Spitball Army

When the night shows
The signals grow on radios
All the strange things
They come and go as early warnings
Stranded starfish have no place to hide
Still waiting for the swollen Easter tide
There’s no point in direction
We cannot even choose a side.

I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft
We have constructed pyramids in honor of our escaping.

Approximate playing time: 78 minutes.

1. Peter Gabriel  “Here Comes the Flood”  (1977)
2. The Soundtrack of Our Lives  “Psychomantum X2000”  (1998)
3. The Sleepy Jackson  “God Lead Your Soul”  (2006)
4. Kevin Tihista’s Red Terror  “Ride”  (2004)
5. Cousteau  “Your Day Will Come”  (2001)
6. The Folk Implosion  “Gravity Decides”  (1999)
7. Pernice Brothers  “Snow”  (2005)
8. The Visible Man  “Fuzzy Freaky” (Mark Walk and Ruby mix)  (1997)
9. The Herbaliser  “Scratchy Noise”  (1996)
10. Squirrel Nut Zippers  “Blue Angel”  (1996)
11. Wes McDonald  “Pirate Fish”  (2005)
12. Bobby Womack  “California Dreamin'”  (1997)
13. The Stories  “Brother Louie”  (1973)
14. The Doors  “The Wasp (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)”  (1971)
15. Elvis Costello  “Kinder Murder”  (1994)
16. Joni Mitchell  “Love or Money”  (1974)
17. Mason Jennings  “East of Eden”  (2002)
18. Ken Stringfellow  “Here’s to the Future”  (2001)

The wars of pride and property
The rebel Irish and the promised land Jew
Fighting behind his eyes and over seas
Wounded in action and no ceasefire in view
Brave reporters bring the battles home
But tonight inside that box
It’s just more bang bang ketchup color to him
Just more Twentieth Century Fox.

I’ll tell you this:
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.