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Eldritch City Dwellers

by Cat Meat

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davekillcountysmith A Cat Meat album is a sonic treat. I once heard music being described as a soundscape. That’s what this is. Layer upon layer of beautifully crafted instrumentation, without ever getting cluttered or over-produced. Favorite track: A Regal Howl on a Czech Carousel.
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Les Norman From the very beginning this album captures your soul. Fabulous piece of work. Hats off, guys and gal. Favorite track: A Regal Howl on a Czech Carousel.
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1.
Oh Maria Your old friend's here Collecting pennies from our wishing well I said I'd meet you there Just for Maria And Maria That searchlight's near We'll dig & retreat from here Sit up & dry your tears For me Maria Oh Maria When we were young Another story only raised alarm Another yarn was spun In you Maria And Maria All I had done Could not arrange the order of that storm Direct you from your course Oh sweet Maria I said I'd meet you down Down by that wreck you found And all those bells sound It's just a howl for Maria Stealing my heart at the band parade Leaving your claws in the night's remains Reeling from the clamour & brawl I left for Maria
2.
Vog 04:17
When they called you to surrender And the house was found surrounded Please take my life Please spare my love When the gale bit through the morning And the smoke strangled the mountain Flee while I fight Reach sanctuary I raised my hand under the sun But my throat won't clear The raindust & vog Please forgive my blunt reflections They were carved from god's illusions Keep by my side Dream a white flag to hold I raised my hand under the sun But my throat won't clear The raindust & vog When they called you to surrender And the house was found surrounded Please take my life Please spare my love
3.
Coiled in my mouth A secret nailed into my tongue As the silver leaves return Fall & blanket everyone I drink 'til the feeling withers And the rows drown in my heart Soon the radio's replaying Last night's footprints in the ground How can you claim That the mark's already healed? Bruises glow like Monday headlines Wheezing riddles unrevealed It's a sad state of conditions When the bombs refuse to land Father John turned debt collector Sister Mary at the bar Feel the heat of the sunlight leaving Feel the hum of the road Sunk a pocket of trials in the cinders Won't you pour me out a path I can run? But I'm tethered to her heart Ray worked that corner 'Til the day they took his eyes Now the burglars carry matches And the sirens stutter lies There's a saboteur in me Keeps her sweet beneath the flowers There's a radiator heating All the fines the rain devoured Feel the heat of the sunlight leaving Feel the hum of the road Sunk a pocket of trials in the cinders Won't you pour me out a path I can run? But I'm tethered to her heart
4.
At my house I've got no shackles You can come and look if you want to In the halls you'll see the mantles Where the light shines dim all around you And the streets are paved with gold And if someone asks you You can call my name You are just a thought that someone Somewhere somehow feels you should be here And it's so for real To touch To smell To feel To know where you are here And the streets are paved with gold And if someone asks you You can call my name I hear you calling my name By the time that I'm through singing The bells from the schools of walls will be ringing More confusions, blood transfusions The news today will be the movies for tomorrow And the water's turned to blood And if you don't think so Go turn on your tub And if it's mixed with mud You'll see it turn to grey And you can call my name I hear you calling my name
5.
Cold horizon The sound of your voice hangs a shelter in me A grip that won't leave Cold horizon To sink in an ocean of blood orange seas With just you & me Cold horizon I flounder & scuttle around both your left feet Led by your lead Cold horizon A reverence A decade A night I still hold Delivered & told in that dream Held in my bones Cloaked in these walls In London's bruised teeth Cold horizon The blossoms of rain paint the glass as we ride All fragments of light Cold horizon The solace I found in the roots of those weeds Bound as they creep through that dream Held in my bones Cloaked in these walls In London's bruised teeth
6.
Last night my inquest found you dancing in the night Beneath the old illuminations In the coughing neon light Down on the pavement I was drinking out of sight As the police perused my lumber And the smokers barked outside She is all I need All my eyes can see Leaving town tonight I thought I caught you glance a raincloud through the glass So I crept through grogged contention Took remission by the bar Looked on as hands entwined in crumbling revelry As the band played on in fractures And led my heels back to the street She is all I need All my eyes can see Heading out tonight Dusting for prints I found another in my head And I saw my own reflection Reaching out to comprehend Two silhouettes beneath the lantern at your door Meant the fire between my fingers Was the last you ever saw She is all I need All my eyes can Fading out tonight
7.
Leave your stumbling heels & half-hung head Take the altar from my knees There's a scorn within your make believe It's a struggle for retreat Don't you think I thought it over? All you wish I'd claim to see Don't you think I thought it over? We're not moth or flame but the light between And the love they cast is enough in you & me There's a remedy for that bind you're in But that snake oil cuts you dry Borrow beg or steal for that skeleton key Cut the brains to your supply Don't you think I thought it over? All you wish I'd claim to see Don't you think I thought it over? We're not moth or flame but the light between And the love they cast is enough in you & me
8.
9.
The old ghosts revealing And tied to the ceiling Of my mind My glass jaw defeated The hand that was beating A blind eye A trapdoor appearing And a signal receiving That won't hide Looted & empty What shone burrowed through me A black light Nothing I dragged through the tide Could command what surrounded So listen as you breathe Talking in your sleep The wind is black & blue And the moon is a blur I found you in my pocket An etching on my fate A rope to thread my needle Oh trouble hangs on that weight
10.
I remember all the puzzles That you used to bend the rules I was tempted by confession But I saw your face refuse I was always 23 when you called Though the furrows weren't convincing And the crow's feet lingered far too long She was sinking from the corner Of my mind When the past was just revision And the sidekicks held the prize Too much hanging by the water 'Til we're wading at our knees An accomplice for the nightbirds When the station drones repeat But there's green in those baby blues I recovered all precision From a wilted aim I threw You're a shield that won't be shadowed An affray that I pursued Put it all on 23 when you called In a town that paints it's riddles To the punch-drunk floors below Taking shelter from the ashes In my eyes Hanging all my contradictions On the sparks that fled the fire It's impossible to wonder How the breaks fell in your hands An acclaim found in translation An appeal on your command But there's green in those baby blues

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released June 30, 2014

All songs by Cat Meat except 4, by Arthur Lee.

Phil Rogers: Guitar, Organ, Piano and Vocals
Ian Olney: Guitar, Bass, 12 String, Banjo and Technical Wizadry
Louisa Wood: Violin, Piano and Backing Vocals
Barney Bodoano: Guitar, Slide, Harmonica, Organ, Bass and Drums

Trumpet on 6: Ian Watson
Horn Section on 5 and 9: The Blindly Hopeful Flock Horns

Mixed, tweezed and polished by Ian Olney

Artwork by Barney Bodoano www.barneybodoano.com

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Cat Meat UK

Cat Meat Are:
Phil Rogers (Guitar and Vocals)
Ian Olney (Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin, Bass, Electronics)
Louisa Wood (Violin, Piano, Backing Vocals)
Barney Bodoano (Guitar, Harmonica, Bass, Drums, Backing Vocals)

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