FULL MOON

When you pop the chain
and wait for someday
when there’ll be nothing in the way
shame you recall
repeated fallThen you mop the clock the up
humbled and sorry
but this is hardly gonna stop
just what was lost and what it costBut then I lighten up
and see the vision
Perfect
Round... like the Moon
I just forget
it’s always full
and all those meals I missed
all the dead ends
all the sadness, all the pain
Enriched the soil
That grows my grain
it enriched the soil
that grows my grain

And love you know
is the Rain

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Words, music, arrangement: Jennifer Terran
Jennifer Terran: Voice, piano, melotrons, string arrangement
Brendan Statom: Double Bass
Dave Brogan: Drums & percussion
Laura Mihalka: Cello

(original copyright 2002 J.Terran)


THE AMERICA SONG

If I was in Paris right now with the croissonts and the cafes
would the people there just frown me down?
saying to go back to my darling
America
 
If I was in Amsterdam right now
with the stroopwafels and the coffee shops
could the people there nurture my sounds?
or would I get homesick for my darling
America
 
America
unrequited love
don’t you give a fuck?
Can you only hear me
when I’m happy?
 
America
my love
I know you’d hear me out
if you only knew where to find me
 
If I was on the moon right now
With the quiet and the distance
I would cry my bitter, sweet heart out
for the beauty and the suffering in everything.

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Written by Jennifer Terran
Jennifer Terran: Voice, piano and melotrons
Brendan Statom: Double Bass
Dave Brogan: Drums
 
(original copyright 1999 J.Terran)
 

T.V. OFF

There's a war in my life
and this war I alone enable
between beauty and fear
and it's all I can do to keep me stable
So I sing my song
Sing myself free
but everybody's dosed
nearly commotosed
with the T.V. on
So I scream my song saying
hear me now please
but I should really know
I'm my worst foe
With my T.V. on
 
My mind called it wrong, I called it right
when i stepped inside the sweet of you my One
and from our hearts came three
and now she kicks all love and hope
against my navel
i'm gonna tell her
Sing your song
Sing yourself free
and love your crooked toes
and your bumpy thighs ... T.V. off
Sing your song sweeter than me
And just so you know
You can stop the show any time baby ... T.V. OFF

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Melody & words written by: Jennifer Terran
Jennifer Terran: Voices
Simon-Baker: Loop

(original copyright 2003 J.Terran)

 
OPENING’S HAD

The exit is entrance
to a politically free... high reality
and laughter, laughter, laughter allows it
But someone turned the shit on you
And you deny what you intuitively truthed
You’re a perpetrator and a victim
but somewhere, somewhere, somewhere Still
You’re just found
 
Sharky shakes under her head
hound hound hound
All these empties shake you shivering mad
hush hush hush
Run so shallow will your orifices bled
ass ass ass
As ending serves as opening’s had
 
Contained, paralyzed
unconscious, trivialized
Stagnant... where once there was knowing
knowing, knowing...
I’ll never get over the near death of my instrument
my soul is contained in it
and it was just Bluebeard, Bluebeard
Teasing me with a bleeding key...
Sharky shakes under her head..

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Written by Jennifer Terran
Jennifer Terran: Voices, piano & keyboards
Brendan Statom: Double Bass
Todd Sickafoose: Synth bass
 
(original copyright 1992 J.Terran.. one of my earliest songs and all time favorites)

 
POMEGRANITE WEED

Pomegranite weed
wish I never let you free
The bitch
of me
is yours
Red and leather screams that tore
You’ve an image of me in your mind
But what you’ve assembled
is a lie.
 
(Spell on him)))... fon feee la me cu me sada
oooh miii kheeena
ra ta me fa cu la
me wannn
teeee wheeech ofen owettta
weeech offen oh wettta we ofen o wet
weee

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Written by: Jennifer Terran
Jennifer Terran: Voices, piano, loop, melotrons, string arrangement
Todd Sickafoose: Electric bass
Dave Brogan: Drums

(original copyright 1993 & 2000 J.Terran)
 
 
TIDE

Ultimately
we are alone
clinging fast to killisha’s soul
It was on that path
I made her
I bathed her
sung
 
She’d grind the meal
get the bitter out
and at the stream
let her feelings out.
 
It was on that path
I made her
I bathed her
Sung
 
And ooohhh she was the tide
and ooohhh she was the tide
 
I awoke in the middle of the night
with the moon burning through my window
My hands to my throat to my thighs
With you
In wonder.
Then flew myself down this high mountain top
To the edge of the water
The Moon is dividing now
Diamonds
On the this motion filled body
Three steps takes my ankles down
And I suspect I’ll go farther
Till I’m floating in a rich wet darkness
And I’m drifting out, out.. way out
But I’m letting myself drift
Knowing I’m losing ground
Knowing the beasts of the sea
Will have their way with me.

