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Weird Blessing

by Keith Cook

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This is where creation begun A knoll rises The prairies like an anvil Hot as the sun green belts along the rivers and creeks, linear groves of hickory and pecan, willow and witch hazel. All things are isolate On the plain Loneliness is an aspect of the land. While we’re talkin cotton I returned when My grandmother had died In the summer the hills seem to writhe in fire The grass brittle brown cracks beneath your feet Winter brings blizzards, hot tornadic winds arise in the spring there is no confusion of objects in the eye A tortoise crawling the red dirt nowhere to go an the plenty of time While we’re talkin cotton The Rainy Mountain of the Wichita Range the stars of the Big Dipper I saw for the first time how small it all was. It was late at night,A warm wind rose I could hear the frogs the river and feel the motion of the air. High in the sky a white moon, nearly full Now there is a funeral silence  An those high gray walls have closed in While we’re talkin cotton
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When the darkness came for an eternal night time Stealing everything from my forever empty heart The stars that once dotted the sky of space and time in this place and time Remind me of my missing counterpart You took my heart an ran down the highway  It will haunt me til the day I die Love is just a memory of the hymns of the years gone by. I wonder If this is how it must always be The endless sleepless dreamless nights The music still ringing in my head Echos of all the time I shared with you When I think back to the beginning Anything you could imagine seemed a possibility  But not it seems back dated and faded fated Is this my only solace the memories of melodies In a park beside the water were we met Where the lost highways no longer go You first took my hand The crows sang the of legends of the ages of old Of all that came and went an will be dreams in the city of rain To the wind our earthly remains In the memories of melodies and a river of tearstains
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There she is among the white lotus With the moon in her hair in the autumn sky I know she’s waiting there Playing her song surrounded by swans Her words flow To the sea an sky In a rhythm as oldtime Her aim is true Destroying the darkness in your mind the ultimate truth Quenching the fire in the sea She is river She is a tree She is part of all that is all that was and all that will ever be Forever grateful for what she gave to me I could never repay There she is among the white lotus skin glowing like the gold embrodierd in her red dress surround by owls helped her find her way through the night All The men & gods worship at her feet All women are an embodiment of her Mother Earth an Mother Spirit She came from the depths of the oldest deepest sea born to this mortal body at the beginning of the universe She drank from the cosmic ocean of milk She is part of all that is all that was and all that will ever be Forever grateful for what she gave to me I could never repay There she is among the white lotus skin glowing like the gold embrodierd in her red dress surround with lions and tigers She is the girl of 1000 names and faces They called her the daughter of the mountain the golden one, the dark one The goddess of destruction mother of the world She is the voice of reason, freedom, resistance. strength, power, action and justice She said "do not fear anyone or anything" became a God born a human being She fought like a devil and cried like a baby She is part of all that is all that was and all that will ever be Forever grateful for what she gave to me I could never repay
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Like a child, I am happy inside these days This love is crazy when I feel it with you I used to be the rebel that had to hide There was a time when I was happy alone  Now I finally see the one who knows for the truth In the ways that I use the world Like no one really anything can do We step into a fading sunshine all my happiness, is found in your arms The sweetest sound is the sound of your voice When you speak, it lifts my heart to higher ground To feel my feet, get back on the ground You got me feeling a little crazy Came to in my dreams and I knew it was you Gave my heart, gave my word Gave my life to you Love, love, love is crazy Numb my heart baby Love, love, love is crazy You define me baby Love, love, love is crazy No one has ever known to love me like you do baby Love, love, love is crazy No one has ever known how to love me like you do baby And its crazy how I never knew what love was I got a crazy heart You smile and I see inside
