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Thomas Barrett

'... we've both been choking on this thin air...'

About Me

A loosely knit collective of San Diego college students...

As restless idealists, they feel the fastest path to their desired musical Utopia involves lying in small, soundproofed rooms while flipping through sun-stained copies of On the Road and Les Illuminations, glancing at various pristine standardized test review books, and getting lost for days in dreams of typewriters, pea coats, Jack Purcells, Ray-Bans, latency-free drivers, and affordable euphoniums...

All songs © Thomas Barrett

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/12/2006
Band Members: The lineup changes with the wind...

...but we do get help from:

Kael Alden (of Faded Paper Figures): production/engineering on
"Please Take Care" and "A Thousand Times Goodnight"
Leah Rom: photos
Margaret Proffit: flyers
Influences: Beck, the Eels, Elliott Smith, The Velvet Underground, the Shins, Okkervil River, Wilco...
Sounds Like:

Type of Label: None

My Blog

Press: Ultra Stimulation

Big thanks to Mike from Nederlander Concerts for this kind write-up.--------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------"I just saw young Thomas ...
Posted by Thomas Barrett on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:04:00 PST

Footprints in the Snow Lyrics

You were once on a crooner's lips And the tip of a poet's pen. Their sanity fled with the rain. You were notes in a melody And sweet lines of poetry, Their rhymes tied off each quatrain. But you'll ...
Posted by Thomas Barrett on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 01:36:00 PST

Sad Southern Eyes Lyrics

I dreamt my eyes led me astrayTo the clouds of your mind where our wild hearts played,And frolicked among the graves,And stared at the ceiling, and laid wide awake.You dreamt your feet led me astray,A...
Posted by Thomas Barrett on Wed, 21 May 2008 05:09:00 PST

Lullaby Lyrics

Whose eyes are you smiling to?Can't be mine.And whose eyes are you looking through?Can't be mine.Can't be mine, can't be mine.They're too kind,Your smiling eyes.Whose hands are you waving to?Can't be ...
Posted by Thomas Barrett on Sun, 18 May 2008 04:36:00 PST

Yellow Lawn Lyrics

We'll stack the pillows in the carAnd lay upon the yellow lawn,Until you like me best.We'll set the clocks back hours for fun,And bathe and breathe and dream in song,Until I'm laid to rest.Then finall...
Posted by Thomas Barrett on Wed, 21 May 2008 04:53:00 PST

A Thousand Times Goodnight Lyrics

My seventh age has come to restUpon this stage, in time refreshed.I'm not an artist of goodbyes.I watch the setting of what light. I see your eyes, but not your mind.To kill with arrows traps and a si...
Posted by Thomas Barrett on Sun, 18 May 2008 04:36:00 PST

Please Take Care Lyrics

Bury me down low at the crossroads, babyWhere the feet upon my casket resonate.Cover me in dirt, cover me in mud and maybeIn my grave I'll remain.Our lives are thin as paper, babyI'm just glad you'll ...
Posted by Thomas Barrett on Sun, 18 May 2008 04:32:00 PST

Forever and Ever Again Lyrics

Life starts with a flash, ends up in a bang.Can't believe we're living in this much sin again.Then why not?I'm hearing colors and I'm seeing sounds,I'm blind, deaf and broken; then again, I get around...
Posted by Thomas Barrett on Sun, 18 May 2008 04:23:00 PST