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Album: Tez Howes - Lumiere

by Tez Howes

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Lumiere 1 (Instrumental) 02:15
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David's Got Smokes Today 04:37
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View the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3lIfCMc11U Stop Homelessness NOW: https://caeh.ca/ Another day breaks The grim streets light up in a smile One grimy hand shakes And wrestles the sleep from sad eyes A morning busker Strums the soundtrack to David’s rebirth One vital hunger to appease, he’ll move heaven and earth If David scores smokes today He’ll stand there and watch ya play And stay for an encore as he claps to the time If David’s in luck today His nicotine holiday Will kick in quite pleasantly Please and thanks, he’ll be doin’ just fine Today’s a hard one A curt nod as he shuffles on past Car window roll down At his feet, a small treasure is cast Eyes lowered, stoops down To scoop up his first morning prize Hand shakes to light it And he dreamily closes his eyes When David’s got smokes today His pleasure a puff away He’ll empty his pockets, donate his last dime When David’s got smokes today His nicotine holiday’s Will unfold quite splendidly And sure, he’ll be waxin’ sublime Some chase after silver and satins Stealing pleasures that he’ll never know In the alley what threatens to happen His only night light the last ember’s Now vanishing glow The sweet smell of coffee Fills the alley where he made his bed The caffeine is calling But there’s one devil first to be fed His head in a cloud of confusion Possessed of one need all-consuming First order of business That one precious labor ahead Yeah, David’s got smokes today He’s only a puff away From pauper to prince As the smoke fingers curl Hell! David’s got smokes today His nicotine holiday’s Unfolding quite pleasantly And he’s got all the time In the world
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In the Dark (Barnaul Nights) 04:06
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I would have found you in the dark Or if I'd been lost at sea, yeah I would have found you, girl, No matter where I was Because your heart was What was calling out to me I would have found you in the dark There could have been no other choice These ears could hear no other voice, yeah The only sound I ever need to recognize Cause girl, you cut through all the noise I would have found you in the dark I would have found you in the dark And when I found you in the dark Just when I thought I'd lost my way, yeah I could have tossed out all that hopeless misery Because your heart is where This boy is gonna stay I would have found you in the dark Now we're here lying in the dark Where only you and I can see, yeah And no-one else is gonna share this ecstasy (And we got no place else to be) We got no place else to be Girl, for all eternity As we lie here in the dark As we love here in the dark I would have found you in the dark
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Fragile 04:53
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For Debbie Support initiatives to combat domestic violence: Canada: https://sheltersafe.ca/ USA: https://www.thehotline.org/stakeholders/domestic-violence-statistics/ UK: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/getting-help-for-domestic-violence/ Australia: https://www.missionaustralia.com.au/domestic-and-family-violence-statistics You looked so fragile I was deceived By your warrior heart I forgot my name My legs went weak I only saw the scratches The scars, the bruises I felt the same pain That runs so deep A curious comfort A tender madness Your secrets ripped Apart my soul I didn’t think I’d ever Get control again You looked so fragile I feared you’d break At the first embrace My hands, they trembled My tongue fell silent I only saw the battles That first surrender And the one that finally Broke your will But your warrior heart Survived the pain And that wounded heart It healed my soul I didn’t think I’d ever Become whole again Fragile like rainbows Like a lily in shade The dream on awakening A Royal ballerina’s Delicate final glissade You looked so fragile When you appeared In my dream last night I woke confused I lay there crying I only saw the future And you not in it The evanescence Of morning mist I am a brittle And flimsy thing It’s come to this I am so fragile
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I Paint Flowers 03:50
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“I paint flowers so they will not die.” -- Frida Kahlo I paint flowers so they will not die I write letters to the lonely sky Strokes and words this heart cannot deny I paint flowers so they will not die Da da da da da da da da da, da da da da Songs of hope I sing to Mother Earth Wrap these arms around her pregnant girth Notes and breath my stumbling tongue apply (na na na na na na na na na) I sing softly that she may not die And all might find their inner worth The happiest accidents Brought us all here today So gather round the hearth, And find a better Make a better way BREAK I paint flowers so they will not die Sending postcards to a clear blue sky Shapes and lines this heart could not defy And a song to let each spirit fly In the hopes life's riches That are real may multiply Through these flowers that will never die Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w5D7sA7-SU
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All My Tomorrows 04:58
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I came into this world with my brother Poor Padraic, he lived but a day As six decades later I still pause to wonder Why he left us in such a sad way I grew into my teen years a fighter More efficient my fists than to pray A fool passed who thought he'd make My wallet lighter And a terrible price he did pay Now I don't know if I'll have tomorrow So I'll live all my tomorrows today I paid for this sin with the jailer I did seven long years and a day I ne'er saw the sun as my skin it got paler Til I thought I would just fade away And when I was let out for My good behavior The army it called the same day Well the jail trained me well as a soldier But I made one too many forays I returned from the battle of Guadalajara A stranger in so many ways Yet now here I sit growing many years older My comrades-in-arms passed away I don't know if I'll have Such a thing as tomorrow I'll live all my tomorrows today I'll live all my tomorrows today Packing all that I can into 24 hours Giving all that I have, Take the sweet with the sour I'll do all that I can With this knowledge, this power, ohh If I could recall all the things that I'd done That skillfully sent me astray I would still not regret ne're a single sad one But proudly them all I'd display Cause I don't know if I'll have tomorrow So I'll live my tomorrows today So young ones, let this be a lesson E're your life come to one of dismay All of my yesterdays were once tomorrows, Just trinkets that I gave away So if you, child, are feared that you Have no tomorrow If all you imagine is steal, beg and borrow Your heart's only path Is a long stretch of sorrow Then live all your tomorrows today
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These are the Streets 03:48
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(words: t.h. gorman / music: t.h. gorman & r. jenkins ©2021 teztunesmusic) Ooh ah yeah These are the streets she walks The wide boulevards she strolls Avenues block by block The sidewalks of her soul This is the way she rocks This is the life she rolls This is her town designed These are her days of gold Filled with the nights that shine This is her story told This town her diamond mine These streets define her soul Feeds her and makes her whole This is her promise kept This is her gift of grace Now I can hear her steps As I hunger for her embrace Now I can sense her close As sweet as a summer rose Soon I will see her face Just look how brightly it glows Watch her walk... This is the way she struts That makes all the town take note Hers is the figure she cuts Swaying in summer shorts or warm in her winter coat This is her promise kept This is her gift of grace Now I can hear her steps As I hunger for her embrace Now I can sense her close As sweet as a summer rose Now I can see her face Just look how proudly it glows...
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Requiem 04:08
