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Bottomless Coffee

by Caleb Groh

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1.
Listen Rose, you can't come see me You can't visit when you like No more coffee pots, connect the dots, wait for the sun to rise Now I'm going on to Jackson, I ain't asking for a ride Got a bedhead in here to fight fear Sings me soft to quit the shivering And she's quiet as braille, just brings my mail And her warbling's medicine But she cries every night to Tennessee Waltz Blank stare, chestnut hair Velvet dancer, what's your answer? Where's the water, placid lover? Feeble daughter's got the Father's light Got a ghost who knows what matters most Damn fool was a spoken for ghoul And her bayonet eyes haunt the Camden line, Watch the kids on the caboose And every hand which carressed her has gone and passed on And their secrets are exempt No Bathsheba bathing in the water yet No reason for the mortal sins Hell, I can't abide you in the moonlight Summer skin, sweet glycerine Well you whisper in your sleep, "Toledo" Listen, I'm acqutting you tonight
2.
Well it ain't worth the time I commit Catastrophic culprit Man I just lost a rib in the dust Can't double-knot the shoes, got the barracuda blues And I'm back on that Dayton bus Well it's just bad lust, but it's bigger than the both of us Shot through like a bullet out the blue Takes a devil to revel in the dust Devil lust ain't big enough I don't dwell upon the deep Don't shiver in my sleep I was born to behold you for free It is crucial to the hollow heart that every star too far call off the long distance fling But you're true, ain't you Hear it in the way you speak my name Doll, why'd you haunt my halls at all? Was a heart-hex, ghoulish game Set the clocks back, made it rain Don't preach it like you found it Gallivant around it Hot pyre, canyon fire You're just a kitchen gnat nitwit Broken bug get with it Big spy, fruitfly for hire Well it's just bad lust, but it's bigger than the both of us Shot through like a bullet out the blue Takes a devil to revel in the dust Devil lust ain't big enough!
3.
Narrow, little vestibule You are destined to be alone Well how are you wide enough for a heart aside from your own? Drought would come and drink with me Steal my wine when I'm dead asleep Grafted bough and river trout Who's thirsty now? It's me, it's me Carrow, well you looked so gloom In the old mudroom like a crow And you fell at the height of dawn When the gin was strongest, you broke Why do you take when the rest receive? Bartered heart like a mantel piece Comb my hair when the reverend leaves When the Deity is down the street Countess, well you can't amount You are tantamount to a toad See, a bride of a billion brutes is a bitter root to behold All my life I've been acting up Ten times tough as acacia gum Broadway brawl on a cargo truck As the sun sets to Webber's best: "CATS"
4.
Cascade of crimson ribbon I've comissioned you to glow Steaming like old Engine #9 Nearing Jericho Nestled night was kind Blue in the baddest commute Who you let in is a mountain to me Whose sweet sacrament fills the space between your teeth Sleeps in my bed and makes the coffee weak And offers some to me Sangria Summer, I repent of ever equinox Fennel fox, I held you in a cave Hugged you 'til your brother came Tandem tapanade, Bleak in the Burlington fog Was a camoglauge kid Cut my teeth on your kin Where every callous was kempt Sought to satiate your sin And every prophecy bent to see you holy And offered up to me You alone
5.
God of Abram 02:20
O God of Abram Tell me 'bout that ultimatum Spoke the 7 laws in verbatim Well I came to commend you Reprimand, recommend you Daffodil doll, what ails you? Howcome Hell don't ring no bells When your heart ain't well and Heaven ain't vacant? If you had me or begat me, Wouldn't graft me into your family If you want to do right Honey quit your ritual tonight Daffodil, dial Haven't graced my ways in a while Haven't smiled that Sistene smile If you hold it then I want to hear it Tell me 'bout your gifts of the Spirit Dance with me little Seeress Was I bet? Bought? Was I seldom forgot? When your hands were still hot From your friction affliction Well it's so hard to spite you When I'm bound and beside you If you want to keep keen Honey sell your suffering to me O God of Abram
6.
Caligo 04:51
