broken cup (again)

Broken cup again
Broken cup again

Has everything changed
Now the couple’s back? 
Wooden crate cassettes
Sticker artifacts

Filling boxes with letters from my mouth
From a new town 
To you
Sitting under a blanket on the couch
Feeling one down

Broken cup again
Broken cup again

Construction paper
Construction paper
Construction paper
Construction paper

Broken cup again
Broken cup again

Walking on a fence
Do you need my hand
Never played so free
Castles made of sand

Welcome to the scene nobody wants 
sister breakdown
Collect your self, prepare for the haunts
Time for sundown
Again

Broken cup again
Broken cup again

old fashioned girl

I need an old fashioned girl
The kind you never see
I need an old fashioned girl
Who believes in me

Baby better come back, maybe next week
I need asylum
Do Do Do Dee Dum, Do dee de do de do

I need an old fashioned girl
The kind you love to hold
I need an old fashioned girl
Who’s never bought or sold

Dit Dit Dit Dit Dit, Dit Dit deed um
Dit Dit Dit deed um, do dee de do de dum

I need an old girl
I need an old girl

The kind you love to hold
The kind you love to hold
The kind you love to hold
The kind you love to hold

I need an old fashioned girl
The kind you never see
I need an old fashioned girl
Who believes in me

Dit Dit Dit Dit Dit, Dit Dit deed um
Dit Dit Dit deed um, do dee de do de dum

The kind you never see

I need an old fashioned girl

Who believes in me

Dit Dit Dit Dit Dit, Dit Dit deed um

Dit Dit Dit deed um, do dee de do de dum

outside

Outside in the rain
Outside at the dawn

Outside in the rain
Outside at the dawn

Outside in the rain
Outside in the gone

Outside in the rain
Outside in the gone

It’s real
The chain and the pull

It’s real
The chain and the pull

It’s real
The cold and the rain

It’s real
The cold and the rain

It’s real
The weight and the push

It’s real
The weight and the push

It’s real
The verse and the fall

It’s real
The grace and the fall

Outside in the rain
Outside in the gone

Outside in the rain
Outside in the gone

Outside in the rain
Outside at the dawn

Outside in the rain
Outside at the dawn

heart sutra song

Music: Eric DeLuca
Lyrics by Eric DeLuca, based on the Prajñāpāramitā from the Mahayana Buddhist Tradition

Go, go
Let it go
Let it all go
All go

Gone, gone
Long gone
Far beyond
wisdom lies

santa fe

Green light special out of Santa Fe
That’s the train I ride.
Blow that whistle night or day
Swing from side to side
Sand off the track
Gotta keep that freight train rolling

I never been on a train before
50 boxcars long.
I never smelled the smoke that pours
out on my dreamboat’s farm
Sand off the track
Gotta keep that green grass growing

Oh mama, gonna stop that train tonight
Oh mama, gonna take my bags inside.

I can’t be no switching man
I can’t drive no train
I can’t wear no wedding band
I can’t fly no plane.
Sand off the track.
Gotta keep that freight train running.

Oh mama, gonna stop that train tonight
Oh mama, gonna take my bags inside.

I can’t me no consumer good
grown in my hometown.
i can’t find me no chopping wood
or no wedding gowns.
Sand off the track.
Gotta keep that freight train rolling.

Green light special out of Santa Fe
That’s the train I ride.
Blow that whistle night or day
Swing from side to side
Sand off the track
Gotta keep that freight train rolling
Sand off the track
Gotta keep that freight train rolling
Sand off the track

Day Is Breaking

Written in 1999 in Jamaica Plain, MA and recorded in 2007 in Saratoga Springs, NY.

The 2007 recording is instrumental. Here are the lyrics from 1999.

african song

written in 1990
instrumental version recorded in 2016
from Hut Acoustic

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I want to be you
It’s tempting to wonder
Was I just confused
Or casting asunder

Make me an offer I can’t refuse


Just thought I’d decline
Substitute vagueness for insight
Let’s notice the time
See it quick and substitute a dime

You’ve got yours and I’ve got mind


Projection machine
In a room that never gets used now
I see what you mean
We keep it clean and never refuse now

Must protect the dangerous path to sea

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Featured on the album The Habit Room

did you ever

Written and recorded in June 2006 in Shelburne Falls, MA

Nothing

(1983) Dave Collaton – lead vocals & guitar. Recording from the album of originals Surrealism in Suburbia, recorded at Sigma Sound Studios in Philadelphia, PA. (Side 2 opening track)

1981 Cheltenham High School Battle of the Bands
Dave’s recent commute.
Photo: Rebecca Scott Perkins

Turn Around (Together)

Love Dave Collaton’s lead (at 7:40) on this original from a 1995 reunion of our high school band in Philadelphia.

(The date under the photo refers to a more recent reunion jam from last summer.)

Strawberry & Lime

Performed by HG JR April 29, 2017. Matt Lyon drums. John Roberts electric guitar. Eric DeLuca keyboards & vocal.

London Town

Ashfield Farmers Market Rehearsal

7/26/09

12-string acoustic guitar & vocal