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Where the Story Goes

by John Lyle

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1.
Out in the Country 04:02
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Out in the Country Someone tell the old folks that it’s raining Someone tell them roses always die Wild ones make their name With the power of their shame Holding on just long enough to cry It’s good to be out in the country Feel those golden hills beneath my spine Pin my hopes to the sky and watch my worries fly To the concrete home where they belong Living face to face ain’t no picnic Living back to back’s like a duel If you think that’s living, you got a lot to learn I’m glad I don’t need to be back in school It’s good to be out in the country Feel those golden hills beneath my spine Pin my hopes to the sky and watch my worries fly To the concrete home where they belong Old enough to carry every mountain Young enough to rage against the sea Always out of range of the sorrow and the pain Dying every moment to be free
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Where the Story Goes 02:49
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Where the Story Goes Truth bears no witness And makes no foes and it Don’t care where the story goes It don’t care where the story goes Dizzy cycles decompose With clouded eye and hollow nose It’s all been told where the story goes Where the story goes Don’t make no never mind Beyond a sea of tears Where the story goes Nobody ever finds The way back out of here Nobody plows Elysian Fields With broken fingernails And braves the mighty waters Using handkerchiefs for sails Broken heart on Beauty’s sleeve And battered horn on bended knee It’s all been told where the story goes Where the story goes Don’t make no never mind Beyond a sea of tears Where the story goes Nobody ever finds The way back out of here Nobody plows Elysian Fields With broken fingernails And braves the mighty waters Using handkerchiefs for sails Truth bears no witness And makes no foes and it Don’t care where the story goes It don’t care where the story goes
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Sleeping on the Counter 03:03
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Sleeping On the Counter I was sleeping on the counter Did you have to leave me there With my eyes wired shut and And a crown of thorns in my hair I was sleeping on the counter When the storm broke and All my dreams went up in smoke I was sleeping on the counter Did you have to leave me there I’ll show them to you, baby My leg cramps and my poor nails They’re from falling off your counter And from breaking into your jails I was sleeping on the counter When the storm broke and All my dreams went up in smoke I was sleeping on the counter Did you have to leave me there I was sleeping on the counter Like a baby if you please But you didn’t know The forest from the trees I was sleeping on the counter When the storm broke and All my dreams went up in smoke I was sleeping on the counter Did you have to leave me there I love you, baby and I hope you love me too Sometimes I wonder when I see the things you do I was sleeping on the counter When the storm broke and All my dreams went up in smoke I was sleeping on the counter Did you have to leave me there
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Cinnamon Wells 02:46
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Cinnamon Wells I got a letter postmarked Cinnamon Wells Edged in black and full of living cells I put it down to nothing quite so much Had ever stoned my rock proof sense of touch Thought I’d go to hell But now I’ve changed my mind Gonna let you in on my very latest crime Found it by myself and I ain’t going blind If I catch you with the mountain Gonna eat you alive, yeah Called up the bakery called Wally & Son I asked for happiness And they said they had none Speak of jelly donuts paving the way I rolled in the jelly on my way home today I did it by myself but that don’t change the news Wally’s son invented bakery blues Along with chockeruts and closed shop dues No wonder I can’t sleep, I just blew another fuse, yeah
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Heil to the Cheat! 02:52
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Heil to the Cheat! Born into money with a fist for a brain A curse for a mouth and an oath for a name Heil to the cheat! He’s gonna make it great again! He’s the crème de la Kremlin with his friend at the top While his base at the bottom are breakin’ up rocks Heil to the cheat! He’s gonna make it great again! Heil to the cheat! With his locker room talk They’re all lyin’ down with the cock of the walk Heil to the cheat! He makes everyone white With hearts that are dark like the colour of night He’s gonna gag everybody who’s telling the truth He’s gonna tear up the ground and poison the root Heil to the cheat! He’s gonna make it great again! Heil to the cheat! He’s gonna kill families Of agents of terror who’ll fall to their knees Heil to the cheat! All the fathers and sons Will be so broken-hearted they’ll drop all their guns He’s one of God’s creatures She forgot to abort And now he’s the one holding the fort Heil to the cheat! He’s gonna make it great again Goose steppin’ down every street in the town All the shirts that they wear are the colour of brown Heil to the cheat! He’s gonna make it great again! Heil to the cheat! It’s gonna be KKK It’ll be 666 ‘til the end of the day Heil to the cheat! And the art of the deal We’ll all waterboard and die on our shields
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I’m Comin’ Home 02:57
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I’m Comin’ Home Cleo cried to Tony just like Min mentioned to Bill Scarlett wrote a letter, ‘Rhett, I believe I’ve had my fill Of being alone, I’m comin’ home’ When the lucky old sun rolls by my window Flashing answers through the pain And I hold you like a dream destroyed The wall between our lives Then I’m an eagle, baby, flying high above Transparent seas that swim beneath the night John relied on Yoko like a shellfish sucks the sea I can lean on my girl so that she can cry to me Those golden tears, I’m comin’ home When the lucky old sun rolls by my window Flashing answers through the pain And I hold you like a dream destroyed The wall between our lives Then I’m an eagle, baby, flying high above Transparent seas that swim beneath the night
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All Is Forbidden 02:44
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All Is Forbidden The tide was high and so was I And the moon came tumbling down I was looking for my trophies They were nowhere to be found All my ambition had been Choked beyond belief Buried without thinking In the garden of a thief All is forbidden In plain sight but hidden Near but far these secrets Are a million miles away All is forbidden in Plain sight but hidden Near but far these secrets Are a million miles away One last trial go down the aisle The silver towers bend Leading to forever where There’s nothing to defend No one sits in silence To await what’s always gone Dying of salvation In the absence of the dawn All is forbidden In plain sight but hidden Near but far these secrets Are a million miles away All is forbidden In plain sight but hidden Near but far these secrets Are a million miles away
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All Lonely People 02:28
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All Lonely People Out with the eyes when They shed the disguise And the world view turns to light And with folded arms they Read themselves their rights All lonely people Going where they go To the land of dreams To watch their shadows grow All lonely people Doing what they do Only trying to prove A masquerade is true Hanging around with Their heads in the clouds When the cold wind comes to blow And they start to lose The things they think they know All lonely people Going where they go To the land of dreams To watch their shadows grow All lonely people Doing what they do Only trying to prove A masquerade is true Back of the shadows Nothing can move The love of the only one Back of the shadows All lonely people remember What they’ve done
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Cavalcade of Chaos 03:24
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Cavalcade of Chaos Looking for an angle for another axe to grind Searching with my fingers at the bottom of the sky Down behind the river where the precious metals glow There’s a painting of a mission done in shadows I don’t know That which has been hidden and is bound to disappear Has been voted down for one too many years But I still keep on waiting with my palms pressed to the glass Wishing for the urge to stay to pass This cavalcade of chaos is just a waiting dream Drowning in the mouth of what it seems Now the brave are weeping they are dead against the storm They don’t want to gamble on tomorrow anymore Holding down the feeling the fate of the unborn Rests until the moment pilgrims go to war All that has been hidden and is bound to disappear Has been voted down for one too many years But I still keep on waiting with my palms pressed to the glass Wishing for the urge to stay to pass This cavalcade of chaos is just a waiting dream Drowning in the mouth of what it seems
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Gone Baby Gone 02:44
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Gone Baby Gone Going through your history You beheld an ancient mystery In the moment when you’d had enough You weren’t there in a cold dark stare Just a transient on the highway of love And you were gone baby Gone baby gone baby gone You were gone baby gone Baby gone baby gone Gone beyond tomorrow And the albatross of sorrow Just a transient on the highway of love Funny what a throat can say When everybody’s gone away And nothing’s left to be above You weren’t there in a cold dark stare Just a transient on the highway of love And you were gone baby Gone baby gone baby gone You were gone baby gone Baby gone baby gone Gone beyond tomorrow And the albatross of sorrow Just a transient on the highway of love Always full of nothin’ Like the colours of a puffin When she bleeds into the painted dove You weren’t there in a cold dark stare Just a transient on the highway of love And you were gone baby Gone baby gone baby gone You were gone baby gone Baby gone baby gone Gone beyond tomorrow And the albatross of sorrow Just a transient on the highway of love
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The Altar of the Rain 03:23
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The Altar of the Rain He sacrificed his independence On the altar of the rain He used to think he could extend it Past the shelter of her pain But all the strings were tied together In a knot that would explode There were none could hold a feather To the flame that burned so cold Against all odds they kept on waiting With furrowed brows and folded hands Until the mountain hares stopped mating And the green fields turned to sand They understood their days were numbered Both together and apart What no one could put asunder Was the space within their hearts Where the thunder rolls like clover And the seawall breaks like glass It’s not over till it’s over Dead and buried like the past
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A Break in the Weather 03:00
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A Break in the Weather You felt you had to post a big storm warning When I said sail with me It was as if you’d sabotaged my moorings Leaving me all at sea Now there’s a break in the weather And I know that’s a break for me Now and forever, a break in the weather Is all it’s cracked up to be Cumulonimbus, nimbostratus, uh huh, Both fail to appear All the clouds got them wrinkled brows ‘cause they aren’t wanted here If I was some old weatherman from Florida Tell you what I’d do Find me a hurricane that’s made to order And I’d name it after you But now there’s a break in the weather And I know that’s a break for me Now and forever, a break in the weather Is all it’s cracked up to be

