Artist Name: Neal Morgan Album Title: PAW
Songs written by Neal Morgan July 2018–Dec 2022. Arranged by Neal, collaborations noted below. Mixed by Neal & Tobias Berblinger (w/ Dan Elkan on Now and The Cave II). Stereophonic Mastering by Timothy Stollenwerk.
Total time: 85:18
Deepest thanks to the musicians and engineers who helped bring these songs to life; I am forever grateful to you. Special thanks to Dan Elkan for advice & support, sequencing the album, collaborating with me on the mixing & arranging of The Cave II and Now, setting up our work in CA studios, and playing guitar on six of the songs.
Thanks to Josh Klinghoffer for the use of Now Space studio; Ben Milner for use of the Unchurch studio; Nate Snell for the use of Singing Sands studio; Ryan Francesconi for technical & studio assistance and bass loan; Aaron Chapman for recommending Akila Fields; Marc Snegg for studio & engineer recommendation; Keith Mikami & Larry Yes for bass loans; Singing Sands Drum Tech Eric Rubalcava; all friends & family who helped with the artist budget.
A1 Awake Again
Vocal, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar – Neal
Thank God
Music goes
But never leaves
And here I am
Again
Nursing one
With my
Milkless Jonas nipples O!
In the surf
In the sun
Maybe you’ll make it on this one, song
Sweet pea grows
Housefinch sings
A love letter
Love letter
Love letter
Love letter
Love letter
Squirrel sleeps
Newborn baby girl sleeps
In the sun
On her mum
And here we am
Awake again
Recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR March 2023
A2 50
Drums, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Vocal, Electric Guitar (verses and second chorus), Tambourines, Indian Wedding Bells – Neal
Violin & Viola – Mirabai Peart
Electric Guitar – Dan Elkan
Electric Bass – Ian “Yuck” Lindsay
Can’t leave the car
With 50 on
Looking at the smile of my grandma
Is this the bar tonight?
Well lemme have a look at the dance floor
From inside the waves
I see your perfect face
Seagulls kinda clutter up the place
We’re always out the trunk til the grave
Can’t leave the bar with 50 on
Trying to find myself on the dance floor
Hot springs with a mom
Trying to figure out what I’m here for
From inside the days
I see your perfect face
Snack foods duplicate around the lake
We’re always out the trunk til the grave
Violin & Viola parts written by Neal and Mirabai Peart and recorded in Portland OR September 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Electric Guitar parts written by Dan Elkan, recorded by Michael Craver at Now Space in Los Angeles CA June 2023
Electric Bass parts written & recorded by Ian “Yuck” Lindsay in Portland OR August 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Drums, Vocal, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR April–August 2023
Electric Guitar (verses and second chorus), Tambourines, Indian Wedding Bells recorded by Neal in Portland OR March–August 2023
A3 Feels Good
Drums, Vocal, Electric Guitar, Bell, Cymbals – Neal
I’d fold an arm over and
Cup a breast while I slept
Found a three-leaf clover
Stuck itself to my chest
Got a big league soda I’ll
Suck on it while you rest
Carve you a sculpture while
Goat lips pull your dress
When feeling more alive
Might go for a drive
Cuz it feels good
When feeling more alive
Imagining your eye
Follow bird
Cross the sky
Cuz it feels good
Possum at daybreak
Looking for a place to be
There’s a snake on the airplane
And I see myself in its ring
Poolside at the Lakers
Dream of you in my seat
Pouring the milk so pretty I
Look for God in the sea
When feeling more alive
Might go for a drive
Cuz it feels good
Drums and Cymbals recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR May 2023
Electric Guitar, Vocal, Bell recorded by Neal in Portland OR March–October 2023
Main rhythm Electric Guitar recorded by Michael Craver at Now Space in Los Angeles CA June 2023
A4 Heart Ape
Vocal, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Electric Bass, Voice – Neal
Violin – Mirabai Peart
Piano chords and figures – Robin Bacior
Piano figure at 1:26 – Akila Fields
And sometimes the ghost turns toward the home
New Bond movie confused me to my soul
She’s got a kid, does that mean she’s a no?
