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Solamente Tres Palabras

by Lorenzo's Music

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Intro 00:22
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I'm Doing Fine A little man, with a bug-eyed grin Talked to me about back when And how everybody's been Me... I'm doing fine. Things the were forgot, for good reason You cringe to even talk about Someone will remember Me... I'm doing fine. *Chorus I don't live there anymore Say hello to everyone I'm afraid I have to go * A helpless wall, can't withstand the fall Surrounded by it's guilty weight Standing up just to fall down Me... I'm doing fine. What's good or what's not's, got me by default Just play it by ear Guess I'll find out when I'm dead Me... I'm doing fine. *Chorus* I've heard it told, now that I've got old It's gone and it's forgoten 'til you see them once again Me... I'm doing fine An overstocked buffet, of your evil ways Yes, liquor will be served And how's everybody been? Me... I'm doing fine *Chorus* A little man, with a bug-eyed grin Talked to me about back when And how everybody's been Me... I'm doing fine.
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Too Late Now 01:37
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One More One 02:50
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I Won't Go 04:05
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Hot Water Avalanche Hot Water Avalanche livin' in the water if fun doesn't come then it won't even matter breathe a breath if you wanna believe and if you can't commit to it then you're tugging on it's sleeve Fire in the episode, change what you are what you see what you need what you freed days on the play, ground below you searching around for a cloud, puddles in the air gasping at what's out there above and beyond beneath and behind drivin' in the sky balloons in my eyes waiting around, laying it down picture something new, then forget about it... -Chorus- Down Down, down, down Down, down, down Down, down... Lemonade?! apprentice, just let this engage in a bout of fitness to stage understand it's a challenge, don't damage a stranger, don't challenge your anger Allow your stance in a storm to be cold refrain from attaching yourself to a pole don't ask or assume what is given to you stand in light or dark days strong or funk maze Appellation trail phase city with the pocket of dark and bright lights haze speak your mind and let your heart gauge, how much you can say, before you know it's time -Chorus- Hot Water Avalanche livin' in the water if fun doesn't come then it won't even matter breathe a breath if you wanna believe and if you can't commit to it then you're tugging on it's sleeve Fire in the episode above and beyond beneath and behind drivin' in the sky balloons in my eyes waiting around, laying it down picture something new, then forget about it now.

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Thanks to their taste for stumbling, off-kilter song structures and vocalist Tom Ray’s barroom rasp, Lorenzo’s Music will always draw comparisons to Tom Waits. That’s not such a bad thing, but it does sell them a bit short. While many of the tunes on Solamente Tres Palabras take their lead from the fractured updates of German cabaret music that reinvigorated Waits’ career, Lorenzo’s Music also embrace a sweeter form of pop-rock that’s all about lonely water-gazers and bruised swains dreaming of a better world.

The ironical lead track, "I’m Doing Fine," is a case in point. It may prickle with low-down signifiers, but Ray’s whiskey-soaked crooning, Mark Whitcomb’s distorted guitar and Scott Beardsley’s clanking percussion don’t obscure the fact that the song’s once-wayward protagonist searches for normalcy and completeness, not the debauchery of his past. The discombobulated surfer ballad "You Were Blonde" may mock romance, but its Beach Boys-inspired melody suggests that Ray’s bleary-eyed barfly really does long for more than a meaningless assignation beneath a burned-out streetlight.

Which isn’t to say that you’re apt to choose Solamente Tres Palabras for background music when cracking open a bottle of Dom with your honey and settling in for a night of romance. Most of the time, it’s not that sweet. Then again, neither is love.

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released August 20, 2005

Tom Ray - Vocals
Mark Whitcomb - Guitar
Chris Boeger - Bass
Scott Beardsley - Drums
Bryan Elliott - Saxaphone

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Lorenzo's Music Madison, Wisconsin

Indie lo-fi art rock from Madison, WI. It's an artistic experiment of abstract music deconstruction creating music from live video streams, random phone recordings as an audio collage. And produced using only open source software and tools and collaborating using the file sharing site GitHub. ... more

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