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Dressed in ermine  a murderer from the beginning not holding to the truth for there is no truth in him lies are  his native tongue  the father of lies prowls around like a roaring lion  looking for someone to devour the invisible ruler of the world up and down,  to and fro the earth around,  seeking to destroy the souls of men The world is his farm and its people are his plowmen a Lying Spirit in the mouth of all his Prophets The ancient serpent Throws no stones the angel of the abyss who holds the power of death The dragon Fell like lightning from heaven morning star Son of the Dawn He does as he may care The fallen angel Brought death to the world Flaming arrows From The prince of the power of the air the destroyer The ruler of the abyss His finest trick is convince you that he does not exist The adversary the accuser The tempter The demonic trinity Then cometh the Wicked one Prince of Demons sons of Belial The god of this world  His original nature was Darkness His smoke has made its way into the Temple of God through some crack  the cause of illness humanity's three enemies Death the world and self the prince of darkness I saw him fall  prince of this world He’ll make you a deal Give him his due JustSpeak his name and he is sure to appear to you He looks after his own An empty mind  And idle hands Better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven The devil may care The flames of hell never bothered him And walked away A smile on his face He is crouching with his arms held up he has only four fingers and toes You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires Your enemy the the evil one Witches flying on broomsticks Sexual rites in the forest Murder human infants Devoured in ceremony Demons Fever leprosy arthritis a distant land of no return, a house of dust where the dead dwell a sealed fortress, seven gates, barred against invasion or escape the pit the grave death where both soul and body are destroyed unquenchable fire Serpents, brood of vipers corpses of criminals Worms bred and fed in the smoke filled filth cast out into outer darkness the darkness flames continuously burn and rain from the sky rivers of molten metal flow freely heretics are locked in flaming tombs Weeping And Gnashing Of Teeth Place Of No Rest fiery lake of burning sulfur lake of fire Chamber of Tongue Ripping, The Chamber of Scissors, The Chamber of Iron Cycads, the Chamber of Mirror, Chamber of Steamer, Forest of Copper Column, Mountain of Knives, the Hill of Ice, Cauldron of Boiling Oil Chamber of Ox, Chamber of Rock, Chamber of Pounding, Town of Suicide, Chamber of Dismemberment, Mountain of Flames, Yard of Stone Mill, Chamber of Saw   Pool of Blood, It's better to rule Hell than serve in Heaven
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All the snow has given way to the rain the sun is shining it's a brand new day as sure as the black faded to blue gave way to grey If the Heavens were to spill open and give you back if forever was a time that could spent there's no way of our love I'd ever repent It's always the same do you believe in change? Don't call this world my home there's now place else to go
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In the pages of the stories of ages i was searching in the witching hour The words were written of an Ancient windowless Tower And a city said to reach to heaven children of man given birth The peoples language were confused an they were scattered about the Earth From the Holy Sepulcher old city Western Wall in the east To the pantheon where all the saints feast Pilgrims The people of all religions came from around the globe To try to touch the hems lay down their heavy load All the musicians had come together under the sun For  Cecilia,John and Job liberata for every one From the cloud came Heavenly sounds  Across the river from the Howling of the Hell hounds All the angels began to arrive Gifts and wounds  the great mysteries all in five Here comes the saints again Confess your sweetest sin goodbye to you my friend we’ll never meet again hide the light within a story to tell Down by the wishing well Here comes the saints of hell magic fairy spell a story to tell Down by the wishing well
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Truth to your own spirit Loved beyond the stars We live to love you more each day Grief is the price we pay  I had a lover’s quarrel with the world. She did it the hard way the world was not enough Farewell vain world I’ve known enough of thee Shall I be gone long? Weeping for the living and the dead that blessed angel’s face I now deplore that hollow part of your chest It takes a piece of you Each time you pass a coffin
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LOSS 02:04
“He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.” “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” “Gone from our sight, but never from our hearts.” “As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us, as long as I can, I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us.”
