Die Wandaland

by Patrick Porter

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Die Wandaland LP, Recorded in 2006, Pine Junction Colorado. Released by Greyday Records

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released 04 April 2006
All songs written and performed by Patrick Porter. Copyright 2006, Bring Yr Own Bathos Publishing

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tags: alternative frill rock Albany

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Track Name: Lite Sleeper
LITE SLEEPER
(Lyrics by Patrick Porter C. 2006)

You're a lite sleeper
You're a late riser
You're awake tonight
When I know you should be sleeping

You're a wise cracker
You're a fur trapper
You're out sowing tonight
When I know you should be reaping

You're a lite sleeper
You're a late riser
You're awake tonight
When I know you should be sleeping

You're wise acre
You're a tip maker
You're out laughing tonight
When I know you should be weeping

(Oh yeah)

You're a lite sleeper
You're a late riser
You're awake tonight
When I know you should be sleeping
When I know you should be sleeping
When I know you should be sleeping
Track Name: Sears Tower
SEARS TOWER
(Lyrics by Patrick Porter C. 2006)

At Sears Tower
I took a picture
Went up the elevator
And then down again
A salted cashew
In my carry-on
When you saw Sears Tower
You know you're halfway home

At Sears Tower
I tapped a stranger
A waft down Wacker
Holy Madison
A salted cashew
Into Lake Michigan
When you saw Sears Tower
You know you're halfway home

Windy City
Wrigley Field

At Sears Tower
I took a picture
Went up the elevator
And then down again
A salted cashew
In my carry-on
When you saw Sears Tower
You know you're halfway home

Windy City
Wrigley Field

(I'm here at Sears Tower
Someone just tried to steal my camera from me)
Track Name: Esso Station (Marmite Blues)
ESSO STATION
(Lyrics by Patrick Porter C. 2006)

Esso Station
Double-decker
Rainy window
Backrow

Esso station
Down in Upton
Soccer friendly
Quiz show

I won't pay my
TV licence
Sherbet-colored
Ten pound note

Esso station
Gap minder
Enfield City
Graffito

Esso station
Covent Garden
27
Grow old, grow old

I won't pay my
TV licence
Sherbet-colored
Ten pound note

Best get caught up in the moment
Than get caught up in the storm
Best to do the most that you can
Mind your business, then go home

I won't pay my
TV licence
Sherbet-colored
Ten pound note

Esso station
Esso station
Track Name: Reality Row
REALITY ROW
(Lyrics by Patrick Porter C. 2006)

Prayer to 3 AM gods
You're either lost in a fury
Or bogged down in a pause

You're in love with life
This is true
But it don't take much to see
That life ain't all that in love with you

I woke up screaming one night
I looked out into darkness
Saw two eyes shining bright

I couldn't move for the fear
I sank back into bedsheets
Felt myself disappear

(From NYC, to Albany Arms!)

Your crying eyes
Don't act so surprised
Cuz I know you're not innocent

Your curves and skin
Won't fool me again
Cuz I know what you represent

(I saw this thing on the church today
It's better to forgive and forget
Than to hate and remember)
Track Name: Bond Funeral Home
BOND FUNERAL HOME
(Lyrics by Patrick Porter c. 2006)

Hey, I
A sinking wonder, oh no
And if I wander, oh no
Where will they bury me?

Hey, I
I've always wondered, oh no
If I don't make it here, oh no
Where will they bury me?

If I die
Bury me at GE
And not the Bond Funeral Home

Hey, I
I could fall down in the snow
Or bongload turn into stroke
Where would they bury me?

Hey, I
I've always wondered, oh no
If I don't make here, oh no
Where will they bury me?

If I die
Bury me at GE
And not the Bond Funeral Home

Hey, I wonder
Hey, I wonder
Track Name: Dealin' Doug
DEALIN' DOUG
(Lyrics by Patrick Porter c.2006)

On a farm
Way out on a road
It's a long time to wait
For the stormclouds to form
There's a crock pot in the kitchen
And a crackpot in the cab of the Cushman

I know when to go into the sunlight
I know when to go

On a farm
In Nebraska corn
It's a long time to wait
When it rains in the hall
It's a long time to wait
For the farmer to settle his lawsuit

I know when to go into the sunlight
I know when to go

When it rains
Water does flow into waterways
Under the roads
It's a rockslide again
Crushing the rows that the hoes laid

I know when to go into the sunlight
I know when to go
Track Name: Hey Lindsey
HEY LINDSEY
(Lyrics by Patrick Porter C. 2006)

Every capsized ghost ship at one time set lively sail
Every lachrymose love letter turns to yesterday's mail
Why don't you toss another coin into the womb of the wishing well
Take another blind shot at reaching heaven via hell

Hey Lindsey
I don't know what to tell you
Hey Lindsey
You know I can't change the way
That things are bound to go

Don't try to cut down the rough edges
Of the things you could never perfect
It's always gonna be that way
I don't know what the hell you expect
You should never try to change the things you should just accept
Either way you're just beaten up
And bogged down with regret

Hey Lindsey
I don't know what to tell you
Hey Lindsey
You know I can't change the way
That things are bound to go

And in this carpeted room she walks across the room
Not much to do
And bathing in the glow of television snow she thinks of you

3 AM
3 AM
3 AM

Hey Lindsey
I don't know what to tell you
Hey Lindsey
You know I can't change the way
That things are bound to go
Track Name: Afraid To Die
AFRAID TO DIE
(Lyrics by Patrick Porter C. 2006)

I'm a moving ghost
Bury me clean and soft
This temporary death
Is turning permanent

Afraid to die

I know you've heard this before
All of this romance is making me bored

Insects in the bed
And violence my skin
I'm sorry everyone
But after this, I'm done

Afraid to die

I know you've heard this before
All of this romance is making me bored
Track Name: Hayseed Highway
HAYSEED HIGHWAY
(Lyrics by Patrick Porter C. 2006)

Hayseed highway saw me home
And will they grind my bones into nutmeg?
It's hard to say, it's hard to say

IREA lamplights stole me along
Past the hunk of dung at Pine Junction
It'll never change, never change

A simple lesson is made of stone
Let he without rot load the slingshot
And set it a-fling, and set it a-fling

But the hardest rock can grow sodden in moss
Any wayward son can repave a cradle
It's hard to escape, it's hard to escape

Hayseed highway runs through the woods
Stops at a dead-end mountain
Oh woe is me, and woe is they

285 in a lighted dial
Make up my bed and execution stay
It'll never change, never change

Hayseed highway saw me home
And will they grind my bones into nutmeg?
It's hard to say, it's hard to say

IREA lamplights stole me along
Past Luke's ghost at Pine Junction
It'll never change, never change

There's always a maybe
There's always Bailey
Track Name: Made Of Stone
MADE OF STONE
(Lyrics by Patrick Porter C. 2006)

I don't doubt that
You are locked up
In the household
You're a product of

Flock together
All landlocked birds
Sew your feathers
To the dirt

It's not my fault
That I'm made of stone

There's a father
And a daughter
Which one's closer?
Which ones's farther?

There are so many
Letters of the law
I can't pretend to
Know them all

It's not my fault
That I'm made of stone