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The Hornbook

by Pingüinos

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With my fists toward the sky I stole the fire from the sun And I put the light in your big brown eyes You see I want to glow like fireflies In the Saratoga summer nights And the trees they will come alive I hear them whispering when we close our eyes And when that sun begins to rise I'm gonna shut it out And when that sun begins to rise We're gonna shut it out
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I dare not erase you from my memory Though you make my red eyes wetter But, I always find you in my sleep. You were my friend And now you are my lover under covers Oh my dear lady You oh yes you were the light and I was a mirror You remind me of the last man that I knew and you feel my body just like he used to But I feel his hands when I go to sleep and the fire between my thighs I missed you before I knew you I missed love before I knew Why oh why am I never satisfied? So I beg and plead and need and then I try again You want sex with an older man. Now sex with a younger girl. You let sex define yourself In quintessential measurements Of inches and time. But where is the feeling? It's always under covers When I'm asleep
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Fly your planes in the air to a new found intention Sail your boat to the shores of warm white sand With my head in the sky My vision’s awful cloudy My oar’s broken down I think I may drown See your friends settle down in a new pot of soil Grow too soon, it’s too cold, they forgot about the winter With my roots in the ground Still searching for a grip to hold My messy flower’s brown For the 6 legs I‘d give my life. Propellers buzz and they spin inside the engines hum, and the oils right, until my wings kiss the sky I won’t be satisfied The current’s calm, and the winds south east, my sail is taught, with my life jacket sleeves, until the horizons at my feet I will not be pleased. My skin shall never graze against another bowl of clay, dear sun, I’m on my way With arms outstretched I feel your heat The earth encased around my feet Dear sun I’m on my way My limbs of countless finger tips Swathed with a thousand thirsty lips Sip dew from the dirt up through my hips When I find you I’ll never let go Dear sun, I’m on my way
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The Ponds of Time (free) 03:12
Im gonna cast my lines behind into the ponds of time Oh how slow go the days Don’t you worry son, we’re gonna catch you one Before the sun falls away We’re gonna lace up We’re gonna march on Over those mountains Appalachian Into a bed of roses and a warm body One day you will be free Don’t you mourn her ghost for she now sees the host Shes passed through pearly gates Shes every stepping stone across the rivers we’ve gone Ramblin’ cross the states We’re gonna lace up We’re gonna paddle on Over the great lake Michigan Into a bed of roses and a warm body We’re lost in the jungle of the big city This Life’s like a knife you’ve got to cut yourself deep But one day I promise you will be free
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Late at night termites crawl inside my ears With what’s inside they built a mask to frighten off my fears Tiny hands build brittle dreams the kind that make your mother scream The kind that your ex lover sings Oh you poor little baby crying hard in your basket you’ve been (wading) in the water floating toward desire Oh your poor petty baby I found you on my doorstep But I can't let you in I’ve one of my own And one is too many and two is just absurd Oh your poor little baby One day you’ll understand. And I can hope your lover dies A shaken baby wishing for earthquakes Let the floods flow Up the Hudson to your windows An electrical storm waiting at your door Knocking in the night Grabs him by the throat Since I don’t understand I’ll just make a mess With these wooden limbs, My mask and a few trusty ants.
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Trees of Stone (free) 05:25
Oh rosey youre so far from me tonight I still feel your fingers in my spine You're older and wiser Am I still naïve to believe That I can change time Oh Mathew I miss you Now your leagues across sea Albany is nothing like back home It’s a different kind of cold Lonely’s not the word There's a lack of color here The trees are made of stone On mother I keep dreaming of the things that get me screaming awake Mother you don’t fear, when your day comes you’ll be far away From the bedsides and frustration old age is amputation of the soul You’ll be free you’ll be free from it all Andy’s in the mountain way up north I bet the bird sing along to your verse My brother I get this feeling when we’re older we’ll never be alone Feel no sense of obligation Ill be sitting at the station on tender hooks
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Zombie (free) 04:16
I am the living dead My skin is pale and veins are ice cold blue I feed upon the land Sink my teeth into what I find, and I found you Your bloods like marmalade Its brings me back to warmer days My clothes are torn Covered in the flesh of my victims I swallow their souls Try To fill the void under my sternum They call it a cavity But I need more and more and more of you my sweet I am the living dead And you know Ive got your body on my mind I never go to bed I stay up til the sunlight gets too bright for my eyes Have grown accustomed to the dark With my lame leg I can hardly walk My skin is rotting Theres nothing that doctors say they’ll Im sick of them watching Like a spectacle they see at the zoo I now spend my yearning years alone I just wish I could make it home Would you ever let me in? They call me a zombie but I am a man I swear I am a man Not nearly 20 and I’m lonelier than I’ve ever been Oh they call me a zombie but I am a man I swear I am a man My mother says shes proud of me and to be proud of what I am I love you Bye bye baby Bye bye\
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Halo (free) 04:07
an infant drinks the water from his mothers cupped hands The same drops of water that are fed into the plants And we all come full circle Yeah we fall through like sand We are all the same person Molecules in the shape of a man A widow cries hard salty tears down her cheeks Little drop of the ocean crash like waves on the beach And we all come full circle We’re just pieces in the sky Infinite yet a fraction And we’re all gonna die But don’t fear, fears what got you here See, there’s light in the dark when you’re closing the lids On the jars youve collected full of fingernails And brown tangles of hair used napkins, and old folded receipts I believe when we all lay down to sleep We awake with new eyes Maybe wings or a beak And we’ll all move around Hear the stories in the ground Keep your nose in the air and your tail wagging fast Cause baby, and all my dear friends When the worlds gonna end I’d like to be buried 6 feet under with you So maybe the worms will devour our bones as one We’ll be together forever, forever’s not long enough When the sun comes on up We’re gonna grow like weeds We’ll be the tallest fucking tree. But we’ll be tall like trees

about

All of these songs were written in 2005-2006. One of the fondest yet lonesome years of my life.

I spent the year writing, often after long nights with my friends at b3nson. I had little recollection of writing the lyrics/melodies of these songs. I was often surprised to find them on my computer when I woke up in the morning.

There is a slight possibility that I did not even write these songs.


I finally recorded them in my bedroom, using 2 microphones and my laptop in 2010.

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released June 30, 2011

All music and lyrics by Peter Mollica
except:
Violin - Kelly Hayes Mollica
Horns - Louis Apicello (of Sgt. Dunbar & the Hobo Banned)
Drums - Seth Tristan Tillinghast (of Littlefoot)
Harmonica (Pete's Song Against Sex)- Matt Hamilton (of Barons in the Attic)

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