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Matchmaker

by JC and the Buddagong

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Veins swell On trees Always bearing fruit On planet, it's so hot Us humans have to move so hard to stay there In a gallery a beauty without arms glowing in a black sky There in a room called art Us humans have to work so hard So hard to see there We dance in a room called art In a gallery us humans have to work so hard just to stay there We dance, earth on earth We nail our bodies in the air We dance, earth on earth we nail On a planet it's So hot. So hot. Us humans have to breathe so hard Just to stay there Just to stay there we have to breathe so hard just to stay there we dance earth on earth we nail our bodies in the air.
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Feeding the Drain Feeding the drain Life ivy chain Pulling the train Charm bracelet pain Going insane We come from kitchens Hill slide to playgrounds Round bog flats and ditches We are beasts of the wood Pack tracking in our winter coats Wet with new snow In time, the breathing of trees Is slowed by a coat of cold white powder We come from kitchens Hillslide to playgrounds and feed Under splendid branches Our smoke-words go fog-wards You sleep each morning by the phone Waiting to be left alone I try to reach you but your eyes are in the sky The rain is falling, the sky’s not moving but Your eyes are speaking, talking to me Receive the answer to the dream Each room that you enter has another door It won’t take much more to make the scene Just follow the patterns on the moving floor Look at ‘em go Feeding the drain Life ivy chain Pulling the train Charm bracelet pain Going insane
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Faith Drive 06:10
Know what? I can't even see a thing; All of the faithless have been frightened away. Know why I still accelerate Around the curves? Up and down the mountain Know why I drive someone Like this. What makes them tick their nervous tick? You know why I still accelerate Around curves? My tires' screams fall on God's deaf ears. Day after day Hour after hour The few are filtered away All along the ride up the mountain Up and down the mountain It's wise in a subtle way: the reason why I apply no brakes, Religiously. And pass, Pass the Slow Joes They move in Slo-mo; Like Lot's wife, Looking back at her past, A moment's hesitation and Snap She's a statue. While our hearts bleed. and our hearts are taken. they've been completely passed over, the heartful have, (Take my word for it) Up and down the mountain Birds call, Animals prey You might as well have faith, ... Or you might as well kill yourself before someone else does Otherwise, you'll sit around sucking blankets, eating your sleeve all along the ride, Up the mountain Up and down the mountain ...

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Cover art credits:
Front cover by Benjamín Cañas
Back cover and disk by Isabel Foreman-Ortiz
Interior by Peter Ortiz

Produced by: JC and the Buddagong & Benjamin J. Cañas
Mixed by: Arnie Geher at High Heel Studios, Baltimore, MD
Contact: jc-n-thebuddagong@proton.me

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released July 15, 2023

Peter ortiz
- - acoustic & electric guitar/bass
Wes Demarco
- - lead guitar, synth, percussion, remastering
Jo Connor
- - voice, guitar, percussion
Guests in the tumble:
Tom Lavrakas - bass
Tim Griffin - guitar

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JC and the Buddagong Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania

JC & the Buddagong are three musicians and their cohorts who met at (of all places) Catholic University in Washington, D.C. Each one has an acute sense of smell, by coincidence, we assume.
The front cover of Matchmaker is a painting titled “La Celestina” by Benjamin Cañas, late of Annandale, VA, and a national treasure of El Salvador forever.
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