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The Hands of Time

by Jesse DeNatale

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1.
Right Before My Eyes There is a joy out in the yard It’s comin’ pouring out of you It says that nothing is too hard Here beneath this green and blue And everything I find has been falling out the sky Everything I need you know it's right before my eyes Right before my very eyes I'm goin' through the gates of dawn I chased my muse into the trees I couldn’t see where I had gone I lost myself inside the breeze But everything I need you know it's falling out the sky Everything I want you know it's right before my eyes Right before my very eyes Right before my very eyes I'm goin’ up to Lucky Town I've got my own kind of dreams I’m gettin’ me a ticket now To anywhere anywhere I please And maybe with a little help I’m going to get it right And maybe only time will tell But I'm going to make it real I've got my hands inside the day You're looking out for me to see I've got my dreams to guide my way I know the good that's going to be Cause everything it seems, you know it's falling out the sky And everything I need, well its right before my eyes Right before my very eyes Right before my very eyes Right before my very eyes Jesse DeNatale - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Piano Nino Moschella - Drums, Bass Alisa Rose - Violin
2.
Sweet Arrival I stand in the valley of trouble and worry I laugh in the face of the mountain of pain I’m running through shadows in a big hurry I would do anything to see you again Give me your sweet arrival Come on and see me again Give me some new revival Well I can just see you now coming round the bend I swam in the river of a misunderstanding I cried in the cave of secrets I can’t tell I stood in the crowd just feeling lonely But I can’t behave all by myself Give me your sweet arrival Come on and see me again Give me some new revival Well I can just see you now coming round the bend I walk through snow, ice and fire I sleep in the rain and dream of home I could be with you with this desire And never more want to roam Give me your sweet arrival Come on and see me again Give me some new revival Well I can just see you now coming round the bend Jesse DeNatale - Vocals, Guitar, Piano Nino Moschella - Drums, Bass, Mellotron
3.
Where Am I 03:50
Where Am I I was watching you swinging with magnolia blossoms falling in the summer shade And a child’s voice in the distance calling and selling their lemonade Somebody’s singing a soft Da- Doo- Ron- Ron that’s coming out the radio And the sunlight falling on the outer hills is making everything glow I said, Where am I Am I moving up and down the stream Oh Oh Where am I Am I living in or out of a dream Oh Oh Where am I Moving thru time like a vagabond Oh Oh Where am I Have I already been here and gone We were walking through the dust on a busy Midway, down where the lonesome dwell You could hear them shooting at the bullseye and the music from the Carousel With our tickets in hand for the roller coaster but you didn’t want to leave the ground And the farther we went into the night the less joy could be found I said Where am I Am I moving up or down the stream Oh Oh Where am I Am I living in or out of a dream Oh Oh Where am I Moving thru time like a vagabond Oh Oh Where am I Have I already been here and gone One, I’m going through Emerald Isle Two, we’re not in single file Three, I’m feeling so versatile Forevermore Jesse DeNatale - Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Backing Vocals Tom Heyman - Electric Guitar Nino Moschella - Drums, Electric Guitar, Backing Vocals Paul Olguin - Bass
4.
The Hat Shop 04:18
The Hat Shop I’m gonna lie in the middle of a sleepy ocean Get swallowed up by the moon Gonna come back later and find you smiling In the golden days of June There is a song in the alley, you can hear it coming Coming up through the lane And the drums in your heart they start to rumbling And it’s feeling like a hurricane And it goes, Ah ah ah ah, Ah ah ah ah Ah ah ah ah ah, Ah ah ah ah ah. Well I’m going up that ladder I don’t really need it, I don’t need it anymore I can reach right up and touch the stars While standing on the shore I want to go down easy cause easy going Yeah easy would be good I want to spend the day at the old hat shop Down in the neighborhood Ah ah ah ah, Ah ah ah ah, Ah ah ah ah ah, Ah ah ah ah ah Bridge: I didn’t waste my time I didn’t waste my time I got some peace of mind Oh I got some peace of mind I’m gonna pack up all of my earthly troubles And leave them by the river side Im gonna step out on the old platform And take a long long ride I wanna reach back down for you little darlings And tell you that it’s alright And I’ll tell you in the brand new morning Gonna tell you in the blue of night. Ah ah ah ah, Ah ah ah ah, Ah ah ah ah ah, Ah ah ah ah I’m gonna stop my mind from all it’s worry And go and rise above I want to kick my shoes off and dance around In the arms of love Ah ah ah ah, Ah ah ah ah, Ah ah ah ah ah, Ah ah ah ah ah Jesse DeNatale - Vocals, Guitar, Piano Backing vocals Nino Moschella - Drums, Bass, Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Backing vocals
5.
Love Is 03:31
Love Is Their love is gonna reach Oh all the ways to Mars They’re walking on the beach Just like movie stars Well love is gonna be like an ocean wave To find you wherever you stand Love is gonna be what makes you brave When the two of you are holding hands Well Honey said to Honey What’s your name I ain’t got no money And I ain’t got no fame But love is gonna be like a mountain range And come and touch everything Love will be the thing you want to save The thing that makes you sing, Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah Oh love will come and find you Kick down your door It’s gonna save your life Make it better than before Well love is gonna be like an ocean wave And find you wherever you stand The world is gonna be the thing you save Whenever you’re holding hands And out of everything that you ever do This is what will make you shine Finding the one who understands There in the summertime Jesse DeNatale - Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Keyboard Nino Moschella - Drums, Bass, Mellotron
