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Monarch

by Richard Gorman

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    A flutter of beautiful songs flitting like butterflies from story to story.

    Hearts is inspired by the young Scottish athletes, principally from the great Edinburgh football club of the same name, who lost their lives in the First World War.

    Monarch is dedicated to the late Homero Gómez González champion of Monarch butterfly conservation and environmental anti-logging campaigner in Michoacán, Mexico and to his colleagues.

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1.
A Different Kind of Love 04:12
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A Different Kind of Love The girls and the boys and the boys and the girls are out carving their names on the trees And the women and men and the intimate friends are kissing and talking in tongues There’s something to be said for missionary sex and the trappings of marital bliss But not every planet is wearing a ring and not every flower’s a rose He said come on let me show you a different kind of love Come on let me show you a different kind of love Does it take one to score or is merrier more? Do whatever dance keeps you together Men can love men there’s no need to defend the pleasures that burn in our brains And girl on girl action’s not just a display to help us lonely men get through the night Because women make love and it comes from the heart And it shines in the sky like the moon She said come on let me show you a different kind of love Come on let me show you a different kind of love Leathers and chains and whips and pain there’s so many ways love can be shown Flowers and chocolates and poems and porn for all of us each to their own Abstinence, chastity, hands to yourself, you’re free just to leave it alone It’s none of my business if modern love means you’re coming all over your phone Do you understand what makes a man a man? Is it money and power or muscles? Is intercourse best if you’re wearing a dress and your girlfriend is amply endowed Do you kiss? Do you fight? Do it morning, noon and night and go dogging all over this town? It makes me uptight but what gives me the right to say what kinds of love are allowed? So come on let me show you a different kind of love Come on let me show you a different kind of love Come on let me show you a different kind of love
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Crest 05:14
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Crest No half shell but a shingle beach Scallops and razor shells Spring tide and the marram wind Wash you ashore River, come swallow me Come sky kissed and mountain deep Bear me down to the bitter brine And redden my eyes I am old now I watch the sun drown Walk with me to the ocean’s edge Wade out until she cups your breasts Gulls cry for the seventh wave To carry you home I am old now I watch the sun drown In you
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The Auchentoshanteuchterarder Folk Club 04:59
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The Auchentoshanteuchterarder Folk Club I slung my guitar, I went strutting the street Looking for a joint where I could pick a beat Saw a fly poster so I followed it up To the Auchentoshanteuchterarder Folk Club You could hear a fly cough as I walked through the door And dodged the fiddle cases decorating the floor I smiled at the barmaid and I ordered a beer She said ‘I’m sorry son but we don’t serve your sort round here’ We play no jazz scales at the Auchentoshanteuchterarder Folk Club Bar Serve only real ale at the Auchentoshanteuchterarder Folk Club Bar They sang about fishing and Scarborough Fair Through hand knitted wooly jumpers and lots of facial hair There was a mining disaster and a shipwreck or three Then they sang a murder ballad and they turned to me I shook like a leaf and I started my tune If looks could kill my blood would be all over this room If you use amplification boy there’s nowhere to hide From another Auchentoshanteuchterarder homicide We play strict tempo at the Auchentoshanteuchterarder Folk Club Bar We’re fucking mental at the Auchentoshanteuchterarder Folk Club Bar No jazz, no ska, no classical and no fusion Or you’ll need facial reconstruction and a transfusion No prog, no punk, no soul and no satisfaction Or you’ll be spending the rest of your weekend in traction The folky fiddle gangstas cut me up with their bows Americanas crowned me with the old banjo I tangled wi’ the moothie man and choked on his organ Someone phone an ambulance and taxi for Gorman No sophisticated rhythm at the Auchentoshanteuchterarder Folk Club Bar Just another victim of the Auchentoshanteuchterarder Folk Club Bar So if you bagged a Grammy or a bundle of Brits Singing boogie woogie or some hip hop shit You’d better learn to sing some Corries or they’ll skin you alive At the Auchentoshanteuchterarder Folk Club dive We’re monophonic at the Auchentoshanteuchterarder Folk Club Bar Strictly pentatonic at the Auchentoshanteuchterarder Folk Club Bar Worship Richard Gaughan at the Auchentoshanteuchterarder Folk Club Bar Or you’ll get a stompin’ in the Auchentoshanteuchterarder, Auchentoshanteuchterarder, Auchentoshanteuchterarder Folk Club Bar
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Leo 03:22