See, Caligo stand between the tombs Well he laid my mother down when she was loosed The God of Chaos is a graveyard hoax Copper painted gold, cheap pedestal A cobblestone courtyard is someway to spend the afterlife But girl you're dead set to drift that cold Styx River sometime Camino Real and her golden locks They was wavin' to you from Odessa's docks If that Black Sea's where you want to be Caught you the best cutter in the Turkish fleet Poseidon's in a headlock, making waves of his enmity Come on, Cat, think we can break it from the balcony Every Odysseus gets retold You've been twice-revised, Dewey Decimaled Every Balam gets a little bold Hell, well you cursed my cattle, you condemned my soul How could you stand there, waving like I was just a Rose Parade? Steady as the sunrise, coming in from out of State You came up laughing out of Raleigh Bay I bet it'd look good on a resume Hand of God was giving Holy shade But when the brute sun came, it gave your body away Listen to your drummer, audible beating through your buzzing spine Louder than a bug ballad carried over the Ozark pines
7.
Why'd you make a habit of getting up and stealing away? People are the place, so you've got to change names I read a quiver on your lips when you told me you would always stay Life is a gambler, gonna teach you how to play games How am I gonna know how it's treating you? Well how am I gonna know how it's treating you? And how's the world gonna go on treating you? I was never anything but good to you You could come back now, you'd be cleaner than a clergy gown I am not a part of you anymore, no I am not a part of you anymore If bottomless coffee's gonna keep you keen, hotel everything Take me to the Rhine and wash me off If I was some lead-rimmed killing cup Fool's gold, heavy as a pyrite scheme But I wasn't planning anything to be your only one Finite as a summit in your billowfold blues Tar-heeled terror, why'd you break your own rules? And if your justice comes in Heaven, why'd you justify dues? Take it from your breakers and appreciate low tide too How am I gonna know how it's treating you? Well how am I gonna know how it's treating you? And how's the world gonna go on treating you? I was never anything but good to you You could come back, babe, in your Ides of March way I am not a part of you anymore, no I am not a part of you anymore If daytime TV cameos your dreams, rerun everything Take me to the Nile and wash me off if I was some swine in your feeding trough Mud-mad, squealing in the name of love Honey, but I never really cared enough to be your only one I am not a part of you anymore, no I am not a part of you anymore If everyone's key is gonna set you free I am not a part of you
8.
Was a bedsheed bandit, July heat I was turning out the lights When a ghost happened upon me in the middle of the night She said, "Tell Aubben you saw me, it'll cost you your life" So I never told Aubben and I'm doing alright I've been sleeping on an old friend's floor, ain't sleeping right Well I've been dreaming about your doings out in Telluride Can't clasp my hands nor be the man to fix your fights I just tell myself you're full of Hell and I feel alright I was living in the Thunder, soul sundered Was a bug-bit Horowitz bangin' out Prelude 5 Saltwater gallivanter, bewitched moon went and took me into your tide Had a gruyere nightmare, shook me like a banshee cry Black magic harlot in the bitter dawn She was boisterous conjuring spirits out on Rue Bourbon You let the devil out and he's never going back to Hell I guess that teaches you to dabble in those summoning spells Valkyrie vision out in San Antone She was whisperin' sweet, said "How'sa about we move in harmony?" Well if you took'a my hand to Valhalla, man That don't make it right And you can trust, honey, I don't care where you lay at night Was just a black Buick blunder, Dixie Summer Every cobwebbed paper-back Kerouac singin' me home Hard heathen, bad believin' Cigarillo ash phoenix, must've been the turpentine Caught you switch flipped, bit-lip, baby but you've been benign I wasn't messin' around
9.
Alexander cries under the weight of a conquered world, Cutting locks from his conquered curls, babe I've never seen him so low Your sister was a right fool to negate The Great's rule Now we're locked in a lean-to with a puzzle and a jar of halibut stew Maybe we were bound to bray in the belly of a whale Maybe God was come to say, "Jonah got to go obey" Your jukebox howls, "I'm a karaoke wolf, honey" And he cries into the night to the tune of Always On My Mind That cats in the backyard take a call to Jacquard And they mew while they stitch hems, at their leisure on the Calico fence Maybe we were right to say things were better in the whale Maybe God was come to say, "Every flower wilts away"
10.
