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RECENT THUNDER

by Big Best Friend

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1.
there is no wind in the city there are no stars in between and when the summer comes, falling down, it brings rain and water on the leaves there is no wind in the city there are no dreams when you sleep and when the night comes, falling down, it gets dark darker than before (i see the headlights become the parking lot)
2.
open eyes spreading wide open eyes can’t be closed tight blue light on the inside coming from the blinds at midnight (the pool is full of ghosts) i’ll sit down in the driver’s seat crank the AC and turn the key open roads i’m coming home, even if i’ve got nowhere to go (the roads are full of flood)
3.
i fell down the rabbit’s hole when i left like i had somewhere to go when i changed my name i became part of the big broad anything, recent thunder with you unmade you cut my hair with my own switchblade, recent thunder
4.
Water 02:32
pick up the phone and say my name and i’ll be on my way, tomorrow i'll be there today while your were resting i was out making friends i met some see-through men with eyes like champagne teeth bared like a stray it made water in my eyes you said you knew where the waterfall begins but do you know where the pavement ends? cuz i need to find my peace i gotta let the ghost go free and become away from me
5.
keep driving on find a place to get gone the further you get from the city you may hear the waterfall (waterfall) how can i disappear when no one saw me first, always unclear, how can i shut my mouth when bullshit just keeps coming out drive ’til you hit the fork in the road drive ’til you can't hear the groan i don’t wanna go that way the footprints will lead you astray they will make you alone, not with me, i mean actually alone if i could become the things i can’t even dream up, i could be anything outside of me drive ’til you feel it in your bones drive ’til you can't hear the phone
6.
Anything 03:47
fuck being here, fuck being anywhere i’m always lonely, somehow inside myself the lights blind the elms i’m not myself, you’re not yourself undo your belt, your seat belt, turn off the car walk through the marsh turn off your phone, be alone (it’s beautiful) do you want the truth? i believe in you i’m always lonely, somehow inside myself  i'm not you, you're not me we're anything
7.
Spaceman 03:03
your facebook friends don’t love you, they would eat you like the vultures (if they could) why is everybody fucking when fucking feels like torture (if i would) i’ve loved you once before but you already knew that if i could love you like before i wouldn’t have to say that i slept in the tent with you beneath the moon, you woke up and saw horses we drove in your truck (nice as fuck) but now i’m in the forest  inside a giant’s chest i’ve loved like a whore now i love like a pest i’m haunted by the living i’m haunted by the telephone i’m haunted by my access  praise the lord i'll be a ghost and when i leave this world when we are astronauts  i’ll tell you that i love you just in case you forgot and when i leave this world and my body stays behind and i evaporate praise the lord i'll be alive
8.
the easel is outside he’s painting in the light he’s got acrylic on his hands and age in his eyes there’s nowhere like here: in Ellijay though i’ll miss the lake where my grandfather swam but i will build a new home one that i understand there is dust in the corners, a bathtub in the yard, children in the bathtub, and dad is workin’ hard though it’s far away it lives in my future i know that one day my death will be useful when i die i will leave my kids with my debt when i die i will become the rain unless
9.
Blood Rain 03:12
the cicadas call your name while the sirens swim in circles in the lake, there is a marriage in the house and your father has got his money hanging out and i can hear you in the blood rain there is a baby with your skin, there is a party in the basement again, your mother is in love as i fill the fire pit with wood in the blood rain and you are old and i am older and i see you, seeing me
10.
you shine like starlight (cliché) you stay down south (get out) near FL beaches (that's good) a big open mouth you are the only one i love but love can be coals if i can start the fire i’ll hunt you like the wolves i’ll find the mountain where we can build a home if i just had your number i would let you know i’ll fill the bathtub with pink roses and if you’re impressed you can watch me do it again
11.
no matter where i go i don't see no moon glow, even when i’m beneath it, it don’t glow without you (peach moon, why won’t you shine for me) no matter where i go, i become a ghost
12.
let it hold you in it’s arms you can eat right from it's palms and when you're there, you will ask one thing "god, spread my disbeliefs" and you will wonder is it a home without me?

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Written / recorded May - June 2019 ///
Recorded in a bedroom, in the inevitable summer of 2019 ///
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Download this album for FREE and you will get a PDF that contains lyrics and pretty pictures and reflections /// you can also pay for this album and that would be greatly appreciated and even encouraged /// money makes art possible, unfortunately ///
In this album, our hero, the BIG BEST FRIEND, takes a long drive from the city to the nature (or the "real world") and finds out that the idea of "home" is an idea that he must explore.

My ideal living and being space is in north Georgia. Somewhere outside of Ellijay there is a camping place I go to when I can make the time. It is about an 8 hour drive from where I am living now, and this album is the soundtrack to that 8 hour drive. This album is the feeling of leaving the city and going somewhere beautiful, with real air and living things. “RECENT THUNDER” is my ideal escape from my new life. I think that is probably the best way to put it.

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released June 12, 2019

All sounds, music, lyrics, by Morgan Motes.
Cover photograph by Brent Matheny.

Thanks for listening, and if you are reading this, well, you are the reason art like this gets made. If art is made, and no one sees it, was it made? It’s kind of like that thing that people say about falling trees. From deep down, truthfully, thank you.

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Touching guitars lightly. Songs about the moon and what it shines on. Pacific Northwest Indie Rock if made from the wet grounds of Florida.

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