The Channel Surfers EP

by Invisible Garden

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released 10 December 2010

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Track Name: Radium Blonde
I can't break these plans
They fall around like ash
Flower petal dance...a trance

You can feel the blast
It rolls over the land
Nuclear answers in...the wind

By first light, our hands are held tight
It's alright
You touch your hair the sun won't meet you there
But I might
The trees are white
Less capable of flight in hindsight
You touch your hair the sun won't meet you there
But I might

I can't break these plans
Expanding like a smile
Barefoot, scared, and mild...a child

You won't see the sand
It keeps turning into glass
This will come to pass...a flash

(So come on help me split the atom)


By first light, our hands are held tight
It's alright
You touch your hair, the sun won't meet you there,
But I might
The trees are white
Less capable of flight in hindsight
You touch your hair, the sun won't meet you there,
But I might

The Sunshine Tells No Stories
Walking Through The Tall Grass Lonely

The sunshine don't but it's alright
The trees are nice but they're not mine, it's alright
The sunshine, left-right, on time.
The trees are white but it's alright, yea...it's alright

The Sunshine Tells No Stories
Walking Through The Tall Grass Lonely
Track Name: Maroon Man
there's a nice new maroon house down my street
with a garden in the back that makes it seem
off beat and clean from the urban path
with its nice new windows and its fresh cut grass

and the man who lives there reflects the color
with his pale blue eyes and his red sweater
you can see him stuck sinking in his maroon hammock
with his paint stained plants looking oh so tragic

we're so sick
we wanna go home
we don't believe in miracles

there's a mailbox waiting to be built
there's a birdhouse waiting to be filled
there's a newspaper waiting to be red
there's a seismograph stuck in his head yea

we're so sick
we wanna go home
we don't believe in miracles


Love Love Love lost from the middle or doomed from the start?
Track Name: Pirate Ship
I'm not one for faking smiles
Kick the grains in sandy piles (honestly it's backwards)

I've got no love for dirty beaches
Dusty skies with cloudy features

This is not a pirate ship
It's safe to say it's sinkin' quick

Watching the waves go by
Covered in Nature's light
You're too good for
You're too good for me

Flipping through the radio dials
Oil spills and murder trials (I swear someday I'll have one)

Crooked storefronts colored teal
Mid-day traffic turning wheels

I SAID,
"This is not a pirate ship, it's safe to say we're sinkin' kinda quick"

that's okay...

Watching the waves go by
Colored in Nature's light
You're too good for
You're too good for me

Watching the waves go by
Colored in Nature's light
You're too good for
You're too good for

Watching the waves go by
(I try to say hi...but its not like you're alive)
Covered in Nature's light
You're too good for
You're too good for anyone but me
Track Name: The Water Towers Are Dressed Like U.F.O.'s
You said to me that the skies were blue
Why would you wanna be so cruel
cause when I crossed the desert
The rain was pouring on my sweater

You took me and warmed me up
Poured some home brewed tea in a cup
I told you mine and you showed me yours
All over the kitchen and bathroom floors

This is not
The way it coulda coulda shoulda woulda been but it you thought it was love
It was not
Because it's blind like a bird in a cage when you cover it up

Sand on my shades from the sick hot wind
That knocked me down and made me spin
There’s a lizard blizzard hiding out for me
There’s a zigzag smile on this snow white sea

This book of changes from ancient times
Left me nothing but with broken lines
This road is nowhere these plants are sharp
They cut me deep and break my heart

This is not
The way it coulda coulda shoulda woulda been but you thought it was love
It was not
Because it’s blind like a bird in a cage when you cover it up

No one ever want's the desert I have found
Never move a hand to keep you around
Keep quiet like a bird under cactus dirt
When the sun goes down...never make a sound

This is not
The way it coulda coulda shoulda woulda been but you thought it was love
It was not
Because it's blind like a bird in a cage when you cover it up

You Thought It Was...
Track Name: Channel Surfers
it was all a dream and it came to me
in daytime shifts and rays of golden-green
like a story told in a hallway where
the days collect like leaves

dream of find someone to love

part the frozen sea
where the winters air was gravity
it held you close to me
the sky was turning black but light was shining back
in colors we can't see

snow falls we're not going home


the time was gold around your arm it clicks its song
your payload was received
by painted ghosts who haunt this home
i try i try i try
to bridge the gap between the wind and hot cement
it bends beneath me
the pressure breaks
the yellow masks release
the storm was over

the girls the ghosts are fake the freight trains run on time
suicide notes and i could sing them
the moon the waster breathing colors on my mind
this paper ball game has no rhythm

