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To Skyward

by the hons

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1.
If Ever 02:29
If Ever If ever a dream … came true Defied science and sleep, ... it was you If ever a wish fell from a star It flourishes wherever you are If ever a pair of eyes lit the skies If ever a kindred heart tumbled in my arms If ever a bird sang in my ear He left out all the words until you appeared If ever the shade leapt from a leaf It stole the idea when you smiled at me If ever a breath of air was shimmering in your hair If ever the valley moaned sweet and low If ever the time crashed and was still Maybe you happened by disarming until ©2003 Richard Bates (Miss New Orleans Music, ASCAP)
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Hating the Songs I hate the songs, I hate the songs That say it won’t be long, it won’t be long Cause each and every day I pray Today is going to be the day I awake to see you’re here with me I hate the songs, I hate the songs That say keep holding on, keep holding on Cause maybe if it’s meant to be You got to just wait and see It takes time to build it right Woe My heart’s not mine, it’s yours … Not to give away but to keep or break I hate the songs, I hate the songs That say don’t give your heart, don’t give your heart Cause I could sooner hide away The sunlight at the break of day Than tell my blood when to bubble up Woe © 2004 Richard Bates (Miss New Orleans Music, ASCAP)
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If Wishing Made It So I asked the stars to ask the moon to go and find you to tell you I love you I asked my mother to help me too to say her prayers for you to love me more But the moon had her own drama with lust She spent those two weeks cuddling up with the sun If I spent my days working for a dream even one with higher rate of successes Made crazy stupid money for crazy stupid things Is that any part of keeping your heart? If I spent those same days brushing up on poetics That’s thirteen times 365 inflections… of I dearly love you It’s not just preparation It’s not just guessing what you need It’s not just communication It’s not just almighty timing It’s always at least a unique and freaking confusing ordinary combination of a ton of those three or fifty four If wishing made it so I’d be just as talented and just as well known If wishing made it so I’d be just as handsome and just as flat broke But if wishing made it so You wouldn’t sleep at night You would not sleep ‘til you were by my side © 2004 Richard Bates (Miss New Orleans Music, ASCAP)
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There Was A Time Six senses detect tremors in the force Rumbling through the night And then a splash of light Even men who date men say “Woe” Hey Nicole I hope you think your name sounds nice in my song Hey Nicole There was a time, there was a time you said "true love babe" and I Could not see but only stars careening out my singing heart There was a time, there was a time you said "one kiss please" and I Wondered if this could be love and why so much © 2003 Richard Bates (Miss New Orleans Music, ASCAP)
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Touching Leaves I wanna’ dance with you on Broadway I wanna’ dance with you on Mars I wanna’ swing you through next Sunday Wrecking all the walls Until you were kissing me back Kissing was never any good You make me feel like I’ll never die But I would, I would I would to be reborn with you as trees ... with touching leaves Every twinkling of an eye, every song insists There’re not enough walls in the Western World to push you up against ---------------------------------------------- Ah ah… wrecking walls.. anh ah ---------------------------------------------------- When you come for me I am waiting When you call for me I come Most everything happens for no good reason But there are reasons we stayed in touch ‘cause ‘til you were kissing me back Kissing was never any good You make me feel like I’ll never die But I would, I would I would to be reborn with you as trees ... with touching leaves Just a thought of you in my arms has always been Better than shooting stars ... with anyone anywhere else © 2005 Richard Bates (Miss New Orleans Music, ASCAP)
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The Way It Should Be Here’s to the way it should be Peace, love, and understanding And giving up unrequited love To making friends, here’s to happy ends Here’s to the way it should be Love for you and loving for me And not fading away the American way Of getting loud, here’s to burning out When you look at me across a kiss Your face a stream of sentiment The tide turns back the apocalypse The way it should be is the way it is Here’s to the way it should be Tea for two under shady trees And to falling on your face on the dance floor in the fray To glass and beer, here’s to hearty cheer When you look at me across a kiss Your face a stream of sentiment The tide turns back the apocalypse The way it should be is the way it is ©2001 Richard Bates (Miss New Orleans Music, ASCAP)
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A Ballad Of Hey Girl (free) 03:19
A Ballad of Hey Girl Hey girl whatcha gonna do tonight? I’ve got my mama’s car keys and you’ve got a ticket to ride I’m licensed to ill with a drive to thrill Rockabilly roots and a quart of Jack Daniels I heard your boyfriend ran away But don’t cry he’s gone when I’m standing here to stay With nothing to give but a little more skin The wettest kiss and the will to live I want you You feel blue I’ve been waiting so long to get my hands on you I wanted to say you don’t understand I don’t want to be your boyfriend I want to be your man Cause I’m tired of meddling in broken hearts Wasting my love on electric guitars So hey girl whatcha gonna do tonight? I’ve got a box of condoms, and your wicked smile’s on my mind I hope you’re down with whiskey and rye Late night T.V. and button flies I want you You feel blue I’ve been waiting so long to get my hands on you Hey girl whatcha gonna do tonight? I’ve got you in mind Come with me Be mine Be mine … © 1994 Richard Bates (Miss New Orleans Music, ASCAP)
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Saving Grace (free) 03:35
So you’re gonna go out and try a little something different You got that get up and go make it happen, hey, that's the spirit Cause that same same old same old got you down, but its wearing thin You wanna try another town, maybe try some other skin But don't look back because There's nothing to say I loved you once And always... Sometimes out on that freeway you might feel a little small At some point in between the galaxies of stars And you're worried some about me and how I'm gonna' do Well I hate to admit it to you, but I'm a little worried too But we can count on A brighter place Here in nostalgia There's saving grace... And I'll be coming to give you loving if ever you want me to So lose yourself to no one else. My heart is true, my heart is true ©2001 Richard Bates (Miss New Orleans Music, ASCAP)
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The Leafy Song (free) 03:45
The Leafy Song Once I was a leaf I was a happy leaf I was bright and green Hanging with the squirrellies, flirting with the birdies, And waving at the kids on the street I was a happy leaf, bright and green … Then something happened, started taking for granted The daily grind of happy things I curse the day I ever craved a fine adventure And shook myself loose of that tree ‘Cause now, a not so happy leaf, not so bright and green Turning with each breeze, a not so happy leaf Learning about tumbling down, learning about hitting the ground … There’ve been wild nights on fleeting gusts of raging joy And there’s been flying high like when a girl true loves a boy But mostly it’s dirt and concrete … And you’re the North wind blowing home, sing my darling surf the storm There’s no better way to go Than with the North wind blowing home … ©2002 Richard Bates (Miss New Orleans Music, ASCAP)
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Skydiving With Rapunzel Throw up the hair I’m floating through ‘Cause you said jump and now I’m on the moon If you say jump I fly, I burn the sun with you in mind And if you say love I’m how high, I’m off the graph of space and time Let out your hair I’m battered down ‘Cause you said land and now I’m underground ‘Cause if you say stop I coast, if you say still then I implode but if you say lover I’m yours, I burn to cinders at your toes To spite a fear of heights Tempt the fall with will to rise It’s only bones keep breaking when you play that Say that just one word I feel everything Babylove keep making me upside out Throw up the hair I’m floating through … ©1995 Richard Bates (Miss New Orleans Music, ASCAP)
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To Skyward 04:10
To Skyward Tonight of baby why not chase me through the sky It’s not so high for love like mine With eyes upon the stars One wish and there we are It’s only pride that’s down by flight So ...baby ... fly For heaven’s a smile made out in body and mind All love for all time, cool with wonder why Lips flutter now they sing The spreading of the wings Takes more than height To reach the sky So ...baby ... smile For now is the time for you and me on high A place in the light on high ... on high ... © 1996 Richard Bates (Miss New Orleans Music, ASCAP)

