I’ve been working a lot with my band The Fancy Pears so I haven’t had the opportunity to organize myself into magical thoughts of penned realization BUT we released our first album “Livin’ On a Pear” this past Saturday. We’ve been working on it for almost a year, learning how to mix it ourselves before finishing it up. The album is set to be available for streaming on Spotify in a week or so but in the meantime, we’ve posted it on our website: www.thefancypears.com
Tanis
This song is loosely based on the Pacific Northwest Stories Podcast series ‘Tanis.’ Tim and I binged listened to the Podcast when we first found out about it and as it consumed our thoughts, we succumbed to its magic and came up with the melody and lyrics.
Somewhere, in the atomic ocean
Floating in a sideways motion
The fisherman had lost his bet
His story, told across the land
Spinning, some new age logic
Stolen from ancient knowledge
Seventeen upon his head
The bookman finally met his match
Holy, you know I feel so holy
If only, the sky would hold me
Arms outstretched and smiling proud
The gambler fell straight to the ground
Beauty, you know I’ve seen true beauty
Flowing right straight through me
The runner cried and shook his head
I’ll never see that place again
Sunsweat
I wrote the lyrics and the melody to this during my first winter in Wisconsin. Most of the story is true other than me dreaming about it being hot; perhaps it was all a mirage.
I was sitting on the front porch today
Feeling alone and kind of lame
Sunsweat dripped down my face
Cold sheen on the water’s glass
A clown on a bike, passed me by
With two others riding behind
A barking dog chased them all
They were there and then they weren’t
Do you feel the sun today?
Am I going crazy?
I stumbled coming out the door
And scraped my face along the earth
Light blinds, something burns my eyes
Sunsweat and blood trickle down
Field of Hearts
The lyrics for this song were based off of a piece I wrote several years ago. The Fancy Pears filmed it at a haunted house in Madison, Wisconsin. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFuZ9c5bCJ4
I could feel the cracks
Like I was a thin piece of glass
Fragile fingers enclose the frame
Bright eyes follow through the pane
In the field of hearts
There is a queen above us all
Shading the light with her advertised wisdom
In the field of hearts
There is a queen standing tall
She assumed the battle won
With all her fiends around us
Led by the wordsmith in a hat
Guided by thoughts that drive us mad
White rabbit whiskers lead the path
Counting time as it turns back
In the field of hearts
There is a queen above us all
Shading the light with her advertised wisdom
In the field of hearts
There is a queen standing tall
She assumed the battle won
With all her fiends around us
Off with her head, singing
Off with her head
To lay above our bed
Off with her head
Off with her head, singing
Off with her head
To lay above our bed
Off with her head
As Told by the Owl
We live in a fucked up society.
Bluebird across the water
Come and play with me
Let me have one song to sing
Underneath your tree
Old red tail hawk flew by
Shadow in the leaves
A belly hunting to satisfy
Hovering over me
In the graylight of the hour
Will you follow me?
A devil’s waiting for you here
To take you in your sleep
Go on and don’t look back
Cry away your fears
The wind will keep your feathers dry
All throughout the years
Up above the treetops
Here you sit with me
The darkness keeps us closer
The stars within our reach
Look up now little one
Pay no mind to me
The moon will greet your spirit home
Follow the light to see
Shine on
I am grateful for inspiration ❤
