The Neon Man And Me, by Slash Coleman

The Neon Man And Me

by Slash Coleman

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1.	O' Virginia 05:32	lyrics	buy track
If you were a Pill I'd pop you Bus I'd ride you Wallet I'd steal you Lover I'd touch you If you were a Grave I'd visit you My father I'd kiss you If you were Everything but what I was I'd come back to you again O'Virginia I wanted to write about you For so very long But, you made it so hard on me And, Virginia I never knew That to write about me I'd have to write about me too Cause Dixie flows in my heart And the southern sky She lays down beside me At the end of my ride And, my accent's laid low And, I kept you with me And now, I wanna' tell the world Just what you mean to me I'm little John Wayne's boy And, don't you forget me I got a saddle bag of sunshine And a head full of mystery And, I'm riding out tonight With my head in my hands I'm gonna' follow you home Before you see me again Well, I've hunted in your mountains I've fished in your sea I've picked flowers from your fields Held my lovers tenderly I haven't been to see you In oh so many years I keep saying I'll find my way back But, I know that all my fears are there Though I am lonely and I'm free I am lost and I am scared, as well I'm lonely and I'm freaked This map don't show the world so well I got excuses You can probably tell I never left what I left behind I never found what I set out.. To find I'm little John Wayne's boy And, don't you forget it I got a saddle bag of sunshine And a heart to go with it And, I'm riding out tonight With my head in my hands I'm gonna' rectify my wrongs Before the sun sees me again If you were a Pill I'd pop you Bus I'd ride you Wallet I'd steal you Lover I'd touch you If you were a Grave I'd visit you My father I'd kiss you If you were Everything but what I was I'd come back to you again
2.	The Neon Man And Me 03:11	lyrics	buy track
“The Neon Man And Me” Well I held it in For months I tried to pretend That this feeling would go away That this distance would go away And I pushed it down It was easier that way With you no longer around And I closed my eyes And told myself lies That it was you I never knew That it was you I never knew But when I close my eyes in my mind To find And when I close my eyes in my mind You’re alright, But when I open my eyes All I see In front of me Is this photograph Of The Neon Man and Me I’ve got no right to feel this way I’ve got a life to feel this way I’ve got a way to make it all work out I’ve got a day to make it all work out ‘Cause this feeling I feel for you Is the distance between Now and when we’re through And this thing that find So hard to resist Is this thing that I can’t Say between us But when I close my eyes in my mind To find And when I close my eyes in my mind You’re alright, But when I open my eyes All I see In front of me Is this photograph Of The Neon Man and Me I’ve got no right to feel this way
3.	Prayer For A Neon Cowboy 03:30	lyrics	buy track
“Prayer For A Neon Cowboy” You dreamed of neon horses When you were just a young man Though in that Franklin County town You had written your plan Described from neon dust And Jesus lust And redneck ways You shaped the American Dream With some light along the way But rest assured For the sake of me Fate was watching you You deserve everything You ever wanted You deserve all the love You never had As I board my horse In the morning As the sunlight It lets you Down upon the ground I will pick you up And love you You deserve everything You ever wanted You deserve all the love You never had As I board my horse In the morning As the sunlight It lets you Down upon the ground I will pick you up And love you
4.	Home 03:41	lyrics	buy track
“Home” Julie’s in a coma She thinks she’s Robert Redford She’s singing like Madonna Oh oh oh She’s got that t-bird Tossed up hair Daddy’s on her bedside Her mama’s Staring out the window Her brother’s Playing gameboy Her boyfriend He looks scared And everybody’s there And everybody wants to be at home And everyone just dares To say Hey hey I wanna’ go home I wanna’ go home Jasmine’s in a three-piece She’s standing at the altar With a baby The preacher’s humming Green Day Oh oh oh She’s thinking Vegas Might have been a good way Her daddy’s Thinkin bout his girlfriend Her mama’s Talkin on a cellphone Her brother’s Making paper airplanes The bride-to-be Well she’s all mad And everybody’s there And everyone just wants to be at home And everyone just dares To say Hey hey I wanna’ go home I wanna’ go home Take my hand And don’t be scared And don’t you know There’s a place you can go When you need home I wanna’ go home I wanna’ go home
5.	Dear Friend 02:47	lyrics	buy track
“Dear Friend” I have captured Twelve white horses I have cried Ten thousand poems But rain by rain This empty room Will not bring you round To me again I have spoken To the sun I have whispered To the moon Simple things They weigh on me And keep you always so So far away But in my dreams You’re near And I miss you Dear friend I’ve collected All the poems From the poets In the world But A and B and C Will not bring you Back to me again I have planted Twenty acres Of symphonies And love Asking you grow into But not away from me Oh can’t you see? But in my dreams You’re near And I miss you Dear friend It’s raining It’s pouring The old man Is not here today He must be dreaming away And I miss you Dear friend I miss you My dear friend I will see you in heaven Leave your light on With cookies I will follow you home
6.	O' Virginia (radio version) 10:48	lyrics	buy track
If you were a Pill I'd pop you Bus I'd ride you Wallet I'd steal you Lover I'd touch you If you were a Grave I'd visit you My father I'd kiss you If you were Everything but what I was I'd come back to you again O'Virginia I wanted to write about you For so very long But, you made it so hard on me And, Virginia I never knew That to write about me I'd have to write about me too Cause Dixie flows in my heart And the southern sky She lays down beside me At the end of my ride And, my accent's laid low And, I kept you with me And now, I wanna' tell the world Just what you mean to me I'm little John Wayne's boy And, don't you forget me I got a saddle bag of sunshine And a head full of mystery And, I'm riding out tonight With my head in my hands I'm gonna' follow you home Before you see me again Well, I've hunted in your mountains I've fished in your sea I've picked flowers from your fields Held my lovers tenderly I haven't been to see you In oh so many years I keep saying I'll find my way back But, I know that all my fears are there Though I am lonely and I'm free I am lost and I am scared, as well I'm lonely and I'm freaked This map don't show the world so well I got excuses You can probably tell I never left what I left behind I never found what I set out.. To find I'm little John Wayne's boy And, don't you forget it I got a saddle bag of sunshine And a heart to go with it And, I'm riding out tonight With my head in my hands I'm gonna' rectify my wrongs Before the sun sees me again If you were a Pill I'd pop you Bus I'd ride you Wallet I'd steal you Lover I'd touch you If you were a Grave I'd visit you My father I'd kiss you If you were Everything but what I was I'd come back to you again

