Handcrafted & played by ear since 2007
The DeSoto Caucus
Glitterhouse 2014
Nail In The Wall (Pedersen)
Staring at the nail in the wall where your picture used to hang
trying to remember if the door bell really ever even rang
there's the first few rays of light
sniping like insect bites
Keep it quiet keep a steady hand on the tiller till it cracks
try to find a way to sit it out and please relax
we lost the last shroud of the night
how do we stay out of sight
Listen to the drumming of the rain as the city starts the day
all the running feet of a thunder slowly rolling our way
there's a train full of dreams
taken to extremes choking all the screams
Skills Of Warfare (Pedersen/Heyman)
Into the dead of night we extend you
a slow and bumpy ride with the ground crew
along the silent roads you won't know of
were darkness still explodes in a blow of
air
take care, there's no need
for all your skills of warfare
Go down along the cove to the new scene
we're putting on a show at the Black Bean
we booked a part for you on the main stage
if it's a bit askew don't sustain rage
go
you don't know you're ensnared
in all your skills of warfare
Upon a crumbled place with a low sound
you think you see a face that brings you down
and find a missing link in a dead voice
but if you try to think, it's your own choice
There you square
and roll out
you're unaware
of all your skills of warfare
Stepping Outside (Pedersen)
I'm stepping outside, reclusive
I'm finding this stride too elusive
not a thought goes through my mind
the work is complete
and it's fine
I'm stepping outside, committed
you know we collide, now admit it
never thought I'd leave the crew
now it's just me
pulling through
Hear the crooked bullets fly
see how they pass me by
It's colder outside, but it's clear here
no one to fight on this frontier
see the man that slowly flows
into a realm of repose
I followed the stream to the city
I crumpled the dream with pity
now I see how I was blind
I'm stepping outside
and it's fine
Wasteland (Pedersen)
Throw me your red lips
lower your shoulders
show me the scar that you hide
just a few flips that's what I told her
over the great divide
I used to live in deserted houses
castles of bottles and sand
far from a beach yet further from feeling
any one's loving hand
Words that strand
ships in a wasteland
I slowly dissolve like Quinn as he's watching
out with his eyes on the door
fall like the rain be
lost in glass city
pitilessly drifting ashore
Radiant cowgirl beam through the doorway
showing the scars I conceal
glow in a new dawn, start the healing
ending this lonesome ordeal
Words that strand
ships in a wasteland
we're ships in a wasteland
Come Undone (Pedersen)
Feet first we're falling
in and out of belief
two tickers stalling in need of relief
You've hit the waters
that fell as we spun
around the wonders of the multiple one
Come undone
be the one
don't lay out the setting sun
In fear of drowning
unlearning at best
we all run for reasons barely expressed
Our words keep fueling
unreasonable doubt
it's kind of grueling but that's what it's all about
Come undone
be the one
don't lay out the setting sun
I've lost the feeling
that I'm one of us
it's so revealing and so hard to suppress
Come undone
be the one
don't lay out the setting sun
Just The Other Day(Pedersen)
It seems like just the other day
that half the city washed away
and you said us two we'll stay
you're tired of running
It seems like just the other day
I think maybe it was in May
you left to join the cabaret
a painful show, a shadow play
left you spinning
It seems like just the other day
Stars that shoot and love that's second hand
can be really beautiful
like an unknown Promised Land
you're so hard to understand
It seems like just the other day
you said there will be hell to pay
then took the car towards the bay
did not come back that night
in fact you never did so I
guess you got lost along the way
Lighthouse (Pedersen) A lighthouse against the winter sky a landscape flying by and you know that you've been screwed something doesn't quite comply but instead of asking why you just conclude that that beacon is the essence of solitude Made good money, sure that's not the problem nor the cure another week escaped you another month, another year and you think you know what you're doing and you think that you're getting somewhere A black dog by the side of the road rocks where a river flowed and you know it all adds up and while you are still afloat you make a mental note to just stop and see the moon and its glow before it drops Never once looked back always stayed on the track another love escaped you another dream, another fear and you think you know what you're doing and you think that you're getting somewhere Bridges Of Bern (Heyman) All the people of Bern know to keep in mind that you can drift down the Aare but don't reach the river Rhine Coming down from the ridges with the pace of time and we fall from the bridgesand we're drawn to the river Rhine All the bridges of Bernup above, along the line just burn on, burn we're on our way to the river Rhine Maybe time will disclose what made us blind well everybody knows we'll go down in the river Rhine Crack In The Cover (Pedersen) I'm one lying flat on the back checking the crack in the cover perceiving a cleansing air above her There's two or more ways to explain the growing pain of your lover that we might be about to discover And it seems to me like a burn in the third degree that's coming on inescapably All three going down a dirt track while dusky clouds start to hover I'm still checking the crack in the cover And it seems to melike a burn in the third degree that's coming on inescapably Don't Fear (Pedersen) Escaping through tunnels of cracked concrete surprised at what you find looking east you meet the west and see how they alignyou reach the plains as daylight breaks it's clear there is a gain pilots, sailors, faithful fakes abandon the urbane So don't fear if you hear a foreign sound to your ear Never mind the word you heard we're running towards the light hearing fails and eyes get blurred upon this wondrous sight we reach out to the fellow man attempting to unite they say that's how it all began to me it's just alright So don't fear when you hear a foreign sound to your ear The man is at the window still he's taking you away to the big house on the hill in case you won't obey hold on to your rabbit's foot for all that it is worth your luck is totally kaput prepare to hit the dirt But don't fear if you hear a foreign sound to your ear Lonesome Train (Pedersen) Lonesome train westward boundlong to dwell to rest and never be found Yellow as liquid sun carrying a suitcase and a ray gun Pierce the plains rule the rail you persist the steel and dust trails prevail No more horsing around in for a penny in for a pound Cry against the rushing tide knee deep in uncovered with nowhere to hide March on the golden dawn steadfast and frugal you move on