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Wake to a Bright Morning

by Jack Carty

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1.
I found your name carved course and deep In the branches of a boab tree A tattooed, gnarled and twisted thing Cut all around with memories And though I knew you’d never stood Beside that ancient, bloated wood I thought of you and cursed the hand Who stole your named and made it theirs Ooooh Time is a river, we are rain Ooooh The clock is a countdown, don’t delay Well, time alone can separate Two people standing in one place And working with my nimble blade I proved that I was there Most of the time I’m never sure If anything is real at all We dance under the mirror ball With thick smoke in our eyes Ooooh Time is a river, we are rain Ooooh The clock is a countdown, don’t delay This place was a prison Long ago Roots chained to the ground If time is our gaol cell we’ll never get out The tinderbox, the atom bomb The unborn child, the eldest son All waiting for their chance to come The day they are released The boab stayed to meet us all It’s scars mapping our mortal toil And never needed any proof To know that it was real Ooooh Time is a river, we are rain Ooooh The clock is a countdown, don’t delay I found your name carved course and deep In the branches of a boab tree
2.
Don’t believe the hype Let it hit you And then decide I might be an old man trapped in time Maybe I’m jaded Maybe I’m right The window is my changing mind Back and forth from day to night Outside So many shiny, pretty things They’re gonna knock until you let them in But everybody knows there’s nothing much inside Don’t believe the hype Don’t believe the hype Let the turnstile spin From the outside Looking in I’m wound up like an anchor Dead weight falls And I’m a man Over bored Dressed up like the olden days But empty in a modern way I’d say So many shiny pretty things They’re gonna knock until you let them in But every time you do there’s nothing much inside Don’t believe the hype Don’t believe the hype Plastic bags and plastic bottles Racing through a concrete jungle Dive until you hit the bottom No connection Constant comment Such a shiny, pretty thing They’re gonna knock until you let it in But every time you do there’s nothing much inside Yeah everybody knows there’s nothing much inside Yeah everybody knows there’s nothing much inside Don’t believe the hype Don’t believe the hype
3.
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Eye’s on the horizon And hands on the wheel I gotta put in some distance To know how I feel And so I Drive toward the fading light Cut through the heavy night And out the other side You hit me like a dragnet Deep below the surface Caught up in your bullshit Like everybody else was I loved you like I meant it You loved the way I said it I’m caught up in your dragnet And we’re going down I picture you back then as the day starts to break Still claiming the high ground On the crest of a wave But then we start to slide Caught in the rising tide And swimming our lives You hit me like a dragnet Deep below the surface Caught up in your bullshit Like everybody else was I loved you like I meant it You loved the way I said it I’m caught up in your dragnet And we’re going down Such an empty thing This early morning wind So I fill it with the words I wanna whisper in your ear “I wish we’d never been” You hit me like a dragnet Deep below the surface Caught up in your bullshit Like everybody else was I loved you like I meant it You loved the way I said it I’m caught up in your dragnet I’m straining ‘til I break it You hit me and I felt it Deep below the surface Caught up in your bullshit Like everybody else was I loved you like I meant it You loved the way I felt it You hit me like a dragnet And I’m getting out
4.
Autumn Leaves I feel the warmth leaving me The sun makes a slow retreat And winter moves in You and I We hang like a lullaby Our breath on the frozen night It’s a trick of the light And time We could run for the equator You could take a chance on me I won’t let our love get buried Under autumn leaves Holding on To days that have come and gone You can’t stop the march of time I know I’ve tried and tried We could run for the equator You could take a chance on me I won’t let our love get buried Under autumn leaves Earth is a spaceship We’re on a big trip And every year we begin again I’m on your side So let the frost bite And bury us for spring to find We could run for the equator You could take a chance on me Or you and I could warm each other Under autumn leaves
5.
Walking through a foreign city Feeling like I’m going nowhere Golden leaves crunch underneath me Waiting for the coming snow and I might never find the answers To the questions my mind throws up I am not as smart as I thought The seasons change and we change with them But that is not the same as giving up All the news is fucking awful People acting like animals Are we all that capable Of reverting to primal instinct? At the very heart of me I feel our shared humanity A beautiful and scary thing We cannot let the bastards win ‘cause that would be the same as giving up Giving up I fantasize about it all the time Giving up A path taken by stronger men than I Framed within the bigger picture I am such a lucky human Born with love and running water Taught to empathize and question The wind blows hard between the buildings Cuts straight through my old cardigan I stub my toe and bruise my shin And feel the darkness creeping in Then look up at the starry sky And think about the age of light A million years to reach my eyes And still it got here right on time And never ever thought of giving up Never once it thought of giving up
6.
I watch the sun going down In the middle of the day There came a change in my heart Relentless as a wave Unhook the shackles of time And I’m rudderless and free I feel the order unwind The relentless entropy And I can smell the sugarcane on fire at my feet What’s the point of anything If we’re never as we seem? Pastiche sweeter than a tooth I want to live so I can always tell the truth Sit on the rooftop at night And watch the jet stream flow Think of the thousands of lives Up there flying coast to coast And when they look down at me Do I blend into the grey? A pixel lost on a screen On a retina display The thing I love is boring me and driving me away What’s the point of anything If we’re never as we seem? Pastiche sweeter than a tooth I want to live so I can always tell the truth
7.
First you don’t wanna talk And then it feels like You’re holding your breath But it’s all in your head I’m doing my best To reach across the distance But I can’t understand Once in a while There’s a break in the line The big picture gets harder to see Do I make you crazy Like you make me? Who’s gonna captain this ship Across the wave crests and valleys Looming ahead? Shoulder to the wheel And rain in our eyes Raising our voices against the tempest outside Once in a while There’s a break in the line The big picture gets harder to see Do I make you crazy Like you make me? I met a little bird Who flew halfway ‘round the world To tattoo your name on me Ink on it’s claws and beak And you slept in fits and starts A rainbow leaks from your heart Somedays we work to get through But I wouldn’t change it And I always choose you Once in a while I can hear that you’re smiling And nothing can come in-between Do I make you crazy Like you make me?
8.
It’s been a long time coming Down the line I felt my will unravel One more time Kept under smoke and mirrors Like some tired circus clown Well I pull the pin The clock starts counting down I got a secret and I’m gonna let you in There’s no promised land It’s all slight of hand You gotta get some notice Get the look Push your numbers higher Bait the hook Another blue-eyed baby Is gonna move out to LA With an Instagram and nothing much to say I got a secret and I’m gonna let you in There’s no promised land It’s all slight of hand Here honest conversation is as rare as dessert rain It’s got me feeling like a washout Got me circling the drain I got a secret and I’m gonna let you in There’s no promised land It’s all slight of hand And when the lights go out The soul-searching begins There’s no promised land There’s no promised land There’s no promised land
9.
The wires are humming All of the time They won’t give me a moment Or let me unwind I’m just floating around On a cloud in the sky And the black hole will pull me in Oh there is no gravity here I just free-fall through everything that has ever been A binary code that greets me like a friend Leaves me anxious as anything A cascading torrent That never turns off Gotta catch the Atlantic In a watering trough Now I’m rubbing my eyes ‘cause enough is enough And the black hole will pull me in Oh there is no gravity here I just free-fall through everything that has ever been A binary code that greets me like a friend Leaves me anxious as anything Oh there is no gravity here I just free-fall through everything that has ever been Oh there’s no humanity here I just free-fall through everything that has ever been A binary code that greets me like a friend Leaves me anxious as anything
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A fleeting touch A fleeting glance A fleeting fear A fleeting chance The knowledge everything will pass Even, eventually, the sun So, measure time with dripping taps And notice as it bends and snaps Now stretching out Now springing back Already past us as it comes A moment is only a moment A year is just one trip 'round the sun And somewhere, from some distant perspective There’s a way they can be seen as one A fleeting change A moments rest A seconds time for second best The here and now is all there is Make a note to future self To sum my life up in a word An abstract noun, a gentle verb An adjective, a soaring bird I hope it will be “Loved” A moment is only a moment A year is just one trip 'round the sun And somewhere, from some distant perspective There’s a way they can be seen as one I see the shadow of a gallows Some nights, on the back of my eyes Everyone’s posing for perfect strangers But all I want’s a simple, honest life I want it bad I hope that’s alright? The fleeting feeling you’re alone And no one understands your pain Can spiral you down like a drain But it's almost never true Think of the ones who came before The false belief The bloody wars The mad king's reign The surgeons saw And yet, still, here we are A moment is only a moment A year is just one trip around the sun And somewhere, from some distant perspective There’s a way they can be seen as one There’s a way they can be seen as one Both fleeting, and ever-long

