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A Turn Around the Maypole

by Thom Carter

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1.
Young Girl 12:37
Young Girl You’re a young girl Lost your mother Travelling on the road Into sound Sound is motion Tell me your journey I feel I already know Young girl Be my friend You’re only in dimensions on this earth for so long Before you back to the source The source of everything Your life is poetry Your words are poetry to me You make sense to me You speak the truth and I hear it in my being Just be a long time on your own You´ll fix yourself A long time alone is medicine The natural will world will heal you Heal you Young girl This morning I woke My body in knots My being tangled up I looked at the Sun Coming up over the mountain Hot It turned the pink of the dawn Into the blasted blue sky of the Spring Hot Made the temperature in the room start vibrating And I am in that room now And I am in that room tomorrow I twisted up my being And it took me and it made me smooth Thank you the dawn Dawn The dawn Is a doorway that you see through You gotta be up to see I know that you are seeing Young girl Living on your own too Living up a mountain just like me At least we got something to share when we meet Feel nothing And nothing is everything You’re hearing nothing, nothing Tell me again your story Six years ago you set out on the road Just instinct-intuition pulling you into forces of medicine Natural medicine It’ll fix you It´ll take its time but you will be yourself again The visuals have stopped a long time ago for me But I still them in my eyes I don’t know how its there but its there Reality overlaid ontop of the one that’s mine Hello again I know you’re expecting me this time This time Things get confused I can’t tell half the time if its real or if its inside Things seem the same out here Its like being caught in a tidal wave turned purple Washing all over your civilisation Maybe it’ll clean you up Maybe it’ll take your life Gets kind of hard To keep on going and stay alive Young girl Thinking of you Thinking of you And don’t need a shaman I don’t need a shaman I don’t need a doctor I don’t need a doctor I just need you to be real Be real for me Be real for me
2.
Dig it Up 11:54
Dig it up When I was young I banged upon a drum When I was young I banged upon a drum The sounds in my head I wish that I could beget But when I was young I banged upon a drum Over the hill a man is digging a quarry Over the hill a man is digging for stone Blocks as big as cars by the roadside Waiting for the yellow train to come To come I built padding all across my walls To control the sound better than before You don’t know what its like with the ringing in your skull The tiles on the floor in Spanish architecture Dig it away Dig it away Each day I walk on the iron ore One day a man will dig up that floor Metal in the stone Metal if you melt it out In a cauldron baby, twist and shout Dig it up Out of the ground Dig it up Hey look what I found Dig it up Dig it up now Dig it up Out of the ground Trauma When I look at your phone I just want you to be all right And your emotions are torn Trauma Don’t need no sunshine Trauma in your eyes And your words that you type Trauma in your mind I remember a painting On the wall Can’t remember what station Had this mural Could have been Maidstone Or maybe Sevenoaks Something in my mind nagging all the time Says Tunbridge Wells was close The painting showed people People from across the age A woman in black and white Simple clothes Looked all right Its funny what the mind reminisces on Funny when these images come and go Its been so long so many years since I sat on the train With the orange ticket in my hand With the orange-sided ticket in my hand In my hand Sometimes I wish for the Age of Steam Going everywhere in a railway carriage fit for a King Wooden sides Racing green Coal-smoke rising Everything gonna get you on time Get you on time What is time? What is time? Looked at my phone I see your words Claim that I put there Wish I could help I love you so much You did nothing wrong Have a child with me Don’t think of it as gone Don’t think of it as gone One last thing One last thing There’s a light up on the hill I just seen it now There a light up on the hill Could be hunter could be a car There’s a light up on the hill Didn’t see it before Doesn’t mean It wasn’t there at all At all At all
3.
Town of Vines I don’t know what they told me when I came here Something about the hill was green I don’t know what they told me when I came here Something that I could not see But I felt it Yes I felt it in my heart I felt it I felt it in my heart It was the place where they grew the vines Grew them from the hill It was the place that they grew the vines Until the water went away You never know how important life can be How those vines made the life carry on They came to the place But they had to stop Vines on the hillside Dead as stumps and dogs Vines on the hillside Dead and quarter stone You never know how much you place does need The green green leaves of home Here the build the walls of stone Here the build the walls of stone Here the build the walls of stone They call it the town of vines It what it used to grow They call it the town of vines That’s what it used to grow Green leaves went away So did the water flow Green leaves went away So did the water flow The town of vines is dead The town of vines is dead
