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Sense in This Time

Sense in This Time
Scrap Yard Aces

Sense in This Time

Sense in This Time

Sense in This Time (CD 2019)
Artist: Scrap Yard Aces
Release Date: 2019
Genre: Reggae Rock
People: Special thanks: Shawn Taylor (hammond organ, piano, backing vocals); Sergio Sandoval (percussion on Inna Eden and Mota); Jah Connection horns on Mota (Glenn Holdaway, Warren Huang, Tony Rinaldi). Recorded & Mixed by Shawn Taylor (Hughes Drive Studios). Mastered by Reuben Cohen (Lurssen Mastering).

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Album Reviews

"I knew from the first unreleased CD the band sent me that the fully mastered album would be a great success and well-received by listeners." https://www.topshelfmusicmag.com/news/an-interview-with-scrap-yard-aces

Renee Simpson, Top Shelf Music

Tracklist

1. No Sense
2. Mota
3. Somehow
4. 2AM
5. Inna Eden
6. Rum
7. Niney Dub
8. Henry Miller's Daydream
9. Same Train
10. Mota Space and Time Dub

Lyrics

No Sense

we’re living in a time that makes no sense, I
wish I could find some kind of a defense, I
are you feeling it too, or is it just I?
in this time, I wonder where is Justice?

we’re living in a time, can you feel it?
living in a time that makes no sense, I
starting to wonder is it only I who feel like?
I only want to know if you can feel
feel like I feel it too

we’re living in a time that makes no sense, I
if you feel it then you know that you want I
you can feel
plant seeds and sing songs
wisdom is the seed carried north by the storm
your love’s the only thing that’s real
the only thing to cling to
real
the only thing that makes sense

makes no sense, I
makes no sense, I
makes no sense, I

makes no sense, I
no sense in this time
makes no sense, I

Mota

I move through space, I move through time
I move forward with you on my mind

the sun it shines, the sun it burns
you are the moon when the day it turns

when times are tough you show me mercy
when I light you up you set me free

mota mexicana
so cheap but so kind
mota mexicana
so dirty but so fine
mota mexicana
you give me peace of mind

senorita senorita
come close won’t you make me feel sweeter?

go to dinner, go to a show
doesn’t matter where you wanna go

when you break off clean your plate
take care of head and lighten my way

when times are tough you show me mercy
when I light you up you set me free

mota mexicana
so cheap but so kind
mota mexicana
so dirty but so fine
mota mexicana
you give me peace of mind

senorita senorita
come close won’t you make me feel sweeter?

Somehow

Seems so long when I look back
Big Island bound with a rucksack
20 years on now I’m feeling
don’t believe what I’m seeing

I thought I’d be there by now
Time travel's my only hope now

No regret disturb my day
Nothing much I’d trade away
But I still can’t help feeling
that something is missing

I thought I’d spend my time on
Different shore than I’ve been on
Thought I’d be with you one day
Wanting wanting

I thought I’d be there by now
Time travel's my only hope now

I'm gonna get there
Somehow

2AM

2am once again
here I am, the last of friends
colored lights fight the gloom
last will on the walls of this room
but you don’t need it
 'cos you can’t feed it
to fill the godhole inside

can’t ignore it I bought the ride
watchin the sunrise in my mind.
eruption reignites
feed the fear, fear the flight
we like to let it out and
 we like to let it fly
we like to be so free
 and we like to be so high
we like to be

But Holy rollers still saying 'Drill baby, drill'
They can’t see the world through the lens of the spill
from their luxury cars in the suburban sprawl
Tell me, now down to you, was it all worth it all?

Did you know? did you see? did you feel somehow
a little more humble, a little less proud?
Man says I doubt it, you say you doubt it too
but who’s paying him? and who’s paying you?
I say who, baby who? but can you be true?
and tell me what it is that you think I should do
and tell me, what do you get from it all?
tell me what do you get from it all

he’s got more money than I could ever see
in any of my amusements in any of my dreams
and it all comes down to this again
down to this again

Inna Eden

the only law is the blood in your veins,
the sun in the sky, and a kind green strain
law protect I n I from police and thieves
who believe seed can be killed with a gun

mr camp in your combat pants,
bullets you sow still make our harvest grow
your blackbirds can't blot the sun
'cos you lost the war to the revolution.
Revolution

let it go
let it grow
inna Eden

there's no pair o' dice
in paradise

let it go
let it grow
inna Eden now

Only in a Babylon system
do puppet politicians sell legislation
Banks a-profit from fear and rage
can't put I in a corporate cage

Babylon on your mountain of gold
you only harvest blood when you're planting bone
Your coin won’t stop you from growing old
You either got love or you die alone
die alone
die alone

Rum

if you were a monkey in the city
would you climb a tree?
yes, yes I would if I could
and I should if I could

if you were a a mighty oak
would you seek the sun?
yes, yes I would if I could
how deep should I grow?

go climb your tree, monkey
rise up you mighty oak
i'll be here in the sun
like some sick joke

if you were a koi in a pond
would you swim to see?
yes, yes I would if I could
and I should if I could

if you were a great blue whale
would you dive the deep?
yes, yes I would if I could
how deep should I grow?

swim out to sea, koi
dive deep you great blue whale
i'll be here in the sun
like a dead man's tale

i sold a ship of souls
i sold it all
I sold it all
for that bottle of rum

if you were the king rooster
would you still hunt the hens?
yes, yes I would if I could
and I should if I could

if you were buried alive
would you rise again?
yes, yes I would if I could
how deep should I grow?

go hunt your hen rooster
rise up you rotted shade
i'll be here in the sun
black rum and me

i sold a ship of souls
i sold it all
I sold it all
for that bottle of rum

i sold it all
i sold it all
i sold it all
for that bottle of rum

Niney Dub

(instrumental)

Henry Miller's Daydream

Living large is a TV dream,
If we follow the rainbow’s arc
do you think we can make it?

Behind it all laughs the man
who jingles the biggest key ring
even he can’t always find a reason to sing

sit quietly now
spring comes and grass grows of itself
don’t be afraid

I’m here and I don’t know why
Don’t know who I think I am
but I’m still alive
and I can say what no one else can say
and you can take it or leave it
but I think that you'll take it

sit quietly now
spring comes and grass grows of itself
don’t be afraid

there's only one way
the Universal Mind can see you
So there’s nothing to fear
cos everything comes from chaos
and home it will return

Corporations lie but we know it already
tell me something I ain’t seen
Too many clichés worn out
You know how it feels now

Woke up from my dream
And found out it was all real
No escape
You know how it feels yo

Henry said there’s two ways to go
But this is a one-way ticket home

Same Train

every day is the same thing
feeling the same way
going the same place
doing the same things
all over again and again

walked this way
15,000 times before
I can hear the same train
callin' me, All aboard!

there’s another way to go
there’s another way to go
there’s another way we can be
so many ways to live free

Just enough to keep me coming
Back for more
Climbin' on the same train
callin' me, All aboard!

there’s another way to go
there’s another way to go
there’s another way we can be
so many ways to live free

live free

there’s another way to go
there’s another way to go
there’s another way we can be
Choose a new way and live free

About Album

The band’s 2019 album Sense in This Time is building an international reputation, with Spotify fans in more than 60 countries and the single Mota voted #18 in the year’s top 30 on the Ska Show with Beefy on Melbourne, Australia’s 88.3 Southern FM.

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