Longhorn statue I’m kissing both the horns
Talked with cave inside a ketamine hole
Drum dreams, girl screams, pretty knees, tangerine
A lifetime of pack work Ned the mule
Heart Ape on a hillside hugging you
Heart Ape
Heart Ape
Heart Ape
Thought I’d turned a corner start kissing both the horns
Sex in Tel Aviv, Oslo, Portland O!
Maybe spend midlife with a midwife, forget my life
Forget my life
And sometimes the goat turns toward the home
New Bond movie confused me to my soul
Heart Ape
Heart Ape
Heart Ape
Violin parts written by Neal and Mirabai Peart and recorded in Portland OR September 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Vocal, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Robin Bacior’s Piano recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR April–August 2023
Piano figures written by Robin Bacior in Portland OR July 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Piano figure at 1:26 written & recorded by Akila Fields in Portland OR October 2023
A5 Bald Eagle Bathing
Drums, Vocal, Nylon String Guitar, Electric Guitar, Piano, Cymbals – Neal
Plastic toy in the dirt
Smog
Smog in a painting
Of smog sunset peach
In a beach
Say it ain’t so
Say it ain’t so
Baby newt dying
Bald eagle bathing
Bald eagle bathing
Jumped in the maar
Swim to the nurses
Swim to the nurses
There are clogs at my house
Come see
Home!
Come see
Drums and Piano recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR August 2023
Electric Guitar, Bass, Vocal, Nylon String Guitar, Cymbals recorded by Neal in Portland OR November 2020–October 2023
A6 Starting Over
Drums, Vocal, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar (rhythm, chords) Cymbals, Percussion, High-Hat & Snare, Bucket and Chair Throws, Snare Rake – Neal
Viola, Violin – Mirabai Peart
Electric Guitar (rhythm) – Dan Elkan
Electric Bass – Ian "Yuck" Lindsay
Electric Guitar & Steel String Acoustic Guitar melody at 3:57 – Samwise Carlson
Starting Over
Just walking the ditch now
Just want to catch the light now
Here and there
There and gone
Hear a dog up the hill
Run run deer
Just want to save a life now
It’s all the same
But my scene could be right now
Is she
Gonna
Let the elevator bring her down
Oh no
Let’s Go Crazy*
Are you good to record?
OK
Call in the drummer
In nine months
A year
Maybe three
Starting Over
Painting recovered
Off the shelf
And into your mother
Enter your mother
Inside your mother
Enter your brother
Fall in love
Find a drug
I’ll be around
Paint me this summer
Paint me this summer
Caress my head
Over the sea
Queen in my mouth
Sweat through the blouse
Morning is here
Art reappears
Painting a trustfall
Conceived on an island
Wanting to leave
Who do you see
When you’re looking at me
This queen in my mouth
Drop by the house
Paint me this summer
Paint me this summer
Paint me this summer
Paint me this summer
Paint me this
Viola & Violin parts written by Neal, arranged by Neal and Mirabai Peart and recorded in Portland OR September 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Dan Elkan’s Electric Guitar (rhythm) recorded by Michael Craver at Now Space in Los Angeles June 2023
Electric Bass parts written & recorded by Ian "Yuck" Lindsay in Portland OR August 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Drums, Vocal, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Neal’s Electric Guitar, Cymbals, Samwise Carlson’s Electric Guitar & Steel String Acoustic Guitar recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR April–August 2023
Electric Guitar & Steel String Acoustic Guitar melody at 3:57 written by Samwise Carlson
Neal’s Electric Guitar, Bucket and Chair Throws, Hi-Hat & Snare, Snare Rake recorded by Neal June 2020–October 2023
B7 Sit Around Dumb
Drums, Vocal, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Breath, Cymbals – Neal
Electric Rhythm Guitar, Electric Lead Guitar, Steel String Acoustic Guitar – Dan Elkan
Viola, Violin, Voice – Mirabai Peart
Electric Bass, Double Bass – Ian "Yuck" Lindsay
Sit around dumb
Pushing eye tooth into thumb
Stare at wall
This rabbit still won’t come when I call
What next?
What next?
Not drumming
Not sex
Not flying dreams
But just a sec
Does my love need me
To feed her sheep in the evening
To pet her horse while he’s drinking
To hold her head while she’s dreaming
What next?
