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Home Songs, Volume Two

by Ross Bellenoit

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When I Leave 03:30
When I Leave (by Ross Bellenoit) when I leave, put your hand in my palm your arm in my sleeve your voice in my song your sunlit dress shining golden against the dawn when I leave for the summer, leave your voice in my song when I leave, leave your tools in the shed your tears in your cup your shape in my bed your glowing, rusted book of poems yet to be read when I leave for the winter, leave your shape in my bed when I leave, leave my lips on your cheek my struggle with your comfort my songs with your grief my little white lies to disguise my belief when I leave for tomorrow, leave my songs with your grief when I leave, leave me something to keep something small enough to bury it deep cause Lord I have such little time to spare when I leave, leave me something to keep when I leave, leave me something to keep (July, 2010)
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Your Face 03:34
Your Face (by Ross Bellenoit) your face is a sketch that i once drew in lines that scattered apart when i tried to refine the details that made up the portion of you that seemed to consistently evade my view your eyes are a blur that fill up a big screen a shadowy trace of a ghost i have seen it screams in my ear with it's pupils of red demanding the colors it seemed to have bled your mouth is a sacred and unholy priest that calls for redemption while tugging my fleece you always remember the spots where i bend and fall to my knees when you try to offend your chin is a home for a sucker and bib it collects it's trophies and calls it's own dibs on men who keep switching the hair on their heads enough to allow you to sleep in their beds my arm is dismembered from holding you high so much that i thought that for once i could fly but now i am grounded amongst the betweens of what's left in store and of what i have seen your body is buried beneath a veneer of water and smoke that will soon disappear i'm letting you float into glamorous view for now it's really the most i can do (September, 2010)
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Empty Shelves (by Ross Bellenoit) a bird of chrome breathes a heavy breath before it flies through heaven's breadth retiring to the smell of dawn your sleep is light but will last long inside the house of empty shelves we'll find the lost within ourselves and give them air to breath in deep before you wake up from your sleep what fading star will crash into the ever pulsing heart of you? you know by now just what we are the wreckage of some fading star (March, 2011)
4.
New English Blood (by Ross Bellenoit & Hannah Zaic) i followed you high through the deepest of caves and came back a stranger to what i once craved no longer attached to the ways of a prince all subjects and patrons have abandoned me since and gathering now are some clouds of design to cover our fields with water divine abandon your ship you can wade through the flood if you locate the pulse in my new english blood i followed you far into skies yet unseen and landed a friend to the foes of the queen they buy me my patience with promises made to keep their religion free from the grenade and gathering now are the shadows of time to keep us disrupting the production line forget the terrain you must dig through the mud if you're craving a taste of my new english blood i'll follow you still into oceans and tides to places "where legends and history collide" cause the life that you breathe in my restless despair has given me hope in your sweet scented air and gathering now are the currents of love they pull you apart like the wings off a dove i'll bring you ashore from the coldest of floods and your breath will be warmed by my new english blood (April, 2011)
5.
You Walk Away (by Ross Bellenoit) well there's a girl in my town she calls me by my last name she asks me where i've been she wants to know my hidden shame so i say i've been looking around while staring at the frozen ground avoiding that foreboding sound where you walk away from me well i have travelled far enough to know how hard our hearts have grown so show me if you can the side that you have never shown cause i say i've been looking around while staring at the frozen ground avoiding that foreboding sound where you walk away from me (June, 2010)
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Lust 04:12
Lust (by Ross Bellenoit) the clean cut of night is upon our return a jewel to be kept in a case of concern we watch it dissolve into stories of lust you do what you can, i do what i must our hands are entangled in forces unknown to keep us from keeping our cover so blown while residents sleep in their houses of calm we raise up a silence of prayers and psalms you've spoken to jesus and he loves me too but he doesn't know you just quite like i do so spare your distaste for the flattering rose nobody will notice what everyone knows i'm watching you dress, lord my patience is thin my body is itching to get in your skin our talk of betrayal, it bores me to tears for what is the use of confronting our fears they live in our choices, they live in denial they've stood in our shadows of shame for awhile you're talking to me about changing your ways so you can remember the most of your days but life isn't always "increasing the dose" it's keeping the secret that everyone knows (February, 2009)

about

Ross Bellenoit announces the digital and CD release of "Home Songs Volume 2" — the second in a series of three EPs being released this year — a set of literate, folk-pop compositions that straddle the line between the junkyard blues of Tom Waits’ disjunctive grooves and 80s new-wave nerd-pop.

Music fans already know Bellenoit from his 2010 solo vinyl LP "Eight Track Mind", and also as the stunning Telecaster slinger for the critically acclaimed Sweetback Sisters (Signature Sounds). He's also lent his guitar skills to internationally renowned songwriters like Amos Lee (Blue Note), Joseph Parsons (Blue Rose), and Birdie Busch (Bar/None).

Each of the "Home Songs" EPs comprises six songs — self-produced and recorded at Bellenoit's home in South Philadelphia — with postproduction handled by Bellenoit's partners at Turtle Studios, Rob Shaffer and Jeff Hiatt. The second installment proves as whimsical and world-weary as the first, but the arrangements feature a more intensely spartan quality, a greater directness in his intentions. Songs like "Lust" leave a deep, haunting imprint on the listener, while "Your Face" disguises a degree of snark in the lyrics with an uplifting lilt in the music.

Volume 3 is already recorded and will be released in the fall. Ross Bellenoit & The Goods are actively performing and promoting all three volumes of Home Songs throughout 2012.

credits

released June 5, 2012

Written, Produced, Performed and Recorded by Ross Bellenoit from January 2009 to August 2011, at home.

Mixed by Rob Shaffer and Mastered by Jeff Hiatt at Turtle Studios, Philadelphia, PA.

Art Direction: Alec Meltzer

Photography: Kenton Elliott (front cover), Ross Bellenoit (back cover)

© Little Rolling Thunder (ASCAP)

Enormous thanks go to:
My family, my friends, my employers and co-workers at Turtle Studios: Jay Levin, Jeff Hiatt, Sandy Selznick, Rob Shaffer for encouraging my passion for recording, the city of Philadelphia, Apple, GarageBand, Logic.

These recordings are dedicated to Steve Jobs.

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