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Serendipitous Lips & Hymnal Hips

by Stormy Laughter and The Wilder Worldwide

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Origami 04:13
Origami lyrics ©Storm Garner2006 it's darling to watch you ungnarling the true from the too-good-to-be... though I'm charmless I'm harmless: this veneer's water-soluble, don't you see? it's me in here, no glue involved! I'll fold 'round you neatly: nothing to dissolve, nothing to dissolve... let's make origami: it's a good skill to have: you can say you learned it from me, when it makes your other friends laugh, when it makes your other friends laugh... "ha ha ha ha haaa!..."
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Xanadu 04:45
Xanadu lyrics ©Storm Garner 2006 if I could only learn how to slyly surrogate these mumbling mitigating mutilations... if I could just discern among dead yet unfurling blooms between these treasure-churning spoons the taste that, placed, would speak of wiltless young impatiens... if I could just assume that all these bent-back, blackened moons and all these sleepless, slackened grooms would sooner meet their dire dooms than tie my foot to milder aspirations... then I'd just sip my tepid tea and happ'ly talk of you and me and we'd be on our way at a leisurely pace today to our permanent place to stay in great grey xanadu yes we'd be on our way at a leisurely pace today to our permanent place to stay in great grey xanadu xanadu xanadu xanadu xanadu....
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The Serengeti (Radio Play Version) lyrics ©StormGarner2006 Martha: Oh Alfred, it's really over this time, isn't it? Alfred: Martha dearest, let's just go to the Serengeti! Martha: The Serengeti is a long way off; your friend the long-haired Yeti might get pissed off to hear you telling all these tales and swelling all these sails-- don't sell me no rip-offs. don't sell me no rip-offs! don't sell me no rip-offs! don't sell me no rip-offs! don't sell me no don't sell me no don't sell me no don't sell me no DON'T SELL ME NO RIP-OFFS! if you tell me something new I'll believe that too: why yes, I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu go on and tell me one more tale swell up my near-full-blown sail one more time and let's take off let's take off but please, but please, but please: DON'T SELL ME NO RIP-OFFS! don't sell me no rip-offs! don't sell me no rip-offs! don't sell me no rip-offs! don't sell me no don't sell me no don't sell me no don't sell me no DON'T SELL ME NO RIP-OFFS! now there's nothing wrong with looking for the Holy Grail but no point in overcooking dreams that have gone stale so let's get on to booking our flights my left brain into your right we'll keep one another in sight this time and won't derail... it's not too late to bail it's not too late to bail it's not too late it's not too late it's not too late it's not too late it's not too late to bail but we won't fail! we won't fail.... DO inoculate DO NOT copulate DO inoculate DO NOT copulate the Serengeti is a long way off; your friend the long-haired Yeti might get pissed off to hear you telling all these tales and swelling all these sails-- don't sell me no rip-offs! don't sell me no rip-offs! don't sell me no rip-offs! don't sell me no rip-offs! don't sell me no don't sell me no don't sell me no don't sell me no DON'T SELL ME NO RIP-OFFS! Alfred: Come now, Martha. (aside) She isn't necessarily making any sense, is she now... Martha: Oh Alfred... Shut up!
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Groaning and Moaning lyrics ©Storm Garner 2006 groaning and moaning is not for today yours grows in the morning mine's not hot for a lay groaning and moaning is not for today you're groaning and moaning what are you saying? groaning and moaning is not for today you'll be gone in the morning please stay please stay stay away! I want growing and mowing you want groaning and moaning if we won't go our ways no one wins, no one wins, sin away! groaning and moaning won't light up the way to the groaning and moaning you want anyway groaning and moaning is not for today I'll be gone in the morning won't you have a nice, have a nice, have a nice, have a nice day!...
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Cows and Moons (Love Song #1) lyrics ©Storm Garner 2006 I love your forks I love your spoons I love your cows I love your moons I love you so much, (it's true! it's true!) I have made myself UGLY for you! I have made myself ugly for you I have made myself ugly for you from my residence in the sediments of wealth and stealth I have made myself UGLY for you! oh! I love your forks I love your spoons I love your cows I love your moons I love you so much (it's true! it's true!) I have made myself UGLY for you! (you also should know that moonshadows grow in threes when it's just you and me.)
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Grayscales 04:22
Greyscales lyrics ©Storm Garner2006 the last time I was kissed I was thinking of marriage-- old age and children too-- but things fell through... these days I won't insist, or expect to find true love inside your kiss, but it's missed, you know, it's missed--that much shows, doesn't it? I'd been traveling for a while, 'round the world in this body of mine which is mostly just vehicular... nothing to my name but a smile: I gave my heart to the whole world but not to anybody in particular... then I met you... and I knew, and you did too: that phase was through. you say love's black or white; I'm inclined to see it as grey, speckled with black and/or white depending on the day. these days I won't insist or expect to find true love inside your kiss but it's missed, you know, it's missed--that much shows, doesn't it?
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Tongue In Cheek lyrics ©StormGarner2006 I've gotten back to feeling I won't live very long which is why yes okay I'll sing your damn song tongue in cheek is safer your soul tastes like a wafer but even you can yes sing doop-dee-doo and have it ring slapstick, half-wit true so who am I to try not to cry? and who am I to hope to hear a more friendly goodbye? goodbye...

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released February 14, 2013

lo-fi recordings from home, NYC and DC, 2006-2008

music and lyrics by Storm Garner
ingenious piano arrangements by Jonathan Wood Vincent
many muses
album cover photo by Dusdin Condren, 2009

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