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Joseph Airport Is Reeling 'Round The Punch Bowl

by Joseph Airport

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1.
I was the burning wick in your hurricane Now I’m an old meal wrapped in cellophane I was a bright blue sky You were my aeroplane Now you’re the lightning and I’m just a weather vane
2.
Who can it be ringing in our ears? Cochlear reaction resulting from no stimulus Drenched in decibels Phantom whine in the neurosphere We’ve got tinnitus so bad We’ve got tinnitus Unbearable Untenable Unendable
3.
Crappy Dracula Stalkin’ through the old oak trees Crappy Dracula Keep your nasty fang from me Crappy Dracula
4.
We got a book but it wasn’t big enough We got some ice but it wasn’t frigid enough We got the peppers but they were not hot enough To form the spice for your 4-year sendoff We placed you on the pedestal bud Prepared to record all your brilliant exploits But you soon went beyond What the pundits predicted Einstein We got the bottle but it wasn’t proof enough We got the baggie but it wasn’t croost enough We got the party bus smokin' hot for us With buckets of ice and greased poles
5.
Your speckled pointillescent face Black dots and spatter patterns Drip drip so goes the ink It’s quite a problem don’t you think? Three singers in perfect harmony The spectacles peddler in his purple turban Stoning St. Stephen in a history painting Tobit and Anna contemplate the kid Old men do combat o’er imagined slights Under the gaze of inkblot Rembrandt
6.
The vessel is a device The device is a loophole The loophole is open but Open means death Death goes as far as spring Spring has no witness Witness to the execution An execution of Buicks Buicks cruising on air glide The glide that’s rearranged A flask that’s never dry
7.
One house in escrow Is worth two in the face Covalent bonds Breaking amino chains Free the slave molecule From the office From the blotter— Ridiculous! Try chemistry When you’re feeling jejune Sophistry only gets you so far You’re chemistry When you’re sidled up to me Try chemistry To depress blooms in June Breaking amino chains From the office From the blotter— Ridiculous!
8.
Jack Of Legs 02:50
Jack of legs came to town Reeling ’round the punch bowl Telling tales with a bit of red And a fair bit of tol-lol The guns of Dorchester Heights Midnight earthworks and Howe put to flight Our ship has run aground Join this jig and reel Farewell O you ladies of Yorktown We’ll pass the rum around The syllabub Spinning yarns at the Publick House Dancing on the Fiddler’s Green Hudson cannons blast like yesterday The fate of New York Had us all sighing Howe’s return and revenge on Long Island Our wagon’s hit a rut We languish in a field Farewell O you brothers of mine Drop a line when you’ve got the time Fire burns to the coals Speaking softly in the gleam The end of the Great Pretender Cornwallis entreats to surrender
9.
Lyrics adapted from "The Disclosure Of Alex Starchild" by Jeff Wolfe
10.
What do you do when green eyes don’t? What can you see when sightseers won’t? How do the trails materialize when you cut the ties? Where do you draw the line When you’re always flying off the handle? What do you see when eyes flicker? What do you want When green eyes leave? Trails still materialize once you’ve cut the ties Once you’ve drawn the line Once you decide what to do When green eyes don’t
11.
I’m afraid of you and You’re afraid of everything We’re playing tag with our neuroses You ask me why The hell would I ever sing? We’re playing tag with our neuroses
12.
Carly is the coolest Cute and scary Like a bunch of bees Whipping the honey As wax combs resolve Into perfect hexagrams Carly is the coolest She stops hearts and starts fights And buckles periwinkle-skinned knees Grey ideas floating at dusk In senile patterns through the trees Forget anything else These drones are the cruelest And Carly is the coolest
13.
There’s no mystery It’s a beach read Lousy with adverb "So" and "then" Spreading ripples Participles Defective fiction When he’s down on our house Defective fiction Defective down on our house When it’s hot you find shade Gray blue seafoam so relaxing Ink stains bargain basement It’s not worth much But it keeps the pot boiling
14.
Been 98 minutes Still no sign of the carousel We’re waiting for Sam and Gus As the sun comes up At the psychological baggage claim I’d just as soon leave it behind Be free of the crushing weight Of my baggage But there’s so much in there that I need Would be so hard to replace Let’s give it a few more minutes At the psychological baggage claim
15.
Naturally occurring meat of the mother Now I understand why dinosaurs Ate each other Flesh of mussels on a bed of snails Anticipating visits from Neil Fungus and family I’m under the door She’s eyeing Monopoly She kisses like Christmas And missus missives I’d swim through fire
16.
The US matrimony just hit an iceberg This isn’t a home It’s a coliseum A museum for wedlock’s bruises A mausoleum of Unspoken slights and abuses We started to grapple The moment we left the chapel Now ’til death do we deadlock In figure-four wedlock Who are you really Behind that mask?
17.
Invitation from the reaper When the nights are cold Mornings gray and dim And orange is on the ground We’re at the soul harvest With a banjo and a scalpel At the soul harvest With the jug and a body bag Come join the washboard player When he strikes the louvers Dance a jig with clickety spoons Just wait until it’s over Invitation from the reaper When nights are cold There’s a looped rope hanging From the hayloft
18.
I. Maintain Your Spines Rogue specimens In the endocrine shitstorm Let us maintain your spines Adrenal clans Let go of your egos Your pheromone lassos And speak with your eloquent minds II. Explorriors Enslaved spirits of the inane asylum Replace your wiring with vines Explorriors return to the jungle The primordial language we bungled As mortality’s watch unwinds
19.
From Far Rockaway to Buffalo Pop flies are trying out wings Soaring over the majestic grandeur of things They leapt off the bat MCs and rhymes on the bleachers Busted-up chalk for the teachers The glory of the diamond awaits The ghost man on second Birds 15 deep on the tarmac Aviation specters strike out the phantasms’ Love of 5-tool players Haunting us since birth in our protean layers Failed autopilots taunt teachers Earning their wings in the bleachers The glory of the diamond awaits
20.
E-Maul 01:36
E-maul Send it to me via e-maul Most visceral communication You have got maul!
21.
They’re not counting cryogenic sheep They’re plotting in their sleep While we sow what they reap Making our plans for French Friday There’s hemlock in the soufflé They’re serving for Bastille Day You best be quick on the draw When they thaw

credits

released April 1, 2016

All songs by Joseph Airport
©2016 Tsunami Patrol Music

Joseph Airport is Jereme Sanborn, Matthew Cutter, Ben Penry, Joe Patterson, Jason Short and Dan Nolan

Tobin Sprout: Drums on "Green Eyes" and strings on "Soul Harvest"
Peopleperson: Guitar on "Inkblot Rembrandt"

Recorded and mixed at Joseph Airport, Feb. 5–6 2016, except:
Track 5 mixed by Peopleperson
Tracks 10 and 17 recorded and engineered by Tobin Sprout at Moonflower Studio in Leland, Michigan

Lovingly fucked with by Peopleperson in Dayton, Ohio

Tobin Sprout appears courtesy of Petrified Fish Records

Cover photo by Shonda Mckinney-Short

Thanks: Tobin, John Sanborn MD, Andrea, The Wind

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Joseph Airport Cincinnati, Ohio

"Vector 23 is full of driving post-punk ... Bowie-inflected art rock ... and, at least to one listener, shades of Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd." —MAGNET Magazine

"... An eccentric, zany little album whose catchy tunes and peculiar lyrics can put a grin on your face." —The Fire Note
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