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Yard Deer

by Jasper Lewis

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1.
Birdwalking 03:25
you haven't heard about birdwalking but it isn't very hard to do just let go of all your thinking let your feet guide you and once you get the hang of birdwalking you may as well be a millionaire when your heads in the clouds you're breathing rarified air you're birdwalking put your left foot down in front of the right birdwalking roll and you glide all day long and into the night the professor in the upstairs apartment he bird walks through most of his life just tugging on the threads of the universe and smoking on his pipe some bird walk into the future others walk into the past some birdwalk slow and others birdwalk fast they're birdwalking put a left foot down in front of the right birdwalking roll and they glide all day long and into the night I think I know what you mean about birdwalking cause when something is bothering me I like to walk out past the door of my apartment and get lost in the city streets till I've approached it from every angle addressed it from every side birdwalking through the darkness maybe I'm looking for some light but I'm birdwalking I put my left foot down, then the right I'm birdwalking I roll and I glide all day long and into the night
2.
Let's go for a drive put the top down and we'll set this in motion we can go wherever you like turn the radio up, I got my arm out the window I'm waving at the girls walking by hey, are you still broken up about how bad you've been treated? let's bruise this blacktop for a while we'll put a few pressing things in the rearview, I need this I need this town to pass me by put your foot down, we can really fly commotion, confusion they're just an illusion on the highway Let's go for a drive I'll chip a few dollars in for gas and whatever those little points they place on a line the AM preacherman says there's no tollbooths in heaven forget about your job for a while that jerkoff boss and the path to promotion behind that wheel you're a star, yes you are and I'm hooking my apple wagon up and we're rolling I need this town to pass me by put your foot down, we can really fly commotion, confusion they're just an illusion on the highway Let's go for a drive but keep it down the middle, I don't need a hassle and I don't ever want to go back to that mess that I left, the monsters I've created.. at least not tonight
3.
Slow Down 02:29
She's got a checkered past so she lives in the future she's all charged up and she's ready to go electricity flash as she applies the sutures to a busted seam in the radio We came from a place where love is sacred We came from a place where it's bought and sold We made it last by creating a system with a one time payment of a heart of gold You got to slow down she says you got to slow down you keep on screaming round the corners of your life and one day honey you're bound to spin out like a freight train crashing into buckingham palace is the way she describes the new fashion line that she wears or she tears making alterations so it fits with her personal sense of the times I gave her the gloves but she only wears one holds the spare in it's pair like it's some kind of mace she threatens some but she's the favorite of others when she looks my way boy my heart starts to race You got to slow down she says you got to slow down you keep on screaming round the corners of your life and one day honey you're bound to burn out she has a checkered past and a week of tomorrows rose colored glasses and a cup of joe she picks a mean ukulele when it comes to the solo the fire marshall has to come and shut down the show he says..
4.
I'm gonna move to a cabin in the woods a cabin in the woods? a cabin in the woods a cabin in the woods where I can be alone I'm gonna move to a cabin in the woods a cabin in the woods? a cabin in the woods a cabin in the woods and I'm bringing my guitar I'm gonna move to a cabin in the woods a cabin in the woods without electric lights electric lights keep me up all night a cabin in the woods is where I belong life in the city just feels wrong the woods is gonna heal me and make me strong I'm gonna move to a cabin in the woods a cabin in the woods where there's all kinds of birds more kinds of birds than you ever heard I'm gonna move to a cabin in the woods a cabin in the woods with a lucky charm me and my charm hangin off my arm a cabin in the woods is where I belong life in the city just feels wrong but the woods are gonna hear me when I sing my song the woods are gonna heal me and make me strong
5.
The bridges she burned yesterday are still smoking in the harbor by the shore it's nothing that she hasn't seen before a thousand times She never was too comfortable saying things were right when they were wrong pretending that we all could get along if we only tried but don't lose your head hang on to your mind cause there's darkness waiting on the other side you got to hang on, hang on to your mind i come bearing an offering i will replenish your coffers with spare change so keep your rifle pointed down the range and hold your fire the crackle of a lighter's kiss and wind that rustles through the eggshell drapes downstairs passes by the grand parade in their fine attire but don't lose your head hang on to your mind cause there's darkness waiting on the other side hang on, hang on to your mind she's outside on the fire escape watching scraps of ticker tape float by and waiting for her nails to dry.