Sit around dumb
Sit around dumb
Violin and Viola parts written by Neal and Mirabai Peart and recorded in Portland OR September 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Electric Bass and Double Bass parts written & recorded by Ian "Yuck" Lindsay in Portland OR August 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Electric Rhythm Guitar, Electric Lead Guitar, Steel String Acoustic Guitar parts written by Dan Elkan and recorded by Michael Craver at Now Space in Los Angeles CA June 2023
Drums, Vocal, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Cymbals recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR April–August 2023
B8 Bottle
Vocal – Neal
Double Bass – Ian "Yuck" Lindsay
Violin & Viola – Mirabai Peart
Wish there was
A Coke or cream & nectarines
I’d bring you
Uncle Bottle loves to party
Needs a breakthrough
A gull
Crying and crying
Circling alone
“Why so far from the sea?”
A crow barks from the cedar
Eyes on me in a theatre
Come alive daydreaming I’ll see her
Violin & Viola parts written by Neal and Mirabai Peart and recorded in Portland OR September 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Double Bass parts written & recorded by Ian “Yuck” Lindsay in Portland OR August 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
B9 Calf Kicks Calf
Electric Bass, Electric Guitar, Vocal, Steel String Acoustic Guitar, Percussion – Neal
Viola, Violin – Mirabai Peart
Alone
Old woman lying on a bed
Mountain goat careful on the ledge
Rabbit Dreaming, please don’t leave me yet
Lost but found
River otter looks around
When I want to disappear
You might turn up with small braid in your hair
Two snakes in the sun
Calf kicks calf and runs
Home
Wedding bells ringing in my ears
Took tooth from carcass of a deer
Cuz you might turn up with small braid in your hair
Lost but found
River otter swims around
When I want to disappear
Rabbit Dreaming will keep me here
Rabbit Dreaming will keep me here
Rabbit Dreaming
Rabbit Dreaming
Viola & Violin parts written by Neal and Mirabai Peart and recorded in Portland OR September 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Vocal recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland March 2023
Steel String Acoustic Guitar recorded by Michael Craver at Now Space in Los Angeles CA June 2023
Electric Bass, Electric Guitar, Percussion recorded by Neal in Portland OR April–October 2023
B10 Now
Drums & Vocal – Neal
Electric Guitar – Dan Elkan
Electric Bass – Ian "Yuck" Lindsay
Watching her
In the night
Beauty beauty beauty beauty beauty beauty beauty beauty beauty beauty beauty beautiful
Fucking a pillow
Pillow!
Pillow!
Pillow!
No face
One zero one zero one zero one zero
I’ve got
Plans for autumn
Give these albums to my friends
And if Ted’s dead five weeks in Cairo
Da-da-da
Feeling tall
Dreamt you were playing in a band again
Pretty hair growing long again
Drums lead to songs and songs and love
In real life again
Drawing us sleeping in
Put a face
On a head
On a pillow
On a neck
No tats
No shoes
I almost wept
I’ve got
Plans for summer
Diamond Dave dancin in the street
Couchless naked and Blonde!
Wet
Dripping in a speed boat
Watching me how I float
Could die
Now
No, not just now
OK, how bout now?
