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1.
Below the Breeze 03:13
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By mossy walls In hemlock halls It's pooling I've seen it dance Out of my grasp I feel so bare But all at once, it surrounds me again Like a dog that has found its den Below the breeze And all the ways it goes I've gotten old I've wondered how to find it Is innocence gone; a brief sparkling dawn? I deny it But all at once, it surrounds me again Like a dog that has found its den The dark green trees Sing when cold winds blow Oh And how it blows Oh, I know How it blows
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Light on the Lee 03:13
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Light on the lee All the way from bygone days When our eyes didn’t lie Year twenty three Since you told me how to live Just try, try again, I’m a friend How did we learn to lie? Close our eyes, ignore the sky Only now things are clear Truth is here You won’t be there to stop the wind At every single place I’m in I may have fear, but I see clear The warmth is in the light The wind was a ride Winding columns miles wide Unaware, of my smile How could we lie All the passion, real as rain On the skin, in the air, again How did we learn to lie? Close our eyes, ignore the sky Only now things are clear Truth is here You won’t be there to stop the wind At every single place I’m in I may have fear, but I see clear The warmth is in the light
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Something's Missing 02:45
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I can’t say what’s wrong But somethings missing, it’s been gone so long Why live in a world Where nothing is wrong? Left town years ago Time flies but the memory’s slow Can’t live in a place if you can’t see it change But I know where to go I know where to go I know where to go Black bird, angel wings Eats fruit, it shits and sings All winter long, it’s where it belongs What pain is in my face? How can you read when you’re out in space? I’ll never know what it looks like to you But I know where to go I know where to go I know where to go
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Waiting for the News 03:42
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Dead stop on I-93, a car flipped and the driver flew We had to think about something else; it happens just too often to care Traffic picked up once again and the scene was clean as before It's not the first and it won’t be the last, that dirt had death on its door Ooh, waiting for the news Crossed the States and Canada line, same country, a different divide Same trees in their perfect lines, made tame, made paper with pines We had to wonder what it was like, when the land was covered in ice We had to stop at the Ultramar, fill the car just to follow a sight Ooh, waiting for the news At some point, there are no more turns, we keep going as the budget burns We keep talking and keep in touch, but mostly we feel nothing much I start wondering how it ends, what way the river bends Up a bridge to the other side, a false sense of escape from the tide Ooh, waiting for the news Old Joe is a dinosaur, they don’t make em like him anymore Each Sunday, at half past five he gets up and gets out the door He sits down on a memorial bench as the birds start practicing French The world turns to another day, but that’s not what the newspapers say Ooh, waiting for the news Ooh, waiting for the news Ooh, waiting for the news
5.
Ask Your Mother, Don't Ask Me 02:34
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Making money is not like making roses Roses Ask your mother; she'll agree Some days are sunny Others are like a plague of Moses Moses Ask your mother; she'll agree Mist Dark veil Would you hide me from my outer self? Life is funny until the joke is on you On you Ask your mother; she'll agree Mist Dark veil Would you hide me from my outer self? Life is funny until the joke is on you On you Ask your mother; don't ask me
6.
Slow Days 02:23
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Slow days Just melting away like piles of snow in warm spring rain I’ll just lay here Don’t say I’m wasting away like light in slow decay 'Til night comes near No time left for Slow days Loose hold I slip underneath another sheet’s fold I’ve held on for so long, I must let go
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Longer to Go 03:53
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Lift me up Late July Teach me to breathe Help me to try I want to know how to go with the wind and the weather I want to know how the light stays on in the night I want to know where to go when the day starts to join with the distant past and I want to go back To go back Oh I know, I’ve got nothing to know My eyes are watering, oh Sitting here again, and what do I know Let me fly Let me see Teach me to be The bird in the tree I fell in line with the world and a lonely road I lost my way in the rain and I came out alone Every time I try to go it alone, the world goes dry and the sun gets low as the day Moves away So I, I don’t know I know why I know why I know, and I don’t know Woah! I’ve had so long, and longer to go Longer to go
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New Disguise 03:22
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Every other day, you will fall down I don’t want to miss you, let you go I know better than to try to save you That ain’t no way to gain your love Your love I know I don't want to wait for your love I don't want to wait to let go I won't, I won't wait for you to hold on I know what no one else will ever know Each passing day I face the same wall Just camouflaged in a new disguise I tell myself It’s not deception It’s another chance to play along I know, this is more than just a game to me I don’t want to know what it means I’ve looked behind the curtain and I’ve known the truth But still, part of me will never know I know, the world I know has gone away I know, the world I know has gone away I know, the world I know has gone away I know, the world I know has gone away

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I'm glad to finally share this collection of songs written in January and February of 2022, originally released as single-take video performances.

The album has a few unifying concepts. The idea/feeling of home is one. Another major one is the reclamation of innocence. Some other themes are: loss, reality, and letting go.

I see no reason to go into much detail here, since the music will get plenty across. What exactly comes across, I couldn't say, but I feel like something will happen for sure.

My recording procedure was raw, as was my performance (as I said above, these are all single-take performances done in front of a video camera). I consider this in keeping with the archetype of the album, as the music is also quite raw. Not to say unfinished. Just exposed.

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released February 10, 2023

2023 Serious Records
www.cooneythatcher.com

Written, performed, and recorded by Stephen Kerr in the Yellow Room

Cover and back cover images, adapted from "View of Rio de Janeiro" by Phil Whitehouse, are licensed under CC BY 2.0

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Cooney Thatcher Greenfield, Massachusetts

Debut album "Beginner's End" out now

Cooney Thatcher's name is derived from the matronymic names of his family which would otherwise have been lost to the patrilineal surname tradition of his culture. In his music, he strives to achieve the same; salvaging forgotten ancestry and highlighting the path from history to a living, growing, creative presence. ... more

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