6.
Streets of Sorrow Oh the scarlet sky is shining over in the west And it looks like all the angels are trying to do their best And we’re looking for some place, where we might come to rest Walking through the Streets of Sorrow Oh you shouldn’t stop to wonder There’s so much that is wrong And the birds that fly around, don’t even have a song And I know it don’t seem like it, but it’s right we’re we belong Walking thru the Streets of Sorrow. We’ll Ive seen a lot of trials, Ive been putting on the miles But when I see you smile, I know there’s something good Oh this tragedy is personal and so hard to explain To wipe away these tears would only be in vain Oh why’s it always feel like we’re standing in the rain Walking through the Streets of Sorrow And I can feel the anger I wish that we could run Bring us round the corner till something has been done See a new horizon with a little bit of sun Walking through the Streets of Sorrow We’ll Ive seen a lot of trials, I’ve been putting on the miles If I ever see you smile, Well I know that something’s good Is there nothing you can tell me Is there nothing I can try We’ve got a million reasons to wish that we could fly Our hands are in our pockets and our eyes are on the sky And we’re walking through the Streets of Sorrow Jesse DeNatale - Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Backing Vocals Paul Olguin - Bass Nino Moschella- Drums, Backing Vocals, Electric Guitar, Organ
7.
Stop The World I’m listening to the breaking news I’m feeling lost and confused And it’s come to be A familiar refrain We’re going forward through the night Pretending everything’s alright But we’re surely On a runaway train The hardest thing you ever did Was go and face the music kid There’s a storm outside And the roof is coming apart We can’t go on very long You’re really not all that strong With your bleeding soul And your broken heart You’ve got to stop this world, Stop this world And let’s go back where we belong Stop this world stop this world So we can fix what’s wrong There’s crying in the corner There’s lying on the floor There’s a shadow With a smile and a gun In my house of worship, at the corner store And In the schoolhouse, What horror has been done You’ve got to stop this world, Stop this world And let’s go back where we belong Stop this world stop this world So we can fix what’s wrong The house is empty darling There’s a never ending wake And it will haunt you deep down in your gut Tell me we can go back Say it now for heaven’s sake If not for this, then tell me for what Jesse DeNatale - Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards, Harmonica Nino Moschella - Drums, Bass, Electric Guitar
8.
The Hands of Time Sometimes you just wanna jump right in That's how you learn to swim You step inside where the idea lives Fore you step out on a limb And something happens, when you wait around  For two words to rhyme I’d like to shake the hands of time I knew a girl in Albuquerque  Wore a heart round her neck What a sweet young woman she turned out to be You might have seen her at the discotheque  How do the moon and stars collaborate To create a story so fine I’d like to shake the hands of time. I don't wanna wanna wanna believe it I kick myself and I still cant see it I don’t ever wanna let you go You're the money and you're the hope You're the coolest dude You're the monkey playing on the rope You're the king of attitude  I follow you and I wonder all about  How do you stay in your prime I’d like to shake the hands of time I'm sitting by the side of the stream  Watching the fish swim by Round and round the earth like a dream With a hello and goodbye Sometimes it seems all out of control And then it seems sublime  I'd like to shake the hands of time I don't wanna wanna wanna believe it I kick myself and I still cant see it I don’t ever wanna let you go Sometimes you just wanna jump right in That's how you learn to swim You step inside where the idea lives Fore you step out on limb And something happens when you wait around That makes it all right I’d like to shake the hands of time I’d like to shake the hands of time I’d like to shake the hands of time Jesse DeNatale - Vocals, Guitar, Piano Tom Heyman - Electric Guitar Paul Olguin - Bass Nino Moschella - Drums
9.
Station Master Waiting in the empty station Here we are You’re headed to some destination Somewhere far You look around and hear the sound Moving close It makes you wonder really wonder What’s you’re going to miss the most I’ll put my hand upon your shoulder Yeah I will Nobody’s getting any older Time will stand still I don’t want to see you going Or wonder why See you climb aboard or have to Say goodbye You’re laying on the beach at sunrise Another time another time place You see your love and you know why She’s gonna set your heart ablaze And now you’re just a little child With your heart set free Showing up to Sunday dinner With all the food that you can eat Fly away Oh fly away I’m waving at the Station Master Oh so slow There’s no need to move any faster No no no I’m staying here a little longer You go ahead I’m feeling stronger in my heart And in my head Jesse DeNatale - Vocal, Guitar Paul Olguin - Bass Tom Heyman - Pedal Steel Guitar Nino Moschella - Drums
10.
Late September Late September and the leaves are turning I walk on down memory lane You know there’s one thing that I am learning Everything inside me will remain And all the colors it’s true They couldn’t be more right And it’s like that for you When you stand in the light How can you not feel the melancholy The winds of joy and regret The falling rain of human folly You know it’s something that I cant forget And all the colors I see Well they couldn’t be more right And I want that for me When I stand in the light Im going up the hill The view is golden Looking on out with my weary eyes The more that I can see It’s now a part of me Floating on up into the sky Late September and the leaves are falling Fall to earth and start anew Can’t you hear the geese are calling When they see the wonder that’s coming true Yeah you see the wonder that’s coming true Jesse DeNatale - Vocal, Guitar Nino Moschella - Bass The Zemlinsky Quartet

