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El Capit​á​n

by Will Johnson

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1.
Teruel 02:18
2.
Los Cuervos 03:00
There is no use in making me wait No, this is not the time or the place So straighten up, and sort out your ways ‘Cause there is no use in making me wait I loved your smile, littered with lies Your soul the crook, my heart was the spy And in the gravel we dug out our names And by the dawn a ghost you became A dozen crows lower down It’s like they know when you’re around It’s like they know all that’s at stake And there is no use in making me wait
3.
Sing for the madman Sing for the thief It’s a shame I’m getting used to My full time disbelief Counting the blessings While I’m still allowed I just sang eighteen secrets To a weeknight crowd And I’ll meet you at the narrows While December strains To pull us from a sinkhole With Basaltic Fangs And if we somehow make it Will you walk with me On the boardwalk with the beggars Down the orange lit streets? Goodbye, Absecon As the guards pass through the turnstile For another night In the distance I hear the sandbar Fighting with the tide And I woke up in the lobby To a world turned black and white And I thought about the gloaming And the peace in my brother’s eyes Goodbye, Absecon
4.
Bloody Boxer 02:14
It has come to me that my dignity And my darkest insecurities have met Like two birds face off on some power line Pissed, tired and unwilling to turn back And nothing hurts like the quiet And there’s no healing like moonlight I am accustomed to this battle every night And long ago, my mother taught Me about the crucial act of simply showing up And though I’ll fail, I’ll try my best To replicate her unrelenting love And the time it throttles forwards And human folly pushes back Like a boxer full of nothing left to lose And the bout feels neverending Until the judges call the fight I am accustomed to this battle every night I am accustomed to this battle every night
5.
El Capitán 03:14
Won’t you call your actions down? A race for our November crown And travel right on out to me We are new to this velocity And if anyone could bring it true My guess is anyone just might be you What a savage run that we are on With our patience stretched And you and me gone It is in the soil on this blessed night It stains the sky at evening light And it lies in wait until the dawn And its teeth and its smell are never gone So Captain, won’t you come to me? We’ll charge alone inherently Before we twist and come to be New shards of forever dignity
6.
She said right there “ I‘ll leave you down” Rattled by the rain All the streaks of oil on the streets And tears to wash the stains And the fires laugh at the moon Turning inwards just like fools Unknowing of their doom My coat and gloves to the floor Reeking of the day The thrust of madness at the door With bricks to block the raid And the fires, they taunt the moon Such temporary fools Unknowing of their doom
7.
Lord, let me live in a house down by the sea And show a tenderness to everyone I meet And if the day should come when it’s time For me to leave Let it be you the terms that I keep Time, Let me feel the sweet touch of your release Let it work in ways of order and of peace With the wind and with the sun My good morning has begun I will walk with confidence and with a calm With scissors and a lock By the water and the rock With the memory of family and me Or could it be that I’ve Everything I want? That I’m in some happiness I looked for long? And if that day has come, let it wash over me Let me stand there in the light and forever be Time, please do the sweet touch of your release Let it flow in ways that I have never seen
8.
Honey, there is nothing I can give you There is nothing I can do for you today There is nothing I can show you And so you must accept some other way You are weaving through the season It’s a walk among thieves You are dear to the assassin And so that’s how it has come to be And it took a while to know you And even still it sometimes moves To something not quite settled To something less than true Honey, there is nothing I can tell you Not a word as we do part So show me now you’re leaving Show me now, your famous heart Show me now, your famous heart Show me now, your famous heart
9.
Trouble 02:48
You did your share with Colorado And had your Dalliance in the East Devouring all these friends that you had Barely met Until the names and faces melted into One peculiar beast Of bedposts and affairs that you might well regret And to say I miss your face Would come up short in painting this It’s a struggle just to get my sketches down As I lean across my papers and I slowly fall asleep And dream about the death of our old town And I guess sometimes the trouble with it is The trouble doesn’t trouble me at all So I wake up in this parking lot, and raise up all These blinds to a world that just ain’t talking Much at all Just consumed by anything that has a password or A screen, and the place has lots its Sympathetic core But there is something to this quiet and these Silent city streets, and this picture here of you Walking with me, and the thought of how It’s probable we will never dance again And the fact that that’s just how it’s got to be And I guess sometimes the trouble with it is The trouble doesn’t trouble me at all
10.
Ocean/Sea 03:04
I am ocean, you are sea And the difference may tangle me Or maybe it will come to be That the time will bring some levity I am river, you are rain A release within some new refrain Or a bond amidst persistent strain Oh, water, water, come again In the quiet of Nevada night While the engine cools and the monster sleeps With a mountain for my company Or maybe it will bury me I am frost and you are heat And the morning brings its gift to thee So with it just as you please But bring yourself right back to me
11.
Inclined 03:03
12.

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released August 7, 2020

Engineered by Britton Beisenherz at Ramble Creek / Austin, TX - June 1-3, 2020

Mixed by Britton Beisenherz
Mastered by Jim Wilson

Britton Beisenherz: organ, Casio SK-1, piano, samples
Thor Harris: vibraphone, bass clarinet
Lindsey Verrill: cello, vocal
Will Johnson: Stella acoustic guitar, vocals

All songs copyright The Headwound Was A Setback (BMI)

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