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Listen to Your Discontent

by Big Dudee Roo

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1.
Raven in the wintertime, alighting on my mind give me dreams and mend the seams across these broken skies 'cause I cannot see through the clouds to the places where you go call to me from sleeping trees and tell me what you know yeah, show me what you know Your mysteries reveal themselves when my mind is out of place I couldn't say just what they mean but I can feel it in your grace so spread your wings of colored glass before you hide behind the clouds you've given me something to say but I don't yet know how well I wanna shout it loud Bring down your rain of crows to bear upon my thoughts lonesome as they sometimes are I haven't learned to stop well I wanna be what you must see locked away inside of me to bring the end of who I've been could finally set it free will you take me to be free?
2.
I've been wrong before and I've been knocking at deadlocked doors yeah, I've been wrong before tonight Moonlight fills this quiet scene you, me and these vacant streets I've seen enough to know where this must lead I've been thinking about all the runaways I've been around with their cloudy eyes on roads with empty signs The space between is dark and wide I send my ship across the night I feel light from you like a distant moon Authority leads us astray and drowns the voice inside, so faint if we tie together we might still find our way back inside again I've been waiting around for a key and a loving sound to leave your lips and fill this emptiness The ocean waits to take you away and I can't find the words to say what I feel tonight, I know that you can't bear to let yourself stay I've been thinking about all the runaways who run aground and find themselves on shores they thought they escaped
3.
Being Free 06:10
Lying by a dying fire with the full moon around my eyes thoughts drowned in frogsong, a good friend by my side the river was rolling by, quiet into my mind I closed my lids and my eyes were sent back to a time when There was a feast in the river, all down the line like a taste from the giver, the giver of your mind there was a cry and then a shiver running down my spine People were just human then, another part of this breathing ground they quarreled and cried, they were born and died and they laid together when the night sank down but when the cannibal tide rolled by, drowned their hearts and stole their pride the land withdrew its open mind and the river was vacuumed dry Wide open and breathing, teeming with life and death and life again poisoned and seething with the black breath of industry, seeing stars through a haze stolen and torn asunder, dying and brought to you by genocide restoring and imploring, fighting, rewilding, and still giving this land isn't our land this land is its own The half-moon haloed by slow, translucent clouds sifting through a haze of hostile city light to arrive on your face anonymous and unacknowledged, forgotten with so much timeless knowledge of how to live and how to die and how to be a human being, being free
4.
So take my sense of wonder to the outskirts of my comfort feel the last breath of summer escape your lungs and shudder through your lips and into me the fingers grip so pleasantly That autumn scent that came and went and left the bare-limbed present tense on me So take that burden off me with the words you spoke so softly when your breath finds its way to swarm my ears and then straight behind my face, into my brain stir through my heart and fill my veins
5.
An abandoned factory building where subversive thoughts combine foundations begin to crumble as the fists they start to rise When the aimless blade of science lies in the wetiko hands they've come to take another live of a living land And the feeling's taken over and it's that of a living kind so go and tell the others that wisdom is hard to find Sun's light in every footstep stardust in every tear in the forest of kinship life's never felt so near All hearts will mesh together and remember how to see all bodies are connected it's a bond of everything The feeling's taken over
6.
I know that time will not change you but there are so many who wish it to I'll rip their heads out from the sand if they still can't see I'll put them back again The edifice of power stands in the way of those who would fight for life to stay but there are psychopaths who hide behind it and they have names, faces and addresses We're gonna sink your bodies in the earth you fear and let them rot leave you lying helpless for the crows they go for the eyes justice dealt so beautifully as you become that which you hate soil will torture your soul as your death brings new life You know that life stands on the line and those who destroy don't take their time and they'll never stop 'cause we ask nice this culture's diseased and wants to die I'll run with you if you'll stand by me we'll hold hands and let our fear be released I'll stand by you if you'll ride with me we'll hold hands and let our fear...
7.
I can't believe in it if it can't believe in me please stop indulging me with images of what I don't want to be I said no, but no just turns you on it's an evil trick you've built for yourself take what you want then leave it broken on the floor like a burnt-out lightbulb you can't use anymore She believes, though she doesn't know that she doesn't know what's best for herself how to reconcile what you've always known in your bones with the ambience of a culture in which you'll never feel at home It teaches you and it teaches me and we teach each other to quiet our desires and submit to a higher power it's make-believe and they'll make you bleed til you agree that domination is the force that moves the world And it teaches you and it teaches me and we teach each other guilt and shame and no connection, and it's too late to change direction it teaches you and it teaches me and we teach each other and when we get close we still feel far from one another There are no higher authorities There is no need to heed the majority There are no higher authorities You are your own
