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The Turning of the Bright World

by Paul Roessler

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Tommy Dog No matter what Paul is doing, he’s always all in. The beauty of his playing and the charm of his voice always manage to make space for his words which even at their most poetic are honest and sometimes quite funny
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Conan Neutron A stellar album full of depth, heart and excellent songwriting. The songs vary in mood and tone but sit so nicely next to each other that the whole thing is just a wonderful experience. A career best record for an artist with an INCREDIBLE career. Favorite track: Maker.
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1.
Elephant Man 03:51
And the seas rose, stars froze Sky glows deathly Eyes closed And the white snow fell gently To the lake, through the rain While the rays of summer poured warmly down And the old man died Leaving space for a child Who lit up her mother's eyes Called him home Saying love Draws all things to its side Show the light girls the turning of the bright world Tell them I bade them all goodbye smiling with laughing eyes Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler
2.
Maker 03:35
Get ready to meet your maker everybody's got to meet their maker Let's go look out below Everybody's gotta raise a savior are you ready for the big creator Oh no just let it go Everybody gonna see you later kinda doubt it but maybe later Oh no I don't know Going down Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler
3.
It doesn't matter if you're right It doesn't matter if you're wrong It doesn't matter if you have the whole world fooled Into thinking you're the one It doesn't matter what you have It doesn't matter what you've done It's just a load of ego-driven crap To make you feel like you're someone. The only thing that matters is who you helped or hurt today If you closed your eyes to pain If you looked or turned away If you took or if you gave If you shined a light into the night Or helped to dig the grave There was a particle of you in the first drop of rain that fell That's just scientific law but it really doesn't help It's just something that we know That tells us everything is close But it really doesn't matter all these theories we propose The only thing that matters is who you helped or hurt today If you closed your eyes to pain If you looked or turned away If you took or if you gave If you shined a light into the night Or helped to dig the grave Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler except: Cherish Alexander: Bass and Acoustic guitar
4.
A sad old man with a fat cat and a hat to cover his bald patch Nothing to come back to here Is his ego finally cauterized? Maybe, I wouldn't be surprised, he looks hurtin Sings about himself in the third person Reads borrowed books barely drives Sedentary rarely flies Microwaves his hurried meals Flirts with the girls but never seals the deal Lose the one and you go on Anything can be done But if somehow you hear me sing these words a distant ringing in your ears A psychic line that still occurs in the silence of the night That thing we had we said could never die If it's still there then call me I am here waiting Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler
5.
Awake 06:53
River has a hole in his heart Bowie died And the country is tearing itself apart And you want to stop feeling Bask in indifference And just stop caring To lock your doors Wire your windows To sit surrounded by your futile arsenal To bathe in the anger; taste revenge Sight the rifle on a random victim To blame the other Close the borders To give the orders To just give in But I have awoken now and can never fall back to sleep I want to light secret fires in the hill above my town Drink to oblivion and watch the houses burn down Indulge dark temptations Live like mine is the last generation Deny that I love But I have awoken now and can never fall back to sleep Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler except Bob Lee; Drums
6.
All these things became possible so we thought they were good All these things became available so we figured that we should And a theoretical jaguar stalking the wild Is not as urgent as my coffee in the morning when I'm tired. All these things felt so decadent they were so hard to quit And they were so damn convenient no one really even tripped And something that's never happened is so hard to predict Said the turkey to the farmer on the day he was picked And if it appears like there was no reason or rhyme Well it all seemed like a good idea at the time If there's anyone left to be sorry to I extend my regrets My heart-felt apologies however insufficient Everyone felt so innocent as they murdered away They went to the gallows with a smile and a wave And if you're feeling a little angry and you're wondering "why?" It all seemed like a good idea at the time Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler
7.
Heaventree 05:22
