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Jerry Joseph & Jackmormons
Cherry - Terminus Records - 2004
Pogues Weather,
Cloud Eyes,
The Jacob Ladder,
Revolution,
Dig My Hole,
And The Gold Of Their Bodies ,
Friendly Fire,
Postcards,
Bears That Dance,
Golden American,
Syracuse
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Jerry Joseph – Vocals,
Guitar
Something less than
brilliant
Luckily they’re grading on
the curve
A life thought most
resilient sabotaged by chronic lack of nerve
Lack of nerve
You should know better than
to bet the farm on one suggested horse
It’s all out of your hands,
so take your seat and watch it run its course
Run its course
Baby it’s Pogues weather
again, it blows in from the west
And I’m afraid that I’m not
man enough to take the test
To face it down,
determination’s fled
From Pogues weather again
Communication’s on the blink
I fear I’ve let you down
The guns, the sex, the
kitchen sink
Pack it all, get out of town
Out of town
The drum from Panama
It’s beautiful, but always
drops the beat
And you could bang your
fingers raw announcing our retreat
Our retreat
Baby it’s Pogues weather
again, I should buy some warmer clothes
‘Cause I’m afraid I’m not
the man, the man you think you know
I’m scared and running,
scared and running from the cold
It’s summer in the book I’m
reading
It’s summer in Siam
But that’s not where you are
and that’s not where I am
I’m scared and running, I’m
scared and running
Let me lie my face down in
the warmer sand
It’s Pogues weather again,
it’s bitter and cruel
It’s Pogues weather again,
I’m still a failure to you baby
It’s Pogues weather again
Jerry Joseph – Vocals,
Guitar
Fan is blowing hurricanes
around the room
The heat and dust and rivers
of your scent
The morning sun is clocking
in a-hundred and two
The spinning blades can
barely make a dent
But hard to see the coolness
in your emerald eyes from here
So I lay hot and listless
‘til you choose to reappear
I should try to focus on a
clear blue sky
But my vision ends up
getting pretty torn
And I’m reeling in the
chills and I don’t know why
My head is full of thunder
from the storm
But hard to see your beauty
with cloud eyes anyway
Well come back to me baby,
you can blow the clouds away
Hold onto me baby, hell you
might get burned
You will never know unless
you try
Or pleasantly surprised by
what you’ve learned
With cloud eyes
Well honesty ain’t all that
it’s cracked up to be
Lots of things that I don’t
want to know
Clarity of conscious really
frightens me
I don’t think I really want
to grow
But when I’m looking deeply
in your emerald eyes there’s light
Well come back to me baby, I
might get some sleep tonight
Hold onto me baby, hell you
might get hurt
That’s what everybody says
But love just isn’t love
without some clouds and dirt
And I think we can make it
anyway
Hold on to me baby, hell you
might get burned
You will never know unless
you try
Together we can still see a
beautiful world
With cloud eyes
Together we can still see a
beautiful world
With cloud eyes
Jerry Joseph – Vocals,
Guitar, Percussion
Thai Fancher – Percussion
Wire, got
a wire to my heart
Fire, got a fire in my heart
Baby’s out howling at the
UFOs
One day they might beam her
into space
She’s out there in the
desert taking off her clothes
Spinning ‘til she’s gone
without a trace
Come here little honey, I’d
love to paint your eyes
Just don’t wake me for the
rapture, ‘cause you know I hate goodbyes
With a million good excuses
but none of them will matter
Gonna climb
Up the Jacob Ladder
Whip, whip this aging mule
Whip, whip this aging mule
Baby she sees Jacob in the
glass in Switzerland
So she scaling up the
ramparts to offer him a hand
I’ll throw you out some
whiskey; you’ll throw me down a line
You’ll pull me up this
ladder, one rung at a time
Jacob says hey baby, what
about your brother Cain
‘Cause he’s angry and
delusional with water on the brain
Well they threw him from the
garden, ‘cause he’s meaner than a hatter
Long fall
From the Jacob Ladder
From the Jacob Ladder
Bind, won’t you bind my
shaking hand
Bind, bind my shaking hand
Baby’s out shooting up the