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The John Lyle sleeve is a sepia nostalgia photo. He has a broken voice that catches fire, a sighing Americana pedal-steel, sleeping beat-up eyes-wide-shut on the counter with Rockabilly echo, or the swamp-funk crawl of “Cinnamon Wells”, uncontrived, but touching epic with “Altar Of The Rain”. ‘The tide was high, and so was I’ with bluegrass picking for “All Is Forbidden”. For Colin David Webb’s “The Trump Song” there’s Twitter-feed, cunnilingus and ‘You’re sacked’ – seemingly spontaneous, despite writing, rewriting, recording and re-recording, before dropping the final edit here. John Lyle takes his strutting “Heil To The Cheat!” from KKK to 666 with a socking backbeat, he’s gonna make it grate again, I just blew another fuse.

Andrew Darlington andrewdarlington.blogspot.com/2019/01/indie-albums-john-lyle-and-colin-david.html?fbclid=IwAR3YZ3YoWm96d3QpnfBQJlyBaNxhVb2ckOYB5BWa3lNHZ_qL2_TI3Z7mJUA

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released August 25, 2018

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John Lyle Sechelt, British Columbia

The lyrics for most of the songs appearing in these albums are available in book form: "The Kindest Lies: the Lyrics of John Lyle", published by Leaky Boot Press (June 28, 2013).

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