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Tolerance Ends, Love Begins

by The Pinkerton Raid

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1.
RIGHTEOUS RAIN My mouth is a desert, I thirst for her lips But the hunger inside me she’ll never satisfy My body is aching for her to come near How can one broken heart another repair? Send a righteous rain. Wash away the shame. Soak me, soothe my pain. Send a righteous rain How many times have I danced for the rain With a silvery spoon when I needed a pail? A spoonful of sugar, I sleep through the night But the dirt on my face is still there at day’s light I need the caress of one greater than her A torrent of tenderness, a heavenly cure Now open the skies, pour down on my soul Fill up this emptiness, make this man whole Break your rainbow promise. Flood this earth again Float my body to the sky, so I can drink your heavenly waters in
2.
Hollywood 04:41
HOLLYWOOD Hello, my name is Hollywood, and I am not a victim No, I am not a victim, but I play one in real life Hello, my name is Hollywood, my life is not as scripted My life is not as scripted, and someone’s going to pay Hollywood, you broke my heart, you said that we would never part Unless things changed, and then they did. You believed the lies, what the tabloids said Hello, my name is Hollywood, I’m a prisoner of the system I do what all the glamour girls do, exactly what I want Hello, my name is Hollywood, I’m fearful of commitment When life gets hard I sail away, to where no one knows my name Hello, my name is Hollywood, my plot’s a little twisted And if you sit too close to me, then you’ll be twisted too Hello, my name is Hollywood. My god, I should have listened My mind got lost in fantasy, and then the lights came on
3.
Crazy 03:57
You said you were crazy about me, and now you’re saying it was a lie That you were never crazy about me, well, honey, that sounds pretty crazy, I can’t lie Crazy, you are crazy, you are crazy, we are crazy I deserve someone crazy about me. Is that what you want me to believe? Well, what do I know? It’s only my heart inside me. You know better, at least you’d have me believe Don’t tell me what I want, just tell me that the past is gone Just say you don’t want me no more, and I’ll help you to the door If you know someone crazy about me Just tell her that I am crazy too Maybe we can be crazy together Just make sure she’s crazier than you
4.
It started with a wildflower to tickle her face What if the skin of his fingers had invaded the space? Between a lonely girl who kept love at arm’s length And an eager boy who thought he had the strength To overcome her guards, and climb the tower to her heart, to find … Love, deeper than skin To know her secrets deep within To know how she feels from the outside in To find love, deeper than skin On a grassy knoll he made his move But she stiffened her neck as if to prove She had no need any man could fill Well, he made up his mind at the top of that hill That a kiss was a start, but what he wanted was her heart, he wanted … You came so close but so far away I thought you’d let me inside one day But around your heart is a wall of stone I could never, never call it my own So now it’s time to say goodbye, to find someone who wants to be mine, to find ...
5.
Don't 04:04
Don’t look at me with those eyes … I know what lies behind those eyes Your looks are good, but you’re no good for me. You look good, but you’re no good for me Don’t smile at me with that mouth … I know what that means, without a doubt I said don’t
6.
I stand in awe, can do no wrong She lies in bed, my voice is gone Her eyes look deep into my soul, a goddess who saw the days of old What she sees, I do not know. She knows my heart, my mind, my soul Whispering, she calls me close. What she wants, only she knows I reach out to touch her, my fingers clutch the air Apparition, holy ghost, she’s never far, like when she’s close I look deep inside, to the depths of my own heart And there my lover lies, singing, “Never shall we part.” How could a goddess condescend to heal a heart a woman rent? She needs a god to make her whole, not this fearful, furious fool All alone, inside my head I stumble toward my lonely bed Loneliness gives way to love, all around, below, above I look deep inside, in the stillness of the night And there my lover lies, singing, “Lie with me tonight.”
7.
Rolling down a country road, you cross a bridge to the other side They’ve always got a place for you, but only girls are hired If you want a job, you’ll have to pay, ‘cause love round here is tired Tolerance ends, you cross that line, they’ll take your money, but not your time She wants everything that meets her eye, nothing less will satisfy She needs your touch, your words, your smile, the gifts that money can’t buy Give her what she needs, Don’t let your love grow tired Today she loves no other man, but, man, just give it time Someday the boys will make her blush, you’ll have to get in line Give her all you’ve got, don’t let your love grow tired Better give it while the givin’s good, when tolerance ends you’ll wish you could
8.
I couldn’t breathe, these walls, they were closing in on me They speak to me, they speak to me, but never say anything I needed to breathe where dreams run free, the air is clear between us And I see the blue across the room, blue eyes, the color of the sky Blue eyes, the Colorado sky I couldn’t see, my eyes were blind with rising steam I needed to see blue sky surrounding me I’ve seen gray eyes, Seattle winter sky, unclear, like oxygen disguised Carolina skies so wide, Colorado sky is wider Carolina eyes open wide, Colorado opens them wider
9.
Your face rises from the pillow like the sunrise after the darkest night It’s 5 a.m. on the eastern shore; black skies give way to the brightest light We find Beach Access 33, where you said you’d spend your life with me Beach Access 33, where my baby said she’d marry me Spread a blanket on the sand, my love; scatter rose petals to the wind Play you love songs, love, on my guitar, wish this morning would never end Sun’s rays are warm upon my skin; a gentle breeze is blowing in These waves are music to my ears; creation sings when you are here with me

