Canyonlands

something like a
first album

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Canyonlands

something like a
first album

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album numero uno featuring

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Brand New Star

i don't know you yet
but i know you
i know we will be friends
we will be lifelong friends
we will when it's inevitable
and we can't be anything
other than friends

haven't said a word but we will talk
for hours and hours
haven't said a word but we will talk
we will discover secret powers

at this moment,
there's a brand new star in the sky
it will change everything
between you and i
we can find release and peace on high
there's a brand new star in the sky

words + music by winter zero
©2014-2017 snow puppy musix

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Your Good Fortune

We both like art
We both like the park
We like long hikes
We like to pedal our bikes
We like sleep in late
You like to read

So much shit keeps us apart all week
Gotta make the monies, gotta feed our babies
Gotta make some time
not to worry bout the monies
The baby's fine,
don't cha worry bout the babies
Providence turns when you learn how to spin it
It's a big wide world when we get out innit

And it feels like torture but only when you're
not doing it right baby
Because our misfortune is right there scorching you
And we haven't felt the rain on our bodies like this
since our bodies were adventurous babies
Yeah your good fortune
is my good fortune too

You tell me a joke that you heard at work
By a stupid guy, by a sexist jerk
You gotta pay bills so I grind your beans
kiss them sweetly with a touch of cream
I love to watch ya planting the zucchini
What are we going to do with all this f*cking zucchini
You're blessed with grace given by the angels
My heart gets warm every time you sing

Such bad shit goin' down in the world
Wars for petroleum, politics suck
But you don't suck you're the closest thing to heaven
In my life and I really want thank you

It feels like torture, every moment i'm ever away from you
You hold my soul in the lovely palm of your delicate hand
I don't know why fortune decided to shower her sunlight on you
But your good fortune is my good fortune too
Your good fortune is my good fortune too

words + music by winter zero
©2017 snow puppy musix

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Bluebirds

She woke unto life in a bustling brood of wild birds
Eyes clear and blue as the sky
Summers in hills and high mountain meadows
A storm in a teacup yearning to fly

And I fall to earth as I consider her
Learning her nature I am heavy within
To behold her soaring on a free and floating line
Thermals are lifting her breast to the sky

With the bluebirds

(solo)

And I fall to earth as I consider her
Learning her nature I am heavy within
To behold her soaring on a free and floating line
Thermals are lifting her breast to the sky

With the bluebirds

(extended outro)

words + music by winter zero
©2017 snow puppy musix

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Terrores Magica

i don't know why you're so afraid all the time
something dark unfurling in yer mind
but there's a bright new day and I could show it to you
i'm sentimental and you got nothing else to do

in this world there's so much destruction
your creative souls the only the way out
so take her hand and feel the passion in her words
or in the paints or in the music

Metuisne somnia (do you fear dreams)
Terrores magica (magical terrors)
Noli metuere (do not be afraid)

Metuisne sagas (do you fear witches)
Metuisne miracula (do you fear miracles)
Noli metuere (do not be afraid)

i can tell you're weary of the world
so much work and so little living
come with me and we will slow the time
this little time that's left for giving

the root of love is all in gratitude
so be thankful for the mirth that you can create

Metuisne somnia (do you fear dreams)
Terrores magica (magical terrors)
Noli metuere (do not be afraid)

Vixistine satis (have you lived passionately enough)
Bibistine satis (have you drunk enough)
Noli metuere (do not be afraid)

Vixistine satis
Bibistine satis
Noli metuere
Terrores magica

words + music by winter zero
from a poem by Horace, with special thanks to Callaina
©2015-2017 snow puppy musix

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The Sky

Heyyyy babe, I know I could I patient if I ever hoped to see ya
Heyyyy babe, you know I could find value in every crawling hour
Heyyyy plum, I want you for my whole life
Not just the time that you gave me, that you gaaaave me
I want your soul eternally clasped in mine

The skyyyyyyyy
When I really miss you, I see the sky
The skyyyyyyyy
When I really love you, you’re in the sky
Up in the skyyyyyyyyy
Cause when I really want you
When I wonder where you are
You're alive in the sky

Heyyyy dude, remembering I walked like a thousand days just to see ya
Just to seeeee you, glowing like a monster in the maze around that surrounds you
Heyyyy love, you mugged me on the corner and took my heart
Such a baaaadass, banging all around in the darkest corners of my mind

The skyyyyyyyy
When I really miss you, I see the sky
The skyyyyyyyy
When I really love you, you’re in the sky
Up in the skyyyyyyyyy
Cause when I really want you
hen I wonder where you are
You're alive in the sky

Horrrrses, they cannot make a wheel without a rubber tire
Stronnnnnng arm, I want to wrestle karma for just a little while

Kelly
Annie
Davey
Danny
Billy
Sonia
Tyson
Kelly

Up in the skyyyyyyyyy
Cause when I really want you
When I wonder where you are

You're alive
in the sky

words + music by winter zero
©2017 snow puppy musix

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Thrift Shop Kids

Thrift shop kids don't buy the high line
Sift through the memories people left behind
Five dollars and you got a new lifetime
Leavin all yer worries and yer troubles behind ya

