MY IMAGINARIUM, by Euie b Graham

MY IMAGINARIUM

by Euie b Graham

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1.	BLACK CAT CHERRY TREE 03:19	lyrics	buy track
BLACK CAT CHERRY TREE Words and music by Euie b Graham The young persons perspective of death is startling A soft skin smile Weep tears of joy and sadness Tinkling wind chimes, stereo speakers prepare a kind of feast A summer spread, crisp white napkins Hand maidens to my star wars figures We had a cat, a black cat white stray, that came to play It tipped the milk bottles over in its haste to squeeze through a drain hole, it was hit by a car Its eye distorted a wisp of blood around its petite mouth Its lost purr, its fur now moist and cold and refusing the brush We buried her next to the cherry tree The snug walk line of neighbours fence The earth mixed with granite fragments and road metal
2.	LEAPFROG FASCINATION 04:17	lyrics	buy track
LEAPFROG FASCINATION Words and music by Euie b Graham Simple notion Leaf glass commotion Chase town vibration Leapfrog fascination Underneath the ever green I find something I’ve never seen I search a pocket in my heart for flower gems A lazy cat in blanket fast A wish upon a golden hearth Asleep inside a whiskered dream of shower ends Common place a hero, mantel shelf a place to sleep Clock is turning zero, tiny feet upon my sheet Which way should I sleep tonight? Glowing candles burning bright Catch a tiger by the toe A talisman end Simple notion Leaf glass commotion Chase town vibration Leapfrog fascination
3.	CHARCOAL LOLLIPOP GLUE 03:45	lyrics	buy track
CHARCOAL LOLLIPOP GLUE Words and music by Euie b Graham Watching the sunrise Reflecting the colours in my eyes Cricket a moment, slip crease a golden pocket clue Charcoal lollipop glue Pin stripe green shed and new Castles garden in sun Leapfrog movement and fun Trench coat pockets are black Cartoon voices and cat Peace sign vertical blue Catch scale Honkytonk man Grey scale a milieu Sing to a rabbit and a hutch Asking your questions Stick them in the corners of the room Horse tails clouds in the sky Dog holes sunshine and moon Practice musical notes Magpie’s branches on high Bricks and stones pavers and rocks Chicken wire for fox Tools, fence, wire for twine
4.	ANIMAL INSTINCT 03:26	lyrics	buy track
ANIMAL INSTINCT Words and music by Euie b Graham On the screen, we can see each other fight like cats and dogs On the watch, we can hear the minutes ticking till the end I rest my case in gold I can hear the monster breathing like a curse On the news, our leaders are protecting privilege Come on come on come on let’s slip away In my head, I can feel my talent turning black and blue Making plans, to protect the vestiges of hope and sound Like an animal I can hunt The killer coming home Like a survivor I can strive Like an animal inside Like a ghost rider I can rave A medicine of fear Like a protector I can growl Puffing out my chest Like a lonely cat I can roam Like an animal in pain Like a challenge beast I can boast Like the king before the feast Like a vacant fool I can hide Like a stage fright frightened bird
5.	VIRIDIAN GREEN 03:56	lyrics	buy track
VIRIDIAN GREEN Words and music by Euie b Graham (Voice reversed) Scurry away from here Swivel away from a swooping bird Bicycles left in a heard Spokes and lies Reflecting eyes in the path of a dragon fly Coming from the tomb A woodpile of disappointment Dragging the flames Dragging the flames in spears Dragging the flames Swear and savagely rescue wits end theatre Rolling war stones polished by the passage of time In the garden of mind Fresh roots to share, breath the fresh clean air Closed eyes, passage of time
6.	HUNGRY DREAM CRYSTAL BALL 05:10	lyrics	buy track
HUNGRY DREAM CRYSTAL BALL Words and music by Euie b Graham Fly on a motorway, blinded by the dreaming lights Crest fallen on a broken wave, finding shells to be warm and safe Stumbling like a punch drunk bird, whisper words for my appetite Creek calling shapes in my backwater, leaves and impressions on a nature strip Eyes that fall on my landscape pain Fallen wood, grey against a sea of green Cattle prod my way back to work again Pastoral to find some restoration Fall down ways in my kitchen dream Dragging clocks in my reaper barn A place of debauchery and distortions Fly on a hungry dream, crystal ball showing paper planes Tumbling pink on the winter blue, birds eyes drawn to a point of view You know you play with my confidence A separate mind, cost delusional Fall down ways in my reaper barn Knowing that I see through a tainted lens Curled up inside like a sleeping animal Mirror gazing like an also ran Blinded by my misconceived incompetence Fast charging on my power source Picked up like a leaf on a tall fresh breeze
7.	DUE DROPS AND DREAMS 04:21	lyrics	buy track
DUE DROPS AND DREAMS Words and music by Euie b Graham Circles and squares, shade and full sun Rocks and curves with placement like a canvas Moss green and brown The sun touches the ground Nightfall’s like a shower Bathing the garden In due drops and stars Diamonds and stairs, cobbled steps sunbeam The grass between my toes Branches on high kaleidoscope sky With the shapes of blue and white Flowers and birds, due drops and dreams Sun comes like a fountain bathing the garden in due drops and dreams The creatures of day, walk past my way Plants and rocks with placement like a canvas Circles and squares Cobble step over the path below my feet Branches on high break up the sky Like a mirror to my dreams Due drops and dreams (repeat)
