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Collection No. 2

by Dean Batten

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No Name #5 04:15
There's fall on the wind Don't call me your friend I'll tell you again There is a war There is a war So pour me a drink It's not what you think I'll call up my shrink It's always a war There is a war Inside Don't fight a war for love If you don't know who the enemy is Just fight the war of grief With no enemy but loneliness I have never been a soldier I'm just hiding in the scene When I'm drunk or when I'm sober You know my enemy's still me She was unlike any other Any dream I can conceive I first had her in a bathroom These things just end in misery Won't try again when we are older We've had our time between those sheets Somebody else will be her lover Maybe they'll make her happy Like I could not There's fall on the wind Don't call me your friend I'll tell you again There is a war There's always a war Inside
3.
Heart Cop 03:14
I wish I was a heart cop So I could make this damn traffic stop I'm sitting by the vacuum machine Still wishing I could maybe feel clean Street lamp looks like a second lover's moon If we walk now we can be home real soon But I'm sitting by the vacuum machine Watching my fingers turn to misty pink steam Washrag is off the hook If I speak everyone else will look And I don't want to take up their space With my numbness all in their face Aren't you mad how you are? Aren't you always scared you'll take it too far? I know that I am But I only take what I think I can stand Water comes in different hues The sky comes in more than just blue I'm sitting by the vacuum machine At a gas station, two thirty in the morning It's not what it seems when all the world is green
4.
It's easy to love someone That you barely know When you figure them out It's time you go With Kali the Destroyer Instigating the shifts I would give anything Not to live like this You think you understand What you're doing to the man But you don't have the slightest clue Do you? You'd better make a plan A flash in the pan or a slight of hand Disappear into the blue Your favorite hue Can you tell me What it is about me That you can't seem to want? My head's so ugly And I might act happy But I'm waiting for this to just stop It's easy to love someone That you barely know When you figure them out It's time you go With Kali the Destroyer Instigating the shifts I would give anything Not to live like this
5.
Tear me down It's what I need Tear me into pieces You can't see I want to be invisible Bored out of my brain Pick some flowers for Janey Driving through Saint Augustine Kamel Reds and magic machines I want to be out by the fort First left past the fork Then we'll go home Standing in the rain Taking pictures of Janey Making up a day Picking flowers for Jane Kissing in crochet Picking flowers for Janey Bored out of my brain Picking flowers for Janey, Janey
6.
Protons 04:17
We were just protons Particles colliding Touched for a second Mad for a minute Then bounced separate ways I was just angry Pissed at myself And you don't deserve it The heat off my conscience Raining on your parade Now I'm waiting for someone to come To black out the sun And bring on the clouds It's never or now AS you're floating away Into empty space And I'm singing I love you I love you We were just protons Particles kissing Connected for an instant Regret for a lifetime But that's still okay Outside is foggy We go inside I'll grab a blanket She likes my new jacket Even though it's too wide Her eyes are sparkly Her hands are my size She's better than you were She acts as my mirror And I don't have to lie When I say I love you I love you Goodnight

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released December 3, 2015

All songs written by Dean Batten
Tracks 1, 2, 4 and 6 co-arranged
by Chris Veilleux
Closing Saxophone Quartet
written, arranged and performed
by Chris Veilleux

Personnel:
Guitar, Keys, Strings, Piano,
Vocals - Dean Batten
Bass - Brian Johnson
Percussion - Daniel Lunde
Sax - Chris Veilleux

Recorded and Engineered by
Daisy Chamberlin in the bedroom
of Teal Studios in Daytona Beach
Shores, FL

Mixed by Daisy Chamberlin, Dean
Batten and Chris Veilleux at the same
place

Produced by Daisy Chamberlin and
Dean Batten

Back cover art by Nell Nakamura
Front cover photo by Jaelon Robbins
Hand script font by Nell Nakamura
Art layout and direction by Danielle
Rimart and Dean Batten

Special thanks to my mom for letting
us use her baby grand piano and eat
her food

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Dean Batten Daytona Beach, Florida

Often genre-bending, thought provoking and emotion stoking, Dean Batten's music is most concretely one thing: captivating.

Moving forward from his previous work, Dean has re-embraced the folk, early rock and country sounds of his childhood with 3 new albums: "Optimist Breakfast", an acoustic album; "Pessimist Lunch", a full band version with the same songs; and "Realist Supper", a live album.
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