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Talk Suicide Canada = 1.833.456.4566 USA = “988” nationwide phone number UK = 0800 689 5652 If I stay alive just one more day Perhaps the tide’ll turn my way If I make it through another night I might get back the strength to fight Water hangs in splinters One more Endless Winter Op’ning cupboards that are barer than my soul Check the fridge illumination Radiantly presentatin’ One last moldy tray of rolls Life’s unaccommodatin’ Don’t see much sense in waitin’ Wallet’s lighter than a worn out deaf-eared prayer Strum away just hopin’ Now one more G string broken And not a penny to repair If I stay alive just one more day Some cosmic warden grants a stay If I make it through another night Maybe the healing morning light Will make things right Stoned on faded mem’ries Must have been a century Since “I Know She’s In The Building’ signaled hope Now struggling to address the question Of the mercy of the pistol or the silence of the rope My cross to own the blaming A life of sad self-shaming The same old story from the moment I was born The killing floor awaits with No time to contemplate That in His inf’nite made-up mercy, God might open Just one door So mentally just fishin’ In almost mute condition With all the vigor of a string that’s finally broke The final verse unfinished Fuck all to B diminished Life’s closing couplets left unspoke If I stay alive just one more hour A seed of mercy just might flower Maybe if I take just one more breath Convince my soul to cheat this death As from my lips leaves one last curse That time won’t intervene to write Just one more verse
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That's What I'd Do (Without You) 04:36
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View the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7w_LJucKHE What would I do without you Little darlin' What would I do without you What would I do without you Little darlin' What would I do I'd face a dark empty room An even emptier bed And I'd recall all the times We made love and you said That you'd love me forever And I knew it was true I never, ever considered What I'd do without you I'd get up in the morning And I'd make me some toast And I'd remember the time That you burned up the roast Then I'd choke that toast down With a flat can of Coke And think about the last words we spoke What would I do without you Little darlin' What would I do I'd go out for a walk With nowhere special to go And I'd run into an old friend That we both used to know And she'd ask me where are you And I'd turn right around And I'd leave without making So much as a sound Cause the tears in my eyes They would have give me away And I just couldn't face Tellin' her 'bout the day That you walked out the door Leaving me here to stew Yeah, that's what I'd do without you That's what I'd do without you Little darlin' That's what I'd do without you So now a day don't go by Without me sayin' it's true That I'm the luckiest guy Cause, baby, I've got you It's something I'll never ever Take for granted my dear Cause I just can't imagine You not bein' here You're the ship on my ocean And my moonlight at night And you're the hug that I live for When you're holding me tight You're the very best thing That's ever happened to me And the only thing that I need What would I do without you Little darlin' What would I do without you What would I do without you Little darlin' What would I do without you
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Where the Wind Blows 03:53
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View the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDK48VDheLs I am all of those, in the place Where the wind, it always blows Don't think too much about where I am going 'Cause nobody knows I'm just content to allow fate to take me Where e're the wind blows Others may say I am fritt'ring away Precious time, I suppose I take no mind, I just follow the signs That lead me... I coast the spirit world, I drink the spirit tea I’m open to every possibility My imagination, I let run wild and free I embrace all of those, in the place Where the wind, it always blows Don't think too much about where I am going 'Cause none of us knows (Where the wind blows) Don't think too much about where I am going 'Cause none of us knows (Where the wind blows) The autumn leaves that dance Atop the rushing stream The waking consciousness that Celebrates the dream The deadly silence that cuts short The piercing scream Yes, I am all of those, in the place Where the wind, it always blows Don't think too much about where I am going 'Cause none of us knows (Where the wind blows) Don't think too much about where I am going 'Cause none of us knows (Where the wind blows) I grind the daytime hours and scatter them to night I am the darkness that is murdered by the light I am the fuse hate’s match threatens to ignite I am all of those, in the place where the wind, it always blows I will be there until the last star Spends its light Chasing the wandering wind, I claim my true birthright This world will disappear Into an endless night I am death composed, in the place Where the wind, it always blows Don't think too much about where I am going 'Cause none of us knows Where the wind blows...
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Moments 03:57
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Some say the chase is better than the catch While others swear that true love Deepens over time Wait for that perfect match Well, I don’t know which of these things Are true I only know that I love you They say life’s short and True love’s hard to find How in a blink A favored year flies past And every breath might be our last And so I cherish every second, dear That you and I are now and here And in the end I’d trade A hundred thousand years alone For one sweet moment Spent in your embrace Your tender touch a sense unknown I would have carried 'round A heart of stone A memory that no expanse of time Will e’re erase And as I pen these words For you and you alone I think of all the joys I’ve shared with you And hopefully our whole lives through If I could pick one old cliche To set the tone I’d have to say that growing old with you Is all I really wanna do
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Legion Hall (for Dad) 04:26
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View the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIHBmbK1X0M For my father, William Stanley Gorman and his brother Wilfred Gorman I look back on sepia days Bittersweet memories all A cantankerous old man and me Just awaiting judgment's call No, he didn't hold the trophy For the best dad of them all But I miss his laughter echoin' All through the Legion Hall Stan Gorman, Canadian Forestry Scotland, knew not battle one Wilf, his brother out on furlough And the weekend just begun A rowdy bar in frosty Glasgow Where Wilf almost lost his life A man steps between the two of them His belly tastes a 3 inch knife Wilf leaves next day for duty Navigator, bomber squad Felled from the skies of Germany Victim of a careless god Three years a POW He kept his secrets by his side Letting only slip just one A junior wingman to confide I look back on sepia days Bittersweet memories all My cantankerous old man and me Just awaiting the judgment call While he didn't hold the trophy For the best dad of them all I still miss his laughter echoing All through the Legion Hall Stalag Luft III in Silesia On a different frosty night The young wingman earns the enmity One guard's murd’rous appetite Wilf Gorman, barracks leader Rushes to the north electric fence His final stand to take a bullet For which he had no defense A Legion Hall deserted On just one more frosty night A stranger shuffles to our table Half a cigarette he lights 'Your brother saved my life one night Or I wouldn't still be here He said you did the same for him Can I buy you another beer' I recall that storied night The best memory of all That cantankerous old man and me On the night he stood so tall Raised a hero's liquid trophy Stan, in his faded glory all I still hear their laughter echoing All through the Legion Hall All through the Legion Hall
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On This Holy Night 05:02
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View the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZJHZtmf1n4 This is the closing of the holy book This is the dimming of the light The past only an echo now Swiftly receding in the night I need to reach you on this holy night Well, I beseech you on this holy night The wick has burned down to its origin Twilight curtain softly falls And in the place where once a spirit walked There's nothin' left at all This is my testament Chapter and verse are written on the wind For those who choose to open it All those against whom I have sinned Could that I feel you on this holy night What it might reveal on this holy night This is the reading of the sacred book Transubstantiation of the light The echo but a whisper now As it passes on to newer life Would that I know you on this holy night (The wick has burned down to its origin) (This is my testament) As dark I go to claim this holy night (Twilight curtain softly falls) (Chapter and verse are written on the wind) I need to reach you on this holy night (And in the place where once a spirit walked) There’s nothin’ left at all
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Lumiere 2 (Instrumental) 01:20
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All songs words & music: t.h. gorman ©2023 teztunesmusic except where noted.

