Cheapjack Moon

by Wave Array

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about

Like a more psychedelic Spoon or a more shambolic Pinback...The East Bay band’s debut politely ignores prevailing trends.
- Nate Seltenrich, East Bay Express

A powerful, fresh sound that builds on the past and adventurously anticipates the future. Psychedelic flourishes enhance intricately layered rock.
- Paul Freeman, San Jose Mercury

There's a deep fluidity in the songs of Wave Array that makes the group not just another drop in the ocean of psychedelic garage-rock bands.
- Delfín Vigil, SF Chronicle


Self released and self-produced. Cheapjack Moon is a 2 year culmination of Wave Array's sonic evolution.

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released 28 August 2009

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Track Name: Future Tense
Well she stands in place
waiting for something someone arrived
he doesn't talk to much, he won't talk to much
he's dragging out a momentary silence

invisible to each other
he sits and only hears
a whisper in his ears of something that he needed to rely on

she said, she said,
she said she said

These paths of broken string
colliding out of me
come and twist them up
just wind around
another future tense to see
to warp your innocence, your innocence
just remember, just remember
it's all in your hands

In a fairytailing twist,
she appeared from out of air
before he caught himself
he fell before he spoke
and gasping he had nothing to say

he couldn't say, he couldn't say
instead he fought himself

did I choose the right one?
Of course you did, I know you did
Once you've seen the bottom of the abyss
you can't be wrong
if you've seen the end, you can't be wrong
if you make the end, you can't be wrong
Track Name: Cruise Control
Let the music fall from the sky
Let it lead us to our home
With so much time to wind up the mind
Yeah and let our bodies go

I'm not gonna try anymore
Well I'll just let it roll
I'm not gonna try anymore
and I'm in cruise control

Imagination's the eyes looking at your soul
Imagination's the eyes looking at your soul

Imagination's the eyes looking at your soul
Imagination's the eyes looking at your soul
I'm not gonna try anymore, Well I'll just let it roll
I'm not gonna try anymore, I'll let it roll
Track Name: Traffic
You're quickly running out of rope to climb
taking chances with your unlucky nines
are you sure you found it all in one place, in one piece?

In spades they have it
everything you never need
won't stop feeding you this traffic
clouding what's already thin

They make the promise they will bring you back
they make that promise like they have the means
and the ways you go around your head
you needed something else instead
the ways you go around your head
you needed something else instead

In spades they have it
everything you never needed
want...need.
Track Name: Lullaby
My old friend, who's going to bury who?
In this time we've met, I've never seen you sleep
do you find it odd, never rest for the weary
standing under a cloud with these weights you drag

So sleep away my friend
I'll stay to wake you in the end
and dream those dreams you keep inside
look at yourself, sleepy eyes

Asleep, asleep, pray for your soul to stay
and tunnel through this darkness, this chaos you see

So sleep away my friend
I'll stay to wake you in the end
and dream those dreams you keep inside
look at yourself, sleepy eyes
Track Name: Paper Wings
Paper wings just cutting holes
folding up to get away
Can't escape the lingering
of thoughts I've had along the way

A broken beacon lights the shallow crashing waves
you are, you are, you are burned

Sometimes you are a pretty face in the crowd
and all I want to do is end this tripping fool's climb for nothing

Marching through the caravan
searching stones along the shore
Smoke and mirrors and fallacies
coming with the rush of kerosene

A sleeping dreamer in a silent symphony
you are, you are, you are heard

Sometimes you are a pretty face in the crowd
and all I want to do is end this tripping fool's climb for nothing

I'm already here, where I have to be
I'm already here, where I have to be
where I have to be
Track Name: Tell Us Tonight
Balloons come up
from a sinking rock you threw
and it's on the way down

Deepest black and the dark floor exists
my apologies for your waste

Your something awaits your every move, your every move
and it's here to find you
to find you, and haunt you

Come here you'll find out just what we are
what's the trouble what's the toll
a million minds can't fathom what we'll see
bring your best impersonation

She grew wings and she's coming back,
she found you and she's coming back to tell you
to tell you

I'm coming up to cut you to pieces
I'm coming up to cut you to pieces
pieces, to pieces

Don't worry about her, she won't stay, she won't stay
come clean around it to plant it and sprout it in may
a green start to warm your horizons and endless days
cover your attachments to keep them from running away

We won't say what you tell us tonight
we won't say what you tell us tonight
we won't say what you tell us tonight
we won't say what you tell us tonight

Don't worry about her she won't stay, she won't stay
Don't worry about her she won't stay, she won't stay
Track Name: Karmic Impulse
Spill it all
you're really going out on something strange
why don't you reassess your situation
before you blast yourself off, before you cast away

Ride this impulse out, 'til you know what you've done
ride this impulse out, 'til it comes around again

Why you reaching?
Why you reaching?