Heard you rapping round the island
Pond in rain all shimmerin
Raccoon shuffle through floodlight again
Watchin us partyin
With a cake
On the knees
On your body
On the deck
Two tats
No shoes
I never left
Electric guitar parts written & arranged by Dan Elkan & Neal
Drums & Electric Guitar parts recorded by Michael Craver at Now Space in Los Angeles CA June 2023
Additional lead Electric Guitar parts recorded by Ryan Donnelly at Unchurch in Grass Valley CA November 2023
Electric Bass parts written & recorded by Ian "Yuck" Lindsay in Portland OR August 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Vocal recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR July 2023
B11 Goat Finds Fruit
Voice, Bass, Electric Guitar, Percussion – Neal
Talked last night
Danced this morning
Dreamt we swam something special across the pool
Held it up so it would stay dry
And then Prince driving us in a car with lumber on the roof
Going to fix the library
Bald eagles talking
Donkey eye
Cherry pile in old age
Bear finds fish
And you and you and you and you and you and you and you
And can you see me
All hooves and long teeth and horns
I have these
Can you see me
All hooves long teeth and horns
I have these
Cherry pile in old age
Bird finds fish
Goat finds fruit
Bald eagles talking
Donkey eye
Bear finds fish
Pile of cherries in old age
Goat finds fruit
And you wonder who those horses are
And then you’re riding
And you’re riding
It’s you it’s you it’s you it’s you it’s you it’s you it’s you it’s you it’s you it’s you it’s you it’s you it’s you it’s you it’s you it’s you it’s you it’s you
Recorded by Neal in Portland OR December 2020–October 2023
B12 The Cave I
Synthesizers – Daryl Groetsch
Vocal, Rhodes – Neal
Call again
Hey I
Dream we were dreaming
Skin soft and breathing
Rabbits all sleeping
All wet and light
In this sorry place
Put on my ——— face
Try Try Try Try Try Try Try Try Try Try Try Try
Hangin out
Sad as cows
Frank up loud
The ——— inside
Mother hides
Mother hides
Baby mother hear the
Well I guess it’s like you’re on the road but not leaving
Forty thou
sand bats are loud
Cave just howls
Playing by myself
Making art again
Art again
Art again
Art again
Ooooh
Hangin out
Sad as cows
Frank up loud
Ooooh
Forty thou
sand bats are loud
Cave just howls
Funny how we’d rather chase it all again
Try to feel it all begin
We’d rather chase it all again
Ahhhh
Synthesizer parts written and recorded by Daryl Groetsch in Portland OR July–August 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Vocal & Rhodes recorded by Neal in Portland OR July–August 2023
B13 Old Pain
Electric Guitars, Piano, Vocal – Neal
Old pain
Climbs a fence
Slips the bra down
Then the pants
New dream
Under water
Moon beam
On God’s daughter
Hi! Hi! Hi!
Electric Guitars & Vocal recorded by Neal in Portland OR March–August 2023
Piano recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR July 2023
B14 50 Reprise
Drums, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar (entry lead), Vocal, Rhodes – Neal
Affected Piano, Synthesizer, Guitar – Anthony Schatz
Electric Bass – Ian “Yuck” Lindsay
Electric Guitar (end) – Dan Elkan
Can’t leave the car with 50 on
Trying to find myself on the dance floor
Can’t leave the bar with 50 on
Trying to figure out what I’m here for
Can’t leave the car
Trying to figure out what I’m here for
Can’t leave the car
Trying to figure out what I’m here for
Drums, Vocal, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR, April–August 2023
Electric Guitar (entry lead) & Rhodes recorded by Neal in Portland OR, March–August 2023
Affected Piano, Synthesizer, Guitar recorded by Anthony Schatz in Portland OR November–December 2023
Electric Bass parts written & recorded by Ian “Yuck” Lindsay in Portland OR August 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Electric Guitar parts written by Dan Elkan and recorded by Michael Craver at Now Space in Los Angeles CA June 2023
C15 The Cave II
Vocal, Drums, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitars (rhythm) – Neal
Electric Guitars (lead) – Dan Elkan
Electric Bass – Ian "Yuck" Lindsay
Call again
Hey I
Dream we were dreaming
Skin soft and breathing
Rabbits all sleeping
All wet and light
In this sorry place
Put on my ——— face
Try Try Try Try Try Try Try Try Try Try Try Try
Hangin out
Sad as cows
Frank up loud
The ——— inside
Mother hides
Mother hides
Baby mother hear the
Well I guess it’s like you’re on the road but not leaving
Forty thou
sand bats are loud
Cave just howls
Playing by myself
Making art again
Art again
Art again
Art again
Ooooh
Hangin out
Sad as cows
Frank up loud
Ooooh
Forty thou
sand bats are loud
Cave just howls
Funny how we’d rather chase it all again
Try to feel it all begin
We’d rather chase it all again
Ahhhh
Electric Guitar (lead) parts & arrangement by Dan Elkan & Neal, recorded by Ryan Donnelly at Unchurch in Grass Valley CA November 2023
Electric Bass parts written & recorded by Ian “Yuck” Lindsay in Portland OR August 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Drums, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitars (rhythm) recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR April–August 2023
Vocal recorded by Neal in Portland OR July 2023
C16 Plums Coming In
Electric Guitars, Percussion, Drums, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Rhodes, Vocal – Neal
Electric Bass – Ian "Yuck" Lindsay
Piano & Rhodes – Akila Fields
You’d think a wet dream
Woulda stopped
By 43
Still so much life in me
Still on the menu, see
Plums coming in
Wonder if old friends wondering where I’ve been
Picture em callin have you seen him how’s he been?
