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UnReQuieted : Lyrics and The Demos
Until the album is released, here are some demos and lyrics to the songs.
1. Like You Really Care
Here's our final version :
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Lyrics
I was bored...I was really bored...
Didn’t know anybody at this party
In my own apartment
Got into this argument with no one
about nothing I can remember
Then you chimed right in like a carnival arriving
You climbed right in like it was your life that you’re driving
You take my wheel and you make straight for the future
You made me feel I could get used to this torture
I sit and stare while you’re picking fleas off my cat
You’re sitting there sticking to the lies that fell flat
I mistake your smile for the truth you hold there bleeding
It takes a while but I fold up into nothing
I’m falling, I’m falling for you
Am I falling for you?
You say you can’t be true
Well that’s what you say, I know
I’ll see it your way someday
But for now I don’t think you’ll be getting through to me.
........
You sleep around and you tell me all about it
I keep it down in the hell you built around it
You take me up to the park out past the landing
I make believe your heart is where my hand is
You say I’m free, just as free as you are
I say I’m me and I want you here forever
Your eyes fall away from mine
I’m falling, I’m falling for you
I am falling for you
You say you can’t be true
Well that’s what you say, I know
I’ll see it your way someday
But for now while you’re lying there
For now, while you just lie there
For now, I will play like you really care.
Like you really care.
Words and music by Humberto Cordero
String and horn arrangements by Aaron Mayo and Andrew Fietek
2. Really Wish I Could
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Lyrics
I’ve been trying to miss you, but it just doesn’t come easy
does it mean there’s something wrong with me or wrong with us?
seems you’ve been gone forever, long before you left
longing to be together doesn’t enter my mind
it just hasn’t happened yet
guess I should thank you. you’re welcome to stay away
Really wish I could miss you,
but it just hasn’t happened, I can’t say it’s happened yet
Let me tell you a fairy tale story,
turns out fairly stale and boring
Stop me please if you’ve heard this one before
Glory be, The Kingdom of Me!
I’m back in the Land of the Loving!
after living every day inside that frame
that just fell off the wall as you were leaving.
guess I should thank you. You’re welcome to stay away.
Really wish I could miss you,
but it just hasn’t happened
I can’t say it’s happened yet
I’m still waiting, still waiting, waiting still...
guess I should thank you, you’re welcome to fade away
Really wish I could miss you,
but it just doesn’t happen,
I can’t say it’s happened yet
I’m still waiting...
Words and Music by Humberto Cordero.
3. Who Can Say?
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My body’s silent as a drum
Since you took your hands away
I’m going blind my mind is numb
Since you took your eyes away
Birds have flown to parts unknown
It’s a cold and icy, stormy May
I huddle here without your warmth
My lips are blue, my lips are blue
Who can say how this will end?
Who can say how this....is gonna end?
And all the streets are empty now
Since you took your smile away
The electricity is out
Since you took your laugh away
The shops are shuttered cross the town
Their shelves are empty
My government comes crashing down
Marshall Law begins today
Who can say how this will end?
Who can say how this ...is gonna end?
I hear the drums outside my door
I hear the drums, the drums of war
Why did you leave me here all alone?
Why did you leave me? My birds have flown away.
Who can say?
Words and Music by Humberto Cordero.
4. My Father's Hat
based on a story that Karl Baumgartner told me in Prague about leaving his recently deceased father's signature hat on an airplane. Alas, Baumi is now also gone.
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Lyrics
I lost my father's hat
and now I've got a ghost on my head.
When you love someone so much, you hold on to the pain,
the pain of a touch that you'll never feel again.
It's like a talisman, a fetish, a gold magic watch;
you guard it at all cost.
and now it's lost
my father's hat
I've lost my father's hat
and you wanna know my only comfort....my only care.....
that's that that hat like my father is out there.
I've lost my father's hat.
Words and Music by Humberto Cordero.
5. Gordon Matta-Clark
Here're some images of the work of this artist. And a good movie of one of his best pieces, Conical Intersect.
