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Mammoth Moon

by Happiest Lion

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1.
Simple little fear, I felt it But lo, in the leaves, ain't no hint of home The sun will resign, say moonlight Will you be a brother and lead me to the lake? I've got to wash that sin away Well my blood ain't right I'm boiling And my pores don't cry for no reason Well I was sleeping in the mud, Where I came from When the dirt became a river and carried me away And it felt so natural, my bloodline We die like animals but we've got graves Someone's got to mourn what goes away So evergreen, will you cry for me? I am washed up 'neath your needle boughs I burst, my chest ablaze with light I hate you, oh you know I do But I wanted to go like you Solemn 'neath the cruel moon Stars you've seen us fall like flies
2.
Mend my broke bones, holy water Levi was the better man He loved me like a brother and he shook my hand And he jabs like a hero Wandering pan man Where's your mama? I've followed your tracks from the barley stacks And ever since we hit the brook I've known you're heading back But they don't want you back Hat full of ashes and a pail full of fool's gold Clear my conscience, desperate measures If I'd been a crook, hell I can't recall 'Cause I'd repented from my knees and was baptized and all And that spirit shot through me I went under at the bridge by the West road I speak in tongues through your East bay window Sacred Valley, speak your riddle I read it in your hills at the twilight fade And now I think I've got an answer from a motel maid Your puzzle spells "no hable"
3.
Reverend's son found me in the alleyway downtown Old book of matches and dove in the dirt He punched me in the back of my head I cried into my knees, bloodied hands And he held my coat and we walked back home Marigold, love is a lie Well I was out waiting by I-45 You taught me how to hide from real life I never took you for the teaching type Lover I guess you were afraid But you left me heavy when you wept and went away When I held your heart, girl I swear I saw it glow in the dark But hell, you were cruel Reverend found a break in the day Where he could run to see his mother's grave He was hell to console, but I'd said it wasn't trouble at all And he said he'd trade me wisdom of God for a second soul Life, you are a bottle of wine I could take you out on a bad night Subtle hint of malice and regretting eye So sweet on the tip of my tongue I heard you haven't been well these days Just meet me on 2nd at 8 and we'll drink to pain
4.
Please girl, don't say I'm gone I am coming back tonight On that big, brute wind, on the Summer front tonight I take you out to Torreón, I take you by the hand I teach you how to cope, don't I? Now introduce your friends It takes a long, long time, to get back in that groove of mind If you see complacency, just tell her I'm alright See, I've been doubting deity and gambling my rights I bid high and I aimed true and never asked for more But when I bid on you, oh girl, I was sleeping on your floor I don't know the time, but you weary me, I've got to unwind Tuesday night you suck your wine and spin life like a game And when you pass out on my floor you ask me for your name And I say, "honey if I knew, I'd hit you with a hint" But I don't even want to know, so I call you MEDUSA I ain't afraid of you, I shield my eyes and I carry that blade through to you Cleopatra where's your throne and what is it to me? Bring back all my animals and find something to eat Carve your name into my bed and give your maids what for But they all denounced your kingdom while you were smoking on my porch I can't figure why, but when you left I was heavy as the Shanghai sky
5.
Isn't it like them to perceive The dullest, dark colours in a cornucopia of leaves? We was dancing 'round the hills In our Autumnal feast We was dressed in scarlet foliage When Summer had been bereaved If the Winter seems barren and the solstice makes you feel alone If the water from the creek don't satisfy anymore There is a burrow in my chest, there's a home for your happiness And when the harvest moon comes back, we'll weave our golden gowns again There's a fire in the valley just be there 'round seven We'll figure out what needs to be burned, but I just want your company There ain't nothin cold as ice when you've come accomodated to heat But we've warmth in our bodies, we've a steady 90-something degrees Bring your king of hearts, your throne, your Bring your keys, your cups, your coat, your Bring your canons, bring your gold, your Bring your mares, bath stone, marrow, Bring your wicker rocker, ram's horn, Bring your 'bacco, books, your hound, your
6.
Bumbling beasts, I raise you twenty A race, a race, the pollen fields Succulent, you honeyed-breath The hours, the hours I've spent between The house, the hive, the evergreen Honey, Honey bees I wonder If I may steal that plunder A comb for Darcy, a comb for Emmababe On three count, should we run? Spring-sky shepherd, herd your clouds close and shade us We who crack our combs clean Sweet gold, hours old That cloud-flock does humor at fingers giddy They roll, Break, burst Should we run? What homeward birds bring back Do nest their young in April song Oh southbound remedy We returned, feathers free Run, run, run
7.
Anabel, you come down now I've been knitting all your mitts in red And the fence posts speak of a million things You could hear them if you'd crawl beneath Isn't it like I said? Timid robin rests Who was whistlin' through these boughs? Who is nested now? Rain, you eat what's irking me I am grateful to your valiancy If the rooftop's soaked, child come back home You souvenir, my blood and bone I am a father to your tendencies When you coil, retreat I love you like a destined being Some rosen dream Ana, I am broke right through Now what could I have done to you That'd make you cry and run and hide And hate me for an hour or two I remember when you fell And wouldn't let me help I feel like you don't need my heart I am empty arms