Making your own memories
Taking your own time
Holding your own hostages
Making your own rhymes

Paddle every river and float every ocean
Climb every canyon and ride every mountain
Drive every car and run every railroad
Take every taxi and fly every jet plane

Ride baby ride (until you get to me)
Ride baby ride (until you're here with me)
Ride baby ride (it's a symphony)
Ride baby ride

You are a symphony

words + music by winter zero
©2017 snow puppy musix

photo by shanna camilleri
shannacamilleri.com

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Supermoon

I only get this way when I fly around you,
she said
When we're apart I get dim and a little dispirited

The stuff of my life
is concrete and stone
Don't leave me all alone

I said, I only turn round when you come down
As we get close,
you push my oceans around.

The stuff of my life
is lightning and fire
So much to desire

And you will have a sea
of tranquility
While the fast seahorses
carry me
Somewhere to some point
our horizons frame
Once around the world,
we can meet again

Under the supermoon

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Awesome Girl

Gets her motor revving
Life is a slice of heaven
Adventuring 24/7
In the Afterworld shining bright

Winning in formulation
Witness her imagination
Voice of a generation
With a revolution to ignite

CHORUS
Awesome Girl gonna happen hey hey
Towers tip and topple to the street
And all of the nation, creation,
Will tumble down to her feet
Awesome Girl gonna happen hey hey
Keep on flickering away
Not distraught in her spot, think not (rage a lot)
In the glimmer of a dying day

Highways melt before her
Gone in a wisp of tar
Her heart is always open
To the waves of a brand new star

It is her firm contention
Searching in another dimension
For the imminent human ascension
When we’re loved for who we are

CHORUS

Saw her last night in the movie
Story of a vagabond child
Washing up with the orient owls
And the dragons of the asian wild

Using the force of nature
With no more time for tears
Though her eyes seem red as roses
If you f**k with her she perseveres

CHORUS

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Cannonade

you're too tense
let it all go now
let the wind blow around you
let your hair flow wild
bury the albatross
feel it, every little loss
let your hair flow wild

let your hair flow
in streaming rivulets
from the light of your beautiful eye
let it all go wild
slipping down the stream
skipping stones with me
from the light of your
beautiful eye

you're too fixed
phantasmagoria
let the rainbows come
let your hair flow
i was too hard
in my acerbic wit
but now that's all done
let your hair flow wild

let your hair flow
in streaming rivulets
from the light of your beautiful eye
let it all go wild
slipping down the stream
skipping stones with me
from the light of your
beautiful eye

the garden's too tight
they're too immaculate
they keep the wild ones out
but you're in the field
that i love the best
you got your wild dress
the color cannonade

you're so wild
in streaming rivulets
from the light of your beautiful eye
let it all flow wild
slipping down the stream
skipping stones with me
from the light of your
beautiful eye

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Thanks

MOM: for handing me your guitar when I was 8 and teaching me the simple 12-bar blues lick that became the basis for everything I do. A few years later, you saved your hard earned nickels, packed up the Sentra, and drove us southward to a dusty corner of Utah, into the bosom of Zion, Arches, and Canyonlands.

DAD: over 75 years you have poured nearly every red cent you ever made into your gas tank, to explore the highways and peoples of rural America, and then fed those experiences into art. Thanks for your love of family and for teaching me the art of possibility.

Much gratitude to my magnificent pals: TODD EAGLE, for taking me outta the rain and under his wing, and the SOUL BRATs for showing us all the best night out ever. KEN GLYNN, suburban shaman and my closest confident lo these past 27 years. CURTIS JOHNSON, sharer of esoteric humor and bona fide Schecter virtuoso, who saddles up with me a few times each month for some serious windmill tilting. REED "Meat Hucker" KEMPF, MIKE "Mosh Man" WALDRON, JON "Tech Warlock" McCRACKEN, world wanderer MONTANA VIDA, and the marvelous Ms. GREEN-EYED VIOLET for being generous musical talents and outstanding friends. ERIK KRIES for his boundless passion, wit, and levity. SHAWN KELLY and the kids for keeping it Madison County. DUKE GILMAN, for introducing me to sagebrush, horse sweat, and snow.

Thanks also to friends, inspirations, and spirit guides: ERIC FUNK, JOE KNAPP, CHRIS CUNNINGHAM, NOAH HECKMANN JR, RICK WINKING, DOC WILEY, HERMAN JOLLY, GIL STOBER, and the late greats, FREEMAN LACEY and KELLY ROBERTI.

But above all, at the top of the list (even though it's way down here) are CYNDI, AMELIA, and RIVER, who provide the patience and encouragement to follow my weird ear into the mystic land of longitudinal vibratory disturbances. I strive to be a better human each day because of you.

If you hadn't noticed, these tunes were crafted from 100% sincere gratitude. Streams and downloads of this entire album are FREE online at http://winterzero.ninja so if you enjoy, please share. More on the way!

¡Gracias amigos y amigas!

wz