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by Richie Reinholdt

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1.
Split The Sheets 04:32
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when things fall apart that were broken long ago there’s boxes on the lawn filled with clothes pawned guitars and memories out in the streets when you split the sheets kids in the middle of a tug-o-war ripped wide open salt in the sore restraining orders and flashing lights out in the streets when you split the sheets (chorus) rip ‘em tear ’em into shreds pull ‘em off all the beds dirty laundry on the line hung out to dry for a long long time cast iron sticks and cold hard stones breaking hearts and crushing bones trying to wash away years of tears out in the streets when you split the sheets expensive lawyers and contracts torn in two once was a home now a zoo with vengence running wild out of it’s cage out in the streets when you split the sheets (chorus)
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The Wind (free) 04:40
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(chorus) Don’t ask the wind to remember your name Don’t ask it when it’s coming back again Just let it go you’ll never hold it anyway Goes where it will with nothing to say Memories moving time All desires left behind But golden years slip away Into the arms of yesterday Tomorrow’s face turns away With no advice for today But the howling wind whispers by Spreading lies across the sky On it’s way to nowhere No need for joy or despair Only time and sheer force of will Restive dreams never standing still
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Fading Photographs 05:38
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fading photographs holding on to memories telling stories of the past scenes from younger days and seasons rushing by yes time goes by so fast childhood toys and traded christmas presents faces changing with the years rocker bear and a tree full of promise encapsuling joy and tears (chorus) scenes of you and me and all our life together through the good and the bad stronger then the time we’ll last forever on fading photographs summertime excursions where the buffalo roam picnic lunches in the sun winter snows seen from a picture window and favorite dogs on the run big jet planes carrying long ago vacations holding on to daddy’s hand stargate in the rain and beaches wedding chapel waves stealing footprints from the sand (chorus) looking back through all these fading images telling stories from the past living on long after we’ve gone yes time goes by so fast
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Skeeter 05:05
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Skeeter left one broken night in 1989 He tossed a Jim Beam bottle at the city limits sign In a stolen car, with a wad of cash heading towards the dawn Fortified by holy pills the road goes on and on (chorus) Skeeter’s going home tonight one way or another He’s calling up all of his imaginary lovers Dialing wrong numbers bending strangers ears Pleading amnesty for all his wasted years Dad awoke to the slamming of the rusty screen door Mama found her empty jewerly box on the floor Too late to try and stop him he’s no time for regret The only thing he’s looking for is how to forget Those Dallas nights keep creeping back in waves of tragedy Was it Jane or Marylou the face he always sees The dampness of her tears yank his memory chain Another stolen heart along with all her pocket change Skeeter’s taking refuge where the dirty laundry hides Serenaded on the couch to the buzzing of the flies While moon beams dance through broken windows something calls him home The sleeping vagabond takes his final ride alone
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Cold Moon 05:04
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this madness of the moon is crushing down on me like lead it’s piercing silver beam is stirring doubt around my head long before this night began it was oh so very close grinding through my consciousness like heavy velvet dope (chorus) moon go away leave me alone find some other manic heart to chill cold as stone my thoughts give way to sacrifice and second guessing trash wasting too much time on sad emotional rehash spears of false rejection and self imposed denial cleaves my flesh to monuments of wounded souls on trial (chorus) how can I turn the other cheek when both are black and blue and all I see around me are nightmares coming true where rabid social dogs with vengeful jaws are chasing me and branding me with sores of festering animosity (chorus) my only way home is through clouds of tragedy believing that salvation lies in what others think of me and wanting adulation for imaginary tones dulcet incantations of repetitious groans (chorus) by sunrise I’ll be waiting for redemption from the night when lunar visions traded me for scorching golden light and only it’s reflection glancing off the mirrored pond offers any warning of similar nights to come (chorus)
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Overboard 04:43
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I’ve forgotten who I am can’t remember my face in this place where youth is king and join together in their need the appetites of hunger days guess I’ve fallen overboard I’ve forgotten my place to keep my vision downward still and remember not to need or want what can’t be reached the desire to resurrect cause I’m falling overboard I can’t hear the call of the wild the roaring sound compelling young to chase incessant circle squares forsaking feelings honor bound and cycle back through age and time cause I’m falling overboard
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Everywhere 04:11
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what took so long to reach me suddenly so clear the lady pilot bathes me in her smoky tears sings her name in metaphors across the sky holding sunset in her hair everywhere blacklisted in my home town no avenue remains the streets have all rolled up at night denying me my name glory days forgotten by everyone but me insanity without a care everywhere I’m not a tornado but a psyclone I have been this book you must read to me this drama that I’m in my hands have all been blown away taken by the wind and if I was the moon tonight I might see you again four wheel songs by morning light to work and home we go never even hear her name on the radio a castle I would build for her were I a younger man but the moat fills with despair everywhere grammar and intention tangled up in vain stifled in creation ideas fall like rain my lessons in direction never quite sink in she tries to show me how to fly my wings fold up again crippled hands and photographs are all that remain reflections in a cloudy mirror memories are the same the deer invade my consciousness and trample down my wall and the pilot’s on the air everywhere
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Vacuum 03:57
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life in a vacuum filled with dusty air some paper from the bathroom and some lumps of doggy hair rubberbands and thumb tacks too there’s always so much to do life in a vaccum hepa filter style with improved cyclonic action even on linoleum tile self propelled and upright too there’s always so much to do plug it in turn it on across the floor dirt is gone see the doggy run for cover watch those cats collide with each other life in a vacuum always safe and warm comfort in the darkness shelter from the storm personal fun the whole day through there’s always so much to do
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Beefaload 04:36
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thunder in the night woke me from a dream the longest line of bull I’ve ever seen stretching out to eternity beefaload again shook the walls it was raining so hard ran out and rolled up the windows in my car pitter-patter brain splatter concrete drops beefaload again (chorus) gimme a sign to believe in a one way ticket home and a room I can breath in with an empty telephone I heard a rumour of an empty pedastool room at the top for the lucky fool that can write a song with a clever hook beefaload again the rules are always written in the rain critical mass again and again if you’re not a hottie get oughta the way beefaload again (chorus) sticks in the skin pain skull tatoos polish up the shine with a bottle of booze shave your head with a crosscut saw beefaload again gimme what’s mine and most of yours too out with the old in with the new midnight falsehood public tragedy beefaload again (chorus) just be a slave to the star machine get your picture in people magazine sell your soul to the record company beefaload again hands and fists raised in praise take what you want from the deli trays star crossed zombies pledging their love beefaload again (chorus)
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Gee Whiz 03:06
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once a bison came from San Francisco and took the train to Butte Montana then it met up with a monkey they had a picnic down by the river they ate a plate lunch meat and crackers then the monkey said I love you and the bison fell asleep on the laundry and climbed the mountain named after a mushroom the monkey picked up all the sauerbraten and made a christmas postcard for his mother the monkey called his friendship poison bison and began to eat a salamander the bison left him there to seek his porridge and roam as bison often do the monkey found a small encrusted rodent and began to offer him a cupcake they always will remember the springtime when daisies folded over with a promise to never leave the place where they were standing the poison bison and the friendship monkey

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released December 9, 2009

Richie Reinholdt - electric and acoustic guitars, bass and lead vocals
Bruce Threlkeld - drums, harmony vocals
Ryan Vetos - drums
Marc Clarke - drums
Larry Chung / David Horgan - pedal steel guitar
Dan Funsch - accordion
Al Cantrell - fiddle
Jim Rogers - keyboards

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Richie Reinholdt Missoula, montana

BIO: "I played with a buncha bands.....I recorded a buncha albums..."
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