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Tishomingo

by Cody Rogers

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    releases July 7, 2022

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1.
Tishomingo 02:56
Tishomingo, my dearest amigo How long have we been on the trail? I know there's been times I've been a fool I know there's been times I've been cruel But I didn't want to be Take a look up from your book and see the passing world It's not waiting for us to change It's not waiting for you to rearrange The best and worst of thee I woke up and looked around you were nowhere to be found so I went to the dancehall You were waving your gun around telling everyone you found to try Tishomingo, tell me why With fire you split the night Tishomingo, my dearest amigo Soon for you they will come As you sit behind iron bars Behind a hearse follows black cars For no reason at all Then my friend looked up And with these words made me shut up "When pain feels like rain Then it rains most every day Thunder and lighting is on its way My amigo"
2.
The night I lost you I hung on a stage I forget now the song but it sounded twice my age I remember how every word Hung on the bone I remember how no one Looked up from their phone That's always how it's been For those who ask why Haunted by half truths Like you and I The neon totems On the highways mark time Like arms outstretched from the earth Into the sky And that's okay That's alright You know me, I'm good at pretending I'm fine You know me, I'm good at pretending I'm alive The night I lost you Your Marlboro man stands He darkens your door He needs a new messiah A new world war But pay him no mind For his kingdom will fall Like Babylon before Like this song off the wall And that's okay That's alright You know me, I'm good at pretending I'm fine You know me, I'm good at pretending I'm alive The night I lost you Hungry, unfed You can see it in my eyes Yet you cast yours down Tell me, what do you hide I can change I swear Just tell me what to do Every hour deeper down In despair for the night I lost you The night I lost you
3.
Preachers kids worry about the bad things they did Over and over again Can't get baptized enough to realize What exactly is wrong with them They may not say but they still pray When it's dark and they're all alone They wait for a reply but all they hear is there mind Asking, "why won't god talk to me?" In this life there are two ways Any one of us can see Either it's a dogwood or a cross to be Preachers kids atoning all sins The world is riding in a hearse Our towns are dilapidated, constantly hyperventilating For tomorrow They put it on the screen and ask us, "what does it mean?" "How did we end up this way?" But Adam raised a Cain and our fathers did the same The earth reaps what it's sown In this life there are two ways Any one of us can see Either it's a dogwood or a cross to be In this life there are two things Any one of us can be Either you plant the dogwood or cut down the tree
4.
Drones 03:11
Did you hear the buzzing of a drone? Or was that vibrations from your phone? Do you know which one you should atone? Do you know which one makes you feel more alone? Jump up right now for the red, white, and blue The cops are running wild, child, you better sing hallelu Honey, I don't mind at all To break some rich man's law Your saviour bleeds red like this state He always agrees with what you think He hangs real low from around your neck Every drop he spills signs a welfare check Look at him hang gold he never breaks his gaze His cross they wield it like a vampires stake Honey, I don't mind at all To let false idols fall Do you know how it feels when your chest swells? And the life inside it doesn't feel real? You can see it on every news hour Something in us all that wants to devour It don't matter the books you've read If your hat is pointed or if it's red There is a truth that cannot hide You can see it right now if you look me straight in the eye Honey, I am terrified Honey, I am terrified And I don't mind at all
5.
Magnolia 03:21
There's a magnolia in my heart And it withers every time it parts From the love that gave it life From the heart that's close to mine In a southern town with an Indian name You're bound to lose, you're bound to gain Some rusted fenders, some fading life Some weeping willow crying for you every night And my life is like some old country song Been waiting on the right time to tell you that I've done you wrong It ain't nothing new It ain't nothing new There's a magnolia in your mind And it's been there a long ol' time A redheaded boy with Cherokee blood On the banks of the red clay mud You ask me where the wind doth blow I'll tell you right now, I don't know You ask me if this is forever Yes, I believe it can stand any weather And my life is like some old country song Been waiting on the right time to tell you that I've done you wrong It ain't nothing new It ain't nothing new It ain't nothing new but it's true
6.
Stranger 03:39
I go to the bar downtown It's witching hour and there's no one around Except the pound of my feet and me On a world still, waiting just to breathe These walls were once filled with laughter Now I'm living in the after Sharp and fine as razor The line between me and a stranger This bed seems so long and wide What lays between us? I'm terrified Do you remember dreams, were they lies? When the motions wasn't keeping us alive Her touch lingers and wavers Then I feel the danger But a heart it cannot hold No, love you cannot own Sharp and fine as razor The line between lover and stranger I wake up in the night to sirens A tornado has touched down on Christmas eve Ain't it strange that in this tinsel cheer In the dark looms something I fear In the mirror I see the same I know something has changed Sharp and fine as razor The line between me and a stranger Sharp and fine as razor The line between me and a stranger
7.
A man can only take so many broken dreams But darling you know that broken makes me, me Look upon me now, I'm not the same anymore The lines on this face are carved by those that I adore On my knees Begging the Lord Begging please To tell me why He says Don't ask if you don't want to know Don't ask if you don't want to know Don't ask if you don't want to know Palomino or El Camino this ghost keeps up either way I see him in every mirror but I don't recognize his ways That's the thing about time they never tell you In a blur it walks by but head on it's so cruel In your eyes Trying to find Some kind of sign Tell me what do you hide You say Don't ask if you don't want to know Don't ask if you don't want to know Don't ask if you don't want to know I've been keeping low Crying with my dad, watching late night shows I've spent every night Cutting up each thought with a knife I guess I don't mind Not knowing my truths from my lies If the world's on a string Or if it's burning down and no one wants to be The first The first The first one to leave I don't want I don't want to know I don't want I don't want to know I don't want I don't want to know
8.
I hear dog barking on Christmas Eve night I bet he thinks he is the one that brings that sun back to life But don't laugh, that's just like us you know We got both hands off the wheel but we think we're in control I've been thinking about what you said at the Motel 6 the other day Life ain't the dreams we blame, it's the beds we make Cause these old songs they ain't getting me by anymore Sometimes I wanna take off running right through the screen door Lord, ain't you tired of being old? Don't you want to be young? If you are and you can't take anymore Find me and we'll know what sins are for I'm the first son of the fifth sharecroppers daughter And I'm first in line if this heart it needs a martyr I'm tired of trying, I'm tired of just getting by Salvation lies just beyond that state line Lord, ain't you tired of being old? Don't you want to be young? If you are and you can't take anymore Find me and we'll know what sins are for Your brother, he never came back home from Iraq You sent off your heart, they sent you a flag back They call him a hero, you're strong, you're a saint But all you want is to see him come thru the front gate I listened to your heart beat a old song on Christmas night Like the star of Judea, in the quiet it shined bright But don't cry, that's just like the world you know To demand a song when the beat wants to be alone
9.
I was born in the country Not a moment too soon The great highway came And split it into Now I ramble With a head filled with rain I've tasted earth's wine I've tasted its pain The world got in a hurry For itself to consume There's crying refugees And car bombs on the news Then a ad for a cola Then a ad for a pill To ease my mind To keep it still So I push the pedal down For it's all I control And keep one eye open For the highway patrol In the back of my car After we made love You said the devil will someday rain fire from above Like those bombs In the streets of Bagdad Like those sermons From your dad So I push the pedal down For it's all I control And keep one eye open For the highway patrol Every night I've been having the same dream Of my mother On bended knee With tear stained eyes On the lord she calls She say, "How long Till your curtain falls?" So I push the pedal down For it's all I control And keep one eye open For the highway patrol So I push the pedal down For it's all I control And keep one eye open For the highway patrol