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Written by: Jennifer Terran
Jennifer Terran: Voices, piano, melotrons, string arrangement
Laura Hextine: Violin
Todd Sickafoose: Synth UFOs

(original copyright 1998 J.Terran)

 
OHH EEE

ohh eee ohh eee
ohh eee ohh eee
waves and waves
of galaxies
waves and waves
of inspiration
I know you’re out there
I know you could hear me

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Written by Jennifer Terran
Jennifer Terran: Voice, piano and keyboards
Brendan Statom: Double Bass
David Brogan: Percussion

Engineer: Simonbaker & Terran
 
(original copyright 1998 J.Terran)
 
 
MULTI ORGASMIC 3

A line is a curve
And a curve is as time
what you perceive
you believe
as the truth
as the need
Do you notice how we keep bumping into each other?
Over again, over again, over again
The World is Round
Round
Round
Round
 
I never thought that I could
watch him love another girl
Or be brave enough
to shake shame off
and taste the pearl.
Or be peaked to speak
about my sexuality
Must be another little something
about full moon in 3
Cause ooooh he’s fantastic
and she & me
multiorgasmic
Feel the Sun pull the Moon
And the Moon want the Sun
But if they ever did touch
It’d be the end of the song
Or would it be?
 
I want you in said the sun
want you in want you mine
And the moon said said to the Sun
Oh love
I want you blind
Feel the sun and moon pulling me
On opposite sides
The Tide is
Up
Up and down
The tide is Up and down.

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Melody & words written by Jennifer Terran
Beat by David Simonbaker
Jennifer Terran: Voices, violin, guitar, inspired nonesense
Todd Sickafoose: Synths & bass
Simon-Baker: Drum programming
Dave Brogan: Drums & percussion
 
(original copyright 2002 J.Terran)

 
CIRCLE OF LIFE

Do you see me?
... even though I don’t look like you
Do you have feelings?
... like happy and blue
What’s your version for eyes?
What’s your version for mouth?
What’s it like when you cry?
What’s it like to be pulled by your roots?
 
You look good on the counter
dressed in fine oil and herb
it’s my way of saying that I love you
please don’t be disturbed
we must gather ourselves together
in this cruel circle of life
and I must do what I do and eat you
with my....
 
Three days ago when I started this song
the third verse hadn’t come through
but tonight the words were presented to me
and now I am unglued
for the little fly that crawled on my key
on this very A that I wanted to play
but he smeared so easily
when I carelessly brushed him aside
 
We must gather ourselves together
in this cruel circle of life
call some things right
call some things wrong
so our conscious can survive.

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Written by Jennifer Terran
Jennifer Terran: Voices, loop & piano
Todd Sickafoose: Double bass
David Simon-Baker & Brendan Statom: Loop
 
(original copyright 1998 J.Terran)

 
A BIG BROWN TROUT LIVES THERE

A big brown trout lives there
But when I try to catch him he gets scared
Hiding under rocks and the streams green hair
A big brown trout lives there
 
A big Brown trout lives there
So I’ll tie a special fly with much much care
A grasshopper with bulging eyes that stare
So as to please my trout in there
 
And all day long I can play this game
you know somehow it keeps me sane
To see the elements in perfect tune
to see all the creatures trying like I do
And in my dreams I’ve breathed under water
I’ve bathed in silt and forever pondered our condition
Our condition
And in my dreams...

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Written by: Jennifer Terran
Jennifer Terran: Voices, piano, melotrons, string arrangement
Todd Sickafoose: Double bass
Dave Brogan: Drums
Claudelise La Franque: Violin
Laura Hextine: Cello
 
(original copyright 2001 J.Terran)

 
 
THREE LEGGED DOG

Three legged dog you move me
three legged dog you’re running
with all you’ve got
you don’t know no shame
You had 4 legs at one time
Then a car hit you
and you lost one
then your dumb, mean master turned you away
he was ashamed
Of your 3...
 
Your crooked nose is lovely
Beauty doesn’t always come in symmetry
Still you see yourself as ugly
You’ve been watching too much television
Out of touch with what’s deeper
Is your nose what needs revision here?
Don’t be ashamed of your three legs.
 
3 legged dog you move me
3 legged dog you’re running
with all you’ve got
you don’t know no shame
shame
shame
don’t be...
 
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Written by Jennifer Terran
Jennifer Terran: Voices & piano
Todd Sickafoose: Bass
Dave Brogan: Drums
 
(original copyright 2001 J.Terran)

 
LITTLE ROCK

When I got to little rock
on that deep, blue-skied fall day
my huried thoughts had me in knotts
I had come to get away
it took a while
to make me

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Written by Jennifer Terran
Jennifer Terran: Voices, piano and keyboards
Brendan Statom: Double bass

(original copyright 2000 J.Terran)