Sometimes face down
In a rug
In ———
Messy bun do you read poetry?
Messy bun in sun picture us dreaming
Dreaming dreaming dreaming dreaming
Drums coming in
Just outta college
Talk to me how’s it been?
You shoulda met me
When it all
Was kinda working
Alien from Maxim magazine
Drop by to talk and bring me strawberries
Russian princess
Holds the door
In Miami
Honey grab me extra napkins
Do you know what time we gotta get the kids
Surprise surprise surprise surprise surprise surprise surprise surprise^
You shoulda met me
When it all
Was kinda working
Alien from Maxim magazine
Drop by to talk and bring me strawberries
Drop by to talk and bring me strawberries
Drop by to talk and bring me strawberries
Bicep portrait tat’s my mom not me
Electric Bass parts written & recorded by Ian "Yuck" Lindsay in Portland OR August 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Piano & Rhodes parts written & recorded by Akila Fields in Portland OR October 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Drums, Vocal, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR April–August 2023
Electric Guitars, Percussion, Rhodes, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar recorded by Neal in Portland OR March–August 2023
C17 Rabbit Dreaming
Vocal, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Rhodes, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass, Percussion – Neal
Affected Piano, Synthesizer, Guitar – Anthony Schatz
Vocal, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Rhodes, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass, Percussion recorded by Neal in Portland OR December 2020–December 2023
Affected Piano, Synthesizer, Guitar recorded by Anthony Schatz in Portland OR November–December 2023
C18 Shania
Drums, Electric Guitar (rhythm and lead), Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Electric Bass,
Piano (main theme), Rhodes (main theme & accents), Cymbals, Percussion, Vocal, Voice – Neal
Piano, Rhodes, Synthesizer – Akila Fields
Engineer Voice – Ryan Donnelly
Studio Talkback Sound – Tobias Berblinger
You’re taking these to Shania Monday?
Yes Sir
Alright
Here’s this one
Out in the street
Snow so bright
Lookin at me like “I might”
Galaxies in both eyes
Could you see me in all my
Can’t hardly sleep
Cuz it feels right
He’s what I’m needing tonight
No one’s stuck for me but you might
Say maybe, I’ll try
There goes my shirt up over your head, oh my~
Piano & Rhodes parts written & recorded by Akila Fields in Portland OR October 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Synthesizer part written & recorded by Akila Fields in Portland OR October 2023
Drums, Vocal, Piano (main theme), Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar (rhythm), Cymbals, Studio Talkback Sound recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR April–August 2023
Beginning Instrumental Section Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Cymbals, Percussion recorded by Neal in Portland OR January 2021–October 2023
Electric Guitar (lead), Rhodes (main theme & accents) recorded by Neal in Portland OR April–October 2023
Engineer Voice recorded by Ryan Donnelly at Unchurch in Grass Valley, CA December 2023
D19 Spatula City
Drums, Vocal, Electric Guitars, Piano, Cymbals – Neal
Piano, Electric Wurlitzer, Rhodes – Akila Fields
Electric Bass – Ian "Yuck" Lindsay
Steel String Acoustic Guitars, Voice – Samwise Carlson
Up at 5:30
Another drum dream
Playing
Playing
Playing
Playing
Playing
Playing
Crash!
Bus to school and back
Force the
Orange peels in the slash
I was a spoon in
Spatula City
Beaver breaks the traps
How I
Grew up fast
I was a spoon in
Spatula City
Teddy
Slept while I
Kissed his face
Teddy
Dreamed while I
Kissed his face
Piano, Electric Wurlitzer, Rhodes parts written & recorded by Akila Fields in Portland OR October 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Electric Bass parts written & recorded by Ian “Yuck” Lindsay in Portland OR August 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Steel String Acoustic Guitar parts written by Samwise Carlson, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Electric Guitars, Vocal, Cymbals, Steel String Acoustic Guitars recorded by Neal in Portland OR June 2019–October 2023
Drums recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland August 2023
D20 Dave
Electric Guitar & Vocal – Neal
Piano & Rhodes – Akila Fields
Electric Bass – Ian "Yuck" Lindsay
Ski on snow
Dave!