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Lyrics
You work on my life like Gordon Matta Clark
you’ve taken this condemned old pile and cut into its heart
to reveal all the spaces and a clear view to the stars
I was folded up so tight no one could squeeze inside
but with a clip clip and a flouirsh, unfolding me so wide
you unreeled all the faces I swear I had to hide
You divined invisible lines
and forced me to concede that gravity isn’t what it used to be
You work on me with a solid patience
Now that I have found my footing
I'm lifting off of my foundation.
Between every room I built heavy walls
I layed down lathe and plaster and bricked up all the doors
to conceal, eliminate a straight shot to the core
Then you came in with chainsaws like Gordon Matta Clark
cutting through linoleum, day breaks through the dark
and you peeled back the layers and I can feel the air is finally moving
Chainsaws all are singing:
You divined invisible lines
and forced me to concede that gravity isn’t what it used to be
You work on me with a solid patience
Now that I have found my footing
I'm lifting off of my foundation.
You work on me. Gordon Matta Clark.
Words by Humberto Cordero. Music by Merritt Bucholz and Humberto Cordero
Horn arrangements by Andrew Fietek and Humberto Cordero
6. Mar y Cielo
Ouch.
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Words and Music by Julito Rodriguez
Me tienes, pero de nada te vale
soy tuya porque lo dicta un papel;
mi vida la controlan las leyes,
pero en mi corazón
que es el que siente amor
tan sólo mando yo.
El mar y el cielo
se ven igual de azules
y en la distancia
parece que se unen.
Mejor es que recuerdes
que el cielo es siempre cielo,
que nunca, nunca, nunca
el mar lo alcanzará;
permiteme igualarme con el cielo
que a ti te corresponde ser el mar
a sort of an English translation:
You have me but it's of no value to you.
I'm yours because it says so on paper. My life is controlled by what's legal. But, here inside my heart, that thing that feels love, only I rule.
The sea and sky look equally blue, and in the distance it looks like they come together. It's better that you remember that the sky is always the sky,
that never never never the sea is going to reach it.
Permit me to consider myself like the sky, because you are most certainly the sea.
7. Vibrations
the proverbial two ships passing in the night. except they're trains.
Tearing through the night’s long skirts
This train is on its way to morning
The shifting of the passengers
the sweating of the babies
seduction in the front car
uncovered by the moon
and forests in the cloudless stars
also want to forget you
but I feel vibrations of your passing
underneath my wheels
the rails both tremble slightly
as you somewhere pick up speed
and I’m heading to the east
with your vibrations taunting me
t’turn back...t’turn back...t’turn back
but the track, but the track.
Words and music by Humberto Cordero
8. This
How is it that we ended up in bed? Again?
original demo:
What am I supposed to do with information like this?
under the table you kick me hard
all of a sudden this
Give me a break, give me some time
to figure out what I want to make of this
I thought we talked this out
I thought the last thing you'd want was...
this is no surprise
this look in your eyes
this finger on my skin
as this us begins again
this simple morning giving way
to this more complicated day
this is the ache I've always missed
this kiss, this is no surprise.
What am I suppose to do? You just can't seem to choose
you say your boyfriend is gorgeous now
all of a sudden...this
Give me some space, give me some room
to out-maneuver your tricky heart like...this
I thought you said last time
that that would be the last last time
this is no surprise
this look in your eyes
this finger on my skin
as this us begins again
this simple morning giving way
to this more complicated day
this is the ache I've always missed
this kiss, this kiss, this is no surprise
this sleepy look in your eyes
you linger on my skin
as this fuss begins again
is this us beginning again
or is this just the beginning
of another end?
I don't care much right now.
Words and Music by Humberto Cordero.
The world was always trying to break him down
with sticks and stones and pavement but he would never cave in
no, he outwitted them all he dropped the ball and got off scot-free
He was always trying to fake me out
he'd drink himself half empty and then he'd get half angry
and then when we were eye to eye that's when he'd hit me with the hardest question:
Why do you look at me that way? You know i don't care what they say.
