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Blood is thicker than gold

by Matt Steady

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1.
The roamer 03:56
Highway stretched before me Horizon full of haze Heading south, three hundred miles Dry wind fills my days My feet’ll keep on walking Till someplace feels like home I will roam I will roam I will roam A wooden cross behind me Marks a fellow travellin’ man Couldn’t spare the time to dig too deep In the baking sand The desperate pull, the gravity I’ll mourn him when I can I will roam I will roam I will roam My soul is filled with longing Mixed with deepest dread T'wards heaven or hell I drift on My boots are filled with lead Redemption or damnation I know not where I head I will roam I will roam I will roam
2.
July of '69 03:34
We landed on the moon in July of ‘69 We come in peace for all mankind How long and dark a journey seems before the day is through Small steps can be the start of something new Looking out over a long-dead scene A beautiful desolation of unknowns Yet the very fact that we are here to see such empty wastes Is surely bringing life to these dry bones Some say we shouldn’t waste our time Reaching for the stars First fix the mess we’re living in, Keep your feet upon the ground But I say living without a dream Isn’t really life at all, And striving in and of itself Is a goal that means much more.
3.
It’s a funny old world With the games you used to play You seemed to give up more than you ever gave in You dress up, and make up, then you shoot to kill Aiming low for maximum pain It’s a funny old world It’s a funny old world Stumbling home in driving rain You conquered a heart, but gave up your own all the same Lipstick smeared and hair untied, like a flower underfoot Sun’s coming up but the world’s going down It’s a funny old world
4.
The '42 stretches out under my wheels There’s no turning off or changing your path – just driving on I dread to see those hills come out of the mist And if I slow down, slow down it don’t make no difference Just makes the wait unbearably long Looking back there’s a privilege in sharing the pain A strange kind of beauty as the cards all fold All pretence burns away, leaving what’s real behind Unable to speak, but able to be, I find It soon becomes clear that blood is thicker than gold
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6.
Their hearts are with us, boys Their hearts are here Ours are their day-thoughts Their night-dreams so dear Wherever our good ship The wild gales may blow Their hearts are with us, boys Wherever we go Their last look we treasure Their last laughs and tears The last sobs and whispers We heard from our dears Half a world from them We're tossing I know But their hearts are with us, boys Wherever we go.
7.
Skógr 03:14
8.
Jack O'Kent 02:49
Jack O’Kent was a working man His hands as hard as stone He dug and sowed in the borderlands And brought his harvest home He worked alone and had no wife No child or next of kin The gossip raged but the truth be told They were scared of him For when he went to church one day For to confess his sin He told the priest in confidence He heard the devil speak to him Now Jack was cursed for on his land A mighty river lay To get his wares to market meant A trip of half a day Five times he started off to build A bridge of wood and stone But the very next day he would wake to find The bridge had tumbled down In angst he cried and raised his hands I’d give anything for luck And sure enough the devil spoke A bargain had been struck “In return for this help of mine There is a price to pay The first soul that does cross the bridge Is mine to his dying day” Much stronger than he was before He worked into the night The stones seemed light as feathers With his demon-aided might And in one night the bridge was built And at the break of day It stood there solid as a rock Come what may “Come walk across” the devil cried “and check if it is strong” But Jack O’Kent was a canny lad And wouldn’t be led along He whistled to a local stray Enticed him with a bone The sorry mutt did race across When the juicy bone was thrown The thunder clapped and the lightning struck The devil howled in rage Jack just stood and laughed aloud As the poor dog paid his wage Now Jack O’Kent was a working man He laboured with a grin But still he works and lives alone Because the devil spoke to him
9.
Bear with me a moment As I tell my dated tale I may seem so ‘normal’ but it’s just a wretched spell. My eyes looking forward, Or soaring through the clouds But not on a screen, no I’m checkin’ life for brand new sounds. I have a passion for pine cones, and laughter for free. Conversing and dancing, That’s the life for me. The wind in my hair To block out the roar of the pessimistic nonsense, modern life’s a bore. Find me in the crowd, With a smile on my face. With my hands in the air Singing and lovin’ this place. If you trip and fall, crashing to your knee. I’ll reach out my hand and show you how to be free. I’ll start with a smile and, an understanding ear. I’ll take all your blues babe, Every worry, every fear. Now life’s looking up since I changed the frequency. No pessimistic nonsense, In anything I see.
10.
Music 02:40
The sun shines brighter when you hear a tune A melody that sears the soul Memory of harmonies is a glimpse of hope The chords fade but the echos remain When I see your eyes those sad, sad eyes And the fog that surrounds your head I want to pick up my guitar And sing to you and play for you and sing for you As long as it takes for the sun to break through Cut me open You’ll find a beating drum Bleeding rhythms Sustained by ever-changing chords and harmonics Just close your eyes and lose yourself Reach your hands up to the sky It’ll never judge, it’ll never hurt, always constant The chords fade but the echos remain
11.
Blackbirds 05:49
The blackbirds came at dusk and they roosted in the cane raised such a ruckus that it shook my windowpane And I’m covered up in dirt and I stink of kerosene and no matter what I do I can’t get clean Last thing I remember was your footsteps in the hall whisky in your voice and a shotgun on the wall now there’s shadows in the shadows, there’s trouble in the cane and there’s things you do that you just can’t explain Uneasy lies the head – unfaithful is the heart ungrateful and unlucky and untrue And no one saw me coming, and no one saw me go Only the blackbirds and you Come harvest in the cane fields the sky turns black with smoke so I took our father’s gun and a heavy piece of rope and I left you lying there like rotten fruit upon the ground and I lit a torch and I burned the whole thing down Uneasy lies the head – unfaithful is the heart ungrateful and unlucky and untrue And no one saw me coming, and no one saw me go Only the blackbirds and you Our father was a farmer he planted fields of cane he planted seeds of evil and we harvested the shame Oh but I’m the last one standing there’s no one left to tell and when it’s my time I’ll see you both in hell

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released September 1, 2015

ALL SONGS WRITTEN BY MATT STEADY EXCEPT 'BLACKBIRDS' BY GRETCHEN PETERS/BEN GLOVER AND BONUS TRACKS TIME AND EASY ON ME BY JEFF BLACK

'PASSION FOR PINECONES' LYRICS BY CAZ GRAYSON
VOCALS, ELECTRIC AND ACOUSTIC GUITARS, BASS, FIDDLE, BANJO, KEYBOARDS, MIDI PROGRAMMING BY MATT STEADY
DRUMS AND PERCUSSION BY NIKLAS J. BLIXT (EXCEPT 5,6,7)
VOCALS ON 'PASSION FOR PINECONES' BY INDIGO STEADY
FLUGELHORN ON 'FUNNY OLD WORLD' BY GORAN ERIC
DRUNKEN TRUMPETS ON 'MUSIC' BY MATT GIELLA
FEMALE VOCALS ON 'BLOOD IS THICKER THAN GOLD' BY BRIANNA SIMMONS
PIANO ON 'BLOOD IS THICKER THAN GOLD' BY SCOTT ARCANGEL

TECHNICAL CONSULTANCY BY MOROCCO DAVE

PHOTOGRAPHY BY NICK TSIATINIS & JEFF STEADY

PRODUCED AND MIXED IN LEICESTER, ENGLAND BY MATT STEADY

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