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The Dark

by Them Jones

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Keef These guys are good, they've figured it out. Songwriting, melody, hooks... lots of talent here. Favorite track: Lonesome Man.
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1.
I'm a child Got my whole life ahead now I'll go wild Don't need to think of death I feel invincible Like a rock I'm gonna stick my neck out Why not? A whole lifetime left And I feel so bulletproof But I'm not I've seen only light all of my life I'm not old enough to think about dying But now Here Comes the Dark and I Start to fall apart now I feel tired I Think I'll lay my head down For a while All I need is rest And I'll feel as good as new But I don't I feel it in my chest now The lights go out I try to catch my breath But I see it's red in tooth And claw I finally feel older For years I was younger The days get behind you Oh boy, you think they're ahead And now Here Comes the Dark and I Start to fall apart now
2.
Isolani 04:00
I know isolation We're well acquainted My limitations I'll share with you I'm not insulated Every piece is fated And I was placed here On board to lose Cause I'm just a low little pawn And I'm standing here on guard For you, My Queen Bended down on my knees Oh can't you see I'm through They unlocked my chains From friends I've made Till the end of games I play it for you Enough contemplation It's your move, now make it The square I'm facing It is immune Cause I'm just a low little pawn And I'm standing here on guard For you, My Queen Bended down on my knees Oh can't you see I'm through
3.
Like a fly by night Don't keep things tidy I'll turn a phrase up on its side Don't divide my time To my wife I'm blind Can't stand a dog much less a child His work is his life I hate to say that it was mine Took up space Took up time I found the exit from the fire seething I gave up weeping I picked up and said goodbye I am always right To myself I lie You must bend the knee and please admire I am so surprised I'm unrecognized For what's been achieved inside my mind His work is his life I hate to say that it was mine Took up space Took up time I found the exit from the fire seething I gave up weeping I picked up and said goodbye Ashamed am I To say my ways are sometimes hurtful Sometimes hurtful
4.
Lonesome Man 03:43
I've been living by myself No dog, no cat, no nothing else I'm a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo lonesome man I'm a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo lonesome man And the pipes drip slowly Cold wind blows hard Up against my window Right through my heart My shadow is the only one who seems to know me these days But it don't like my company anyway Crying, but no one hears my call When I'm dying will I have a hand to hold I'm a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo lonesome man I'm a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo lonesome man And the night moves slowly And peace comes hard And a mind thinks many things Alone in the dark Sun comes pouring through my old window pane Right on cue to start another lonely day I'm a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo lonesome man I'm a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo lonesome man I'm a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo lonesome man I'm a lo-lo-lo-lo-lo-lo lonesome man
5.
He has it so good And few of us would Not change lives and places Money talks and his face is Well liked by all the girls He buys diamond studded bracelets For ones he likes With the curves All the world is his oyster Good luck, it always seems To follow him He got no debt, no tragedy Most men got plenty The eyes of many They can see He's a Man to be Envied A Man to be Envied A Man to be Envied A Man to be Envied For what he got He has it so good And all of us should Get to age oh so gracefully Like him With security Provided by the purse On the back of his family It's nice but it's not earned I guess life is just some lottery Good luck, it always seems To follow him He got no debt, no tragedy Most men got plenty The eyes of many They can see He's a Man to be Envied A Man to be Envied A Man to be Envied A Man to be Envied Or is he not?
6.
Been searching so long got to find a home A place to lay your head and bones Got to go back to where you're from Before another black cloud come on Been digging a hole outside it shows A face that has become unknown Got to go where the get is pure Then to the shelter of our good lord The Black Cloud Come on Brings the rain in Back out on the street again for more He's a poor boy Out to score boy All on his own He's making some room with a broken broom A space behind some dusty pews A Who'd a-known in it's day it shone But that all seems so very long ago He's cooking his spoon as he hums a tune "Oh Happy Day" or some gospel blues Feeling safe and he's a-feelin' warm Until another Black cloud come on The Black Cloud Come on Brings the rain in Back out on the street again for more He's a poor boy Out to score boy All on his own
7.
Remembering Well it hurts sometimes when I think about you The days of our youth If you never leave Well that's fine if you stay in the day, in the light I can see with my eyes Just stay out of my night Please no passing through Oh take a look at the time You must be going soon When I'm asleep Well you dive on in with both feet, that ain't right Making waves in my life Or so it seems But you're here and there in my dreams Why can't I clean the slate with a wipe? Just stay out of my night Please no passing through Oh take a look at the time You must be going soon In memories you're buried So very deep, unearthing So many things unnerving Daylight come around won't you Just stay out of my night Please no passing through Oh take a look at the time You must be going soon
8.
Every face on the street is a threat to the peace he keeps inside Every word that he speaks is all day replaying through his mind Into a shell he retreats mute and solitary, resigned Though he appears to be common, ordinary, they don't apply When the depth that is reached is the darkest deep, refrain desire Into a shell he does flee from another defeat in life Cause in a shell he is free of all that flesh confines Now who is he so shadowy a figure in the night A wary being, yes you'll see him whither in the light But in a shell he can breathe relief in the deepest sigh Cause in a shell he don't need to please or sacrifice See the flush of his cheeks and his trembling knees, he aches to hide But it's a prison scene, he must concede these ways are tired Into a shell he does flee from another defeat in life Cause in a shell he is free of all that flesh confines Now who is he so shadowy a figure in the night A wary being, yes you'll see him whither in the light But in a shell he can breathe relief in the deepest sigh Cause in a shell he don't need to please or sacrifice
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The Dark 06:29

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released December 11, 2020

Special Thanks:

Guest vocals on tracks 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 - Lauren Kimball

Guest vocals on Track 6 - Erin Washburn

English Horn on track 7- Meghan Woodard

French Horn on track 8 - Lauren Kimball

Album art by Matt Rowland

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Them Jones Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Combining the stranger elements of post-60’s pop with the less-mined saccharine sounds of acts found in the drug-drenched Haight-Ashbury fallout,Them Jones create a mutant sound all of its own. They exist in the space between the sonic ether of a Tuesday night basement show and the crackle of the dusty, scratched over grooves of the hypothetical record collections procured by 70’s cinema auteurs. ... more

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