I can’t bite the boat
There’s something wrong with me
Pass me the remote the TV silk screen and
Channel surfing at the beach
The counter culture chords
Hung-up in the backyards and

Trees are fast asleep
Beneath the plasma machine
It holds the beat, on a string
Unwind through the fire of a dream
The old recycled moon
Keeps traveling westward so

Shave the Styrofoam
From off the autumn leaves
A tree stuck in a hole
Got a soul to keep
Trapped in the drain/vains? of its roots
The phosphorescent rain
Flooded up valleys and

Streets are painted gold
By weeping time machines
Reposed and resold
Beneath the thought regime
Vanishing ink coats my page
Your blue lipstick bruise
Caught the breath leaving my

Lungs are fit to use
A pink lobotomy
Eyes are on the loose
Someone new to meet
Holding your hand at the beach
And no red dotted shell
Fell in the cave of your teeth
Track Name: Turpentine
Turpentine doesn't feel good
Inside your brain it's an uphill climb
To a forest where the trees are blind and alive
And I can't be the one who saves it
The water's frozen and it's not my ship
Beneath the surface where the angels twist it's a trick

But tell me something, tell me something clear
I'm all alone in a bathroom thinking it's the rust that paints my mirror
And not my face it's glazed apologize but I always deserved it
All those white-hot little things you feel that no one does on purpose
So when your gone just leave me alone
So when your gone just leave me alone

Got the motion got the energy
In a hallway wall paper breathes
fluorescent lines retreat to eyes as wide as the moon
Sinking teeth crack the varnish
Cathedral rhythms and the sun breaks down
Colored glass splintered thoughts resound through my hollow breath

But you've been so cold but you've been so sincere
I'm on my own and it's a bad trip send a stamp deliver me from fear
And this place
Erased
Our fragile minds sleep just below the surface
All those white-hot little things you feel that no one does on purpose
So when your gone just leave me alone
So when your gone just leave me alone


Lit by handsome starlight
Hands were on the wheel
Sounds beneath the water
I'm listening, They're listening
Track Name: About The Sea
Put on an album about the sea
Make this train feel like a ship
The rolling hills and old oak trees
Turn into boats leaving for the trip
The rails can be the waves
The tunnels underwater caves
Put on an album about the sea

Don’t you know I’ve been wanting to take you for a drive
Ever since that night we don’t see eye to eye
The water’s made of silver and the street lights are overgrown
Cobble stones are dynamite on that crooked walk back home

These tracks are winding through my mind
Paint scenes that all fade to black
This steaming breath drawing design
I can’t help but stop to laugh
As the picture quickly fades
Leaving vapors in the shades
These tracks are winding through my mind

Don’t you know I’ve been wanting to take you for a spin
So hop right in and show me your original sin
This apple is made of ivory and the clouds have come unsown
This oxygen’s my waiting room for that first class ticket home

Sometimes the cloud conductor moves his arms and brings down all of the rain
It happens
These puzzle pieces fit like fragments in his disconnected brain
It happens

Don’t you know I’ve been wanting to take you for a ride
So come on baby let me in and make you come alive
The moon is made of porcelain (soap) and your mind rings like a phone
This platform is a minefield or a map that leads me home
Track Name: Record Store
She's like a Record Store
She's never open but she always wants MORE
She's like a tourist trap
Counting dollars as the cameras go SNAP

What you thinking?
It's pouring rain...
Let your hair down
It's new years eve
Feel the blood rush
Back to your face
That day-time drama
All gone away

We're at a carnival love
With all the drugs we took we'll never go HOME
And I'm not listening...'cause no one's saying nothing worth a BAAAAAAD sound
So show me how

What you thinking?
You're changing lanes
Flash those floodlights
It's Halloween
Down in the basement
It's all the same
You caught my eye like
A smoke machine

What you thinking?
We're on the porch
The sky's on FIRE
Like it's the FOURTH!!