Don't Worry, The Danger

Song List:
     1. WE CAN'T FIND IT (4:16) sample
2. LITTLE PEOPLE (5:22)
3. MEDICINE MAN (3:56)
4. ONLY HUMAN (4:53) sample
5. SMALL (4:10)
6. FISH TO FRY (3:30)
7. ON THE 15 (4:33)
8. THINGS WE MADE (3:49)
9. THE LAKE (5:26)
10. FUTURE FLIES (4:45)
11. TAKE A NUMBER (2:40) sample
12. LONESTAR HOLIDAY (6:19)
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These songs were performed and produced by Kathy Ziegler, Mathew Horn, and Don Piper
Engineered by Mathew Horn and Don Piper. Recorded at Between the Trains Studio, Brooklyn, NY
Mixed and mastered by Dave McNair at Unity Mastering, NYC

Additional musicianship provided by:
Christian Selinger: coronet
Catherine Popper: double bass
Richard Steel: electric guitar

Cover artwork: Kathy Ziegler
Back cover and tray photos: Tracy Eller
Studio photos: Mathew Horn
Rooftop photo: Kathy Ziegler
Inside folder portrait: Jairo van Lunteren
Graphic design: Pat Burke
Many Thanks to Matt, Don, and Dave, whose collective talent made this recording.
Additional thanks go to Jairo, Martha, Gary, Tracy, Pat, Richard, Christian, Catherine, Barnaby, Tim, DTB, and my friends and family.
www.kathyziegler.com


WE CAN'T FIND IT
When it calls, you listen. Play, play, play. Washes you and draws you in. Stay, stay, stay. Shattered by something, sheltered by nothing, the race, the dream, the small of your back. Caught in the fine space between the things you love, and the things you lack. Stunned by the shape of it, staring at the beautiful moon. Like a summertime kid's mind, cool in a night air way. Sleep when you're tired, then try again - these habits slip away. Shattered by something, sheltered by nothing, the race, the dream, the small of your back. Caught in the fine space between the things you love and the things you lack. Stunned by the shape of it, staring at the beautiful moon. We can't find it. Steady what you looking for. We can't find it. Careful what you holding on to. We can't find it. It's all in the palm of your hand.
Kathy Ziegler - guitar loop, piano, bass, vocals Mathew Horn - drums, backing vocals
Don Piper - acoustic guitar, lapsteel, backing vocals

LITTLE PEOPLE
Some laugh to laugh, some drink to get lost, some are still waiting for that sympathy. So breathe in to breathe, hair gets caught up in a spin. We could maybe stop it so the ghostmaker won't win. No mind to cherish, no mind to cherish, no mind cherish, love. Mr. City, speak. You are so beautiful and still. How you process this is so unthinkable. Little people run and quiver. The ideas that we make are so unfortunately born of everything we take. No mind to cherish, no mind to cherish, no mind to cherish, love.
KZ - guitar, bass, synth, vocals MH - drums, casio, backing vocals
DP - backing vocals Christian Selinger - coronet

MEDICINE MAN
Talk to the fire and it won't long. Warm blood will soothe you like the words to a song. Skin and bones will rock you how a mother would. Even the belly of a woman never felt this good. She could have been so in love. She said she was so in love with you. She would have been so in love. Written by the book, should have taken another look. Well, you're walking through the river of another displacement. Holding on to the fingers of a very weak replacement. Even beggars wonder at the prize you bought to replace the one you cast aside without a thought. She could have been so in love. She swore she was so in love with you. She would have been so in love. Written by the book, should have taken another look. No need now. Medicine man, medicine man, medicine man, medicine man, medicine man, medicine man ..
KZ - guitar loop, guitar, piano, vocals MH - drums, bass, percussion DP - shaker Richard Steel - guitars

ONLY HUMAN
Are you gonna sit in the riverboat? Where's it gonna take you? Where the livelihood is clean! Land of opportunity. It's hard to live outside of the comfort. Hollywood won't let you down. Make a wish, you might enjoy it. Only human. It's not the discouraging doctrine of chance, it's the rest that divides you. One beautiful silence will carry you home. It's hard to live outside of the comfort. Hollywood won't let you down. Make a wish, you might enjoy it. Only human. All the categories of worth, everything in your backyard, too. Every time they speak your name, nothing will carry you. Nothing will carry you home. It's hard to live outside of the comfort. Hollywood won't let you down. Make a wish, you might enjoy it. Only human.
KZ - guitars, piano, vocals MH - drums, bass, guitar, backing vocals DP - lapsteel, acoustic guitar
Richard Steel - electric guitar

SMALL
All the walls stood in your way. Somebody said they would crumble, but they won't fall down today. Because the walls come from dreams that you made. Somebody said they would come true, and they could have with faith. Don't worry, the danger that comes after you fall is just small. All the waves come at you from Boy's Town. Spitting out their image of you from the dust on the ground. All the stones that they throw at your feet. Somebody's lips will kiss them, someone's hand take your need. Don't worry, the danger that comes after you fall is just small.
KZ - acoustic guitar, piano, organ, bass pedals, vocals MH - percussion, high hat, backing vocals
DP - glockenspiel sample, backing vocals Christian Selinger - coronet