about

"The Neon Man and Me"
Music From Slash Coleman's Award-Winning PBS Special

In 2005, the death of Coleman's best friend prompted his return to his hometown of Richmond, Virginia. There he created his solo show, The Neon Man and Me, as a tribute to his best friend, Mark Jamison, a neon artist from Roanoke, Virginia, known as the "Neon Man". The show opened at Mill Mountain Theatre in Roanoke, on October 9, 2005 and ran for three weeks.It was produced by an anonymous patron. The Neon Man and Me began to tour through regional art galleries, churches, synagogues, colleges, and public schools before running on the International Fringe Theatre Festival circuit, where it opened at the San Francisco Fringe Festival in September 2005 in San Francisco, California. Subsequent fringe festival venues included: Washington, DC; Boulder, CO; Minneapolis, MN; Long Island, NY; and Provincetown, MA. Coleman donated 100% of ticket sales either back to the Jamison family, host venues or charities and helped raise nearly $100,000 for non-profits including children's hospitals, bereavement organizations, and schools.

Neon Man on opening night at Mill Mountain Theatre
In 2006, PBS/WCVE-TV expressed interest in filming The Neon Man and Me, pending Coleman's ability to raise the necessary production funding. With the help of a student filmmaker he met on Craigslist, Coleman created a documentary entitled Glow, and began a subsequent grassroots living room tour, traveling throughout Virginia homes for the next two years and taking donations until all $65,000 of the budget was raised.

In 2006, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Coleman created a public school curriculum entitled "Healing Community: Helping Students Come to Terms with Tragedy, Loss, and Violence." He based the curriculum on the model he used to create The Neon Man and Me, then with a series of artist residencies through the Virginia Commission for the Arts, he began teaching the curriculum within the Richmond Public School system. In observance of Governor Kaine's Month of the Grieving Child, Coleman produced a tour of student monologues relating to friendship and loss that was performed at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

In conjunction with his solo performance work, Coleman began to collaborate with other Richmond performers and directors in the summer of 2006. Over the next four years, he created over a half dozen burlesque shows, first with Nouvelle Burlesque and then with his own performance troupe, The Modern Burlesque Brigade. These included: Ballad of the Beautiful Sex Monster, Sex Education and The Death Match of Love. Emphasizing vaudeville, physical comedy, modern dance, and live jazz, Coleman is credited[by whom?] as a writer/producer/performer with helping re-introduce burlesque back into the Richmond entertainment scene for the first time since 1978.

2007–08
By 2007, media coverage of "The Neon Man and Me," had appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, American Theatre Magazine and Backstage Magazine. In the spring of 2007, "The Neon Man and Me," ran Off-Broadway at Teatro La Tea in New York, NY. Later that year, Samson Trinh (composer/saxophonist) took over as musical director and a jazz trio known as The Neon Man Band began to accompany Coleman on his tour.

Later in 2007, Coleman began to explore unresolved personal themes within "The Neon Man and Me," mainly around issues about identity and those regarding his family and their experience with the Holocaust. He created a solo show that revealed his own connection to this profound material. "Slash Coleman has Big Matzo Balls." opened in Washington DC at the Warehouse Theater on July 24, 2008 and was again performed at the International Holocaust Exhibit in Richmond, VA.

Special thanks to: James & PJ Leighty, Mike & Tony Coleman, Mom, Becca Bernard, Christine Walters, Cathy Garmon, John Felton, Paul Roberts, John Porter, Kate Johnson, Cody Taylor, Dalton Taylor, Tahli Bn' Mir, Brooke Bowman, Michelle Bowman, Melissa Coleman, Valley Haggard, Merril Shapiro, Martha Randolph Carr, Chase Mayer, Lisa Thomas, Mark Thomas, Ann & Wayne Jamison, Park Lanier, Jay Lee & The Rabbles, Dave Miller, All The Living Room Tour Hosts, Claire Folger, Tania, Barricklo, Tiffany Jana, Shanea N. Taylor, Forrest Young, Frank Coleman, Samson Trinh, and John Wheelock.

credits

released January 1, 2008

Slash Coleman - guitar, vocals
Forrest Young - drums
Jon Wheelock - bass
Samson Trinh - saxophone
Frank Coleman - guitars, organ, bass, piano, trumpet
Deirdre Nivala - vocals
Becca Bernard - vocals

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Forrest Young Music Richmond, Virginia

Forrest Young is an American drummer and composer, born in Richmond Virginia. He's appeared on numerous Emmy Award winning PBS documentary soundtracks and recorded with legends of the jazz and progressive rock genres.