You know I know you know I know you know I know you inside and out.
I was always trying to make him out
to be the one who couldn't clearly make his intentions known
nearly impossible to pin down, I still look around for some kind of clue
Why do you have to go away? You know i don't care what you say.
You know I know you know I know you know I know you inside and out.
the world was always trying to smoke me out.
but he was just one fire until he got too tired
and then when we finally got the call, I knew it all before they could speak
Why do you look at me that way? You know i don't care what you say.
You know I know you know I know you know I know you inside and out.
I wanna take you down I wanna break you down
I wanna make you choke on your own words
I wanna take you up I wanna take you up
I wanna take you up into my arms.
Words and Music by Humberto Cordero.
10. Who Can Blame Me?
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I like to think this is the note he leaves on the kitchen table. But you know he'll never go.
original demo:
You treat me so tenderly so rarely.
You say to me that you love me but just barely.
You give me too much time to think whether you care for me or not.
You give me too much time to drink myself into denial
about your accusations and your trials
my deliberations and your sentences
get all muddled up
until you cuddle up
and say "I'm sorry"
again.
Is it ten times this week or more?
Baby, I don't want you to think I'm keeping score,
but you treat me so tenderly so rarely.
Who can blame me?
Words and Music by Humberto Cordero.
11. Astray
The window for love can be very narrow and it is closing but there's time enough for Enough.
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original demo with a fleet of pianos...
Even though we're both so tired and hazy
Sometimes when we fall together it gets so crazy
Even though we both know it’s only for a moment
if only for that moment we know exactly what
we want the sunshine
here. this is all mine
and all yours
Even though this won’t grow outside this hothouse
we both know this hothouse is bigger than a jungle
Even though it’s still so late for us both, dear
here is my hand you can lead me astray
Here is the sunshine. Here. This is all mine
And all yours.
Here is my hand. You can lead me astray...
Words and Music by Humberto Cordero.
12. Dear Mongolia
This song is inspired by a work involving letters written by the poet A K Mimi Allin during her journey sailing to Mongolia. More about her here.
She also wrote the lyrics to Walk Toward this Moon on Like...This and a song that will likely be on the next album called Fat Bunny Hole.
(soon I will have a pdf of the Mongolia letters downloadable here. it's really something)
Lyrics by Humberto Cordero, cribbed heavily from Mimi Allin's Letters to Mongolia. Music by Humberto Cordero
More info on Amy's desire to travel to Mongolia later. You can read the letters now by downloading this PDF.
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original demo:
Not yet, Not yet, Not yet begun.
How to? How to? How to begin?
Somewhere, Somewhere where everything
is what it is, is everything
Dear, Mongolia, I'm on my way.
cut the lines....
............
Coffee, a radio, a porthole, a pen,
violin, Tolstoy, a destination
Wring! Wring! Wring myself dry.
So as to be able to drink the more
So as to be able to drink the more
So as to be able to drink all the more.
Dear, Mongolia, I'm on my way.
............
I'll be, I'll be down in the hold.
Hold me, hold me, so dark below.
Hanging, hanging up there so far
not saying much, just like a star
too close to touch, I hear the sharks.
I'm keeping watch, and I'm on my guard.
Dear, dear Mongolia, I'm on my way.
............
Of course, I'm off course
Plugging the leaks
So sick, I'm so sick
I feel so weak.
Hold on, Hold on, just close your eyes
I'm there already, just like a dream
I shall want nothing, you're everything
my sails may be empty, but I still believe
............
Let me, Let me knock at your door
the Ocean is dancing me into your shore
Why you? Why me? They all want to know.
Because you are tough, because you have time
Because you are simple, because you are mine
The Desert surrounds you, your door's open wide
You're so temporary, your house is so round
Because of the journey, your ocean so brown
Because you are far, so far away
Oh, because, just because, no reason at all
The cold wind is full, full of your prayers
Dear, dear Mongolia, I'm on my way.
Not yet, Not yet begun. Dear, Mongolia, hold on.
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