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Eskimo Kisses Forever: the Travelogues Vol. II

by Ian Taylor

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1.
Moving 03:03
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2.
Ivy 01:20
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hey there Ivy let's go dancin' I know a spot up the hill you've got some shit that your neighbor sold ya I've got the blues at will I've been trying to reevaluate all these unsolved mysteries and mistakes
3.
Alabama Moon 05:13
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I stood on the beach head but took it for granted, cause you weren't there with me. A call or text, man would've been fine, man but don't leave me lonely like the sea Or is it your mother, still wary of me? I just wanted to go to the beach. or is it your dreamer, too far from reach? I drift through the hours Sweet friends turn sour 'neath the Alabama moon If it's the turning of age, yea? if we're all adults here, then why the hell are we so confused? I sense a danger when I peer in your eyes I thought you were my alibi and it spreads like a cancer, this sad aching inside.
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Chamber Maid/Humble Chariot Rider 01:20
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my chamber maid won't you sit a spell with me if you're the actress i'm the stage beneath your feet humble chariot rider let's have some fun yellow raincoat driver drive us in the sun an' boast the coast of some strange east land dance with your Lady Liberty in heavy boots and khaki pants my chamber maid won't you sit a spell with me if my chamber maid won't you sit a spell with me if you're the actress i'm the stage beneath your feet the red-headed pirate with his third eye patch his phone zen circling around my head takes my picture like he's looking for artifacts
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Grinnin' 01:13
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Turns 02:59
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I kissed her well after you left town it was new years day i was coughing it out tell me your lies you want me around and if i felt bad it was just for myself if i made you sad sister, that's your fault don't look back everything turns
7.
Mistress Planet 02:47
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you sleep in my bed and you taste like menthol cigarettes i'm caught in your web while my lover believes in the government you sleep in my bed and you taste like menthol cigarettes i'm caught in your web and my lover believes in the government she's out of her head and one of these days we might wake up dead. i just wanna be kind, while my mistress planet resolves around the sun. i just wanna be kind, but you're always howlin' when i'm feeding you right. i just wanna be nice with my mistress planet revolving around the sun. i just wanna be kind but you're always howlin' when i'm feeding you right take my gut, take my gut, tonight.
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Tailored 01:08
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lover, across the water it's been a while i've been thinking about you since i touched land. i'm tailored in my despair, it fits just right i can wear it anywhere and it looks alright.
9.
Friday & Saturday Night 02:19
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So what if I'm haunted So what if I prefer to be gettin' by jaded so it's all much more interesting to me i hate to say it but it needs to be said we're much too comfortable with the drugs in my head but hey it's cool man it's all alright 'cause coming friday & saturday night all the people will be filling their guts drinking to the night, drinking to themselves guess we all get by one second at a time.
10.
Hospital Song 01:12
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11.
Just Like You, Grey and Blue 01:17
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it's a little bit funny how humans work i'm just like you all my faults too, grey and blue just like you. it's a little bit frightening how much you're in i've been alone by no choice but my own right or wrong my own.
12.
Come Down 01:11
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Oh, goodness, Miss you've caught the rolling stone! in the palm of your hand! you let the waters know you know you're not in command. Oh, it's swell whenever you're around but oh Hell, I've got to come down.
13.
Chinese New Year 03:26
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Don't be a bull, man in a chine shop ungrateful for what you've got. Don't be a fool, kid I've been one before it left me feeling sore. so let's protest our limits it's the chinese new year let's celebrate let's bake a cake we'll have secret weddings from now on. Put on your dress, gal get nice and drunk for the day the priestess is on her way. But if there's a change, doll in the way your heart strings reach, we could ditch it all for the beach. So let's celebrate our differences it's the chinese new year let's compensate let's rehabilitate we'll have clean love from now on. oh my god, i feel out of reach.
14.
Nashville at 5pm 02:48
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I kind of mind where you've been you come up shy like a kid and I don't like Nashville at 5pm 'cause I'm afraid, but don't take it the wrong way you know I've been tired. We can hang out to dry on the cellular waves wet from the spit that people spray and I don't like Nashville at 5pm 'cause I'm afraid, but don't take it the wrong way you know I've been tired.
15.
Over Washington/Joni Mitchell Love 01:39
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there's a cool breeze over Washington and all the bookstands have blown away there's a girl on the coastline she gives me Joni Mitchell love an' it's better than the blues the acid and booze the walking shoes for too long.
16.
Japanese Hat/Yellow Basement 02:55
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I'm wearing a Japanese hat sittin' Indian legged on a red carpet strange in a yellow basement my phone died I missed your call it's storming outside hospital bracelets on wrists rocking chairs to catch my fits I'm wearing a japanese hat sitting Indian legged on a red carpet strange in a yellow basement my phone died i missed your call it's storming outside.
17.
Angela 00:49
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Angela, you're allowed to leave anytime you'd like I know this place has got you thin, all your thoughts are caving in. but angie sometiemes, i feel like you you don't have to die but you can if you want to.
18.
the Animals 01:12
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Kahlo dog Oshie's gettin' fat Kahlo dog Merlot Cat Jetta, where's your herd? Hendrix has got a bone to pick Almost forgot my words Don't forget the fish Kahlo dog Oshie's gettin' fat Kahlo dog Merlot cat
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This is What Jody Would've Changed 09:52
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20.
Bark 01:48
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Let em all bark my days are numbered i went too far pass the signs that say do not wander.
21.
Friends 02:25
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you give your friends so much love, it blows my mind. "I drink it black" I stumble the words the sort of flat when the waiter asks. such a handsome lad, hope he don't take it too bad. like an ant in a trap i'm caught between the moon and gravity.
