Curious Thing
"The new CD, Curious Thing, is a masterwork of insight and music. "
“Curious Thing,” ... rattles the imagination …McCarthy is leagues above his peers, and he’s the closest thing New England’s ever come to having our own Woody Guthrie.
– Martin England, The Portsmouth Herald
“Curious Thing” is a soft-spoken triumph!
– Scott Alarik, The Boston Globe
"It's that curious thing in the middle
between the right and wrong.
If you want thieves at your back door,
leave your porch light on..."
from the title song, "Curious Thing in the Middle "
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Selections from
Curious Thing:
MP3 links and lyrics appear below:
The asylum of your arms
Excerpt:
I know that my boss hates me.
I think it’s my lazy eye...
My brain just gets fuzzier
the harder I try.
An anvil dangles over me.
I’m waiting for the crunch.
Is there life after death?
Hell, is there life after lunch?
Too crazy for the streets,
too normal for the farm,
I can only rest
in the Asylum of your arms.
Copyright © 2006, , Cormac McCarthy. All rights reserved.
Easy as Pi
I wish that love was as easy as Pi,
3.14, as I spin into your eyes.
Pedal to the metal round this circle I drive.
I wish that love was as easy as Pi.
I wish that love was as easy as sex:
bend a simple friendship into the shape of a hex.
There’s nothing more confusing or complex
than love, friendship and sex
I wish that love was as easy,
as easy as falling in love.
I wish that love was as easy as Pi
and Pi never resolves.
Love should be as easy as burning bridges,
screwing it all without making decisions,
running full speed not worried
‘bout collisions....
I wish that love was as easy as chess.
I could know your moves by the way that you dress.
I'd hold you in a place
where logic never rests.
bridge:
Love should be so easy--
lightning without the thunder.
We should be getting smarter
but the math just gets harder.
I wish that love was as easy as dyin':
no more losing, no more cryin',
no more heartache, no more trying.
Hanging by a thread...then you're flying.
I wish that love was enough
to hold things together when times get tough,
when every little thing calls your bluff.
I wish that love was tough enough
I wish that love was as easy,
as easy, as falling in love.
I wish that love was as easy as Pi
and Pi never resolves.
Copyright © 2006. Cormac McCarthy. All rights reserved.
PRODUCED BY CORMAC MCCARTHY
Rakish Tilt Music © 2006
- Spring Snow
- Curious Thing in the Middle
- The Asylum of Your Arms
- Fishing
- Easy as Pi
- Second Skin
- This Beautiful Place
- Great Big Day
- So Many Miles
- Follow Your Heart
- A Little Something
- While the World is Sleeping
CORMAC McCARTHY
CURIOUS THING
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Fishing
Excerpt:
We were walking by a church
with our poles in our hands.
The lights weren’t on
and nobody sang.
There are just two things
that a boy's got to know:
what’s inside an empty church
and what’s down in a fishing hole.
Fishermen and fishers of men
lure and deceive.
They know you'll take the bait
for what you need to believe.
Copyright © 2006, , Cormac McCarthy. All rights reserved.
You are my second skin
Where do you stop and I begin?