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Getting Older

by Spirit of the Glass

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1.
Getting Older 04:18
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you're getting older everything's a little slow your fingers shake and the morning makes you feel so low you're getting older you feel it when you bend your knees they creak and crack and your aching back gives you no relief your body's breaking down and now you're running out of time it's hard to find the strength to persevere the candle's burning faster and the world has passed you by don't you know it's all downhill from here? you're getting older you thought you would have been prepared but the kids have changed and their thoughts so strange leave you lost and scared you're getting older and don't it make you oh so mad it's finally clear after all these years that the world's gone bad the things that you remember from a life so long ago are dust and picture frames upon the wall the anger and confusion at this unfamiliar world are easily explained 'cause after all you're getting older I'm getting older I laugh it off and play it cool the sands of time and the strawberry wine can be so cruel but in the end dear I maintain a rosy view 'cause I'm so glad at the luck I had to get old with you the things that you remember from a life so long ago are dust and picture frames upon the wall the anger and confusion at this unfamiliar world are easily explained 'cause after all you're getting older you're getting older
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Way Back Home 02:55
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I've been drifting like an autumn leaf carried up and away from Chicago down to New Orleans well you should know that I've been counting the days, now 'til the night when we're together again I'm tired of being on my own well I don't know how and I don't know when but I know I'll make it honey all the way back home I haven't been the way you needed me sleeping behind the wheel I must admit to taking liberties in my interpretation of the way that you feel, now and I know that I'm in trouble again bringing my work life home well I've got that negative energy and it's draining me I've gotta leave it on the phone I changed my music in Munich and Japan searching for truth in a harmony ran into trouble with a rubber band I bounced back and I shifted the key, now and tonight we'll be together again dancing in the dark alone well you gave me a chance to make amends and I finally got started on the way back home yes, I finally got started on the way back home yes, I finally got started on the way back home
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Sirius 03:23
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oh, what a marvel when Sirius sparkles on a moonless night the surf rumbles and the fog tumbles down the mountainside you know that just around the corner brave Orion has his bowstring drawn while the bull stands strong with his fiery eye in the winter sky backs to the ground in our seaside town I feel impermanent the smell of the brine, eucalyptus and pine beneath the firmament let's try inventing constellations telling stories, chasing satellites through the cool, clear night while the bonfire burns and the world still turns
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Rockabilly Honk 02:29
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one, two one, two, three, four...
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Lighthouse Keeper 08:04
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I remember when I landed in the tender's dory the oar-man turned to me, said "don't you worry, don't let the truth keep you from telling a story spare no detail, share no glory" now I'm just another lonely lighthouse keeper watch the ships go passing by boil a fish for dinner, I'm just a simple sinner waiting for the day I die now I'm just another lonely lighthouse keeper stoke the fire from the morning to the night watch the fog and keep the lamp a-burning bright take a walk along the shore of suds and foam waiting for the day I get back home now I'm just another lonely lighthouse keeper waiting for the after-life and I'm just another cold and restless sleeper pining for my loving wife now I'm just another lonely lighthouse keeper after a while they brought the wife and kids ashore I couldn't bear to be without them anymore for a moment, things were happy on the island then the darkness came on the horizon now I'm just another lonely lighthouse keeper shovel coal to keep us warm saving up the matches, batten down the hatches try to bear this coming storm now I'm just another lonely lighthouse keeper I came to and saw the clouds had moved along somehow I knew right then that everything was wrong when I tried to tell the wife I loved her truly my sweet Annie, she just looked right through me now I'm just another lonely lighthouse keeper seems I bit the dust this time but you'll never see me let that grinning reaper take me from this love of mine said I'm just another lonely lighthouse keeper trying not to fade away yes, I'm just another lonely lighthouse keeper holding on for one more day...
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Clarity of Purpose 05:08
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sometimes I wonder if I know how to be sometimes I wonder if God's smiling on me the summer sun is slowly sinking shadows climbing up my picket fence the buzz of a beehive the crash of a wave a kettle on the boil it all gets so intense a long and lonely season I try to find the reason for the mixed up dreams and soliloquies that keep me company for a moment maybe an hour or two the dark starts creeping I can't help but think of you the tide keeps rising the bees are droning on I wonder who'll greet me when I reach Abaddon the beast is brooding just like yesterday all of a sudden the fog has boiled away I've got clarity of purpose and purity of essence there's no defect in my mind this time I find deliverance and I'm free for a moment sometimes I wonder
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Another Casanova 03:15
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he tells a killer story he's got a good rapport he's full of allegory he leaves you wanting more he stares romantically at his cigarette another Casanova on the line he takes a swallow from his ice cold beer what a waste of everybody's time and when the party's ending they're shutting off the lights somehow he's still pretending he's taking someone home tonight gestures emphatically with his cigarette another ladykiller at the bar goes off to find another ice cold beer he doesn't know he's taking it too far he lights another little cigarette one more Casanova getting by he kills off another ice cold beer what a waste of everybody's time
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Delle 03:17
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I won't apologize for something I don't regret don't need an alibi for something I can't remember yet I don't know what you heard 'bout the lady Delle and her brother Everett one never says a word and the other don't discover it swear to the gods below I never saw no silhouette I'll tell you all I know if you hand me just another cigarette
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Everett 06:00
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I was standing on the corner in my darkest time of need with a book of empty pages and a pocket full of air I didn't know how deep the hole that needed filling and if I knew, I'm sure as hell I didn't care desperate and cold, I pulled a number from a memory dropped a quarter in a payphone on the wall tried my hardest to forget what Delle had told me I knew I had to give her brother Everett a call here he come... quiet for a moment, then Everett ambles over pulls something from his pocket and puts it in my hand he turns and tells me that he's happy just to help me proud to say that he provides a friendly service on demand come on! and I found that I was happy then despite the isolation even with the money gone, I must have had it all so the next time that you find yourself in need of inspiration just tell me you'll consider giving Everett a call
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My Friend 04:55
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how can you know it's time to let go? I can feel your heart is beating low close your eyes and let the feeling grow taking my time cherish what's mine another year is just a yesterday nothing lasts forever anyway spread your sprouted wings and fly there's no time to say goodbye now that you're gone I try to move on feel you with me in my dreams at night in the morning try to hold you tight church bells ring to start the day and the feeling fades away then I stumble out of bed brush my teeth and clean my head tell myself that you're still dead I'm never gonna be with you again with every new beginning comes an end and though my broken heart will never mend I'm glad to say you were my friend

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released January 1, 2024

Recorded, mixed, and mastered in 2023 in San Mateo, California.

Piano, vocals, guitar, bass, synthesizers, percussion, drum programming, mixing, and mastering by James Maniscalco.

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Spirit of the Glass San Francisco, California

Spirit of the Glass is the musical side-project of James Maniscalco, a New Jersey expat living in the Bay Area.

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