8.
Oh how he labors, Oh how he labors Will you come inside? You toil through the night Mother is crying, mother is crying Her Tennessee tears echo through the rafters, My God Eli has fallen, Eli has fallen The quarry caught his boot and cut into his cheek Salt tears and blood dear, salt tears and blood dear Evening hides home, and Eli is alone out in dark My God See how the wind whips up through the oak boughs Child do not dwell on that which makes you ill Echo the gale song, sing bold and sing strong And when you hear his name, say it not in vain Oh be right My God
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I don't feel you here I don't think of you like you're here Porcelain, pretty in a still-life Glass ornament, O mine Sing to me, sweet, but you're gonna leave singing Call me when you're miserable Speak southbound-induced miracles Head to the border on a Saturday Watched you drive away Leave in your debt to my parapet Looking out for you
10.
Lay her in the river, brother, I know She took your coat, she slit your throat I know it Wild water overtake her, keep hold She knew her grief, go give her piece Speak good things Key to your kingdom, brother, who knew You'd loved her more than she ever could've loved you Some old truth Why'd you always talk about your clean past? There's none of that, and good things don't last Don't say that Run to where your devil couldn't catch you alive Make him twist your scripture if he finds you alright Take him by the tail if he don't teach you to die Why'd you run to matrimony, God knows That ring grew tight in the absence of entitled Divine Your witness You common denominator, stayed put While she multiplied, and numerator weighed you down right And you liked it Lucifer was cast when he forgot how to fly She had never learned but you'd insisted she try She went and clipped yours and called you all the time
11.
Handsome King Cloud, your longing so obscene A heavy-hearted ring of colours I've seen What's a liar got to do with me? You stupid little thundercloud How could I have brought you down? I hope, I hope you wouldn't bring it on yourself? I hope you don't She is a beautiful bow So reflective, so alone She could use a clever, cunning cloud like you To build her up a home Oh mammoth cloud of misery, Sever your tethers and make me believe That she's got some incessant longing to leave She couldn't go away, you'd rain for days Don't let no cloud take her away Even stars have fate I heard she'd gone away She was a wretched, little, scheming thing How could you have known a thing like that? She was never so bright, now, thinking back Boy, you rain all day
12.
Elkwood, why you steal my boyhood Why you drink my berry blood Why you make me count the days Until you are dressed in amber Bear's brood, why you test my beet stew? Why you steal my honeydew? Why you love your cubs true Love and long like I do? Why you make me flee the camp Brute, bold and honey-bellied Fair breeze, who kissed me kindly? Cload boats, sail idly, ivory Moss rock, totem towering, bring shelter when the gale rage Blue brook, babble little sweet talk Careful, winding cold crook Why you wind forever, restless toil to river Why you make me count your curves Current, cooling body-bound twine Berries, sweet and bush-bred candies Bright as sunlight envies Why you make me seize the day? Fill my buckets all the way Nectar flowing amethyst Sill-rested, honeyed and boiled
13.
I could not stay, I was pierced by your modern way Woman took me in weight But virtue gonna get me out If irreverence is in your line Honey, I couldn't blame you for that No, but your family thinks I'm alright When you stab me like God Stab me like Old-testament God They pray for me, and I know they do Because I think I feel God sometimes Monster in the closet calls, "Come here" But my ears were full of blood And iron from your metal words Who put me in my place You could come into my house You never talk about divinity Bring hell to my walls I think you need to go home You stain the pulpit with whiskey You're spitting blood on my shoes I bet you think you've got it bad Well I don't think you've got it bad I'm sick of fending your fangs You had it out for me You had it out for me Oh why the hell you want me? Oh why the hell you want me?
14.
Dinah, you fortress of loneliness, begging you If I'm not tired and you're not pretty, God have mercy, I'm dying here Who wouldn't want you blowing that horn all day? But I just want you blowing away Dinah, forsaken soul, my heart don't know yours anymore Ten and counting and on your heels and crying out, "Marry me, love me for real." Your somber smoke is something sweet But I don't want it here 'round me I will hold tight, that's all Until I find paradise, that's right I've come a long, long way just to see you Adelaide And it's a long, long way back home I will hold tight, that's all What's my hand dear, to hold, to have, if it won't hold you back? If I am careless and you are free, then why provide the cuff and the creed? Thought you'd said I had caught your eye But all I'm catching are callous nights Well that noon train's rolling nigh, that's all And I won't be at his mercy, that's right I've come a long, long way just to see you Adelaide And it's a long, long way back home I will hold tight, that's all

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released May 1, 2010

All songs written and recorded by Caleb Groh.

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Kelsie McNair- harmonies
Kiersten Holine- harmony on Roll, Break, Burst

Mixed, mastered and made possible by Chad Wahlbrink( who also plays bass on the record) in Nashville, TN.


I also make animals out of felt and wool.
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