8.	CORONA DAYS 04:09	lyrics	buy track
CORONA DAYS *Written by Tom Woodward. Variation on lyrics by Euie b Graham Well I set my clock to half past seven I’ve got so much to do But I slept through the damn ringing and woke at half past two! I stepped outside to energize, sun rays upon my face Chicken coups are closed livin’ But there’s raindrops falling at my feet and I feel like a big disgrace Corona days in the winter, corona days by my side When life falls by the way side, and it’s a struggle to stay alive Well I click on the kettle, a cup of hot coffee I look at the latest death figures on the ABC And the bloke next door with is sausage dog is walking down the street Is he Covid safe if he wears a mask? Or will he catch what he can’t see? Corona days and I’m happy with the sunshine and the rain With that constant nagging feeling that there’s no one I can blame Now on the wall it’s half past four, impatient ticking clock My shoes are in the doorway and my foot is in my sock I’ve got one two three four empty bottles, I give the devil his due I’ve got a dark night bruising up an empty sky, I don’t know what to do Corona days in the winter, corona days by my side When life falls by the way side, and it’s a struggle to stay alive
9.	COVID ECONOMY 03:41	lyrics	buy track
COVID ECONOMY Words and music by Euie b Graham We are all told to stay at home Working in our safety zone Like a good bee in its prime Distancing to pass the time Restrictions are a state of mind The truth is what we might find Written on the wall of a closed shop This town is has all but closed down I watch the figures rise I know it’s no surprise Night and blue frenzy Wall stairs we might go crazy Middle of the night, half light on forward thinking Question bright lifeline empathy sees Standing still these walls were made for drinking Sanity light grasp the empathy dream The trees continue to grow The leaves fall out of the sky The birds have laughing eyes Remembering big blue days The news is an endless voice Excitement a secret vice The pressure continues to grow The economy is starting to slow I’m starting to see In my empathy dream
10.	TERRA NULLIUS 04:00	lyrics	buy track
TERRA NULLIUS Words and music by Euie b Graham I feel black and blue I see black and white A sickly cloud that suffocates my wits tonight Golf balls of ice, fall from far reaches of the sky Holding on to my childhood awareness Makes me strong to imagine something green and beautiful Catastrophe is unfurling all around us The wilderness inch by inch is claiming terra nullius Who will fill the void left by unseen emotions? The sports bishops of our fears Holding on to rotten edifice A mournful wail at the world, a gasping grasp, a last breath fountain Holding on to my childhood awareness Makes me strong to imagine something green and beautiful Catastrophe is unfurling all around us The wilderness inch by inch is claiming terra nullius The rabbit proof fence, brick veneer face Cold hard steel Protest march Distancing The corporate void Clean black coal A dirty smile
11.	VIRUS 05:54		buy track
12.	CANOPY 06:34	lyrics	buy track
CANOPY Words and music by Euie b Graham Under a canopy of trees, with a dappled light on ground I could be here for a thousand years, not another soul around Watching the bridal party pass, tip toe across the flowering grass Caricature smiles, leg on dance Champaign flutes and rose romance Scratching around like a free-range hen, carry a bird songs clutter A canopy of leaves above fate, you’re going to lose your expression The playground sound, returns again, to haunt me out of all my affections A lesson learnt, the child inside, the hand that made me cum to attention This wounded thing, that I’ve become, sentimental plaster over nothing Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing to see here Close your eyes, there’s nothing to see here, close your eyes The nucleolus of family passage past, just as a lawnmower cuts the grass Girls and boys occupy the hours Scratching around like a free-range hen, carry a bird songs clutter A canopy of leaves above fate, you’re going to lose your expression The pieces fit, the puzzles made But the pictures open to an idle gaze We must fit in in order to win, but the lessons learnt are an open page The path is laid, the trauma felt, across our very means of expression I can’t escape, I can only deceive myself time and time again I can’t explain, I feel too much This welling up inside is going to do some harm
13.	SWEET DREAMS 03:02	lyrics	buy track
SWEET DREAMS Words and music by Euie b Graham Feather thought Clean wings Placed in an elephants memory Cushion loneliness A toy parade On a ring a wings round Nothing stays the same Everything’s changed The sled through clouds See it slip through the clouds
14.	LETHAGY 04:22	lyrics	buy track
