Monsters EP

by Graham Lee Smith

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First solo album. All music played by Graham Lee Smith.

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released 02 December 2020

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tags: americana country folk garage garage rock muppet rock pop rock & roll Brooklyn

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Graham Lee Smith is a happy dude playing sad songs. His influences span several generations of other sad dudes, including ... more Hank Williams, George Jones, Townes Van Zandt and many more. After years of larger musical efforts, he’s whittled things down to one man, an old guitar and song upon song within the righteous tradition of heartbreak, whiskey and women. less

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Track Name: Four Ships
Four ships on the ocean
Four ships on the sea
The water's not too dark yet
And the sky is almost green

Oh grassy glades!
What hungers lie in monster's hearts, and lay in wait
Somewhere deep beneath the waves

Oh lonesome me!
Just leave me drifting on the sea

Four ships on the ocean
Three are plain to see
The other's much more distant
Much further off away from me

Oh grassy glades!
What giant's endless tossing, turning through the day
Brings the tossing, endless turning of the waves

Oh scornful me!
Just give me something new to see

Oh mournful me!
Just leave me drifting please
Track Name: Little Wooden Blues
What is this little thing I see
Sitting right in front of me
It hardly even seems to speak
But goes on talking

I can see the little puppet's strings
And hear it's little joints all sing
And watch its wooden puppet eyes
Go slowly walking

Well time, time, time
And all the monsters inside your mind
Yeah time, time, time
And just nothing gets left behind

Three months now, maybe four
Man I'm not really sure
The thing's been laying on my floor
Asleep and calm

But all it keeps on dreaming
Is of a little life spent beating
It's brow against its fist reading
The lines along its palm
Track Name: I've Been
I know where the monster's live I do
I always find them, I always knew
I know where the monster's live,
I always do

I've been walking in the hills, I've been
I've seen the cities burn, I still can
I've been walking in the hills, I've always been

I hear their noises there, I do
They're low in huddled whisper, two by two
I hear their noises there, I always do
Track Name: All The Same To Me
I once heard an old song
And it made me feel something
Well something about it, just made me feel mean
I could remember
Those days in November
When people were monsters, and all I could see

There's no way around it
At least none I can see
It's all just the same, I guess
All the same to me

People go looking
When they think they lost something
No one comes looking, man what does it mean?
Still no one leaves nothing
Well I guess that's something
It's not much to look at, but it's something to see

I once had a woman
She made me feel something
Until that something turned ugly
Until that something turned mean
Now I wait in the doorways
And sometimes remember
Us sitting together, at night, alone by the sea
Track Name: Pretty Little Things
You awful pretty little thing
Off lost behind the tv screen
Where all the lights are shining
There tune is softly whining
What's been coming finds you mean
It eats you up and leaves you clean
And up and goes and splits the scene
Takes off sight and sound unseen
And puts itself somewhere between
An almost and a never been

You awful little pretty thing
You sing your song so callously
Till it lulls you to the brink of sleep
That lovely calm and monstered deep
But you found your rest so fitfully
Tossing, turning endlessly
Until you wake and see
Yourself in deep to the knee
And go find somewhere else to be