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Red

by Jefferson Jay

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1.
Season begins The blood it breaks on through I see foresee the start of something wonderful And altogether new I can truly enter you I can truly enter you It’s really hard to break the grips that sordid myths, they tend to have on you Like this is what is valuable And this is what you were meant to do I can truly enter you I can truly enter you But, I wanna know Why I never knew this before Yeah, I wanna know Where lives my big mistake Yeah, I wanna know Have you always been willing? Yeah, I wanna know Is it true that thing won’t break? I once believed that these were things best left for another time But now that ancient part of me is subtly creeping from behind I can truly enter you I can truly enter you I can truly enter you I can truly enter you
2.
Do you feel free? Or do you feel trapped inside the wall a body meaningless and small Amidst a neverending fall does that feel good? O say can you see the lingering wisp of history & fabled taunts of liberty? can you do all the things you need to feel like you should? Is this the way? What did our forefathers say A string of empty 8-hour days With taxes near half of whatever it pays countless commercials to eat at our brains ‘til they feel like wood? & what can we do? Examine the words that are put before you Demand something greater than things that are new or fall for the bribe & be factory glue it's just up to you it's still up to you Whatever you do They're calling for you Whatever you do it's still up to you... So what do you think Is it worth a bit of the time to link the words of the past to us here on the brink? can you conceive more than this lingering stink? I think you could. i wish you would. I think you could.
3.
Ralph Ralph 02:53
Ralph Ralph Played in the basement Ralph Ralph Played all day Ralph Ralph Played in the graveyard Ralph Ralph Had his say and went away Had his say his day A lonely guy without a friend Went playing in the graveyard With the players who no longer play Little Ralph is going gray as he goes away to stay He goes away to stay Ralph Ralph Sailed in his sailboat Ralph Ralph He sailed away Ralph Ralph Played in the lakes Ralph Ralph Played in lakes and sailed away Played in lakes his day Ralph Ralph Played in the basement Ralph Ralph Played all day Ralph Ralph Played in the graveyard Ralph Ralph Had his say and went away Had his say his day
4.
Frontman 03:40
The frontman Where I’m at The same place But the beginning of the new world The culmination Feeling it in all things It is the groove In tune with the undulating rhythms Channeling Full release Full intake I feel it flowing through me It is excitement And it is life The kinetic energy Shooting sparks off in every direction Positive Where I am Doing it Giving it off and my eyes are fuming light I breathe And I seethe wholly feeling Like the moments Before orgasm No intrusion Just experience Within & oh so real Sweating As it pours out of me Am it and it is me I we are burning Now together This candle Is our ecstasy Full wet hot red lips glisten Inviting your intake Begging you to participate Puckered ripe and ready for that need Your satiating bite Those that need you The spasm Delicate and intense Alive & real The dynamics You can’t believe it but its happening And you did it It’s your turn It’s all you The frontman Where I’m at The same place But the beginning of the new world The culmination Feeling it in all things It is the groove In tune with the undulating rhythms
5.
I’m Spreadin’ the word I see you waiting Not for a dollar at the door You know I came in search of answers Now tell me what you want them for when you’re walking out the door And how could you ask for more? You know I see you walkin’ Walkin so far away I know you want the answers But tell me how much will you pay? I’m Spreadin’ the word I see you waiting Not for a dollar at the door You know I came in search of answers Now tell me what you want them for when you’re walking out the door And how could you ask for more? You know I see you runnin’ Running right out the door I said you know you want the answers Now tell me what you want them for
6.
Now, I’ve just come awake To the taste that takes my time And you are here not just to quake But to wait and wrap your heart in mine It’s true it can be difficult in ways But ways are often hard to find For you, I’ll be here all the same Now to forget, how to say bye-bye I see your chest is beating In and out with mine I know that you are not deceiving It’s just allowing the en—allowing the entwine It is the season of the mind What’s mine is yours and yours is fine It is the season of the mind I see no need to redefine The time that I spent in your space Scared I was to sign My name across your pleasure place Where resistance is benign You’re everything I need Climax, smarts, and smile And as I learn to run the race You’re with me very mile I see your chest is beating Up and down with mine I know that you are not deceiving It’s just allowing the en—allowing the entwine It is the season of the mind Thought love like yours I’d never find The space we share is so sublime The safety and comfort you provide It is the season of the mind We’re living love and drinking wine It is the season of the mind You’re clever, delicate and kind
7.
Cat Strays 05:57
Believing baby what I see You feel it with the feeling that it talks to me My Angel’s sitting next to me and I feel fine Believing baby all day long You feel it when its coming at you ten foot strong You’re feeling as she moves along that that’s all right This is how the cat strays This is how the cat strays This is how the cat strays This is how the cat strays Strays strays strays strays stray Strains strains strains to stay awake Confessing baby danger’s game You know in that its’ easier when there’s no names You’re the only one that’s there for me to ease my mind You’re prowling down deserted streets He’s sitting there, the cheetah drumming slower beats The lion lyin’ in the fire, he bleeds my name This is how the cat strays This is how the cat strays This is how the cat strays This is how the cat strays Strays strays strays strays stray Strains strains strains to stay awake I see you baby late at night I’m beggin’ baby, beggin’ please turn out that light In the something here that don’t feel right, I hide my shame Dogs and cats are birds of prey We beat them baby, beat them when they disobey They’re pets that mimic our mistakes and they’re where I hide This is how the cat strays This is how the cat strays This is how the cat strays This is how the cat strays Strays strays strays strays stray Strains strains strains to stay awake Pretending that I feel no pain I’m strolling as I twirl my stopwatch from a chain I’m cruising with an attitude and I’m a liar This is how the cat strays This is how the cat strays This is how the cat strays This is how the cat strays Strays strays strays strays stray Strains strains strains to stay awake
8.
And I’m taking you a far off place Where will you go? What’s with the race and the chase? And I’m taking you back again What’ll you find? Love in a friend Til the end And I’m taking you a far off place. Where will you go? What’s with the race and the chase? And I’m taking you back again What’ll ya find? Love in a friend? Til the end? And the world keeps spinning around Look at it roll tumbling down to the ground And the world keeps spinning around Look at it go spiraling up from the ground I can look back to tell you but I know I’m gonna find it before You can get back to tell me but I’ll find you asleep on the floor You can get back to tell me but I’ll find you awake every time You care to ask the questions but when I go will you answer my rhyme?
9.
A Day 04:21
I wake up As life, it overflows my coffee cup And then, and then I read Results of games distract me while I feed And I get in my car And don’t know if I’m headed near or far And when I arrive I thank the Lord that I am still alive I, I will go Where you will find what I will know And I, I have seen You, you belong to me And I, I will find Secrets go on inside a day You, you look back Remembering the words you didn’t say And I, I lay down Forgetting all the chaos that I’ve found (surrounds) And I can see Exactly what I want to in my dreams As I lie awake, for moments more before tomorrow takes And when I wake up, I’ll wake to taste my overflowing cup
10.
The destination Where we celebrate as souls (as one) Our home And everything is all right And you know you’re not alone Floating in white Everything is alright The white light in sight And we’ll have fun together every night On the happy side I’ve been put here to live my dream And although sometimes it’s not as simple as it seems inside your mind I know I’ve got to stay awake alive and take my stride (I’m going) over (closer) toward the happy side Over and over Where birds and clouds collide The happy side In the morning when I wake up in a dream I can try to tell you but it won’t matter if I whisper or I scream until the end of time It’s what you do and you decide and we’re awaiting Together for you over on the happy side I’ve been put here to rise again And over and over in arms of friends of mine and you and I will take a taste of time Here we drink it like dreams Just how it seems, a love supreme We’re in the middle of ONE dream and its divine That’s how we’re going to stay awake alive We’ll float and fly and live to thrive Together over on the happy side
11.
In Alfred’s Eyes There’s no way that you can disguise The fear that survives From cold and lonely times How those eyes they scathe Disapproval, then disobey From wanting to run away Each and every day In Alfred’s Eyes There’s no way that you can disguise The feelings that you hide The love that you’ve been deprived Oh, those eyes they’re weaned With violence from army green How silence can be obscene When passed to prince from king In Alfred’s Eyes A lost little boy resides An embrace in case of cries Can dry his teary eyes All the lies they say All the things that they take away Each and every day In Alfred’s Eyes Where no force is applied The love that you should provide Would open up the skies As we watch it rain The flood it will wash the flames The pain it will float away Each and every day