LETHARGY Words and music by Euie b Graham I try to wake up, I try to wake up But my head is just wedged between the pillow and the wall! Sound in my ear, a digging metal tune Not a birds word or soft mouth I try to wake up, I try to wake up But the rains gentle anaesthetic has left my limbs in lethargy I try to get up, I try to start the day But this lethargy has left me in a state of decay What’s my name? What’s my particular game? Find the route of the course but won’t listen to sense Am I just a breathing corpse? Am I just a waist of space? If I turn the lights down low will it mimic the effect of a closing day? A closed recluse, bed tie like a noose If I turn the lights down low will I ever return to the visual world? This child is cold (repeat)
15.	SPARKLE LIGHT 06:16	lyrics	buy track
SPARKLE LIGHT Words and music by Euie b Graham When the windows show a bleak and cold terrain As I’m looking through the glass Safe inside we can shelter from the rain that threatens me I’m a stranger, just a little child inside Run from danger to find a safe place to hide Sparkle light in the sky Reminding me I’m alone Sparkle light in my eyes Talking on the telephone Sparkle light in the sky Reminding me I’m alone Sparkle light in my eyes Talking on the telephone Blinded by the thought of turning out the light Dream catcher above, I fail to hesitate Television news, permeates my life Profanity excuse, strength has now abandoned me
16.	SUNSHINE PALACE 03:36	lyrics	buy track
SUNSHINE PALACE Words and music by Euie b Graham Light touching a wall, it’s olive patina Arch and grove and paths spiraling inward Two stories above this pastoral splender stands A home for dreams to rise and be nurtured by our love with our hands The future held between our golden hands This fragile eggshell moment here to grasp Light hits the grass on its way to the keep Wind blows through the door against my living room features Cats and dogs at rest, the chimney is smoking Eyes peak through the cracks of the music room parlour Squels and laughs and cries from the head quarters tree house Blue sea seperates previous hardship Fragile eggshell moment here to cherish In the sunshine palace Over the city over the sand over the sea over the forest
17.	OLD TAWNY 05:55	info	buy track
18.	WEATHERED EYE 02:48	lyrics	buy track
WEATHERED EYE Words and music by Euie b Graham The young persons perspective of death is quite absurd The soft skin smile, can weave tears of joy and sadness The weathered eye, observes inside, a maelstrom of pride The young persons perspective of death is quite absurd Of the shared rituals of love and kindness clothed in epitaph Memory in bloom, it fills the room The presence of his loss has curled me into the shape of a fumbling child
19.	RED LIGHT FIZZ 04:04	lyrics	buy track
RED LIGHT FIZZ Words and music by Euie b Graham A lollipop man keeps exciting my eyes An explosion of hate, fast food fate, a lollipop man Keeps my number on the side An explosion of hate. It’s in his eyes It’s in his eyes on the ceiling; I’ve got this feeling The fires are taking their toll Inferno that’s gripping my soul The branches are angry at night The smokes in their eyes and throat The lollipop man takes a break He’s swimming in Hawaii while we’re jumping in the lake He doesn’t need a break, while the counties on fire, a giant funeral pyre Can’t breath for smoke, my eyes are on the ceiling Can’t catch a break, the ministers a snake My eyes are on the newsreel
20.	COAL CALL DREAM 05:04	lyrics	buy track
COAL CALL DREAM Words and music by Euie b Graham Resting on the blue in my make shift boat Driftwood at the mercy of the current trend Deadwood on the crest of a broken wave Mercy is a helicopter seed in my coal call dreams Voices echoed in my blindness Conjured in my short sleep Join with the current trend Trying not to sleep at my workstation The hours are just moments in the smoke filled sky A precious cobbled sentence in the television night A smoke screen of remorse sounding fake behind their firewalls Voices echoed in my blindness Conjured inside my coal dream Join, with the chorus of the latest lies Lies…
21.	MASK 03:51	lyrics	buy track
MASK Words and music by Euie b Graham Mask in your mind and in the bathroom mirror What do you find, when you look so closely? Is it like a ghost? Is it like a wheel of fortune? Do my eyes remember? Or is it automatic motions? Mask, takes away, all the pressure lines and grey Troubles left for another day I was searching for a happy feeling Now my head is closed and reeling Mask in my mind, and in the bathroom mirror What do you find, when you look so closely? When you look too closely?
22.	THE LAZY CAT MASTERS WISH 05:23	lyrics	buy track
THE LAZY CAT MASTERS WISH Words and music by Euie b Graham I listen to the sound of rain Beads gather on my windowpane There’s too many to count them all, under the spell of the shower I lose myself in wondering, how many droplets to grow a flower? I wonder in the poring rain, find something I just can’t explain Suddenly a thought occurs, seeded by the rain A pioneer, sea fairing gaze Through these lungful, eyes I’m afraid Fear, closing words are lead astray Clouds that gather poor above our lives I lose myself in wondering, how many droplets to grow a flower? There’s too many to count them all, under the spell of the shower How long can lazy paws belong hear?
