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Chester's in Oklahoma

by Artist: ustaknow (alias)

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1.
No Going Back Now 02:31
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No one wants you here here now at this place Yet you stay, keep coming back, and back again to play No one wants you here here now Yet you stay to play and pray... No, you didn't ask to be here No one comes to check or care You didn't ever, ask to stay here There's no going back, not now [2x] I never find myself at home, never was that kind Did't need a home but wanted, in that buzz of mine Son of son of man then men, has no place to lay his head Whosoever shall have caused, my dread let that, be their wed No, you didn't ask to be here No one comes to check or care You didn't ever, ask to stay here There's no going back, not now [2x] So, they don't let your kind in, say we sent to set you right Never seems to take that well, with all your hate and fight I'll just wave to you from here, and bid you, a fair well You didn't ask to be here, but I did asked for you…
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Something's Missing [1+1ver jesus Shooting Heros] 03:13
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Always something missing, nothing ever feels the same Always something wrong, shit falls down like rain Tried to sort it out, but the answers not plain Stupid thoughts trickle, out the back of my brain So I thought to turn religious, skipping over coke and pain Skipping all the reasons, to kill I see their misconceptions, I hunt down their versions of Christ I find their jesús sitt'n and just, shoot'n other heroes, I'd be glad to defend There's always something missing, nothing ever feels the same Trying to keep my head embalmed, within the maimed they rein Pelts me in my sleeping thoughts, these days they help me through All like pointy little needles deep within my gew What if these religions don’t have correct answers If they're more stories yet, to tell, and reveal With them preaching their jesús shoot'n heroin I thought I'd turn religious, but could not go in There's always something wrong When shit falls down like rain, with jesús shoot'n heroes, - they could - not - save
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Life Walls 02:19
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Calm the sadness and play the tunes While I welcome you home The only stones are here, in these foundation walls All your memories there, among the fumes Let me come when you call Let me go and not fall While I welcome all home Within these walls All the guns are loaded, and pantries filled Familiar clothes in the closet and favorite stuff boxes Your spot, your chair, your light is there Fires lit and dogs, waiting near Forever is there, each moment passes Calm peace feels eternal, like the verge of sleep Effective warmth, in it's cool breeze Hums silent waves, silence need Let me come when you call Let me go and not fall While I welcome all home Within these walls You know this ghost is me, I came an went With all my dents from need I never found what I had, and yet too Alone is the safe tomb, no pain or want to feed Life a book, you only read once, like picking a weed
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Dirty Words 02:54
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D A D A G if care to strum along :) Some songs can be like Dirty words 2x Bouncing 'round Clean bright ears Dirty words Dirty words 2x Some take brute force Others a light touch But all make the rounds All make their course Dirty words Dirty words 2x One can only hope The singer at least To please the beasts Intended for the pleads Dirty words Dirty words 2x As sand blasts dirt And lyrics purge words One can only hope Their results no worse Dirty words Dirty words 4x
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The Lebanon of My Life 02:24
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As I drive through the Lebanon of my life On the gravel that’s not gold I think of all the people I know - like me The problem I have is ain’t none of them here... now They come and go, mostly go and gone And expected me to keep on, in faith It’d sure be easier if they just stay... just a little bit longer Yes a little bit longer mmm mmm Not that I’m alone, no It’s me and the wife Used to be a dog but she left when the wife... came It’s just, it all would be a bit better, If they stayed, a little bit longer... a little bit more As I drive through the Lebanon of my life On the gravel that’s not gold I think of all the people I know... like me
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What Life Allows 03:17
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She ain’t the one, but she’ll do Yet a cage, with even a view Her words were helpful, if even un-true Could have sold them, a time or two She ain’t the one, but she’ll do She ain’t the one, but she’ll do So sadly built, a nest to share  Raised orphaned-wildren, all ill re-paired                       We sang our versus, far 'n near Words of judgment, so sin-cere She ain’t the one, but she’ll do She ain’t the one, but she’ll do She cooked his dinner, and he bought her new                      To work this fable, and dare life’s cue I often wonder what she’d say If thought that well, of their fool-ish frey She ain’t the one, but she’ll do She ain’t the one, but she’ll do Then one day, life came to an end  She left him there, alone to defend No friends remain, just memories descend She ain’t the one, but she’ll do She was the one, that did love you She was the one, that stayed with you
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I Am My Own Lifeline 01:58
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I am my own echo, I am my own lifeline The lines are tied, I cast off alone If lifes gonna get you, if it gets to you You’ll... ... get your due I am my own island, I am my own storm The lines are tied, I cast off alone My water it rises, to the level of my fill I’ve raised… … my levees I am my own man, I am my own norm Yet take the Holy Ghost, in my many ways wrong I fight a paper fight, a tacit battleground All full… … of nouns I am my own echo, I am my own lifeline The lines are tied, I cast off alone My life of lines, not many could take They fake push and pull, they take foolish rules I am my own echo, I am my own lifeline The lines are tied, I cast off alone

about

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About this 7-track, 18.6 minute album:
- so much to say and yet then, "TLDR" as folks like to say. For those that follow me - a lots happened since 2020 to present (Mar'23). This, comes from all of that; and since now feel like picking up an instrument and putting music to what appear to be a somewhat new direction in text, sound, feel.

I still write (my process), "hit record and start writing" - on DAW (audacity 2.3 :) ) or cellphone and are 1st take 1 pass with that kept in the track; "dubs" follow the same process. Mixing, "Mastering", or otherwise Engineering follow "standard" principles balancing a track, fixing a track and enhancing a track - to a degree. I think of all my tracks as a "live performance recording". There's only so much one can or even should do w/o risking killing it, or over-processing it to a status quo "radio ready" sound. That's no fun to listen to! :)
- Also, if A/B it, would it matter at all to whom these tracks may matter too? Nah, not likely. So, I do my best, then, leave it there. You EQ it on YOUR listening device, headphones! LOL!

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released March 22, 2023

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It's all me, ustaknow (alias) - otherwise as noted per track.

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