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The Pesky Varmints Crickets and Ghosts

by Richie Reinholdt

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1.
Every Time 03:37
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I had another sleepless night I blame it on the moon and it’s tractor beams sweeping around my room hypnotic visions dance across my mind and I’m looking for answers that I’ll never find cause everytime the moon is full I hear it call your name whispering to me once again I’m the one to blame I’m a prisoner of lucid dreams shackled to the night by a thousand memories hiding in plain sight like cryptic phantoms holding rusty chains they drag me back in time chasing shadows again everytime that I believe I’m gonna be free at last I turn around to find I’m dodging daggers from the past words like knives aiming at my heart piercing allegations like a poison dart cause everytime the moon is full I hear it call your name whispering to me once again I’m the one to blame yeah everytime the moon is full I hear it call your name telling me loud and clear I’m the one to blame
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Blink 03:15
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the sacrificial lamb that’s hung out to dry never questions the reason never wonders why just marches to the altar faithfully all in the blink of an eye the walls are closing in tables turning ‘round in a night of no return there’s tremors under ground and the streetlight frowns a weary glow all in the blink of an eye there’s no fairweather friends on a stormy sea abandoning ship the first sign of tragedy cast adrift into the faithless night the lighthouse hides it’s face from sight the life of the party entertains an empty room the clown paints on a smile over his face of gloom and the circus is leaving town all in the blink of an eye gone in the blink of an eye
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Crickets and Ghosts 04:46
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time forever slips away along with promises of yesterday fences are harder to mend with barriers of iron that never bend crickets and ghosts are all I hear that roar of silence in my ear whispers behind a door that’s closed but all I hear are crickets and ghosts involuntary reflex action game a constant spinning roulette wheel of blame pointing fingers when backs are turned at the smoke from bridges being burned shadows surrender to the night choosing sides wrong or right where do all unanswered questions go they’re all searching for a yes or no passive aggressive protocol repressing feelings over all never saying what’s really meant just smiles and vague compliments crickets and ghosts are all I hear the roar of silence in my ear whispers behind a door that’s closed but all I hear are crickets and ghosts oh I feel like the storm is getting close when all I hear are crickets and ghosts
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Stolen Diamonds 03:30
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oh her name is only sorrow and her heart is black as coal her eyes shine bright as stolen diamonds and she’s out collecting souls you’ll never see her after sunrise she’s a phantom of the night her raven hair is holding stars shinning with a ghostly light she walks alone in the moonlight as the willows moan and weep like the wind she whispers softfy promises she’ll never keep don’t call for her she’ll never answer she’ll can't hear a breaking heart she’s just a spectre of perdition there’s no dream she ain’t torn apart oh her name is only sorrow and her heart is black as coal her eyes shine bright as stolen diamonds and she’s out collecting souls oh her beauty captures souls
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Hollywood 05:25
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fleeing from a broken home with a star studded plan she reaches for the golden hills of the promised land where visions of a privileged life live on a silver screen determination drives her onward clutching at a dream but Hollywood’s gilded sign is plated with despair and a thousand shattered dreams are painted there working at the diner buys a one room kitchenette waiting for the lucky break that hasn’t happened yet late night interviews on couches one step at a time they parade them through the mill in a never ending line her heart becomes a guarded prize a secret tucked away a treasure locked behind a wall built up more each day but the moat around her fortress is breached by a smile a well rehearsed battle plan he’s done this for a while he promises her a screen test in his latest show but when he gets what he wants he kicks her out the door so she spills all her lonesome tears in letters to the rain and her childhood ambitions go spinning down the drain broken hearted lessons posted on the wall you gotta get back on the horse after you fall so climbing high into the hills where the sign shines so bright she fills up her broken dreams with it’s silver light and though Hollywood’s gilded sign is plated with despair the stars are still shining through it’s glare
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November Moon 03:18
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oh cold november moon with your icy silver beams you froze my lovers heart when you crept into her dreams oh ruler of the night enchanter up above rhymes in lunar light telling tales of wonderous love hiding in the clouds whispering melodies behind a misty shround telling lies in harmony in midnight fantasies you’re the king of make believe collecting wayward hearts in the tangled web you weave my darling’s love was true until she heard your song now she looks for someone new sleep walking until dawn
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Kaleidoscope 03:23
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close your eyes and pretend eveything’s okay take a stroll through the stars beyond the milky way forgetting why you walked into the room looking through a new kaleidoscope making fabulous plans never getting done filling out petitions and then signing one by one gonna change the world just by what you say looking through a new kaleidoscope there’s room for all in this brand new today as long as everyone thinks the same way join the club join the team and blindly believe with a wink of an eye and trick up the sleeve where’s there’s gonna be a brand new tattoo looking through a new kaleidoscope down under the bridge cardboard box for his home surrounded by the same yet he’s always alone lost in memories of a jungle war looking through a new kaleidoscope looking through the same kaleidoscope
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Silent Dream 04:12
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night time closes tired eyes heavy in a trance the center of creation calls twirling in a dance wishes turn into commands to rewrite the past a frozen winters night painting pictures on the glass racing back and forth in time barely skimming clouds illusive voices call a name whispering aloud the faces in the hall of mirrors could be your own reflections of eternity calling you back home enter and surrender to the soft comfort of sleep casting nets of warm desires a silent dream to keep waving ranks of golden grain catching drops of sun autumn leaves in the wind seasons on the run castles burn in fires of rage a kingdom to the test men with lives disposable forever laid to rest eyes behold a spinning world under watchful stars as humans fight to be the first in their shiny cars the ebb and flow of breathing life all choices are inside the universe is standing by there is no place to hide enter and surrender to the soft comfort of sleep casting nets of warm desires a silent dream to keep
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Wishes 02:51
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I wish I had a magic ring full of galaxies and stars. stars full of tears and smiles smiles full of sparkling dreams dreams of enchanted things I wish I had a magic ring I wished I lived by the sea walking the beach at dawn in dawn’s warm golden light golden light on diamond sand build a house of driftwood I’d live by the sea if I could I wish I was as strong as a tree strong as roots in the ground reaching through earth and stone stone as old as time time in seasons of leaves I wish I was as strong as a tree I wish I could touch the past help the future make up it’s mind and learn from my mistakes mistaken choices I made and choose the right path at last I wish I could touch the past I wish I could reach the past
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Thirty Thousand Feet 03:49
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Hidden in a corner deep inside my mind there’s a room filled with stories that was written there by time the lock upon it’s iron doors opens now and then I collect as many as I can until they close again memories in melodies fill the empty glass halfway full of future plans half empty with the past Lessons that unfold in verse urging us to think of how we see the water but still refuse to drink the ration of our daily bread consumed before it’s served the light of a twinkling star a thousand years since burned I ride a lightning silver steed racing hurricanes the saddle barely holds me on I clutch hard at the reins the tempest whispers poetry rhymes in moaning sighs a howling violent song of love in archaic cries The world revolves around today following the sun tomorrow’s only yesterday divided by the dawn I’m halfway there three quarters gone wrapped in shiny dreams circling the universe bursting at the seams
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Travel On 03:10
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I hear the word goodbye that you don’t have to say I can see it in your eyes when they just look away travel on when little darling go where you will tear my dreams apart leave me stranded high on the top of the hill of broken hearts I dreamed our love would last for all eternity but my ever after plans are ancient history your kisses have grown cold they just don’t taste as sweet and the arms I used to hold are folded in retreat your heart has closed the door between yours and mine and your footprints on the floor are all you left behind

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released February 6, 2024

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