinyl seats burns our legs in the summer heat We know it’s wrong, but we do it anyway,because we like it and you like us that way
8.
Missy Sport 04:28
The spotlight slaps her in the face wipes the shadows from her eyes, capillaries on pale white The pressure will never let up now, it’s great so great Missy presses against fences bricked tight so tight She sprays the crowd with saccharine sound So sweet it’s bound to rot your teeth, providing pain so great but the story only floats if she keeps cutting her throat No one gets a second chance so arrange it any way you can Powdered noses pressed against tinted windows Blank faces drunk on youth, fast talking and aloof dragging boot heals down sidewalks, tough so tough Dressed like winos in the gutters Filled to the top with bitter little thoughts of animal poses and animal poses No one gets a second chance so arrange it any way you can Missy Sport, holds a parking spot for a limousine Missy Sport, coats her pearly whites in Vaseline the doors are all locked tight while she toe taps to methamphetamines The bus is up on blocks pointed at Memphis Tennessee but we don’t know if the darling will make it home again, the same
9.
Field Shots 05:13
I’m taking shots into the field and nobody’s falling down Everybody back home says I’m crazy because I’m out here on my own But little do they know, little do they know, little do they know That the sand is burning beneath our feet and the sky is falling the sky is falling So defend our women defend our children from hands of strangers and foreign language Well I’m still willing to stay in the cross-hairs of harms way With a tune to whistle and a beat to dance to A photograph and a camera angle for the magazine on your bedside table all the blood and guts of your friendly neighbor Still we pretend to have, but it’s polka dots and plaid I woke up a couple years older and everything looked the same Rows of women and men, sitting blank faced in the sun thinking about loving someone special that don’t love them thinking about having something special that they can’t have But little do they know, little do they know, little do they know That the borders are lined with dirty bombs and the cupboards hang with empty cans, with rusty hinges, rusty hinges commercial anthems and bad decisions They got problems that I can’t fix and I know I don’t know the half of it but I’m still willing to stay in the cross-hairs of harms way
10.
Fumer Tue 03:29
I’ll buy you cigarettes, if you want to

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released October 4, 2019

Guitars/Vox : Brian Kelly
Drums : Brock Bowers
Keys : Scott Barwick
Mixing : Peter Labberton
Mastering : Mike Wells

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Oceanography Oakland, California

Oceanography is the solo project of Oakland-based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Brian Kelly. He brings a unique pop sensibility to bittersweet songs of heartbreak, loss, and longing, recalling at times The War on Drugs, My Morning Jacket, and Damien Jurado. His literary eye for detail and deceptively powerful voice create moments of catharsis and beauty amid the bleak and mundane. ... more

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