6.
I need the fountain of youth in my glass A love potion that erases my past a couple lengths of barbed wire and a log for the fire because this city won't let me relax I pitched a penny in the fountain in the park i made a wish i made a deal i crossed my heart now i can bark at the moon i can sing like a loon and i can rattle like a train in the yard give me just enough bricks and mortar to build a wishing well Got tired of slouching in the corner ignored started dancing like i'm shook to the core tried to line up my shots and be something that i'm not until my face was rushing up at the floor glass shattered i was floating in space nothing mattered i reached out for your face but the driver is lost he's damn near tripled in cost and i can't tell him how to get to my place give me just enough bricks and mortar to build a wishing well
7.
Gloomy Monday gonna rain all day wish that I could lay in bed and dream the clouds away but work starts early, I"m already late I think my daydreams are gonna have to wait Gloomy Monday rain came pouring down everybody's walking with their eyes stuck to the ground I say hey to the super while he mops the lobby floor, turn my collar up and walk out the door monday got me in my mind lightly battered, deeply fried with hard boiled eyes home in the evening sitting on the couch rain is tapping on the window, that's my favorite sound come and sit beside me, put your arms in mine suddenly, I wish it could be monday all the time monday got me in my mind lightly battered, deeply fried with hard boiled eyes
8.
I'm changing habits that I learned in the past I got a new drink and I'm tapping the cask I even keep a little extra here in my flask so I can sip on it now and then My heart is moving and it's picking up speed I got to go with it wherever it leads even if it cuts me and it makes me bleed I won't feel any pain As long as I'm falling in love again As long as I'm falling in love again Your friends look at me funny when I come around I hum a new tune, they don't like how it sounds talk behind my back til I'm the talk of the town but I think they'll be alright Maybe we could cut out for an evening jaunt burn some rosemary in our old favorite haunts maybe we could go and do whatever we want It's just that kind of night A night for falling in love again a night for falling in love again There's a string inside of my body that runs from the crown of my head to my toes when you're around it starts buzzing like as if we're tuned up to the same note and all of the space up above us is taken by towering stacks of our overtones you're filling my world up with music and all I can think is to let you know that I'm so glad to have you to fall with I'm so glad to have you to fall with and I'm falling in love again
9.
Behind a broke down palace there's a jester stealing coins from the glove box of a rusted out old chevy he tries to spin a nickel but he flips it every time he's trying to hold on to the river he just can't let it be maybe a fate can be written with a roll of the dice but when the garden talks, don't listen it hands out bad advice I can't stay long I'm sleeping in the brig tonight I got busted trying to steal the keys to paradise I knew a guy who worked his whole life and never managed to escape the steel and glass middle finger flipping off the clear blue sky he always said, "a wise man doesn't play games unless he knows they're gonna tilt his way." and then he waited for his moment to hit until the day he died maybe the years can pass as quickly as a roll of the dice tumbling down a green felt canyon and shining in the light I can't stay long I'm sleeping in the brig tonight I got busted trying to steal the keys to paradise but papa needs a new pair of shoes papa needs a new lease on life and the house can always tell whose here to sell and whose ready to buy behind the broke down palace where the jack is always lost in the cut you know, it's natural for a wave in the water to come and go and the jester takes another hit cause some hands you just hate to fold but whose gonna tell the joker who the joke is on if the joker doesn't know? Maybe your fate could be rewritten with a roll of the dice but you can't get back what you lost by losing it twice I can't stay long I'm sleeping in the brig tonight I got busted trying to steal the keys to paradise
10.
In this corner of the universe there is space between the stars it's a neverending precipice a good place for collecting scars We're got acrobat millenials we're out here killing ourselves for fun we've got aggregated fairytales that fall like patterns on a drum you can escape all this madness shut your eyes fly around in the jet stream but there will still be things here which remain to be seen You can order in this restaurant but the dishes won't be served cause the head chef rules with an iron fist and the tables have yet to be turned he's got this pressure cooker mentality he's got a finely sharpened blade he says he got it in atlantic city where that type of thing gets made you can escape all this madness just shut your eyes go where the hills are lush and green but there will still be things here that remain to be seen I'm frightened by your tendency to look the other way like there's nothing you could do like there's nothing you could say the latest fad in medicine is full removal of the spine you end up invertabrete but somehow they keep you in line I am easy to dismiss as just a tryhard or a nerd and I could scream until I lost my voice, that doesn't mean I would be heard a grain of truth is as commonplace as any grain of sand but there's no supply of bullshit that could meet the world's demand you could escape all this madness just shut your eyes live where your waking life meets your dreams but there will still be things here which remain to be seen