holy land
Running with the troubled
sons of Abraham
Lord knows I love her but
I’ve got to let her run
So I watch her from a
distance ‘til she’s got her killing done
Come here little darling,
it’s time to show the sword
‘Cause out here in the
desert you can hear the lions roar
And now that you and Jacob,
in your service of the Lord
Throw down your golden idols
watch them shatter
Your lost tribes of Israel
watch them scream and scatter
Gonna climb
Up the Jacob Ladder
Come here little honey, I’d
love to kiss your eyes
You can wake me for the
rapture, ‘cause I’m not afraid to die
They can crucify you baby
but it really will not matter
‘Cause we’ll climb up the
Jacob Ladder
Up the Jacob Ladder
Up the Jacob Ladder
Up the Jacob Ladder
Jerry Joseph – Vocals,
Guitar
Chae Fancher – Vocals
How many stones ‘til you hit
the crows
How many barks ‘til you hit
the moon
Is it your love of the woman
Or is it your love of the
constellation
How many times can you shake
your head
How many times can you paint
it blue
Is it your love of the
hurricane
Or do you wish that they
named it after you
How high
How high
How high to the
constellation
How many times can they pull
your string
How many calls through the
Dixie cup
Clearly a lack of
communication
Houston I think we got a
problem
How high
How high
How high to the
constellation
You got the power, love and
devotion
Where there’s a will,
there’s a way
Circles on circles,
perpetual motion
Revolution, revolution
How many times can we hit
the skids
How many times can they
count it down
Once every minute, once in a
lifetime
Reach for your pistol or
reach for the stars baby
How high
How high
How high to the
constellation
Revolution
How high
How high
How high to the
constellation
Dig My Hole
Jerry Joseph – Vocals,
Guitar, Harmonica
You grab your magic lantern
baby
And head out to the woods
You grab your magic lantern
You head out to the woods
Bring your spade and shovel
‘Cause some digging’ll do
you good
Now what’s that you’ve been
fixing
Tongue and cheek and head
And what’s that you’ve been
fixing baby
Tongue and cheek and head
Lick the gravy off your
fingers, ‘cause were running out of lead
Dig my hole, baby dig my
hole
Well your daddy always told
you
Gotta keep your powder dry
Your daddy always told you
You gotta keep your powder
dry
Now you listen to your daddy
‘Cause your daddy would
never lie
And you bring your Mexican
blanket
Just like you’ve been told
And you bring your Mexican
blanket baby
Just like you’ve been told
Because once the sun
surrenders
Well these woods start
getting cold
Dig my hole, dig my hole
With lavender and lilac baby
Your trusty burning sage
I got your thread and needle
baby
And your burning bible page
To soothe the raging devil
That’s been rattling your
cage
You kiss me pretty baby
Put the copper on my eyes
And you kiss me pretty baby
Put the copper on my eyes
And you tell me you forgive
me
Baby I know you lied
Dig my hole, baby dig my
hole
Jerry Joseph – Vocals,
Guitar
And the gold of their
bodies, and the gold of their bodies
Will always shine, will
always shine
And the gold of their
bodies, and the gold of their bodies
Transcending time,
transcending time
From a distance it seems
that they’re waving
But I fear that they are
beyond saving
And as the light of heaven
sets surrounding
They’re not really waving,
they are drowning
And the gold of their
bodies, and the gold of their bodies
Reflecting light, reflecting
light
And the gold of their
bodies, and the gold of their bodies
They shimmer in white, they
shimmer in white
It appears they’re happy and
behaving
Their eyes reveal a longing
and a craving
Of dreams where hand in hand
they both are flying
But they’re not really
laughing, they are crying
And the gold of their
bodies, and the gold of their bodies
Like tears of pearls, like
tears of pearls
And the gold of their
bodies, and the gold of their bodies
From a golden world, in a
golden world
Children’s joy and lunatics
still raving
We behold the silent grace
amazing
And as the light of heaven
set surrounding
Hark the herald angel
trumpets sounding
They’re not really waving
No, they’re not really
