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On a heel

by Shining Mirrors

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1.
On a heel 04:11
You know I fell and I did slip I stood before a judge and jury Judge said I acquit after I told him, I told him This here story On a heel You know I’m messing with the dog hairs My soul bares a resemblance to a desert My confreres are the Wings on my side and the face looking back at me Uh huh People find each other I woke up on an alien earth The fruit here tastes like oranges but Screams while you eat it On down the street I’m walking There before me I was On a heel Feeding alright The mind doesn’t cling it feeds I got my head up in a motto I was born, I was abducted Suffocated in the womb My brain was dead before I started Well I’m not done baby I’m not dead And uh at times I feel On a heel Cal Ripken Jr. babe Baltimore, Maryland USA Been doing this shit a damn long time And never ever ever even took a sick day Ahh On a heel…
2.
Johanna 03:09
She’s a resilient girl She just wants to live She just wants to live in her hometown She just wants to live without you Johanna I get a feeling when you scratch my brain Jo Jo Johanna And are you ready for this I feel like I could tell you anything I’m gonna ghost on ya I’m gonna ghost on ya I’m gonna ghost on ya Oh please Johanna She likes immigrants and natives Forget suburban Americans Unless your mother’s indigenous A little bit So just let her live in her hometown Without the army of gentrifiers Who fill up all the bars Pushing out Johanna I get a feeling when you scratch my brain Jo Jo Johanna And are you ready for this I feel like I could tell you anything I’m gonna ghost on ya I’m gonna ghost on ya I’m gonna ghost on ya Alright Huh Johanna I get a feeling when you scratch my brain Jo Jo Johanna I feel like I could tell you anything Alright Oh Johanna The rents are going up in this here city Funny how Manhattan is a lonely place Can you take me back to the Bronx
3.
Without U 03:54
If I could get up on you bay  A good would I do And I could get one on you bay A good without you You can't brake me like a doll I'm a human You can't break me like a doll I'm good without you I'm good without you No no no no no Yea yea yea yea yea Me me me me me  You you you you you Come on come on come on come on come on Come on come on come on come on come on Country You can't brake me like a doll  I'm a human You can't brake me like a doll (And I'm good w-)   I'm good without you I'm good without you I'm good without you I'm good without you
4.
Oh no if I go If I hold my head for too long If I run to her Am I going home I should have known This world can’t decide Whether I’ve gone to heaven Every thought I had Every thought I had was wrong Now you’re begging me for mercy But you couldn’t save my heart No reply no reply no reply no reply no reply Lord I awoke in a sea as a ghost In a while crocodile Oh no if I go If I hold my head for too long If I run to her Am I going home I should have known This world can’t decide Whether I’ve gone to heaven
5.
Once upon a time I lived outside I never helped nobody Rising in the night, getting high I only cared about me People passed on the street but Nobody ever saw me I was tough I was mean I was sad and lonely Oh if I didn’t have you I’d still be losing it all Hurting is all I’d do Oh if I didn’t have you I’d still be losing it all Hurting myself Hurtin for certain but hurt isn’t working at all As it is I did love you Break me down another million times It don’t change nothing at all Once I thought without nobody There would be peace in my heart Rain or shine return in time I’m already gone Oh if I didn’t have you I’d still be losing it all Hurting is all I’d do Oh if I didn’t have you I’d still be losing it all Hurting myself Hurtin for certain but hurt isn’t working at all Talkin miles of trouble Rain in my veins and I I’m feeling double when you say my mom was too kind Gave me unreasonable expectations I would be in paradise if you would ever change your mind I can be there on the double I need a friend of mine That’s why I’m talkin bout you… And music can’t save the country And music can’t impeach the president And music can’t fix health care And music can’t untuck the tax plan That’s why I’m talkin bout you…
6.
Nuthin to do 04:07
Oo la oo la My baby Welcome home Nothing to do Nowhere to be Nothing to become Nothing to do Nowhere to be Nothing to become This moment I'm free  Free from everything  Free from passion violence and anger Free from guilt  Free from suffering Free from wanting to have more I never thought it was anything A little savior left in a pot Not the ruse of anyone Playful as a jingle And it's all gravy Oo la oo la My baby Welcome home Yesterday's pain is the soil of tomorrow And it shows, ancient blood licks the earth Before it drives the rose When I saw her today It was a memory Nothing to do Nowhere to be Nothing to become Nothing to do  Nowhere to be  Nothing to become Nothing to do  Nowhere to be Nothing to become Nothing to do Nowhere to be Nothing to become This moment I'm free This moment I'm free This moment I'm free This moment I'm free This moment I'm free Free from everything Passion violence anger Free from guilt free from suffering Wanting to have more I'm free This moment I'm free This moment I'm free This moment I'm free
7.
No need to ask you if I love you You know I already do No need to ask you if I think about you You know I already do If something comes along ‘Tries to blow my body down I could still be moving on to your place You smell like the nectar bees you for honey I wasn’t ready babe but I do I can’t believe ‘Heard you say you love me too No need to ask you if I love you You know I already do No need to ask you if I think about you You know I already do
8.
Ballad No. 3 03:12
She hung out with The Strokes ten years ago Five years after they broke our hearts Fabiola said some misconception Concerning how to pronounce a name Her fables are worth anything Sure to make light of a weekend Her mountains are this here guitar On a holiday It’s a shame Anna Nordeen To spend so much time thinking you’re ugly Imagine how good life could be anywhere uhohoh… And why do you say I’m not rich And how do you know that I’m mean And how do you know I’m not rich You’re such a hm mm mm …
9.
Goodbye 03:42
If she doesn’t love me anymore I guess I’ll slip away They were teenage lovers How can I compete with that If she should put on the break a hey hey I guess I would say So he reads Kafka, that’s just in books You can say words like “didactic” baby but I didn’t take that much school So if you should put on the the break a hey hey I guess I would say Goodbye Goodbye baby Baby goodbye Goodbye baby ‘Little town called Baltimore saw my cardiac get vandalized Came down from the second floor Nothing but a vacant frame Singing ‘It’s so hard to be alone There goes another one Every time they fall in love with me’ So … Goodbye Goodbye baby Baby goodbye Goodbye baby God damn, they do this shit again At first it was a friend And then it’s the end So Goodbye (Goodbye) Goodbye (Goodbye baby) Goodbye (Baby goodbye) Goodbye
10.
Girls here they wear so much makeup I wonder what they look like Far away they look so pretty Much like the earth from outer space New York looks good from far away I wanna get closer Maybe I can break the glass Over here plucked like a cello I’m much nicer now Girls don’t like that Good to talk to versus talked about I was far away now I’m far out Girls here they wear so much makeup I wonder what they look like Far away they look so pretty Much like the earth from outer space New York looks good from far away

