Dark Hymns In An Empty Chapel

by Timothy James Wright

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Timothy James Wright - Acoustic and Electric guitars, La Clavietta, Royal Artist Air Organ, Drums, Lap Steel, Metal Percussion, Field Recordings.

Recorded in Columbia, CA, Carmel Valley, CA and San Francisco during the winter of 2009 through spring 2010.

Additional Mixing and Mastering by Eric Ruud.

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released 16 September 2010
B/W Photography by Ryan Chahanovich
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Track Name: Marguarette
Marguarette you so bedded my enemies
Miners and peasants that flocked to this valley
In search of the minerals
Lain under drainages
And spook stories written in yellowed novellas

Oh, what a time, you had with those fellas

Arriving by wagon or train or by boat
The whispering winds altered the fold
They thinned the timber while we slept off a load
How brave the husbands
How dainty the foals

Living in harmony was not a question
But setting those traps was hardly a lesson
In the spirit of labor some lesser ones perished
In the absence of kindness
The brush hid the selfish

Marguarette you so bedded my enemies
The walking dead humming some haunted old melody
Knee deep in history wisely embellished

Oh, what a time, you had with those fellas
Track Name: Oh Louise
Oh Louise how the weeds did grow
Oh Louise how the scars now show
In the winter where we almost froze
I loved you from my head to my toes

But when the highway drew me to leave
In the spring where the money grew on trees
You took to drinking just to believe
I'd be home
Before the snow hit the leaves

When the holes in the soles of my shoes
Recollect all the miles i surely abused
By running from something i ain't learned to use
I get cold
And i'm sure missing you

Oh Louise how the roses will grow
Oh Louise how a new life unfolds
In the springtime when you lay low my bones
Know i'll be watching you
Never grow old
Track Name: Diggin' A Moat
I'm diggin' a moat around the castle of my heart
But when i'm ready i'm gonna build me a bridge
And let you all in
But once you're inside
You can never leave
Track Name: To Stay True
Whoring my way back to you
Warning my limbs to stay true
And tell me when It's time
To walk out of the pines
Lord knows it's been some time
Hiding among them

But now when i trample the ground
Broken glass is the only sound
And the hum of electric wires
Hardly lulls me

Oh we all need a breath
A close hint of death
A reason to bathe
And a memory to fade

Whoring my way back to you
Warning my limbs to stay true
And tell me where to find
A beacon that hides the light
The recluse demands his plight remain unwavering

Oh we all need a breath
A close hint of death
A reason to bathe
And a memory to fade
Track Name: Blood And Marrow
Every lingering love
Who once held my heart like a dove
All want my clipped wings on the wall
Blood and marrow
And all that i gave
Then took away

To become a myth
A man
Must vanish in the sky
Or in the sea
Become a melody

Nobody knows
Nobody sees
Nobody knows but me