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One More Notorious Crime

by Finn & His Rustkickers

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1.
You’re headed to your destination in your very best suit, hell-bent on self-preservation, I know I’m gonna get the boot. And all your edge has been ground down, there’s no more steps to follow you around, and I think you might have just enough time for one more notorious crime. I very nearly lost my breath with all your turns and twists, you saved me from a certain death with just a flick of your wrist. Yeah, and all your edge has been ground down, there’s no more steps that follow you around, and I think you might have just enough time for one more notorious crime. You took no time to get so serious, straight to familiar from mysterious, one from the other, one crime to another… I been waiting for dinner for hours & hours resigned to my fate, the table is set with candles and flowers, but my heart’s on the plate. Yeah, and all your edge has been ground down, no more steps that follow you around, one more time to show this town that you’re the one with the biggest sound, and I think you might have just enough time for one more notorious crime, one more notorious crime, one more notorious crime
2.
Well there’s been much more collected than has ever been owed, more truth demonstrated in your lies, you drive your car down the boulevard: the signifier & the signified. Oh, you never asked for much. No, just more and more of such and such. Oh, you never ever heard me bleeding. Either your vision is fading or your hearing’s receding. You try to achieve forgetfulness, it’s as simple as mind over what matters, you try to relieve all this talk talk talk, you know you’ll never survive without all of your chatter. Oh, you never asked for much. No, just more and more of such and such. Oh, you never saw me leaving. Your interest was fading before my hairline’s receding. You give me the sack Jack didn’t give me no slack, you cut me back Mac just like Tierra Whack, there ain’t no proposal with no fingers a-ringing, but we couldn’t part ways with Martina DaSilva singing… You weighed all the facts with your mathematical mind, like Einstein, you measured my reaction, tied down with your books in a literal bind, I think it’s time for some action. Oh, I never asked for much, just more and more and more of such and such. Oh, I never heard you reading. Either your voice it was fading or my hearing’s receding… what? …with Martina DaSilva still singing…
3.
Gin & Lime 03:47
With a lightning bolt a tear in the dark the devil to me the devil to be, dogs are out howled and barked the year to be has hollowed me, I stumbled drunk mad with glee filled to the brim with our philosophy, yeah I’ve had enough I’ve had enough I’m out I’m out I’m out! I need to find how to pass the time, your hands on me your voice your rhyme, there’s only so far that I can climb I’m counting on your grip and your gin & lime. Yeah the music it rails through my ears: 3000 years Rich 3000 years, from The Red & The Black and back to blueBlack, it’s a Tesla recoil a Tesla recoil! I need to find how to pass this time, your hands on me your voice your rhyme, there’s only so far that I can climb I’m counting on your grip and your gin & lime. Yeah down in the hay in the endless damp, in dark no stars no moon no lamp, oh yeah yeah yeah, let’s climb that slope, sink or swim, despair or hope. …the vertebral silence indisposes the licit sail… …colorless green ideas sleep furiously… I need to find how to pass the time, your hands on me your voice your rhyme, down the streets all through the night, first got loose and then got tight, just in time I saw that sign, it just mighta been by design, there’s only so far that I can climb but I’m counting on your grip and your gin & lime.
4.
I had a friend once who moved with no reason, I’ll know him someday in the time and the season. “Bad times can’t be all bad,” he said, must’ve been my mind that he read, perhaps sometime later I said… I knew a girl once who moved in slow motion, I knew her later and she gave me a potion. “Some times can’t be all bad,” she said, it must’ve been my mind that she read, perhaps sometime later I said: What am I doing here in September? What was I thinking? Now, I can’t remember. The year has gone by in a whirl of sinking and changing the world. I knew a drunk once who travelled quite slowly, I knew him Thursday he turned out to be holy. “Good times can’t be all bad,” he said, I must’ve let it get to my head, perhaps some time later I said… …well, I said… Well I had a friend once who moved in slow motion, I knew him later and he gave me a potion. “Bad times can’t be all bad,” he said, it must’ve been my mind that he read, perhaps sometime later he said… I knew a drunk once who travelled quite slowly, I knew her Thursday she turned out to be holy. “Good times can’t be all bad,” she said, I must’ve let it get to my head, perhaps some time later I said… I said, what am I doing here in September? What was I thinking? Now I can’t remember. The years have gone by in a whirl of blinkin and changing the world, yeah what am I doing here in September? What was I thinking? Now I can’t remember, the years have gone by in a whirl of drinking and changing the world… …in September…
5.
You said “I love you” so I said it too, I didn’t know what else to say. Didn’t even have a drink, I guess I didn’t think to hold my tongue at bay. In defiance of all gravity she hummed a melody haunted by Satie… I wandered the ruins of Pilgrim State, yeah, I made America late again, yeah I was cruel, I held her high but I dropped her low down, I treated her like a fool. In defiance of all gravity she hummed a melody haunted by Satie… Lester, Lester, I’ll always remember the copper kettle in December Power’s gone out, it’s getting hard to breathe Stand over the copper kettle and breathe in the steam In defiance of all gravity she hummed a melody haunted by Satie… In defiance of all gravity…