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The album serves as the hons' tribute to classic rock: guitars, B3, and drums actually derived of seven microphones, a kit, and a largely un-quantized drummer... exhaustive explanation posted at:

littlerrichard.wordpress.com

Random inquiries/suggestions to: littlerrichard@yahoo.com

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credits

released October 1, 2010

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David Madaffari - Drums
Peter Lambousy - Bass
Richard Bates – Guitar, Singing, & Songwriting

Additionally featuring:

CRANSTON CLEMENTS on shiny lead guitars
& DAVID TORKANOWSKY on B53



Recorded by Nathan & Andrew McMaster at home & by Misha Kachkachishvili at Axistudio in Metairie, LA

Mixed and mastered by Robert Tarango & Yury Anisonyan at Optimum Sound in Los Angeles, CA

Front and back cover images by Sasha, Tahira, & Jaime Kahn

Over the Skirt image and graphic design by Kelly King

Skyward through the Flowers by Wendy Andringa

© 2010 Miss New Orleans Music (ASCAP)

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"To Skyward is the album Weezer wishes they could make..." --OFFBEAT MAGAZINE

A Democrat, an Independent, and a Republican go to a bar. An Alabama fan from NYU & 2 guys from LSU play cadences of love. 3 dads discuss rehearsing-- next week. Late nights and early mornings! Who dat say they gonna beat dem Eagles?! 3 'merican kids doing the best they can--in bed. ... more

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