FISH TO FRY
Ceremonious school closing, two beds in the room. How we revel in secret languages the way survivors do. I listen to your stories, memorize your facts. We are only children once. This is it, no turning back. Hey, I'll always love you, though you make it so difficult. All the distances between us that you carefully have built. Out here on the telephone, I'll be waiting in the rain. Won't you come home soon? We'd all love to see you again. You've been walking up and down in circles with a red bag and a Chippewa skin. Your hair grows white from sleeping outside, smoking cigarettes, and eating tin. Float down Ventura Blvd. Sunburn makes your eyes turn blue. Everybody looks so familiar. You wait around for something to do. You've got too many fish to fry, so much love to give, people knocking down your door, so many reasons to live.
KZ - guitars, bass, piano, casio, vocals MH - drums, tambourine

ON THE 15
What is bad is bad. The truth, in definition, we never had it. Luck is allowed in this life. Find a quarter, find a wife. Nobody left enjoying. Ride, ride. Needles cast a shadow on your pride. Ride, ride like a dead dog looking for a bone to hide. Who is in charge of this ring? Kindness melts a cardboard anger, it's a good thing. Sit with the one who smells of dirty, dirty, dirty fun. (the message?) Ride, ride. Liquor cast a shadow on your pride. Ride, ride like a dead dog looking for a bone to hide. On the 15.
KZ - guitar loop, guitar, piano, violin, vocals, marching MH - drums, bass, clarinet, marching
DP - guitar Richard Steel - guitar

THINGS WE MADE
Trouble at night. Done by the morning light, we step from the wreckage. Bus ride, dawn, no help from anyone. We still have forever. Safe and warm, safe and warm. Rest your head, what's lost we'll have again. You work with the nature of things. Breath and sorrow, sweet dreams of bright tomorrow. We'll wake after winter and sing. Safe and warm, safe and warm. Plans we made, things once given then taken away. Dust and weather won't hold their power. With the first light shines today! We're gonna be safe and warm.
KZ - guitar, piano, tambourine, vocals MH - double bass DP - kick loop

THE LAKE
Think about how pleasant the cool water would feel on my knees. The soul likes to whisper through the tall and bended trees. You can count on it to take you back. (Shoreline Drive, open for the season. Shoreline Drive, open for to keep) And the weathered sun is high. We pray for the summer not to pass us quickly by. Jelly's back in town. We swing out over the water, swing out over the water, it never lets us down. You can count on it to take you back. It only makes you sad if you try to keep it new. Lonely daughter moves West, comes home to be closer to you. You can count on it to take you back. Don't let the sun go down.
KZ - guitars, piano, vocals MH - drums, bass, backing vocals
DP - shaker, backing vocals (and the words "to keep")

FUTURE FLIES
One smell of this soft hair, one touch of this cheek. Sits just like my husband, learning how to speak. How is it possible? Future flies away. Leaves you in the center, everything erased. Out here on the sidewalk, the colors of their coats. Dancing with the snow, mothers carry them home. How is it possible? Future flies away. Leaves you in the center, everything erased. In the air, in the eyes of strangers. In elderly couples, or swaying in the branches. In the dirt, in the new bath water. Everywhere, everything. We don't own a thing, nothing happens twice. Covers you like a blanket, melts away like ice. How is it possible? Future flies away. Leaves you in the center, everything erased.
KZ - guitar loop, guitar, accordion, Hammond, vocals
MH - drums, acoustic guitar, banjo, Hammond, backing vocals Catherine Popper - double bass

TAKE A NUMBER
London loves a dreamer, Reno loves a dancehall girl. San Francisco loves a drifter, Tokyo the rest of the world. Everybody loves a walker when they're walking away, you see. Take a number. You will fall over your feet with me, supernaturally. Everybody's looking for love on the street to the music of the street corner chance. So interesting how it goes from here to the love 'em 'til they need you dance. Look what's in front of you and don't let go until the end of eternity. Take a number. You will fall over your feet with me, supernaturally.
KZ - bass, guitar, vocals MH - drums, clarinets, backing vocals DP - guitar Richard Steel - guitar

LONESTAR HOLIDAY
Lonestar Holiday, blue car, keys in pocket. Come away with me, out to where they sit and sway. Out to the edge of town. You go up, I'll go down to the water, down to the sea. But you never have enough light, I could never have enough beauty, never have enough pride, never have enough water, never have enough love. See the sky rushing by up above. Cold drinks on ice or warm Guinness, doesn't matter. I can never finish. That's the way it happens these days. Mexican radio drifts in through the open window. Breeze on the East side, honey, it's a good phase. But you never have enough light, I could never have enough beauty, never have enough pride, never have enough water, never have enough love. See the sky rushing by up above.
KZ - guitar loop, piano, bass pedals, accordion, vocals MH - drums, melodica, backing vocals
DP - lap steel, acoustic guitar, backing vocals