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12 Oct 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Voices ought not be measured by how pretty they are.Instead they matter only if they convince youthat they are telling the truth."Sam Cooke 1. Conflict Songs Conflict songs, or "blood" songs, are songs that are mined directly from the earth. The...
7 Oct 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
There was an old woman who lived in a shoe. She bought a guitar. And lived in it, Too. Originally intended as a tool shed, this 2-story guitar (the power lines in the lower left corner are life size) may very well end up becoming my home. In my dr...
2 Oct 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The descent into Hell is easy."Virgil Attention shoppers. The recruitment office for the Department of Death will be closed until further notice. Nude shoplifters have been apprehended in the fruit aisle. A snake and a woman have been charged w...
26 Sep 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“Liberals can understand everything but peoplewho don't understand them.”Lenny Bruce "L.A. Makes Me Wanna Die" is an instrumental track from my 2008 album, What's The Deal, Bufu Harem? It tells the story of a space cowboy who escaped the Bufu warl...
24 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Wild hearts without no faithain't no wild hearts at all."Wild Hearts Forever I have spent a lot of time digging up musical corpses from graveyards of words in the woods. I have exhumed many poems and fitted them with wings to see if they will fly...
17 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Why does the world go unholy?Why does everyone fight more and more?Don't they know we have a savior?All we have to do is believe and pray"The Shaggs I was playing chess with my cat the other day, and he said he was in the mood for jazz and roasted...
14 Sep 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"To shut us up, you'll have to make us a present ofwooden pajamas, after sprinkling it with lead."The Tijuana Story When the police have a vice squad, special units dedicated to the eradication of vice, virtue can live above ground. When the polic...
10 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Baboon climbs the mountain, so hastily, so troublesome,Baboon climbs the mountain, so hastily and so troublesome,Baboon climbs the mountain to annoy the farmers.Hooray! For the jolly baboon..."The Last Fire Watch Since these are the end tunes, an...
8 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Time is the plume of ash from a volcano that obscures and blocks the sun. It is a floating, smoky menace. You can read the circumstances behind the song in the article Message in a Bottle, if you're interested. The lyrics are pasted below. Since...
7 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Trailer on the Moon" is from my 2011 album Broken Bird. A "broken-hearted vision of Las Vegas, achieved while scuba diving on acid," Broken Bird was originally conceived as a spoken word album, thus the title, which rhymes with "spoken word." It h...
