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How The Spark Loves The Tinder

by Monk Parker

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Sadly Yes 05:43
Sadly yes I know just where to go, where to go Sadly yes, we can all three see the bright writing on the marquee Sadly no, I don't want to Sadly no, I don't want her, I want you Past your shoulder & porchlight lies the bright sea of Illinois. Floating pleasure palaces light the sky beyond the buoys Sadly no I don't want to go Sadly no I don't know how to say no Sadly every sweet thing ends in the end, in the end Sadly yes, it's a cold world & favors cold men Sadly no we can't be still be friends Sadly I'll never kiss you again
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I Am A Gun 05:29
shoot me i am a gun you need a lover and i am not one i am not one you think that flowers are pretty but they're just hungry for sun & it's true I'm a lousy man but I'm a real good gun I'm a real good gun shoot me i am a gun you need a lover and i am not one i am not one I am a gun.
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slow nights in rapid city so bright the tiny stars strobe lights twining slow & pretty in rapid city Darkly darkly the happy hours sparklingly sparklingly the bar lights smiling hidingly shy & inviting anything, anything, anything.
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The sound of cars & the wound-up stars All stall & stop eventually So noon declines to blue & night rains to dull morning dew So dawn goes down to day they say. The wind wants to batter, & clouds like to drift & scatter & the sky is high & bright & glad & empty I wanna be forgotten I wanna be forgotten I wanna be free, free, free I wanna be forgotten I wanna be forgotten
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chapter one, & the warm stars are shining & light the sky with their long dying Some strange April, when all the stars stall and stay still & the days fly by idle in Idlewild idle in Idlewild chapter two, soft like kittens & hidden & New York’s as far off as China. The ghosts of you and me are so pretty & so sweet & it’s bright for Spring The days fly by idle in Idlewild The days fly by idle in Idlewild
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Black Bees 03:54
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It’s raining in Eva & damp flowers bloom Black waters rise where her long legs lie Pond weeds twine on couch legs & clouds glide by in bright-edged files across her ceiling tiles & hide her starry houselights Behind her bangs behind her bright bangs an uncloudy day shines & fades & shines & fades again but Eva rains Eva rains
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How the spark loves the tinder How the fuel the spark How the night longs to not be so dark Such a lovely fire Such a pretty light All the things that we burned sure burned bright the great fires leave nothing but the endless skies all blue & no green & the strangest dreams Sure it all fades to black & grey Sure it all banks to coals Still the great fires are only sleeping you know the great fires leave nothing but the endless skies all blue & no green all blue & no green & the strangest dreams

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The first full-length solo release by Monk Parker. Available on vinyl or CD from Bronze Rat Records (www.bronzerat.com) and most major retailers.

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released May 26, 2015

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Monk Parker Austin, Texas

Pitchfork says "Mournful & elegant, big & brassy... the exquisite dejection is almost celebratory", Rolling Stone France calls his most recent release “perfect, just perfect”, and El Pais declared a recent Madrid performance "monstrously sad & brilliantly anachronistic”.

The new full-length solo release "Crown of Sparrows" comes out on LP & CD in April 2016 on Grand Jury Records.
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