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Noon

by twain

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1.
Noon 04:24
i remember meeting pilgrim such a good friend can be hard to find never judge me .. only love me .. bring me voice when i can’t find mine change my mind so many times now i’m not sure that i’m just one guy but you prove it, you don’t lose it, peace and strength when i can’t find mine it felt more like a reunion on the day that you and i first met i was lonely, you took pity, told me things i cannot forget said: there are questions only men ask, there are answers only women know said: the truth is ever changing learn forgiveness ‘for you get too old said: people don’t know why they’re lying can’t you love them as you love the truth said: trust in love and trust in nature let the spirit be the living proof i feel guilty for no reason in my country madness takes the throne total fear, no imagination, a church of bad faith where the old one grown yet i see you in the darkness looking just like the first time we met ferney halo silver grey glow spirit leads me i will not forget
2.
Vitality 08:40
it’s a feeling i don’t welcome .. but it’s coming on anyway seems like every time i meet it .. got a little bit less to say i can’t stand the questions .. but i ask them anyway easy never came easy to me must life be this way ? life must be this way never a soft feeling i’ve known is it unison or harmony ?.. or some weird in-between? i sense dissonance in symmetry .. do you know what i mean? there’s a tension in my radar, .. in the colors of the day is there meaning in that tension or is life just that way? seek vitality of tenderness and apply it to my self in a gentle conversation with someone i love very much never a soft feeling i’ve known my heaven is a blandness a stillness of the mind even hidden right in plain view it’s still so hard to find yet they find it in Los Angeles where the dream is as wet as rain and they find it in old virginia where the song remains the same how it used to make me jealous now it kind of turns me on let the feeling be so spacious that there’s room for everyone into the feeling unknown theres a sickness in my country i can feel it in my heart and i know i am a part of it though i keep myself apart plese don’t let them outlaw silence that is where peace likes to grow let vitality of tenderness live with all that we don’t know into the feeling unknown never a soft feeling i’ve known
3.
ferdinand, a human devil walking among men filled up with the greedy lust to own up all the land he cut their bellies open thinking they had swallowed jewels when he saw the blood flow upon the naked ground do you think he knew? he was the king of fools i might know how he felt for i saw the madonna in a little southern town she could move like fire yet she wore an earthly gown when i looked into her eyes, i knew i was lost i had wasted all i tasted and there i sat: fat, dumb, bloated the king of fools now i watch them fighting over the womb of the earth spilling blood for proverbs that they neither side deserve and i see a couple children fighting over toys how long must they die and die and die to satisty the king of fools
4.
i would gladly sit right here all night just to find out what is keeping you so quiet charlie .. tell me .. let me in on what’s got you checked out cause the vibe right here weighs 100lbs i think this is something we should talk about let go .. let’s go .. let’s go talking deep into the night i could introduce you to my friend she’s the one i turn to when i feel this way arcane maiden opens up the shutters of my heart at first it hurts and then it’s so sublime and i wonder why i don’t do it all the time but if you’re like me you wait until it gets too hard to bear and i’ve been there take for instance just the other week parked on Rugby, sleeping in the Odyssey my heart woke me told me to get up and start the van i said heart come on it’s one a.m. but i wanted her to know that i was listening highway 95, pink moon all the way to providence charlie i‘m not sure what else to say do you know i love you and i know you’ll be o.k.?
5.
A Kiss 04:41
taking longer than i need to figure my self out finding out i’m better off alone this could be the happiness that people talk about this could be what they mean by home in the Pedernales River i give back all my tears go back home and sleep with my guitar i love my self so deeply know i finally can forgive my self for thinking i could do no wrong i can’t live another day beneath such guilt and shame even though i know i have done wrong watching big religions vanish like a flame let’s learn forgiveness before the teachers gone truth without it’’s music breath without it’’s lung see them argue ‘til the face turns blue i thought you could see the system as clear as you see me now i wonder ; did i ever see you ? finding out the fire in my soul is very real and it can burn up sickness like a dream all this secret information written in a kiss and given by the one who would kiss me i know what to do now as a great man once proclaimed in a way i always knew this day would come no one said it would be easy but come to think of it no one said it has to be hard
6.
The Magician 05:53
beauty is wanting to be what you really are i woke up with the wind wanting to talk to you to ask you what is the wind you might say it’s directions sometimes when i’m alone beauty is wanting to be what you really are
7.
2 Lovers 03:34