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The false sciences of economics and politics  People don’t trust their own judgment of what something’s worth Think they need an outside arbitrator, who fixes the value which is what the dollars actually are – money just buys time  Its poor communication  Capitalism itself in itself is a bit of a rip-off, as far as I’m concerned The people who want to be leaders are the less qualified  the people who are the best won’t mess with it  So we always get the 2nd best you won’t find me playing for any peace candidates – or any candidates It’s not just the networks; it’s a lot of corporations.  But it’s strictly an economic colonization of America,  a vast dumping ground of products, the backyard of the world.  So 4000 people are killed, what the hell? You sell a lot of planes and bombs, and for a religious cause, which people are prone to accept – the logic of the situation demands a different line of thought – but religiously, with God on our side, they don’t feel bad about $657,534,246 million a day toward the war. Because it’s protecting territorial boundaries, or it’s protecting some sort of religious vagueness. So they allow it to go on. but what are you going to do Im no politician going to change it in our out of the system I’m just going to sing my songs, because that’s what I do
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Each month is a note in the solar year If the world is led astray An there’s a voice of a thousand thousand And Silence in heaven An all the gods on their mountain  And there is no room If the band breaks up and many years ensue   If you get cast out from the war in heaven To wander the Earth  with the falling stars and angels And the devil and the deep blue sea You were the brightest of the wandering stars Wearing a crown of 12 stars, a gown made of the sun And the moon at your feet May your bliss open the doors of the universe May you find the peace within you to change the world around you May you be harmonious in you difference They say its better to have loved an lost but if you were to live too 100 I would want to live to be 100 minus a day The more we expand our world view the more we understand ourselves empathy is the quality of character that can change the world  The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality The stream is purer at its source So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.      Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Kindness is about the best we can do Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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Merge with you Merge with me Merge you with me robotic technological singularity  Duplicate personality Electronic brain wave beat Psychoactive retreat Pseudo emotional  Synthetic empathy Replicated personality  Replicated sincerity  Join us in Oblivion  emotional a technological wasteland  Join us in human oblivion  Join us in infinity Relativity supersymmetry supergravity 10 dimensional theory Cosmic string Quantum gravity Infinity density General relativity  Biological machine Nanotechnology  Join us in Oblivion  Digital ascension Extinction Artificial sincerity Transhuman horizon intelligence amplification Balance within the laws of physicality Limit to as fast as we can run the speed of light Join us in transhuman oblivion Join us in Oblivion 
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Maybe you can here the band Playing Maybe its a new song to sing Maybe a diamond wedding ring Sparkling  Maybe a new feeling uprising   Maybe its a sense all your dreams are Becoming Maybe a sweet dream while You’re catnapping  Maybe perfect accord your life Composing  Maybe the love you’re daydreaming of Maybe a beam of new hope on wings Flittering Maybe the sounds of your love laughing Maybe a new lovers smile Glowing  Maybe a ferriswheel spiraling  Maybe all ever imagined Stargazing  Maybe the light all embracing  Maybe a love Everblooming Maybe all comes true you’re imagining  You never know what tomorrow my bring
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Almost Over 03:04
Is it true were walking on thin air on the top of the world With this God forsaken Gamble turn of phrase in a vow Chasing after a mirage Of reason Astray in a charade Faint of heart So far away from the beginning  Burned the hash out  It sounded to so cliche Astray in a charade   Thoughts of leaving disappear Convictions dematerialize Whenever I look into your eyes  It gets harder the more I try To comprehend the cause We hang on Astray in a charade We could turn over a new leaf But all the trees are evergreens  Astray in a charade It’s almost the end of this masquerade 
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The Last One 03:59
Muddy red river, where does it ever end Swirling out in the dark The bars are full, but it seems so dull Fading away in the broken neon light But now that I’m the last one, I don’t need no one All in all in the light of  Red River Sunrise Everything's alright I see the world through a magic mirror Its cool an quiet now In the late phase  in the Witching hour The Red River Sunrise is alright Leon and Benny From the Box Elder depot Played Every Saturday I’ve got no ambition In the 2nd story twilight  But now that I’m the last one I don’t need no one All in all in the light of  Box Elder Sunrise Everything alright I see the world through a magic mirror Its cool an quiet now In the late phase in the Witching hour The Box Elder  Sunrise is alright Now I’m In the city of a million mortals living souls in  a thunder cloud An I’m still underground  Leon and Benny crossed over that river Now the Wagon Wheel bridge is down Permanent shelter And I’m still here in the Pudget Sound But now that I’m the last one I don’t need no one All in all in the light of  The Seattle Sunrise Everything's alright I see the world through a magic mirror Its cool an quiet now In the late phase in the Witching hour The Seattle  Sunrise is alright
