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The Name Of The Ghost Is Home

by Drunken Prayer

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1.
Behind the line of power Who’s a hero and who’s a coward There sits a lonely king at the bottom of a hill From a monarch to a moth man Bare knuckled fist gone soft man If you only had the weapons and the weapons and the will You're outgunned but they're outnumbered You’re not dumb but they’re not dumber You don't have the blood to spare And even less to spill To hold your disposition You need better ammunition If you only had the weapons and the will If you only had the weapons and the will The sweetheart of the picket line Is marching in three quarter time Knowing there's no better time to swallow bitter pills It's a thrill to kill a mockingbird That's the meanest thing I ever heard You don't have the weapons or the will Behind the line of power Who’s a hero who’s a coward Let them have them have the streets they're determined to die on My one true love was sent by fate Testing the mettle of a police state If you only had the weapons and the will If you only had the weapons and the will
2.
Loosen the law You can't put the genie back in the bottle The demon threatens my unborn career I want for nothing and already it’s here Got a fuzz pedal and a wooden firebird I can't believe life used to be so hard Riding go carts through the K Mart parking lot Listening to Oasis in the yard A standard transmission Read it in a Creem magazine subscription Relatively young and certainly dumb I’m on the record there's no place like numb Got a fuzz pedal and a wooden firebird I can't believe life used to be so hard Riding go carts through the K-Mart parking lot Listening to Oasis in the yard The royal me I don’t want no deathbed epiphany Bring me the horizon from behind the Taco Bell I wanna know if this is heaven or hell Got a fuzz pedal and a wooden firebird I can't believe life used to be so hard Riding go carts trough the K Mart parking lot Listening to Oasis in the yard
3.
What do you get the girl with everything A box of love letters she’ll never read I got a song you can sing She’s a heart, you’re a broken heart I’m a diamond Put your hand in the hand of your sisters and brothers One squeezes tighter than all of the others Another I’d rather not be She’s a heart, you’re a broken heart, I’m a diamond She’s a heart, you’re a broken heart, I’m a diamond I’m a diamond What do you bet the nothing to lose The Ace of Regrets, the Queen of the Blues I’m holding yesterday’s news She’s a heart, you’re a broken heart, I’m a diamond She’s a heart, you’re a broken heart, I’m a diamond I’m a diamond What do you get the girl with everything?
4.
Myna Birds 03:22
Myna birds Myna birds Empty affirmations noisy chatter while they preen Sound like human voices but I don’t know what it means Inside jokes For outside folks She said you seem different and I said so do I You just found your walking stick and I just learned to fly Myna birds Myna birds Coffee grounds and egg shells all across the kitchen floor Feathers falling to the ground as I fly out the door Myna birds Myna birds Nests in a gale A lullaby in a minor scale Whistling past the graveyard and singing in the rain Fake it till you make it is the myna bird’s refrain Myna birds
5.
Landlines, rabbit ears and nachos for one I am no fun, the elephant in the room I'd give riches untold for a map that I can fold A book that I can hold by the spine It’s been a long time since a kid sat at the table Mighty Casey went and struck out on his own It's beer and blood is mixed in with the mud The kids can't rock and roll I've wrecked hundreds of cars, fell from tall buildings Drug by six white horses and broke 56 bones Suffered and shamed by the blowing winds of change I will not throw you a high-five It’s been a long time since a kid sat at the table Mighty Casey went and struck out on his own It's beer and blood is mixed in with the mud The kids can't rock and roll Landlines, rabbit ears and nachos for one I am no fun, the elephant in the room I'd give riches untold for a map I can unfold A book that I can hold by the spine It’s been a long time since a kid sat at the table Mighty Casey went and struck out on his own It's beer and blood is mixed in with the mud The kids can't rock and roll No the kids they cannot rock, the kids can't roll No the kids they cannot rock to save their goddamn souls The beer and blood is mixed in with the mud The kids can't rock and roll
6.
Crazy Alone 04:02
I’m going crazy I’m going crazy I’m going crazy alone If I could crawl out of my skin And shed the one I slither in You know I would The world gets flatter everyday What would it matter if I stay For good I'm going crazy I’m going crazy I’m going crazy I’m going crazy alone I wish someone would come along Tell me what I'm doing wrong So long I’m going crazy I’m going crazy I’m going crazy I’m going crazy alone
7.
I am the God of the Sea All of the fish want to be just like me Though it may all be a dream I am the God of the Sea I am the God of the Moon In the fontanel forest we sleep until noon Though it may end too soon I am the God of the Moon Winters will spring and summers will fall Children will run off to school I will remain while the world goes on changing I get to make up the rules I am the God of the Sky None of the angels fly quite as high I’m not your average guy I am the God of the Sky I am the God of the Sea All of the fish want to be just like me Though it may all turn to steam I am the God of the Sea