8.
Crimson trains and grey twilight been talking with the northern lights that ancient language still lingers in my head makes my heart race, no words said Do you feel the same, do you feel the same, do you feel the same? Crimson trains and grey twilight pull the shades and rest my eyes and disconnect me from the forge of my time my heart needs relation words can't find Do you feel the same, do you feel the same, do you feel the same? Forgot what we had missed out on being born beneath an artificial sun never seen the stars, or what they all look like been twenty-one years, don't seem right Do you feel ashamed, do you feel ashamed, do you feel ashamed? 'Cause I feel ashamed, I feel ashamed, I feel ashamed Crimson trains and grey twilight white pines that filled the sky we've seen tragedy from the comfort of our h.o.m.e.s. unwilling to accept, yet always known Do you feel the same, do you feel the same, do you feel the same?
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10.
Let It Rise 04:33
Hey y'all, what you after? ringing with hollow laughter you know that time will take you down Listen to your discontent there's something there that's brewing ask what it wants and heed its call In time all things must pass I know you know that's true but it seems you take this life for granted We're young, and it's hard to be a child of alienation but narcissism isn't what we need Hey y'all, what's the matter your emptiness has shattered see fists rise across the sea Celebrate this discontent hold hands and let it rise souls showing, naked in your eyes Thousands march and thousands stand and thousands scream out their demands feelings they never knew they had This is the rise of a new world we've been its gestation now it's born, crying into the air
11.
It's so easy to get lost inside your home a windowless room where you can only feel alone where the sun can't run its fingers through your hair and let you know you're always there and it's not easy when you're digging up a grave aim to revive the life you know that you must save and put this one in its place Learning how to be reborn lift your knife and let life take hold I can never know what I have never felt these bones aren't hollow they're just untapped a child feels the earth breathe around her feet and I can hear all the voices if I only let them speak I take this gentle spade though I have yet to learn the art and blindly peer into the outskirts of my heart Picking flowers for a crow you have your friends and I have mine Think of all the times that you can still recall when this world seemed to hold any meaning at all possibilities perched on the shoulders of the wind and as a kid you searched for where truth was hidden how many a language has ceased to pass from lips or leaves? everywhere our kin is on the run, and if love can't move you to act, have you forgotten how to breathe? Picking flowers for a crow you have your friends and I have mine Leaving all I've known behind you have your life and I have mine *partly based on the poem "Flowers for a Crow" by Richard Brautigan
12.
T.H. He always said, with a grin, "It's all about making memories"-- the better part of twenty years spent as a drummer on the road with unknown bands in dark bars, summer festivals and Econoline vans-- the stories are all he has left, the only things that cut through the thousand-mile stare. The present only has weight when it becomes the past and going home is like watching himself in a dream. Making memories forgetting the present W.A.L. The road always called to him, a distant, unattainable lover sleeping in the future on California shores. With bass guitar in hand and mop-shock of black hair on his head, he followed like a gas-powered ghost. Forty years pass by like cars on freeways, the bulk of them spent as a driver over-the-road. Hauling fifty-three feet of water heaters, loading and unloading them like faces and towns in his mind. Making memories forgetting the present Making memories falling face-first into the future W.L.L. Memories come rushing back like a flooded collage spilled across space and time. Faces resurface where they don't belong and seventy years spent with sound, practiced mind are washed away and scattered. He drove a truck like his son, who he drove away to the West, to follow a future that wound through time and flowed back to its source. He was a scab-busting union man and now our pride and the stories are all that's left of his mind. Making memories forgetting the present

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released December 17, 2011

Big Dudee Roo:
Justin Dore - lead guitar, backing vocals
Aurora Lewis - lead vocals
Max Lockwood - lead vocals, bass, acoustic guitars, keys, cello, songs
Kurt Rizley - drums
Nate Wagner - banjo, guitar, songs

with special guests:
Samuel Seth Bernard - lap steel guitar, Rhodes on track 12
Karisa Wilson - violin
Alex Hamel - percussion, organ on track 3

Engineered by Alex Hamel.
Mixed by Alex Hamel and Max.
Produced by BDR and Alex Hamel.
Mastered by Glenn Brown (gbp-studio-acoustics.com).
Photos by Jon Mollema (shortstackmedia.com).
Disc art, lino-cuts, handmade paper by Nate.
Artwork layout and design by Paul Golm and Nate.

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Big Dudee Roo Grand Rapids, Michigan

Big Dudee Roo is committed to rock and roll, and the making of it. Started by high school friends Justin Dore, Max Lockwood, Kurt Rizley and Nate Wagner in the small town of Wayland, MI, the band has matured into a powerhouse of driving rhythms, heavy guitars, and thoughtful, poetic lyricism, combining the raw energy of Crazy Horse with the polish of Pearl Jam and Tom Petty. ... more

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