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Train comin' down the track buy the ticket won't be coming back Train comin' down the line about 20 mins all board track 9 Train, comin' round the bend going to see that sweet girl of mine again SMOKE KEEPS ON RISING FROM THE GRAVEYARD TRAIN smokestack rising from the graveyard train
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49 03:57
Rolling down highway 49 You know who I’m trying to find Going to hit highway 61 Then I’m going to have some fun Night falls on everyone The way it falls on you then it falls on me too Can’t you hear the wind howling Howls round you and it howls round me too Rolling down Highway 49 Going to bring a jug of wine When I hit highway 61  Going to get my job done Rain an sun falls on everyone The way it falls on you then it falls on me too Can’t you hear the wolves howling Howls round you and it howls round me too Rolling down Highway 49 You know I’m gonna get whats mine Going to hit highway 61  When you see me you better run Shadows fall on everyone They way the fall around you they fall around me too Can’t you hear the banshee howling  Howls round you and it howls round me too Going to find an drink the midnight sun
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The twinkle in your eyes was like the sun in the sky All the words from your lips have run dry I’m afraid it’s the end of our charade The torch has burned out of the parade Ashes are falling in the ticker tape parade The words came out the same but don’t say the same thing 20/20 after sight (I’m afraid) it’s the end of our charade The torch as burned out of the parade Ashes are falling in the ticker tape Paint my face like Pagliacci Suffering master of the art Paint my face like Pagliacci with the tears burning in my heart Paint my face like Pagliacci Laughter from a broken heart Laugh like Pagliacci You haven’t seemed to age a day But somehow I can’t see you the same way I’m afraid it’s the end of our charade The torch as burned out of the parade Ashes are falling in the ticker tape
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Going to cruise down lake view Going Find something to get into Were Going to drink an smoke all day Going to blow all our problems away Gonna blow up the radio station Going to start a new generation Going to shut down all the boring frustration Going give rise to the new united nation Got no time to waste Going to get down in the haze totally spacin Going to invent the new location Going to reinvent the old locations Not going to pay any parking citation Going to break all the rules of probation Going to get it on without hesitation Got no fear of eternal damnation Going get higher than a space station Get with the revolution or your in violation Not going to stand for any taxation Tune in to the universal Vibration Were like stars in a constellation Burning down the Federal Bureau of Investigation Talking about depoliticization Step on the gas rate of acceleration We’re the source of illumination Radical deinstitutionalization Got no time for correctional rehabilitation Freedoms self justification Got no time to waste Got to find a way nothing to waste nothing to waste Going to find a way Going to find a day Going to find a lay nothing to waste
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Hear Jazz comes!!! Are you ready for the new sound? Jazz had a ribbon in her hair Cause her heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart, heart is broken And every night, sunset, street lights are shining bright I gotta speak to her There, Jazz found friends and beauty for a heart of gold Raised by wolves, but beautiful and wise was Jazz With courage Jazz would not bow, there for her cause Jazz would prove Like a dream, the good life Jazz always shows My long drink when Jazz walks in the room You give me shivers down my spine And then I met up with super magic mistress Jazz can make me kiss you so good And super luck grows from you Jazz crucified my heart That's how Jazz touched my heart
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I split the deck and it’s the first card I drew But still there’s no direction an the question is what to do I could be anything I could do anything So many faces So many masks  In this masquerade  The fool laughed as he stepped into the sun The fool had no fear and nowhere to go Sometimes you just can’t win no matter what you do And when you get everything you want is what you thought it would be. The fool laughed knowing what he must do Take a chance  take the risk to dance the spirit of the Ether As free as the air you breathe  As free as the breeze Without any care  In this world Without a care  In this life And don’t know why I should carry on The way I carry on But I have no choice My hands are tied  To the wheel of the world But I never wanted to take these steps without you I never wanted to face this change without you I never wanted to take this dare without you I never wanted to be here without you Like the joker of the 52 without you What good is this hand without you I can’t believe there’s a me without you I’ve got my health my peace of mind what more could I want Still he did not know who he was within It all came so easy to you , you don’t even have to try Letting life unfold is all you’ll ever need to do Just waiting for the wind to blow the right thing around again Like flipping pages in a book of open ends Choose not the life of limitations  Its the world you loved Its going to be a close call Ten good reasons to continue  All the positives you wrote down for me But can they really out weigh the negative  I know you said you might not be around for it Its bigger than I ever knew
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Wild 03:09