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Leo Music is just a waste of time a breath in the wind Music is just a waste of time a breath in the wind And there’s no going back Yes I heard what Leonardo Da Vinci said So now I can say to you that Leo was a fool You can sculpt a bronze year after year and cast it for all eternity You can paint and paint her face again and light up the distant centuries You can pen the perfect elegy and preserve him for posterity But these are all just lies Because love is over in a moment and then that moment dies A song is over in a moment then let’s that moment fly Breathe it in and there she is Breathe it out and then she’s gone Life is over in a moment and then that moment dies And there’s no going back
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Gun 02:09
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Gun I know a man and he’s got a gun He says that he keeps it just for fun So I bought a gun and I point it at him He’s got a gun and he points it at her She’s got a gun and she points it at you Now you’ve got a gun and you’re pointing it too Is your trigger finger feeling itchy? Are you feeling just a little twitchy? Well I know a man and he’s got a gun Says that he keeps it just for fun We all know that man and he’s got a gun And now he can point it at everyone We hold these truths to be self-evident Life and Love and Liberty And the pursuit of Trigger happiness
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Psalm 151 03:29
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Psalm 151 You have lived a brighter day and climbed inside the sun As you walk this planet spins and turns beneath your feet You are a hot-blooded angel You are the branches of trees A billion dancing galaxies and supernova born Unselfish gene, a madman’s dream, a kiss is who you are You spin this whole world around you You are destiny’s child You come from the forest which comes from the sea Which comes from the starlight which set us all free Time is your lover, she opens for you Every fish and every bird and every drop of rain Every rock and every breeze and everyone is you You are beauty and reason You are one family Look into a stranger’s eyes, you’re looking at yourself You are a godless miracle, a dreamer passing through Everyone is your brother And your mother the sun
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Hearts 03:10
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Hearts Do you recall our finest hour A time of blood and martyrs? Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori Jimmy did they jeer your name Or send you a white feather? Did they drown out the parting cries Of your childhood sweetheart? Hearts so young and lies so old The flower of the Gorgie March away with George MacRae To die for King and Country No terraces, the battle roar The rifle and the cannon Maroon blood stains the River Somme Black murder for the crows Is victory bright silverware? Is victory remembrance? What is the cost in young man’s blood Of your trophies and your medals? Duncan Currie, George McLay, Jimmy Boyd, Tom Gracie Ernest Ellis, Jimmy Todd, James Scott and Jimmy Morton David Izatt, Harold Sparkes, Jimmy Hawthorn, Harry Wattie Dulce et decorum est A hundred thousand gone Hearts so young and lies so old The flower of the Gorgie March away with George MacRae To die for King and Country
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Honey Hair 04:49
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Honey Hair Honey Hair make me a better man You know that lust and sin is who I am Been so bad make me a better man Than I am Honey Hair lose that dress Save my soul, damn yourself Going down, follow me Into the dark Poison drips take it all Pity sex and alcohol Cut it out, Make it bleed Squeeze me dry Strip me down, clean me out, be the rain Stitch me up, taste my sweat, spit and shine Put me down, make me a better man Or show me the door and let it slam Honey Hair make me a better man A better man Than I am
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Waltzer 01:32
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Waltzer I want a gay Pope and a rebel Queen I want imams into the death metal scene And ministers sick out on the tiles I want teachers all fucked up on LSD I want fascist fruit swinging from every tree And social workers in drag I want doctors right down to their underwear I want naked policewomen everywhere Cock piercings for every tycoon I want homeless junkies to run this town I want god to be caught with his panties down I want bosses and big shots to see You’re just an arsehole like me
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Monarch 08:04
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Monarch Homero is golden, he wears butterflies As strong as the mountains of Michoacan How does a tree fall in the forest? How does a tree fall in the forest making no sound? Stand tall together against the storm As trees in the forest we stand as one Mariposas Monarca, Mariposas Monarca there is ice in the wind Ejido the land is the people, Ejido the land is the people And the people are one The people are one Three thousand miles, the dreams of Ocampo shall take the wing Three thousand miles, the souls of the restless drift on the wind Follow the song of our mother the Sun, back home Homero lies sleeping, a dream remains On the cruel blades of cowards our forest bleeds If his spirit cries in the forest If his spirit cries in the forest will you answer the call? Homero awakens in robes of gold Dia de Muertos, the dead shall rise Mariposas Monarca, Mariposas Monarca the people will rise Mariposas Monarca the people will rise Like butterflies

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released June 11, 2021

Songs and performances by Richard Gorman
Produced by Stuart Duncan

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