Tea Leaves

by Dimestore Mystery

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The debut album from Dimestore Mystery of Seattle, WA.

credits

released 01 January 2010
Daniel F. Craig- Guitar, Drums, Keys, Percussion, Banjo, Vocals
Graig Markel- Guitar, Bass, Cello, Lap Steel, Vocals
Larry Knechtel- Keys, Organ
Dan A. Craig- Vocals
H. Willie Hoffee- Guitar

Mixed and Mastered by Graig Markel in the Recovery Room Studios in Seattle, WA.

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tags: folk acoustic emo folk folk rock jazz pop punk rock singer-songwriter Seattle

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Dimestore Mystery is the brainchild of pacific northwest native Daniel F. Craig.

Craig is a folk ... more singer-songwriter, as well as a part-time student. A multi-instrumentalist, he began writing songs at the age of thirteen, and went on to record his debut album "Tea Leaves" at fifteen.

His new album "The Artifacts Of War" is in the post-production phase, and will be available Summer 2012. less

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Track Name: Closer To Home
I took a walk with your ghost, through the valleys and shadows we stalked
I wiped a telephone’s tears in a booth by an empty garage
And if I wasn’t myself then I don’t know who else I could’ve been
Just sick of being a mistake every night when you wake up again
But now you’re drifting off in the passenger seat
You lift your shoes from the floor to the dash
And you’re slipping away just a little bit farther with every streetlight we pass
But the morning never comes for the stars in the treetops they cry
And their tears drip from branches to the soil to make peace with the night
Heard it flooding the mountains and sweeping through cities at dawn
Saw a shipyard of graves where my brother laid cold in the sun
Felt the madness that echoes like desert machines in the dark
She didn’t weep for the ones that she’d loved, no, just the ones that she’d lost
So you constrain yourself, but those pills won’t help
When you’re lost in thought, you’re just like everyone else
Because you fall in love, and then you fall apart
And then those scars all sink into your broken heart
But the tissue is never quite as strong
As when it first was torn from where it belonged
And he gave you another chance
But you twisted the stem and you sunk your teeth in again
If he gave you another chance
Would you take his son’s hands, or would you nail them back up again?
Track Name: Hands & Numbers
Syringe inject your wasted youth through summer nights
Where we tattooed our fates across the cuffs of your sleeves
In ballpoint pen, with ink still wet like kisses on the necks of friends of mine
Agreed by weed and coffee
But what the hell were these feet for?
I slipped up, tripped over my heart, and landed at your door
And what good has it brought me?
Just another lame excuse to take my time, more carefully
The moonlit skies improvised my demise
With her father’s dirty looks from her mother’s blue eyes
And as she cried, I couldn’t help but give in
She wept of sorrow and years spent lost
How the hands and numbers fell from clocks as she tried, but finally gave up again
But what the hell was I thinking?
With both eyes closed, struck blind by the heat in it
And girl, you’re living life in the “fast lane”
When you break to late you can’t call it an accident
Oh girl, I hope it made you feel alright
‘Cause a cocaine nose knows no one goes without a fight
So don’t wait up for me beside your phone
It was one too many times I thought of you, I’d rather be alone
Track Name: Venetian Road
Venetian road, please take me home, I’ve had enough
Of the river mouths, colossus statues, the setting suns
I crawled back west to that city where the gardens hung
And found everything that I thought I loved there never was
When he turned their tongues against them
It was nothing but a waste of time
Lay motionless on orchid print, and watch the clock
No sedatives just rhetoric, automatic thought
The alarm speaks up, says you’ve slept enough, it’s has to stop
Three fingers slap the snooze, dreamed a crooked fence where the garden was
And it’s nothing now but a cemetery for the flowerbeds and all your dreams of love
Venetian road, just take me home, it’s rained enough
For forty days and forty nights, it’s blinded us
In a trip down south to a borrowed bed and an empty cup
A rugby match, a campus cracked, and dipped in rust
It’s nothing now but a graveyard for all the fear and insecurity I keep
Track Name: Lunette
The lunette drinks in daylight and spits it upon this cathedral
Falls upon a young woman her hands filled with thread and a needle
Sewing buttons on shirts, patching holes in the jeans of her lover
Until she sleeps in the night, and her dreams rest on thoughts of another
So she sits on a barstool, and starts flooding her memory with liquor
And she weeps as she drinks because she knows no libation could save her
She chops down her cherry tree while I keep drinking her wine
Inebriated, but we still can’t tell a lie
And so I lay my body in the river Styx, become a treasure for the carrion bird
I know that ancient stream still flows without my blood
And so I lay myself upon a spinning bed with your voice stuck in my head
Because this absence of love hurts more than you’re admitting of
I want to write you a story and make you fall in love with this city
With it’s cracked sidewalks, and it’s pigeon parks all empty
And tell the scholars to keep all of their shit to themselves ‘cause it’s useless
And once they’re dead they’ll have nothing to show
For what they’ve called their existence
But that girl and her dark hair are starting to mess with my memory
‘Cause I don’t remember what she looked like, just how much she scared me
And though her love has left my heart, the scent of her perfume still lingers
So we keep digging up caskets and pulling the rings from their fingers
And I clutch these coins like they’re counterfeits
Before I drop them in a collection plate
With my far off gaze still nailed to that crucifix