4.
Ra 12:44
Ra I´m not what I am I am what you think I am Not the mess that I see But more the chance to heal Down the mud paths Over the stones You find the waterfall It rains but it calms you down I can see a path not on any map Think I might just take myself down Take myself down Light is red when you look at it I think of Ra when he opened his eyes He was a good man They changed him around inside He wore black Black, black And made his music Somewhere on the island He found a place to live Guess you don’t believe him But I did The crystal spoke Somebody put it in Ra But the light is always different Sparkling in each direction But you don’t believe him But I do What is belief to you? Dogs chase their thoughts His clothes are red His blood is red Dogs see him up there again Go under the fence And after his neck They haven’t got him yet Part of me is a lover Part of me is a killer I feel my hands connect To your body I wanna bring you pleasure Pleasure Here I have been for two years I seen a lot of the days I made a lot of holes I gave life for many trees I drank many hands of water From the mountain stream I fixed many walls of stone That fell down in the rain That fell down in the rain That fell down in the rain That fell down in the rain
5.
Overlaying 21:27
Overlaying Inhibition makes you reach out and connect only to fall back to solitude Its easy to meet you We met so many times Women just like you Its kind of an addiction Rather than a type Will I see you tonight? Its a connection anyone can make Its just can you make it right? Is it meaningful or is it just an easy time? I´ve watered all the plants today Walking heavily with you on my mind How do I reply? How? Hours pass along the line of time The line of time Once I saw it, cross-sectioned My parents in the line My parents one behind Then they took me back Wish I spoke fluently the language here The language of the mouth and the ears Well the bodies universal Just like music, they say Think you said you come to the mountains here Once In a while Once in a while you come here Thought I was the only one to know this place I have no address no written paper for my name You can’t get through to me Time is on your wrist but it don’t mean much there Pressure onto quartz stone make piezo electricity Free The whole worlds pressured The whole worlds electric The whole world is walking in my feet I would tell you the truth But I don’t like the truth I don’t like the truth How far away have I come only to be the same person The same flaws The same temptation Is it my nature? Is it my design? Is it my design? How does it end? Just another line of endless time? Or is it put to rest Singularly Final time I think its on and on and on and on Somewhere in another place just right infront of you Overlaying our reality You can’t see it but maybe it can see you Overlay me Yes its overlaying Overlaying things that we see It is pure energy Calm and chaos wrapped in a ball Fighting, love making Throwing out the energy of life The sound the vibration pushing it Pushing it like a child Pushing like a child We are, we are the same We are the expression of the source We are the energy combined and evolved The latest in the line that just goes and goes and goes On and on I´ve seen that line Everything went yellow and then black Like a stone could fly and was coming down upon my forehead I felt no fear I let it take me Feel like nothing touching me at all And I saw no face, I heard no sound But somehow I knew that they were behind that stone But they just wouldn’t let me know And I saw the saw as we passed and I saw back I saw it all at once There is no time for consciousness Consciousness is existing The thread in all places that are physical Able to take you to all those places non-physically And I looked down upon the line Time It is the 4th dimension It is pure And it only flows one way And it was shown to me The people in that line That led up to the face that was mine I saw myself in inside that line of time Walking Walking With so many of me behind Different me Different I could not speak For a moment I looked up in the room and saw Luis Luis on the floor checking his phone I said ¨I don’t want them to go¨ He says ¨You have been out for 30 minutes I didn’t know what to do¨ Dom was making music in the other room The bedroom Turned into a studio With keys and guitars and a bed on the wall And he was in there so long He gave me permission to be there And I walked into the room I could not speak I just held onto him And when the words came I just assured him than all of us knew I wish I could speak it as I saw it Sometimes I get the vision again Not as strong as it had been It comes in pieces again Perfect memory Of that reality And its over our own Overlaying our own Overlaying our own Overlaying So I ask myself if I can meet you Not that I don’t wanna meet you But I have no car and I can’t walk so far So you have to come here And know where I am Somehow makes me tense Somehow makes my mind tense Ah that I should watch the signs The signs on the road Learn a little more theory See where it goes See where it goes See where it goes Overlaying The ghost of Father Yod Yahawah Yahawah Yahawah Yahawah Yahawah Yahawah 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9,10, 11, 12, 13
