These people were directly involved in the making of Penguin Dust:
Recorded at FeverDream Productions by Ryan Birsinger & Frank Hart Mixed at Ranch On Mars by Ryan Birsinger & Alan Doss Mastered by Ty Tabor at Alien Beans
All songs written by Frank Hart except "WaterGrave"by Steve Chapman and "Stop The Rain" by Jonas Velasco/Frank Hart
Produced by Frank Hart
Kemper
Crabb-Mandolin, Vocals
Mark Poindexter-Drums
Frank Hart-Vocals, Bass, Guitars, Cello
Todd Bragg-Cymbal and toys on "WaterGrave"
Garrett Buell-Percussion on "WaterGrave"
Cover
art by Frank
Photo by Kim Hart
Child is Christian Velasco
The people who sacrificed and are due thanks:
Kim Hart (Wisdom)
Ryan Birsinger (Time)
Kemper Crabb (Guitars and vox ideas)
Maston Thomas Walker (Financial encourager)
Edwin Smith (Saved my butt again)
Alan Doss (Rocketh before the Lord)
Ty & Wanda Tabor (Master Friends)
Ben Huggins (Encovregement)
Steven Charquist (8500AV)
John Simmons (Snare)
BoBarb Hart (Breath)
RainDog
Jonas Velasco (Rain)
Jonathan Marshall (5 years)
Jeff DeVerter (A Rivendell Evening)
Max Dier (A cello lesson)
Doug Van Pelt (Support/Email nonsense)
Christian Velasco (Child on cover)
Derek Acevedo (Faith)
Thadd, Pamm, Madd, & Fordd Grimm (love)
Louise Witte (Penguin Ecstasy)
Jerry Gaskill (Original drums)
Brian Garcia (ADAT)
Jeff & Tina Hart (Brotherhood)
C.C.R.E.
Allison Leal (Poet lesson)
Wally Farkas (FX)
Tom & Kathy Hoyt (taxes)
Trip Wamsley (Superior Bass Life-form)
Kirby Trapolino
Chuck Sugar
Amy Selke & Wendy Doss (use of their men)
Dave & Caroline Hartung (sound friends)
Dean Markely (strings, not paid for yet)
Steve Chapman (For not suing us)
Doc Green (KORG)
Galactic Cowboys (Ranch)
Jim & Matt at Prophet Disc MFG
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Gloria Patri, Et Filli E, Et Spiritus Sanctus,
World without end.
Todd Bragg & Garrett Buell appear courtesy of Caedman's Call and Warner/Alliance Records.
Make
A God
Stop the Rain
Fade
Thirst
God Of Hate
Spirit Of the Age
November
FreakShow
WaterGrave
FeverDream
(click on title for lyrics)
Almost
believed it
I even see it
I'm not hard to confuse
A twist of the secret
It's just out of reach,
it's where I'm going to
I'm .. not here just to breathe
And make a God, yeah
I'm ... not here just to breathe ...
Make a God
See what is not there
A trick of the night air
I see what I believe
Just like a junkie
In the joy of the junk
He wants to share his need
Maybe I'll make it bigger than I AM
Maybe I'll make it live or die for us
Maybe I'll make it smaller than a child
Maybe I'll call it Jesus
-It
is common knowledge that man invented God in order to bring meaning into
our otherwise meaningless existence.(common knowledge is half right.)
-Back to songs-
I
stare into the sunrise cold a face of fear a void of soul
inside this hole where I feel safe
inside this storm
this empty place
this crown of clouds
I wear alone
this dust of rain
stays on and on
nothing can stop the rain
it gets in everything
nothing comes from everything I am
nothing can stop the rain
I climbed the stairs
upon my knees
penance of glass
a drop of peace
nothing I do
can fill this hole
can clear this storm
can give me hope
this crown of clouds
I wear alone
this dust of rain
stays on and on
-For
Christian and Charise
-Back to songs-
How
can it be
That someone you love
Is a memory
In the time it takes to breathe
Time is a thief
Time is made of iron
From here it seems
The gentle moments seem extreme
When the sun is in my eyes
IFeel like there is all this good time
When the light has left this place
When will time take you away
When will all this fade
What is love?
What is meaning?
Where are the promises?
How can I stop this from feeling Faded?
-We
imprint a bit of ourselves on all of the peoplewe love, and they on us.
When they are gone from our lives ... a part of us is missing, too.