Daughter of the wind don't make no sense It's the sea kin I'm interested in Can't hum moon mantra Can't outrun Atalanta But I'm bound to be your haven again If it looks like blood and tastes like blood, That's a real bad wine Oh honey but it lasts the night Aren't you tired of being a hapless dreamer? Pitching pennies into pitch black water See you standing, but I can't defeat you Something visceral said I ought to spare you Got to run to where I can't defend you Daughters of the sea don't do nothin' for me And her daughters could not care for me I taste her waters and she took it to the altar Said, "what sin you been livin' in?" If you don't want to go, honey don't say no I will carry your fault I will wear your heart like an antidote Aren't you tired of being a hapless dreamer? Pitching pennies into pitch black water See you standing, but I can't defeat you Something visceral said I ought to spare you Got to run to where I can't defend you
11.
Rigid Ravine 05:06
What you are to me: a hollow shiver A ship-wrecked, sad sort of breed Vacant eyes every other night A callous current in your river brings me back And it's tearing my limbs and calling me names again Chamomile lover, get real Nothing sweet detiorates in its sleep Too hard to adhere to the devil fear Typecast as a hard-luck acrobat, got right and fought back You can go where you go, quit swinging low I've seen through your valleys, and I've seen how you flow There is something of an air in your mountain where you are rocky as a Jupiter storm Your winds come in colors, just vibrant, empty nicotine I am howling like a dog from your hilltops I am your parallel, rigid ravine Quit feigning fault lines Don't sympathize with the new night Bat love, ain't you scared of bad blood? Too proud to have sought us, too Sauvignon to be modest Old cicada was a beatnik revelator, sea-sick delegator Bluer than the undertaker I've tired of your livin', I'm tired of your provocative air I give something like a stream of mercy, I believe But that bull has got his horns in your hair Who was fist-fought and weary? I bring you what I salvage of peace And I bring you what I make from the six string Swear, but I used to be living for me Love you never really had to be so hard, now did you? x2 Love you never really had to be so hard, well why the Hell you scowlin' now? Love you never really had to be so hard, now did you? You steam, you vapor in my atmosphere Love, you never really had to go away, now did you? x2 Love, you never really had to go away, well why you gonna take off now? Love, you never really had to go away, now did you?
12.
Smitten 03:15
You're smitten, that ain't love You ain't doing right seeing me at night And dancing around my fingers Been harrowed, been pawned Been singing her song just a little too long Been swathed up in her slumber Well it ain't for me to cry about where you lay your head at night No blood tears for 7 years, no Cayman in decline No hotel Summer hum, patchouli in the sun No bat harem nightmare I'm set to succomb You cavern, you crow Oh thrice-bought back Adirondack heap of stone Blue cool and bold as bone Oh sorrow, black gold No kitchen smoke, no banister ghost Gonna charm me home Swallow high tide, look me in the eye Ain't scared of no spare love, ain't saying I don't mind Don't bet on a binge, dont sleep where you swim No soft devil's gonna level the original sin
13.
I want to know whose breath is your boat, whose hand you behold, whose bed keeps you warm I am a rock in the dew of your dawn, but your moon is enough, whose hill is your home? When Jacob's ladder came, angels all around us, glory in the light they gave, Halle Peter's in the past, pilfering the parthenon and pawning all things back, Halle How is there hope where your mouth is a moat Minaret in the mire, resurrect, roll your stone Bet I'm the beast in the bowels of Belize So bereft of my being, couldn't covet a dream Am I to assume there is no conundrum built to bury and exhume, no way Eilen is a peach, feel her amaretto lips while you are dancing in my sleep, Halle

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This record is dedicated to Amanda Coughlin.

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released March 20, 2012

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Mixed/Mastered/Co-Produced by Chad Wahlbrink
Recorded in Fort Thomas, KY and Nashville, TN
A big thanks to Pomegranates and Sacred Spirits.

Friends who played on Bottomless Coffee:
Joey Cook, Sam Cowan, Jacob Merritt, Josh Kufeldt, Isaac Karns, Chad Wahlbrink, Curt Kiser, Brett Resnick, Josh Hester, Lilah Rose, Paula Marchesini, and Dan Lyon.
Thanks to Brian Beyke for the telecaster.
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