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Colors of the West

by Mega Gem

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1.
Puddles 02:56
All the roads you rode upon Will rupture in the sun Enough begins to take its toll Then sounds before your done Down, down, down the rain comes Crash colossal sound Collections of our common fears Now puddles on the ground Around you Surround you I am not the giver, I am the river I am the one that you would die for I am not the great green ghost I am the shining emerald coast Around you Surround you We were the ones We grew old in your sleep We grew up with the sun Cause you keep us real Keep us feeling something at all I was a ghost because You wouldn't notice But somewhere below The ground keeps me from floating Once We were all the same Then you You flew away from me
2.
Onions 02:15
She said thanks for being alive With me right now We scream loud enough to convince even ourselves In the impossible embrace of moments like these We find things to believe in Like these sidewalk cracks that lead us Back to the sea So I fall asleep in the arms Of a stranger again Brave like the city We are held by our own desires As a thousand nights of rain Go by almost unnoticed Like the onions that make you cry Or the dreams where you could fly Your voice cracks... Cracks to reach the note There's no poem that can lift you Where you can't already climb No book to fill you in on the details Of your own life Collect moments in a jar We sleep with grand ambitions If everything could be held We would fill our arms with nonsense
3.
The picture you painted Flew from the wings that you wanted But somehow, we never looked at the clock The trees where I grew up, They told me to walk each step in kindness Because the dirt is the same And I am no different You told me your name You told me something worth remembering You said When we grow up We're not giving up Cause I wanna grow up So I don't have to feel so small No, we’re not losing it yet We’re not losing it yet We're not losing it yet We're not losing it yet Because it makes me happy When the rain comes And your eyes they get wet It makes me happy When you tell me This is exactly where you wanna be It makes me happy When we figured out that We had it all wrong It makes me happy When we learn To forgive ourselves anyway No we’re not losing it yet We’re not losing it yet We're not losing it yet No we haven't lost yet
4.
So I wonder what affect I might have on children In their sad and bitter lives With what words we greet each other gladly Remind the petals not to drop We grow crooked Towards the only light we can find Friendly pair of unknown hands The TV screams it's not our fault We're lonely Help us find where we belong I'm not ready to come home yet I'm not ready to be all alone In that great big city We search for the lights that will guild us But their not there at all If we can forget our fear of the cold We might make it Where the stars can still shine Oh your eyes They don't remind me Of other places I’ve been to Oh my surprise It’s not that useful To find what we're made of Some how I lose what I haven't found yet Give for granted Do not take
5.
If I were humble or if I were brave The truth wouldn't be so hard to explain I don't remember so I don't complain But I don't wanna see you roll your eyes As Light as a feather At the edge of the wind She slips and sinks slightly Then starts to swim I am still waiting and I am still sick But I would like to smile When no one is looking Looking the books have been cooking Down in the ground where the words were there waiting They'd sing Ohhhh please take us away from here The windows were wide Where the wind wanted in But somewhere outside a new wall begins Something real big or something real small The roses were red and I counted them all Ride upon ride upon the dirtiest roads Dirty our eyes and dirty our clothes Dirty our minds with your lushes Failure, failure so gracious with grandeur Dare ya dare ya I double dog dare ya! Ohhhhh please take me away from here
6.
Day or night Spring of fall I like riding horses, today! Just be your-self Just be your-self Just be your-self Anything you want to be Picking flowers Picking clouds Put a string on em, and pull em down Chorus Wizard spell Stormy Cloud Put a giant hat On the cloud Now it doesn't know Where to go! Chorus Build a giant Light castle Way up high In the sky Where the moonlight likes To Shine! Just be your-self Just be your-self Just be your-self But I'm crazy!
7.
In the morning We might give what we have left Then by the evening We might ride on home Oh and what a pretty place The clouds they keep us guessing Oh and what a pretty face, Her smile it gathers slowly We watch as the big plans roll in Laying on our backs, well knowing That some day Breathing will be redundant Visions will flicker, of the right thing To do Our hands will tremble Then loose touch with what we hold dearly Our feet will burn up Then fall short of the places we send them Our eyes will wander then shut tight when it's too much to look at Our minds will fool us with a note left that reads if only Our hearts will give-up Will give in Then something much greater than our songs will give us strength
8.
For Raïssa 03:14
Breath breeds new wishes For the weekly attempts To mail all my failures For your fingers to forgive me (now) The ink in your skin Is not the place you were born in Hoping you won't forget The wood or the stone Will we Find our Prayers in a dumpster They were stalking our mothers Tracing these brand new shadows Take this away from me Please take this away from me The day may break but we are not broken Walking like angels, tired of wings Once we were lost but now we are missing These hopeless desires are the ones we are kissing But I can not find you now, I can not find you now, I can not find you now, I can not find you
9.
I may run away dear But you can chase me Oh you can chase me But you, you will not follow Oh no you won’t dear And that’s fine with me I will buy you flowers, But they won’t make it No they won’t make it But you, you will not hear me Cause the train is calling Gotta ride alone Here we go it’s the merry go round song Won’t you join in Dancing and all the hummingbirds singing Soon we’ll be friends I will keep your secret But they might make me No they won’t let me But you, you will not mind dear Cause they won’t find us We’re goin’ roamin’ free We will find our treasure And sail off ever, oh and ever But dreams don’t always make it And that’s the story of you and me Here we go on this merry go round Falling slowly, wake my dear now
10.
On the best nights of our lives I fell asleep in the passenger seat I watched you breathing I couldn't help it As knees fall to dirt The rest will come later The simple silence That takes us where we need to be It will fade sweetly As the sun rises and I The sun rises and I I am still mourning In this reckless ambivalence We find ourselves lost again These voices all sound the same Here in the desert On the ride home The world looked so small I wanted to reach out I wanted to touch it all As the sun rises and I The sun rises and I I am still mourning
11.
In the absence of your breath We will grow tall just like buildings Standing still for just one minute Then fall down In the motion of this cycle We keep rolling we keep spinning We keep floating we keep thinning Just like our father's hair We will find All the hands we need To lift each other up Let the sunlight warm our skin We will be who we begin to be Today! By now you should have learned That all the best poems were stolen from thieves Glue against glue there's no telling how long this will last Take advice from the rain and come Down now Down now It's not your fault that your dying The people you know there dying too These hopeless dreams keep me getting out of bed In the morning Mothers eyes wont be leaking Fill the gap between dying and dead As he screams toward the sky We're already free
12.
When I wake up The air is still all around Your chest rises and climbs up tall Then falls back down with the rest of us So I'll pretend you’re the sun Always there, I just can't always see you Just like everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time Our feet and our hopes they were warm again Our feet and our hopes The storms from back east Will saturate the colors of the west The words will drop like stones into water Splash a little then sink deep Similar feet in a brand new town Helpless to forget what it feels like I am learning that the people are the movement And when we roll up, we roll over, we give up the chance to say I surely miss you and I'm not sorry for that

