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Mexico City Heart

by The Sweet Life

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1.
change is magic and the summers in the air life sometimes tragic, sometimes beautiful, can be a stepping stone to metamorphosis into new being after transition. recall all journeys with the light of smiles. listen to the rhythm of your heart all the miles it's sometimes beautiful. your lips fantastic and the sun burst thru the skies. kiss the glass and the whole world sighs the globes of plastic revolve and i sympathize. this too shall catch the light in your eyes. i saw daylight again today and jumped a mile. it's never happened this way recording this song filled with bizzle. aum above the magic in the air is the love. the magic's in the air, in the air, in the air. i have seen things today before their yesterdays. i can hear you into your futures. the song of lighted fires, ignited infrared, into subsonic frequency's sometimes ritual. aum above the magic in the air is the love. the magic's in the air, in the air, in the air. aum above, change is magic in the air.
2.
Katy I... 02:06
kati i... long to want you but i don't know just how angels wing this long lost letter and explode a sigh and i want you yeah i want to do you wanna, do you wanna dance? kati... i thus endeth the lesson but let us not forget chance and that we all have a season to believe in the dance and i want you yeah i want to and i want you now do you wanna, do you wanna dance?
3.
han in the afternoon she come around she give you aptitude and screw you down then she as sweet as pie then she no wanna lie then you don't wanna die please tell me why she gonna stay until she take all you do she got nothin' from you just yet she got somethin' from you young hot matt diamond shine like pretty foil she grease you up real good with horno oil this dog howl at this tune dance in the midnite moon to a bo dibly tune as i recoil she got a rabid smile and a heart black as a crocodile in a cadillac got a phony diamond stud crammed into her nose whistle a snappy tune when she gotta blow she gonna eat your heart and swallow it down chase it with your sorrow when the drugs come around she gonna lose her soul in a sad frowny frown chase it with rock and roll when the drugs come to town shitty loves her drugs bye baby bye bye ba da da da da da die da da da da da die
4.
Nomad 05:45
come and hold me ship's goin' down the race that we tried to save are dying all around darling it's been so long forever radiate nomad so sad so sad suspend in time and space nomad no gravity in this solar realm the parent star that we face emotionless and still like our life suspended in time and space forever radiate nomad so sad so sad suspend in time and space nomad suspended forever the curse of a lifetime forever radiate nomad so sad so sad suspend in time and space nomad
5.
She's Happy 02:09
penelope sleeps all day she can't get out of bed her mother thinks that she's crazy and she wishes she were dead got laid off at factory she's home the whole day through collect a check from the government and puts it in the stew she's happy, she's healthy she hasn't a care she wonders, she worries she washes her hair she listens to the radio and sips a cup of tea stare down at the telly while she reads her magazines a day, a month, a year god look at the time put your hands on to your heart make sure you're still alive
6.
this is the last song this is the last song suffer as a habit mostly only craving peace there's other souls to keep shaking me down to me essence, waking me up to your (my) sentence this is the last song this is the last song i will ever feign to know our love burned burned out so hard burned out wicked, hollow blistered, charred as i listen to the sounds of the unicorn that will expire i will eat fire this is the last song this iast the last song i will ever feign to know this is the last song this is the last song
7.
he orchard where rats scurried, and buried pungy sticks, the milky white farmers, rock salt and finger drips, returns to dust on the bones of the valley that will explode with silicon chips. and then was a sound, carried on the airwaves, electric am bound. from the land of our language, a fiery stone to cauterize the bloody wounds in our ears, hearts and our eyes. and how big is the universe? ( it's giganic) i guess it's big enough. ( it's giganic) god big as love. god big as love. and how much is the universe? (it's giganic) sometimes it's just too much. (it's giganic) god big as love. god big as love. one berry by crow, across horizon fly. a panoramic point of view that grew into a landslide. the energy infused and rebound, echoed deep. the milky white farmer's wife, gnawed cancers bones forever sleep. and how big is the universe? (it's giganic) i guess it's big enough. (it's giganic) god big as love. god big as love. and how much is the universe? (it's giganic) sometimes it's just too much. (it's giganic) god big as love. god big as love. and how much is the universe? (it's giganic) sometimes it's all too much. (it's giganic) god big as love. god big as love. the orchard where rats scurried, impaled on pungy sticks, the milky white farmer, rock salt and finger drips, return to dust on the bones of the valley that will explode with silicon chips. a fiery stone to immortalize.
8.
i am a scientist - i seek to understand all of my impurities and evils yet unknown i am a journalist - i write to you to show you i am an incurable and nothing else behaves like me and i know what's right but i'm losing sight of the clues for which i search and choose to abuse to just unlock my mind yeah and just unlock my mind i am a pharmacist prescriptions i will fill you potions, pills and medicines to ease your painful lives i am a lost soul i shoot myself with rock and roll the hole i dig is bottomless but nothing else can set me free i am a scientist - i seek to understand me i am an incurable and nothing else behaves like me everything is right - everything works out right everything fades from sight because that's alright with me
9.
said the first king of the nation from the last kingly starlite station to the third queen of the sun i believe i'm sinkin' on that last train to cracksville get that monkey off my track we get plastered until daybreak and i believe he won't get back ahh dilbert's crown of thorns could be dressed in rows of jolly colored bows and still feel bad in that confrontation with god he surmised all the love and wisdom that shown in those eyes but his platform shoes were full up with sorrow and he believed there was no tomorrow so he stuck out his thumb, hitched off his wife traded his babies and painted his bike the colors of gloom he knew all too well and i believe that he took his life ahh dilbert's crown of thorns feels bad you're bad as the candy colored clown pulled on his bulb he danced the watusi till the girls were full with a sly grin and tip of the hat i believe and a rat a tat tat said the first king of the nation from the last kingly starlite station to the third queen of the sun i believe i'm sinkin' ahh dilbert's crown of thorns could be dressed in rows of candy colored bows and still feel bad ahh ha ha ha ha...
10.
signed my name across your hip a tatoo'd rose right next to it the moonlite fell unto your face as you laugh and radiate because the nite will bury you before the day to wash away the crooked smile that you had i bit your lip because you're sad someone's whisper, indelicate asides across this boys loss cupid came unto my heart loose his bow i fall apart took a ride into your car tatoo'd you a big star up to the lake where moonlite fell unto your face to radiate because the nite will bury you before the day to wash away the crooked smile that you had i bit your lip because you're sad
11.
all things we understand including love may not turn out as planned please understand life is a crap shoot so roll those bones and celebration and the mighty mickey dolenz i am feeling rather centered considering the circumstance these wasted years can bring and i'm counting on me to pull me thru all things we understand including luck may not turn out as planned but what the fuck
12.
time isn't absolute in space. distance is the speed of light in positively curved space. arcturus through our eyes may have withered and died, or may have spawned a distant age. man is an asterisk of time falling like twilight fore night into explosive arrays of the sublime. a finite medium between past and what will come, man is an asterisk of time. love is intangible to say anything less would be a lie. content in my bed at night i'll lay knowing god is infinite, his universe is alright, and that time isn't absolute in, time isn't absolute in space. in space. in space. in space.

