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1.
The Angler 03:43
Earlier today I saw the light on the leaves And it resembled your eyes in all their radiant green And possessed of a passion more akin to a beast I took off on a run, from the wood to the beach And as my heart beat harder I could have laughed, I might’ve cried The wind was on the water I could’ve flown, I might’ve tried Oh, every sea contains a sky. Later that day I caught a fish with a string And remembered your body as an animate thing And possessed of the need to bring myself to the brink I stripped down to the skin and threw myself in the drink The sea was never darker Steeped in green, I might’ve drowned But something in the water Threw me back on solid ground Oh, and that poor fish could not be found.
2.
I'm getting tired of you turning me, turning me into something I'm not I'm getting tired of you learning me, learning me Now I'm unlearning a lot You kept me spinning in turnaround, turnaround Believing all of your lies A hard rain is a-coming down, coming down See the darkening skies No one intervene and not a one defend the wretch when left to himself And now you've been found out we bid you a fond farewell I'm getting tired of you turning me, turning me into something I'm not I'm getting tired of you learning me, learning me Now I'm unlearning a lot I've been watching you double down, double down on the tales that you tell My advice is to burn it down, burn it down 'Cause you've got nothing to sell Every spirit's sacred but everybody's scared The difference is like night and day And now you've been found out I think you best be on your way We asked for bread and you gave us crust We asked for water, you gave us rust We asked for life and you bade us, "Ask the dust." No one intervene and not a one defend the wretch when left to himself And now you've been found out we bid you a fond farewell.
3.
On My Honor 02:44
Come look at this picture of a child taken in days of black-and-white See in the eyes the pain and trial of more than a hundred sleepless nights Look at you now in technicolor the better to show you're doing all right 'Cause you got some youth yet left to squander so don't be afraid to go and wander and I'll be beside you on my honor... I've seen you sit down with the masters Pentameter sprawled across your chest Have you been flirting with disaster at all your weakness' behest? You can unring "The Bells of Rhymney" you can lay "Elegy" to rest 'Cause you got some youth yet left to squander so don't be afraid to go and wander and I'll be beside you on my honor... For you're harder than heartache, stronger than sadness Better than bitter and meaner than madness So go to the window and pick out a lover and when it's all over we'll pick out another I'm not just blowing smoke up your chimney and I'm not about to kiss your ass But you got some youth yet left to squander so don't be afraid to go and wander and I'll be beside you on my honor.
4.
Once I was clever needing nothing whatsoever but you’re still not mine all mine And now I’m reeling chasing shadows on the ceiling 'cause you’re still not mine all mine I’m gonna spin my shoulders back to Barcelona for I’m running out of patience and time Just like the cops at the five and dime I’m never no more than one step behind I while hours Pull petals off of flowers Summoning powers, not trying to understand any more than any man I heard the stories of your power and your glory but you’re still not mine all mine I’ve seen the glances heard the "May I have this dance?"s 'cause you’re still not mine all mine I’ve frightened friends and lovers, watched them run for cover You could say I got some axes to grind! I’m just not ready yet to resign There’s misery still I’ve got to divine I kill the minutes Spit lyrics at the spinet Yet to begin it, I don't need nobody's help fretting over fear itself And should you set me free I would return, a servant to thee in perfect perpetuity... I while hours Pull petals off of flowers Summoning powers, not trying to understand any more than any man I kill the minutes Spit lyrics at the spinet Yet to begin it, I don't need nobody's help fretting over fear itself I count the seconds As this damnation beckons Sixes and sevens, how's a body breathe its last just before the die is cast
5.
Horses stand at dawn, silvering in shadow Just a final line and take my leave Just a final line and take my leave Just a final line and take my leave again The whiteness of her gown, under shade of linden Glimmered as she walked the garden green Glimmered as she walked the garden green Glimmered as she walked the garden green back when For words can burn and words can drown Words can drift like eiderdown But words will never stay unheard forever Hooves beat out the dawn and carry 'cross the meadow Fare thee well to poets past the pines Fare thee well to poets past the pines Fare thee well to poets past the pines unswayed For words can dance and words can crown Words can mend a wedding gown But words can never stand in for forever.
6.
Bright Boy 03:21
