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15 Apr 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent!" "Jesus, the days that we have seen!"Justice Shallow I wrote "Jesus The Days We Have Seen" sometime in the 90s. The title was inspired by a line from Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part 2. It is an expression...
3 Apr 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart."Proverbs 25:20 I forgot about this song. One of the reasons I forgot about it is that it's obsolete. There are other obs...
31 Mar 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"If you ever get the 'peace and contentment blues,' remember, the key words are PEACE, and contentment. After all the crap we've been through, the blues are the easy part. Don't you think?"Invisible Manifesto For A Rising Outlaw Nation (Take 3) I...
12 Mar 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"The slow one now will later be fast, as the present now will later be pastThe order is rapidly fadin', and the first one now will later be lastFor the times, they are a-changin'"The Times They Are A-Changin' "These lines are usually read as Biblical...
11 Mar 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Satan at the Movies" is from the album Slow-Burning Fun. It's one of those orphan songs that is instantly overlooked as soon as it is born, for reasons of being not gregarious enough to hang out with the other kids. It is perhaps an antisocial pie...
5 Mar 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Sleeping Sea" is a song in 3 parts, a dismembered musical body whose sonic ashes are scattered over 2 different oceans: The Pacific Ocean, and The Salton Sea. "Sleeping Sea #1," or simply "Sleeping Sea," was inspired by a drive up the Pacific Coast...
23 Feb 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I woke up today with a sense of urgency I've never experienced. I've lived in fight or flight, hyper-vigilant panic/freeze mode for much of my life, and this wasn't that. The sense that time is VERY SHORT pursued me like a rabid, friendly animal. ...
18 Feb 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"Thank you for your merch and forgiveness.You paid the price on Cavalry."The Church of Laodicea While making the lyric video for "Everything I Have Is Yours," I stumbled over 2 morbidly-humorous potential typos. Instead of "mercy and forgiveness,"...
11 Feb 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
Dearest Wormwood, Like ketchup and mustard, or vultures and roadkill, Valentine's Day and Halloween complement each other perfectly. In an age when love is rape and lust is love, celebrate Valentine's Day this year by taking your mortal beloved on a...
8 Feb 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
I wrote "When You Go To Hell" in the free camping area near Leadville, Colorado in September 2015. It was a popular live song with the swing-dancing crowd. People from the past would show up and dominate the dance floor with their ghostly, retro mo...