It was so easy and there was nothing to do If there was anything we ever wanted you know we stole those too At the time it didn’t matter we couldn’t care less Those times were hard to hold onto an slid Through the worlds hands like sand from a half broken hour glass Then one day the end of that summer came The way it was then it left us shattered it would could never be the same There’s nothing anyone could to do to stop the change of the time High into the sky like dust from the trade towers The nuclear winter blues blue age hue hue into the sky they began their climb An now all our dreams in the fractured sunset was never a lie An im still getting high But were running out of time I was never untrue but there my never be a sunrise But its the spirit of all generations never dies If the train comes an takes me away That same train will bring me back someday    Its the train that takes me away That same train will bring me back someday An if its a train of memories that takes me away That same train will bring me back someday
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This is the end begin New york style clothes pin One late night in Brooklyn What secret lies herein Over a drink of sloe gin Left overs from the parts bin To dumb an thick skin Or to smart to give in Like an alien Looking for a motor inn With some Christ within Looking for a deadly sin Notify the next of kin Like a severed conjoined twin Light within the firing pin Lost within the underpin Of a time remaining when That the losers might win To take it on the chin Flowers to the trash bin Not much to anyone's chagrin Still the bittersweet medicine Numbered with Suboxone Cleaned mouth with Erythromycin Da da da da da da
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Somewhere in the sands of time The feeling so sublime That it lasts for all time forever in my mind Moving forward From all the past left behind Its just a grain of sand in time So real in a capsule Nothing will ever forget As sure as all times pass away It will still be as strong forever and a day As light from a star speeds in all ways Even if in the world does pass away Even if all the stars in heavens should fade If forever all the days lite away my love for you shall never sway
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hey I see you see through start a new I'm so blue I'm so through without you without you I'm so through I'm so blue I see through Icey blue I see new nothing to do nothing new I'm just like glue I stick to you don't want what's new how I grew into what I am without you living with your clue such a vacant view I still hold true I alwasy knew you always knew on our hearts it drew one day to breakthough the sorry to ensue the town to pass through the loss of tissue it's so undue there's no way to undo can't be what used to so cold I withdrew a collage of your tattoos everything seems so untrue inequivlant to you into my world view no way to renew driving a long Lakeview rendezvous Bellevue look into live up to overdue reisdue luck into voodoo i owe you out of view fall into collecter of internal revenue like a montague
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Goodbye to another year Goodbye to another fear Goodbye to another tear Goodbye to you my dear ICU I NEED YOU
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all is dark until exposed to the light begin again in the black in the dark as all things in nature Begin anew adventure looking into the dark Never looking back There will never be enough time to do all I want to do There will never be enough time to start everything a I want a new To paint things as they ought to be Not the monstrously cynical unconcouslly naive society Playing the game of seriousness to hide its madness I am not the clown Though time steals the beauty of our former selves What you give you will recieve may it be I desire more than I achieve Not to aim to high an miss but aim to low an attain All there is is never tiresome Only we cease curiosity appreciation a new point of view you’ll forever walk the earth with your eyes to the sky longing to return if you ever flew All The universe is in our minds and hands I am proud but tired Take the paint an create your own What you give you will recieve Speak damn you speak Draw, draw, draw and don’t waste time Take the paint an create your own Speak damn you speak and don’t waste time
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Far far away in the distant morning there’s a place peaceful valley where everyone belongs Along a Sparkling calm coastline from in the children's songs Far far away in the distant morning, our days aren’t like the morning dew There's reverie a reverie of you A Never ending rendezvous I’ll play my last notes on my guitar And wake up where you are leave it all behind me Where are all the worlds problems dissolve like castles made of sand Into the sparkling flawless turquoise bottomless an boundless sea And I’ll Stay Forevermore you’ll be (stay) forevermore with me together forevermore we’ll be Far far away in the distant morning, flowers bloom flowers bloom in the distant morning Why cant I too? If , flowers bloom can bloom in the distant morning Why can’t we too?
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Awhile back I ended up with Leon Russell's drum machine.
I wrote 20 songs around everything left on it and there were 9 that he arranged which are denoted by the number he saved them on the machine as being included in the title, for example (Song 01).
I also included alternate versions of those 9 songs as instrumentals.

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released October 4, 2020

Keith Cook - guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, vocals
Leon Russell - drum machine, arrangements

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Keith Cook Seattle, Washington

Solo artist, guitarist for Debris, bassist for Sammy Drain and then some, former bassist for Captain Eyeball. His next album will be out soon and feature members of Nirvana, the Muffs,the Vains, the Wipers, The Stooges, and Flipper.

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