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5240 Volume II: Spring
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by Shawn Farley
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Snow Day
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Twin Powers
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Hey, Zeus! Zombie!
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Moist
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Deserve
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Inappropriate
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Color Me Corrected
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Prolly Gonna Move
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- about
- "5240" is not an album, per se. It is an experiment I'm conducting this year - writing, recording, and releasing a new song every week for the entirety of 2009. If I'm successful, that means I'll have made 52 new songs in one year. I don't think I've ever finished ten songs in one year before.
With the completion of this second "volume", the project is now half over.
I wouldn't read too much into these "volumes", the songs are compiled in the order they were released. In most cases, there was no "grand plan" or anything, I literally was writing the song only days before it posted, with no thought to any sort of "album flow." I'm grouping the songs in this way to make it easier for people who are interested, but maybe late to the project, to be able to download the year's output thus far in larger blobs. I'll make a new "volume" every quarter.
This volume is called "Spring" mostly because it was spring time while I worked on these tunes.
This time, all of the songs are "solo" songs, recorded by me in my apartment(s). A couple of tracks have guest performers.
So much happened in this stretch of time - I had been unemployed for a couple of months straight at the beginning of the year, and thus was forced to move to a more affordable apartment. Somehow, I kept the output coming, but there were times during the spring where I really, REALLY came close to quitting. Still going, though.
I hope you can find some songs you like in here, and I'd love to see you come by Monday mornings to www.shawnfarley.com as each new song is "released." 26 down, 26 more to come (I hope). Thanks for listening. - credits
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released 01 July 2009
Almost all songs were written, recorded, and mixed by Shawn Farley in his Seattle apartments in Belltown, and then Ballard.
All songs were mastered by Darin Di Pietro.
All photographs taken by Shawn Farley.
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- Track Name: Snow Day
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Snow! Snow!
Snow day is here! Now!
And we're not gonna waste it
Stuck inside
My gamble paid off
I left my report card in my locker
And told my Dad that I forgot it
But I didn't
Pretty sure he knows I'm
Lying through my teeth, but
What's he gonna do?
What's he gonna do - 'cause he knows
He's gotta go to work while I'm home alone in the...
Snow! Snow!
Snow day is here! Now!
And we're not gonna waste it
Doing homework inside
I keep looking outside
Looking for those tell-tale flakes in the streetlights
Nothing yet
This could still go so horribly wrong
Got to get up early
Listen to the radio
Pretty pretty please, don't you say "two hours late" again
The DJ just said there's no school today because of snow!
Today's the day that we've been waiting for
It only comes just once a year
I'll leave my sister in a snow drift
They won't find her 'til the thaw - Track Name: Twin Powers
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Form of
Shape of
I'm begging you
Use your Twin Powers
And rescue me - Track Name: That Wine Makes My Urns Beer
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My better angels are all gone
Fifteen years is a long, long time
I'm glad to spare you what I'm thinkin'
Good thing you're not a telepath
Marked territory brings me down
Sister, pour me another glass
That wine makes my urns beer
(Oh that wine)
Tornado Alley feels like home
Droppin' houses is a fave pastime
I have to wonder what you're thinking
You shoulda given me those shoes
It's always one thing or another, yeah
That wine makes my urns beer
(Oh that wine)
You know that it's prob'ly a bad idea
'Cause you don't know nuthin' 'bout this witch of yours
But you are willing to throw your caution to the wind
Oh yeah
That wine makes my urns beer
(Oh that wine) - Track Name: Moist
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Moist
is one of those words
that sounds exactly like what it is
Moist
is one of those words
that makes me vaguely ill
I won't say it anymore
No, I won't say it anymore...
OK, one more time:
Moist - Track Name: I'm Just Enjoying The View
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Get on with it
This might be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen
And if it isn't, well it's in my top five things
Lower (come closer to me)
You don't know what you got
'Cause you can't see what I'm seeing
There's no need to be shy, there's no one else here but me
I know you want to get on with it
I know you need to get on with it
I know you want to get on with it
Just let me steal this moment
I'm just enjoying the view - Track Name: It Feels Like You Aren't Even Trying
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So many people I trusted
So many myths have gone
Lost any need for religion
How could I choose just one
It feels like you aren't even trying
It'd be nice if you'd at least pretend
Ticking off items on both hands
Legends with cracking facades
Once you give up on the old ones
Come back, we'll create some new gods
Oh, not YOU!
I didn't mean YOU!
Never, never YOU!
I wasn't talking about YOU! - Track Name: Deserve
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You get what you deserve
You built this fortress
Now you can live in it
Live in it
Own it
...fucker
We get what we deserve
We built this fortress
Now we can live in it
Live in it - Track Name: Inappropriate
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Inappropriate
I know it's
Inappropriate
I shouldn't feel the way I do
About you
'Cause it's not allowed
I must be a really bad person
All these barriers
Are keeping us apart
Legal, social, and expealidocial, yeah
I guess we gotta play our parts
We don't wanna be really bad people
Inappropriate
They'd say it's
Inappropriate
If there was anything 'tween us two
I s'pose they'll never know
Which one of us is a really bad person - Track Name: Color Me Corrected
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I have seen the truth
And it doesn't make sense
I have seen the anchorman
And he's wearing no pants
Who ya gonna believe
Who ya gonna believe in
Watch and learn
Follow along with the bouncing ball
Hanker for a hunk of
Slice, or slab, or chunk of
Something more substantial
Than sunshine filtered black and white
Did what you said
Followed the rules
Never once asked for any proof
Looking a bit silly
Feeling kinda used
I'm not the only one
Who ya gonna believe
Who ya gonna believe in
Watch and learn
Take a first step in a larger world
Did what you said
Followed the rules
Never once asked for any proof
Looking a bit silly
Feeling kinda used
I'm not the only one pissed off at you
Hope that I'm wrong
Honest, I do
I just need something
To look forward to
And on that day, I'll be happy to say
That you can color me corrected - Track Name: Prolly Gonna Move
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Prolly gonna move
Don't really wanna go
But I'm prob'ly gonna
I don't wanna go but it seems I gotta
Prolly gotta move
Ain't never put down no roots in the Emerald City so I
Prolly gotta move
Prolly gonna move - Track Name: That Bridge Won't Come Down
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That bridge won't come down
That bridge won't come down
Long as I stand here
That bridge won't come down
I whispered sweet nothings
To the girl at the gate
She shrugged and said brusquely
"Sir, you'll just have to wait."
That bridge won't come down
That bridge won't come down
Long as I stand here
That bridge won't come down