6.
Stephanie 02:24
Stephanie treads where I’m nervous, my heart is overrun, I thought I was impervious, all the while my walls fall down beneath her love. Desperately I tell myself to drop the lines that just don’t rhyme, laughing out loud, but the jokes are all hers and not mine. Stephanie, my gift of life, oh baby, I watch you float through the tripping fields at night ‘til you’re out of sight. I can’t even fool myself, my heart is lying up upon a shelf, you are my only friend in this world of trouble. Stephanie, my gift of life, oh baby, I watch you float through the tripping fields at night ‘til you’re out of sight. I can’t even feel no pain, the sun is shining out in the rain, and I feel so lost yet so content again. Oh Stephanie, most definitely, oh Stephanie I love you… I said…
7.
Well the sailors fall out on the steps of The Pit, and the band’s out of tune, yeah they don’t give a shit, and the boys are all girls, just don’t say what you saw, and the whores they all look like your mother-in-law. Hard or soft, hear them cough, Devil’s Wharf. Now she’ll take all her teeth out for just the right price, he’ll dress like a geisha and boil your rice, on your hands and your knees she just might walk you home, on a leash and a collar she’ll throw you a bone. Hard or soft, hear them cough, Devil’s Wharf. Well now you’ll make a killing if you’re only willing to set a price, slow dance or hard core, you get what you pay for, the least of your problems is lice. The gamblers, the card sharks, please take my advice, it’s probably snake eyes, they’ve loaded the dice, don’t bring your knife, it’ll leave you a mess, what they got here is bigger be it metal or flesh. Hard or soft, hear them cough, Devil’s Wharf, yeah, hard or soft, hear them cough, Devil’s Wharf.
8.
We’ve got pretend kings, all bow down and kiss the ring, stand up and sing my boys, let the anthem ring. Ring out like a broken bell, an awful book but still it sells, a blackened candle in the night, my friends, ain’t enough to make it right. If you’ve had enough, time to toughen up, let’s rise – elevator goin’ up. Let’s get off of these meds, take our hands from above our heads… Jerks live off of the fat of land, drunk on power, they belch commands. Not too proud to wash the blood from their hands, they issue edicts in Comic Sans. Kick down the door and change the locks, there’s more meaning to life than those stocks. Let’s get it together, man, pull up your socks, sister, let’s take a swig and give ‘em a shock. If you’ve had enough, it’s time to toughen up, let’s rise – elevator goin’ up. Let’s get off of these meds, take our hands from above our heads… elevator goin’ up… There’s a fire and here’s the plan, yeah, we’re adrift, but there’s the land. We’re tied together by a tether, we’re in the muck and the weather, whatever… Kick down the door and change the locks, there’s more meaning to life than those stocks. Let’s get it together, man, pull up those Nike socks, let’s take a swig and give ‘em a shock… if you’ve had enough, it’s time to toughen up, let’s rise – elevator goin’ up. Let’s get off of these meds, take your hand from off your head… elevator goin’ up…
9.
Fading Away 06:46
There’s a sniper on a hillside, waiting and watching, on top of the world today. There’s no random violence, just another social problem, cop of the world for a day. Take the hate you’ve been saving for another day, use it before it’s faded away… There’s a light here growing, though butchered by darkness, something they can’t take away. There’s a cool soothing river, though the ocean is burning, time to change all my ways. Take the hate you’ve been saving for another day, use it before it’s faded away… I remember the day I first saw you, bloodied in the trenches I found you, on the very last day of the battle I slipped my arms tight around you. The danger had passed in the morning, lay there alone in my bedroom, not knowing if it was a dream or a warning, watching it fading away… Take the love you’ve been saving for another day, use it before it’s faded away… I remember the day I first saw you, bloodied in the trenches I found you, the very last day of the battle, slipped my arms tight around you. The danger had passed in the morning, lay there alone in my bedroom, never knowing if it was a dream or a warning, watching it fading away… We lie here together just fading away…
10.
Time Flies 02:08
Is this the best that you can do? Is this the most that you can muster? If this is lust then it’ll have to do. Are you about to blush or bluster? Do you ever want me when I take my time? Do you ever need me in this world of mine? Let’s hurry before time flies… Let’s slice it up and eat the cake, no more fuss and no more fluster. It’s not broken so don’t pull the brake, let’s give this lust some luster…
11.
Got OK Luck 03:50
(…yep…)
12.
Stars are falling, the feral beasts they are crawling. It’s getting near the end, it’s time for foe and friend to mend our ways. The measure of success is how you deal with a mess. Paths, they will falter, what should last will always alter. Remember, what you send you give and you don’t lend - it’s just gone to the world. The measure of success is how you deal with this mess. Your voice, I can hear what you’re saying. The big foist, I can hear what you’re singing. Sing on… The sky is big and widening, the sun it’s still shining. Well just around the bend, you find a line you’ve been searching for again. The measure of success is how you deal with a mess, yeah the measure of success is how you deal with this mess.

