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7 Dec 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
"I was in high cotton just a-bangin' on my six-stringA-kickin' at the trash can, walkin' skin and bone"John Prine If God hadn't intended us to write love songs, He wouldn't have shaped the heart like a guitar pick. Because the future is a concrete...
28 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
If you have ever fallen in love with someone whose initials you carved into what you thought was a tree, only to find out later it was a rotten log... If you've ever participated in the skeleton circus, only to wake up in the hospital after overdosi...
17 Nov 2024 6 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!For ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.”Matthew 23:15 Falling in love with Judee Sill the other day was lik...
15 Nov 2024 1 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
The spirit bomb has ruptured at theseam Life is not a dreamin lowerCalifornia The nightmare is a joyride And no sorrow is likeyours, myfriend; Silence is our tomb And we would have beenin love; We would have shaken itto pieces As only damaged soulsc...
14 Nov 2024 5 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
“Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.”Proverbs 16:18 I am an intelligence supremacist. Intelligence supremacy isn't a hate group. It's a contempt group. Personally, I have real contempt for people who have judged...
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...
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...
5 Sep 2024 3 minute read 0 comments Nathan Payne
In 2007, I played banjitar for a punk-rock Irish band in Austin. They were in the style and spirit of The Pogues, Flogging Molly, bands like that. I wasn't right for them, but we played a couple shows. The banjitar is a banjo with a guitar neck, o...
