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released 12 December 2012
Words and Music by John Mac and the Moraggots. Drums and percussion by Mike "Tex Q" Spinrad.

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Track Name: When the Water Hit the Ground
Furious the sound,
When the water hits the ground,
Nothing changes when the rains all all night long.

I seen it in her eyes when the car slipped,
On the rain-slick road just north along the coast.
For a moment there well we couldn't breath
For all the moisture in the air.
I said a prayer right then that the morning find us home.

Just like two sailors on a storm-wracked sea we joked,
Lest the panic that we felt caused us to drown.
On either side the water crept up
Like the rising tide.
I said, "Oh dear, shout out when you see the lights of town."

Furious the sound,
When the water hits the ground,
All the same the rain just fell man all night long.

Curious the sound,
When the stormin' sea surrounds.
Nothing changes when the rain falls all night long.

Don't poke your head out lest it get wet.
Close the windows, draw the drapes and stay indoors.
The storm it seems it had another day yet,
To test the window panes and rattle all the doors.

Furious the sound...

Each sign that we passed I checked our progress on the map,
I was a pilot with both hands lashed to the wheel.
With the wind up and the rain so thick,
We could hardly see our fingertips,
Until the sun burst through and the road dipped down into town.

Furious the sound...
Track Name: Whiskey Love
Darling, you seen me at my worst...
Broke down and run to seed but still these first things first,
Like how you always find,
In a feeling as sublime,
Whiskey love,
It tells me you're the same.

Still asleep while outside the sun it glows,
Warm dreams of Irish things shots lined up in a row,
I recall a childhood rhyme,
Suddenly I'm feeling fine,
Seems this whiskey love,
Chased me through my mind.

I swore the last time,
That before I took another drink,
I'd die and so I slowly go
Just where that whiskey takes me.

You're a friend that'll help me down these stairs,
Tuck me in turn off the light when no one else there cares.
And as I slowly simplify,
One last friend to see me dying
Of this whiskey love,
That stayed true to the end.

This whiskey love...
This whiskey love...
This whiskey love...
Track Name: Fifteen Years
There was how long it was...
Fifteen years....
There was how long it was...

Fifteen years and they let me go.
Not a kiss, not a wish, a golden handshake,
That's the way it goes.
No sooner than it hit the water cooler,
Seemed like everybody know.

These creeps slinking down the Wall Street,
Made some moves, that we never knew,
Trimmin' jobs from me and you.
All the while they fly frequent flyer miles
In a high-toned style.

Mama,
Feels like the end of days.
Fall down on my knees and say.
Nothing in my pocket,
Better start walking,
Better start walking away.

My friend Juan commutes each summer
In a Hummer with his kids and his wife
She's a stunner, oh and his brother.
Family matters when La Migre comes.
They scatter working all day in the hot, hot sun.

Mama,
Feels like the end of days.
Fall down on my knees and say.
Nothing in my pocket,
Better start walking,
Better start walking away.

I've been reading 'bout this and that,
Folks been nervous as a hot tin roof
On the back of an alley cat.

Mama,
Feels like the end of days.
Fall down on my knees and say.
Nothing in my pocket,
Better start walking,
Better start walking away.

There was how long it was...
Track Name: Until I'm Gone
When you ask me if I mean my slippin' past you,
Well I'd have to say I do, oh I do.
I prefer my leave-taking to take place quietly,
I hate to see you feeling blue...

Everywhere I go, it seems the first time that I been to there,
The clearest memories prove to be quite old - I know,
Eyes that don't see half as well,
A back that aches and takes me back,
And if you think you seen me once before,
You can't be sure until I'm gone.

In a sense it might be just the best of times that's left to me,
Oh please it won't be long until I'm through.
Here's to all the precedents that never ever led to much
As such I feel I miss you still I do.

Everywhere I go...

Even if condemned you know I fought through thick then thin,
And was as patient as that saint was... then again.
In the time left to me, I might disagree if you test me.
As for the rest of you I got nothin left my friend.

Uncertain of the paths we choose, it goes to show
It's not just what you know, ohhh no.
Why must I surrender when my heart feels young and tender
Oh it do, oh it do.

Everywhere I go...
Track Name: Alice
Everything and anything,
That I ever seen,
All of my hopes that I hold,
Everything and anything,
That I ever dreamed,
When I made a scene years ago...

