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by Simon Starr

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1.
Overflow 04:26
I want to hold you like a Shiva take an arrow from my quiver protect you from yourself protect you from yourself I want to drink all the water that's touched you anoint myself your lover steal you away from any other steal you away I need all that sacred water that's caressed your skin so I can float in the overflow overflow I want to see you on the island where the dogs fly from the roof tops and the people are so gentle you are so gentle I need all that sacred water that's caressed your skin so I can float in the overflow overflow You're free to walk this world in peace release is just a blink away I want to drink all the water that's touched you anoint myself your lover steal you away from any other steal you away
2.
Girls want to show it boys love to grow it I took some time to really know it was my secret destiny I'm riding down to St.Kilda these freaks are browner than the dirt why deny that we know we'll find just one kind deep inside Fleshy fleshy pink pink (translation from Amharit) The flesh and blood of every man is the same colour inside She wanted time to be cured of fleshy fleshy pink pink but skin is deeper than she thought so I gave her mine over and over til she became my convert when we are sweating then we know that sex can be more than a reflex Fleshy fleshy pink pink
3.
Gavriel 04:53
Olive, pine and carob line the sea it's hot today again everything is slow but me Gavriel the Sharkia's outside your window Gavriel there are good signs in the stars tonight And i'll take you there we'll ride a unicorn and maybe I can show you how to hold on and as we stare in to an endless sun you'll feel the light and space and you are one Spring has brought you out of your cocoon emerging on a fragrant night and a full moon Gavriel the Golan is watching over you Gavriel there are good signs in the stars tonight And i'll take you there to where you want to go I'll tell you anything that you want to know my baby girl i'll roll the magic carpet at your feet I'll take you there we'll ride a unicorn and maybe I can show you how to hold on and as we stare in to an endless sun you'll feel the light and space and you are one How did you know that so fast? leave something for later so I can keep pretending that you need me here The fields are stretching, ready for a sleep the jackal's song sounds sweet tonight while you count the sheep Gavriel i'll watch and guard you all of your days And i'll take you there to where you want to go I'll tell you anything that you want to know my baby girl i'll roll the magic carpet at your feet I'll take you there we'll ride a unicorn and maybe I can show you how to hold on and as we stare in to an endless sun you'll feel the light and space and you are one My baby girl the whole world awaits you
4.
Umbilical 02:44
I met this girl a life ago the biblical fox from outer space the sea the night the sweet sweet flow I flew her home and dreamt of her face I prayed she'd make my world feel right and guide me safely home at night fill my eyes with her warming light and guide me safely home Sailing ships and shifting sands and eating four leaf clover helping me to understand the need to turn things over I prayed she'd make my world feel right and guide me safely home at night fill my eyes with her warming light and guide me safely home The hardest thing I said was "good bye ol' Umbilical" settle in to fluid equilibrium cos if you give too much then it's not real love Boy and girl stand on the ground astounded at their innocence the wisdom gained from falling down has made us only present tense She makes my small world feel so right and guides me safely home at night fills my eyes with her warming light and guides me safely home
5.
We Are Dust 08:48
Snowdrift blanket whiteout all is still the Golden Snowman blinks and makes the kill he melts and vanishes exit stage right the trail went cold when they declined to fight we are dust Who can stand and stay the fall of man consequence be damned conscience the plan he started by weeding his back yard chemicals at the soil his focus jarred we are dust Body sinking deep in to the ground roots emerge and find some life around Mondrian and Georgy Best pushing up the grass just like the rest we are dust While our earliest dreams come unstuck and then replaced by preaching "who gives a fuck" to be light isn't hip on this suffering fool's ship is this why we were given a soul? I give up, I don't know where we're headed now Someone turned the lights out in the West after all the bleeding hearts had been caressed we don't need enemies anymore there's only one thing that's guaranteed in store we are dust we must look inside not above our only hope is love
6.
Hey Maddy 03:28
Apple juice gets me high it's just as well that I live in Devondale and drawing pictures in the sky my art teacher said " nothing sticks girl find another job" So I keep shaking my zippy cup telling the cat that "G+Ts on the porch in 5 and mama's gonna be cool while she's alive" I like to dress up when I read maybe a beard will round out the ensemble I'm caught like Madame Bovary apparently a woman breeds and breathes if she has time So I keep passing the hat around telling the milkman I'm not his baby but thanks for that it should see me through the night Well I couldn't make up my mind you said you'd be back tomorrow so I just padded off in my koala suit No I never make up my mind and now your lips are touching mine well.....at least in my mind Hey Maddy count to 10 before you speak Now I'm really looking down for something blue I think it was my brain that fell I'll find some soap and get a rag maybe some rouge and you and I can luge to Santa's lap So I keep passing my heart around dollar a bag at closing time if you open your jacket i'll slip in like a love ninja and binge you on my supersonic love
7.
Pillow 04:03
Scuba armadillo clinking chunks of ebony eyes she don't want a pillow just a longer lasting 2nd prize from the way he waltzed it made it hard to leave so she hid her face in the dampness of her fraying sleeve Whither sinking feeling carried her away on a cloud she don't want a pillow just another chance to shout out loud emotional declension did he mention he would not foot the bill Sabotaged and cold her old life was now flowing downhill Stay home flee cos Rome is burning and the way is dark please stay home Dancing in the mirror tripping on where he drew the line she don't want a pillow give her dignity to start the slippery climb all this sorrow doesn't just belong to you suffering is fine if your fortune is mine to share too Stay home flee cos Rome is burning and the way is dark please stay home I could be your brave how long must I wait in your cave? I could be your bone you hold to fight your way back home
8.
Soon 04:40
Soon it's going to be here reverberating radiating captured on its journey through the dark Soon it's going to be here gushing supernova drawing people to their light like animals to the ark Soon it's going to be here colors melting senses pounding cataclysmic splash the primary spark Soon it's going to be here soon she's going to see him the moon will light their way to the park Soon it's going to be here Venus cues this sweet commotion tap in to the ocean in our hearts Soon it's going to be here soon she's going to see him the moon will light their way to the park
9.
Gatsby 01:57
Adorn yourself in shine and catch the morning quirk living for a brood of 5 and fitting in the work at the end of the day you look around your hole did you get very far lost your soul on the greasy pole Absolved of all your guilt in the afternoon's embrace in your cups by the beach unashamed and off your face then the phone starts to ring and desperate duty calls with your world in deep shit and not much room left to fall Attach a small white lie to every pigeon sent making sure the money flows even if the truth is bent as you fall in to bed the halo's looking grey and the last thing she said "did you sell some dreams today?" " I don't want you to stress but we're down to our last cent though my parents traced the call the hostage money's gone and went come down you silly boy it's blue skies all the way i'll buy you another toy you'll be so glad you stayed"
10.
YCN 04:00
You can never shut me up you can't shut me down you can never shut me up stop me making my sound this is my sound You don't want me walking around you don't want me stand up proud you don't want me to draw a crowd but I can do my thing every man must be allowed You can never shut me up you can't shut me down you can never shut me up stop me making my sound this is my sound You'd have my face hidden by a cloud or wrapped in sackcloth a dead man's shroud begging on my knees down face bowed but I can do my thing every man must be allowed You can never shut me up you can't shut me down you can never shut me up stop me making my sound this is my sound I'm gonna to speak my mind I'm gonna to talk it out I'm gonna shake and bake and take it to the hoop I'm gonna speak my mind I'm gonna talk it out I'm gonna shake and bake and make it to the truth Coal is gone this uncut jewel won't drop the ball play the fool I'm gonna take you back to school I'm a man you listen
11.
Rising Sun 04:45
Nothing in life can remain rejoice in the sweetness breathe through the pain Hard as it is to control the mind must let go to free the soul We can't replace the one we lost we must carry on with our lives So we embrace the rising sun and remember our fallen stars Where do our feelings reside where do they go on the final tide I'm calling you over the sea this blessing I whisper so tenderly We can't replace the one we lost we must carry on with our lives So we embrace the rising sun and remember our fallen stars