waving
No, they’re not really
waving
They are drowning
They are drowning
And the gold of their bodies
Jerry Joseph – Vocals,
Guitar
Thai Fancher – Vocals
Hey friendly
Hey friendly
Hey friendly fire
I can see your laser guided
I can see you taking aim
Accuracy and accusations
But nobody to take the blame
Hey friendly
Hey friendly
And I can see the missile
tracers
Guided by the satellites
The Ministry of Information
Hope they got the target
right
Hey friendly
Hey friendly
Hey friendly fire
I understand we love each
other
Realize it’s got to hurt
Who’re you gonna bleed for
baby
What do you think your life
is worth
Hey friendly
Hey friendly
Hey friendly fire
Father against mother
Sister against brother
Lover against lover
Everybody run for cover
Hey friendly
Hey friendly
Hey friendly fire
It’s just like the blind
leading the blind
Welcoming peace as an
option, putting your love before caution
Trouble behind, presence of
mind
Higher and higher and
higher, we come under friendly fire
Hey friendly
Hey friendly
Hey friendly fire
I wonder how we got here
baby
I can’t believe we pulled
the pin
I’m talking about a world
gone crazy
Looking at the shape we’re
in
Father against mother
Sister against brother
Lover against lover
Everybody run for cover
Hey friendly
Hey friendly
Hey friendly fire
Jerry Joseph – Vocals,
Guitar
Dave Schools – Bass
Burned out like the tip of
your cognac dipped cigar
Plotting a path that can
only be measured in stars
You head for a place that is
safe, it just ain’t around here
Time’s running out for a
taste of the ones you hold dear
Well I’ll refrain from a
chorus of tearful goodbyes
‘Cause what some see as
pain, I see as light in your eyes
Well I won’t pretend you’re
not facing an end I don’t fear
Still I might get choked up
or silent, driven to tears
But I’d sure love a glimpse
of the faces and voices you’ll hear
Of the voices you’ll hear
Well tell all the ones that
I love that I’m doing okay
And I’ll see them sooner
than later, one of these days
And I’d tell them myself but
today I can’t travel that far
So I’m sending you off with
some hastily scribbled postcards
Postcards
Down on my knees I try to
believe when I pray
That you’re answering me by
helping me get through the day
And I dial and I dial but
the numbers I have are all wrong
Still over millions of miles
I’m still getting a sense you belong
And though I can’t
understand, on this point I think we’ll both agree
That those left behind can
see through their tears that you’re free
So send out a round of
embraces and kisses for me
Hand out a postcard to all
of my friends that you see
‘Cause I know they’re saving
a place at the table for me
At the table for me
Well tell all the ones that
I love that I’m doing okay
And I’ll see them sooner
than later, one of these days
As you pass through the
flames with your arms wrapped around your guitar
Well the cool thing about
heaven is they’ll take you just the way that you are
The way that you are
Well tell all the ones that
I love that I’m doing okay
And I’ll see them sooner
than later some other day
And I’d tell them myself but
today I can’t travel that far
So I’m sending you out with
some hastily scribbled postcards
Postcards
Postcards
Bears That Dance
Jerry Joseph – Vocals,
Guitar, Harmonica
Here at the bar, sitting
alone, making a list of why he’s cool
Nobody asks, he keeps to his
own until he falls right off his stool
He’s never been confident
with strangers
I doubt he’ll find his
courage now
Maybe he will, maybe he
won’t
There’s bears that dance and
bears that don’t
Here on the beach she sits
by herself wishing that you were with her now
She’s learned to run, keep
out of reach, praying you’ll work it out some how
You’ve never been honest
with each other
And I doubt you’ll find your
courage now
Maybe you will, maybe you
won’t
There’s bears that dance and
bears that don’t
And all your life, you been
riding along your blood meridian
Like the judge and the
ladies dancing, we devour up our friends
Maybe we do and maybe we
don’t
There’s bears that dance and
bears that won’t
Here in the world we travel
