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Force of Nature

by Grasshopper

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HURRICANE BOB Two miles off the coast wind about forty knots hoarders are back from the store and they bought a-plenty lots stashed their ten-dollar water and turn their tv’s down low but everyone’s got their beers tuned to the transistor radio ‘cause it’s Hurricane Bob Hurricane Bob Hurricane Bob Weather Channel wonders why the worry paper said it be okay but the psychic on the 900-line said “boy get down to the cellar and stay” Clouds spin psychedelic colors and the wind cries Mary too and the old couples are making love and the won’t stop the whole night through ‘cause it’s Hurricane Bob Hurricane Bob Hurricane Bob Bonnie’s got a bone through her nose she’s running across the fields left her clothes at the factory with the scars that she once concealed Dust and rain on her body paint a picture of the Virgin Guadeloupe and the screen door she left open and swinging is singing “making whoopee” ‘cause it’s Hurricane Bob Hurricane Bob Hurricane Bob
2.
FALLING UP TO VENUS Somehow I’ve lost my gravity there’s a hole in my chest cavity and I’m hollow as a gallery The paintings turn their face to the wall the paper wind blows down the hall and I’m falling up to Venus The sky is dark and clear the ground slips, fades, and disappears nothing I can touch is near I reach for the horns of the moon as if her chaos could resolve this swoon but I keep falling up to Venus falling up to Venus falling up to Venus The earth is spinning down below I can see it all, see right through the show empty lives full of misery left to learn their lessons in exquisite history The sun grows hot, the sky grows cold I’m getting younger while I’m growing old I’m burning out my past life for all to see Don’t you get too, no don’t get too, close to me! But oh she is beautiful, a shining ball of light beautiful and dangerous I better get it right her clouds burn my skin but she takes me in the pressure is severe here, I’m under the sea here swimming in molten rock, giving back all I’ve got and I keep falling up to Venus falling up to Venus falling up to Venus But there’s something I had not planned on Love and understanding the ground that she walk on is the ground that she talk from it’s the hope and strength I need to feed the winding driving ball of need it’s the fruit on which I feed, the truth I cannot help but heed and I keep falling up to Venus falling up to Venus falling up to Venus
3.
Purple Skies 04:55
PURPLE SKIES When you’re feelin' tired and sick of all the lies Take a trip up to the purple sunrise Climb the mountain to greet the new day Sure to hear all the people say CHORUS The sun and the moon and the purple skies When you get that picture into your eyes You know that you can feel a natural high Living free and easy under purple skies When you feel a need , you got to unwind The purple sky is sure to ease your mind Let the heavens flow into your head You’ll be glad you did it this way instead (with the sun...) CHORUS When you feel confused and you don’t understand And you’re feelin' out of touch with the land Then watch the sun come from out of the sea And watch the moon set all the clouds free (with the sun...) CHORUS Tho’ I can deal with life, all the nickels and dimes It’s good to get away from the hard times When the pressures of the world start gettin’ to me Atop the mountain is where I will be (with the sun) CHORUS livin' free and easy under purple skies livin' free and easy under purple skies livin' free and easy under purple skies
4.
ONLY ONE IN THIS LIFE All these things I cannot hold onto Forever They follow me round like a light from a star from the tomb from the grave of us all Arabesque, I cannot distill the order to your heart to your heart with blessings and circles and always entwining and only one you in this life Only one in this life Only one in this life Only one in this life Arabesque, you gave me my hands and I made you my wife And together we dancing through the full heart of life Oh for our life in the sky and our life in the ground And our life before we knew life! Won't you take me back in your heart there's only one place I rest Only one in this life Only one in this life Only one in this life I bond with trees and I bond with bugs I bond with all Sometimes I scream but that doesn't matter at all I'm in for life--and it scares me to death --and it turns me on--and I can't bear to go on I'm in love with this life All is one in this life one in this life Only one in this life
5.
Forecast 02:59
FORECAST An ocean washed over me The rainfall emptied the sky Watching the waves crash in the sea A girl with a tear in her eye A girl with a tear in her eye Melody in my dreams She comes through fog to stir my memory In her eyes I see the ebb and flow of time to me A fountain of certainty Perpetually clouded form sight But through the dark rain I see A new world unfolding in light A new world unfolding in light
6.
Twister 06:37
TWISTER Clouds in motion like fingers twining Forces joining at the edge of sense I smell the thunderhead taste with a tongue of lead feel the wind blow open wind blow open doors The child is keening the mother breathing Bringing chills up to my neck Oh she shakes me Oh she shakes me Oh she shakes me But I can't shake her from my core This is too much for me this is too much for me Too much for one soft feather To see a goddess born inside a raging storm and witness death-defying weather Oh she shakes me... Black raven hair lift me in the air Let me look down on the earth Let the swath of wrath cut through this life bring me down to wrack and ruin... The sky comes clear now Stars appear now I turn the wheel now and head for home But the night-call of the wind-fall Haunts my soul with life to come Oh she shakes me... But I can't shake her from my core
7.
Comme La Mer 03:50
COMME LA MER ("Like the Sea", Translation below) Cette nuit sur le sable je te vois pour la premiere fois et notre vie ensemble je la vois qui approche comme la mer Et je ferme les yeux pour que la lumiere disparaisse de ma vue mais je decouvre que tu es la Les yex, je les ferme pour aller ailleurs mais cette solitude elle aussi, elle est a nous C'etait une nuit etoilee Une seule peau, une mer tout cela nouse sommes et les autres, et les autres en partagent de meme. "LIKE THE SEA" This night on the beach I see you for the first time And our lives together I see it come toward me like the sea And I close my eyes so that the light disappears from my sight but even then I find you with me I close my eyes to go somewhere away but even in this solitude you are with me It was a night filled with stars one skin, one sea We are all of this- and everything, everything is a part of us.
8.
Stonemon 03:35
STONEMON Digga digga digga digga! I live in the mountains where the air is sweet drink clear water and grow trees from my feet ‘cause I’m a stonemon I’m a stonemon Now wind don’t bother me and rain don’t bother me not even you can bother me ‘cause I’m a stonemon I’m a stonemon Now you come to mine my hills and you come to cut my trees so I let fall many stones to crush your greedy bones and I’m a stonemon stonemon Yes you come with your machines you don’t even ask please you’ll come to regret your waste when I wipe you off my face and I’m a stonemon stonemon! instrumental In the winter I wear white in the summer I am green I’m solid as a rock but my heart is never seen ‘cause I’m a stonemon rocking as can be I’m a stonemon an’ don’t you mess with me Stonemon Hoom!
9.
GIMME GOOD LIGHT Once again I been forgetting Everything’s all right can’t seem to face the fear and give in to the light A crucible of forbidden thoughts leaves a residue of pain and the slowly overgrown garden is full of weeds again so gimme good light gimme gimme good light won’t you give me good light gimme good light gimme gimme good light won’t you give me good light give me good light gimme gimme good light won’t you give me good light lift of the lid and lift off my life and give me good light Everything can’t stay in it’s place there’ll be chaos on the way and the trees dig their roots deeper than we can cause we don’t stand still all day I got things to see, I got things to say but I don’t know where to look and I would follow that tug in my heart if I just knew which path it took so gimme good light gimme gimme good light won’t you give me good light gimme good light gimme gimme good light won’t you give me good light give me good light gimme gimme good light won’t you give me good light lift of the lid and lift off my life and give me good light Stay, stay by my side my good friend and tell me we’ll meet again after the end when the sky has fallen and the moon is wrecked and the sun rises over heavens back deck tell me we’ll meet again tell me we’ll meet again tell me we’ll meet again and when we do I’m going to give you good light give you give you good light give you give you good light give you good light give you give you good light give you give you good light give you good light give you give you good light give you give you good light lift off the lid and lift off my life and give you good light I’m going to give you good light....
10.
BANG ON YOUR DRUM Bang on your drum for me Bang on your drum for me When the conga rings I will strum on the strings If you bang on your drum for me Feel it softly in my eardrum Then it blankets me all around Can’t tell it apart from the beat of my heart Then I’m groovin’, I’m wired for sound So sing out your song for me Sing out your song for me When you improvise, I will harmonize If you sing out your song for me Feel it spill out into the air As the music rolls off your tongue The melody is simple and free If we just let the song be sung So sing out your song for me Sing out your song for me When you improvise, I will harmonize If you sing out your song for me Bang on your drum for me Bang on your drum for me When the conga rings I will strum on the strings If you bang on your drum for me