about

Tishomingo, chief of the Chickasaw stars

The ruler of the red clay kingdom

What have they done with your name?

The old world is buried with you, yes, but the people remain the same. The land that once provided, is now cracked asphalt. Measured and weighed for pound by its worth. Taken by the hands of men in your time, who in my time, still only know how to take. White crosses scrape the sky while people starve underneath. Abandoned by the white mans gods of the free market and tv presidents. Abandoned by time and washed on its shores with nothing but the roar of cicadas.

We suffer, Tishomingo.

Atlanta may of burned but we smolder with each generation anew.

We live in the shadows of confederate grey ghost. Kudzu growing from the blood they spilt. It swallows us whole.

Tishomingo, does the honeysuckle vines grow from where the people of righteous anguish fall? Does our mother the earth get the final say on our evils? A buttercup for every Jim Crow pain born? A whippoorwill song for every tear on the trail? Will a stream be cut by my father’s love? Will there be a cool breeze in July for my mother’s kindness?

I cannot bear these things, Tishomingo.

But who am I to speak of bearing to the unthroned king of all I see?

When I look up in the night sky and my face is illuminated, be it your stars or the Dollar General sign, I’ll think of you.

credits

releases July 7, 2022

All lyrics and music by Cody Rogers

Cody Rogers - Lead Vocals, Guitar, Synth
Dylan Van Zile - Bass
Hal Kolodney - Lead Guitar
Logan Owensby - Drums, Percussions, BGVS
Spencer Thomas - Organ, Piano, Bass, Percussions, BGVS
Kell Kellum - Pedal Steel
Travis Metcalf - Horns & Flute
Schaefer Llana - BGVS
Cole Furlow - Synth, Keys, Guitar, Bass, Banjo, Harmonica, BGVS

Recorded and produced by Cole Furlow
Co-produced by Spencer Thomas
Mixed and mastered by Clay Jones
Recorded at The Merchants Company in Jackson, MS

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"There’s a sad dive bar somewhere between heaven and hell and Rogers’ voice sounds like something you’d hear booming from the stage of that place. Shivery, deep, weathered.”

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