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Sometimes I contemplate the road that brought me here
People I have loved and lost, Things that I hold dear
When I was just 14, I didn't have much fun
I didn't talk to girls but I played lead on "Walk Don't Run"
My father was a mystery, straitlaced and remote
He didn't dance, he didn't sing, the words stuck in his throat
We were riding Cornwell Avenue when we heard "That'll Be the Day"
My father changed the station, I began to drift away
I stayed up after midnight listening to those magic sounds
From Elvis to Earth Angel, Maybellene to Cathy's Clown
So rave on Buddy Holly, and brothers Everly
And Danny and the Juniors and Johnny Cash and Bo Diddley
God bless "Be-Bop-A-Lula" and thank you John and Paul
I'll feel a whole lot better for the knowing of you all
I am grateful for my children, I'm grateful for my wife
I'm grateful for each new day and for this music in my life
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Visions Of Jordana
03:08
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The empty lighthouse spooks the dark
Its emerald beacon casts a spark
Jordana lurks inside a park, doomed or so it seems
Her lover leaves to go to church
Abandoning his sacred perch
It's not clear who will get there first, inside the tv screen
Chorus: Nothing turns to gold I touch
Not that this will matter much
If I become to old to dream
Vinyl lords they have a plan
Jordana joins their cover band
They remake Sunshine Superman, not knowing what it means
While Captain Midnight's keeping score
Stalker in the corridor
The studio conquistador sequestered by a scream
Chorus
Drugstore cowboys weigh the cost
Of rescuing the albatross
Like rolling stones they gather moss
Mostly they just preen
We're galloping to say goodbye
The supersonic missiles fly
Jordana wrestles with her tie, prepares to meet the queen
Chorus
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You Are True
03:55
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Through thick and thin, lose or win, you are true
I complain, you refrain, you are true
I'm developmentally arrested, Yet you invested
Come claim your dividend
I attack, you push back, you are true
I obsess, you caress, you are true
You've been the constant in my life, Friend lover and wife
A safety net that never fails
Sadly I am immature, yet we endure, this is because of you
I malign, you decline, you are true
I retreat, you're upbeat, you are true
Now as we take that final lap, Deal with all that crap
Your love will see us through
I'm developmentally arrested, Yet you invested
This song's your dividend
Dynasty, not with me, you are true
I'm a pain, you remain, you are true
That's what you do, you are mtrue
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He was working the night shift, He went to get a bite to eat
That's when he saw her in the streetlight, her price was hard to beat
So he walked up to her, threw himself at her feet
Chorus:
Hunger for a different life, he had the hunger for a different life
The hunger for a different life goes on
She was married to a no-count, It wasn't her first mistake
She was feeling kind of low down, she knew she had to make a break
When her neighbor put the moves on
It was all that she could take
Chorus
Bridge: Well we live our lives of quiet desperation
Yet we seem to leave our destinies to chance
If we're not gonna give in to temptation
What the hell's the point of going to the dance
So I deleted all your pictures, Left the dishes in the sink
Put the keys on the counter, Poured myself a drink
It was nothing you did, Give my love to the kid
I pushed myself to the brink
Chorus
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Blame Love
03:43
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There are ghosts and phantoms but only one life
Only one life that is real
With imperfect angels and runaway brides
No matter how desperate we feel
I've got my reason, my wild intuition
The juxtaposition won't jell
Constant craving is so inefficient, Never sufficient to tell
And again and again our hearts are refilled
And again and again they are shattered
Will it ever let up? Will it ever let up?