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Red is Disc 1 of Jefferson Jay's Primary Colors trilogy. It is a rollicking romp of raucous rock and horn explosions. There is a lot of energy and vigor on display on these 11 power-packed tunes.

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released April 8, 2008

Jefferson Jay - Vocals, Guitars
Damon Stoll - 6-string Bass
Nico Gutierrez - Drums, Percussion, and Steel Pan
Jr. "The Soul Man" Fos - Guiro
Sean Leahy - Lead Guitar, "Spreadin' the Word", "The
Happy Side
Spencer Katzman - Lead Guitar,"Frontman"
"Wailin'" Bryan Whelan - Lead Guitar, "Cat Strays"
Ryan Bartell - Guitars, Lead Guitar, "Do You Feel Free?"
J. Kipling Forde - Synthesizers, "Cat Strays", "A Day"
The Jefferson Jay Hornblowers - Isaac Tubb -Trumpet,
Peter August - Saxophone, Andy Geib - Trombone, "The
Red Season", "Ralph Ralph", "Season of the Mind",
"Cat Strays"


All songs written by Jefferson Jay except Do You
Feel Free? by Jay/Sir Peter Nairn, Frontman by Jay/Spencer
Katzman, Cat Strays and Ralph Ralph by Jay/Damon Stoll

Produced by Jefferson Jay with J. Kipling Forde
Recorded by Jefferson Jay and Nico Gutierrez at DowntownSound.com, San Diego, CA and Las Vegas,
NV 2004-2007
Recorded by Jefferson Jay at The Studios in San
Diego, 2004-2007
Mixed and Recorded by J. Kipling Forde with
Jefferson Jay at The Time Machine, River Bend Records, San
Diego, CA Feb. - Oct. 2007

Horns Arranged by Isaac Tubb

Enormous Eternal Gratitude to God, Tony, Kip, Nico, Damon, & Angel

Thanks to God, Angel, friends, family, and the musicians who played on this record

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Jefferson Jay works to improve the world through art and love. A community-oriented original, Jay's "24 Hours of Free Music" and his two Operation 365 video projects - three videos and blog each day for a year! - are testaments to art, individuality, inclusion, and experience. ... more

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