6.
Puppy Dogs 06:40
Puppy Dogs Three little puppy dogs come out of the mother Three little puppy dogs come out of the mother Three little puppy dogs come out of the mother And won’t they have fun And won’t they have fun One is black, one is white The other is black and white One is black, one is white The others black and white Three little puppy dogs come out of the mother When it gets dark what do they see? When it gets dark what do they see? They see everything Everything They see everything Everything Three little puppy dogs come out of the mother Three little puppy dogs come out of the mother What do they see? What do they see? I go walking with them all Walking through the trees Where they grow, where there’s trees Cannot always find the trees Don’t know where I’ve been Who looks Who looks Who looks after the mother?
7.
The Half of the Whole I plough my seeds in the ground Watch the trees come alive Peg the washing on the line And hit the drum out of time Out of time Keep your seeds safe You will need them in the end In the end Cut it down It makes no difference The seeds are back again Back again Nature can kill you But nature can heal Learn its ways and learns its stages As you deal in all the man made world I see for miles across the desert and the clouds upon my eyes I hear a banjo playing as the sun is rising up above this house Innocence is here In the rust on the porch In the dust on the fireplace The way out of the hole The half of the whole The half of the whole The half of the whole I help you put up the shelves ill help you make your house so beautiful Put glass inside the window and food upon the shelves Ill make it just like you are, you never, leave you never go You are half of me and I am just a half and never whole Never deviate Never deviate Never deviate Never deviate Never de… Never de… Never deviate Never deviate ´Cause you are no whole ´Cause you are no whole ´Cause you are no whole I see the Clouds above the desert form my house They rain once, once in a while It hurts me when I see the rain It hurts hurts hurts hurts me when I see the rain And when the desert turns into the hills it turns, into the hills it turns, into the grass it turns, into the trees it turns, into the trees it turns, and into me it turns, and into me it turns, can’t you see Can’t you see my heart in you? I was here when the ice age traveled to this land Cutting the great mountain I was here the ice age traveled across this land Cutting the great mountain And I walk in its path Yeah I walk in its path Waters gone away Waters gone away Waters gone away Can you see where its been, can you see where its gone? Can you see where its been, can you see where its gone? Can you see where its been, can you see where its gone? Can you see where its been, can you see where its gone? Gone into a valley A valley A valley
8.
Caravan 04:50
Caravan I am waiting for Neil to come and look at the caravan that’s sitting in the Sun Its just a fragment of a home but he might buy it make it his own Caravan Just a fragment of home Always on the road If you could tell me where you’ve gone Well I don’t go there much I’m a Cancer, I stay at home But its sitting there parked on its wheels With no where to go Maybe he can use it Maybe he’ll just treat it the same Maybe I can loose it Make it his gain Caravan Parked in the Sun Just a fragment of a home But enough to love Caravan Just a fragment of home Nothing stopping a truck taking you Somewhere else a gone
9.
Viracocha 10:25
Viracocha Viracocha Viracocha Viracocha Viracocha You came afar Bringing wisdom Bringing wisdom What did you know? What did you know? Move the stones Viracocha Telling stories Tell it good Viracocha Viracocha Viracocha Viracocha Where was your home? Where was your home? Where was your home? Where was your home? I will return to you I will return Good people I Come again Remember my name is Viracocha I come again I come again He was a white man In an indian land He was a white man In an indian land Just look at his beard Just look at his face Just look at his beard Just look at his face Viracocha Viracocha What did you bring? What did you bring? What did you bring? What did you bring? Some people tell you these days that the snake is bad Some people tell you these days that the snake is bad Maybe the opposite is true of everything The snake has never had They tell you these days that the snake is bad Is bad Feel like I’m running out Running out of here Feels like I´m running out Of my legs And nothing to fear Maybe no legs Just a snake body You’ve nothing to fear Nothing to fear When your eyes see the yellow Yellow yellow And your eyes see true Its in you Its in you
