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Beasts of the Field

by Patrick Lyons

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I was born like the fruit That falls down by the root On the banks of American Creek I dropped down from a height Like a thief in the night To inherit the lot of the meek I learned mercy and love From the purple-winged dove As she sang me the songs of the weak But I longed to forsake Like the red-bellied snake On the banks of American Creek I grew bold in the shade Til I outgrew that glade With dreams of the havoc I would reek So I climbed to a point Where the clouds might anoint Any soul who had bothered to seek And the mountain came down And I tore at it's crown Til it hung like a moon from my beak Then I fell full of lies As a hawk from the skies On the rats of American Creek I had lied I had sinned Tried to hide on the wind I had covered myself with mystique With the masks I had worn The pains I had borne And the prayers I would speak I had made a mistake Like the rat and the snake I had learned not to find but to seek So I spoiled like the fruit Left to rot by the root On the banks of American Creek
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There's an empty road with a dead coral tree On the east side of Berry An empty road where the cars never slow at the bend An empty road full of delicate souls On their way down to Purgatory Ferry An empty road where the world has established an end
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We lied outright to each other You know they were good good lies You played to my flea market honour And I played to your pawn shop surprise Your outrage at my sad behaviour Undone by my outrageous lines But you stopped in the rain Just to hear them again To use them for your own designs Then came the clutch and desire The arrows hell-bent on their mark Your kisses set me afire And we burned full of holes in the dark And when it was done we were laughing When it was done we were scared When it was done it was obvious One of us hated that one of us cared
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I see it in your eyes It's not quite hidden there Comes as a surprise The coolness of your stare Don't know how I believed you You understand it all Face just like a mountain Never gonna fall Never gonna fall You walk along the roadside Off to gallows pole Rocks have started falling Falling on your soul Waiting for the green light Staring into space An avalanche of reason Falling from your face Falling from your face
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Hey there Mister Golden Ears I heard that you found love Tossed down in the gutter Like some holey worn-out glove All that time you heard it clapping Waiting there for you You picked it up and tried it on And prayed that you'd find two No one could go home No one could go home Hey there Mister Golden Ears I heard that you sought love I'm sure you'll find it louder Than the thunderbolts above Shakes like dolby stereo In glorious surround But just for you It's mono too It's every kinda sound Hey there Mister Golden Ears The sirens of this town Still sing in drunken revelry While heading west on Crown Up to the bridge of Jubilee From downtown near McCabe Overturning every garbage bin And waking every babe And when your little party got old tonight I wouldn't let you turn on that light No one could go home No one could go home

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"A great listen."
Neil Rogers - The Australian Mood, 3RRR-FM

“Patrick Lyons, a singer-songwriter from Wollongong, NSW has teamed up with highly regarded producer J. Walker for his debut album with excellent results.”
Paul Gough - The Inside Sleeve, Radio National

“Patrick Lyons BEASTS OF THE FIELD (Catskinnermusic) ★★★½ For years Patrick Lyons has been in Wollongong bands, including seminal garage rockers the Unheard (alongside two Tumbleweed members). All the while the singer, songwriter and guitarist was gestating a solo album, now birthed with the aid of J. Walker (Machine Translations), whose trademark inventiveness is audible in this record's full yet mournful feel and broken yet beautiful sounds. Ably veering from bar-room ballads to cantering bluegrass to the sorrowful wolf-howl folk of Gone From This Town and the tremolo-blurred amble of Tight Noose Blues, this album is a rumination you can't help but join. Few songs would be ill-placed scoring the noir swamp storyline of HBO series True Detective. Touring soon with his American Creek band, peopled by various Wollongong faces, if Lyons' shows summon even half the vibe of his record, they'll be well worth catching.”
Kate Hennessy - The Sydney Morning Herald

“Patrick Lyons: Beasts Of The Fields (Indie) - Americana, country and folk-revival fare flesh out gothic country tales with fiddle and mandolin. Sad and often highly evocative.”
Chris Cobcroft - The New Releases Show 4ZZZ

“★★★★ ...Beasts of the Field started life as a series of rough home recordings so members of a new live band could learn the songs. But part way in, Wollongong, NSW singer, songwriter and guitarist Lyons decided the project was destined for greater things. Enter Greg Walker, producer extraordinaire whose recent work with Paul Kelly, as well as a shining track record with his own Machine Translations, made a natural fit for the live acoustic/electric sound Lyons has long favoured. A couple of weeks with those demo tapes in Walker’s Gippsland, Victoria home studio and the result was a thing of beauty, even if it is, as Lyons admits often “personal, and a little bit painful”. Perhaps so, but the sound is ethereal, and the outfit it was designed around, the American Creek Band, is now gigging, if sporadically. Check them out.”
Stephen Fitzpatrick - The Australian AU Review

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released November 16, 2014

Singer/songwriter and guitarist Patrick Lyons has released his long-awaited and intensely personal debut solo album 'Beasts of the Field'.
A combination home and studio recording, Beasts of the Field sees Lyons use well-honed multi-instrumentalist skills to wed intimate confession with grand cinematic storyboard. In the resulting songs Lyons’ love of rock and pop is tempered and tied to more acoustic and orchestral tonalities; hushed mandolin rolls over bowed piano strings, parlour guitar gives way to tenor horn, and bicycle spokes click by under distant slide guitar. Crafting his tales with a deft and melancholy lyricism, Lyons’ music moves restlessly through folk, country, ambient, rock, bluegrass and more and digs around their roots in the hope of unearthing something new that will hold to each song.
Lyons sought out Machine Translations guru J. Walker (Paul Kelly, Tiny Ruins, CW Stoneking) to help produce a ranging, haunted musical landscape for the album. Stand-out tracks include the dramatic album opener ‘American Creek’, the moving ‘Gone from this Town’, the quiet and beautifully layered ‘This Hill’ and an homage to Ennio Morricone in the moody spaghetti-western instrumental ‘Tight Noose Blues’.
Patrick Lyons has forged a reputation as a fine and versatile guitarist. A member of seminal Wollongong garage institution The Unheard, he has also recorded and performed with acclaimed Australian folk singer/songwriter David Beniuk, most recently on his latest album The New Normal. Other projects include pop maverick Adam Buckland’s Dodgy World, cabaret chanteuse Tia Juana’s Depths of Despair and dark country throwbacks The Cattle-ists.
'Beasts of the Field' will be released nationally on CD and Bandcamp in December 2014. A limited run of vinyl will be available for online pre-orders and in selected independent stockists.
Patrick Lyons and the Band of American Creek will tour nationally in 2015 at selected venues.

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