about

This album is dedicated equally to the people who inspired it, Jack O’Neill to mention one of many, and the hope that inspiration will come from it.

Thanks to Carol, Robin, Sven, Cyndy, Rich at Ghost House Studio, Lawrence, Brad and Libby at Same Cafe, Donna at Casa De Manuel, Dana, Jimmy, Denver,
And everyone else who helped to make this happen.

credits

released October 19, 2012

All Songs written by Mega Gem

Produced by Rich Goldberg – At Ghost House Studios in Denver, Colorado
With help from Chris Olsen, Griff Snyder, and Oliver Ceelen

Recorded and engineered by Rich Goldberg
With help from Chris Olsen, Griffith James Snyder, and Oliver Ceelen

Arranged by Doo Crowder, Rich Goldberg, and Oliver Ceelen

Mastered by Carl Saff

Album Artwork by Emi Knight


Album Credits:

Oliver Ceelen- Rhythm Guitar, Vocals, Bass,
Mike Olmsted - Bass Gang Vocals
Mia Bandy - Writer (Mia’s Sing-along) Vocals, Bells
Jennifer Rahn - Writer (Merry Go Round) Autoharp, Vocals, Saxophone Clark Walker - Lead Guitar, Gang Vocals
Greg Jaworowski - Trumpet, Gang Vocals
Kayla Martin - Cello, Gang Vocals
Emi Knight – Vocals, Glockenspiel, Hand Bells
Rich Goldberg - Guitar, Synth, Hoots and hollers, Bass, Piano, Casio, Cell Phone, Midi instruments
Micah Bontrager – Piano, Synthesizer, Gang Vocals
Chris Durant – Drums
Nate Henricks – Guitar, Banjo, Drums, Musical Saw, Vocals, Glockenspiel, Recorder
Miles Thacker – Percussion
Doo Crowder – Arrangements, Gang Vocals
Stelth Ulvang – Flute, Obo, Melophone, Accordion, Clarinet, Bass Clarinet, Mandolin
Harry Tulchin – Dobro
Collin Andrews - Co-Writer (Creepy Fingers), Gang Vocals
Clayton Dexter Norman - Gang Vocals
Derek Roy - Gang Vocals
Chad Hagedorn – Co-Writer (Onions, Creepy Fingers), Banjo
Wendy Lynn Zeldin – Vocals
Solomon Hagedorn-Zeldin - Wiggling noises
Bonnie Gregory – Vocals
Griff Snyder – Kazoo, Vocals
Emily Hall – Viola
Anna Maddocks – Violin * Kelsey – Violin
Jason Cain – Drums, Percussion
Justin Deloach – Banjo
Vaughn McPherson - Piano
Tyler Ludwick - Co-Writer (for Rïassa)
Blake Stepan - Double Bass
Savannah Powell – Viola
Marie Hafeman Curran- Co-Writer (Onions, Creepy Fingers)

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