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to songs-
Tears
are food
Day and night
My throat is filled with dust
From this desert hell
Blinding, burning, light.
Where is God
Deep to deep
My eyes are filled with sand
From this night of death
Drowning, dreaming, sleep.
I will thirst for you
As the wild hart thirsts
For You
I will, I will, I will ...
"... and then Sahz stood up from the tablescreaming, "Go run with your brightly-colored Multi-sensuals, but whenyou are not satisfied with their empty sex and hollow dizziness at leastbe honest enough to admit it. Then you can come back home and drink fromthe old water, eat from the solid bread, and sleep with your eyes closedonce more."
-from
The Day of Dreams by Cherish Gabriel
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to songs-
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I
do hate evil
And I do hate sin
I do hate divorce
And I hate this state we're living in ... I
Do hate rebellion
And I do hate greed
I do hate most religious men
And I hate this hating hateful killing
I Am the God of Hate
And My hate is a Holy Flame
I Am the God of Hate
And my hate is a Perfect Thing
I do hate Esau
And I do hate death
I do hate violence
And I hate your whining, waisted breath ... I
Do hate the darkness
And I do hate pain
I do hate the burning stench
And I hate My Love when used in vain
-God
is neither Santa Clause nor a Hallmark card,
He is in fact all the terrible reality behind life
and beyond death.
-Back
to songs-
Everybody
knows you can have sex with anyone (that you love)
Everybody knows you should only love someone who cares (for you)
Everybody knows you should only care about your own (your life)
Everybody knows that your life is the measure of your time (but, you try)
I can't hear you anymore
I just can't take this anymore
I won't listen anymore
I just can't hear you anymore
Everybody knows you should believe in yourself for the truth (everybody
lies)
Everybody knows that the truth is alive inside you (everybody lies)
Everybody speaks. Everybody sees. Everybody sleeps. Everybody dreams.
And it's true again... We've all been listening to the wind.
(How many roads must a man go down before ...)
"Most
of the things that everybody knows ...are not true."
-Batman
-Back to songs-
...
came and right away
we're lost we're all alone and lost
It's easy to say (so I noticed)
It's better to say that you don't believe
A few half lies (If you survive)
The winter came with a bitter rain and washed away the reasonI (yeah yeah)
Turn away from me againI (yeah yeah)
Turn away from Heaven
The season's change (and so they say)
It all remains the same anyway
It's easy to feel like it's no good
It's better to fall than to stand in The Way
When one half truth is our whole lives
The morning came with a darkening shame
And blinded me with reason
"I'll
tell 'ya what he needs... he needs toread The Great Divorce ...
that, and get a good kick in the pants!"
-The
Bad Buddha
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to songs-
Don't
fill me with hope if you just take it away
Don't fill me with words when you have nothing to say
Don't promise tonight if you are leaving today
Give it up cause you don't want to know what I know (now)
Right and wrong Black and white Well here comes the freakshow
Don't help me relax if you are sending the dogs
Don't tell me you care if your just selling your god
Don't promise me life if you are walking the dead
Go away cause you don't want to see what I believe now
Who are you?
To make me right in the wrong
To make me weak in the strong
To make me question it all
Who
are you?
To make me lay on the ground
To make me suck on a frown
To make me see how I fall
Well I see it all
(Do
you know Cheeses as your own personal sandwich?)
-Back
to songs-
The
flowers in your hair have all withered
The tears dried in your eyes and filled with sand
The toys we built for play have overcome us
It doesn't seem like a world without end
I try to stir from the slumber and the vision
I try to rise from the poison of the dream
I try to hold on to the things I should believe in
I try to remember the things that I believe
The freedom in the air is polluted
And free love is a never ending need
I hear people praying for the future
But it sounds like like they're talking in their sleep
I try to run from the anger and the reason
I try to figure out what's wrong ...
It looks like a fever to me
Makes people do crazy things
It's got to be a feverdream.
Maybe
all this super-sensitive PC talk is justa small way to
change a world that seems so unchangeable and large ...
What we can't change we re-define.
-Back
to songs-
all songs by Frank Hart except "Stop theRain"
by Jonas Velasco and Frank Hart.
Lyrics to WaterGrave are not printed because Frank Didn't write them,
SteveChapman did.
Unauthorized reproduction is strickly prohibited (and evil).
©1997 A Comic Opera Music