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"Wake to a Bright Morning" is the 6th full-length album from Australian singer-songwriter Jack Carty. Produced and largely recorded by Carty between London and Brisbane, "Wake to a Bright Morning" is Carty's most accomplished work to date in a large and award-winning catalog.

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released March 11, 2022

Musicians:

Jonas Persson: Piano track 4; Bass, Keys & Electric Guitar track 3.
Lukas Drinkwater: Bass track 1; Double Bass tracks 5, 7 & 9.
J.J Stoney: Keys; BVs; Strings & Mandolin track 10.
Fred Claridge: Drums; BVs tracks 2 & 8.
Georgia Mooney: BVs track 3.
Emily Barker: BVs track 4.
Blair Dunlop: BVs track 2.
All other sounds and instruments played by Jack Carty.

Mixed by Jonas Persson at Berners St Studio, London.
Mastered by William Bowden at King Willy Sound.

All songs written by Jack Carty, except tracks 3 and 4 written by Jack Carty & Jonas Persson and track 7 written by Jack Carty & Josh Pyke.

Recorded at home by Jack Carty, with additional recording by Jonas Persson at Berners St Studio, London, and Rob Wilks at Squarehead Studio, Kent.

© & ℗ 2021, Jack Carty | BDRLPO1

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Jack Carty Brisbane, Australia

Award-winning, independent Australian songwriter.

"The recently married Carty might well have found his happy place" ★★★★ — THE SUNDAY STAR TIMES.

“These songs have almost a purity of spirit and certainly an openness of heart. You should own this" ★★★★ — THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD.

“A sensational sophomore album. It marks him as a man to watch" ★★★★ — THE WEEKEND AUSTRALIAN.
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