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Human Harvest

by Jim Ballard

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Stick Dance 03:58
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Stick Dance Memories of ancient ones Return again like rising suns To say goodbye, let us cry, embrace their spirit To dance again among their kin, the ones who hear it. Dance in frozen spring where midnight sun its promise brings Sway in circle chant, when living go where living can’t Touch of garment, touch of hand Walk into another land Teardrops in the fallen snow will mix and mingle Rise up to the heavens and come again Dance in frozen spring where midnight sun its promise brings Sway in circle chant, when living go where living can’t Memories of ancient ones Return again like rising suns To say goodbye, let us cry, embrace their spirit To dance again among their kin, the ones who hear it. Dance in frozen spring where midnight sun its promise brings Sway in circle chant, when living go where living can’t
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Wildflowers 05:27
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Wild Flowers Look behind those american streets beyond the shops where money screams thru shattered glass and overgrown grass to the back lot of broken dreams Amongst the trash and flotsam and clutter where a thousand points of darkness abound stray dogs run free as they twitch in uneasy dreams hope and beauty still breakin ground And the wild flowers grow Through the broken blacktop through the ice and snow And the wild flowers grow And they lean and they bend when the wild winds blow Little boy playin in an ice box shell down the corner of forgotten row but the child is strong and it won’t be long he’ll blossom and he’ll grow just like The wild flowers grow In the shadow of the high rise in the street lamp glow And the wild flowers grow In the cellar of the city where no one goes Some seeds take to hard earth some are scattered on the wind some blow in the dust of the city out beyond where the sidewalks end some are tossed without a second thought and they fall where they will in the stone in the gravel in the vacant lot trampled and trodden all but forgotten but still still... The wild flowers grow In the high rise shadow in the street lamp glow The wild flowers grow In the cellar of the city where no one ever goes The wild flowers grow Through the broken blacktop through the ice and snow And the wild flowers grow And they bend and they lean when the hard winds blow
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Who Goes There 02:53
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Who Goes There I give you presents. I sacrifice. Everything I tell you, I have to tell you twice. You take my TV You take my car. You take my money and I don’t know who you are. Who goes there? Identify yourself to me. Who goes there? Signal your intention to me. Who? Who goes there? You send me tokens. You drop me lines. You’re always jokin’ and you think that I don’t mind. You keep me guessin. A nervous wreck. I used to be cool, now I’m up to my neck. Who goes there? Identify yourself to me. Who goes there? Signal your intention to me. Who? Who goes there? You second guess me. You call me names. You break my furniture then make me feel to blame. You’re such an artist. You love to sing. You read a lot but you barely know a thing. Who goes there? Identify yourself to me. Who goes there? Signal your intention to me. Who? Who goes there?
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Once You Get Started 04:52
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Once You Get Started I was your brother in the neon you were my sister in the light We were lovers in the morning we were twins at midnight We were searchin for the secret we were bettin we were right Somehow it never really mattered what was black and what was white But there were demons there were devils there were spoilers in the stars And all the paper thin feelings turn to ashes in the fire Even when the pain is healing you can never hide the scars You can’t get back home once you’ve gone so far Once you get started you never stop Once you get started you never stop All the broken hearted reachin for the top Once you get started you never stop I remember your face on that final day You looked so outta place in that dingy cafe On the train station ramp like a scene in a play The lady and the tramp were both runnin away And you never came back no you never returned Along the silent track across the bridges you burned Down the rain slick alleys round the corners you turned To bring back nothin nothin you learned Once you get started you never stop Once you get started you never stop All the broken hearted see the curtain drop Once you get started you never stop
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Rainmaker 04:14
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Rainmaker Scalding sun starin like the eye of god on parched plains like spider webs burned in the sod prayers unanswered evaporate just like the lakes and the riverbeds dry like the skin of the snakes who have shed them for new life now lifeless they bake in the sun Rainmaker open the sky Dance like the ancestors of you and i Bring the rain maker Weather’s so dry Whitewashed bones scattered in a street collage crowds dance distorted in the heat’s mirage sandstone into concrete concrete into sand soon will be deserts where cities now stand every face turned to heaven has heaven abandoned its sons? Rainmaker open the sky Dance like the ancestors of you and i Bring the rain maker Weather’s so dry Leafless trees fingers drilling deep into the earth like human souls thirsting to drink in rebirth branches reach to the sky try for all of their worth all in vain Rainmaker open the sky Dance like the ancestors of you and i Bring the rain maker Weather’s so dry Don’t let us die
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L.A. Rain 04:16