I keep seeing loneliness in my own tea leaves, so I pour myself another cup
And try to wash away whatever fate it is I’ve fixed
And try to just keep moving on
Track Name: The Wicked Arcane
I spilled my guts on the cold bathroom floor
I know, for what it’s worth, that I’m not worth it anymore
I’m possessed, I’m obsessed, just like all those kids I detest
I know I’ve learned from the best
I heard you’re giving up giving up drinking again
And I can’t tell which is worse, blacking out or sleeping in
Lighting fires on the beach, with the sand on your feet
And the air smelling sweet
But don’t forget to hide those aching razorblades
That dance across your crooked skin
Don’t let the apple fall far from the branches that you’re sitting in
And don’t forget who to call, if you ever need a friend
Or just someone to help you pretend
You said you read me like a novel, but you still can’t tell when
The story finally stopped, and our real lives began
So you start searching again, but I’m still hiding in the end
Of your hovering pen
So you developed your taste for the wicked arcane
Took a leaf from my shelf, burned the books that remained
And like a star, you shone bright, with your fingers crossed tight
Knowing eventually you’d die
But don’t forget the fireflies, the dull midnight, the shooting stars and satellites
The lonely trees, the evergreens, the empty parkway traffic lights
And don’t forget who to call if you’re ever wondering why
Or if you just feel like saying goodbye
And we laugh ourselves to sleep inside our chalk outlines
Another steady stream of slow decline
Until we’re sinking sand, the hourglass, of traveling the beaten path
Or lying in the sobbing grass, just soaking in the aftermath
And don’t forget who to call when they don’t answer above
Or if you ever want someone to love
Track Name: For The South
Slow drip smoke curled up inside your petticoat
Crushing shrunken skulls off in their catacomb
Driving county roads until the sun goes out
Holding off your demons and heading for the south
Just called to say I hardly slept last night
With the thought of your body stretched out across my mind
And every shooting star flying through the sky
And I don’t answer to no one but the soil and the dust in my bones
And that lazy canine sentinel who is hiding out underneath your front porch
Trick or treat like thieves behind a painted face
That lingers for a lifetime, but then disappears without a trace
Sleeping in the sun outside an open door
Or sprawled across a desktop wondering what you’re even sitting for
Just called to say I want to squeeze you so tight
That I can feel it when your heart beats and brings you back to life
And we can watch the moon flicker out at night
I’m just trying to mop up my headache with this funhouse mirror tied tongue
Like a newborn child in a side swept car
On the interstate as the day starts getting dark
Track Name: Crescent Moon
Sow your misery soon, 'cause it's overdue
And nothing grows here in the fall
I spit my words out trite and kiss your arms goodnight
So if you can't take it easy don't take it at all
But I fell in love with a voice I found on the telephone
Watched the cars pile up as the traffic lights turned gold
Saved a season for dreaming, but the winter just got cold
Catch the children's shouts, in that haunted house
From a cornfield hayride across the pond
While I prod a spinning globe, wishing where I want to go
Until I'm sprinkled like water across a lawn
Trading hands in for hooks, carving names in the crook of the crescent moon
Singing, "Wendy, we could fly all afternoon,"
Sprawled across both lanes of an empty avenue
Track Name: Backdrop Of April
My lungs, they caught fire, and my words, they exploded
Well I took the deep end and swam for the ocean
Led you toward the car while my tongue came untangled
With your name on my lips in the backdrop of April
And our love quickly stemmed from the glass in your fingers
You finished that cup but the symptoms still lingered
Now who would’ve known you’d be gone by the sunrise
Leaving me feeling cold on the floor by your beside
‘Cause we’re coiled so tight around each whim forged in our hearts
And we all unwind, but that’s no reason to fall apart
So the flowers they bloomed, as May came and freed them
And the rainy embrace of the spring followed through then
It dug me a grave in the roots of the fir trees
That swept up a child in the warmth of my memory
And I lost my head in a field near the orchard
Where the blackberries sang with their leaves stretching forward
And I settled down in a handful of blankets
Where I’ve laid ever since, my mind just rotten and wasted
And this bed frame moans under the weight of my jilted heart
And I can’t unwind but I’m trying hard not to fall apart
And it’s all gone dark inside my head for another night
But I’d give my heart for maybe just one more summertime
Track Name: Cat's Cradle
Speak, whisper like a spanning bridge
Sleep, buried in your pyramid
Bathe, drink in sunlight, spit it up
Fall from the ladder’s lowest rung
And that’s where I’ll be waiting for you to call my name
Enshrined like portraits of kings, all staring from their frames
And I’ve been sitting on the curb trying to blow your mansion down
And I’ll set the forest afire and flee this paper town
Stall, caught up in your masquerade
Proud like your daughters wedding day
Sick under stars of black and white
Cry, coven cleansed in candle light
And that’s where I’ll start trembling for you my precious queen
The turnpike is cold strapped up inside this old machine
And I’ve been standing in the yard trying to blow your glass house down
Embraced in sheets and sweaters, your scent, I still carry around
Sing, whispers like a falling bridge
Die, tomb inside the pyramids
Drown, swallow sunshine, kick and scream
Skin of poison apples cracked with teeth
And that’s where I’ll start running from you my harlot dream
Your doorstep empty, no more roses at your feet
And I’ll stop cringing at every darkroom frozen frame
And I will wring my memory until I forget your name