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"Artichoke"

by Neon Culpa

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Richard Bodreau
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Richard Bodreau Fresh, crisp, pleasant, creative lyrics, wonderful vocal mix. Vocalists mesh perfectly and I love the brass. Favorite track: Amber & the Moonstone.
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1.
Capsule is taking me to places I can’t believe My mind is breaking but somehow I still feel I see My liberality bears endless prosperity Congeniality when some are so hard to please Nobody sees my sacrifice… Would you commandeer this handiwork of dust? Far away from near Don’t wanna lay to rust You say that man is The measure of all things If something comes from nothing What’s a god to bring? And if you can please Hear my dry logic sing Everybody’s so alike Need somebody who’s alive Through all my travels there’s still much I’ve not known and seen That long ago hereafter fairy tale died with your dreams Because time and space they will endure long after you’re gone If I’m right I surely wish that I was so wrong Nobody sees my sacrifice…
2.
The kids are marching in a row Such a pretty sight The truth it might not soon be shown They’ve twisted wrong and right The news on the TV Weaves the web that’s history There’s a bigger cause? Hardly hear a grand applause (No but it’s fine) We’ll do a lot in little time (Cross all the lines) Everything is good and fine (No but it’s fine) Do a lot in little time (Cross all the lines) Everything is fine Welcome back to this interview I know more than before These kids don’t really even know Just what they’re fighting for It’s a society Built around conformity Nation deaf and dumb Picking them off one by one
3.
Spinning round in a wheel Of this new machine Have we forgotten how to feel? This life’s not what it seems As all our gadgets take control It’s easy to forget one’s role So easy to forget the soul Confined in trivia What would you say that we’re after Through all of this? What do we expect to find? Become remiss Soon this darkness has to end The sun will reappear And we can shine again Times are recognized by trends Oh so jaded A new excuse to take our minds Off the luxuries That are the basis of our time We’d rather just not see But these distractions they will pass Remember when things used to last The truth is right behind the glass The reflection veils it
4.
Door to Door 03:29
Have you words to live by? Someone to tell you its okay? A place to go when you die Understanding that you don’t have a say Me I once was so blind Till the good book exposed a path What’s hard is easy to find We must avoid the wrath… Ohh…. Nothing that’s worth having Should appear so easily So many problems So few delicate solutions Look around and try to love Don’t need dogma, faith and such Lend a hand out to your brother just because I know you want the answers And me I’d say I want the same But I prefer the questions That have intelligible aim So take your book and shove it Where Jesus’ sun don’t ever shine And I’ll remain above it I think I’ll do just fine
5.
You want an answer not found in the lime You wonder, will we stay? The people danced there Somewhere back in time Before we felt the same Better days I feel are close at hand With the past down buried in the sand In a place that feels not far from home In a place to finally call our own It is what it is It was what it should have been It will be what it’ll be You’re only stuck inside if you wanna be The world is yours to see I saw your window cracked all summer long You afraid to lose your place? Everyone around here has got a song But you’ve gotta show your face
6.
I took a walk on Market Square Wandering from here to there I suppose I shouldn’t worry ‘bout before We ain’t children anymore I should look to days that aren’t behind What do I expect to find? Something we can’t attain but Somewhere in our twisted brains It doesn’t really seem all too insane Cast the glider in the storm Tell me where it’s gonna soar I adore all I haven’t seen before It’s okay It’ll all be back someday I’ll get repaid Stroll down Sunday Avenue Trying to see what all is new I’m damned tired of looking ‘round for other times When everything right here is fine I should look to days that aren’t behind What do I expect to find?
7.
Paragon 05:57
Time to conciliate Your shrouded mind today Come and proliferate A better kind of way Any instigation of an incident Like that of last year Making us an instrument The situation’s becoming quite clear This is the paragon All of our sense is gone For such a prosy song It’s been too long Meditate on this fellow Interstate lines are yellow Chase him down And return the cello Chase him around and round and round Time to de-appetize This curse you’ve rectified I know inside your mind You understand your crimes Any disillusion of this misconstrue-sion Silence it all Go away with your illusion Or stay and everybody else falls