It will never let up, Blame love
A band of outlaws is steadily rising along a horizon of gray
Shadows looming, strange premonition
Human condition today
Chorus
Repeat first verse
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No More Barriers
02:12
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I would engulf you if I could
I know it's irresponsible but just the same
Desire makes me want to take you
Where no more barriers remain
It's an uncanny state
Dare I enumerate
The ways that I intend to love you
Now all seem plausible but just the same
Something must change
Everything has changed
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Annabella
04:19
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In this dream we are walking, Hand in trembling hand
We know there's no place for us but we're still making plans
I turn, you smile, and in my heart, Shadows melt away
Still I wonder where the smile comes from
Now that things have changed, And everything has changed
This is all I have now Annabella (x2)
In this dream we are waiting, Blue scrubs all around
I'm trying to think of what we did to end up in this town
You whisper "let's get out of here" and I nod though I know
This trap's gonna follow us no matter where we go
No matter where we go
This is all I have now Annabella (x2)
...Annabella
We always had a deal (x3)
In this dream I've been falling a long time so it seems
And noone that I've reached for is reaching back to me
But through it all I recall how you held on to me
When the earth was shaking and the room was rattling
How you held on to me
This is all I have now Annabella
This is all I have now Annabella
Annabella, Annabella
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Golden Years
03:39
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Well my name is George Rodriguez, I was born in Minnesota
I worked 37 years in a bureaucratic maze
And I raised a loving family with my angel Esperanza
And we tried to fight the good fight, And we danced to Purple Haze
Now my children I love dearly, And they clearly love their father
And we still speak every Sunday but the visits now are rare
When I lost my Esperanza in the summer of 2000
I moved south to Albuquergue seeking out the crisp fall air
Chorus:
Now it's bingo every Friday, stop for dinner at 4:30
There are field trips to the mall for those who can
And a cover band on Sundays tries to cheer us playing oldies
As we sing along to Wild Thing, Maybellene, and Nowhere Man
I used to read philosophy, Dickens, Twain and Melville
I have heard the great conductors, I have seen Grand Coulee Dam
You can tell me I am lucky, You can say I should be grateful
But how all this came to pass, I will never understand
Chorus
Well my name is George Rodriguez, Born and raised in Minnesota
I worked 37 years in a bureaucratic maze
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Impartial Love
02:54
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This is not a Sunday kind of love, More like a slow slow burn
Pulsing thru your arteries, bursting thru the veins
Then start all over again
This is not a sacred love, it starts way down below
Somewhere in the shadows, tangled to the roots
End of the day, you still don't know
And it's not gonna end, No it's not gonna end
It's not gonna end til the day it all ends
This is not a fairy tale love, too many tunnels and cracks
Morning monkey business and midnight monkey mind
And you can never go back, no you can never go back
And it's not gonna end....
This is not an impartial love, the stakes are simply too high
Love can't be indifferent when there's so much sacrifice
The price of being alive
The price of being alive
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Strangers
03:23
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Sitting in a coffee shop watching a parade
Hungry but for what I cannot say
Last night I met Melissa, she's married with two kids
Says she won't make 60 and stole my heart away
There's a certain country singer who plays the local bars
Sometimes I go out to hear her songs
I want to know her secrets and I wonder where she sleeps
I'd like to add my voice if she'd let me sing along
I have reached my seventh decade, I am happy with my life
I cannot afford to be dissatisfied
I can't ignore this restlessness, it eats at me at night
Guess it's just my hearts way to remind me I'm alive
I am traveling in a train car, in the window I can see
A stranger bent and gray is drawing near
It takes me half a minute to determine that it's me
As I catch my breath beneath his eye I see a tear
I have reached my seventh decade, I am happy with my life
I remind myself I've yet to disappear
I take some consolation from the beauty I still see
The tiny revelations, the connections I hold dear
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peter zeldow Chicago, Illinois
Songs that hover around folk, rock & country genres with a mostly gentle, acoustic guitar-based mid-60s sound. The themes are universal: love (Jerome, You Are True), loss (Go), desire (Hunger), memory (It All Comes Back), aging (Golden Years), empathy (Kindness), & gratitude (Grateful). The delivery is understated, but the storytelling packs an emotional wallop that rewards careful listening. ... more
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