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Late History

by Tony Drummond

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1.
You I We 04:36
Tick tock roars the clock another night in my brain cell I need the night to reason at all, I’m like a bat in a mission bell I got the light tubes burning and hot don’t always know what the measure is It’s just a blind walk into what is I still remember “just a panther into the night” And all the fuss of my waiting I think I think that what I thought wasn’t thinking at all Stop wild for innocent (You I We) Stop hiding an ain’t that is (You I We) The tunnel life ain’t no way to live (You I We) Man give what you have to give (You I We) I guess it’s life that torches the ground and takes a piece of a passenger It’s just a hard drop into what is This is the longest way in the world to say that I really love you child It’s looking so much better inside You I We You I We You I We You I We
2.
Painlight 05:03
Painlight, Painlight I just want to lay here for a while, won’t even say I saw you In all your grand and old familiar style You know that I adore you Got my hands in ties you’re in control I’ve been withering without you I’m just here to thank you for the challenge of love Inside your painlight arc Can I coax you down and whisper in your ear? Can we keep it low and true and crystal clear? Can I say the words to you that no one hears? ‘cause painlight I’m in love with you I just want to thank you for your time, even though you burn me Twist and tie and turn me like a dog, and penetrate right through me Oh my new old friend I’d like to know What it is about you love Maybe it’s forgotten love that mines a pain like ours Can I coax you down and whisper in your ear? Can we keep it low and true and crystal clear? Can I say the words to you that no one hears? ‘cause painlight I still love you so
3.
Candlelight 03:56
Candlelight Candlelight Don’t wanna wake up in the candlelight, they’re trying to take us down They’re trying to move us back to candlelight hey can you hear that sound? They got the men in legislation, they got the men with the guns They’re gonna take us back to candlelight, I think we’re already gone Don’t know (you lack what you lack, you lock and you load) Don’t know (you lack what you lack, you lock and you load) Candlelight It’s feeling like, feeling like we’re living beneath a bomb A tiny glutton with a button and his suicidal lamb clones There aint no use in trying to run because they’re already there (here) I gotta find a little light a little air I gotta find a little fight a little light a little air I just don’t know (you lack what you lack, you lock and you load)
4.
All beliefs are just amended dreams, hitch a trail to almost anything All I know is these dogs are tired from grinding away The knots in my thoughts are insane This whole world is just an I can’t tell, mine a song and try to own it well Find some friends whose eyes cans see you and hearts you can tell The cost of all knowledge is well beyond what our logic can sell Hearts you can tell Hearts you can tell Hearts you can tell What I’m trying to say is I don’t feel that any spoke inside this wagon wheel is a cog in our contraption or bears anything Oh that I oh that I pray Oh that I oh that I pray
5.
River 04:08
I found the river today, how can that be? I saw the arc of our lives in the star lines I'm tired of wondering and wandering I'm finding destiny in harmony I'd like to vanish our minds to some away Some kind of rendering place, where they're emptied Some kind of blessing it'd be to breath again To breathe again, to breathe again
6.
Friends 03:28
I'd like to talk about our friendship for a moment because it dawned on me how magic you are and how you're such a part of me, you're family I tend to wake up on the morning of the evening and I miss a part of every day I guess it's just a part of me, what can I say? But just believe When you feel that sorrow dropping down on you I just want to tell you how I feel, I love you I guess that what I'm trying to say is that there's nothing like your face to cover all that I need when life is just grinding me Know what I mean? So anyway as we go forward I just had to let you know the kind of angel you are, it's really just astounding me And if you fall, just fall on me When you feel that sorrow dropping down on you I just want to tell you how I feel, I love you
7.
Math of Life 02:49
Innovator love, innovate with me in a way we've never dreamed I will be your ears, you can be my eyes and we'll drift up towards the sun The one true light in my shadow heart, is your face when the days get dark My innovator love, my coronary love we'll never part Though it may be hard to see in the hazy fog of me If at times my silence ever has you wondering This is was for and of, my innovator love it's the deepness of our light I keep on pondering You're all of me in the math of life an equation that this layman understands My innovator love, my now and later love you 'til the end You're all of me in the math of life an equation that this layman understands My innovator love, my now and later love you 'til the end
8.
The Freeze 04:20
Drop your fawn-like face in plaster, mend another tender daguerreotype Amazing what a body and mind can achieve in the atrophy It settles in a meadow of moonlight The days they huff like a wildebeest, caught stuck in the freeze Let's abandon we, it's only I and me you see Don't question the greed or the nature of anything but anyway, you're bound to be someone eventually Baby don't you know there's a war by now? It's ringing in our ears and our concepts Feels like a mule and a child and a fool ripped the parts off you And mortared it right into their ramparts The craze of maze-like empathy might feel like a breeze But it's the end of we, the end of you and me you see The enemy don't bleed like you and me but seriously, I'm sure we'll get somewhere eventually Baby don't you know it's an endless chump-sum game that grinds us into their war machine Finish what you started by all means child I love you right down into our early grave
9.
Undertow 05:12
I saw you show up, then I watched you wash away again Staring at your eyes I see your mind is many miles away and grinding on the gears again Oh but I'm yours tonight, in this cold strange light and all the owl eyes are challenging my will to be here Mama I just don't know what to do to make you whole, or get you through and let you know you're in my heart so near Why must every end have a cost anyway? They never take the soul of the sinners when they're talking about the judgement day Mama I just wanna find some cover for you As I try to be a better man, a better son I'm feeling like I've fallen and I've lost my way It's you in the depths of me that reminds me that I'm okay Mama I just want you to know while you can You're everything that means anything inside of me I hope you understand I so don't know how I'm gonna let you go Undertow, don't ever turn your lazy back on you Never gonna make up your mind in time to save it for a rainy day Got such a hold on you, we're gonna hold on too Everything you were is what you are it's just a pattern in the ocean now Mama don’t you worry gonna meet you in the water somehow Mama don’t you worry
10.
Love 04:10
Do you ever stop and wonder why the darkness ends and the light begins? Do you ever hear a song that seems to open up all the passages? I know there's a distant glow or some constant flow or some feeling (I don't know) But I know, I know, I know That it's love that we're dreamin' of Love that we need Even if a pack of dangerous and caustic dogs are accosting us If we gotta turn the torn and blasted pastures of our dreams I know it's been said before, been kind of bled to death before But I know you gotta love anything man to overcome anything Our only hope is each other and trying to meet one another Inside of love 'til we leave away Love everyday

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released July 1, 2019

Music and lyrics Tony Drummond
Mixed by Steve Wright and Paul Mercer at Wrightway Studios
Mastered by Tony Eichler at Gold Tone Mastering
Album art: Nick Johnson

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Tony Drummond Baltimore, Maryland

Tony Drummond has collaborated with numerous artists over the years. As a member of Baltimore's Celebration (4AD, Bella Union) Tony forged a lasting bond with members of the thriving music scene and contributed vocals, keys, and percussion to many projects like the Gene Clark No Other Band (Beach House, Wye Oak) and
collaborations with members of Arboretum, TV on the Radio, Mt. Royal and more.
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