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II

by mim stoner

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1.
Came back to this hole Thinking God Bless the USA Thinking Aunt Jemima married Uncle Sam Thinking in their sweet union They conceived the Lord And that's how all this blessing began My tuber/ My night shade/ My roots/ And my country/ And my spade. Came back to this hole I was Sick of potatoes Sick of you and Sick of me Came back to this sack OH That I was born from Back to the home Of the Brave and the Free And I'm deathly aware Of the dents in my piety They Do not compare With the garden Variety They Cuss and they cloy and they Spud up the bones That war destroyed Came back to this hole Just-a looking for some sugar honey Looking for a place to lay my head We tapped up dry Aint no starch to be scared up Darlin' Said our prayers and Went to bed My tuber/ My night shade/ My roots/ And my country/ And my spade.
2.
Catherine 03:26
So she says I love you Just so Your heart And see her through I only trust What I can chew Like stone I crush them Till they're true Oh Catherine/Not you too Ohh Catherine/Not you too I close the wall My four friends breathe I know them all Like enemies Oh Catherine/Not you too But if you wanna turn him in his grave Cross him like he died up there You can say Dear God, I Pray! But I fear you don't hear what I say Oh Catherine/Not you too Ohh Catherine/Not you too It came a dirge An epithet Have you not heard That I'm upset? Of course you have! We've chewed the fat! Grown hoarse and destitute on that! Oh Catherine. And cowardice has a hard time With a pen He's in he's in He's out again You can't win This way my friend Oh Catherine/Catherine Ohh Catherine/Catherine So says she all hail your cud All hail your feed All hail your mud Oh Catherine/Not you too Ohh Catherine/Not you too Oh Catherine/Catherine Oh Catherine/Catherine Oh Catherine. Catherine.
3.
Swing low my dear Ain't nothing to fear Just my bone and my body against you I feel you boy And hear your point but We've got a winter to get through {mmm} I'm up all night Sweet Moses! Oh Sister do you read me? No I'm strapped to the page Of the cage I made Looking for delivery {mmm} Swing low, Sweet Chariot over me Swing low, Sweet Chariot over me Swing low! Sweet Chariot Over me. Comin' for to carry me free.
4.
Old Edge 04:03
There on the Old Edge Plundering under We were some Self-Humpty Wagers of War We bore our Yolks To the Tune of the floor And the Crack of Thunder We both knew We both knew And Loved it Shell-shocked we Deviled our Time 'tween the Bleed and the Bite 'Tween the Edge And the Plummet We walked a Fine line Wild and Untamed Some say that we Cut our Bodies to Form More like we cut To the Eye of the Storm Stood there to be Unmade Old Ash in the Ashtray Hard-boiled little Body Got me in my Egg-shape Cannonballed Made me Disincarnate Put me in the Party I'm a tall Glass of too Much Much too much Rain We both Knew And we both found it Lovely Retching up Bullets to Plates We were White in the Face But we had that Young Comradery Comradery! Took it upon myself to Git Now I don't know you Anymore I lost my Edge I lost my Shit And I forget how it was Before Swiss holes in my Memory Don't know if I'm Sorry Don't know if I Should Be Are you Mad Left you in the Ashtray Hard-boiled little Body Cracked up in your Egg-shape Are you Ashamed
5.
Interlude 02:49
I am a roven one I have a fork in my lung Does that make me anyone? Don't you tell me true. What of my rendering? What of that knife in my skin? Does that make me anything? Don't you tell me true. Me and my golden hair. Me and my spoon of distaste. Does that get me anywhere? Don't you tell me true. Don't you tell me true.
6.
KaKaKaboom 04:22
Empty Room/Kakakaboom I can't decide to run and hide To stay and light the fuse So lay me down easily Lay me down and let me be And lay yourself right next to me We'll wait and we'll smile and we'll bleed We'll wait and we'll smile and we'll bleed And hold me close to you I don't know what else to do If I survive the great divide I'll wait and decide when we're two Empty room/me and you Now that's the catch Someone already lit the match That set our violent swoon a'turning Oh that set our silent room a'burning Oh that set the bomb of my heart on its edge for you That set us off like that So lay me down easily Lay me down and let me be And lay yourself right next to me We'll wait and we'll smile and we'll bleed
7.
I came word of mouth Someone said in '95 I came tumbling out All was well I was alive but Babe in bassinnet Makes architecture shift uneasy One whole town in the Midwest Crumbled down my birthday evening I read rubble like a palm or Like a page of Our Bodies Our Hells I knew we were not satisfied I knew we'd have to satisfy ourselves So lend me your old river anyhow! If I can't burn 'em down Then I'll flood 'em out This old thing of lumber Was once my house I've tried all the doors But I'm not allowed. {{Ain't it fun driving when you know the way? Take me anywhere/do anything I know my place Everything is fertile if you lick it right And put it in your face}} After a long time I'm ok. Moved into a bigger bedroom So I could hold myself In more space alone I- Never loved it here But here's the only place I Ever called home I Don't wanna disabuse you now But you know that you've Got everything wrong But you can't hear it from me anyway I was growing up good At least that's what my mom would say I did just like I should Now what'll they say of the love we make And from that loving come to bloom "Women" who refuse the moon! and "Men" in fishnets and high-heeled shoes! When I dream my dreams are huge!* *When I dream my dreams are mine When I dream my dreams are infantine! So lend me your old river anyhow If I can't burn 'em down Then I'll flood 'em out This whole thing of lumber Was once my house I've tried all the doors But I'm not allowed
8.
I'm fine I'm fine I just threw up in my mouth a bit I'm fine It's fine We're all suckling comfort out of it At least I'm honest Is that true? If I only know part of it And only part of that gets to you Trellis the tomatoes No one trellised me So I'll keep my own chin up Esophagus and spit up My own tit and teeth If you're looking for solace DVD and braless She is obcsolete You can have my produce The fruit of my labor But you can't have me I'm ready For what and tell me when again I've made my mind up Carved in carbon Carved and caving in I have raged in round-up Beg your pardon I am garden thin Jury of the parents Oh my God I Bone up but they all got bones in them already I don't wanna Everybody's running with their scissors open Dollar sign in every orifice and opening I don't wanna I'm fine Believe me I have made myself a house in your economy And the hell I made I made it voluntarily I protested grandly And sabotaged my family And the mess I made I made it so you'd be scared of me And the mess I made I made it so you'd be scared of me

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II; Songs About One Thing or Another is a thought album. Old thoughts, new thoughts, red thoughts blue thoughts, II pieces together the comedy and the tragedy, the friend and the enemy, the open, the closed, the man and the woman into sack of dichotomies only to rip it open and conjure a third, more real, more better, more fuck the narrative, less lonely side of the coin.

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released January 23, 2016

All songs performed, recorded, and mixed by Mim Stoner
Special thanks to all those who have inspired and encouraged me. I know who you are even if you don't.

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