RECORD Jim Walker

HOLE IN THE GROUND
(4/20/02 NYC)
There’s a hole in the ground where my foot fell in.
Hit the blacktop hard in the intersection.
Trash piled high on Mulberry Street.
The sightseeing bus got a laugh on me.

Hole. Hole in the ground.

There’s a hole in the ground. Cab ran the light.
Landed on my back when I side-stepped right.
With my knee banged up. Crawling to the beat
of the horns and the screams in the Soho heat.

Bring a shovel. Bag of sand.
Bucket of tar and a strong pair of hands.
Won’t take much in the sweat and the din.
Fill the damn thing in. Fill the damn thing in.

There’s a hole in the ground where the words all fail.
When the dust settles down on a thousand tales.
Spoken in the past into plastic ears
of the girls behind glass, frozen all these years.

PLAYERS
MICHELE VAN KLEEF - Lead Vocal, Harmony Vocal

ALBERT REDA - Bass, Hammond Organ, Background Vocals

JIM WALKER - Drums, Percussion, Acoustic Guitars and Solo, Electric Guitars and Solos, Background Vocals, SFX, Samples.

Recorded and mixed by JIM WALKER at Studio515. Portland, OR

Mastered by Ryan Foster at Foster Mastering
@fostermastering

All Rights Reserved.
All material written by James Stanley
C&P 2024 Thon Music (ASCAP)

FIREMAN
We’re cut loose. I’m all alone.
This blood flows. Cold as stone.
Watch them dig and scrape for gold.
Now it lives down in the hole.
Mother, what happens next?

With no judge in it’s eyes.
One by one is how we die.
Mother, what happens next?

Cause I can’t wait to see the thrilling conclusion to this…

When the fireman’s been burned down.
When the flames rage and the water’s gone.
Mother, what happens next?

PLAYERS
Michele Van Kleef - Background Vocals

Albert Reda - Bass, Lead Vocal

Jim Walker - Drums, Percussion, Acoustic Guitars, Electric Guitars, Piano and Solo, Synth, B3 Organ, Background Vocals

Recorded at Studio515. Portland, OR

Mastered by Ryan Foster at Foster Mastering
@fostermastering

All material written by James Stanley Walker
C&P 2024 Thon Music (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved.

I'll be releasing my new album, LITTLE BIRD, one track per week, here and on Bandcamp.
jvamusic1.bandcamp.com/album/little-bird

This is Track 9.
Big Game

I hope you enjoy it.
Thank you for your time.

Walker
www.jvamusic.com

BIG GAME
I’ve got big thoughts.
Sparks keep coming off rails that hum while the dreams are summoned. Uh huh.
I’ve got a big mouth.
Words go dark and it strains and bargains then begs your pardon. Uh huh.

Big will scream like a train in the rain.
It’s burning like a train in the rain.

I’ve got a big fist.
Clenched like steel it just can’t deal when things get real. Uh huh.
I gotta big heart. Big and broken it leaves me open but I keep hoping. Uh huh.

Big will pound like a train in the rain.
It’s pumping like a train in the rain, and…

Ooh, it’s all a big game.
Big game - that’s what you get.

PLAYERS
Michele Van Kleef -
Harmony Vocal, Background Vocals

Albert Reda -
Bass, Electric Piano, B3 Organ, Background Vocals

Jim Walker -
Drums, Percussion, Acoustic Guitars,
Electric Guitars and Solo, Lead Vocal, Background Vocals

Recorded at Studio515. Portland, OR

Mastered by Ryan Foster at Foster Mastering
www.fostermastering.com

All material written by James Stanley Walker
C&P 2024 Thon Music (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved.

I'll be releasing my new album, LITTLE BIRD, one track per week, here and on Bandcamp.
jvamusic1.bandcamp.com/album/little-bird

This is Track 8.
Madeline Falls

I hope you enjoy it.
Thank you for your time.