about

Music is the bomb.

I never listened to it for fashion, because of how it made me look or smell.

I just like the way it feels in my ears.

When I started playing, on a good night, it would sound like my own little language, like how I feel on the inside.

People said
" too fast"
" too soft"
" what genre is this?"
" more ballads"
"more shouting"
" too many notes"

But I'm not doing it for them.
I gots to be me.

credits

released June 12, 2015

This big beautiful mess was made over nearly 3 years with a lot of love.
I will never forget how open and giving people were. I rarely said anything, they were all so good - just let them do their thing.

The occasional instruction - " play like an elephant's ass is about to land on your head" etc.

But more often, just enjoyed them being there, listening to what we could make together. Such a beautiful trip.

Alon and I would sit, discuss, debate, erase, record. He would fiddle with the adjusters. Then he would have a coffee break. I would adjust the adjusters. He would return and re-adjust the adjusters. We would talk, debate, discuss.

His golden ears and true artist's heart were such a huge part of how this sounds.

Udi, Shahar and I worked things over for a year leading in to it, only to change everything once we started recording. They would tell me which songs were crap. So much love from and to Udi, Shahar, Omri and Itamar. Artists who don't care about anything other than how can this be better.
And Gershon who helped me from before we started until after we were finished. A genuine, real, modern day wizard.
And Araleh, Yonatan, Uzi, Ayala, Ofri, Ben, Luke, Ed, Oggy, Lachlan, Adam, Ori, Zohar, Nomi, Jude, Simmo, who all did things I didn't expect, because I didn't have a plan and they don't work like that anyway.

Produced by Alon Lotringer
Kibbitzed obsessively by Simon Starr
Mixed by Alon Lotringer at Alon’s Studio
Mastered by John Dent April 2015

Band tracks recorded at DB Studios July 2012 by Aran Lavi ( catering Mark Waysman)
Additional drum tracks recorded at Tamuz Studios September 2012-December 2014 by Raz Burg
Almost all the other additional recording at Alon’s Studio August 2012-March 2015
Some bvs recorded at Ohad Rein's May 2013
Piano for Fleshy, Soon and Maddy at Eyal Zelyuk’s studio, Herzliya November 2012

Photos - Gershon Waiserfirer
Snail photo - Yonatan Riklis
Graphics - David Urbinder ( what a legend)


Special thanks to:
Gasper Bertoncelj
Barnaby Gold
Claude Carranza
Kobi Salamon
Will Guthrie
Brett Rosenberg
Aran Lavi
Raz Burg
Josh Abrahams
Mike Poole
Justin Stanley
Andy Baldwin
Philip Mortlock
James Black
Jeff Harrison
Zev Eizik
Ben Rynderman
Adam Starr
Ohad Rein
Michelle Van Raay
Yehuda Eder
Harry Lifshitz
Micha Lotringer and the Lotringer family
the Starr family
the Friedman/Bar/Henkin/Zamir conglomerate
Sebi and Nooshi
JemmaJakeZac
Karin and Yuri Estrin
Gidsy Khan
Baz
Simon
Zev
Max Cash
Jesus Lubz
Marksy
Phil
Kath
Corgz
Robbos
Ariel, Annette and the girls
Arty and Maz
Le Freak
Debbie Sleigh

but mostly to Sara, Zohar, Isaiah, Gavriel

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