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Look What's Left

by Wampeters

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1.
Caricature 04:54
when I was born I was so small they wheeled me in the carriage up and down the hospital halls and they said I was the best that I was perfect 'cause I was just like all the rest caricature and when I was a young boy going to public school the teacher said 'hey, boy, what is 2 & 2?' well, I thought about that some and I said '4' and she said 'boy, there's no limit to how far you can go' and when I left the confines of my protected world I found myself engaged in mortal combat with the world I went to school to learn to shake the money tree but now I'm lost at sea it doesn't matter let it go now I'm going out the highway out Route 29 to see what I can see or find out that I'm blind I'm going out the byways where no two are the same where they don't know my number but they'll know my name I'm not your caricature
2.
get with it, get dressed fight to be the best here’s your flight cap and here are your shiny boots comb your hair, get moving your laziness ain’t soothing to the rest of us now stand up straight and tall and smile, smile, smile remember to smile make the grade, get tough everybody’s had enough of idealists and utopians and other fools get a grip, get serious everybody’s furious your brain’s been sighted out near Saturn’s rings boy in the moon they shot you off too soon your aptitude is high your attitude is poor discrepancies are cause for concern sure you’ll take your sips but soon you’ll be eclipsed by somebody who took the time to learn whatever it was but fly, fly, fly remember to fly before you knew enough to shoot them down and now is your big chance to waste a round
3.
Disappear 02:44
one day there was a blizzard and the schools were all lost in the snow we built an igloo in the back of the house that was bigger than the whirligig maybe that's old now although it seems new you know it's just something that we used to do but I still remember all that was here as long as you know that it won't disappear one day there was a hurricane and a tree fell through the garage we rolled around the driveway, laughing as the storm crashed into the house now there's nothing left but holograms in the back of the house
4.
there was a field here covered in weeds old lady's backyard gone to seed we marked time here soaked up the shade never thought much about it while we played but weeping willow before they cut you down I thought you'd always be around there was a barn here covered in brush when the thunderstorms came we hid out in the loft we talked about the stars over a beat-up deck of cards sometimes we leaned against the walls and listened to the rain but weeping willow before they built this town I thought you'd always be around
5.
it's been a while, I know but I've been making my way, somewhere staring at the broken lines, always trying to get somewhere and you look the same, you know as you did the last time you showed like your Little League photograph, always hanging in one place I brought along your old ball mitt, see the Eddie Brinkman special with the rawhide web it was sitting in a box in my parents' garage they were going to throw it out they had dusty old boxes, hundreds of things that I'd sort of forgotten, you know, like distant dreams and when I opened them up my legs shook I remembered being somebody else and I remembered the dream you had when you thought you heard God's voice saying 'pack it up, give it up there just isn't any point' and I remember you saying that you listened to that that you wrote your own eulogy and that was that like your Little League photograph, always hanging in one place hanging on a rope and a knot it's been a while, I know but there was nothing I could do I guess you think that I'm wasting my time doing the things I do you know I saw a good game on TV the other night Eddie Brinkman's record got broken and I cried but I was alone in the dark and the quiet and I didn't have to explain it's been a while, I know but there was nothing I could do it's been awhile, I know but I still do think of you
6.
Circles 02:09
forever, it seemed we were moving ahead in a long, straight line step after step there was no other way to go but straight on to the end of the line to the end of our lives but then there were circles in the depths of your eyes around and around they turned and I don't know where they began or ended I only know that they burned into you forever, you swore you would never give in alone in the world at least you'd be sane it was crazy to think crazy to believe that you wouldn't get wet standing out in the rain you're right I don't have the sense, I know to come in out of the rain but given the chance, you know I'd do it this way again
7.
A Safe Place 04:34
on Friday nights he's at the grille & bar buying drinks for everyone he's a fixture in his hometown a sturdy oak he's taken root on Saturdays he's at the high school gym waiting in the bleachers for the game to begin he's an institution on his block and on the next one supports the team wears red and green and he's found a safe place every summer he's the marshal in the town parade he wears the coveted paper crown the children cheer him from the sidewalks he smiles and waves he knows their names and in the winter he is ever-ready for an avalanche or a flood he keeps a snowplow in his backyard just in case the big one hits on the ground down on his knees
8.
I've heard that one before the one that you revere the one the world plowed under to build the parking lots the one that killed your soul and left you sentiment and made you cry for days gone by like a neutered cat as if all that ever mattered was a running car and a radio and a place to go to look at the stars it was a perfect time it was a perfect place but it never existed until it went away before it left it glued you to a chair made you a slave of memories, lost and staring at a photograph hang the picture on a wall frame it up with gold keep the dust away from it post it in an honored place and when you're sad and old look at the faces and remember take a breath and hold it and paint your masterpiece call it days of beer and daisies
9.
Bloom 03:25
a late summer's haze blankets the moon and a murder of fog strangles the fireflies I start the car I defer to the wheel I trust the road I turn back the canopy I open the sky there's a long line of cars falling into the sun a murder of lemmings marching into the sea I park the car and take a walk and the fog sets on the fields and the clouds conceal the moon and in the dark I watch the flowers bloom and the fireflies light like sparks in flight moments in the moonlit night I start the car
10.
it reminds me of a day when I was a boy and everybody’s here everybody
11.
in the distance, on the highway lie the ghosts of drivers past rising in the sunshine until the sunshine disappears in the mountains, on the skyline lie the margins of your heart hidden in the treetops until the treetops disappear and I am chasing windmills there is no other way like Don Quixote or Wile E. Coyote I'm gonna get you one fine day and there's a windmill on the hillside spinning in antiquity and my eyes are rooted to it burning holes right through it daring me to do it take it, Sancho

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Recorded on Tascam 388 Studio 8 at Wampus Sound Studio, Burke, Virginia, 1990-93. Parts premastered by Ray Disney at Sonority Studios, Springfield, Virginia.

Remastered by Mark Doyon at The Crow’s Nest, Winchester, Virginia, September 2021.

Eamon Loftus: lead and bass guitars
Scott Goodrick: drums, piano, organ
Paul Golder: backing vocals on “Caricature,” “Boy in the Moon," and “Everybody’s Here”
Kowtow Popof: backing vocals on “Everybody’s Here”
Paul Bloch: bass guitar on “Disappear,” “Weeping Willow,” and “Rope and Knot”
Mark Doyon: lead and backing vocals, guitar

Words and music by Mark Doyon (ASCAP). All songs published by WMM Songs (ASCAP).

Cover painting: “Quixotica” by Michael F. Wehrmeyer.

Original album released on June 1, 1994. This remastered edition released October 15, 2021.

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