Honestly Alice
I listened as long as I could
As long as I should.

Honestly Alice,
Some more time to practice would serve us
In good stead, it would.

Everything and anything,
Years ago when you made a scene.

Honestly Alice,
I leave you to grieve as you will
A saint on a wheel.
Honestly Alice,
The pain that's not just
It's not real but it's all that you feel.

Everything and anything,
That I ever seen,
All of my hopes that I hold,
Everything and anything,
That I ever dreamed,
When I made a scene years ago.

Years ago when I made a scene...

Honestly Alice,
Your message is only as clear as
The ears on my head.

Honestly Alice,
The way that you whirl then you twirl,
I find I'm a mess.

Everything and anything...
Track Name: I Fell In
Do-do-do-do-and I fell in,

Intent on seeing what I see as if these
X-ray eyes of mine weren't blind.
She plants herself there face-to-face.
Either way she's got me looking now, oh yeah.

Love comes to those of us
Who are fierce enough to fight.
Unreformed and unafraid,
To have you every night.

And I fell in...

There's nothing easy 'bout it no.
It's not just pleasing someone else you know.
Oh, it might be something that you'd steal,
If you felt like it was real - so real.

Love makes it self known,
When we're seldom home.
A poem's whose words remain unheard,
Till we're on our own.

Love strong enough to
Break the bonds 'tween the best of friends.
A pure and selfish thing
That I fell in.

Each night she slays me with glance,
A chance to resurrect myself and die again.
And while she sparkles full of life I flirt with time,
A melody I never heard before creeps into my head.

And I fell in.
Track Name: What We Do (Celtic but Funky)
What pleased us once was
A shot, a beer and a smile,
Whiskey on weeknights at Kilarney House
Gettin' high.

But she never went in for that,
Least not when she were young.
She could if she'd wanted but wouldn't be
Caught with us no, no, no.

At risk of appearing, the
Question my dear is it true?
The days pass in seconds - a lark
The best part spent with you.

That's what we do,
That's what we do.

I made it seem...so easy,
These moments with you.

I breath as slow a sundial that
Spins in the dark.
Straining to hear plain its you with your
Hand on my heart.

That's what we do,
That's what we do,
That's what we do,
That's what we do.
Track Name: Shine A Little Sun
Unfathomable mysteries,
Shadows filled the big trees.
Strange it seemed to find a thick hand,
In the waist band of my 501 jeans
Whose buttons
Come undone.

It's farther from certain,
No doubt now it's curtains,
Seemed it was the same thing,
The home team at the end of the ninth,
The ump calling balls
Strikes all night.

You wake slow on Sunday,
Time flowed till Monday.
Still the same thought won't stop vexing,
Like a tingle,
You feel the fix,
Settling in....

Live and learn I heard it said,
I'm just a monkey on a string my friend.
Even so we've come quite far,
In my mind a star and everything...

Now I sit and shout for no one,
Hoping maybe someone like you,
I was some
Kind of fool
About everything...
Shine a little sun...

'bout everything...
Shine a little sun...
Track Name: I'm Going Home
Outside the people fell out,
Wind-blown into piles of red and gold,
I'm feeling old.

In times like these,
I'm apt to wish upon a barely breathing star,
One faintly lit, whose flickering
Can hardly reach the Earth,
Uncertain if it should,
That's if it could.

I feel the weight of something big,
Not seen since Martin Luther King,
Donned his crown.

Maybe it's me, but there's no love
Upon the streets, it all feels cold.
The many saint-like voices do their best
To test our patience and our virtue.
And if they could,
You know they would.

Outside the rain lashes my window pane.
The river's getting full.
I find no method in your madness,
I'm just glad that it's the provinence of fools,
The same ones that you thought you,
Left behind in school.

When TV bears a silent witness,
To our fitness for the vote,
I'm going home.

And at work, I'll lament the fact
That I'm still here and my friends have gone.
It seems they're casualties of corporate greed,
In Los Angeles.

It never ceases, the folks insist
They're pleased as punch,
I beg to disagree.
Track Name: Less Than Friendly Skies
We save and save and save,
From every purchase that we made.
These points converted to
United Airlines miles.