Walker
www.jvamusic.com

MADELINE FALLS
Too much me shooting through the day sky.
In my mind is space and time.
Pour another long and tall one.
Floodlights shine upon my crimes.

When Madeline falls.
Whenever she calls and falls apart.
She gets in my head.
And drags me back to her heart.

Here she comes like precious cargo.
Bridgette Bardot - she walks like that.
Brown and gold in streaming sunlight.
Moment’s just right, my slinking cat.

But Madeline’s lines get crossed.
The simplest facts gets lost and tossed along the way.
But Madeline’s ways persuade.
And suddenly I’m displayed under glass for all my days.

Down the dark hall maps are scattered.
Good girl shattered. A long way down
Rings are pawned and windows shuttered.
How she flutters at every sound.

PLAYERS
Michele Van Kleef - Background Vocals

Albert Reda - Bass, Background Vocals

Jim Walker - Drums, Percussion, Acoustic Guitars, Electric Guitars and Solo, B3 Organ, Electric Piano, Lead Vocal, Background Vocals

Recorded at Studio515. Portland, OR

Mastered by Ryan Foster at Foster Mastering
www.fostermastering.com

All material written by James Stanley Walker
C&P 2024 Thon Music (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved.

I'll be releasing my new album, LITTLE BIRD, one track per week, here and on Bandcamp.
jvamusic1.bandcamp.com/album/little-bird

This is Track 7.
Everything's Sinking

I hope you enjoy it.
Thank you for your time.

Walker
www.jvamusic.com

EVERYTHING'S SINKING
I dreamed of rats, slick with rain.
Drowning on the banks of marble.
Crawling for air. Gasping and rolling.
Woke up feeling quite unstable.

Lime work cracks. Basements flood.
Shin-deep in water.
Stone and salt. Wine and smoke.
Wet clothes stuck to my body.

Oh, Everything’s sinking.

Walls wet with blood. Buckets of mud.
Pound an old pipe with a hammer.
A patch and a kiss. Repair what’s been fixed.
The city waits upon a funeral.

No sign of light. Italian night.
Still the bridges simmer.
From the room into the drink.
Bells ring like death around me.

It’s alright. Another night. (Everything’s Sinking)
Wooden room. Like a tomb. (Everything’s Sinking)

PLAYERS
Michele Van Kleef - Harmony Vocal, Choir Vocals, Background Vocals

Albert Reda - Bass, Fretless Bass, B3 Organ, Harmony Vocals, Background Vocals

Jim Walker - Drums, Percussion, Acoustic Guitars, Electric Guitars and Solo, Lead Vocal, Background Vocals, SFX and Samples

All material written by James Stanley Walker
C&P 2024 Thon Music (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved.

I'll be releasing my new album, LITTLE BIRD, one track per week, here and on Bandcamp.
jvamusic1.bandcamp.com/album/little-bird

This is Track 6.
Denied(lead vocal - Albert Reda)

I hope you enjoy it.
Thank you for your time.

Walker
www.jvamusic.com

DENIED
Now the waters run. The souls collide.
And I’m revealed as lost inside.
My hands are cold. I stall for time.
The words break up through static lines.
A grayish blur upon the day...make it go away.

The hemlock burns. It vipers through.
I cannot stay here without you.
It’s black and red, comes easily.
It’s part of me you’ll never see.
I wish I might, I wish I may...

It’s more than fascination.
It’s more than wanting everything.
It’s more than saintly patience.
It’s more than silver words and rings.
This is me and it cannot be denied.

It’s stronger now than it was before.
I will lock it up behind steel doors.
A plate of glass inside my head.
The flame is black, the fire dead.
The ash floats up as if to say…

PLAYERS
Albert Reda - Piano, Lead Vocal @butch_larocca

Recorded at Studio515. Portland, OR. Additional recording by ALBERT REDA at Boschetto

Mastered by Ryan Foster at Foster Mastering
@fostermastering

All material written by James Stanley Walker
C&P 2024 Thon Music (ASCAP)
All Rights Reserved.