about

I recorded this album mostly throughout the calendar year of 2018, with tunes such as ‘Goodbye’ occurring as far back as March of the year prior.
 

It all started in the one bedroom loft I shared with my betrothed in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. After an unfortunate breach of trust, I found myself sleeping in the guest bedroom of a girl named Johanna for one magical night. She informed me the next day she would ghost on me once school started and I never heard from her again. 

From here I inhabited that curious headspace between searching and running. I sold, gave away, and threw out all of my possessions. I bought a 2004 Dodge Caravan and zig-zagged across North America. I couldn’t stand to walk on the same streets I once had with my betrothed, let alone the same burough.

I found myself in a small room in the Lower East Side of Manhattan where I stayed until the end of August. If you listen closely you can hear the door buzzer and refrigerator motor of that 6th floor walk-up throughout the album. 

After that, I fled to an old friend’s country home in the sleepy town of Freeland, Maryland. I tried to be nice but his wife and the dogs got sick of my drumming. I was back on the road making plans to move South indefinitely when a friend in Philadelphia offered me a room at his funeral parlor.

I figured I’d give New York one week to conjure up a counteroffer, but I was tired of sublets so I left anyway.

By December I wasn’t even sure if there was an album in this collection of memories. I bounced the rough mixes, and gave them to my mom on Christmas, as I usually do — and lo and behold, as I started playing these songs for select confidants I began to see through their eyes that what I was searching for was already there.

credits

released September 27, 2019

I (Drew Robinson) have to take credit myself for writing the songs and performing much of the instrumentation —
drums, bass, guitars, organ, piano, synth, violins, and vocals as well as some backing vocals; but I did have help from many momentous friends —
Shannon Minor - backing vocals on ‘Johanna’ and ‘Nothin to do’
Penneisha Love - backing vocals on ‘Without U’ and ’Nothin to do’
Eric Ordaz - cello on ‘New York looks good from far away’
Davis M Shubs - nylon string guitar on ‘If I Didn’t Have You’
Nick Hope - backing vocals on ‘If I Didn’t Have You’, synths on ‘On a heel’
Jeremy Willie Cox - guitar solo on ‘Without U’, clarinet on ‘Nuthin to do’
Wade Groom - cymbal crash on ‘Johanna’

These songs were mixed and mastered by Davis M Shubs, David Skovron, and myself at Drowning Fish Studios in Port Richmond, Philadelphia

The cover art is a still I edited from video footage taken by Shannon Minor.

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