credits

released August 2, 2019

JOHN BORGHARDT - bass (5-11), bvox

ALLEN CRISCUOLO - drums/percussion, bvox

BILL HAFENER - electric, acoustic, baritone and 12 string guitars; keyboards, bvox

DELANEY HAFENER - bass (2,3,4,12), harmony vox

FINN MILLER - voice, guitars, mandolin, banjo, percussion, theremin

Horn arrangement on “Stephanie” by AARON KINARD



Special guests:

ZOSHA WARPEHA, fiddle (4)

AARON KINARD, trombone (6)
TOPHER MILLER, sax (6)

ANTHONY LANNI, 7-string guitar (9)
C. OLSEN: percussion (8)

Audio clips on "Got OK Luck" sampled from "Century of the Atom" LP

All sleeve & label art: the magnificent DAVID LOWE
Editing and color correction of artwork scans: KELSEY SUCENA


Songs by Finn Miller, except 4, 6 & 10 by Jim Fletcher & Finn Miller; 9 by Jimi Durso & Finn Miller.
All songs EEL Music (BMI), except 9 EEL Music & JimiDurso.com
C. 2019 Silo Recordings


PRODUCED BY BILL HAFENER & FINN MILLER
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Bill Hafener at Silo Recordings, Long Island NY


In addition to our guests, thanks to some other friends:
GUSTAVO RODRIGUEZ & staff @ L.I.C. Bar,
bassist extraordinaire DAN KENDALL,
CATHY MEINHOLD,
Finn thanks Rashmi
John thanks Barbara, Dylan, Jeordie,Emily, Zoe
Allen thanks Marilee & Tom
Bill thanks Cathy, Cailie, Delaney, Shelby, Chris Olsen

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