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Jesse DeNatale’s new album “The Hands of Time,” is in a word, reverential. It is at times, symphonic and at other times pulsing forward with a rawness and power of rhythm he says stems from his Mexican/Italian roots. The California native says when it came to this record, it was about cutting through the noise, not over-planning the production, but rather chasing the mystery and weaving all he has learned about being human with what he describes as a new, thinner and fragile reality that is in a kind of recovery-mode from the pandemic.Some albums try to ride the zeitgeist of our times, embodying the urgency and anxiety of it. “The Hands of Time” comes in the form of the medicinal antidote, reminding you of all that is eternal and of the spirit, deeply reflective and reverent toward the art of living, to help us find our way. Though the ten songs on the record range in topic, from love, (Love Is) and gratitude (The Hands of Time), to sorrow and to the horrors of gun violence (Stop This World), It's the notion of time itself, with its power and irreversibility, that appears in every song.

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released July 14, 2023

Recorded at Bird & Egg Studio, Richmond, CA.
Between April 2022 and December 2022

Produced by Jesse DeNatale and Nino Moschella
Recorded, engineered and mixed by Nino Moschella
Mastered by Alex Oropeza, San Francisco CA.
Liner Notes - Orit Shimoni

Musicians
Jesse DeNatale - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Piano, Keyboard, Harmonica
Tom Heyman - Electric Guitar, Pedal Steel
Paul Olguin - Bass
Nino Moschella - Drums,
Bass, Electric Guitar, Organ,
Vibes, Backround Vocals.
Alisa Rose - Violin
Special thanks to:
The Zemlimsky Quartet

Very special thanks to the following artists for their guiding words,
insight and production notes:

Orit Shimoni
Peter Case
Jon Bernson
Kevin Hearn

All songs written by Jesse DeNatale
Coat Pocket Music (ASCAP) 2023

Photography- Scout DeNatale
Street Sign and Handshake w/Ramblin’ Jack Elliott - Jesse DeNatale
Hands of Time “board game” drawing and design - Jesse DeNatale

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Jesse DeNatale California

Jesse DeNatale has released four critically acclaimed records: Shangri-La West (2000), Soul Parade (2006), The Wilderness (2021) and The Hands of Time (2023). His music has been described as evocative & hopeful, a combination of poetry and storytelling

"A unique and original American voice"- Tom Waits

"The Bard of Tomales Bay"- Ramblin' Jack Elliott

"A dynamic tune-fountain"- Billy Collins
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