22.
Gettin' Evicted 01:32
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Gettin' evicted feeling shifted funny way to be a sister. there's no room with this carriage enjoy your loop pedal marriage and all your little bags of bones. have I grown too old, in all this growing up? have I grown too bold, or not bold enough?
23.
Halo of Sage (Volvo Christ version) 03:04
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All I wanna do is honey, talk to you. but i said a prayer it went something like this oh my god, please make this quick. my father's a whore but who's keeping score i've got the blues without you. eating your mom's pot when she's not around and i've got a halo of sage around my head. what if we were birds and the clouds were trees? and you've got a halo of stars around your head. Don't look now but I think they drugged my coffee. No need to shout 'cause everything's cool, babe.
24.
South Chicago Breakdown 02:24
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25.
Heightened Senses Airport Blues 00:40
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Showing up to the airport high on LSD I've got you if you've got me that's alright we can ride for free tonight.
26.
Darling 01:06
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Darlin' woke up in a funk now she's smoking that unfiltered junk Kahlo the dog starts to hack Darlin's all dressed in black. Darlin' woke up feeling sad Darlin's uterus is mad Kahlo the dog starts to hack Darlin's throat is feeling bad.
27.
Heavy Swallow Children 03:05
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Heavy swallow children in love. heavy swallow children in love. lover's skin like porcelain in the moonlight where we were. now my head is filling fast with these thoughts that never last and my head's always filling up too fast with these ideas they never last.
28.
Old Cars 02:12
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if you're getting tired of being yourself just look in the mirror and call it something else when traffic gets too bad and your heart gets too hot leave your car on the freeway leave it there to rot. you can't drive away from those things that you feel you can't run late without any wheels so when i see an old car, man, i'd really like to buy it but only with the hopes that i won't have to drive it. oo, don't it seem that way to you? 'cause gee, it's really seeming that way to me oh the time it takes to realize your life's at stake slow goes the hours i waste praying for some other face.
29.
Hydrocodone Haze 01:08
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it's sort of strange how it played out you'd seem to follow me around by now it's completely necessary to be in a hydrocodone haze it's sort of strange how it played out i seem to follow you around by now it's completely necessary to be in a hydrocodone haze
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Ship 02:03
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One evening I woke upon my ship I saw the waves crash and the boat began to tip I yelled for the boys, we're all gonna sink the boys they just laughed and continued to drink me, i had a date, a few ports west i was supposed to meet the girl i love best but now what'll i do with my ship going down? i'll swim to that boardwalk even if i drown.
31.
Missing Steps 01:17
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watcher of his kingdom watching them all watch out Mr. Watcher don't you fall the wall you've climbed is much too high. watch out for the mistress with a loaded gun watch out for her man who's the sinking sun long time no see are you here to see me? prone to feeling strange and missing steps prone to feeling like i'm out of breath i liked to live it cost me my life.
32.
Honey 02:28
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honey when i go to bed, will you still be there when i get home? honey will you kiss my head? i feel far away and don't ask me where i strayed 'cause it always gets hard when you're on the run trying to figure out what you're running from always looking behind ya what are you worried about? are you one of those my dear friend painter told me about?
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Innocent 01:48
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sweet Chicago mama let me follow you down i can see right through you with your fabric so thin your eyes are nice and split you shoot up like it's innocent sweet Chicago slims do you have room for one more?
34.
Not Sure 02:07
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I live in a town where the drunkards drown their honesty in their drink and the sailors on leave pay me to sing as they walk a few blocks to the liquor store but i'm not sure who it is i'm singing for as i try to endure jealousy's selfish whore and she's not sure who it is she's working for on this lonely port watch the ships sail away.
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Hiding 01:24
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One of these days you won't have to hide anymore but as for today, they're coming so get behind the door you wanna live dangerous? i can take you there a couple of strange hypnotists run their fingers through my hair. one of these weeks i shall be released but as for the weak i'm still among them you wanna live dangerous? i can take you there a couple of strange hypnotists run their fingers through my hair.
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So Long 03:29
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Runaround Sally makin' jokes everybody laughs when they hear her croak Thumbnail Hudson by the riverbank everybody asks him what he thinks i had a dream we drove to Boston you kissed my cheek an' told me you were exhausted oh, so long i will see you around Saxophone Joe keeps the microphone I was living low on the Afterglow you came by just to let me know you couldn't do what you wanted to. but I had a dream that we drove to Boston you kissed my cheek and told me you were exhausted oh, so long i will see you around.
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Was a Gentleman, You Were All in Black 01:00
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you were standing there with your fiddle in your hand i was a gentleman you were all in black so I hid away in your mother's place while my friend went insane a burden that i weighed
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Somewhere in Eugene (dust road version) 03:38
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i'm wearing bluejeans somewhere in Eugene siting on the city steps smoking a cigarette i woke up in california choking on an apple core sitting by the water shore still wondering about the score up on confusion hill all the hippie's live there still dreamin' bout license plates making a big escape just a few steps west you'd be in a white dress with a halo of sage around your head An' there must be guests in Eden 'cause all the rooms are full California must be dreaming 'cause I feel like Santa Cruz Hattie Tom and the Chicken Witch were trying to figure how to make it rich with Maybelline and her bad hat sweet Tallulah and troubled Max they were lost somewhere down the road I was busy dreaming of Chicago the gypsy in the mansion home the lighthouse on the west coast but i'm not quite satisfied yet with all these aloof sights i've found up in my head

