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Mockingbird Express

by Mockingbird Express

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1.
War Blues 03:29
I'm a young man, and i know just how to die. yes I'm a young man, and i know just how to die. Gonna show you what i know and make everybody cry. Well I'm a holy man, and i pray ten times a day. Yes i'm a holy man... Lord knows I'll kill you anyway. so when it's time for me to meet my Maker send one of them bullets my way. I'm a business man, and where you see red i see green. Yes I'm a business man, and where you see red I see green... I'm making so much money off your blood, oh it's really obscene. Well I'm a peaceful man, and i don't want to kill my brother. yes I'm a peaceful man and Lord I don't wanna kill my brother. ' guess I'll go off to some other land and let you motherfuckers just kill each other.
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The Tower 05:00
Oh sweet lightnin' medicine head, big black angel sleeping by my bed, singing me love songs for the good times, singing' 'hari krishna, hari krishna, krishna krishna, hari hari. hari rama, hari rama, rama rama, hari hari" alright * Waves are crashing, help is on the way, eye in the sky is gonna save the day. Lady on the stairs is looking down, animals watchin' from all around... The tower is burning down... I guess it's time to leave to that other side of town... Oh moving water come and shake me now, i can hear the ringing of the Silver Bell. Queen of the Night on a seat of Gold, so many faces from the days of Old, lookin' out... lookin' in... look out..... LOOK IN* The writing on the wall is telling me "NOW"... the universe is calling and she's telling me how... how i can get the secrets of the Cosmic Art, how i can find the force of the Thunder Heart. The tower is burning down... I guess it's time to leave to the other side of town...
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Up in arms and armed with reason I'm the medicine man on trial for treason they found me down by the riverside bleedin' just tryna get back all my natural feelings I'm just tryna get back.... I had my sticks and stones, my skin and fat Lord... flesh and bone made to rip and crack... with tooth and nail, on my hands and knees man, do you even remember your natural feelings? I'm just tryna get back... They try to give me diamonds and pearls, silk and satin French cologne and a house in Manhattan all the silver spoons made to feed and fatten man your plastic and gold is such a deadly fashion. I'm just tryna get back... Now they give me steel and glass and a coal steam engine, nuclear war and need i mention... THEY PUT POISON IN THE WATER JUST TO CAUSE YOU TENSION self destruction: man's greatest invention but not me.... not me....
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Paoulina 06:11
She was dancing in a smoke ring up on a roof. the colors 'round her neck were bullet proof. I saw diamonds in a purple sky behind those deep black magic eyes. ohhhh Paoulina... my sweet Paoulina. Well your mother must have had that magic milk. She walked across the ocean - bring you pearls and silk. Your mother must have had that magic eye she passed it down to you baby, oh my my.... don't pass me by. ohhhhh Paoulina... she's magic. Well baby I'm a lion and you're so young born underneath that virgin sun. maybe one day we can know each other. maybe one day I will see your colors. ohhhh Paoulina...
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Winter out, spring came in like a rushing wind on wings of green and Seraphim. It's plain to see the leaf has come to be in just a blink, and now come Summer in. Well change of season pleases me - for every reason life begins and ends again. Rise and fall, heed the call, do your work, remember that the earth is where you're from... where you're from... where you're from... but where you goin'?

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electric voices in the wilderness howling psychedelic prayer on a street corner temple the song of the Mockingbird at midnight loving love and war and hallucinations of the morning and a thing called the freak blues from a place called Texas

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released August 4, 2018

on this recording Mockingbird Expresss is...
Mockingbird Smith: guitars, vocals, sitar, microkorg, percussion
Kory Cook: drums
Josh Borchardt: bass guitar

all songs recorded with Vernon Friday @ Sound Crater studios
all songs mixed Roland De la Cruz
all songs mastered by Bobdog Catlin & Edwin Stephens
eternal thanks to the Creator, the contributing musicians, Robot Monster Guitars, & SASG

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Mockingbird Express San Antonio, Texas

Mockingbird Express is freak blues from Texas where Lightnin' Hopkins meets the 13th Floor Elevators - a gospel tent revival on acid.


guitar/ vocals: Mockingbird Smith
bass guitar: Josh Borchardt / Oscar Moreno / Oscar Favian
drums: Kory Cook / Travis Hild
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