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ALO * ANIMAL LIBERATION ORCHESTRA
Fly Between Falls / BR-008

01. Spectrum 3:49
02. Wasting Time (Isla Vista Song) 5:58
03. Girl, I Wanna Lay You Down (featuring Jack Johnson) 3:37
04. Barbeque 4:01
05. Walls of Jericho 4:42
06. Pobrecito 4:32
07. Shapeshifter 6:22
08. The Gardener 5:31
09. Waiting for Jaden 6:39
10. Fly 4:42

+ Possibly Drown 4:28 (from Lagmusic Records Release)

INSIDE LYRICS/CREDITS/THANKS

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01. Spectrum (music & lyrics by Gill)

Here I am, once again
At the other end of the spectrum
A tug-o-war, my head is sore
'Cause I adore and I fear you

Well I can disagree with myself 'cause sometimes I feel like me and sometimes I feel like somebody else

One minute, I'm over it
Then the next minute, I feel the opposite
Then the next minute, I feel the opposite
Of the opposite, of feeling over it

SA - Acoustic Upright Bass, B.Vocals
DB - Drums, Quinto, Percussion
ZG - Accordion, 'Ukulele, Jaw Harp, L.Vocals
DL - Guitar, Conga, Tumba, Bongos, B.Vocals

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02. Wasting Time (Isla Vista Song)
(music by Lebowitz, Gill, Brogan; lyrics by Gill, Brogan)

Well I was sittin' on the porch with Mel and Web
Kickin' back pullin' tubes courtesy of Jeb
When Smootie rang up and he dropped a dime
We're at the Django house and the waves are fine

Dan came back with an ol' lap steel
When he puts it in his hands he's got to be real
If you come around the corner don't forget to turn
And bring a little fire we got somethin' to burn

I got around the corner, I was half way there
When I met Ted Moore and of course John Hare
They had just got a sack weighing 3.5
It was 4:19, just about that time

So we took a detour to 6703
The house they occupy oceanside D.P.
Got up stairs and locked the door
Jerry and the Dead on the video

They pulled out the binger and I started to drool
It was the 5 foot caustic weapon crystal tool
I caught the fumes and I lost my mind
Happens every time that I smoke the kind, but...

I never learn but I don' mind, I'm just wastin' time

I went to the beach and I picked up a rock
I threw it in the ocean and the waves then
Caught it and dropped it back into the sea
So then I walked away and I let it be

Cause it had been lying there for a million days
Before I picked it up and threw it away
I left the shore, went to the liquor store
Saw crazy Bruce, he was waiting for

Someone to buy him some fine malt liquor
When he gets it in his system he's a real shitkicker
He'll play you a song if you've got the time
And even if you don't, he's liable to try

So I left him there, and went into S.O.S.
Bought myself a bottle of the black cisco death
Drank it down while watching Dave's band
Somebody stuck a doob in my hand

So I took a hit and I passed it on
I woke up on the pavement not before too long
I never learn but I don't mind
But sometimes it takes a couple of tries, but...

SA - Fender Bass, Pennywhistle, Wood Flute
DB - Drums, Clavinet, L.Vocals
ZG - Wurlitzer, Accordion, L.Vocals
DL - Guitar, Lap Steel, Congas

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03. Girl, I Wanna Lay You Down
(music by Lebowitz, Adams, Gill, Brogan; lyrics by Gill)

I come over early in the morning
I'm like a heat wave without warning
And when I touch you my heart begins to flutter
You're smooth and creamy like peanut butter

Girl, I wanna lay you down

I'm gonna flood you like a love river
Ah baby, the postman is about to deliver
I'll cook you up some dinner, a little pasta
Listen to some music, a little rasta

So turn out the lights, bring out the candles
Wrap your arms around my love handles
They say that passion may not always endure
But this feeling that I have for you is burning up my world

SA - Fender Bass
DB - Drums
ZG - Rhodes, L.Vocals
DL - Guitar
Jack Johnson - Vocals
Dave Simon-Baker - B.Vocals

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04. Barbeque (music & lyrics by Gill)

The road is long and windy like a good mystery unfolding
It twists and turns in colorful subplots and sunburns and fake out endings
And sometimes my patience in the whole process starts bending

As I attempt to unravel the web by traversing and rehearsing and perversing along the doubt-laden extension chord thread of my life

And in this life we're free to dream whatever we want to
But that doesn't mean that your dreams are gonna come true
Instead as a way of getting us to move
Life dangles your dreams in front of you
And unable to resist the temptation, we continue

And it's clear to me that this life is gonna be
All about the dangling possibilities that keep turning in and turning out
Yes it's clear to me that this life is gonna be
All about the dangling possibilities

