Transmissions (2003 - 2012)
by Mark Lesseraux
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Fits And Starts
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I'm Frank Sinatra
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Mona Lisa 407-14L
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Mother of Pearl
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Ordinarily
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Piggy Went
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Blue and White and Red
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Occupy
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Deck Full Of Jokers
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Alligator Ball
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The Sleeping Operator
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The Breakdown
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Source
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about
Double album on 1 CD.. Includes 11 new songs and 11 of Mark's best from the past decade.
*RECOMMENDED: Get a free download of this double album with $9 purchase of actual eco-friendly CD. Actual CD comes with lyric/art/photo booklet (ships immediately).
*RECOMMENDED: Get a free download of this double album with $9 purchase of actual eco-friendly CD. Actual CD comes with lyric/art/photo booklet (ships immediately).
credits
released December 31, 2013
Ivan Porkorny – engineering and production assistance
Mark Lesseraux - lead and background singing, piano, acoustic guitar, keyboards, sound effects/found sounds, percussion, drums
Thom Loubet - electric guitars
Jason DiMatteo - bass
John Bollinger - drums
Mark Horan - bass
Mazz Swift-Camlet - violins
Alan J Swift-Camlet - drums
Sandro Tomasi - trombone
Katherine Miller - Rhodes, sound effects and backing vocals
Amanda Dora - cello
Nancy Chang – violin
Mario J McNulty - engineer track 13 and piano recording on track 3
Mike Caffrey - engineer tracks 14 and 17
Pete Keppler - engineer track 12
Hector Castillo - engineer track 15
All songs written by Mark Lesseraux except:
tracks 10 and 22 – Horan/Lesseraux
tracks 14 – Lesseraux/Loubet
tracks 13,15,16, 17 – Bollinger/DiMatteo/Lesseraux/Loubet
album design and layout – Bryan Lesseraux
Ivan Porkorny – engineering and production assistance
Mark Lesseraux - lead and background singing, piano, acoustic guitar, keyboards, sound effects/found sounds, percussion, drums
Thom Loubet - electric guitars
Jason DiMatteo - bass
John Bollinger - drums
Mark Horan - bass
Mazz Swift-Camlet - violins
Alan J Swift-Camlet - drums
Sandro Tomasi - trombone
Katherine Miller - Rhodes, sound effects and backing vocals
Amanda Dora - cello
Nancy Chang – violin
Mario J McNulty - engineer track 13 and piano recording on track 3
Mike Caffrey - engineer tracks 14 and 17
Pete Keppler - engineer track 12
Hector Castillo - engineer track 15
All songs written by Mark Lesseraux except:
tracks 10 and 22 – Horan/Lesseraux
tracks 14 – Lesseraux/Loubet
tracks 13,15,16, 17 – Bollinger/DiMatteo/Lesseraux/Loubet
album design and layout – Bryan Lesseraux
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Mark Lesseraux New York
Mark’s mother was Irish Catholic. His father, a Russian Jew. In the 2nd grade, Mark veered “off course”… secretly. It is not clear how the "thread" was lost, but it had to do with a botched reading assignment; a chapter in a blue and yellow book left unread. Later, there were 2 nervous system glitches and at least 2 ecstatic dot connecting sessions. Finally, a Need… to sing. ... more
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- Track Name: Everyone Here Is Going To Die
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Everyone Here Is Going To Die
So at least have the decency
To wave as you walk by
We’re dropping like flies
Every hello and goodbye means something
Everyone Here Is Going To Die
I’m as skeptical as the next person
But Jesus Christ
I’m looking in your eyes
And right now you are alive
Yes it all really is … something
All your pretty flowers
And all of your friends
Will be coming to an end
So let’s not pretend
Or act all cool about it
Everyone Here Is Going To Die
And that’s reason enough
To look them in the eye
With the minutes moving by
This is no time to be bashful
Or aloof - Track Name: Fits And Starts
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The sun came up slowly
For a thousand years it was dark
And the ocean is melting again
Fits and Starts
Fits and Starts
Fits and Starts
Fits and Starts
I lost all sense of direction
Spent a thousand years finding one
I spent another thousand getting lost again
Fits and Starts
Fits and Starts
Fits and Starts
Fits and Starts
In the wreckage I have found you
Impossible and yet here you are
In the wreckage we move forward
In Fits and Starts
Fits and Starts
Fits and Starts
Fits and Starts
Fits and Starts
Fits and Starts - Track Name: I'm Frank Sinatra
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I’ve been over at the bar
Smoking cigarettes
Every weekday
Been keeping to myself
Maintaining a low profile
Been doing it my way
What in the world?
