A Pimp's Dreamz

by Shining Path

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Shining Path's second full length release on Happenin Records.

Recorded at Sam and Andrew's house on SVHS tapes from summer 2009 to summer 2010

Mixed and mastered by Dustin Timbrook

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released 10 July 2011
All songs written by Shining Path except:
"See Your Mama Every Night or You Don't See Mama At All" by Ma Rainey (1927)

"Red River Valley", traditional folk song

"Standing On Guard" by the Falcons/the Fabulous Playboys (1966)

Shining Path is/was Sam Freeman, Andrew Blessing, Alex B. Carter, Kai Miller

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Track Name: See Your Mama Every Night Or You Don't See Mama At All
See your mama every night or you don’t see mama at all
You gotta kiss your mama every night or she won’t be there when you call
If you want my company, don’t fifty fifty me
See your mama every night or you won’t see mama at all

Monday night I sat alone
Tuesday night you never phoned
Wednesday night you didn’t call
Thursday comes the same old stall
Friday night you dodged my path
Saturday you took your bath
Sunday morning you called on me
You brought you three girls for company

See your mama every night if you wanna see mama at all
You gotta kiss your mama every night or she won’t be there when you call
I don’t want the kind of man who works on the installment plan
See your mama every night if you wanna see mama at all
Track Name: Building
I worked in an old store in a tall building downtown
Administratin old first floor pushin yellowed aged commerce around
Assistin patrons of soundest mind arriving by public transport lines to buy goldfish and colored tiles in the neon light
Tradin for linens and limes and weighted dice and painted ice, PVC pipes and tasteful artful knives

I went to a theater to see a show, I went down on my own
I saw some psychedelic scenes though so I did not feel alone
A lady slipped, she lost her token handkerchief to commercial district strip
Her Technicolor stockings ripped

We had agreed to meet at her building
I bought some flowers from the vendor by the cemetery
Track Name: Nightowl
Steppin on the broken glass
Lit by neon echoed in swirling gas
Beside insects in the sidewalk cracks
Beneath the moths wings flappin in the black

Nightowl on the move clawin crawlin through the gloom
Chokin on the full moon will you die soon

Standin on the scaffolding
Of some old burnt out building
Thought I heard a rebel yell
But it was just a train derailed
Then in the sky dark clouds were seen
Swollen with sounding brass and cymbals clanging
The wind it started to pick up
Rollin over empty cars and trucks

Nightowl on the move clawin crawlin through the gloom
Chokin on the full moon will you die soon
Track Name: Icicle
Icicle around my neck, icicle so cold
Icicle froze in my head, a big sad icicle
In the nitetime and the daytime it always just grows
Take it off or melt it down before this head explodes

This is a time when I can’t explain myself
Make these decisions now
Lock me in a dark closet, take this key and swallow it
Open it up when I’m dead

Icicle

In the nitetime and the daytime it always just grows
Take it off or melt it down before this head explodes
Icicle around my neck, icicle so cold
Icicle froze in my head, a big sad icicle

Icicle
Track Name: Honey
Waitin on a girl, she knows exactly what I mean
Gazin on a girl, she is exactly what she seems
And you look so hard at me, you look so hard at me

My honey where were you

Threw open the door, wreckage all strewn about the room
The broken, open floor was drenched in livid liquids, through and through
And oh you left so soon, my honey you left so soon

My honey where were you

Honey you left so soon

Went down to New Orleans said you wanted to hear the blues
Stumblin over the bent and broken railroad ties, we gave in to the gathering flies
How that swamp water did rise
Track Name: Comet Vomit
You started eatin vomit, now I’m eatin comets
I was glad for the change of pace
I was pickin scabs, man that was so drab
Just perforatin space, movin so fast in place

I can see your sores bleed through your uniform
I never knew you wore before
Eatin mud, suckin blood
It all gets washed out in the flood

You pull my joints to the breaking point
At every turn my path is barred
Standin on a precipice chewin on my bottom lip
And thinkin real hard, I was thinkin real hard

I’m in a forest dark, bristlin with thieves
Slanting eyes pierce through the twisting leaves
Track Name: Red River Valley
From this valley they say you are going
We will miss your bright eyes and sweet smile
For they say you are taking the sunshine
That has brightened our pathways awhile

Come and sit by my side, if you love me
Do not hasten to bid me adieu
Just remember the Red River Valley
And the one who loved you so true

I've been thinking a long time, my darling
Of the sweet words you never did say
Now, alas, must my fond hopes all vanish
For they say you are going away

Do you think of the valley you're leaving
O how lonely and how dreary it’s gonna be
Do you think of the kind hearts you're breaking
And the pain you are causing to me

Come and sit by my side, if you love me
Do not hasten to bid me adieu
Just remember the Red River Valley
And the one who loved you so true

They will bury me where you have wandered
Near the hills where the daffodils grow
When you're gone from the Red River Valley
For I can't live without you I know
Track Name: Liars, Cheaters, Crooks & Thieves
Hallelujah, hallelujah
I belong to the band hallelujah
Through the mire, find me in the choir
I belong to the band hallelujah

Tell Sister Mary, tell Sister Jane
I came home on the morning train
Now I’m back, can you see me now
At the side of the road while the wind does howl

Liars, cheaters, crooks and thieves
My friends they are all of these
Track Name: Stick
Our bones are just the same
Soakin our tired feet in shame
I could have gone far if I tried
But I lost the first day that I tried

All I know is all I do
That’s all I’ve ever done
Whittle the end of a corn dog stick
And pretend it is a gun

And put this burden to sleep
Mama you don’t have to weep
I tore right through the note that I had pinned to my shirt

When I get out who’ll I see?
A wonderful woman starin back at me?
Or the ripped up skins on the bottoms of my feet
Will it be bridge concrete or paint on the street?

All I regret is not havin ears
You were just barkin all these years
Deaf as I was is why I’m not here

The least I could have done was what you did
Never saw much of my old man when I was a kid
Your hands caught my blood when it dripped
And for that I thrust this corndog stick

Through what I should have learned in school
As my epidermis splits
I feel it as it hits, the sharp wooden tip

Jesus Christ who is my savior
Who knows how to turn off the showers
Tell my God that I told you to tell my mother that I love you
Track Name: Statistics
She got stones inside her womb
She got ugly wooden shoes
She got stones inside her womb
She got ugly wooden shoes

I want to see you cry, cry, cry, cry

She got stones inside her womb
She got ugly wooden shoes
She got stones inside her womb
She got ugly wooden shoes

I want to see you cry, cry, cry, cry

Got on my knees but didn’t say a thing
Lots a things can change when you count to three
But I know I have that common decency
To change somethin outside of my dreams

Grandpa said you will die young
If you do not know how to shoot a gun
Statistic said you will die soon
Statistic always got so much to prove
Track Name: Standing On Guard
Hey look at me, I’m standing on guard
I was a fool right from the start
I let her get away, I let her get away
And she left me right out of her heart

Look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me
Now I’m the one that’s hurt
I thought I was smart when I did my dirt

I act a fool and hurt my baby’s pride
And now she has pushed my love aside
And I’m standin…

It’s me, standing on guard

Look at me, look at me, look at me, look at me
I’m walkin my feet
Hopin one day she’ll walk down my street
I won’t have to stand on guard no mo
I’ll have my baby back fo sho
Yes I will

It’s me, standing on guard..