alone and everyone stares into their drinks
Beautiful girls, men on
their own, nobody saying what they think
I’ve never been brave enough
to ask them
And I doubt I’ll find my
courage now
Maybe I will, maybe I won’t
There’s bears that dance and
bears that don’t
I never really told you how
much I love you
And I doubt I’ll find my
courage now
Maybe I will maybe I won’t
There’s bears that dance and
bears that don’t
There’s bears that dance and
bears that don’t
Bears that dance and bears
that don’t
Jerry Joseph – Vocals,
Guitar
I can’t make change for your
pink twenties baby
The buck stops here, right,
that’s what you said
And I hold you tight and I
can feel you coming
The cage is spinning but the
hamster’s dead
But you’re looking better
all the time
With an empty grin and an
empty mind
And I’m okay with everything
you say to me baby
And I fly in circles and I
flap my arms
Like the rest of the pigeons
in the Notre Dame
And I hold my fire lest I
get it wrong
‘Til somebody tells me what
side I’m on
But you’re looking smarter
all the time
Baby medicine for my angry
mind
And I’m okay with everything
you say
Are you my golden American
And I’m beyond caring what
state you’re in
Who you sleep with or call
as friends
You’re my golden American
And I’m okay; you wave your
pride that way
And I’m okay; you raise your
flag that way
And I’m okay; you shake your
ass that way child
You split me open like a
melon rind
You scrape me clean, make
your home inside
And all my pride I shall,
abdicate I shall
Wash your kitty child and
lick your plates
But I like you better when
you’re in control
Baby eat my body, baby eat
my soul
And I’m okay with everything
you say
Are you my golden American
Your vacancy sign still
reels me in
Low maintenance is how I
choose my friends
You’re my golden American
Are you my golden American
My television, my let’s
pretend
My good guys get the girl in
the end
You’re my golden American
You’re my golden American
You’re my golden American
Jerry Joseph – Vocals,
Guitar
Well you proved that you
could do it
Guess they didn’t have the
faith
A bit surprised that you got
through it
But now they’ve given up the
chase
And just how far can you go
And just how fast can you
run
Well I suppose you’ll let
them know
When you got your running
done
So you left your angel wings
And they kept your innocence
Just like every other spring
When you went over the fence
And you dearly miss your
family
And they were praying
everyday
That you’d come back to your
senses
And somehow they can make
you stay
They grab your legs, grab
your eyes
They’d do anything to keep
you baby
Well somewhere there’s a
girl
And they say she’s got your
eyes
They may never gaze upon you
But you know bloodlines
never lie
And if she ever gets the
pictures
Or the letters meant for her
Well maybe she’ll forgive
you
But you really can’t be sure
She’s got your legs; she’s
got your eyes
She’d do anything to meet
you baby
But you fight it on your own
You swim against the tide
that’s always pulling you
Back home to Syracuse
And you send your mama
flowers
On every Mother’s Day
Or maybe on her birthday
Or the day she passed away
And now you’re decades apart
But she’s not going anywhere
And you know deep down in
your heart
That one day you’ll join her
there
You’ve got her legs; you’ve
got her eyes
She’d do anything to see you
happy
But you fight it on your own
You swim against the tide
that’s always pulling you
And you feel it in your
bones
You see it with your eyes,
your struggle to get loose
From your home in Syracuse
Well it seems summer’s
ending
And it gets shorter every
year
And a cold October’s waiting
To remind you of the tears
Now you’re here with me
But you say you’re still
alone
There lots of things I’d
love to be for you baby, but I could never be your home
Hold my hand or hold my eyes
I’d do anything to make you
happy
But you fight it on your own
You swim against a tide
that’s always pulling you
And I feel it in your bones
I can see it in your eyes,
your struggle to get loose
You’re going home one day to
Syracuse
You’re going home, it’s
okay, it’s Syracuse
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