not 12
Review: NOT 12
“One of The Year’s Best”
“Their latest album finds the singer-songwriter still at the top of his game … It takes a special kind of talent to create songs referencing Danny Torrence from The Shining, Halliburton, drones and former sitcom star Valerie Harper, make it work, and have it look effortless at the same time. In short, the album is a dynamic, cerebral approach to rock and pop that demands repeat listens. One of the year’s best.”
-Earl Douglas The Best of Filtered Excellence 2020 December 26, 2020
Tracks
Side I
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Art & Lyrics
It was a miracle
I got swept away
Interdimensional
Across time and space
Well you were calling on a local line
The reception was fine
But I wasn’t receiving
Because at first I couldn’t read the signs
Held up between the lines…
If when I perceive
Everything appears in Mind
And what I receive
Doesn’t come in from outside
Then is there a field
In which everything resides?
What do I believe?
I believe it blows my mind
And as I look into the eyes…
Well you took it on the chin
Then it all began again
Then you took it in the mixed nuts
And the guts
Well that’s what you get for flying
Your airplane in living rooms
Chasing women in the dunes
Tied to balloons
Well you went out with a bang…
In the night
I go surfing
On the ocean
For a little while
In my dreams
I ride the breakers
Shadow shaper
Bending it my way
Took the alternate route…
Someone dropped a dime
Upon the subway line
Landed on a track
Making a little stack
It’s magical the way
Randomness does display
Underlying systems
Beneath surface waves
Meat Jamaica…
Jesus waits
At the bar downstairs
He pulls the shade
On the setting sun
He preps his hands
Knows now what’s at steak
Bloody rare, she’ll take it to go
Oh Jackie O
I believed in you…
Girl, you gotta keep me in mind
Gotta keep me in mind
I think about you all of the time
Baby all of the time
I’ve been waiting here for a while
By the banks of the Nile
Girl, you gotta keep me in mind
Gotta keep me in mind
Girl, you gotta keep me in mind…
How did i end up here?
Who am i supposed to be?
Somebody left instructions
But i think
I mislaid them
How long have we been traveling?
Where did i miss my turn?
We already passed the exit
Gotta learn…
When the world’s gone awry
And there’s no way out that you can buy
And you’re losing your way
In the hedges of a horror maze
I’ll arrive with flashlight
Cutting through the blackest night
I’ll get to you
When there seems no way out
And there’s no one there to hear you shout…
We were buying a lemon
Got ourselves in a squeeze
Shopped around for a four-door
Seems now they grow’m in trees
Satisfaction on Sunday
Got me singing the blues
A body builder in Bombay
Lifting barbells on the news…
The proportion was correct
Should’ve lasted ’til dawn
Everything was right on
But something about it
Just somehow seems wrong
Cause the feeling is gone
So what do you do
When the drugs no longer work?
When the drugs no longer work?…
Standing in the pouring rain
Lifting up my dress again
I see you sneaking peaks
From behind that limousine
What the heck went on before
I don’t know but someone
Opened up a door and let me in
To this strange place
What was that just there…