NEW ALBUM FROM BRIAN LILLIE

Hello and welcome to the online home of the new album EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE, from Ann Arbor, Michigan-based musician Brian Lillie.  Though not an official Squirrel Mountain Orchestra album, many of the Squirrels and deputized Squirrels play on this critter, so Woo Hoo! to that…

Since the album is only available via download (currently, it can be purchased at cdbaby.com ), this site is going to be the equivalent of the “liner notes”, with a track-by-track breakdown of the lyrics, who played what, and other assorted items of interest as they pop up.

There you have  it.   I hope you enjoy the songs and the playing, and also hope you and yours are doing ridiculously well…

Bri

1. TWO CHAIRS

TWO CHAIRS
(words & music by Brian Lillie)

Have you heard about the Two Chairs?
Have you heard about the Two Chairs?

2. THROUGH

THROUGH
(words and music by Brian Lillie)

Wake up
open your eyes
take a shower
put something in your belly
put on your shoes
walk outside and go to work

3. EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE

EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE
(words & music by Brian Lillie)

Does anybody know the words to the song?
Does anybody know the words to the song?
I’ve been trying my best to fake it
Trying to sing along
Does anybody know the words to the song?

4. HALLOWEEN BY THE HORNS

HALLOWEEN BY THE HORNS
(words and music by Brian Lillie)

The old coat on the fence
Says “hello” to the apple
That lies in the road, hung over with frost
The cat leaves the wellhouse
As the night disassembles
The mice in the butterscotch weeds wander lost

5. TRICK OF THE LIGHT

TRICK OF THE LIGHT
(words & music by Brian Lillie)

It’s a trick of the light…

There’s rooms in the mansion that have never been open
The locks have no keys and the doors have no knobs
When the servants get lost, they pray they won’t find one
They pray they won’t find one– they’d rather lose their jobs

6. SOMETHING GOOD

SOMETHING GOOD
(words and music by Brian Lillie)

Falling aside all these words that
End where the twilight begins
Where the silence of your orphaned heart
Meets the ever-shifting winds
Sirens are screaming
As you upgrade to hurricane
You set your sights on the Capitol
And you fill your fists with rain

7. SHADOW COUNTRY

SHADOW COUNTRY
(words and music by Brian Lillie)

You say you know me well
I have to disagree
What do you think you’d find
If we rode off into
Deeper territory

8. ALTERNATE FUTURE

ALTERNATE FUTURE
(words and music by Brian Lillie and Al DiBlassio)

In an alternate future
On a road not taken
You’re still driving your old car
And the radio works
The rosebush you planted
Has not yet been murdered
By that big ugly sheepdog
Of your neighbor, the jerk

9. WIND CHILL

WIND CHILL
(words and music by Brian Lillie)

It’s cold
Radio says it’s ten degrees below

It’s six a.m.
Time to leave your burrow
And head out into the snow