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Gentle Ray With Scarlet Fever
Looking Forward
Deaf Bed
Time Ain't Right
A Song For Allistair Pulley
Destination Cherry Hill
World's Most Valuable Cracker
Hail Sycamore
In Search of The Giant Squid
Orange Lake
Melt It
We Will Remain Raw
Ivory Low
Caviar is Caviar, Helium or Not


Errant Strike contains
some mixture of:

Tim Kearley,
Brook Kearley,
EJ Shaull-Thompson,
Eric Morrison,
Andy Stack,
Trey Conner,
Jenny Morrison,
Jenn Wasner


Produced by:
Eric Morrison and
Errant Strike


Spectacular cover
art by:

Brian C. Repetto

Gentle Ray With Scarlet Fever   [ MP3 ]
Look out Ray, it's in the air.
It's in the way she lets you stare.
Well, I hope you make it there,
because once you know, you're done.
Yeah yeah, you think you made it in,
but you're losing time, you're losing it.
Every glimpse is another prayer to stay,
and you choose to hover... ok.
I picked a fight with gravity...
boss of the moon but not my feet.
scarlet fever!!


Once the heart is removed from the body, time is of the essence. If rapid closure is not achieved, infection sets in and life-threatening fever will follow.


EJ: drums
Andy: bass
Eric: keys
Tim: guitar,vocals
Trey: guitar
Scarlet Fever Siren Singers:
Brook, Jenny M., Megan Reilly

Looking Forward   [ MP3 ]
When I first got wind of you,
I just assumed there must be some escape.
but then you made it clear...
If I stay, i'll just be in the way.
So now i'm looking forward.
I'm looking forward!
I'm looking forward...
to anti-depressants.


Yes, we suffer dramatic catastrophes. Then comes the dream of pheonix-like rebirth! Oh yes, picture it all, and it's within reach!... but the medication is closer.

players
Tim: piano, vocals
Brook, Jenny M.: vocals



Deaf Bed   [ MP3 ]
Heard footsteps down the hall
and now you freeze for every heel about to fall.
(stop listening then)
D-E-A-F... deaf bed
In the morning, start performing
and make it loud enough
to keep the other sounds at bay
(are you a man of letters? yes.)
D-E-A-F... deaf bed



death bed is the problem... deaf bed is the solution. stop listening.

players
Tim: keys, samples, bass, vocals
Brook: vocals



Time Ain't Right   [ MP3 ]
Time ain't right and it ain't wrong
and it ain't anything
and i'll walk right out the room
if you say that word again.
You're worried about the time,
like it's a madman killing you.
Well, that's what it's always been.
That's what it's always been!!
Time ain't right and it ain't wrong,
and would you please just sing along with me:
1,2,3... begin. Grow a second skin.
Recast the parts with someone like you in the lead.
1,2,3... begin. Find someone else to wrap
around that paper skin.


I understand, I do... and i'm sorry, really really sorry. Now tell me, what the fuck are we waiting for?!


EJ: drums
Eric: keys
Tim: guitar, bass, vocals
Brook: vocals



A song for Allistair Pulley   [ MP3 ]
[ excerpts from the city paper homicide column ]

EJ: drums and vocals
Eric: sympathetic mumblings

Tim: guitar, bass, keys, Eba's violin

Destination Cherry Hill   [ MP3 ]
Destination Cherry Hill.
Be sure to get off before the end of the line.
It sounds so very sweet
until you get there and find you've run out of time.
And they say you'll be just fine.
All you gotta do is say "I believe"
I do believe!!
And so our winner must climb his proverbial hill
and declare a state of free will.

It seems he wants to call it something,
I think he wants to call it a voice,
even though he has no choice.
Stop requested!



The hero makes his choice. Fortitude and sacrifice. Virgins in the afterlife. Oh heroic journey. Be sure to get off before the end of the line.


Tim: guitar, bass, synth, slo-mo hand jive, vocals
Jenny M.: announcements


World's Most Valuable Cracker   [ MP3 ]
They'd never seen anything quite so rare
and if you know it, you're going to see it
They found the world's most valuable cracker
Only the greats use food to communicate,
and that's how they knew..
... that's how they knew...
that he was the world's most valuable cracker
... just sitting there with all the rest,
He said: 'This one is special'
He'd found the world's most valuable cracker


Blind faith. It's good, it's bad, it's everywhere.