about

The Sweet Life Music Collective presents Mexico City Heart

there was no use of reverbs, echos, or other manufactured fx in the making of this album. all fx heard were done by mic placement, distortion to tape, backward tape flipping and other analogue concepts.

this album was recorded on a 16 track, analogue, tascam deck and mixed personal and by hand. no digital technology was used in the tracking and mixing of this album.

digital tends to fail earlier while anologue technology tends to fail later. but when analogue finally fails, it is usually finite. like people and bones it will finally turn to dust, and disperse into the cosmos to start again.

credits

released February 17, 2015

executive producers:
steve scarpelli (drums/percussion)
marc spooner (keyboards)
timothy alexander folkerth (drums/bass/guitar)
jim callahan (drums/vocal)
dennis galway (drums/guitar/vocals)
john thompson (guitar/cello)
megan spooner (vocals)
david beach (design/stuff)
mark stover (saxaphone/gong/design)
hanna thrasher (cover photo)

All Songs Produced, Engineered, and Performed by Tim Alexander

With Steve Scarpelli, Marc Spooner, Timothy Alexander Folkerth, Jim Callahan, Dennis Galway, John Thompson, and Mark Stover

All songs written by Tim Alexander (Timothy Harrison Alexander - BMI), except "She's Happy" by Dale Strachan (Dale Strachan) and "I Am A Scientist" by Robert Pollard (Needmore Songs - BMI)

Mastered by Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound, NYC
Vinyl Manufactured by United Record Pressing, Nashville, TN

also thanks to these people without whom i would have never made it: leta and mark klaver || tamantha and dave williams || sequoia and aurora williams || david beach and family || tony fitzgerald || lisa lecoump || donna brodman || dr. james pellegrin || dr. cecil bradley (hank) || dr. anders dahlstrom || dr. christina callahan || dr. ted and adeline engdahl

the trilogy is dedicated to those who had to split: earle alexander || dale strachan || helen alexander || gina alexander || tanner || tomcat || johnny pop || john lennon || kurt cobain || elliott smith || dr. hunter s. thompson || george harrison || alexis ingle || jennifer alexander

quagmire thanks: leta, tammy, thom, mark, j., coluzzi, maryna, stove, gwen, hooch, jane, audrey, isaac, family, and all the friendly friends. hugs.

© ℗ 2013-2015 Quagmire Records, 2697 Branciforte Dr. Santa Cruz, CA 95065 USA . All Rights Reserved. quagmirerecords.com

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The Sweet Life is Tim Alexander (aka, Bab, Baby, Nostrababus, The Teen Ancient) and friends. Bab was a masterful songwriter, guitarist, and musical hermit recording everything in his tiny house on a tiny lane with outdated analog equipment. His other bands include A Western Front, The Slowest Train in the World, Elijah Craig, and Baby. Buy or Fry! ... more

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