Music

trinitarian-blues

Songs

Hunger

There’s a hunger deep inside
For the flesh that provides
This food sustains my heart
Gives me strength to play my part

I’ll never go hungry
I’ll never be alone
Cause this bread I eat will save me
Save me from own self

Beyond my years and creation
Eternal light not damnation
Oh little bread blood of love
Bring me closer spirit dove

I’ll never go hungry
I’ll never be alone
Cause this bread I eat will save me
Save me from own self

That’s the story, how it goes
Now my Lord is in repose
In safekeeping Mary’s womb
Tabernacle again will bloom

Distant Sound

When I heard You calling out my name
I turned my head around
eyes wide closed I couldn’t see
I was such a clown

In a world of noise and pain
I hear a distant sound
Whispers of a loving voice
Come softly through the clouds

A world held by Your gravity
No greater love be found
A gift you are all Grace are Thee
You’re my solid ground

In a world of noise and pain
I hear a distant sound
Whispers of a loving voice
Come softly through the clouds

There was a time
The purest sounds I couldn’t hear
I Gave you my life
That’s when love and grace appeared

Now my eyes are fixed so lovingly
I cant turn around
This precious blood poured over me
Lifts me off the ground

In a world of joy and love
I hear a distant sound
Whispers of a loving voice
Come softly through the clouds

Compassion Song

Here’s my compassion song I must oblige
So hard to feel this feeling, realize
All the love that comes from above
Descend a spirit on me a sweet dove

How many times have I thrown it away
All that love and devotion
How many times will I walk away

I must have compassion for myself
So I can be compassion for someone else
That’s how it works can’t you see
Interdependent baby you and me

How many times have I thrown it away
All that love and devotion
How many times will I walk away

I’m so sorry for all I’ve done
Reconciled with my greatest love
All’s forgiven between you and me
The past is over now it’s his-­story

Milk and Honey

Cant count how many times I’ve been down this road
I’ve seen the river stones turn from brown to gold
and I wonder where I’m going will I
always be alone

I never realized Your always by my side
I never took the time to empty out my mind
to make the space inside myself
for You to abide

filled with so many things I don’t deny
so hard to see with this plank in my eye

I wont point my finger at them anymore
I wont look down upon the rich and the poor
cause I’ve come to realize
were all just the same

I looked upon the mountains and the sky
and realize that one day I will die and fall
into Your arms and into ever loving peace
all my sorrows and my troubles they will cease
turn to distant memories so far that I cant see

its getting clearer to me every day
the smogs a lifting and I hear them say
Alleluia, Alleluia Amen

welcome home lost sheep welcome home my friend
to the land of milk and honey
eternity, no end

Dark Night

On a dark night kindled in love
With yearning oh happy chance
I went forth without being observed
My house being now at rest

In darkness and secure
By the secret ladder
Disguised oh happy chance
In darkness and concealment
My house now being at rest

Oh night that guided me
Oh night more lovely than the dawn

Oh night that joined beloved
Lover transformed in the beloved

In darkness and secure
By the secret ladder
Disguised oh happy chance
In darkness and concealment
My house now being at rest

 

Falling

I don’t know You
no couldn’t know You how
It fell apart so long ago

And You
You knew me so well
Better than myself
With all my loving faults
I didn’t hear Your voice
Calling out my name
That day

I’m falling, falling, falling down
Don’t let me hit the hit the ground
I’m falling, falling, faster now
Please save me from this awful ground
Filled with the things that hold me down
Feel like I’m falling, falling down

Mistakes I have made my share
I will not compare
To the things that others do
So now, now can we be friends
Like to make amends
For all the things I’ve done to you
Didn’t hear Your voice
Calling out my name
That day

I’m falling, falling, falling down
Don’t let me hit the hit the ground
I’m falling, falling, faster now
Please save me from this awful ground
Filled with the things that hold me down
Feel like I’m falling, falling down

No Fear
Let nothing disturb you
Let nothing frighten you
All things are passing away