23.	KEEP ME STRONG 03:15	lyrics	buy track
KEEP ME STRONG Words and music by Euie b Graham It’s been a long time, since I held your heart In my firm and warming hands Lets make a new start let’s draw our plans In the sand in the beach of our forgiving tide On the cinema, the silver screen We watch our darkest fears, brave and forlorn tears Exchange a knowing look, a useful smile Because we stand apart and can change the courses of our hearts For the better, closer together, for the better Let’s take a brave change, I can mold it in my hands, my warm and loving hands The challenges we’ve faced can only make our journey’s wise Through the waters of our eyes When everything falls apart in the darkness The colours of your heart keep me strong Keep me strong, keep me strong, keep me strong On the cinema, the silver screen We watch our darkest fears, brave and forlorn tears Exchange a knowing look, a useful smile Because we stand apart and can change the colours of our hearts Sometimes I feel like a broken music box I try so hard to not need anyone Bring myself down, crawling on hands and knees
24.	DREAM SEQUENCE 01:54	info	buy track
25.	CURLED INSIDE 05:50	lyrics	buy track
CURLED INSIDE Words and music by Euie b Graham The wet path lonely, really starts with predisposition With flourishes and voice recognition Being bullied at school, first taste of this proclamation Awareness of myself leads to self preservation Complications, situations I curled inside myself for preservation, capitulation I wandered off the track fallen from the main line Falling from the main line Don’t be so sensitive about your name Let’s take shelter from the rain Memories playing tricks again Dream yourself in a placid ocean A chance for reinvention Drawing the fragments together as one Catalogue vestiges this time has come Memory of truth a fantastical colour The feelings of youth, reminds me of mother Rain storms nearly over
26.	RED BLOSSOM 04:25	lyrics	buy track
RED BLOSSOM Words and music by Euie b Graham Photograph focused blurred A boy in a tree His hair the colour of sand Red blossom land High as can be A boy in a tree Focus is blurred Like Memory Red blossom land High as can be Boy in a tree If he should fall Photograph blur Eyes like the sea Emotional places to be Red blossom land High as can be Boy in a tree If he should fall The leaves will cushion the blow Inside of a dream The branches will rise skyward pale pink forget-me-not time
27.	DOG CLOUD DAY 04:31	info	buy track
28.	NEW WINTERS PLIGHT 03:58	lyrics	buy track
NEW WINTERS PLIGHT Words and music by Euie b Graham Reset your policy on the back of my hand Tell me you love me tell me - I’ll understand We could be tethered we could see what we see Sharing simple pleasure, engaging in make believe Engaging in make believe, imagine a catastrophe Somebody’s history, destroyed by veracity Counting down numbers, counting down what you see Remorse hits the target it’s the heavens that won’t believe Rio Tinto blasts away a sacred site For iron ore and wealth galore a new winters plight A new winters plight The future is an ocean where the land meets the sky The permafrost has melted now it’ time to say goodbye Crops are for the insects, and the virus has spread The hurricanes are blowing, there’s no future inside my head It’s a new winters plight New winter plight
29.	FAIRY GARDEN 03:48	lyrics	buy track
FAIRY GARDEN Words and music by Euie b Graham Sleeping in the sun on a bed of grass Feels so warm like I’m on an eiderdown Watching the fairy floss in the blue Find new shapes like a cat and mouse trap game Examine the ink spots on my fingers Marks from a darker time trapped in memory Sitting in a fairy gardens natural eiderdown Listen to the bird songs as they take their time, to fill air If I were a stranger I could fit this laughter Like a coat of a different colour Fallen from a rocking horse charger
30.	CATAPULT 06:27	lyrics	buy track
CATAPULT Words and music by Euie b Graham Eyes recede in monster visions Catapult my fears and anxieties Catch my breath in senseless motions Pick apart these opportune delusions The voices inside are shouting again Telling me to return to the same solution I can read the visual message Arms and legs and facial expressions Like a clown with see through intentions Words sound hollow shrill and deluded From voices inside, we can’t run or hide Bring home the truth In the garden of youth The emptiness sea, so vast and unknown Breeding the monsters of our imagination dreams An alphabet pride, an innocent cage Casting out all the elegant wisdom Elephant room, ice pick and rope Catalogue all the missing little tiny pieces Berated by truth, crest fallen wave The reasoned ideas, fall by the way side Learning journey bashful rhythms Asking questions, formulate decisions ************ The shadows are lifting from my world right now The sky is a new hue to herald the sun The plants are responding to greenness my thumb! The world is an ocean of people to meet The garments of yesterday have started to shrink I feel like I’m blossoming, more like my father

