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Summer of No Light

by The Natvral

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1.
Lucifer’s Glory Spare me the story of Lucifer’s glory Swore he was soaring as he fell down the stairs In an Eden of garters, he wrote to his father Said can you tell me what I’m down here for? Said can you hear me under your floor when all I want is to fall some more? In the concrete streets he whispers discreet, Dance with me if you like It’s the kinda step you just don’t forget I don’t want to be right if it’s right with them I don’t want to be born if it’s born again I just want to drink ’til the world don’t spin Do I remember you right? Smoking in the shadows ‘neath the lavender light  Looking pretty proud that you lost a fight Do I remember you right? Do I remember you still? You said do what you want, but I want what you will When the thrill is gone, was the thrill so wrong?  Do I remember you still? So don’t tell me how love’s supposed to be I’ve seen June brides in the fall For a second then I coulda sworn heaven  Was catching your light like a long dead star Was wrapping a tree with a Japanese car On the lips of abyss and a step too far Do I remember you right? With your oxblood stride, lazy and light  swaying in the grays of the dying night Do I remember you right? Do I remember you still? You said the flowers I brought should be alive still Well maybe the beauty is they never will Do I remember you still? So don’t tell me now what this son’s become A taste was all I did need to know and then I knew too well The hint of ash in my naked mouth That one look back when you’d been cast out It’s the kind of loss you don’t live without Do I remember you right? With a tender desire and your jaw clenched tight You were singing to the crows when you’re out of sight Do I remember you right? Do I remember you still? Kicking me the scraps when you had your fill and leaving me with more and less than the bill Do I remember you still?
2.
Carolina 05:05
Carolina Feel no peace and make no war, so what is it you want? In coastal climes you’ll wait all time for some silent detente Mourning for a poet who never spoke a word Bury your young father with enmity insured Throw the dishes in the street, no one eats here anymore Tired of playing house with some disgraced philosopher  Saturdays you work a double at the uni store I don’t demand your attention like the child I was before Carolina, I can’t hold you anymore Seems I never really was when I was yours Should I feel some shame for hanging on in vain to the sight of your tongue trying to catch the acid rain? Yeah, the sight of your light  fading out and in again  Stranded in some century that we left in disrepair Combing through the dunes like some burner angel’s hair No mind or no matter, you’re uncomfortably kind When your windows shattered, there was nothing much to find Carolina, I can’t hold you anymore Seems I never really was when I was yours Should I feel some shame for hanging on so long to the touch of your hand falling where it don’t belong  Out on the shivering sand as the sun was burning down Carolina, I can’t hold you anymore Seems I never really was since I was yours Should I feel some shame for hanging on in vain? Carolina, will we never meet again?
3.
Summer of Hell Your cousin sings a song of a generation dead not gone Drunk in a summer haze, terror comes to me in waves Shut the door, this is love and war How do I know that you are no enemy? Please believe we are gonna bleed for a paradise we’re not gonna see Carve our shame into the trees, but don’t come to me on bended knee And if you know this tune too well, be a friend and never tell When your cigarette burns blister and there’s no end to July, tell the friends you’ve never met that your well has all run dry Wear a costume of composure  when I say I never will love you like you love me, but oh you love me still You can write it down for somedays that you know will never come, when you’re tired of playing poor and I’m tired of playing young Never mind the coming judgment,  the end’s not mine to tell I will always be there laughing in your summertime of hell
4.
The Stillness Repair, repair, but you still can see the cracks Say you like it better, but you can’t get better back Bow your head and ask the sisters what you must Have you forgotten you were once of flesh and blood? Well there’s only so much time and wine, and I’ve taken more than mine and thine So show me somewhere I can sleep tonight Well we had it out and spoke in shouts I’m not the one you would’ve thought  But sometimes in the stillness we’re alright A life of no crimes save for those that no one minds Always found it funny how you couldn’t swallow one good line As I stare out the window, searching how to fly If I fall 30 feet, it’s just to duck disappointment in your eye  Well you said your piece and shed your grief, and gave your faith to disbelief  So show me somewhere I can sleep tonight  The candles burn, the hours turn I know you never could be sure But sometimes in the stillness we’re alright In the stillness we’re alright Don’t trace the faultlines they’ll be there by morning light In the stillness we’re alright I can’t help wondering, but I should just be quiet I can’t help wondering You can’t help wondering No, I can’t help wondering if maybe we just might