credits

released July 29, 2017

Cast (in order of appearance):

Ian Taylor: piano, guitar, drums, bass, banjo, synthesizer, pump organ,
Cation Davis: drums on Alabama Moon
Sesha Marie: vocals, violin on Turns, South Chicago Breakdown, and Somewhere in Eugene
Lauren Rivè: vocals on Old Cars, guitar on Nashville at 5pm,
Jody: himself
Cortney McCoy: vocals on Halo of Sage
Cecilie: vocals on Halo of Sage
Ashley Mays: vocals on Halo of Sage
All other musical arrangements made by Ian Taylor
All songs written by Ian Taylor except for Old Cars co-written with Lauren Rivè
Beloved photo by Ashley Mays.

Alabama Moon recorded in As Vultures Circle's studio space in Mobile, AL. Chinese New Year was recorded in nashville by Tony Smith and which I later mixed down with the extra tracks added. Japanese Hat was recorded on Aspens porch as well as Hyrdrocodone Haze. Thanks to Jody for sharing with me on This is What Jody would've changed, recorded at Charlie Bob's in Nashville. Gettin' Evicted was recorded in a studio space in Clarksville, Halo of Sage was recorded in my old Volvo Station Wagon with additional harmonies added at the Amityville Records studio space, Heavy Swallow Children was recorded at Belmont School of Music in Nashville. Old Cars was recorded in a Volstate Community college practice room, as well as So Long. Was a Gentleman recorded at Angels old house. The intro to Mistress Planet was recorded with a pump organ in a front yard, all additional harmonies, decisions, and arrangements done by Ian Taylor in new york city.
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