Lowlives Divine- In the darkness I find a half cigarette in my hand. The waitress walks by holding a pot and dipping a sponge with sad sunken eyes. This booth for a throne I watch the beggers outside dole out the wine staggering while wielding their cups with the weight of the world. Help me lord. They scrutinized my words I spoke to the downtrodden kind. Accused me of crimes of trying to cast their religion aside had me crucified, had me crucified. I burst from the tomb carving out hope from stone hands these glorious wounds started a revolution of low, of the lowlives divine, who drink too much wine. Time has past no time has passed, centuries to Theodosius, an eternity to now. Its a sickening view I see from this place that I hang. You stick your forks in my wounds you sanctify then satirize, then post the pictures online, you post the pictures online. I want to feel hope but I can't. I want to undo all the love that I have for the lowlives divine.
from
Lowlives Divine,
released June 1, 2017
1. Endure
2. Seest Thou Not
3. Lovers
4. Lowlives Divine
5. Wild & Free
6. The Portal
7. The Resurrected Mind
8. The Only Crown
Hieronymus Bogs: all music*, lyrics, lead vocals, baritone ukelele (1, 4 & 7) nylon guitar (2, 3, 5), acoustic guitar (8), harmonica (8); Ben Morey: acoustic guitar (4); Chris O'Rourke: piano (4, 7 & 8); Dave Drago: drums & bass (3); Fred Brown: ambient sounds (4), electric guitar (7); Hester Bartram: flute (1); Johnny Bell: banjo (1, 2, 5 & 8), melodica (8), shruti box (5); Joshua Frankel: bass clarinet (2); Wallboard: prepared voice, stomps & claps (2), organ, electric piano, baritone guitar (3) pedal steel, 12-string guitar, guitar loops, organ, electric piano, auxiliary percussion (4), organ & piano (5), auxiliary percussion (7), pedal steel, organ & bells (8); Mosaic Mountains: backing vocals (2, 3 & 4); Reilly Solomon Taylor-Cook: bass (1, 4 & 8), bowed bass (4); Sam Snyder: bass (2, 5 & 7), drums (1, 2, 4, 5 & 8), percussion (1, 2, 4, 5 & 7), drum programming (3 & 5), piano (1), electric piano (3 & 5), monotron (3), harpsichord (5 & 7), synthesizer (2, 3, 4 & 7), sequencer (4), samples (3), prepared voice (2), backing vocals (5 & 7); Sean Hagerty: violin (5); *Shaun Jones: music & all instrumentation (6); Tim Avery: trumpet (4); Tom Montagliano: electric guitar (2, 3 & 5).
Design layout: Eric Fernandez; Album art: Lisa Bogs; Art preparation: Dorothy Ross; Back photo: Ezra Talavera; Recorded at Artist Abbey, T or C, NM; Mission Hall, Rochester, NY & home studios throughout NM, NY and TX; Mixed and Mastered by Sam Snyder at Turtlephonic Studios, Troy, NY. For Natalia & Bobby.
Produced by Sam Snyder
Sam Snyder appears courtesy of Columbia Records.
Lyrics at:
hieronymusbogs.com