EJ: drums
Andy: bass
Tim: guitar, vocals
Eric: keys
Trey: guitar

Hail Sycamore   [ MP3 ]
awash in a fake, factory sense
strange engine starting up again
and i just cycled back from the hill
with parallel lines about running out of time
and now i find....
(it grows as i grow i live)
so tonight put down that dull little ax
(it breathes the air and i breathe the air)
(it grows as i grow i live)
if shadows the when but how killed it again
(it breathes the air and i breathe the air)
Sycamore of the goddess nut
swallowed the sun and now it's begun
i am the water in...
in which you dwell, i am the well.


Nothing stops you from shamelessly begging for rescue quite like having someone else to rescue.


EJ: drums
Andy: bass
Tim: guitar, keys, bottle, vocals
Brook: vocals




In Search Of The Giant Squid   [ MP3 ]
you were raised in a blue blaze
with one eye on the door,
but you longed for more,
you boiled with belief,
but you didn't go to sleep.
Like two psychiatrists in bed
who won't turn out the lights,
just stuck inside their own heads.
Don't forget to put your hands out
when the ground comes up,
like it always does....
If you're too busy trying to stop time
you'll find, it'll stop you first.
don't be denied.
god, we love the catastrophe song.
yeah, but the thing is blah blah blahdie blah.
don't be denied.


Yes, Leonard, yes. Reach for the unknown and the pulse quickens.


Tim: guitar, bass, samples, vocals
Eric: keys
EJ: electric slide dulcimer


Orange Lake   [ MP3 ]
Most of what i need never comes from tree or vine
but i still complain...
Sometimes we're the fleas and it's hard to see
sucking out the blood of whatever we can find
never mind the disease.
But there's more to you and me,
and i see it every time orange lake recedes
Look, it's the demon striations!
Undo! Undo!

What's to be done when terrible is natural


EJ: drums
Andy: bass
Tim: guitar, keys, vocals
Trey: guitar
Eric: keys
Jenny M: clarinet
Smitty: vocals


Melt it   [ MP3 ]
When he showed up,
he made sure that you knew about it
Pennies in my cup, please, please, please
Well, i guess he'll just toboggan down
fair skinned and berry eyed.
Well, if that's what he wants,
then that's what he wants..
but what if the butter doesn't melt?
and what if the winter never ends?
We'll melt it!


mmmmm.... hot melted butter. don't tell me you prefer plain.


Tim: guitar, vocals
EJ: drums, claps
Eric: keys, claps


We Will Remain Raw   [ MP3 ]
I tried to maintain
some kind of resemblance
to what you wanted me to be.
But soon i realized i was to blame.
I told you what you wanted
to push you away.
we'll cut the lids to remain
wide eyed and weather vain.
i'll circle round to the back
if rose counselors attack.
you sing to swing the ape cane
and raw is what we'll remain.
sugar, you rot my teeth.
Before i got a chance to speak,
you went and made all words obsolete again.
from now on, nothing we say
can change that much anyway.
words are the easiest thing to bend.


We will not endlessly defend. We will not feign ignorance behind callous weather-worn skin. We will not fortify individual sanctuaries. We will remain raw!


Tim: guitar, vocals
EJ: drums
Andy: bass
Eric: keys
Trey: guitar


Ivory Low   [ MP3 ]
Bedside thighs and an ivory low
Absolute this moment
About the rest, i don't know.
I loved last night.
About the rest, i don't know.
Perfection signals the imminent arrival of imperfection. Absolute this moment... That has to be good enough.


EJ: drums
Andy: bass
Trey: guitar
Tim: guitar, drum machine, vocals
Brook: flute, vocals, lyrics


Caviar is caviar, helium or not   [ MP3 ]
Below, below....
where campire vents make everything grow,
and all senses are stripped.
I can't measure anything!
I guess, i guess, but caviar still tastes best
If something tastes good, then it is. If you want to descend into the depths to convince yourself it's bad, it's relatively easy to do... dumbass.


Tim: guitar, vocals
EJ: drums
Andy: bass
Trey: guitar
Eric: keys
Brook: keys