Always been a point of pride, such a pure source of joy See the way he smiles, Jesus bless the child Isn’t he a bright boy? Swaddle him in finest silk, Little Lord Fauntleroy Our hearts are filled with gold, never growing cold Isn’t he a bright boy? As if he’s known us all our lives, a brilliance wholly unalloyed His teachers are amazed, sing his every praise Isn’t he a bright boy? I can see in my mind how he’ll grow up to be a good man and refined It’s been a privilege every day just to see and believe There’s the little saving grace, pulling hair and breaking toys Some days I want to weep, choke him in his sleep Isn’t he a bright boy? Who am I to complain for what some wouldn’t give for a son they could claim It’s just the same thing every day and you can’t ever leave...
7.
You can watch me unravel or you can quickly turn away when they stand me near the gavel, lock the poorest ones away When you treat a man like cattle and you throw away the key Don’t you sing about me flying for the free. You can watch me unravel but I beg you shut your eyes When they send me into battle singing "God is On Our Side" With their sabers made to rattle while the young ones fill the graves Don’t you sing about me waving for the brave. Still I tend to wonder at those who profess me Where’s gone the brotherly love? Just a matter of time before they come to arrest me Guilty of all the above Still I tend to wonder at those who profess me Where’s gone the brotherly love? La la la... You can watch me unravel but I’d rather you went blind When they toss me to the rabble bent to tear at their own kind Now there’s blood on the saddle and there’s blood on all your hands So don’t sing about me watching over this land nevermore Don’t you sing about me watching over this land.
8.
Stay Behind 03:18
With every beat of my heart I feel something new With every drop of rain I'm falling harder for you And as you go for the door I need only reveal that if memory serves you and me had a deal Better believe it No need to leave so soon With every tick of the clock I hear two in my head Might as well come closer to me here on the bed And should I shut my eyes, turn the radio down 'til it's just our breathing and the rain and the sound Can you hear it? Lo, a low and lilting tune Stay behind I paid for this time.
9.
Threnody 03:14
Lovers at rest under the manicured ground, no way Lovers remembered for their feel and the sound, OK Lovers created in the feverish night later to blanch when brought out into the light Lovers compared to summers wild and free Tell me which one do you see It takes a memory to match the morning dew and a melody that dreams the dream come true for the threnody to break the lovers' hearts in two Lovers collected and forgotten at once, no way Lovers in love whenever given the chance, OK Lovers like hunters in they track what they fear Lovers undone by the ones they hold dear Tell me now, lover, what of love do you see? Whisper it softly to me It takes a memory to match the morning dew and a melody that dreams the dream come true for the threnody to break the lovers' hearts in two Because my time is not long and I must be missed so won't you spirit me away on a lover's kiss and it will gratify us so to remember even this
10.
Legion 04:35
Not another night... Hearts this strong can abide no longer we bent without breaking, bent without breaking Friends in peace and a love unceasing we grasp without taking, grasp without taking What say you to a morning anew coming through... Stars shall greet us, the ocean’s wonders shall hail our arrival, hail our arrival And when we’re buried, our children’s children will sing our survival, sing our survival What say you to a morning anew shining through... Gimme one reason why not Gimme one reason why not The righteous canoness brings brightness upon us So gimme one reason why not Oh, which bird was I, what blue horizon to fly without dreaming, fly without dreaming And mourn each sunset, so fleet and dulcet to cry without keening, cry without keening What say you To a morning anew Break on through... Gimme one reason why not Gimme one reason why not The righteous in trial succeed all the while So gimme one reason why not Not another night...

about

Come out of the desert and man has made it green. Magic water, beautiful and green. Be there soon. Pretty soon now. Got a new one under my arm. "Angler," thought of that one early one morning swimming in the Bloomington reservoir after all night drinkin' of Granny Campbell's home brew. Got "Mine All Mine," thought of that one dancing with a gal from South Dakota down in Havana one night. Got "Stay Behind." Beat out that one on the old Book Nook piano; all day long I beat it out. I got "Threnody." That one's all the girls, the university, the family, the old golden oak, all the good things gone, all wrapped up in a melody.

Going out to Hollywood on the Southern Pacific in an upper berth to put my hopes and my loves and my fears and my despairs up on a counter in the form of songs and sell them.

All proceeds go to the Southern Poverty Law Center (www.splcenter.org).

credits

released July 6, 2021

All songs written, arranged, performed, and mixed by Corinthian Leathers, except "Bright Boy," written by Corinthian Leathers and Kendall Bright.

Mike Clancy plays the guitar solo on "The Angler."

Recorded at home using a Zoom MRS-8, November 2020 to July 2021.
Corinthian Leathers plays a Sierra Alpine acoustic/electric guitar, a Fender Squier Stratocaster, and a Walmart bass.

Mastered by Kyle Pickard.

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