can you remember the time you were feeling so fine riding so high unafraid you would die do you dare to feel so good again ? while sharing a joint with the cook from the bar i’m reminded that we are all part of each other as i’m inside this life we live so you’re inside this life we live and being so deep in this life that we’re living it’s like i’m inside of you, you are inside of me i won’t tell if you won’t tell we were only two lovers and now i can see that i felt like a brother, a father, a son and i wonder now was that wrong ? or i wonder is that how it goes ? each time i think of or hear her name i am reminded that i made a promise last saturday not to shun my heart again
8.
The Light 03:23
it came to me on the first of spring love no one beyond the one you see and there she stood right in front of me and i felt something that i can’t describe like the first time feeling of a touching light like the first ray shining through an endless night and i remembered why the music is good and i felt the sun shining out of my hood i felt good like i knew i should so i crawled back underneath the van to change the gasket on the oil pan and i flashed back to a former life i was the mother of two and a pilot’s wife and i felt something that i can’t explain as i watched the children running out of the rain a love so much it was close to pain and that i flashed me back into my current life where the radio said “a cure for death” well i won’t line up with all the rest i like the way i was designed and i wanna find out what’s on the other side
9.
A Prisoner 03:39
i’m a prisoner i’m a prisoner in my own heart once my soul was free and one day soon will be once it leaves me i’m a prisoner in my own heart it took this long to find a clear spot in my mind o what wasted time
10.
i can hear the wind whippin’ through your cell phone walking from the train back home man, you sound just like you did a couple weeks back: buddy are you doing alright ? can you tell me ‘bout the pressure that you’re under do you think i’d understand does the terror ever give away to wonder something you could hold in your hand i wish there was something i could do to help you but i know it’s all on you i’d love nothing more than to take on your pain but that is something i can’t do i remember how the four of us would sleep in living in a tent in your room we were living life as natural outlaws living by the light of our truth art was easy as the early morning air flow didn’t need to know what came next heart was like a loving cup, a living promise morning after beautiful rest you took me into your home showed me a real good time how could i ever hope to repay you?
11.
Walking II 04:07
life was good to me when it took me to your front door walk down telegraph, smoking cigarettes, trying to stay warm love don’t leave me now i need you somehow i can’t lose you yet i’m still terrified that if i light the light i might hurt you you might think that i’m acting like a child - i don’t blame you but inside it’s real something i must deal with every day now don’t know why that i am such a sorry man but i’m changing and i’d rather die than to live in a lie of my creation walk down telegraph , on the angels path, halleluja as my father would say, if you love something, set it free well, i love my song .. i love my life .. must i leave them ? if it’s what i must do to get back to you , that’s what i’ll do then
12.
Nona 05:04
she makes a simple move she plays a simple song she says a single thought and i am lost nona in a strange land i was holding her hand walking down a hill walk me back until i touch that time i can touch it in my mind in my mind nona i reached out and touched her arm through the lithium i feel i touch it still walk back until i touch that time i can touch it in my mind
13.
with five women in the field with two children at her heels woke me from my mountain bed chased the sleep out of my head wrap her arms around my chest lift my heart out of its nest has it really been four years? do you think that i have changed? never thought it’d get so strange tell me what that mushroom’s called show me how the patterns fall pluck the spider from my hair calm now dog mind just stay there if i’d let my heart go free if i listen to it speak would i be in providence? once again now what’s that tree? yea o dog mind let me be can’t you see that this is life? must you draw me back inside? how’d it ever come to be? heart has gone a world from me did i ever have a choice, once i heard the golden voice? maybe if i call it back maybe if i held its hand maybe if i didn’t move maybe if i smiled more maybe if i smiled more yea o dog mind come with me there is still so much to see three days in the valley wide but i can see the other side

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The long-awaited album from Twain released via Keeled Scales is his first-ever double LP titled Noon. Twain’s first album in three years, Noon looks to explore the balancing exercise between soul-fantasy and self-scrutiny. The songs on Noon try to sit in the liminal state between the spirit’s ambition for itself and the often harsh truth of the present. The hope is to erode the barrier between those two states. ‘Twain’ is Mat Davidson’s approach to reconcile those two states, and to forget that they could ever exist in opposition.

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released October 21, 2022

Vocals - Mat Davidson
Strings - Mat Davidson
Keyboards - Mat Davidson
Winds - Mat Davidson
Percussion - Austin Vaughn
Bass - Ken Woodward



Bass on ‘A Kiss” and “Nona” - Mat Davidson
Percussion on ‘The Light” - Pinson Chanselle

Engineered and Mixed By Adrian Olsen at Montrose Recording in Richmond, VA

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