Click here to see "...Follow" booklet in Russian
Read Richard Gehr's original liner notes to "...Follow" in English here
Produced by Gary Lucas & Ernie Brooks
Recorded by Sascha Von Oertzen at Knit Noise NYC
with assistance by Ric Chavarria & Rob McCabe
Mixed by Harold Burgon at Harold's, Granada, Spain except
"Coming Clean" mixed by Jerry Harrison with ET Thorngren at Sausalito Sound, CA
"Psycho" mixed by Sascha Von Oertzen at Knit Noise, NYC
Additional engineering by Jason Candler
Cover photo: Ania Freindorf
booklet text in Russian, including liner notes by Richard Gehr
copyright 2005 Exotica Frontier, Moscow, Russia www.exoticamusic.ru
FOLLOW
When you're feeling low
Got no place to go
When the love light doesn't glow
And your friends don't want to know
Follow
Look past your mind, deep within you must find
Follow
When the frost begins to chill
When you're dragged right through the mill
You hear a voice that whispers slow
A string drawn taut across the bow
Look to your heart, and then make a new start
Follow
And you will fast endure
The sickness without cure
Follow free follow sure
In this run-through, in this race
In this time and in this space
Rise to break this petty pace
Choose to find a state of grace
Follow
When the wind begins to blow
And the darkness starts to show
You must take comfort, let it go
For as above, so below
Follow
Look to your soul, like a child let it roll
Don't let the hatred take its toll
Follow
When the feeling flows
From your head down to your toes
And the light within you shows
There's a way beyond this woe
Follow
Words and Music by Gary Lucas
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COMING CLEAN
When I say, I want to know you
Think of all the things, I want to show you
You strip away the lies okay, that fall around me
Breathing life into the day, your love surrounds me
Riding on a steel rail
Twisting past oblivion
You bend before the wind so frail
Giving me the strength to live again
There's a simple song you sing, I want to hear it
Heading out for better days, now don't you fear it
Life is not a game you play, the rules aren't black and white
Rising from oblivion
Do not go gentle into that good night
Like a pebble on the beach, unto a grain of sand
Thrown and sown just out of reach, moving freely in his hand
All of us come clean you know, there at journey's end
Waiting for the wave to flow, waiting for a sign
To start again
Words and Music by Gary Lucas
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SKIN DIVING
Plonger , se perdre Dive, lose yourself
remonter le parfaire rise up to the climax
tremper, eclater get drenched, burst open
comme une goutte de verre like a drop of glass
descend toi pudeur let go your modesty
trop profonde too deep
respire breathe
remonter rise up
le desire qui respire the desire that breathes
skin diving
water rising
bubbles rising
--Lucas/Medeiros
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EVANGELINE
Trust in her, you must endure
The seasons ever changing
Face the frost, the hollow cost
Of lives spent rearranging
Evening bells and wishing well
The one who won't need naming
Evangeline comes claiming
I can see her fair face sure
As you can spy the sparrow
Swiftly now she turns and bows
And flies straight as the arrow
Dusky dells and private hells
Evangeline comes claiming
Brings forth her gentle raining
Evangeline
Now leaves do fall, and through it all
She constantly keeps burning
Within her gaze, the suns own rays
Now keeps my head from turning
When you think you know it all
Evangeline discerning
Brings forth her gentle learning
Evangeline comes claiming
Brings forth her gentle raining
Evangeline
Words and Music by Gary Lucas
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HURLY BURLY
Coming down to the ones that count, coming down to the wire
Coming up like a golden cup, burnished hot in the fire
Coming at you like a living statue, coming out to inspire
Winging down from the higher ground, singing strong in the choir
Ghosts are flying kites of spirit come to take you higher
When the hurly burly's done there's none but you shines like the sun
Hold fast, hold clean, the future flows from the golden mean
Hold steady, hold tight, the spirit walks from day to night
Say what you mean, mean what you say, the spirit moves from night to day
Hold tight, hold true, this is the story of me and you
When you're walking through that door you better stop to wonder
When the wheel is spinning fast you can't afford to blunder
Hurly…Hurly Burly…Comin' Down!
Coming down to the precious few, coming down to desire
Crossing over through the wildest blue, skywalk ever higher
Coming through like you always do, coming in from the mire
Coming fast like a baby's first gasp
This ain't the time to retire
When you're walking through that door the odds are you've been there before
Follow your feelings follow your heart, the stones they throw can't tear us apart
Calling all cats, calling all kittens, twice shy and once bitten
Calling all cats, calling all cars, the purest pure from Venus to Mars
Calling all old folk, calling all kids, don't look back to see what you did
Hold tight hold fast, the present's now and the past is past
Hurly...Hurly Burly...Comin' Down!
