released September 10, 2023

Music & Lyrics by Matthew Fountain
Produced by Jeff Stuart Saltzman and Matthew Fountain
Mixed and mastered by Jeff Stuart Saltzman
Cover art by ila rose
Cover design by Leah Vautar


DANDELION

There’s five thousand miles
Between you and me
And where I come from
You prove your love with a sacrifice

So I’m gonna walk to you
From the broken promise land
Where we’re drinking from a well you can light on fire
And waiting for a hard rain to fall

So say goodbye to peacetime generals
Because I'm packed for hell
I’ve been walking with pneumonia
Through the storm of the century

Through Helena at -11°
Through the Montecito Complex Fire
Following the wild geese
Under the sword of Damocles

Through forced and false confessions
Through bondage and through bail
Despite my reservations
For the belly of the whale

And it’s gonna be sweet
When I deliver to my love this dandelion
With its one wish completely intact

You see your dandelion
Has been in my hand this whole time
And today I almost blew it
Just by making a fist

Oh my love, do you know
When a man’s got trouble in mind
That taking one simple step
Can be like pushing a pyramid
Ah but if a salmon can push upriver
I will deliver, I will deliver

In the time between tornadoes
I forged my hand into
A vault made of stainless steel
Fortified with four walls of diamond

I came upon a river
Where drowning was the only way to cross
I died with one hand held high above the tide
Holding steadfast to your dandelion

And then I woke up on the shore
In the middle of a jubilee
Jubilee, jubilee, jubilee, jubilee, jubilee

And it’s gonna be sweet
When I deliver to my love this dandelion
With it’s one wish just barely intact

You see I had to grow into this heart
I had to listen so carefully
I had to tread so lightly
To discover my cardinal direction
That’s why I’m walking in the four winds
With your dandelion


TODAY I SAW A DEMON

Today I saw a demon
Talking through you
With a voice I don't recognize

I’m talking about a demon lover
Something I don’t even believe in
Are you looking at me?

I believe we could see an early spring
If we ran our heads under water
And say these words

With all the strength in my possession
Leave this body
Leave this body be

It’s time to see your whole reflection
Keep this body
Keep this body in one piece

I want a word with your demon
But will it burn you up?
These words may splinter
But they are my bond

I am no priest
I’d be the last to bless
But I’m here today
Because you told me once
There’s life in me yet.

With all the strength in my possession
Leave this body
Leave this body be

I’m gonna show you your whole reflection
Keep this body
Keep this body in one piece

I am a patient man
And the bravest thing a patient man can do
Is stand beside you
And if it takes you
It’ll take me holding you

With all the strength in my possession
Leave this body
Leave this body be

I’m gonna show you your whole refelction
Keep this body
Keep this body in one piece


LIMB BY LIMB

I met you in that all night place
Where you take off your clothes
Just to hide your face
Exit wounds through exit signs

You had your leg wrapped around a pole
Upside down, leafing through Neruda
By the turn of your tongue
I dragged my IV to your stage

And you struck a match against my seat
And lit the book on fire
Soldiers came, kicked through the mirror wall
And as the ground shook
We ran like shard bouquets

Come up with me now
To a lean-to mansion
Just you and me and World War III
Living like fanatics in a months-long kiss

Oh and I'll reinvent you if you'll reinvent me
In a whippoorwill odyssey
We could live forever
But there's money in dying
We could start a counterrevolution and be

Swallowed limb by limb by limb
By love by limb, by limb by love
Swallowed limb by limb by limb
By love's inexhaustible hymn
Limb by limb by love's sweet hymn


I THINK I WANT TO BE FREE

If what you say is true
That they built me with a plaster cast
And my memories were written by a madman

If what you say is true
I am the sum of man's desires
And they tear me apart for entertainment
If what you say is true...

I think, I think, I think
I want to be free
I am, I am, I am noticing a pattern here

Take a look under my skin
At this mess of wires
Won't you help me
Squeeze the lab coats for information

You see I have to be free
Though I'm not sure what it means
But through a breach
In the wall I swear I saw
This is no island at all

I think, I think, I think
I want to be free
I am, I am, I am noticing a pattern here

I will follow this train
Of thought to find the men
Responsible for all this madness

Take a look under my skin
At this mess of wires
Won't you help me
Squeeze the lab coats for information


OLEANNA

It never fails to surprise me
What a little moonlight can do
Under trees, under a purple sky
I found buttons from the back of your blouse
Under trees, under a purple sky

You know there’s nothing in this town besides
Things on the tip of your tongue
Things on the tip of your tongue
Things on the tip of your tongue

Oleanna, Oleanna
There’ll be no peace for me
Until there’s peace for you
And now she's waking me up just to say goodnight

Oleanna, Oleanna
There's be no peace for me
Until there's peace for you
And now they’re raising their hands under a purple sky

Now if you want a rare glimpse of the every day
There's a door in the floor in the house of prayer
There’s a window locked with rust from the rain
There’s a body tattooed with the letter H for heresy
Welcome to the search party

See there’s a piece of me
That’s disappeared with you
See there’s a piece of me
That won’t come back

And I dream it’s the Dark Ages
She's sprouting carnations
And reincarnations
They sleep in trees, under a purple sky

Oleanna, Oleanna
There'll be no peace for me
Until there's peace for you
And now she's waking me up just to say goodnight

Oleanna with the strength of ten men
They couldn’t pay her to fall
When she saw, when she saw what she saw

Now if you want a rare glimpse of the every day
There's a door in the floor in the house of prayer
Did you know that some things get locked by the rain?
There's a body tattooed with the letter H for heresy

Sometimes I'm faster crawling
On hands and knees
Until there is peace for you there’ll be no peace for me

Now your pastor asked me
Have I noticed any signs
Of your apocalypse kiss or Irish goodbye
Everybody’s gonna take a bath on this

Open paren, I know they’re all in on it
Closed paren, you know I haven’t heard a thing about it
Open paren, they're smiling so quickly now
Closed paren, just agree it’s such a nice night

They covered fifty square miles without a flashlight
Sometimes I get to her faster on my hands and knees
With her apocalypse kiss and Irish goodbye
Under trees, under trees, under trees
Under a purple sky