11.
Longshot 03:45
I was thumbing through my emails the other day thinking how lucky I am to live in the USA when suddenly, I found myself in the strangest place when I looked in the mirror, I didn't know that face and a long shot is all I thought I could be when I was young and I believed in a dream before the years piled up here like rings on a tree now I want to know what's become of me? take the tall one and the short one, set them up side by side because I paid for my ticket, boys, I want to take the ride I thought I could find my own way through the dark by feel I thought the weight on my chest would give me an even keel but a long shot is all I turned out to be like when I was young and I believed in a dream before the years added up like rings on a tree now I want to know what's become of me? while the cat stalks the mouse camped out in the toaster and the cars roll by outside, and the world turns itself over one more time.. sing it one more time.. please mister singer man, sing it one more time.. I was breathing into a paper bag the other day thinking how lucky I am to live in the USA I never saw myself in those comfortable shoes dressed like a man with something to lose no, a long shot is all I thought I would be when I was young and I believed in my dreams but the years stacked up like rings on a tree now I want to know what's become of me?
12.
the princess who lives upstairs has lost her mind sending all her handmaids into overdrive visiting castles in kingdoms far and wide leaving their resumes and calling cards behind I feel just like a stone that's skipping all along the water's edge singing, I don't ever want this thing that we have to end you're part of a plan that's written down on someone else's page you've been trading years in and getting nothing back but pain if you feel like you're running, running out of sand I could be your lullaby, or I could be your marching band I feel just like a stone that's skipping all along the water's edge singing, I don't ever want this thing that we have to end it's always been me and you since forever you lift me up when i need it we stick together from the old dam to the lonely city, we've played them all every heartbreaker, every siren song I feel just like a stone that's skipping all along the water's edge singing, I don't ever want this thing that we have to end
13.
Stranger 02:50
I have a small part to play in this whole charade just a moment in the sun before I go back to the shade so when they call my name when they pull me out on stage I will face the music I won't look afraid Well the harp marks the time and reads between the lines just counting up the moments that I have to act alive I was raised in a cave where the brass is tucked away and the door must not be opened lest that wrathful chord be played so help me, cause I don't know how my soul will ever touch the clouds I'm a stranger and I'm new to town and when I leave I don't expect to take a bow Count for me, 1, 2, 3, show me where I need to be count for me I'm getting old, I'll be blind soon, I can barely see count for me let me see your face count for me let me stand in your place count for me let me go on my way cause the riots they started early today and help me, cause I don't know how my soul will ever touch the clouds I'm a stranger and I'm new to town and when I leave I don't expect to take a bow
14.
1000 Songs 04:22
Now that it's over now that it's behind us now that there's no more no more between us do you find yourself like I find myself thinking on the past do you find yourself having to remind yourself that it just couldn't last. how did we go so wrong loving each other that now we act like we never did if I shut my eyes and go with the tide will I sink or will I swim how did we lose the light that we were making were we fooling ourselves or were we mistaken i'll sing 1000 songs but I'll never have the one that could change me like you did keep me safe in your heart tonight i have a long long way to go say that you're satisfied that's all I want to know

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Yard Deer is a collection of songs. Some of these songs have been floating around for years, and it feels good to have them all in one place. Give it a listen and leave some feedback! All proceeds will fund the next one.

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released October 20, 2020

Words & music by Jasper Lewis
Drums on tracks 2 & 9 by Sean Ryan
Drums on tracks 2 & 9 and vocals and acoustic guitar on track 2 were recorded by Wayne Silver at The Ice Plant in Queens, NY
Everything else was recorded in Leonia, NJ, in 2020 between May and October

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Jasper Lewis lives in New Jersey and makes music in his garage.

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