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The Highs and the Lows
05:18
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The Highs And The Lows
Comin' with the highs and the lows
Resurrecting the blood and the skin and the bones
All I gotta say in the bright month of May
Is feed that which grows and grows
Rollin' in my 8180
Spectral hounds rev the growls that surround me
She's so far away yeah she's so far away
Doing lines on somebody's balcony
Still smell her sweat on my bed sheets
All I gotta say in the bright month of May
Is feed that which grows and grows
Comin' with the highs and the lows
Always seeing what you can't see
Always feeling what you won't feel
Give me a wreck and I'll walk from it
Goddess Built horns out just different
I am furnace the sun hits
I stand where the bullet missed
Always lift them from heavy
Always calm them in sorrow
Don't disappear in your shadow
-C.Hess
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2. |
Somedays
04:41
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Somedays
I want the moon to listen
I want the dawn to wake me up
I give I give and give
To ends I know not
Want you to calm my boiling blood
Walk with you streetside
Made you laugh you smile then look down
Silver lightning inside my eyes
Someday I'll love again
Your eyes masked say "you can"
Somedays I'm napalm on the street
I conjure a different kind of heat
Your rain simple unaware
And it brings me to my knees
Right here in front of you
And then it starts again
Hear you tell me "No"
When we know we can
Somedays we walk on by yeah
Somedays we look inside yeah
Somedays I push on through to
A heart that can look right through to
Inside my eyes oceans and fire
Quiet demise
Somedays I'm napalm on the street
I conjure a different kind of heat
That burns with horror hard to bare
Your rain simple unaware
And it brings me to my knees
Right here in front of you
Never need to win
Cuz I already have
-C.Hess
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3. |
Island Girls
04:31
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Island Girls
Needed Islands
Beyond the one I made of myself
Ocean breaths
Oh and the sun and the waves
Don't need no one here cuz I'm present
Dusk now a heaven
Black claws always tearing my back
I lived you baby but so much for livin'
I loved you darlin' but so much for lovin' wrong
Road head roads of baton rouge
Played records loud just to summon you
And it worked and we're good
So ya know you were worth all the silly shit
That you put me through babe
Island girls will give it to you
If you make a beach nice enough for them
To walk through
Ocean waves are there to ride
So stop drowning in them
And sing with Heart so alive.
-C.Hess
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4. |
Favorite Color
04:23
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Favorite Color
How did I find you?
Wasted in this garden
No bells were ringing
No doves were holding a branch
Just you and me and nothing
Talkin' favorite colors
Is it black to fall forever
Green for the true
White for the dead
Or red for the lovers?
How long can we stay here
Feeling gone?
Favorites changing
Slow the pulse down till the beat stops
And we're back to nothing
Wrong ways of turning off and on
Keep your lips close
Been too long since I met them
They're my favorite color
Everyone wants you
A piece if they can take it
A game we are a playin'
To keep the shadows from our homes
The frost of the morning consumes us
We're standing in this garden
Making light of something
I wish I knew nothing about.
-C.Hess
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5. |
Us Wolves
03:02
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Us Wolves
Inside we're wolves
Coming through the rough
Coming through the rough wind
Inside we're wolves
Cover to the cubs
Fur back to back my Love
Outside the dusk calls to what we must
Calls to what we must do
Inside the pack flank and attack
Cover to the cubs
Blood on tongue
Give to the soul
So much Love we lost
The loss the lost
We carry on our backs
Until we're done
Outside we're wolves
Howl till it's heard
Shaking bones brittle
Breaking backs break
Breaking backs brittle
And stare again to flames from afar.
Cover to the cubs
Sing to the Moon
The song that will always be sung.
-C.Hess
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6. |
Absolute Improbable Love
04:39
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Absolute Improbable Love
You wanted me pull through
Like dawn singing long to snow who
On a branch weighed low
Take a fall let go
Change the axis
I'm little more than a dizzy moon
Orbiting the blur of you
And In that I forget
What I am
Obsolete impossible
Absolute improbable Love
The world the woods
Align with you
How could I?
Why did I stain and strain a truth?
You gave me open heavens
Wonders wondered
Oh to wander through
Your light to guide me
But storms I carry dust to dust
I'm running on
Chasing lightning blinded drinking
jump in the van
They'll never know
Bandana pocket leap in your rocket
Bionic man
And remember just what you are.
-C.Hess
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Hallowed The Broken Light
Arise
Heat exchange in your eyes
Break the fall the flight
Sweat raindrops bucket in a well
Grab your wings from Hell
Bind the natures of your soul
Hallowed the broken light gold
Arise
Heat exchange in your eyes
Slow winged breath
conquers night
Bend submit to fight
Awake the fall the flight
Grab your wings from Hell
Hallowed the broken light gold
-C.Hess
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8. |
Your Son
03:37
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Your Son
Wind sings an old song
I always hear for the first time
Vines reach slowly through night
Battles battle Breath breathes
And I know you're here with me.
Heart a haunted hallowed engine
Ever strong ever off ever long
I am a wolf in the woods
Through shallow brook
That sips your love at midnight
Fangs do tear chest ignites during fire fight
Nothing sounds like the song of you
On the wind
Forever binding I hold you hand
Fearless in this lightning storm
Child that forgot but always knew.
-C.Hess
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9. |
Black Claw
04:50
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Black Claw
How do you look babe?
They're calling you a monster
You've been called worse
Faded and falling in forever
If you follow the wild my love
They'll slip away until
You're under tooth and claw
But what's the sky
Without a little thunder?
Take a thread from lightning
Wrap a claw of mine dear
Wear it 'round your neck
Black Claw direct
Our love is wild
Stretch canvas to no frame
Cut your hair from midnight
Burn worlds
Never meant to hurt
Your lips a rose grown wild
Picked up your scent
Steps and rhythm
Snow fields
Steps and rhythm
I'm hell bent and tangled in vines
That only I wield
Dawn rays
Steps and rhythm
How do you look?
Faded and falling in forever
Faded and falling.
-C.Hess
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10. |
She Walks the River
03:48
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She Walks The River
This life can rip you open
That's why we move and cover
To reel like unhurried smoke through embers
Wind picks up motions made for better
A Lion and Bull sittin' by the pool
Waiting for sound like a tambourine to hip
To get us out of this broken trip
Not unlike a track of muddy paws
Mapping out a path to joy
I'm like a dog
Tambourine to hip Heart backflips
When you walk through the door
We made a river
So wild it laughed at the face of the sea
Such peace a river
Her velvet eyes staring back at me
I dove so under for sword and armor
I gave to waves to pull to shoreline
Heart blasting a thousand beats
She walks the river
My love surrenders to velvet eyes.
-C.Hess
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Hess Dallas, Texas
Some say there are no good second acts in life. But Casey Hess is proof that sentiment is absolutely
wrong.
After decades of playing loud and heavy rock, Hess decided to show a different side to his songwriting in 2021.
He self-released Goddess Built, an excellent 10-track debut from his solo effort, Hess. Working with Grammy-winning producer Jordan Richardson, Todd Pipes and Taylor Tatsch
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