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Grasshopper's second album evolves from folk-rock into psychedelic rock. Percussion became rock-kit as Thad "God of Thunder" joins the band. Guitars stay acoustic but more aggressively rocked out and treated with effects. In addition to Evan's songs, Ted and Brian contribute compositions. Lael writes lyrics in a third language.

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released October 29, 2012

Evan Hazen Kimble: voice, acoustic guitar, bamboo flute, keyboards
Ted Ford: acoustic lead guitar, voice, electric guitar on Stonemon
Lael: voice, hand percussion
Brian Couch: voice, electric bass, e-bow electric guitar on Twister
Thad Taylor: drums and percussion
Produced by Grasshopper and Evan H. Kimble
Additional production by Guy Staley
Arrangements by Grasshopper
Recorded by Guy Staley, Audiologic Studios, Seattle, WA
Mixed by Guy and Grasshopper
Mastered by Ross Nyberg, Studio X
Graphic wizardry by Dave Moore, Digital Alchemy
Graphic concept/design by Evan, Lael and Dave
Band photographs by Guy Staley
Other photos by Evan
Weather by God
Words and Music by Evan Hazen Kimble copyright 1999 Free Tree Music, except:
Forecast: Words and Music by Ted Ford copyright 1999 Gonzoala Purple Skies: Words and Music by Brian Couch and Jerry Knight copyright 1999 Minus One Music
Comme La Mer: Words by Lael Kimble, music by Lael and Evan Kimble copyright 1999 Free Tree Music
Bang on Your Drum: Words and Music by Brian Couch, copyright 1999 Mossy Log Music

For some interesting notes on the making of this album, visit
www.grasshopper.net and click on "studio notes" on the left hand column.

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Grasshopper plays original acoustic folk-rock about nature, spirit, and transformation. Lush male and female vocal harmonies, jamming guitar leads.

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