Who am I kidding?
Hey little girl
That’s me on the radio
I’m Frank Sinatra
Over at the pizzeria
They got a lot of pictures up
From back in the day
Of me and the boys
We’ve been on sabbatical
Since my late middle age
What in the world?
What was I thinking?
Hey little girl
That’s me on the radio
I’m Frank Sinatra
I’m gonna repaint this town
But not by the numbers
Cuz I’m Frank Sinatra - Track Name: Mona Lisa 407-14L
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Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa
Little girl who lost her way
Paint a picture of her face
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa
Broken hearted and alone
But there's no expression shown
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa
Keep a secret no one knows
Centuries pass and nothing shows - Track Name: Mother of Pearl
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See the oyster
See the pearl
Swallow the oyster
Swallow the pearl
Wait for an hour
For the pearl
To come back out again
Into the world
My mamamamamamamama’s waiting up for me
My mamamamamamamama’s waiting up for me
I learn the hard way
I make a scene
From large intestine
To the spleen
I learn the hard way
I make a wine
From the water
Before the swine
My mamamamamamamama’s waiting up for me
My mamamamamamamama’s waiting up for me
On their bicycles
In single file
Riding up the
Miracle mile
Evolution
Speed of sound
But their bicycles
Are slowing down
Transmutation
Shed the skin
Break the shell that
The pearl is in
Eat the oyster
Grab the pearl
Give it to mother
She take the pearl
My mamamamamamamama’s waiting up for me
My mamamamamamamama’s waiting up for me - Track Name: Ordinarily
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Ordinarily I would say it’s alright
Ordinarily I would say I’m not frightened
Ordinarily I would mask what I’m feeling
Ordinarily I would not change a thing
But now
Just say the word
Oh just say the word and I’m gone
Just say the word
Say the word
Say the word
Say the word
Say the word
Ordinarily I’d have one or two options left
Ordinarily I would chalk it up to stress
When the walls are closing in you can build another room
When the dust is piling up you can sweep it with a broom
Under anything
But now there’s nothing
Just say the word
Oh just say the word and I’m gone
Just say the word
Say the word
Say the word
Say the word
Say the word
Ordinarily I would go gently into that good night
But not tonight - Track Name: When There's No More Fear (For Nina Simone)
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When There’s No More Fear
We’ll be all in here together
When There’s No More Fear
You won’t have to wonder whether
If you get lost and call out
Will anyone hear?
When there’s No More Fear
We’ll hear
When There’s No More Fear
You won’t have to run for shelter
As the shrapnel flies
In the absurd helter skelter
The angry sky will open up
And shed a thousand tears
When There’s No More Fear
When There's No More Fear
When There’s No More Fear
I will open up the curtains
And I’ll see you there
And for the first time I’ll feel certain
Then I’ll call out, “I’m over here”
And you will hear me
When There’s No More Fear
When There’s No More Fear - Track Name: Piggy Went
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Cleaning man he clean the pen
When it's clean again i go back in
Talking to my dictaphone
Near a pile of bones
I'm not at home
I went to market
I went to market
I went to market
I went to market
Smiling in my birthday suit
Sort of a loan, made it my own
I stuffed burger meat in human heads
Out in the shed
And then i fled
I went to market
I went to market
I went to market
I went to market
Piggy come on, piggy come on
Lifting its head up from the feeder
Piggy come on, piggy come on
Only a block behind the leader
I can do anything i want
I cover my sandwiches with salt
I've got a routine I keep
Of counting sheep
It helps me sleep
I tick'm off as they walk in
To slaughter dens
In MIchigan
I went to market
I went to market
I went to market
I went to market
I went to market
I went to market
I went to market
I went to market - Track Name: It's Quite Good To Be Alive
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It’s Quite Good To Be Alive