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L. A. Rain First time i saw ya you were wild and willin laughin eyes still dancin in the smoke screen afternoon In the streets of dreams there was no one sellin anything but easy ways anything but ruin And i couldn’ta changed you if i ever wanted to you were walking blind in the L. A. Rain In the storm of ages in the race of promises in the face of all we saw we were doubting thomases Til the wind swept over us and shook us to our knees and blew our dreams away like smoke rings on the breeze And the chimneys whispering to no ears listening are all flooded and deafened by the L. A. Rain Last time i saw ya you looked much older like you’d come back from a war a returning soldier So it came to me just like a prophesy and the weight it took from me fell from my shoulders And there in place of you a child i never knew who would never return to to the L. A. Rain
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Nothin' On Me 02:50
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Nothin’ On Me Check list black list food list hit list better watch yer step or you’ll end up on the shit list Sit in stand in try to get yer hand in checkin in the paper just to see what yer demandin Womens’ lib gay lib gray lib ad lib crazy lib lazy lib happy and sad lib Distress mistress look around you what a mess Don’t ride bikes in the traffic if you’re undressed Ain’t got nothin on me Ain’t got nothin on me Don’t take too much to see They got nothin’ on me Kindergarden flower garden end up in the beer garden Don’t tell lies or they’ll feed you to the jail warden High school golden rule everybody’s shootin pool Feed your head play dead sign up for the car pool Two four six eight we all wanna get straight Don’t be late graduate teach your children who to hate Don’t shoot wear a suit holler at a deaf mute Don’t take candy from the man in the blue suit Ain’t got nothin on me Ain’t got nothin on me Don’t take too much to see They got nothin’ on me King Lear Shakespeare rush limbaugh Letterman Night wars white whores who’ll be the better man Dee jay vee jay brain-dead vidiot Welcome to the weekend of the village idiot Pet rock some jocks don’t knock punk rock Careful what you say or you’ll find it on the juke box Midwest May West try to give yer hand a rest Sell dope to the pope and you’ll never get blessed Ain’t got nothin on me Ain’t got nothin on me Don’t take too much to see They got nothin’ on me
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Little White Lie 03:47
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Little White Lie Downtown look around sunny day holiday crowd bombs burstin in the air brass band movin air real loud But when the sky is bright every face is filled with light you can see the eyes can’t disguise somethin’s wrong tonight Where do they go on the 5th of july when the fireworks are over back to the livin of the little white lie til they lay ya down in clover Fire in the midnight sky reflects upon the windows buildings reaching up so high in the flashing moment throwing shadows Ah, but in those shadows hide the ones from the other side of the tracks fallin through the cracks something here ain’t right Where do they go on the 5th of july when the fireworks are over back to the livin of the little white lie til they lay ya down in clover (Where do they go, these ones in whose eyes we find our own? Where do they lay down their heads outside the rain? In the doorways? In the chevrolets? No, they are yours and they are mine) And when the crowd is gone in the hours before the dawn embers glow i don’t know.... something’s lost tonight Where do they go on the 5th of july when the fireworks are over back to the livin of the little white lie til they lay ya down in clover
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Well Well Well 04:41
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Well, Well, Well Well Well Well Did it come around Did it take you by surprise open up your eyes pin you to the ground Well Well Well Did the wire snap Did the mirror break did the sudden earthquake shake you from your nap Ah, well Well Well Well Well Well Well So the ground’s been laid And the die is cast and the lines stand fast The piper’s been paid Well Well Well Is there no last chance No lesson learned no stone unturned No time for the dance Ah, well Well Well Well Well Well Well Did it come around Did it take you by surprise open up your eyes pin you to the ground Ah, well Well Well Well
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Save Me A Place 04:20
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Save Me A Place One last highway one more crowd Six string my way Tune up green room One voice fills room wire and wood singin loud fingers dance over the strings nazareth instrument rings And it sings And it sings And its asking for only one thing... Save me a place at your table I’m doin the best that I can I’ll always be there when I’m able So save me a place Fill a cup just in case Raise it up and then save me a place..... One more encore linger now under the lights (c’mon) Play just one more Wheels touch long flight No rest straight through then leave em standin tonight Into the tambourine dawn Get me to where I belong And they sing And they sing Asking for only one thing.... Save me a place at your table I’m doin the best that I can I’ll always be there when I’m able So save me a place Fill a cup just in case Raise it up and then save me a place..... Save me a place at your table I’ll come home as soon as I can I’ll always be there when I’m able So save me a place Fill a cup just in case Drink it up and then save me a place..... Stand by Rollin’ Now sing the new one you’ve made Final mix down Be sure to leave time for the fade....

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released June 1, 2012

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Jim Ballard Akron, Ohio

Jim Ballard
A native of NE Ohio, Jim Ballard has been, for many years a part of the recording/performing community. After touring and performing all over the country with artists from 10,000 Maniacs to Gordon Lightfoot,The Mekons to Pete Seeger, he moved into his studio, Skylyne. There, he has recorded and worked with artists from Michael Stanley to Don Dixon and Alex Bevan. ... more

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