5.
A Glass of Laughter Quiet what you want from me, we’ve been through this before I don’t deny your discontents, I might even lend you more It’s clear the days we sped away are coming to a head So pour me a glass of laughter, and take me right to bed I never learned to make amends with all this world demands I could not buy you winter gloves, but I always took your hand And now you thrust your fingers deep in your coat instead So pour me a glass of laughter, and take me right to bed And if I fight your kindness, I need it all the same But why you keep on coming ‘round, well that’s difficult to name It’s true I do not love you for your beauty, though it’s yours It’s just when waves surround me, I search only for your shores It’s just some ancient instinct, deprived of heart or head So pour me a glass of laughter, and take me right to bed
6.
Stephanie Don’t Live Here Anymore I know she was your friend too, but she never let you near And when that summer flew, I knew she’d be ditching soon Lilies in September rain, I still miss my blue-eyed one Dancing with a cocaine smile, long after the lights came on Sometimes I think I let her down,  and sometimes I think I tried Doesn’t really matter now she’s gone, and I’m just half alive Stephanie don’t live here anymore  I held her as best I could but just couldn’t keep it tight Walked her ‘cross the Burnside Bridge  She’s still on that other side Sometimes I think I loved her best, but you know that’s not right Now she’s as cold as April snows, and I can’t even cry Stephanie don’t live here anymore  I still hear her ugly laugh when I shut my eyes I loved her when I was too young  to ever love her right So if you’re looking for her, boy, it’s better not to find Stephanie don’t live here anymore
7.
Your Temperate Ways I see young men walkin’ catatonic, talkin’  to the ghosts that circle their feet The spirit realm is calling, but I’m too busy falling in love with a swan in heat You say you’re nothing like me, you tell it to me nightly,  and rightly and contritely I say that you’re thinking too much of me for someone so above me, but you think too much, anyway Yeah, you think too much of me, anyway So now you drag me to sleep with a promise we’ve kept, though it’s ever oblique And I know how Jesus died, he was a cousin on my mother’s side But we don’t speak of him anymore Now I’m prone to wonder what phylum I am under ‘cuz I can’t quite be your kind Was it Catholic inaction or prurient attraction that sewed us side by side? Now my wilderness years appear to be here in the deserts of the garden state You’re asking me to stay, but there’s a Coach USA And the Coach USA don’t wait So now, you ask me to say which way I’ve strayed from your temperate ways I know how Jesus died, he was, of course, routinized  But we don’t speak of him anymore
8.
Wait for Me 04:08
Wait for Me What’s in your mouth if it isn’t the truth? Come spit it out, I’m angry with you You’ve got everything I need like you always do, but you’re blue like me all the same Have you forgot I’m nothing like you? You’re talking ‘bout the fall like it’s something new You’re giving me a time, February 29, and expect me to leap on through So wait for me on the other side of the world, my love I got money enough If that’s what you ask Oh wait for me on the other side of the world, my love It’s not life where I live, ‘least you wouldn’t call it such I hold my breath and cross myself in the orthodox way, right to left You say I’m a Jew, well I am, I guess But you are my cross to bear And I want to find out how our days grow dark as we stumble on down through Yoyogi Park It’s a shame to be born, but now that I am, I will take the form of a man Oh, wait for me on the other side of the world, my love I got money ‘neath my tongue if that’s what you require Wait for me, my love
9.
Wintergreen 05:32
Wintergreen Wipe the icicles from your eyes ‘cuz the winter’s almost gone, and I know your brother loves me as the sunlight hits my skin  But all I want is to be a friend to you All I want is to see you tomorrow with your eyes like auroras and your heart wintergreen Oh, come along now, come along my ragged queen When I found you in a snowdrift,  never wanting to go home, knew you were the one I’d die with I think I’d die for you to know That all I want is to be a friend to you All I want is to see you tomorrow with your head wrapped in halos And your heart wintergreen

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released September 1, 2023

Produced, Engineered and Mixed by Andy Savours

Assistant Engineer: Joshua Rumble

Additional Engineering: Danny Taylor

Mastered by Heba Kadry, NYC

Vocals and Guitar: Kip Berman
Drums: Brian Alvarez
Bass: Josh Rumble
Keys: Kyle Forester
Pedal Steel: Mike Brenner
Additional Vocals: Sarah Chihaya

All songs written by Kip Berman,
Painbow Music LTD. ASCAP

Art by Jess Krichelle

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