8.
Let's talk about a hard won birth Let's talk about what your worth And how it hurt last year on Christmas Eve 5 dollars in a cigarette machine All alone with your unsown seeds I don't believe you wouldn't change a thing I don't believe you wouldn't change a thing I never said I wouldn’t change a thing Let's talk about DUIs Some pigs weren't meant to fly The emergency room is no place to lose your keys Oh Morgan don't you be so mad Them stitches is a hell of a badge I don't believe you wouldn't change a thing I don't believe you wouldn't change a thing I never said I wouldn’t change a thing Pack up your presents now child you've earned 'em Take your lessons out back and burn 'em Gonna move to the country change my name to Tree Tell me again about your plans to leave The future ain't what it used to be I don't believe you wouldn't change a thing I don't believe you wouldn't change a thing I never said I wouldn’t change a thing I don't believe you wouldn't change a thing I never said I wouldn’t change a thing
9.
When you wake up in the morning what pulls you out of bed Voices on the radio or voices in your head The dogs of war are scratching at my door I am just a poor boy on a mattress on the floor Summer child on the run It's New Year's Eve What have you learned Do as you please break the law Out on a limb the sweetest fruit of all It's a hotter lake of fire than the one I had envisioned Let's raise a little hell before they throw us all in prison Come on into my kitchen, I won't ask you where you've been It takes more than money to pay the rent Summer child on the run It's New Year's Eve What have you learned Do as you please break the law Out on a limb the sweetest fruit of all And when your day is over and you turn out the lights What puts you to sleep what keeps you up at night? David v. Goliath? Biblical surprise? If the good Lord's willin' and the meek don't rise Summer child on the run It's New Year's Eve What have you learned Do as you please break the law Out on a limb the sweetest fruit of all
10.
High on style low on cash An outlaw fetish and a French mustache Baseball, hotdogs, Junior Johnson country ham (I said a country ham) An open road and a liberal stance A beat up bus and an Alabama license I put my Blundstones on one foot at a time I belong in the Country Music Ball of Flame Flyin’ high through that little ol’ sky with all them Hanks I belong in the country I belong in the country I belong in the Country Music Ball of Flame But last call don't pay the rent And part time doesn't cut it Here in the real world They won’t take your job and shove it I never had a number one hit record But I've polished up a couple number twos I belong in the country I belong in the country I belong in the Country Music Ball of Flame
11.
Sunderland 04:04
Where the flags forever fly at half-mast Never may they wave Heroes around here are falling off fast They never die of old age Bells are ringing in the Appalachian hills As I hold your little hand Underemployed on opioid pills Out in Sunderland You are my hero It’s not enough to just survive You never looked so frightened As you walked into the thunder and the lightning You never seemed so alive Broken hearts don’t need to stay that way Broken dreams can still come true Broken promises and doubting Thomases They’re only shadows of you You are my hero Kicking out the footlights again The hand that I gave you I wanted to save you What can I do but be brave for you Out in Sunderland
12.
The name of the ghost is home Shadows and shackles Shudders and boards The name of the ghost From pillar to post The name of the ghost is home The name of the ghost is home The name of the ghost is home Shadows and shackles Shudders and boards The name of the ghost From pillar to post The name of the ghost is home

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DRUNKEN PRAYER (AKA Morgan Geer) is releasing his sixth full-length album, THE NAME OF THE GHOST IS HOME, produced by Paul Oldham (Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Royal Trux) and Morgan Geer via Fluff and Gravy Records on 4.22.22

The Name of the Ghost is Home, the new album by Drunken Prayer, transcends the bounds of Americana music. For the last year Morgan Geer has been working from his home studio building on drum tracks initially recorded in Albuquerque, NM at Empty House Studios, home of doom metal bands like OM and Sleep. The end result evokes an ominous feedback-and-driftwood aesthetic. This is music that could have emerged from a highly blissed-out biker bar or at a swampy ashram.

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released April 22, 2022

Produced by Paul Oldham and Morgan Geer
Mixed & mastered by Paul Oldham
All songs written by Morgan Geer
© Drunken Prayer 2022 ASCAP

Recorded at Empty House in Albuquerque, NM by Matthew Tobias
Overdubbed and edited at House of Morgan in Asheville, NC

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"Morgan Geer is the real thing - a songwriter with a heart as deep as the Marianas Trench and sensitive as the wet hands of a raccoon."

- Rennie Sparks, The Handsome Family

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