about

It is with trepidation that I launch this particular collection to the ether because it contains valuables that are like polished stones from my soul. I am in fact rather nervous, having built such strong walls to protect against…anything getting through in the past, I am yearning for some acceptance. I can make bright colours glorious tricks and festive sparklers, but they are always for my own pleasure, with puppets and shadows for audience. To seek a welcome nook is the appetite of stars, but for this dark horse, the long gallop around the walled edifice of our collective culture takes stamina, resilience and the pure projected joy and sustenance of the creative adventure.
I am nervous to present this collection of music my Imaginarium, because it is important to me and makes me feel vulnerable. Revealing truth, even clad in Shakespearean robes can be a bit too awkward, and can have ramifications.

I started recording this album in the embers and smoke of January 2020, when I felt the world was burning down. As Climate change is the current subject of my visual art, my more theatrical side embellished the substance of scientific truth and the Coronavirus landscape added context, drama and circumstance to squeeze together this array of sounds that I have heightened. The music is exotic, psychedelic, and persuasive if you are a cuddle bunny. It feels like part of me or at least an impression of this most momentous year. I guess many artists around the world have a 2020 artifact in their collection, and it will be fascinating to compare. I have tried to create many hidey-holes to explore and have grown the music out of an intuitive childlike place where the freshness of first experience and growing tips can be suckled lovingly even when burnished by time and reflection.

My palette: Acoustic guitar; violin; mandolin; Soprano Recorder; Glockenspiel; tambourine; Bass Guitar; Triangle; Crash/Ride symbol; watering can; Harmonica and introducing the Dan Tranh (Vietnamese Zither).

The pull and tug of negative and positive emotions is apparent here, as in most of my other efforts. However I have tried to represent a visceral equivalent in the layered textures of notes to the variety of moods that envelope me. I present to you the listener, my imaginarium which I sincerely declare my masterwork to date.

Thanks: Catherine, for her immeasurable tolerance; Cynthia, for her inspired youthful tones; Evie for her precocious wonderment; Barry for the miraculous gift of telescopic brushes; Tom for his timely and much needed encouraging communications and the song "Corona Days"that he first recorded in my Newstead studio in central Victoria in 2003.

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released November 9, 2020

All songs written and performed by Euie b Graham except *Corona Days by Tom Woodward with vocal variations by Euie b Graham
All songs written and recorded between january and November 2020 at home in my garage studio in Curtin Canberra ACT Australia using Garage band and my trusty 2008 iMac computer.

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Euie b Graham Canberra, Australia

Ending formal lessons on violin, I began writing songs in 1992, graduating to a four-track cassette recorder shortly after, and the addictive journey of composing then recording was entrenched. I continue, assimilating influences and forging my own way. I shy away from performing, I write, record then move on. I would love others to listen and enjoy, and hold out hope that I May find an audience. ... more

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