Voyage of the Malamander

by Mike Garrigan

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about

Voyage of the Malamander is singer/songwriter Mike Garrigan's fourth full-length solo album.

Performed with a mandolin, acoustic guitar, bass and percussion, the record is stripped back and yet full. This set features 10 brand new songs as well as "Jenny," a favorite from Mike's 2005 live album.

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released 15 June 2010
Mike Garrigan - vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, bass, & percussion.
Produced and Mixed by Mike Garrigan

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tags: acoustic acoustic rock independent malamander mike garrigan rock acoustic guitar floor tom mandolin Greensboro

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Track Name: Obscure Momentum
Obscure Momentum

Cartoon people
A holiday parole
I got my hand in the ocean
Waiting on a storm
Obscure momentum running out
This road is winding down

There’s a bat in the belfry
An echo on the wall
Of an eager duality
Exposed for what it’s worth
Obscure momentum running out
This road is winding down

There’s flowers on the light house
Shelter from the rain
I’ve got a chemical reaction
Haunting me again
Obscure momentum running out
This road is winding down.
This road is winding down.
Track Name: Ghost Hotel
Ghost Hotel

The burlap unseen dreaming
Of a vagrant mind
Paints my eyelids turning
On the underside.
Every shadow is a memory.
Every room is a regret.

Lock down at the ghost hotel.
Freak out at the ghost hotel.

The coldest chill in summer
Beads the textured walls.
It rattles with the clamor
Of a spectral farse.
Every floor becomes an ocean.
Evert keyhole is a scar.

Lock down at the ghost hotel.
Freak out at the ghost hotel.

Every hallway is an island.
Every mirror is a door.
Track Name: Changing Form
Changing Form

A chrysalis is clinging to the car side
And we’re rolling on through dawn
I catch the sunrise on a butterfly in motion
And the mountain comes alive

Change – Changing form

A gargled stream stumbles through the hillside
The hemlocks whisper their reply
In my dreams I’m a werewolf on a bad moon
Dodging sugarcane and rye

Change – Changing form
Track Name: Jenny
Jenny

She calls me on a Sunday
Out of the blue
How are you?
I’ve been doing great.
There’s so much I could tell you
There’s nothing I can say
It’s funny how it always seems that way
I used to see her at parties.
See her in bars
She never really new that much of me.
Now, every time she tells me
You mean the world to me
I wonder just how shallow that can be.
Because it seems there’s no difference
Between black
Between white
Between wrong
Between right
Would you stay the night?
Hey, Jenny, if you’re listening
I’m wishing you the best
Goodbye, I could not ask for less
She’s leaving for New York
Leaving for Spain
Leaving for Chicago

She’s leaving for the highway
Between Phoenix and L.A.
To me, it’s all the same.
Because it seems there’s no difference
Between black
Between white
Between wrong
Between right
Would you stay the night?
Hey, Jenny, if you’re listening
I’m wishing you the best
Goodbye, I could not ask for less
Goodbye, I could not ask for less
Goodbye, I could not ask for less.
Track Name: Tornado
Tornado

Ominous clouds smother the horizon
Whispers and corkscrews spiral out
Spinning like a tilt-a-whirl
Turning like a clock
Negative spaces
Awkward pressures

Tornado coming down
Who will save you now?

Karma spire
Coming my direction
Everything is blown into the sky
And, it rained all day
And, it rained all night
Here comes the flood
There goes the flood

Tornado coming down
Who will save you now?
Track Name: Strange Spark
Strange Spark

Slow motion turning with the road bend
Quiet like a miracle
Pliant like a nursery rhyme
Staying within scribbled lines
Toothpicks in an eyelid vise
Let’s go

Strange spark
Silent now
Strange spark
Spiral down

True distance peeling off the sign posts
Caffinated whimsical
Amphibious and beautiful
Poison like a poppy field
Locomotion flesh and steel
Let’s go
Track Name: Trying to Be Still
Trying to Be Still

The rushing of the river bend is
Floating past the guardrails on this road
I pull off too the shoulder
The white caps on the water rumble
Rustling the flowers
It soothes my nerves
I plant my feet down in the quiet

Trying to be still

The turbine in the distance
Is cooling off her jets
She has grown tired
The water line is rising
No longer is safe passage
No one shouts “Mark Twain!”
I’m losing ground
& Falling short of buoyant

Trying to be still

I must have been asleep
This must have been a dream
My coffee spills
Staining the upholstery

Another 100 miles and we’ll arrive at some motel and rest our heads
Dreaming of the river
Trying to be still.
Track Name: Salamander
Salamander

A soft regeneration of my heart
I slither like a salamander
Back to the part where I left off
Swallowed by a lake
Drowning in a fire
Crawling outward
Sliding slender
Climbing back into the womb
I’m home to lick my wounds

The quick reanimation of my eyes
I scurry like a salamander
Into the night where I walk on
Under belly poison
Moist on dry land

Crawling outward
Sliding slender
Climbing back into the womb
I’m home to lick my wounds

Moist on dry land
Track Name: Lost?
Lost?

Sometimes it feels like a swarm of bees is all I see
In the haze of what’s in front of me.

The story is changing
The ending is fading
I must have
Gotten lost along the way

And then I feel a slow change coming on
Along the lonely ride of where I’m going

The story is changing
The ending is fading
I must have
Gotten lost along the way
Are you an angel?
Sent to save me from myself?
I must have
Gotten lost along way.
Track Name: Slow Change
Slow Change

The easier life doesn’t seem so easy when you’re down in it.
Quiet and haunting, boundless and wanting more of it

Ain’t it a slow change?
Ain’t it a slow change?

The wildest of spaces
The closest of quarters echo sameness
No evacuation
No explanation here for this

Ain’t it a slow change?
Ain’t it a slow change?