10.
In a circle we were sitting (happy birthday) Look at us Spinning ball or a tolomeic universe Look at us trying to find out I am against it all I am for it all I am against it all I like the old gods Each day the myths seem more like a documentary I like gods Carved in stone walls And in the way the walls were carved I am anti Christian I am anti Judaism I am anti muslim I am anti hindu Don’t have anything against the people I just wanna think what I do I want the freedom of my mind Just as much as you Just as much as you They burn you at the stake They throw stones at you When your buried to the nape of your neck from your shoes They’d burn me at the stake for saying Im as much as you And my views are my views Here we are in a circle on the floor And im looking at you You were looking at me With energy Here we are Here we’ve been before Our minds are our own they are free You should say everything you see in them Its what you should think to do Somewhere along the line The word religion became something to dislike Its not true You should worship god anywhere that you find him And he is everywhere its true Change the definition of religion Make it separate from god It just doesn’t fit together that I should follow those instructions from your books When can care to look I think for myself I love your words I communicate with god in everything All is one And you are separate too Two two These words I sing to you There words I sing to you Think of the Catholic Church So many men that went to South America Destroying all that they saw Pulling down the buildings Melting all the gold Oh hey man, I really feel so old So we were sitting on the floor in a circle With you looking at me I make up a song on the spot Just like this one To try and talk about god He can’t talk for himself Maybe what I say is confused I have no regrets and no other issues I just wanna feel the energy from you Not the culture I am in Not the name I was given Not anything of religion Personal god Universal god Free from all of us No judgement no hiccups Everything is love I hear a jangle inside inside my head I know that god is in it Don’t need a book Don’t need a priest Or any other robbers at this feast As I am seeing it As it is telling it to me All the social and academic constructs Of religion and sexuality and race Will fall I just see you as another person And I either like you or I don’t In about a 20 second period And I don’t see many people I think that’s for a reason They just get in the way of what im seeing In a circle we were sitting Im glad you’re comfortable with your nakedness You send me pictures of your body in nature I cannot forget I cannot forget Crouching like some Venus Some aphorpite figurette Finding yourself through what you’ve always been and what you are becoming Its the kind of thing that I call heaven So we were sitting in a circle in a room on neils 5oth birthday I usually avoid things ike this and funerals and weddings and all those days We were sitting in a circle and had time to look at others faces And dance and dance for hours and hours In the animal way Happy birthday
11.

about

I know this is a little long for an album but there was no way I could say what I wanted to in a shorter time. Think of it more like a book you read a bit at a time, rather than a 35 minute record that you take in in one sitting... if anyone but me even listens to records as whole albums anymore.

All the influences around me took shape and emerged as songs that came and went for the single time they played through me. They are the true mind inside me speaking, and for those minutes I felt to exist without knowing - just being. Being me? I don´t think so anymore. Time is the big arrival... the big river. The songs let me see my place in it while being swept along by it... some expression of the Ultimate, whether that is a binary energy that needs 2 sides interacting or some singular giver of All, I could not see. I have heard of `automatic writing´ and never know what it meant, but this seemed to be a good time to turn on the microphone and record.

A hug from the heart to the souls who help me and know me, and those who I have yet to know but listen. We are all One.

The lyrics are available for each track on Bandcamp to read.

Uploaded in 24/96 quality as they were recorded in (except for ´Overlaying`, ´The Half of the Whole´, and ´In a Circle We Were Sitting´, which were required to be exported at 24/48 quality in order to satisfy Bandcamp´s 600MB per track file size).

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released August 14, 2022

Music and Lyrics by Thom Carter. Produced by Thom Carter. Recorded at The Asparagus. Copyright Self Released Records 2022.

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