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1. |
Young Girl
12:37
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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
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2. |
Dig it Up
11:54
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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
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3. |
Town of Vines
08:06
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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
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4. |
Ra
12:44
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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
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5. |
Overlaying
21:27
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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
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6. |
Puppy Dogs
06:40
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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?
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7. |
The Half of the Whole
15:47
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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
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8. |
Caravan
04:50
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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
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9. |
Viracocha
10:25
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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
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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
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11. |
Just Keep Beginning
03:37
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