What you’re needing you will find
If you open up your mind
Ask the world to be your valentine
There’s no reason to be shy
It’ll say yes every time
The person that you’re looking for
Is right behind your eyes
It’s quite good to be alive
It’s Quite Good To Be Alive
In these tough confusing times
Cuz they’re the times with you and I
Look around you and you’ll see the signs
Of a compassionate design
Underneath the grit and grind
If you search for the miraculous
It’s everywhere you’ll find
It’s Quite Good To Be Alive
It’s Quite Good To Be Alive
If you don’t agree now that’s fine
Just give it a little time
And I gotta say the pleasure’s mine
Because without everyone else
There’d be no his or hers or mine
Everything you’ve been looking for
Was right there all the time
It’s Quite Good To Be Alive - Track Name: Blue and White and Red
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BLUE AND WHITE AND RED
A backward clown goes peddling by
On a tricycle
The rain returning to the sky
The waning moon grows full
And with the actor's cue
He recedes from view
The curtain falling is Blue and White and Red
A boat is drifting out to sea
Retreating from the shore
Heeding dated sirens' calls
Pulled by unmanned oars
A statue mouths goodbye
She’s 50 meters high
She’s all lit up in Blue and White and Red
A finger presses down rewind
On Independence day
A gasping crowd views a reverse
Fireworks display
Everything we knew
Is fading now from view
The flag that’s furling is Blue and White and Red - Track Name: Occupy
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You can't evict an idea whose time has come
The disenchanted parts are now a sum
It’s time to redefine the world that you and I Occupy
Once dispersed and broken up in splintered camps
Now gathered in the dark lighting our lamps
No longer undermined
Together we defy and Occupy
A global nervous system is all aglow
Transcending spatial borders as we go
We're no longer confined
It’s written in the sky
Occupy
(bridge)
In unprecedented numbers across the land
The 99% are joining hands
A brand new bell has chimed
Right now is the time to Occupy
We'll show'm we're alive
With head and heart aligned
Occupy - Track Name: Deck Full Of Jokers
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You've got a mouth on you
I've had it up to hear
Pick a card
Deck Full Of Jokers
Any card
Oh when the saints come
In your face
With that god talk
Makes you just wanna
Believe
In an Alice
Or a Wilma
Or a Mrs. C. with food and hugs for you
You had to open up a mouth
You've killed Him
He was full of shit
But He was your Father
Pick a card
Deck Full of Jokers
Any card
Pull up your pants
You're on you're own now
Pull up your pants
You're on you're own now
Pull up your pants
You're on you're own now
Congratulations - Track Name: Blusher (by The Citizens)
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Virgin bride, nearly twenty-five
Spends her time manning the front line
The whites of their eyes
The delicate way she mowed them down
Bathroom eyes, shower curtain thighs
Ah you guys, young naked and shy
Sally got smacked with a blue nap-sack
Just before she passed out from blood loss and boredom
She had just packed and was about to go back
When she opened the boys’ bathroom door and saw them
Unbuttoning their flies
To piss into holes cut in the ground
Such sensitive guys
Too red faced and shy to turn around
Blusher
Mother Theresa dancing
On the head of a pushpin
Penetrating your moist skin
Caught you blushing
Blusher - Track Name: Kaleidoscope (by The Citizens)
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Did we just go south?
Don't feel like sleep
Did I go under?
Warm wind on skin
Here I have been
All so familiar
Under big yellow sun
Instead of walking we run
All the way to the sunday school bus
This is where I lived
This was my house
These were the colors
Orange, sky-blue, green
Smell of gasoline
And grass from a distance
Under big yellow sun
Instead of walking we run
All the way to the end of summer
Do You Recall no fear at all?
Stained-glass windows
And puppet shows
Rows of houses
Mother's blouse
All the things that we've done
And everything we'll become
Present, future and past move as one
Do You Recall no fear at all?