After five odd years of Visa charges,
We'd enough to claim
Two round-trip fares
Coast to coast through Chicago O'Hare.

I arrived at the boarding gate
Only to find my flight delayed
I'd been stranded after midnight
Without a ride.

And so I stood in line two hours
While the people round me bitched.
The customer service stations all
Had been left unmanned.

Hey Mr. Carol,
Heard they tossed your guitar.
If I'd known him I might not have flown in
Those less than friendly skies.
Or taken a different route,
One far from Chicago
And kept my old guitar safe from harm.

Now every day for the last 10 years
I held that guitar in my hand
Save for my wife
The best friend a man could have.

As I checked it in and watched disappear
That dear old friend
I was of half mind
To grab it back again.

Hey Mr. Carol,
I wouldn't have brought my guitar.
If I'd known him I might not have flown in
Those less than friendly skies.
Or taken a different route
One far from Chicago,
And kept that dear guitar now safe from harm.

You broke it, then you bought it,
But you never, ever let me say "Good-bye."
Yeah, you broke it, then bought it,
But you never, ever let me say "Good-bye."

We landed in SFO
About an hour fore
The carousel it turned
And the baggage begun to flow.

It didn't take but a minute
To see that something wasn't right
The case been cracked, the guitar inside
Split in half.

Hey Mr. Carol,
Yes, well, rightly you ask...
Track Name: A Little Tickle
Just when I come back,
To adore you...

I know I was resistant,
Wouldn't heed the pastor's call,
But after all, you still loved me.

If I'm gone before
My last breath's drawn you'll know it's true
There's a place for you...by my side.

Won't leave it in a note
No I won't
Much too precious for that.
Just a tickle on your toe so you'd know
When I'd come back to adore you.

If instead of myself
I came back as someone else
I'd still want you while I worked things through.

Best believe this man was me
Seemed always through and through
Like nothing fazed him cept her sly, sweet smile.

Won't leave it in a note....

Smell of smoke like a holy ghost
Mistletoe above our heads
Oh I been there, anywhere that would get me nearer.

In my heaven I'd be a virgin
At least 10,000 times
But just with you in a moonlight mood.

Won't leave it in a note...
Track Name: I Supposed
And I supposed,
I'd been unaware of the
Turn our love'd taken.

And I supposed,
That her silence was the
Sound of hearts breaking.

And I supposed,
You expected there'd be words
Then sorrowful wailing.

I supposed,
With the door closed
We're adrift in the blaming.

I suppose.

Time passes much as a good thing,
Must come to an end, my friend.
But there in our hands lies the end of our means.
It would seem we've arrived at the end.

All of our lives,
Spent in hopeless,
Confusion were the
Moments with you holding me.

And I supposed,
It felt destined,
As dark as it's been.

And I supposed,
It was the sufferin'
I was feeling back then.

Time passes much as a good thing,
Must come to an end, my friend.
But there in our hands lies the end of our means.
It would seem we've arrived at the end.
Track Name: Little Big Mitts
Little Big Mitts,
Like a queen she sits,
A fuzzy, four-legged furball,
That's what she is.

Little Big Mitts,
Now and then she sips,
Temperamental, tortoise-shell, hellion
Yes she is...

Little Big Mitts

Four thousand tiny steps
Till you landed safe with me.
A sweater on the couch
Where you lay yourself down to sleep

Little Big Mitts

Little Big Mitts
Mighty mischievous.
Full of fight, ankle-biting pest
Yes she is...

Little Big Mitts
Track Name: Make It So - Rough Draft
Love-struck but born to complain,
That's what they said I don't know if its true
Or stuff inside my head.

I'll make it so.
You know I know just how.
But if you insist not a prayer nor a wish
Could come close to this.

You heard I'd seen it all before.
Where I come from I guess you could say I'm
An unassuming man.

Who made it.
You know I know just how.
But if you believe in things you don't see
At least pray for me.

My thinking that I'd seen so much worse.
All the time instead I should have
Turned my thoughts towards something else.
And made it so.

Each time I said I say I do.
Every time I close my eyes I sigh and
Catch a sight of you.

You made it so.
I know you know just how.
Stop reminiscing 'bout something you missed
And get some of this!

My thinking that I'd seen so much worse.
All the time instead I should have
Turned my thoughts towards something else.
And made it so.