The road is long and windy
Full of twists and turns
But before you can rise from the ashes
You've got to burn baby burn

Welcome to your barbeque
Where we roast all the dreams
That never came true
Welcome to your barbeque
Pig out and dream a new

SA - Fender Bass, Acoustic Upright Bass, B.Vocals
DB - Drums
ZG - Rhodes, Clavinet, Nord Lead, 'Ukulele, L.Vocals
DL - Guitar, B.Vocals

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05. Walls of Jericho (music & lyrics by Brogan)

Oo-oo-oo-oo oo-oo, it's all right
My time's comin’ but it's not tonight

Get out the tents and set up the floods
Bring in the trucks and make some more mud
Then get the hell out of my way 'cause I'm gonna get wasted
As magic gasses fill the air
It's bad for your health but I don't care
This'll all be gone tomorrow but we'll still be able to taste it
The golden chord is frayed, what was that song they played
Our steed lies melting in the sun
They flooded the parking lot, our tent begins to rot
And I'm in love with everyone

I know everything will be alright
My time's comin' but it's not tonight
So let's keep going 'til the morning light if it's free I'll take it
I know everything will come back 'round
Five white horses on an ocean of sound
Until it all comes crashing down like the walls of Jericho

Stop, children, what's that sound
Another bunch of phreaks just rolled into town
In a broken down bus with a crew that's fallin' to pieces
You got to get up, stand up, walk a straight line
Been drunk for three days but you're doin' fine
Just a little bit out of your mind but you're takin' it easy
All you really need is one more hour of sleep so you
Lay your head upon the floor
Just a little sleep before it gets too deep
You wake up come back for more

I know everything will be alright
My time's comin' but it's not tonight
So let's keep going ‘til the morning light if it's free I'll take it
I know everything will come back 'round
Five white horses on an ocean of sound
Until it all comes crashing down yes I know we can
Make it to the other side
Everything is blowin' my mind
The man on the magic tricycle would like to take you for a ride

SA - Fender Bass, B.Vocals
DB - Drums, Piano, Guitar, Synth, L.Vocals
ZG - Piano, B.Vocals
DL - Guitar, B.Vocals

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06. Pobrecito (music by Lebowitz, Adams, Gill; lyrics by Gill)

Jealousy is gonna tear us apart
If you let it take hold
A poison from the brain to the heart
That'll bleed the love from your soul
And break what once was whole

Until you're left with lots of little pieces
Solidified by the slamming of a door
So don't let that jealousy overtake you
Make you destroy that which you care for

And the Spanish temptress rubbed his temples and told him to close his eyes
"Here sip on this and everything will be all right"

"Pobrecito"
Pass me some more of that Spanish fly
"Esperate un minuto"
I need something to dilute my mind

"Tu no sabes es posible que nunca regrese"
But he didn't hear a word that was said
Slobbering he sucked down another
Ignoring the danger closing in

You gotta let the bat fly, out of its cave
You shouldn't wait another minute
If it's making your heart break

SA - Fender Bass, B.Vocals
DB - Drums, Shakers, Tambourine
ZG - Rhodes, L.Vocals
DL - Guitar, Congas, B.Vocals

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07. Shapeshifter (music & lyrics by Gill)

I am so supple
Bend my legs back around my head
I'm the kinda guy you want in your government
And I'm the kinda guy you want in your bed

Well I'm a shapeshifter
Throw me in the water watch me turn to blue
Put me in a room with reptiles
And I'm cold blooded too

Every now and then I get the feeling I'm so supple
Every now and then I get the feeling and I have to say that every now and then I get the feeling I'm a piece of clay

I am so supple
Bend my legs anyway you want
Drop me off in the Phillipines and I'm Filipino
Drop me off in Scotland and I'm a Scot

SA - Fender Bass, B.Vocals
DB - Drums
ZG - Piano, Clavinet, Nord Lead, L.Vocals
DL - Guitar, B.Vocals

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08. The Gardener (music & lyrics by Adams)

I spend my night in the garden
I plant my hands in the dirt
I dig a pea up for a pillow
And fall asleep into the Earth

The marching ants draw straws to save me
From falling deep too gone to tell
Without avail, I'm floating softly
Awakened by a ringing bell

My message to you is
Be true to what grows on you
Plantlife lives in a dream
So let me dream a little too

I work all day at the Harbor
Stretching out my thoughts insist
Another dream that I've created
Watch it grow or let it sit

A big fat fly sits down beside me
Her bulging eyes begin to shift
She spots the edible orchid flower
That was earlier picked

SA - Fender Bass, Acoustic Upright Bass, L.Vocals
DB - Drums, Percussion, Submarine Nord
ZG - Piano, Organ, Rhodes, B.Vocals
DL - Guitar

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09. Waiting for Jaden (music by Lebowitz, Adams, Gill; lyrics by Gill)

The telephone was ringing
Grandparents were frantically running about
And everyone kept asking
"When's that baby coming out?"
Well, Earth Day 2000 was her due date
But by May the 4th, Jaden was late

So we were waiting, waiting for Jaden, oooh...