Don't stop believing
otherwise you'll plummet down
the side of the earth that was flat as a plank is now
inexplicably round

Give your thanks
for what you have, you really have it good
The sky you picked is sour on the other side
the fall of your civilization could come around at any time

Ride this impulse out, 'til you know what you've got
ride this impulse out, 'til your karma breaks you down

Why you reaching?
why you reaching?

Don't stop believing
otherwise you'll plummet down
the side of the earth that was flat as a plank is now
inexplicably round

Why you reaching?
Why you reaching?
Track Name: Crown
Don't be afraid of me
but I'm coming for you, coming for you
wave your feelings down
cause I'm coming for you, coming for you

What would I find if I could see through the mud,
take a look at you now, what would I find?

Take back the lies you make
give back the claims you stake
a useless go and turn around
walking with a tainted crown

A tainted crown
you've broken it down
the scythe treats you the same as everyone

A tainted crown
you've broken it down
the scythe treats you the same as everyone

A tainted crown
you've broken it down
the scythe treats you the same as everyone

A tainted crown
you've broken it down
the scythe treats you the same as everyone

the same as everyone
the same as everyone
the same as everyone
the same as everyone
Track Name: Footprints
So many questions
I'll just leave my naked footprints in the field
When I come around again
I hope to see them laying peacefully

instead of desert, instead of rail, instead of branching roads
pretend the future, pretend the past has nothing for us at all

Is this all you want me to be
Is this all you wanted from me
I can break the legends down with some time

Safe at home again
right back to where we know it started from
hold your disasters
I don't want this to turn ugly

I can be what you want me to be
I will make them all understand
Gonna take it over again with some time

Save yourself the trouble you are
grateful for the times you were there
but you're not needed here anymore
you're not helping at all anymore

Safe at home again
right back to where we know it started from
Track Name: In the Peel
Somebody stop me, I can't control myself
grab another one from the ledge and open it up
open up the inside, and throw it away

You know, it can't be that bad
it can't be that bad it's in the peel
what you're looking for isn't real
it won't appear, so why not just pretend away

I know, what's the point of doing something about it
if you can't feel it, touch it, breathe it

You know, it can't be that bad
it can't be that bad it's in the peel
what you're looking for isn't real
it won't appear, so why not just pretend away

Who exactly are you to say?
In the peel I'll keep it

I won't, I won't deal with the inside
just leave me the bitter ends, the bitterness

You know, it can't be that bad
it can't be that bad it's in the peel
what you're looking for isn't real
it won't appear, so why not just pretend away

In my final dancing days
I might change
I might change

I might, I might deal with the inside
forfeit the bitterness for a sweet ending
Track Name: Leave Me In
Picturing you again
reminds me of your breath as cold as the window
keep the world outside

Forget about the bricks
rest your ears from piercing lips disguised as a smile
wrapped around their heads

The world waits for us to breathe
who are we to hide away

Why keep the world outside?
Silence keeps the world outside

Come down off your cold, senseless ark
let a thousand pins wash your skin
because, because
once the numbness melts your bones
you care

You moved on with your effects
we shared a laugh
created a silence
and scattered

Why keep the world outside?
Silence keeps the world outside

Let a thousand pins wash your skin
let a thousand pins wash your skin
because, because
because, because
because you leave me in

Leave me in
leave me in
leave me in
leave me in
Track Name: The Allegory
Don’t fall asleep
There’s so much you need to see
Locked from the inside
With walls painted sky blue
So long, we could never surrender

And so falls the sky
Is that what you wanted
It comes crashing down on me

So like a child
Watching the mobile we’re entranced
Staring at the ceiling
To notice its splitting
Dizzy, broken, and destroyed

So fall to your knees
And witness the truth
You wanted to leave behind
Am I making you lose your mind

And so falls the sky
Is that what you wanted
It comes crashing down on me