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Saturn Returns

by Jodi Shaw

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1.
I don't wanna know the details baby I don't wanna understand I don't need to see the blueprints babe Or know the master plan I don't wanna hear an explanation I don't wanna know why Why discuss the implications Just try not to let this love pass us by The bells are ringing Birds are singing And I'm a swinging on an old church swing The wheels are turning And I'm a yearning For more of that tender love you bring I wanna know a world of wonder baby I wanna take another chance I wanna fall into the rhythm babe And join this lovely dance I wanna stop and smell the roses baby I wanna reach another place I wanna see that tender smile Stream across your ever loving face The flowers growing A breeze is blowing Coyote crowing at the big old moon The wheels are turning And I'm a yearning To see what it is to fall in love with you
2.
Love and joy, love and joy That tender little itchy toy But I love it all the same Put a daisy in my hair I’m falling down these skinny stairs I’m falling all around you, I surround you Oh oh oh I don’t know my place There are things I can’t erase It’s a fate I will embrace Just to see your lovely face I walk the path of a winding road The sun is gone the sky is cold And stars surround me (they astound me) I pat the head of a pretty horse I don’t know why but love of course I’d do it all again, with you Chorus I’m on my knees saying pretty please The girl is gone and I see bees They swarm all around me I say to Peace “you’re a jealous bride” The water’s deep and the river’s wide But I jump in anyway
3.
I don't really have to know The kinds of kisses you would throw A deadly form of undertow To take me down Ascending on that subtle sway I'd rather die than live this way So give my love to holidays Salt and sweet, 'cause Chorus You can't describe You don't have the words And you don't have the mind I can't pretend A means that I intend As hollow as this end Is Now look you've come to worry me To sugar-sweet and bully me Tragedy or comedy You decide Regretting how you spoke that truth Of buckled backs and broken youth Still reaching for the butter blue Pie-love sky that Chorus Would I be lucky just to wait Out these days, the years that groom us to our fate? And I know I should be glad It's just the best I ever had Then why does it always seem so sad? To cup it like a grassy blade Just bottle up and curse the day Instead I give myself away Every time So sappharine the seams I sow It's not a side I like to show Still I don't really want to know How you shine, 'cause Chorus
4.
Ice on the road, blood on the rail A myth in the making newspapers sell Another one falling And no one is calling Our names, our names, our names Treasonous treasures these towers of steel Nothing so broken, nothing so real The seasons keep turning The sunshine is burning Away, away, away I know it don’t make it right But once there was so much light And here was the center of it all Hard to believe, a mother’s dream The most beautiful thing you’ve ever seen That’s why we stay In Cabrini-Green Damned in the doorways seeking their fill Another brother spreading his will I sing for my supper and pray for my mother Today, today, today Out on the tarmac the boys and their ball Scribble their fates up on the wall Of silence and sirens a semblance of liars Is born, is born, is born . . .
5.
starling you’re my darling birdlet of the rain and snow and sweetly, every day you greet me is one day i know i am not alone you fly in any kind of weather more than any birdlet should if i could trade this coat for feathers than starling i would please me then fly away to tease me but starling i know i’m the one you love
6.
Everybody 02:40
Everybody lies Everybody cries Everybody tries a clown shoe on for size Laughs at the fat man throwing pies And yes, everybody dies Everybody flows Everybody goes Everybody dresses up in their mother’s clothes Pricks their thumb on a thorny rose And yes, everybody grows Everybody breaks Everybody bends Everybody wants to know how the story ends Tells a white lie to their very best friend And yes, everybody mends Everybody jumps Everybody runs Everybody wants to have just a little fun Everybody thinks they’re the only one And yes, everybody’s dumb Everybody laughs Everybody sings Everybody sheds a tear when the hornet stings Jumps for joy when the telephone rings Everybody swings
7.
I wish I could be a shooting star I wish I could be warm and bizarre Or hills rolling into sky A river running wide The apple of your eye Now the summer heat has come and gone The lamp is lit and all the shades are drawn Send roses if you can Put the petals in my hand And now I understand That I photograph the rain Make it all look sane And try to wax romantic When love, my heart is only frantic Hello love I got your letter Written in your yellow sweater Trust me love I’m doing better It’s only fair to say. Now the guests are folding into pairs So make the bed and move me up the stairs Love, I think we had it all And now I’m feeling small Just a picture on your wall And, so the story ends Another to begin Another happy ending Another letter I am never sending

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Recorded live at Le Maison Bleu, in Kingson NY

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released May 15, 2012

Recorded/Produced/Mixed: Malcolm Burn
Written by: Jodi Shaw

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Jodi: vocals/guitar
Matt Lambiase: vocals/trumpet
Matt Kanelos: piano/organ
Conor Meehan: drums
Kyle Kegerreis: upright and electric bass

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