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All My Friends Are Famous

by Bile Greene

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hello swirl This is a magestic album. Greene's glittery (glistening? shimmering?) guitars and lyrics make a night serene (a romantic or lonely night on a rooftop in an old district; a cosmic bard descends), as do his Chicago songs from years earlier (I've listened to them dozens of times).

Then you get to 'You Are My Harbor'. I've never heard a song not on a This Mortal Coil album that should be, except, avid TMC fan as I am, 'YamH' sounds like it would be on a best of TMC album. Favorite track: You Are My Harbor.
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Piping 04:08
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Birds 03:07
birds collect in pools by the side of the house rain falls straight down all the way to the ground animals go splashing by, reflected in a grey sky weathering the year with you, is really all i want to do do do do-do sweet to see your face across the table from me can't you understand what you're meaning to me caravans of clouds collide, collecting in a bird's eye weathering the year with you, exactly as i want to do do do do-do years collect in pools by the side of our lives to have a life with you makes it easy to be me
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Saw You 05:11
I saw you, you were a sawyer's dream. Dairy maid, you made the farmer's cream. Burning this butterfly heart, as i stutter by. I am rapt, i am fit to be tongue-tied. And i'm waiting in your wings tonight, Like a silence in the distance, With your pieces of resistance all around. I saw you, wearing a gown of stars, coming home from the bars, going back to his house. And i'm shouting in a cloud of bees, Till i'm steely as a gurney, Till i'm sore as the surly lights of dawn. What do i have to do? To tear your world in two and two and two and two.
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We Dream 03:04
We came ashore, all in gold, and raised our colors in the air. We looked for fuel, built a fire, and made our music everywhere. It seems to me that I dream, sleeping thoughts are all that I can say. The day will come when I awake, and these dreams I see will fade away. So we were young, and time had yet to lay a wooden hand. We left the shore, and rolled triumphantly across the land. Loyal friends, raise your glass, and drink to comrades fallen all around. Let we who dream be consoled, let not our hearts go with them to the ground. We came ashore, ships of gold, and raised our colors in the air.
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Lying with you in a garden of green wearing my favorite disguise Playing these chords that go well with your mood and the sad melody in your eyes In my beautiful Garden of Lies. Strolling the grounds of my tangled estate, every breath chokes you with flies. Wanting to tell you we're here all alone, but it's clear that the roses are spies In my beautiful Garden of Lies. High overhead fly the black & blue birds They circle & darken the skies. Brilliant flowers are blossoms of hate, here where the sun shines like ice In my beautiful Garden of Lies.
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Undertow 08:00
In the end silent dynamite Blows the world apart Angry thoughts tumble wordlessly In an airtight heart Falling leaves cover over us Smoothing down our hair All our bones turning verdigris In the chill night air. And when the clouds are breaking The sea will overflow The shipwreck we're taking Caught in the undertow. High above flies the windy moon In the black of space Through the night sympathetic clouds Touch her cold white face. In the fall trees are glowing coals Burning red & gold By the light from a dying star As the nights unfold. And when the world starts shaking The earth will melt like snow The claims that we're staking Caught in the undertow. In the end words were luminous Sounding bright & clear Easy days follow heavy nights Through the light blue year.
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Another hard day The road is so cold We seek a safe place There to surrender You are my harbor Your light to guide me

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released September 22, 2017

All songs by Bill Greene, published by Sensible Music, except "Saw You", lyrics by Bill Greene, music by Bill Greene & Andrew Chalfen, published by Sensible Music/You're A Good Cat Music (BMI).

Some of this was mastered by Scott Craggs/Old Colony Mastering

Thanks to Maria Kydonieus for her invaluable input & feedbag.

Major thanks to Andrew Chalfen. Piping, Undertow, and Saw You all had their origins in weekly musicking we did for a while there.

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Sensible Weather Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sensible Weather (formerly Bile Greene) is the music of Bill Greene. Bill writes songs & plays music in Philadelphia. He has been lots of places & met lots of people, and these songs are probably meant to be his take on all of that. The music is all available to be downloaded for free (or you can pay what you want to), except for some unfinished items which you can listen to, but not take home. ... more

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