The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit And the daybreak that we are swirling twirling through the loop I have rung the bells of heaven I have breathed the battered rose Touch me soft eyes soft soft hands I'm lonely touch me touch me soon And I fear those big words that make us so unhappy And I fear those big words that make us so unhappy Darkness came and darkness blazed away and I stayed a man in a room Nothing changed and nothing stayed the same and it all will fade away soon The sparklelighted cubed horizon nestled in the palms And the ravens bicker bitter with themselves up on the walls And one psychopath's in prison and another rules the world Take me far away take me away back right where I belong And I've cast every thought away that made me so unhappy Yeah I've cast every thought away that made me so unhappy Darkness came and darkness blazed away and I stayed a man in a room Nothing changed and nothing stayed the same and a cow jumped over the moon Music and instruments by Chain Rochester Words, vocals and keyboards by Paul Roessler
8.
A quiet night on the mooncam Another visit to the morgue A crowded place but it's okay There's always room for one more And Calaban has been busy He is hands on No matter how much it's never enough But God is all and all is one All the colors of the spectrum All the dollars in the bank Examine your risk assessment You worry about all the wrong things A quiet night on the mooncam The silence of the stars Saturn and Cassiopea Ganymede and Mars Making plans with a deathwish Dodging in the nick of time Everytime someone saves your life You spit right in their eye You can embrace surrender So we are taught by the wise But let us do what people do They satisfy their desires A quiet night on the mooncam The silence of the stars Saturn and Cassiopea Ganymede and Mars Calaban has been busy He is so hands on No matter how much it's never enough But God is all and all is one Lyrics by Paul Roessler Music by Paul Roessler and Paul Boutin Drums Joe Berardi Bass Nathan York Guitars Paul Boutin Piano and vocals Paul Roessler
9.
There's a voice inside my head A little voice that's not my friend I used to listen to that bullshit And the remedy was just to tell it to shut up Haven't you laughed at me enough? It's a voice that tells me "no." Tells me what I cannot love. I can't remember it being right. And the remedy was just to tell it to shut up Haven't you laughed at me enough? Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler
10.
They 02:58
They They shook them free your girlish chains Like black clouds drop their sheets of rain They woke up one day free To become something that was yet to be And it hurt so fucking bad Until it was just something that they had killed A cold absence of migraine flashes Celebrating glasses of champagne spilled And now I can go walk underneath the canopy Listen to the grass as it grows up over me Cuz people like you will do it better than me They saw the limits of our creations They saw the borders of the bankrupt nations Walls and horizons that would trap a soul in amber Until they smashed the tyrant and abandoned her They set the churches to crack and rust And left us all just gasping in the dust Dancing lightly over rainbow oceans Coloring the sky new with their angel paint brushes And now I can go walk underneath the canopy Listen to the grass as it grows up over me Cuz people like you will do it better than me
11.
Mine, all mine, got mine, she's mine Our small treasures are never forever But better like weather they change Fade Away, gone like rain They leave, retreat but your heart still beats Altered but you still breathe A shallow shadow but complete Found and lost and buried deep Growing up through the cracks in the street Gone never mine Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler
12.
No Time 03:14
Nothing's short and nothing's long, nothing's right and nothing's wrong Nothing starts and nothing ends, nothing breaks and nothing mends. Nothing's far and nothing's near, All you've lost is still right here Nothing lives and nothing dies, no hellos and no goodbyes And crawling cross the face of earth You count back days from death to birth But you've got no time Hanging up there on your cross But everything just freeze and stops When you've got no time Nothing moves no water runs, everything is all at once, alive When you've got no time Nothing change the sun don't sink the world just sits there like a sphinx But trapped inside the river's rush You think and think bout nothing much All your perfect enemies you wait to bring them to their knees But you've got no time. In the final throes of our disease Goaded by the whips of need we finally see That there is no time And when you lay you down to rest freed from the clock inside your chest everything shines. 'Cause there is no time. But just beyond the eyes of man there's movement we don't understand Outside of time. Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler except: Drums by Joe Berardi
13.
Come and live in the Late Show Fall asleep to the test tone Fall in love like a railroad Run away down the back roads Got my start on the Late Show Half a pack left of Marlboros Black and White like a rainbow Watched the Gemini launch go Oh Life, look at it in the cold light Lie back, drink the stars in the whole night Time flies like a rock through a window What does anyone know? I saw her first on the late show Heard her voice on the radio She was someone you might know If you jumped out of windows If you fall like an angel If you turn like a table It's no worse than a soldier Hurts no worse than a widow Come, open the oceans in your eyes Change into water, into air The rain is frozen into hail But the rain doesn't fail Words, music and instruments by Paul Roessler

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released July 12, 2022

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