8.
Slowly killing time at a breakneck pace Broken neck all for saving some face It’s all a waste Falling out of line, what plans we traced All that we give, all the more that we take now What a build-up to break down Oh and it’s silently closing in Yeah trident has chosen us today Tell me how you know and why Something in your eyes It shows that you’re keen Something in your voice Says you know what you mean Forgotten qualities Wilt away our days through inventive means Any incentive is gone in the stream Yeah we all are fast asleep Talk it leads us nowhere, fate grows lean Everything good seems to slip through the seams now Have we forgotten the dream now? Oh and it’s silently closing in See trident has chosen us today
9.
Here I am now I ain’t what I thought I’d be One more empty road Conveyer beneath my feet I expected I’d feel fine stealing time Can’t lose if I erase the finish line Is that not right? Seems I’m just out of luck But feel like a million bucks While sinking into decay You loser, I’ve won, I’ll take Here I stand now But crooked not up tall and straight As somebody that I thought that I would always hate It ain’t easy trying to please all the day On my knees and begging fate for a change Is that okay?
10.
On the grass outside See the clouds collide Into focus then astray Forget about lost years Put aside your fears You may find that your Discordance seems to slip away This is the place where all things meet Bitterness sometimes may turn sweet Do you still care If we all are made aware If we all can mend the tear? Nothing comes for free Time itself is a fee It’s hardly ever on our side There’s a greater reason To admire the seasons It’ll end in just A blink of mother nature’s eye
11.
You know you’re breaking every little thing The trees no longer sing Where’s your guidance come from now? You keep on taking from that which gave you life It feeds the hand that bites Where’s your gratitude? All you exude is entitlement For the amber & the moonstone What’s to come is bound to soon show For the amber & the moonstone What’s to come will stay How many more of them crude wells will you drill? Or creatures will you kill? Before your estate’s of proper size As long as there’s people down in them factories Your fiscal mind’s at ease If they don’t have a voice then they don’t have a choice It’s how it’s been and how it’s gonna stay… Go, take command, seize the land! It's commonplace A show—a plot concealed But the truth’s revealed Within the spaces now I’ll bet it’s been a moment or two Since you’ve reflected on your ways Two right feet pardon all that you do Out in the open air you stay… Ohh, for the amber and the moonstone Ohh, What’s to come is bound to soon show Ohh, expand the realm of what we call home I’ll take everything if the cost is anything! Flow...can you see the blind to be? It’s not your problem So, morality is hard to free The times we live in now Ambition takes away empathy Impulse leaves reason far behind Indifference to what everybody can see How can we make this clock unwind?
12.
Tabula Rasa 05:00
Just when you’d found a brighter scene Figured out what it means to be Opened ears to hear, eyes to see You had to run into me Referred to in such high regards So meticulous, played your part Who’d’ve thought that you had no heart I’m here to stop your new start Mother of the brother I saved from the author Tell me where it all went wrong Gotta sing another praise to some higher form Gotta sing your songs of redemption No exemption, no how Dreaming beggars under your feet Once bootleggers who ran the streets? Tables turn every time we meet But what’s that matter to me Claiming sages did pave your way Through the ages you rode that wave Now you don’t have so much to say It had to turn out this way You say you want to start anew I wonder if your god let you Would you have something left to prove? I’ll stand in lieu I’ll see this through

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Artichoke is an album consisting of songs written by Charlie Barker, mostly throughout 2012-13, with a few from further back. A number of Charlie's friends collaborated in the process of bringing the songs to life and recording them.

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released January 15, 2016

Charlie Barker - vocals, guitars, bass (1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 11), microkorg, B3, lapsteel (on 6)
Heidi Aispuro - trombone, trumpet, vocals
Eric Bodreau - drums (1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 11), vocals (1-7, 9, 11, 12)
Dylan McGown - drums (3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 12)
Brandon Elhaj - bass (3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 12)
Nick Robarchek - guitars (on 1, 2, 5, 6, 11)
Justin Frunk - vocals (11)
Evan Boller - guitar solo (8)
Mel Tarter - group vocals (3, 4, 9, 12)
Jack Wells - group vocals (3, 4, 9, 12)
Greg Allen - viola (11)

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