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Balladismo

by Headless Household

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Lucidity 04:36
Lucidity Joe Woodard Lucidity, I’ve got you by the throat of your idea I see how people act with you inside their veins, inside their brains I’m in a daze, A pleasant feeling, still I gaze in wonderment A beautiful machinery, humanity, such clarity I could never peer into the future tenses, let alone the past, let’s let alone the past Am I in love, Or is it just a case of faulty wiring? I see a friendly ghostly picture of her face, most every place, oblivious She doesn’t seem to notice how I long for her I looked into those glassy eyes in front of me, The windows on a soul not quite assembled yet My sad and lovely pet copyright 2015, by Joe Woodard
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3/4: The Road Joe Woodard Three for the road of wayward souls We're fixing holes along the way Three makes a lonesome picture whole The rooms are full of silent blood In a home, there are four walls And the people form a shape Triangular forms that move through space Humble homes, geometry, and grace 3/4: the road is lined with wine And wilted roses, the scent of time Free form romance, the truest kind Might find its way into you mind If there is a God above He is finding new rhymes for love He is taking his time, and ours as well Just waltzing along like a fool in love in threes Bridge: 3/4: the road of endless tears Of joy and pain, one in the same copyright 2015, by Joe Woodard
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In Wait 04:09
In Wait Joe Woodard Sleepers awake Never having dreamed that they recall Until the daylight begins to fall Lying in wait Suspended in some animated state Of true blue union, love, not fade away Falling into love is a dangerous game We shudder when stars start to align Could this be the one, ripe with love to be made Or a magnet undoing God's design? We anticipate A happy destiny all lined with kisses And best wishes 'till the end of time copyright 2015, by Joe Woodard
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Happy-Go-Sad 06:04
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Serbian Ladybug (Joe Woodard) Serbian ladybug, flitting leaf to stone Flighty to the core Darkish though the places be, she's free Sturdy and steady bug, but delicate and fair Floating through the air Doesn't seem to have a scheme, she dreams Rivers cross, eastly west Bitter skies pass in time Roads to peace are lined with vines Tangled, twisted, spineless spines War is now in the past, or at least for now Celebrate the now, these Circles spin until the end of days Serbian ladybug, your color mocks the grey, your Dance gets in the way of All the nasty games that people play Serbian ladybug, flitting leaf to stone Flighty to the core Darkish though the places be, she's free copyright 2015, by Joe Woodard
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I Love You, Too Joe Woodard I love you in a beautiful and desperate way I can be found on the premises By the heart-shaped pool I had memorized your numbers, like a mental tattoo I’d call you up, my imaginary Sonnets of woo chorus: Inventing reasons to stay Incentives won’t go away Who’ll be the first one to say it “I love you, too...” “I love you, too...” You can undermine the underdogged, ask ‘em to dance No valentines for the weak at heart For the peace of mind We could minimize the space between us, that’s how it works You say “be mine, be the only one To give me the time of day” Inventing reasons to stay Incentives won’t go away Who’ll be the first one to say it “I love you, too...” “I love you, too...” Coda: These old cliches penetrate the heart They won’t go away, they stay On a Moebius strip trip, day upon day... cliches penetrate the heart They won’t go away, they stay On a Moebius strip trip, day upon day... copyright 2015, by Joe Woodard
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Searching 04:49
Searching Joe Woodard We spend our whole life searching For that beautiful tune For those magical moments that sleep until noon You can cling to a memory and grin that grin Still you're seeking out and looking into The heart of heartness Could it be more vague? Could it be more than just a turning of pages On a lookout for hope, starting when we were born We long for that beauty from which we were torn There's a road and they call it The path of no return We've been spurned by the promise That all is well that ends well It's a search to the finish For that beautiful sense That the beautiful get just what they deserve If there's justice in poetry, we'll be ok We'll rest in the midst of the search copyright 2015, by Joe Woodard
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For album number nine, released in 2015, the hopelessly and mostly happily eclectic band Headless Household (born 1983, in Santa Barbara, Calif.) set out to tighten the stylistic/vibe focus knob and go the ballad route. They partially succeeded, as heard on "Balladismo," a collection of tracks with balladism (mixed with machismo) which settles into an easier, sometimes melancholic place and attitude, but also takes detours. Detouring is the Household way, after all.

Following the 25th anniversary double-disc album "Basemento" (the second in the B-title trilogy, after "Blur Joan" and preceding "Balladismo"), the group slowly got in gear for the next album.

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released June 4, 2020

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Headless Household Santa Barbara, California

New music combo Headless Household (b. 1983) slices across genres and pursues better living through eclecticism. Discography: Balladismo (2015), Basemento (2010), Blur Joan (2005), post-Polka (2003), mockhausen (2000), Free Associations (1999), ITEMS (1995, Inside/Outside USA (1993), and Headless Household (1987)... all on the in-house Household Ink label. ... more

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