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Human Kindness

by Willy Porter

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1.
Freedom 03:25
I carry the bricks for my grandfather’s debt they say you work hard, you pay what you owe my family hasn’t yet our blood in the dust our blood is on their hands it’s impossible to erase what a kid can’t comprehend i wish that i could feel freedom they say that no one can hear you you are a fool to pray your god isn’t listening no help is on the way i heard a bird on a wire singing sweet if god loves that sparrow he will send me freedom i’m free from fear of violence free within and free without freedom from all borders freedom from all doubt freedom growing wild gracefully and green there’s freedom for you is there freedom for me? now when i open my eyes somedays i still can’t believe there are no chains on my doors no guns are pointed at me i have no one to answer to no customers to please i help those who are still enslaved that’s how i give freedom
2.
I found your silver ear-ring today underneath the cushion right where you lost it all the books you left i read ‘em all they’re packed in boxes in the basement hall even with the four agreements even with the tropic of cancer even with this brief history of time i can’t seem to start where you are sitting here sipping an iced tea there’s a little girl on the sidewalk dancing a lilac breeze drifting along like tiny helicopters the maple seeds fall sam came by he was asking after you wondered if i’d come to grips with the truth i said i don’t mind losing except losing you then i was the worst loser i’ve ever seen even in our dark moments we were gracious if broken even in our dark moments we were never mean does it ever cross your mind all the lovin’ that you left behind when you said goodbye? goodbye favorite bob marley shirt goodbye to the stuff you took with you when you said you were hurt goodbye blue jacket now i don’t have a suit goodbye really cool all broken in chippewa boots you can keep the broken remote i’ll keep the letter that i got from your folks goodbye moonlight serenades and foggy overcast laundry blanket sundays i picked at my wounds tried to drown them in beer had a fist full of neutrals but i finally ground a gear now i’m greasing up the chain on my old bike rounding off some corners in my life spend your money honey go and get some sun love somebody’s body or love someone you’ve earned it so you can swerve it i really think that you deserve it i’m gonna do myself a favor at least i’m gonna try gonna tell my friends i love ‘em while they’re all still alive
3.
Elouise 04:10
Where is that woman, where is my girl? i’m busy waiting on her she is the only one in the world got me waiting on her her hair is blowing through my soul i’m crazy waiting on her she got the lovin’ that’ll pay my toll i’m dizzy waiting on her she gonna let her horses run free when no one’s around just her and me says that’s the way it should be well who am i to disagree with elouise she’s evidence the best things are free elouise, i got some garlic and some fresh green beans she’s got the keys to the trees and the dirt stars are falling for her she’s like athena in a mini-skirt can’t build a wall around her she’s in the kitchen heating water for tea just her mama’s daughter just like a vision that came in a dream i don’t know how i found her she sets her loving free when no one’s ‘round just her and me says that’s the way it should be i’m never gonna be one to disagree elouise, i’m waitin’ darlin’ now turn the key elouise, she’s evidence the best things are free elouise, i’ve got some garlic and some fresh green beans elouise, i’m going crazy darlin’ set me free now elouise, she’s evidence the best things are free elouise, i got some garlic and some fresh green beans elouise, i need your lovin’ now set me free elouise, everybody knows i love you baby where is that woman, where is my girl i’m dizzy waiting on her she is the only one in the world got me waiting on her she is the only one in the world got me waiting on her she is the only one in the in world i’m dizzy waiting on her
4.
In the moments when time collides with an outcome we would not survive a man reached out to pull her back as she slid into a bus’ path i won’t give up on the verge of love i can’t give up or ever give enough human kindness is alive and well where we will find it, no one can tell wear it for shelter surround yourself human kindness is alive and well if i forget myself for someone else i break the boundaries of my human self we realize what’s possible in us when we give and take a little trust we’re together in the story line as we change the story survives all our second chances come when we’re done closing our eyes
5.
Looking from two spheres of light all her visions come alive she waves her hand, just like a wand and six directions become one as the sky slips from day to night looking out, looking in to taste the salt upon her skin she’s become a constellation a moving picture in the sky she defies gravitation riding through a field of light sailing a moonless milky way open water on a mirror lake stars are swimming in her eyes a thousand patterns print their light the world revolving where she lies she’s become a constellation a moving picture in the sky she defies gravitation riding through a field of light she’s become… riding through a field of light
6.