We wanted to have you naturally
So we searched out all the possible remedies
Hot sex, nipple stimulation, castor oil, and gory movies
And by that Friday
They were threatening to induce
And we pleaded with you to come out
And call it a truce

Jaden can't you hear what we say, your mother and I want you to come out and play

It was Cinco de Mayo
And while patriots were cruising the boulevard
Your mother was pushing
And she was pushing hard
The stroke of midnight
And she pushed once more
And at 12:02 on May the 6th

Jaden was born

Now were elated, elated for Jaden, oooh...

SA - Fender Bass, B.Vocals
DB - Drums, Tambourine, Piano
ZG - Rhodes, Nord Lead, L.Vocals
DL - Guitar, Lap Steel, B.Vocals

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10. Fly (music & lyrics by Brogan)

Mom and Dad we're right
Greed will never get anything
When you see the light you'll feel
Like you want to fly
There's birds in the sky
And the trees will sing
And the world looks mighty good to me

The world is out of sight
And now you can't touch anything
But when you see the light you'll feel
Like you're out of time
So just leave it all behind
And go quietly
I guess I'll never know what's in store for me

I feel that I'm not the same
I bought some beads
And I changed my name to Yahweh
I wear the robes of a Taoist sage
I am the helper of the ogre mage

Why do people fight?
Why does life mean anything?
When you know that you are doomed to die
But maybe that's all right, maybe that's why
I cry tears of joy
When I think about the way the world
Will fade from sight

I feel that I'm not the same
My body's gone
And I changed my name to Karma
I'm comin' down like Georgia rain
I got to go to my dyin' day in nirvana
I wanna tell 'em what I can't explain
Wanna tell 'em not to be afraid
Wanna tell 'em in the end that there is no pain
'Cause when you see the light
You're gonna fly like a lion, up into the sky
While the world around you dies

SA - Fender Bass
DB - Drums, Piano, L.Vocals
ZG - Wurlitzer, B.Vocals
DL - Guitar
Tim Young - Telecaster Guitar

This album is dedicated with love and appreciation to our friends and families.



www.alomusic.com

ALO is Dan Lebowitz, Dave Brogan, Steve Adams & Zach Gill

Produced by ALO & Scott Theakston
Except Track 5 ~ Produced by Dave Brogan

Mixed & Engineered by Scott Theakston
Except Tracks 3 & 5 ~ Mixed & Engineered by Dave Simon-Baker
And Track 4 ~ Mixed & Engineered by Theakston & Simon-Baker

Mastered by John Greenham

Recorded at Laughing Tiger ~ San Rafael, CA
Additional Recording at Expression ~ Emeryville, CA

Photography by Jenna Lebowitz
Graphic Design by Steve Adams

Jack Johnson appears courtesy of Brushfire Records

Management: Jenna Lebowitz ~ www.jenstarproductions.com
Booking: Tom Chauncey ~ www.partisanarts.com
Legal Representation: King, Holmes, Paterno & Berliner, LLP

All music & lyrics published by Belle Vie Music, ASCAP; Montana De Oro Publishing, ASCAP; Ruebarb Songs, ASCAP; Stereo Cricket Publishing, ASCAP.

Brushfire Records ©2006 ~ www.brushfirerecords.com


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Possibly Drown (from Lagmusic Records release)
(music by Lebowitz, Adams, Gill, Brogan; lyrics by Gill, Brogan)

I hear the ringing salutations of the crickets inviting my soul
With no responsibilities my heart feels light as I walk toward the water with my evening bowl

Awaiting mosquitoes and bumble bees and centipedes and slithy toads
On the trestle above the whistle blows
Carrying its load, carrying its load

Echo from the stereo of a passing car beneath the overpass
As I amble toward the water front
Passed the fishing dock and the powder mill
Along the red clay path

Italian stone masons built the bridge and the aqueduct long ago
On the trestle above the whistle blows
Carrying its load, carrying its load

I gotta hit the water and not the ground, but
I might possibly drown

On the tenth day of March 1891 were drowned Louise King Conelly and Henry Cumming Lamar

Long before the days of cyber space, alien warfare and electric cars
And as I swim in this canal I get a nervous feeling that I too may possibly drown

SA - Fender Bass, B.Vocals
DB - Drums, B.Vocals
ZG - Rhodes, Organ, L.Vocals
DL - Guitar, B.Vocals