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June To June (2011) [LP]

by Jim Byron

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“Rainbow Key” Do u think u can open the door To where u’ll find what u’ve been looking for I think u can find the key It’s not as far as it is thought to be Let the light shine thru the prism of yr mind And you will see where you are supposed to be Open the door with the rainbow key Hey, don’t be afraid Ur going a place where everything is safe Look to the light and u’ll see Everything is what it is supposed to be Say, have you heard The voice in the song of the singing bird Can you catch that serene melody Seek out the sound of the rainbow key Let the light shine thru the prism of yr mind And you will see where you are supposed to be Open the door with the rainbow key Holy light So soft, so strong, so bright Let me see The shape of the rainbow key, the rainbow key The very shape of the rainbow key Touch the rainbow key That lukewarm fire that’s inside of thee An ice that’s made of light The eternal dawn that sets me free Let the light shine thru the prism of yr mind And you will see where you are supposed to be Open the door with the rainbow key
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Lone Star 04:19
"Lone Star" I used to be a little prince With a mommy and a dad And everything I Could possibly want Was exactly what I had But all those things they vanished They just disappeared like that I was feeling like a Living cube in a Distorted world of flats Ah, come to me like a Lone Star Who has never seen a face Spiral silently around me To keep me here in place Ah... Then the universe It crystalized Like a fractal made of change & everyone was just like me Yet everything was strange I turned into a pauper Roaming the starving streets And I could tell that deep inside You hurt just as much as me Ah, come to me like a Lone Star Who has never seen a face Spiral silent around me To keep me here in place Ah... I see you and your white hot eyes burning through space-time Let me be the living black-hole to whom you never apologize Yes burn for me And burn too bright For me to ever see again Any of the insane sadness that Keeps me awake at night School was such a drag My love it was like everyone was dead Felt just like Rimbaud Watching all the hanged men dance Everyone just hung around Like a failed mass suicide Everyone just a lone star Waiting in line to die Ah, come to me like a Lone Star Who has never seen a face A'Spiral silent around me To keep me here in place Ah... But that ain't me, I Ain't no lone star now Not if you are really there Heck I ain't even a star at all You can't even see me from over there I guess I'm just an echo Of some lonely energy Collapsing, erupting with light But you must look to see Ah, come to me like a Lone Star Who has never seen a face A'Spiral silent around me To keep me here in place Ah...
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Soon To Come 05:19
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Sky Eyes 03:25
Sky Eyes Honey I see you Everywhere I'm going Even if you are no where near I feel your eyes glowing My friends they try to pry you away Lord know it's all in vain There's nothing that can stop this train I'm always going to see you And your sky eyes My oh my Those sky eyes Lady luck's got nothing On what you are babe & her leprechauns tempt me Trying to steal me away From you and your sweet fog Your cool shine & your warm rain They bribe and they bribe and they bribe and they bribe But they can never make me stay from you And your sky eyes My oh my those sky eyes Even the sun is weak To the lens of your soul, hon It tries to beat the life out of me I'm always on the run And there you are right here right now Right place, right time always Everything moves around you Let me come and find my way with you And your sky eyes My oh my Those sky eyes What can you see from there? Come and show it to me. Doing it in the clouds now How do we get so high? When your gone in some other town You appear to me as a lullaby & I swear that I'm doing fine Long as I can know you're there Here I come, here I come, here I come, here I come now You feel me in your hair With your sky eyes My oh my Those sky eyes
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I Am The One 04:08

about

"June To June is Eternity reincarnated it is that constant flow of creative energy that radiates from that place beyond your heart where energy rides free where Existence touches the Imagination and the Muse goes to hide from the blistering meltdown of America where the patriotic stars of yester-century fluster and repatriate under the cautious eye of a new Galaxy. June To June is a period, a comma, a semi-colon of time infinitesimal, where I could have fit the golden planetariums of permanence, where I could have fit the silver rivers of patience. It is a cry, a call, a howl in a storm to the storm about the storm because of the storm. June To June is You To You or Noon To Noon. IT IS ALWAYS HAPPENING," I explained to the digital ditch digger whose shadow was reaching toward me from the lantern he held as he dug.
"What."
"June To June! Didn ya hear a single word I said?"
"No. I ain listening to you, jus diggin this ditch. Didn hear a single word yer sayin."
"Yer jus diggin a ditch, huh? What kin a ditch is it?"
"It's an enless ditch, m'frien. This ditch is goin all the way down to China, maybe Hell, who knows. All I know is I gotta dig now."
"Why?"
"What."
"I said 'Why?'"
"Why?! It's my job. I dig an endless ditch. Brings the bread home."
"What for?"
"What's what for?"
"What's the ditch for?"
"Well I got to do something, got to have something to do. I dig the ditch."
"You dig the ditch huh"
"Yep"
"Is it yer ditch"
"No it ain my ditch, belongs to the boss."
"But who does the boss belong to?"
"Contractor."
"Yer boring."

So I left the ditch digger to dig his ditch. Then I started listening to that metallic rainbow sound from the sky, the one you hear when you ain listenin to nothing but nothing itself is listenin to u.

Then the ditch digger came hollering at me, shouting,
"U! U git over here! I have the right to sue u, yknow."
"Sue me?"
"U stole my ditch!"
"How?"
"Whaddya mean 'How?' U clearly stole my ditch, look it's gone."
I looked and the ditch was gone.
"I don see anyone else round here, Mr. Byron, u musta stolen my ditch."
"Y would I want ur ditch?"
"Give it back" he said and he started trying to hypnotize me with his shovel.
"Yr gonna give my ditch back."
"No I aint"
"U better. What's in yer pocket?"
"Nothin."
"Nothin but ditch."

credits

released June 30, 2011

Lyrics and Music by Jim Byron
Album cover by Danielle Peterson.
"Sky Eyes" based on "Brown Eyed Girl" by Van Morrison.

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Jim Byron Minneapolis, Minnesota

U.S. alternative musician, songwriter, and producer. Has released over 30 albums since moving to Minneapolis in 2015. Genre- fluid. Mentored by two poet laureates of major cities: Jack Hirschman of San Francisco, and the late Barry Spacks of Santa Barbara. Also mentored by the mythic Baby Gramps, who once toured as Bob Dylan's personal backstage entertainment. ... more

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