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released May 9, 2023

Produced by t.h. gorman
Tez Howes: Vocals, guitars, bass, keys except:

05 Produced by Adam Grossman in Corona, California
Tez Howes: Vocals, lead guitar / Adam Grossman: Guitars, bass, drums, backing vocals

07 Produced & arranged by Ray Jenkins in Dobrich, Bulgaria
Tez Howes: Vocals / Ray Jenkins: Guitars, bass, keys, mouth harp / Adam Grossman: Drums

08 Produced & arranged by Ray Chapman in Grimsby, UK
Tez Howes: Vocals / Ray Chapman: Keys, guitars, bass / David Hill: Lead guitar / Rick Medlock: Drums

10 Produced & arranged by Adam Grossman
Tez Howes: Vocals / Adam Grossman: Guitars, bass, keys, drums

13 Produced by Ray Chapman
Tez Howes: Vocals / Ray Chapman: Guitars, bass, keys, drums

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Tez Howes Moncton, New Brunswick

I'm just an old Canadian fart writing & recording tunes, trying to capture the vibe of pre-millennial popular musics, rock, blues, jazz, funk, country, pop, etc. Lumiere and Knowhere are primarily indie pop, and The New Codiac Blues is a collection of blues-based tunes.
They're dotted with selected collabs with uber-talented friends in the UK, USA, Australia and Bulgaria of a variety of sounds. ... more

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