the last day

On the day before the end of the world
I wanted to die
to prove that the Universe would end
I wouldn't know if it proved it to the ones I left behind
but it would end for me

On the day before the end of the world
I had a bad day
I woke up
with a pain in my head
my body ached
my toe throbbed
my belly churned
and I wanted to crawl back
into bed

On the day before the end of the world
I fought time
as I always seem to do
it should be  a flow
but it felt like a bad joke

My dreams premonitor my waking life
and tell me I'll be stuck in the same pattern
fixing floor tiles
while airplanes crashed overhead
and I was supposed to be catching one
to fly away
to the place that would make me feel OK
in the middle of Winter
on the day before the end of the world

And then the floor tile was done
and I wanted to live
and write a song
and tell stories
and sing

Fear itself
is dread
o do I fear dread

on the day before the end of the world
I saved a hummingbird
by blotting out the skylight
and airplanes hung low over the house

Happiness: my 2012 birthday bash!

I was thinking that maybe I needed a house-boy to do all the things I was supposed to be doing as host of an epic all-night-birthday-bash party. Things I was too busy having fun to do. Like replacing broken light bulbs, stoking the woodstove, pulling the dishwasher off the front porch...

But I never did get a house-boy, or needed one, because everyone else was having so much fun just as things were. Wherever I went Saturday night, someone was reaching an arm for me, or waiting to be schmurgled. I felt so much love wandering around the house, and making music with everyone. We spend so much time trying to prepare and create for our friends, so we can be loved. Practicing songs, preparing the house, this is loving by doing. At the party, just sharing our happiness and love brings a houseful of sharing, happy, loving friends.

Thank you, and we'll see you for the next Cowboy Lounge!

photos: greg cross
photos: wendi olson

Dulce

A new song, still in progress.

Dulce
por Laramie Crocker
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Un suñeo es mi vida
Que dulce es mi vida

Es dulce en mi jardin
en la primavera con tigo

Que dulce es tu vida
con migo

Un suñeo es mi vida
Que dulce es mi vida
con tigo

Listen Here: Dulce

Effing the Ineffable

Wend Elsen's spoken word piece, Effing the Ineffable, over guitar, loops, and bass by Laramie Crocker. Or, the Headphone mix
Title by Matt Dean.
Song version: 4, Date: 20111216

Bass Heavy

http://laramiecrocker.com/mp3/BassHeavy.mp3

Home.mp3

A new song for my lover.

                     [Listen]
Home

copyright 2011 Laramie Crocker
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Comin' home to you
is like comin' home to me
comin' home to me
I look around
and its you
I see
comin' home to me

so I'm askin you
come home to me
comin' home to you
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On Killy Yorn

Here's a song I recorded today (after doing it last night in a nice set with Richard Berman and Wend Elsen, at the new open mic at Cafe Yesterday, hosted by Sam Weinstein).   I wrote the song in 2000.  We continue to sing it all the time, since people request it.  So now it's going to open Redemption, the opera, even though it wasn't on Redemption, the studio album.  In the opera, it is an excuse to have a Morris dance open the show!  Give a listen:
http://laramiecrocker.com/mp3/OnKillyYorn.mp3