Could guitar help you feel less alone
On it goes
Layin it down
Lot of pain and it stays
There She Goes#
She loves you inside herself
She wants to be next to your hair
O! And that feels like!
On a wave
On your way
God and ——— and no change
And your friends start stealing
Blow holes in the ceiling
Feels so bad inside
Wake me up dawn ride
Is the scene right?
Utah’s wave’s kind?
Is the ——— ———?
Cuz I thought that we might
Near the sealife
Hundred year storm is near
Hundred year storm appears
Hundred year storm is here
And it feels like!
Piano & Rhodes parts written & recorded by Akila Fields in Portland OR October 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Electric Bass parts written & recorded by Ian “Yuck” Lindsay in Portland OR August 2023, editing for final arrangement by Neal
Electric Guitar & Vocal recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR May 2023
D21 When You Bathe
Vocal, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Electric Bass, Electric Guitars – Neal
Affected Piano, Synthesizer, Guitar – Anthony Schatz
And it’s kinda like
When you bathe
Nylon String Acoustic Guitar recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR March 2023
Vocals, additional Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Electric Bass recorded by Neal in Portland OR April–November 2023
Affected Piano, Synthesizer, Guitar recorded by Anthony Schatz in Portland OR November–December 2023
D22 Holding It Down
Vocal, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Electric Bass – Neal
Brick fight
Pup don’t follow me
Late at night
When I can’t find you
Brake lights along the bay
Shovel fall into a lane
Hear Provider on the lake
Holding it down barely
Goodnight
Come find me
Headlight
Bricks all floating
Sleeping longer than the game
Rabbit chewing on a frame
Dream I heard you moan my name
Holding it down barely
Holding it down barely
Break
Down
The scene
And leave a white little bunny
Hair shaved high upon my leg
So pretty
I don’t care if they don’t grade
Colorado
Vocal & Nylon String Acoustic Guitar recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR March 2023
Electric Bass recorded by Neal in Portland OR April 2023
D23 Goat On Roof
Vocal, Piano, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar – Neal
Voice – Naropa Sabine
Well, this morning was kind of thick
With the desire for things to be a certain way
And I found myself driving around
And then it was weird cuz I on Facebook for a second
And then, you know, this thing came up which is like suggested friends
This Lea Helene Seydoux?
This French actress, right?
Mhm
Just stunning
Right
Just, like, world class
Right, right
And then I started thinking about this whole thing
I was like OK what are we doing here
Right
Just in terms of the scope of ambition
Or desire
Or art
Or any of it
Yup
And I kind of stopped for a minute
The thing is. . . and you probably have some of this. . .
It's like I feel not capable of anything entirely
Mhm
But that being said
There is good work
There is possibly great work lurking around
Yeah
I remember that feeling of being in my twenties and stuff
And art and music and film are these vehicles to get what you want
Mhm
And I was mulling that over
Cuz then I got away from all that
And I was, like, OK I just do these things because
I love them
One day again
Save the soul again
Love the fishermen
And even huntermen
There was a joke you made
Made the world remade
Goat on roof in rain
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting
Waiting for you
Down the hill
Naropa Sabine phone call recorded by Neal in Portland OR January 2021
Vocal, Piano, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR April–August 2023
D24 3PM
Vocal, Nylon String Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Rhodes – Neal
It’s 3PM I must be lonely
Summer days I find
I find I’m haunting
Ghost out for a bite
A ghost out swimming
Trying hard to try
To love what you give me
To live more of life
To get back to beauty
To get back to nursing
Nelson back to life
Vocal & Nylon String Acoustic Guitar recorded by Tobias Berblinger at Singing Sands in Portland OR March 2023
Electric Guitar and Rhodes recorded by Neal in Portland OR April–August 2023
*Thank you Prince and all involved for making “Let’s Go Crazy”
^Thank you David Richard Gavurin, Harriet Ella Wheeler, The Sundays, and all involved for making “Here’s Where The Story Ends”
~Thank you Tweet and Missy Elliott and all involved for making “Oh My”
#Thank you Lee Mavers, The La’s and all involved for making “There She Goes”