Words and music by Gary Lucas
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LAND'S END
Outside the digger, the brave old outrigger
Outriding deciding to borrow
Some time to unwind, what you need to feel kind
Trust that everything works out tomorrow at
Land's End
Riverrun round the bend
Feel the flow never end
Sail on out start again
Some people are funny, think only of money
Walk around in a gloom when it's sunny
But just you keep grinning, and soon you'll start winning
When you feel you are through it is just the beginning at
Land's End
Reach on out to a friend
Give a hand you can lend
Now's the time don't pretend
Flags are flying people crying
Sighing dying on the vine
Look around find common ground
One world unfurled it's there to find at
Land's End
Lighthouse bright on the sand
A beacon of life that we send
End this strife join the band
Inside you the trigger, the smaller the bigger
You are you're a star in God's eyes you shine far
So keep the fire going, and keep your love growing
The way to fair days on the path that's worth knowing to
Land's End
We're all one to defend
But one flock you must tend
We're all here at Land's End
Now our heart's on the mend
Ride the ride let it blend
Heading out to Land's End
Words and Music by Gary Lucas
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SPIRIT MOVES
On the blasted heath and heather, you can find us all together,
In all kinds of wicked weather, borne on God's breath like a feather
Cast out thoughts so melancholy, gloom and doom is certain folly
Keep your senses ever tingling, keep your keys forever jingling
Running like wild things to outrace the pack
Chasing down rainbows the moon at our back
Now's the time we have to live in, hour of death is never given
Seize the day now with your head up, never know just where you'll end up
Come for our party, come for our friends,
Come walk the tightrope the road never ends
The spirit moves
Inside all grooves
The spirit walks
Pure feel no talk
The spirit glides
As Earth abides
The spirit hides
On the blasted heath and heather, you can find us all together
In all kinds of wicked weather, borne on God's breath like a feather
Words and Music by Gary Lucas
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UNDER MY WING
Well I know one thing
She said, "Don't want your ring..."
Just one fling, no strings, still stings
Baby under my wing
Well I brought her to the absolute brink
With good wines, good lines and good drink
But in time, too late, she needed to shrink
From my behavioral kink
Well it still stings,
Took her under my wing
Coming home too late each night
Wondering what the day looks like
Doing numbers just for spite
In the red by dawn's daylight
In the black by hook or crook
That's my life an open book
Pretty picture she thought not
One way out with just one shot
It cost a lot
Well it still stings
Baby under my wing
Still here
But she's gone
Unclear
What's right what's wrong
No trace, no face, except for this song
Well she's long gone
But just one thing
Can't you hear my heart sing?
Baby under my wing
Words and Music by Gary Lucas
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ONE MAN'S MEAT
Oh Man, man…here we go again
One Man's Meat lived in a garden, till he ate forbidden fruit
All of a sudden his life got weird, now he's choppin' his own wood
One Man's Meat don't want to wake up, till every dream comes true
He starts out with a harem pretty soon he's killing dragons
In an epoch like a Hindu
I ain't no genius but I know what I know, people are dreamin' wherever I go
Till recognition hits with a shock
Come on children let's rock!
Some play the dozens and even the tens, they'll never live that moment over again
They keeps on talkin' till it leads you in, don't stop till your head spins
One Man's Meat's absorbed in rhythm, he likes an unobstructed flow
Without some degree of obstruction, rhythm doesn't happen at all
Who knows that he knows must be amazed, because he's both a wonder and being
A maze
Knowing and being is downright weird
The phenomenon is three-tiered
Which One is I when I Know that I Know, the One Who Knows or Who Knows that I Know,
Confusion of echoes it generates, the original gets lost no trace
I can't remember the words to this song
I get lost every time I am born
Evolving so unique and autonomous
That it almost appears to be a separate universe
One Man's Meat, Lord!
One Man's Meat is playing Hamlet, playing with such a serious rage
That the player of Polonius is actually murdered on the stage
I like to rampage, I like to sin
Till I turn around and see where I been
Tried to get straight Lord, I tried to fit in
Can't stop and I can't win
I know it hurts to be Who You Are, I seen your Brother, I know your Pa
I know your Sister ran off with your Ma
Driving in a fast car
Way down under the ocean, give or take a couple billion years ago
May have been swimmin' we was still chasin' women
Way down under the deep blue sea, Lord
One Man's Fish Meat!
One Man's Meat was born to boogie, One Man's Meat can't do no good
One Man's Meat is so afraid, he's the bully of his neighborhood
I know you're dreaming, I hear you snore, I hear the rumble from under the door,
I seen the halo surrounding your head
Be an angel if you was dead
I heard you laughing when somebody said
I saw you fall down on top of the bed
Turned out the light, cried into the phone
Please don't let me sleep alone
Please don't let me sleep alone
Please don't let me sleep alone
Please don't let me sleep
Alone…Alone…Alone
(Lucas/Johansen)
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ULTRA-SHARK
I fly from the city—head down for the country
No peace for the witty—feelin' wild feelin' hungry
I pick the pickled peepers—I wake the frozen sleepers
I leap past all the leapers—bustin' loose from all my keepers
You can hit the mark now—screamin' in the dark now
Screaming Ultra Shark now
You'll be screaming Ultra Shark now
I swim past all the fishes—head up hammer headed
Satisfy all my wishes—double barreled hot leaded
Do you get it?
You can strip the bark now—screamin' in the park now
Screaming Ultra Shark now
You'll be screaming Ultra Shark now
Where you think you're going, what you think you're doing?
When you're feeling chosen, why consider losing?
You just better take a look around
Flip past the clowns
Who try bringing you down
And set your feet a flyin'
Come on it's so hot now, look at what you got now
Screaming Ultra Shark now
You'll be screaming Ultra Shark now
I fly from the city—head down for the country
No peace for the witty—feelin' wild feelin' hungry
You can hit the mark now—screamin' in the dark now
Screaming Ultra Shark now
Screaming Ultra Shark now
Come on it's hot now, groovin' in the dark now
Screaming Ultra Shark now
You'll be screaming Ultra Shark now
Screaming Ultra Shark now
Screaming
Screaming Ultra Shark Now
Words and music by Gary Lucas
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