There’s a hole in the guardrail on route east 22 maybe jim was drunk when he wadded it up it could have been me or you that rip in the aluminum the red clay on the wheel made me push the pedal to the floor and say darling, “a deal is a deal” my eyes can’t explain what my heart understands i’ve been a fool for pride and whiskey i’ll be a monkey ‘til i’m free honey it’s true, sugar me and you we’re not that far out of the trees jesus built this hot-rod he built this mansion too ‘turned water to wine, gave sight to the blind he made a masterpiece in you my eyes can’t explain what my heart understands when i’m walking with the man with the man you’ve seen me at my worst now darling loved me hard as you could you were on your knees picking up the pieces when nobody else would all the riches in the world are just rocks, pebbles and sand when i’m walking with the man
7.
A love like this so easy to feel a love like this nothing concealed i was swimming through dark water where the daylight could not reach sometimes i can’t believe you pulled me from the deep into a love like this a love like this my mama told me there’d be someone like you i never knew she was telling the truth i never dreamed i could even wish for a love like this a love like this has always been with you honey, how did i miss you? how did i miss you? a love like this so present and clear now all that i need now is a love like this
8.
This Train 05:06
This train won't run on money this train won't run on blood this train is bound for glory this train is bound for love we can remain alone in the doorway half in the rain, chained to the past we can complain all that we want to but this train is rolling fast all the love, human persistence all the pain, tears and joy i can hear her in the distance feel the rumble of her voice we can remain alone in the doorway half in the rain, chained to the past we can complain, all that we want to but this train, is rolling past across the plains and through the city from the mountain’s highest peak this train is bound for glory for all the love in god’s dream
9.
What is it about you girl, feels so broken? that remains unspoken? i want to hear who am i to ask? i’d never judge you don’t want anything from you just the knife from your back my bird can sing my bird can fly not meant to be in a cage she belongs to the sky someone knocked you down they can’t steal your soul away you alone have the final say nobody else what is it about your world that keeps you hoping? let it out in the open the coast is clear someone knocked you down they can’t steal your soul away you alone have the final say you said that yoursel
10.
People move so fast dream the dust of chance tied to the past yeah we tied our hands what tomorrow may bring nobody can tell you can gather up moon dust or dig a well some things fade and some things last one thing won’t change and that is the past so try to forget forgive and forget there’s nothing i ain't told you you didn’t need to know so try to forget memory fires off of random paths it’s never the entire photograph we can light a torch and watch it burn burn through the night till the world has turned around itself and around the sun it’ll never return to where it has begun so try to forget forgive and forget there’s nothing i ain't told you you didn’t already know so try to forget forgive and forget there’s nothing that they sold you you really need to own so try to forget times we played at love and disregarded hearts the times i left in anger tearing things apart i lost some things i can never get back i chased some dreams i couldn’t quite catch time comes around to forget all that the future is larger than the past so try to forget forgive and forget there’s nothing i ain't told you you didn’t already know so try to forget forgive and forget there’s nothing that they sold you you didn’t already own so try to forget…
11.
Roses in the Rain I will give you roses in the rain i will give you my old tap shoes to dance away the pain i will give you all i have today if you sit right down right here now mama and promise not to go away i’ll believe you, even if they say you lied i’ll believe you, even if it means that i might go to jail for harboring a fugitive in the light of your criminal love that’s where i want to live tie me down to the tracks before you leave and you never come back, again i won’t give you questions to the answers of your life but i’ll forgive you, if you stumble home drunk in the morning light i’d rather believe you, even if it means that i am alone in my decision oh my love is devoid of precision i will give you a ring around your pretty finger i’ll try to give you some room to dream and room to linger i’d rather die broke and happy all of this junk we bought is bound to be the death of you and the death of me it’s bound to be the death of me i will give you what’s in my heart and in my brain i’ll try to give you a forum in which to complain after we’re dead and gone and no one knows our names i will give you roses in the rain

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In Memory of Steve Kleiber

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released December 12, 2014

Willy Porter
Lead & Backing Vocals, 6-, 9- & 12-String Acoustic, High-String, Nylon String Slide & Electric Guitars

Dave Adler
Acoustic Piano, Synthesizers, Mellotron & Organ

Aaron Gardner
Tenor Sax & Flute

Bryan Mir
Bass Guitar

Carmen Nickerson
Lead & Backing Vocals

Dave Schoepke
Drums & Percussion

Guest players & arrangers listed in individual song credits.

Produced by
Willy Porter & Kaylen Prescott

Executive Producers
Chris Webb & Roger Townsend

Recorded at
Dog Tracks & Tanner/
Monagle Studios, Milwaukee WI

Engineered by
Allan Williams, Steve Hamilton, Ric Probst, Willy Porter & Dan O’Brien

Mixed by
Willy Porter at Dog Tracks

Mastered by
Trevor Sadler @ Mastermind

Management
Chris Webb, jamnmanagement.com

Booking
North America: Adam Bauer at Fleming Artists, flemingartists.com
UK: Nikki Woodhead at Imageacoustic, nikki@imageacoustic.com.

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Wofford Denius, Esq.

Art Direction
Elizabeth Glass

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