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Werner Herzog Ate My Shoe

by Sean Mugan

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1.
Rosenheim 01:08
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2.
Canopy 02:37
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The canopy is hard to call your own From hut to hearth, from hill to home, Spiders try to settle in Weaving webs of porcelain The only view through the trees The canopy And I know when to say when we’ve just begun, we just began The skin can be hard to call a home From brow to toe, from blood to bone
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Signs of Life 03:06
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Be calm… be calm… Because you’re all right Because you’re all right Hypnotizing chickens well into the night Guarding the munitions and your willingness to fight Take off your shoes and dance on my feet Take a seat on the chair that’s not there Catch a beetle with a strand of your hair Walking along the stony shore, with a bottle and soldier’s uniform The knife won’t fall from my hand I can show the pigeons fear with a handful of sand The well that drips through the night And the crickets with their relentless cries A crown on the hill made of stone, makes me feel all alone Toothless child with big ears grins at me and the open sea The man who plays Chopin from the empty room spits up blood as he heralds impending doom The burnt out chair, the deaf fisherman As they drag away the dead mule again Charging at the windmills all day The dusty road will lead us away
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Real War 00:47
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5.
Klaus 03:28
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In a party of one Yer the one When you’re the only one at the benefactory celebration You know you are the one When you hold up that flag With the one colour that only you understand Then you know you’re the one Yer the one You’re the star of your dreams And you’ll play anything At least that’s how it used to seem When the shoes on your feet Attract the envy of all those around you you know you’re the one Yer the one Yer the one Stuffed into your three piece suit Yer the one “Congratulations to everyone Under me I found my way to the top and I’m glad you could stay By my side,” “I’m not gonna leave you Why do you say these things” “Because they mean a lot to me I’m the one”
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Steal This Track! 00:14
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7.
Marc Antony 01:30
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Marc Antony Showed me his rooster today And how proud was he That five hens a night He’d go see So his breakfast tray Will always display An omelette of majestic size and shape
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Caruso! 03:06
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Invincible 02:36
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Been having crazy dreams like you wouldn’t believe There’s been Wind blowing up from the edge of my sleeve down the other sleeve Like you wouldn’t believe Been walking the streets like you can’t conceive Blinders on my face and nobody around me Like you couldn’t believe Like you wouldn’t conceive Been subjected to the photomatic Been preserved in groups of four Been afflicted by the young and gifted I’m still here and I want more And I drive my car around the place where else can I try to replace and still I wonder where else I’ll find myself amidst the why and when the why and the everything
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Urucu Seed 02:30
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There’s a hole in the football, Werner, call in the girls Even the priest believes in redemption for the world Head down to the boathouse, we’ve got time for a whirl And then one again later if those motors start to turn Pick a day and I’ll take you up when the weather’s clear If you squint just a little bit you can see Portugal from here How long till we leave the port, talking days or years? Give me some statistics to subside my fears And the birds and the bees and the flowers and trees say Om the snake in the grass and the ticks on my dog say Om the moth in the web and the leeches on my leg say om When the white balloon flies atop the breakfast hens Zoom in on the children with your telephoto lens Flat heads and pot bellied, there beneath the canopy Shoot them with a slower speed, the redness of uruqu seed
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Little Dieter Needs to Fly 01:26
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Timothy 03:28
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13.
Adequate Images 01:00
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14.
Fata Morgana 01:10
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about

This CD was inspired by my recent obsession with the films of Herzog. I began a systematic study of them, trying to watch all 60 or so. His films and Herzog himself as an individual began to stand out for me as something very important. Whether it has to do with impossible dreams, bravery, vision, creativity, endurance, survival, determination, madness… I am not sure. I feel like I endure into the night trying to record my little songs after I have worked all day and tucked my children into their beds. There is something satisfying about spending many hours of your life, sacrificing sleep, health and personal relationships in order to keep driving towards creation. It does not matter that only a handful of people will ever listen to my songs, I continue on my conquest of the useless.

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released May 30, 2011

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Sean Mugan Saint Catharines, Ontario

Email: spmugan@gmail.com

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