Musicians

Doug Cowan vocals, acoustic guitar, keyboards,
Herb Clarke percussion, Greg Bjork mandolin, Tom Kubasik bass, keyboards, vocals, Tess Gionet violin. Dobro and pedal steel by Bruce Bjork

Lyrics

Sundial

Every lil' thing you want comes around
like a sundial

In the light, the light we two should share

its the light we can barely bare
to hear the light steps on the back stairs

In the light, the light that time bent straight

its the light that radiates
radiator counts out the middle 8
'til there's shadows, the shadows we make
those shadows stretched out for days
but the light'll come if you just stay

Be a Movie

No violins play

As the water splashes on my face

No organs grind

To the tick tick tockin’ of the time

When you wake up

On the wrong side

The cameras pointed towards your bad side

No more tan an extra

What’s that make me next to you?

Our lives will never be a movie

‘cuz there’re too damn long

Not everything’s for a reason

Everything doesn’t have a season

Said the dry barfly

Who let the liquor lick him in good time

He’s the emperor that swings

His coattails like wings

What a beautiful bore

Almost hard to ignore

Our lives will never be a movie

Just might make it in this song

It’s not the X’s and the O’s

It’s the Jimmy’s and the Joe’s

Gon on and flip the script

There’s words on the back of it

Really should be glad for me

It means there’s no tragedy

Have you heard, I’m a star

Nah, can you hum a few bars

Take your Time

Ya know, love, it is economy

one for you, give me the boot, that ones for me

you say, Oh, thought its just monopoly

she hands me a ten, looks up again, says 'make me change'

Go ahead and take your time

you know you're taking mine

i think its your move

You said, no, more like geometry

i'm acute, you're obtuse, and angling

the shortest path, between your point and me

get off your soft science, prove your alliance, and show your work

Go ahead and take your time....i think its your move

All this time, time spent, picking out, picking out your part

you could hold in that thimble, the time we gave we got

Take your time....make it right

i think its your move

Supermahn

She called herself supermahn and I did believe her

spread her arms and pushed against the sky

She tried, and tried, and tried/ 

for honest lift but the air would leave her

to run and find the tallest pitchy pine

Don't  call yourself  supermahn, no one will believe ya

explaining gravity to Y child

i cried, and cried, and cried/

to thr passerby true non-believers

she's just gotta learn how not to fly

She did not fall/ earth just came to call

and meet her where she lay

Leg didn't break/ just changed it's shape

rubs some dirt/ and up, up, and away...

Still called herself supermahn, not sure I believe her

asking gravity to let it slide

still tried, and tried to find/

the local Trust and Savings building

her story goes 20 stories high

Stepped out on the ledge/ without a hedge

run down to meet her where she lay

Said 'sure, i'm sore', then she soared 

right by me

and lifted up, up, and away...