God alone suffices
God alone is there
God alone removes
God alone takes care

To live out of love
Means to banish all fear
Every memory of past faults

I see no mark
Of my sins
In a moment love burnt everything

God alone suffices
God alone is there
God alone removes
God alone takes care

My longing for truth
Was a single prayer
Everything is grace not fear

Perfect Nurse

You are the perfect nurse for me
You know how to give me what I need
Tenderly loving and guiding me
With grace of the great physician He

You draw me in
With a syringe filled with His blood
Mingled together
Forever one

Oh Mother You take and accept all of me
You turn what is bruised into sweet honey
Present it so lovingly
To who consumes my humanity

You draw me in
With a syringe filled with His love
Mingled together
Forever one

Please stay with me every moment my Queen
I give you my heart and my whole being
Stay with me guard me as your property
Til my last breath into eternity

Drowning

Where did I go wrong
It started so long ago
Began with my first no
I will not serve anyone

Then you pulled me out again
Drowning in my own sin
Doing what I please
I just couldn’t see the light

Every mark I put on
Creates a wound and a scar
Invades the space in my heart
Disguise the truth tears me apart

Then you pulled me out again
Drowning in my own sin
Doing what I please
I just couldn’t see the light

I must be strong and go along
With the path laid out for
Me to follow
From the first day that

I was breathed into this life
Then you pulled me out again
Drowning in my own sin
Then you pulled me out again
Drowning in my own sin




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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank all the musicians who graciously gave their time and talents to bring these songs to a higher level, especially the guys who were with me from the start of this project, my brother Ray Matuza who laid down amazing guitar rhythms and solos, Scott Foley who helped develop the grooves and Chris Crosby who played the perfect bass parts. Thanks to my good friend John Judd who is my favorite blues player and more, Jason Crosby who just kills on everything, Billy Titus the most creative guitar player I know, Quenelle Gaskin(my brother in Christ and Chrispy), who is the best Gospel B3 player on the planet and maybe in Heaven too, Brian Dumont who is surely a rising star on pedal steel guitar, Omar Kabir getting involved from across the Atlantic ocean and playing some funky horn stuff, the beautiful Danielle Kelley and her soulful voice, Pastor David Wright and his choir of voices Sharaya Williams, Beverly Betts, Pearl Machen, Danielle Kelley, Doug Jones and Paul Brimfeld. Last but not least a very special thanks to my great friend Chris (Crispy Chicken) Laybourne who produced, engineered, wrote horn arrangements, developed harmonies etc. and went above and beyond to draw out the best in me.
On a personal note I would like to thank my mother whose prayers have sustained me my whole life, Fr. Thomas DeSimone who has guided me spiritually, my beautiful daughter Bella Rose and her brothers Walter, Jesse and Nico who are my future. A very special deep loving thanks to my wife Anne- Louise the love of my life who inspires me to be the best person I can be. Thank you for your encouragement and continued support throughout this project. I would like to thank St. Theresa of Avilla, St. Therese, St. John of the Cross and St. Benedicta of the cross for their guidance and inspirational words. Thank you to my nephew Andrew Matuza for all of his help with the website and graphic design. And of course God, the source of allwithout whom I could not do anything. I truly believe these songs, like all things in life, are a gift from God who’s only motivation is love.

Players

Mark Matuza: Vocals, Guitar, Slide Guitar                                         Ray Matuza: Guitars, Vocals, Banjo, Mandolin, Nylon String

Scott Foley: Drums, Percussion                                                            Chris Crosby: Bass

Jason Crosby: Violin, Keyboards, B3                                                    Quenelle Gaskin: Piano, B3

Billy Titus: Guitar                                                                                    John Judd: Guitar

Brian Dumont: Pedal Steel Guitar                                                       Chris Laybourne: Sax, Vocals

Omar Kabir: Trumpet, Trombone

Pastor David Wright Choir : Danielle Kelley, Sharaya Williams, Beverly Betts, Pearl Machen, Doug Jones, Paul Brimfeld

 

Produced and engineered by Chris (Crispy Chicken) Laybourne at Coop Studios 3453 Ocean ave. Oceanside N.Y. (516) 849-6342.

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