about

Time was, The Pinkerton Raid's Jesse James DeConto would spend his days writing about murder and mayhem as a newspaper reporter. Almost every day, he'd drive from his former home in Carrboro to the Orange County Courthouse in Hillsborough, N.C.

Driving north on Highway 86, he'd pass a traffic sign that said "TOLERANCE ENDS." It was meant for big-rig truckers, to tell them to detour off the country road and get on the sturdier Interstate 85.

Something about crime reporting that most people don't know: There's a lot of waiting around. You sit there in court, waiting for a judge to make a ruling, waiting for a lawyer to show up, waiting for a defendant to be brought over from the jail.

"I'd be watching people's lives falling apart – or already having fallen apart – and I was watching a seven-year relationship falling apart in my own life, thinking about what went wrong, what was next for me," Jesse says. "I'd just sit there writing lyrics in my reporter's notebook."

Out of those vulnerable moments sprang the songs from Tolerance Ends, Love Begins, The Pinkerton Raid's third full-length album.

What started with intimate, personal storytelling became a communal experience with instrumentation evolving over the next seven years, as Jesse handed off songs like "Tolerance Ends," "Hollywood," and "Deeper Than Skin" for his sister Katie to take lead vocals.

The siblings built many of the arrangements around their brother Steven's acoustic guitar, layering Eric Johnson and Michael DePue's electric guitars with the expansive drumming of Steve Anderson (Kamara Thomas & The Night Drivers) and the twee textures of Chimeatron, ukulele and brass. Wilson Greene (Look Homeward, Mipso) added guitars and banjo.

Recorded with Mark Simonsen (The Old Ceremony, Dead Tongues) and Thom Canova at Mitch Easter's Fidelitorium and at Studio M in the spring of 2016, Tolerance Ends, Love Begins is a story of broken love and resurrection, their most hopeful collection to date.

credits

released February 7, 2017

All songs © Jesse James DeConto (ASCAP Clarendon Street Press) 2007-2014, except “Don’t” © Katie DeConto, 2015. All rights reserved.

Recorded in 2016 at the Fidelitorium, Kernersville, N.C.,
with additional recording at Studio M, Durham, N.C.
Engineered and mixed by Thom Canova
Produced by Mark Simonsen
Production assistant: Kelcy Dial
Mastered by Morgan Sizer at Mozu Mastering, New Haven, Conn.
Cover design: Adam Neubauer

Band/booking contact: jesse@pinkertonraid.com

Press contact:
August Forte
NoVo Management and Publicity
4245 N Knox Ave.
Chicago, IL 60641
Tel. 773-278-6686
august@novo.net
www.novo.net

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