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Moonlight Towers

by The Coffee Sergeants

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1.
It's Not Me 03:38
You were calling out my name and I woke you up from your bad dream I was calling out your name I was hoping that you'd do the same Now I know just how you feel And I know that it's not real It's just something that you wanted That you hoped that I might be But it's not me You know there was a lover who became an ogre in your dreams and exploded into colors on your walls and on your sheets Now you know that they're both me and you know that they're not me They're just something that you wanted that you hoped that I might be But they're not me Any you know that things are not the way they seem I'm the one who wakes you from your dream
2.
And some fair day I'll think of you Where the earth is green and the sky is blue The sound of your breath in my ear Is really all I want to hear And some fair day you'll think of me On a warm spring ride down to the sea where the earth is sand and the sea is blue maybe then I'll think of you You're in the next room making plans Like diamonds strewn across the sand
3.
In this time the state of sleep, the case of adults caught up in the content change And I don't remember what day it was It's not the way you look at me when you say those thing you say It's more in the way you smile And I don't remember what day it was It serves us well the space between the places that we go even though the words have changed And I don't remember what day it was that it all came down to you
4.
Cindy in the morning is a vision without warning crashing on the rocks of consciousness and time and I wake and I rise grab another pack of lies and I stumble out the door and start the day Who know where black coaches of our fortune now will take us (to the edge of sanity and back it seems) And you'll find me as you will where the rain falls 'cross the hill and we'll walk these streets of heaven in our dreams The street lights all line up to lead me and the porch lights all come on to greet me down these shady streets I waste my time and the only constant that I find the sound of footsteps in my mind so deafeningly silent on the ground
5.
Blue moon at dawn Another waiting when it's gone You look away You do not hear me when I say I'll not be free till all my lies are truths again
6.
When I was Napoleon and you were Josephine we'd sit and talk together of the places we had been You are a child You cannot hope to understand this little corner of the world Oleander and her friends and a host of sixteen angels with their wings beating and horns blowing could not wake you from your sleep I'm listening to the air conditioner and I'm dreaming I am gone
7.
I can't talk too loud because he might be at the door It's about this guy who lives next to me on this floor He's been up all night I don't think he ever sleeps Go in some trouble on the ugly side of town busted him a rank and they rode him out of town for being in the wrong place wrong space wrong time He sits and watches the TV He smokes a cigarette or three and waits to feel some new sensation He says that only time will tell He locks himself inside a shell poor guy He's the new crustacean
8.
Pilot Song 03:40
If I were a pilot I would fly in lazy circles 'round your little town and paint you sky and say the words that I could never say If I were a pilot were a poet for a day If I were the one you really need I'd be your lover and your father now and I'd walk your path of splinters and I'd make your bed of nails If I were a pilot were a poet for a day
9.
Lights on the horizon they twinkle and shine In moonlight towers I hold you through your darkest night Wasted all my time on sunlight with the rain falling down Now I can't help feeling I'm holding you down The men in the blue suits grow old as they deal and they lie Moonlight towers, they reach and scrape stars from the sky Wasted all my days on moonlight with the sun beating down Now I can't help feeling I'm holding you down You will find me in the shaft of light that shines through your door I am always in the shaft of light that shines through your door
10.
I Smile 03:09
Jenny is so young and she's so old the contradictions all unfold an open book for me to find A shadow cast across my mind And she's running from the pain of being caught out in the rain and I'm soaking and I smile Merry is so strong and she's so cool till someone plays her for a fool then her world comes crashing down I cannot watch it hit the ground And her phone rings off the wall but she won't accept the call She's so many people now

about

Produced and Mixed by Stuart Sullivan and Carey Bowman
Engineered by Stuart Sullivan
Arranged by the Coffee Sergeants
Recorded and mixed at Pedernales Studio, Spicewood, TX
on August 31, September 1 & 2, December 19,20 & 21st, 1992
Executive Producer: Steve Wilkison
Mastered by Jerry Tubb at Terra Nova Digital Audio, Austin TX
Digital Mastering by Soundmirror, Boston MA
All Photography by Todd V. Wolfson
Eye: Dierdre
Cover design by Steve Wilkison, Todd V. Wolfson and Carey Bowman

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released February 1, 1993

Mike Barnett
Spencer Berry
Carey Bowman
Doug Spinks

Violins by Scott Blesener

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