Stained-glass windows
And puppet shows
Rows of houses
Mother's blouse - Track Name: September 30th 1955 (by The Citizens)
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Woke up, had a cigarette near the window
Phone call and the argument, I got my way
I made up my mind I'm taking the Spider
Perfect day to drive around with the top down
Hey, it’s you and me kid
Making history one way or another
Chevron station coming up there on my left
Old man waving from the grass beside the road
Whizzing trees, eighty degrees, a clear blue sky
Veering slightly then I move toward impact
Hey, it’s you and me kid
Making history one way or another
James I don't know, I got a feeling
It’s all gonna blow if we keep pushing
James I don't know, whats you're feeling?
Are we over our heads? Are we over our heads?
James, in my gut i got a feeling
Maybe we shouldn't go, maybe we shouldn't go
James I don't know what you’re feeling
Are we losing control? Are we losing control?
Are we out of control?
Hey, it’s you and me kid
Making history one way or another
Hey, it’s you and me kid
Making history one way or another - Track Name: You Are Here (by The Citizens)
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Looking at maps and charts
Trying to see where you are
Within a universe
Of possibilities
You're looking to the clouds
When it's clear
It is where you are
And You Are Here
Finding the formula
It's there right in front of ya
Kinda like algebra
You're working it out
Searching wide and far
When it's near
It is where you are
And You Are Here
You're searching wide and far
You're looking to the clouds
When it's clear
It is where you are
And You Are Here
You Are Here - Track Name: The Sleeping Operator
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Monsters and magnets are falling to floors
Toward the metal receivers in waiting
Constant distractions from nuns in the hall
Near the pirates and thieves meditating
As we look on
As we look on
Give me the Operator
Careful now watch, you'll wake her
Mixing solutions in cauldrons of days
While the witches eat wafers on sunday
No longer related to which they pertain
Thoughts unlinked, cut adrift in the ether
As we hang on
As we hang on
Give me the Operator
Careful now watch, you'll wake her
Plastic rebellion in sevens and spades
From a lark to a bore to a panic
Furrows displayed on the foreheads of dames
Who walk decked out and dazed in the evening
As we hang on
As we hang on
Give me the Operator
Careful now watch, you'll wake her
Spastic companions embrace by the sea
With their heads turned gently to morning - Track Name: The Breakdown
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Everything is bleeding together
Clock on the wall has stopped
Everything is bleeding together
Can’t tell the difference between the bottom and the top now
Everything is bleeding together
The sky and the tree and the you and the me
Everything is bleeding together
The length and the width and the stick you measure with
The Breakdown, The Breakdown of left right and up down
No more parts or sections
No sense of direction
Everything is bleeding together
I had it all colored by the numbers
Everything is bleeding together
And now it’s all going over the lines
The Breakdown, The Breakdown of left right and up down
No sense of direction
No more parts or sections
The Breakdown, The Breakdown
The Breakdown, The Breakdown of left right and up down
No sense of direction
No more parts or sections - Track Name: Giuseppe Desa's Blues (live)
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Lord it’s been a long and lonely time
Lord it’s been a long and lonely time
Now I’ve been waiting on your sign
For when I can leave this world behind
Lord It’s been a long and lonely time
Lord it’s been a long and arduous climb
Lord it’s been a long and arduous climb
Now I’ve been good and I’ve been kind
And I’ve been waiting here on your sign
Lord it’s been a long and arduous climb
Lord it’s been a long and lonely time
Lord it’s been a long and arduous climb
Now I’ve been good and I’ve been kind
Waiting patiently on your sign
Lord it’s been a long and lonely time - Track Name: Source
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Chemicals and comic strips
A murderess
A helicopter
The world in a dizzy spin
Breathing hard, forever dying
Hey, didn’t someone say it never goes away?
Hey, didn’t someone say it never goes away?
Jungle boy meets army man
The hero’s plan has left us nervous
And nowhere near the Source
That’s moving out of memory
Hey, didn’t someone say it never goes away?
Hey, didn’t someone say it never goes away?
Eyes up in starry skies
You’re always with me
Trace it back
A train track
That fades away in someone’s hindsight
No color and no sun
Say when it goes where is gone?
Hey, didn’t someone say it never goes away?
Hey, didn’t someone say it never goes away?
Hey, it never goes away
Hey, it never goes away
Hey, it never goes away
Hey, it never goes away