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Mountain Things

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1.
Cactus Magic 03:10
Lyrics written by Austin Morrell Spending time getting to know you Spending time getting to know you I’ll be fine Dandilion, mushroom tea Cactus magic symmetry Wilderness of mystery, share with me your wizardry Time Spending time Who knows Where we’ll go When we spend time Where we’ll go How far...
2.
Koyote 11:28
Lyrics written by Hiram Camp I feel the light crawl away As the night seeps slowly onto my tail lights The ember of my cigarette Groaning like the sun of a somber day Bags of ash under it's dimming eye The tail of its smoke Spinning into silhouettes of refugees Children dancing in their toil They vanish into the exhausting hold of the night I drag deep And lay heavy on the accelerator The blood of radio transmissions falls dead And I know I am alone Alone with the imprint of countless smuggled bodies The ghosts of their emotions Rocking in the back seats Like sardines waiting to be baptized in new lands with new purpose New hope Who knows now Where and if. My mind drifts back to the road The white dotted stitching of the highway passing by my treads, in it I feel the reflections of my spirit Like glowing eyes in the night yipping in understanding At the savagery of the world Following the scent of blood drawn Willing me on to head the pack of scavengers A Prince of sunbleached bones and carrion Sharp toothed and grinning My kingdom will inherit me One day And my flesh will burn away My bones will turn to dust Mixing with the sands of the desert Radiated as one With my home My unforgiving lover Until then I keep driving Until the great wall stretches before me I quench the shine of my headlights and roll blindly off the highway Riding a worn road long forgotten Tracing it gently like a fingertip on a vein I see figures muted in the dark, heads turning like rabbits Hesitant, anxious, uncertain. The door slips open A password is shared Names are not They'll never know my name Only my desire To lead Stray dogs in the night To a new home. Everyone's a stranger That's the rules of the road --- Standing on the wall Waiting for the truth to spill out From your eye Shinning forhead broken mirror Lighthouse for all The wandering children Come home child Waiting for the water Waiting just to try A new life In the promised kingdom But the walls are rising high The walls are rising faster Just want to try To climb up in the pines Try to crumble all the vapid Kings With wine With the wine of Humility And shrink their egos shark Don't let them have the bloody water Let their putrid egos die I was standing in your light We'll send the truth to shock their systems Break their little minds Waiting just to try Waiting for the water
3.
Lyrics written by Maxwell Graves I made my way down south To say what I'm about To people who won't listen Cuz of hatin' superstition But I'm all out of luck This shrunken head I have, holds up I don't give a fuck This shrunken head is made of luck I made my way down south To clear up all my doubt To people who won't listen Cuz of hatin' superstition But I don't give a fuck This shrunken head I have is luck Little heads run amuck Before your time is up
4.
Leo's Theme 04:05
Lyrics written by Austin Morrell I got a singular kind of purpose in mind I want to see all the squares here get so damn high that you scream Think im the devil, try to sell me your life I’ll offer you something silly like the publishing rights To a song that I wrote about how you felt, For a talented man that just couldn’t get loose enough When you give up on life We lose a star out of the sky Its like a universal treatise We need all the starry eyes To break free of this sphere I wont bother to say it twice But find a way to get up on somethin Earth kin We gotta reach out and get over this politic We wanna sing in other galaxies Give aliens lsd We wanna find a bigger knowing Than earthlings can see But how can we write that symphony If we’re still this capitalist disease The terrestrial hunger That makes us what we are Will consume us if we proceed with Fixating on what we aren’t And striving to out-consume our neighbors Instead of getting in tune with our desires I want to sing in other galaxies Give aliens lsd I want to at least experience gravity visibly distorting space Before i write that song that sums it up for all my days There is a maniac that follows me Mostly all of the time I think he’s starting to learn my schedule I can see it in his eyes There is no wholesome guiding principle To the patterns in our lies We’re just stumbling blindly onward
5.
Down 03:38
Lyrics written by Hiram Camp After all We gathered charms from all our destinations Tried to get em' all And We kissed our hands And touched the roof At every orange light Trying to catch Some luck Could it be enough Going to need it now Going to need some luck Need a little bit of luck We took a shot As we crossed the line Of every state we drove into Hoping that we could drink up enough Good fortune Though it seems That we are running dry Is it enough to get by? Yet, you always seem to find some fun You got a store somewhere? Are you holding out? Cause I'm gonna need some luck Just to get by That's why we never spoke a word Of what we wished for At every shootin' star Every dandelion puff You just let the wind have your dreams can't cash in on those seeds? Cause All I needed was some luck All I needed was some love
6.
Lyrics written by Colin Roxford Memories passing through Just to see you smiling All the while thinking "My, how the time just goes…." Couldnt be bad to Let the good times roll…. I know that you felt something, Don't let yourself do nothing u’ve gotta let it show... feels like I'm spinning Right out Of control So Come on babe My Body feels like maybe Its time to go But my heart says no! Let's just take it slow Ask “Are you still with me?” I’ll say “you know I'm never letting go” Love's like flowers Oh how they grow Yes is your answer let it go I can see it coming Here it is, the final blow Feeling like I'm dreaming Ooo and if I really am sleeping I don't want to know.
7.
Never Think 11:23
You never think about me when you are around me You never think about me when you are around me You never think about me when you are around me

about

Recorded in Albuquerque and Red River New Mexico
by Austin Morrell in May 2018.

Mixed and Mastered by Steve Hammond

This album is dedicated to the memory of Alec Wilkes

Musicians on this record:
Luz Allison
Hiram Camp
Jon Deyhle
Maxwell Graves
Eric Lisausky
Austin Morrell
Colin Roxford
Alec Wilkes

Over the course of a week in May 2018 the bands Sun Dog and YOU gathered to record an album themselves in band members homes in both Albuquerque and Red River. The bands released a spilt 12" record in 2015 and looked to take a different approach when recording "Mountain Things"; recording live as one collective group with minimal creative restrictions.

Cover photo taken in Red River NM by Rachel Lively

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released April 10, 2020

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