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Another Side EP

by Daniel Levi Goans

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1.
Name All Day 05:04
Sunflower In the midnight hour She bows her head, she bows her head A new hour, a diamond power Fresh eyes and ears to feel the tears burn down the faces I can say the name all day An April shower Fifty miles per hour toward the sea, toward the sea I would walk downtown to see you With a nectarine and a paper bag filled with seeds I could see the sun come through you We got stranded on the fourth of July On a tiny island underneath a velvet sky On the roof in the summer rain With friends who don’t even know their names In the dark and in the light I’ll be the same God willing I won’t break your heart I can say her name all day On a pier in Belize You move with ease and all I see is sunlight (sunshine) Warm misty mountain The Trevi Fountain Baby let me follow you down where the sawgrass waves A sunflower In the midnight hour she knows how to bow her head
2.
I’m gonna kill a man with my guitar Yes I’m a’gonna kill a man with only a guitar My mama said son why don’t ya kill the evil men with that guitar It’s a six stringed machine you can aim at the heart, that’s a guitar I’m a gonna pull the strings back, take aim, and fire my guitar I’m gonna take a man down with only a guitar Mama done told me son take the evil men down with a guitar
3.
I start awake some mornings with jolted, jostled, jaunty little smiles Throw the window open wide and add my voice to the fleshy damp spring choirs Beading sweet sweat gathered up in silver drops cascading down my chin Blade and branch still wet from evening escapades in sap stained piney glens May morning’s palest cheek is flushed with freshness by the gentle golden hues Of brilliant sun-kissed memories packed between some waking dream and you Winter stretched a county mile and just when I thought it would never end Spring has sprung and with it love and now it seems the sun can shine again Blood is pumping hot and quick and steam rises likes ghosts up from a lake Swirling round and mixing with mosquito hawks and twitching hot heat waves Now my wheels are spitting rocks, turning fast, throwing up a dusty cloud Wind is whipping like a free fall but baby my feet are on the ground Birds are diving, spinning, soaring, looking like a thousand bomber planes Sun a’glinting off their wings and sure helping me forget that dirty rain I’m throwing back my head and letting loose one more melody Just in case you forgot the way the honey warmth can change things for me Like fireflies a buzzing bright, shaking sleep and ice from the shining end I’m thawing out with greenest sprouts and striking out with diamonds on my brand new skin
4.
Mary-land 03:46
My boy left home for to take his stand Left his mama crying with flowers in her hand Sailed on o’er to England back in 44 Operation Overlord on Normandy’s shore On the other side stands a boy just like mine They both follow orders, pushing on that line His feet pound the ground to that fresh hole dug Silent as the grave after manmade thunder struck A telegram came to my door in Mary-land Lonesome soldier placed a folded flag in my hand The Germans are evil, so the papers read Nothing is that simple with 60 million dead
5.
People think I'm strange and unclear Won't let go of my dreams They laugh at me with questions on their lips They tell me I'm splitting at the seams But with my cousin by my side I step underneath the sun Tired of all my friends and their doubting eyes They’re making me want to run More than one way home In the town I grew up in I’m known by my father’s name Some would say that he’s an unlucky man That all I bring home is shame I got sadness in my eyes And around the corners of my mouth My spirit bent and almost broke Growing up down south But there’s more than one way home Got to find my way back home Learn to be myself at home But, everyday there’s a brand new dawning Every night a serenade I wake with salt air in my lungs And I walk toward an open gate Down at the bottom of some ocean Wild things moving nice and slow I feel the highway pulling on my feet And I can hear the wind whistle of my soul On a Sunday morning, All I could do was sing I can’t keep my mouth closed That ain’t no different than every other day
6.
On the 22nd day of a long December I could not get to sleep for the sound of remembering All the years I’ve been pining, whining, crying For a lover to help still my fear With a mind full of horses, pounding round well worn courses I heard hooves beat the ground, while the stars came unwound And silver thread poured down from the sky The pieces caught the eyes of children in their beds And out they ran to catch it in their hands All the children brought the strings to their hideout in the wings Of a 1953 fighter plane They adorned the silver wings with the hundred silver strings And it shone like a moonbeam every night All it takes to remember that day in December Is a short walk underneath a pockmarked night The wind will hunch your shoulders and time can make you colder But a moonbeam is a time machine for eyes My hard and lonely road with its tired groaning stones Is thirsty for that silver-covered plane Oh the way we used to sing, perched so proudly on the wings Brings the North Wind to the embers in my chest Two hundred strands of far off stars, caught and laced through all the bars In a clearing out behind a cut corn field Out (of) the corner of my eye I see reflecting from on high A hint of silver in every passing face And when I remember the way I see it, come December I revel in the glory and the grace With a mind full of horses, pounding out well worn courses It takes a season’s change to unfreeze my locked up frame

about

This album is a collection of songs recorded during the BrotherStranger sessions with a completely different tone than the full length album released in 2011. With themes more suitable to summertime, Daniel Levi Goans and his new bride Lauren have decided to release this EP just in time for the summer of 2012. Special thanks to Hanneke Cassel for playing fiddle on "Thought It'd Never End" and John Porter for helping pen "Mary-land."

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released June 1, 2012

Daniel Levi Goans-guitars, keys, harmonica, library percussion, vocals
Hanneke Cassel-fiddle
TFA-claps and snaps

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Daniel Levi Goans North Carolina

Heeding to the winds and the waves on the Bay, BrotherStranger looks into the loneliest moments of human experience with a piercing gaze that weaves them into a place of tenderness and safety. These meditations are nestled in a poetic cadence that resists modern cynicism and fragmentation while harkening to a place in our hearts and our heritage that recognizes the sacred nature of narrative. ... more

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