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Haunted: Songs inspired by the stories of Joyce Carol Oates

by The Goblin Market

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1.
Dark Days 04:01
Dark Days This wilderness can swallow you up Pull you down Bury you till you’re never found The wind in the pines can drown you out Cover a shout Cast a long cold shadow of doubt And a voice you hear deep in your bones Tells you things that must be done Under the pines that hide the sun The dark days have just begun The turning season brings a chill As nature will The winter hides what spring reveals Desire burns an endless flame Your secret shame And name unknown can’t earn the blame And a voice you hear deep in your bones Tells you things that must be done Under the pines that hide the sun The dark days have just begun Inspired by the Rosamond Smith novel The Barrens.
2.
Beasts 05:06
Beasts Even when desire is hidden safe behind your heart It’s hard to tell the predator and the prey apart You followed her in secret through The pine trees high and blue When suddenly she turned and said “Which one of them are you” And the fires burned And the fires burned And the fires burned Here in the winter classroom a destiny awaits And all your friends smile secretly at their cruel fate And they love him And they love him And they love him And you love him And you love him not And you love him So where does love meet passion And how is passion cruel And what defines desire when there are no rules They loved you like the others You gaze out toward the snow And see your cigarette glow in the window And the fire burns And the fire burns And the fire burns “We are beasts and this is our consolation" Inspired by the novel Beasts.
3.
Zombie 04:48
Zombie Brother never has much to say Sister Junie loves him anyway Always was the quiet one In the shadows of her sun Father bears his secret shame Tarnish on the family name Questions burn but don’t arise Mother looks averts her eyes What he’s become you can’t imagine Oh no you can’t imagine Leaves a trail of accidents Calls them failed experiments Did just what the doctors said Made himself a brand new friend What he’s become you can’t imagine Oh no you can’t imagine Suddenly gone slipped away Once again to go astray A minute or an hour passed Never missed cutting the grass Inspired by the novel Zombie.
4.
First Love 03:51
First Love Down through the wood Just out of sight Through the insects and animals In the weird summer light Down toward the water Through the bamboo Where yellow eyes Are waiting for you It’s cold in the grass And slithering there You’re eleven years old And gasping for air that won’t come Down by the river Impossibly thin He leads you under the bridge To cleanse away your sin He leads you under the bridge To the secret place Washes the sweat the stickiness Off of your face And he’s holding you down His hands in your hair Your arms swinging wild You’re craving the air that won’t come Inspired by the novel First Love.
5.
Haunted 03:45
Haunted What was true of Mary Lou Whose blonde hair blew through the autumn Now I look into perfect eyes of blue Gone but not forgotten “We flew - me and you Didn’t we do what we wanted I had to go how was I to know Some of those houses were haunted Come with me run away with me Melissa Run away with me run away with me” We crept through the fall days the barns and hallways And weren’t we always together Sometimes I loved you sometimes I hated you Once I waited for you forever Now I look into perfect eyes of blue And think you were all that I wanted But you had to go how were you to know Some of those houses were haunted Some of those houses were haunted Inspired by the short story Haunted.
6.
Calla 04:51
Calla Under the haze of a sepia sun The water witcher and the flame haired one Rowed down the river to Tintern Falls To meet the perfect end to it all The shouts of voices the cries of birds A hundred warnings not heeded or heard One in the other already drowned Lost in the rushing churning sound And Calla she was a deep running stream Pure and secret and strange And he was to her a bright shining moon To light up the dark of her days And when it was over just one remained Forever silent to what had been gained How to explain the madness away For love or for death what was done that day And Calla she was a deep running stream Pure and secret and strange And he was to her a bright shining moon To light up the dark of her days Calla you gonna be you gonna be the death of me Calla you gonna be you gonna be the death of me Inspired by the novel I Lock My Door Upon Myself.
7.
Cruel Rapids White Looking hard into the rapids You can almost see her face Moving just below the surface Of this cold and haunted place Is that you in the water In the icy morning light Is that you in the crazy rapids white Did some sweet song lure her closer Was she tempted like a fool Bound and beaten by the current Or some other just as cruel Is that you in the water In the icy morning light Is that you in the crazy rapids white Did you taste this muddy water Did you drown in this foam With your white legs kicking And your throat too full to moan Is that you in the water In the icy morning light Is that you in the crazy rapids white Inspired by the poem Lost Creek.
8.
Ugly Girls 04:33
Ugly Girls Had her fill of mirrors Unfairest of them all Drove away to disappear In the camouflage of fall Waiting tables for the locals Nameless faceless drone Boss says looks don’t matter When the summer season’s done And when they think they know her The false sweet talk begins Ugly girl’s a good sport Lets the losers win That’s the way it is That’s the way it is for ugly girls In the kitchen grease and sweat Melting pasted smile Ugly girl works so hard Choking on her bile Boss knows about her hunger And sick to death she eats Second helpings of disgrace Her starving heart still beats And when he thinks he knows her The false sweet talk begins Makes like she’s a good sport Lets the loser win That’s the way it is That’s the way it is for ugly girls Inspired by the short story Ugly Girl.
9.
The Model 08:01
The Model Will you pose for me Will you pose for me In this place by the sea Will you pose for me You’re a beautiful child You’re a beautiful child Against the ocean brooding and wild You’re a beautiful child What I need What I need Is more than you can give to me What I need Won’t you come away Won’t you come away Up the coast for the day Won’t you come away Inspired by the short story The Model.
10.
Bloodstains 04:21
Bloodstains Every day you played it safe Stuck to the surface The exterior sheen Where everything is clean Every day you read the script Played the doctor Dispensed the sleeping pills The endless refills Then one day there comes a change Friends and family suddenly strangers And on the sheets in a face on the ground Seems everywhere you look there’s blood to be found Blood stains Blood stains Back to the same routine exam The original plan No lie to detect You do what they expect But still the alarm is tripped The wires have been clipped And on the sheets in a face on the ground Seems everywhere you look there’s blood to be found Blood stains Blood stains Inspired by the short story Bloodstains.
11.
Waltz for Alma Inspired by the novel The Tattooed Girl
12.
The Tattooed Girl He bought you a book he gave you a room Pretends that he’s kind you know he is cruel And something cold is rising in you Why does he watch you want you to speak You see him shaking you see that he’s weak You grind the glass for him to eat Who was it that scarred you Who was it that marred you What was it that hardened you this way A broken heart is still beating under that skin The cracks are waiting for love to get in Love blows by in the wind Life blows by in the wind Who was it that scarred you Who was it that marred you What was it that hardened you to me Inspired by the novel The Tattooed Girl.

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Originally released in 2005 by Camera Obscura Records, Australia.

Produced by Jeff Kelly
except tracks 3, 8 and 10 produced by Laura
Weller and Jeff Kelly and track 6 produced
by Laura Weller
Editing/mastering by Chris at Hanzsek Audio, Seattle
Photography by Susanne Kelly
Painting: She Followed You In Secret (Beasts) [2004]
by Susanne Kelly
The Green Tea Graphic Design Co.

Thank you Joyce Carol Oates

Tracks 1, 3, 6, 8 and 10 © 2005 Laura Weller, BMI
Tracks 2, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 12 © 2005 St Brigid Publishing, BMI
Track 4 © 2003 St Brigid Publishing, BMI

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released June 6, 2010

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