1. |
Be Here Then
03:47
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I can’t sing it for you
I’m not sure how it goes
We all sang it together
But that’s not happening now
It’s a brand new year
I see the crowds are back
But can we ever come together
Right now right now
Not a day goes by
I’m not thinking of you
Not a tear goes by
I’m not laughing with you
I’m not cracking up
I’m not cracking up
I’m not missing you
I’m not missing you
I’m not missing you
I can’t sing it for you
I’m not sure how it goes
We all sang it together
But that’s not happening now
It’s the way of all things
Say the dull and well meaning
How did these heavy lives
Become as light as dust
Be here then be here now
Be here then be here now
See ya later see ya later
Be here then be here now
Be here then be here now
See ya later see ya later
See ya later
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2. |
À Rebours
02:54
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I can live without color
But I won’t give up the sound
I cover the waterfront
For dark fun from the sea
Dances me round and round
In endless revelry
Then comes the morning
And morning starts to pound
I walked the city
I picked up the hammer
I worked for the whistle
I traded time for money
I traded money for sharkskin
I sharked with the best of them
If only looks could kill
If only looks could kill
I shark with the best of them
If only looks could kill
I go out on Friday night
I don’t come back ‘til Monday
Time is a bandit
Stick ‘em up
Stick ‘em up
I go out on Friday night
I don’t come back ‘til Monday
Time is a killer
Fuck you up
Fuck you up
I’m annexing this palace
And all the riches in it
Well it’s my life
And that’s how I’m gonna live it
Drinking wine or Mountain Dew
How ‘bout you how ‘bout you
How ‘bout you how ‘bout you
Woozy as a wheat field
And blind as curtain lashes
Honey what’s the fashion
May be time to go
Get the queers to set you straight
About your moves on the dance floor
Dance against the grain
Dancing in the rain
Man against nature
À rebours
À rebours
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3. |
Black Sails
03:34
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Will you becoming
Will you be coming
Or going
Do you know
Do you yet know
Sailing by
Sailing past
Sailing in
Sailing out
Sailing in
On Sunday next
Sailing out
With a shout
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4. |
Tiger Stripes
04:00
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Sliding through my fingers
Like tiger stripes that linger
After the cat has left the room
Drifting through my mind
Like the notes that Pink Floyd fingered
Now that that song is a minefield
In your room
Turning away from the light
Burning bright is for flame
After the candle whispers good night
You’re smoke
You’re smoke
In my room
Walking On Thin Ice
Was playing on every single station
One of our saints had left too soon
Longing for an amanuensis
Even as the word escapes us
I guess I threw away my reference books too soon
Leaving all my words goodbye
To Blake and all his visions
They swarm me like the desert
They eat me like a spoon
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5. |
Make Make Anything
05:07
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It’s tempting to confuse
It’s fatal to make sense
Now feel the hard edge
Draped in soft focus
It’s getting dark in here
Blue and black over gray
Speak in unspoken
Shout in chiaroscuro
Keep your eyes open
You are a camera
There can be no assessing
The risk is worth taking
When you write
When you sing
When you paint
When you make
Make make anything
Punk rocking to betray
Getting rid of the albatross
Turn the bird into an egg
Turn the heart into canvas
It’s leading to suggest
To follow is to forfeit
Your duty to digress
So fall apart and force it
Keep your eyes open
You are a camera
There can be no assessing
The risk is worth taking
When you write
When you sing
When you paint
Make make anything
It’s working to an end
Not coming to a point
Brush off the giant’s hand
And blow your own horn
Brush off the giant’s hand
And blow your own horn
Toot toot toot toot
Keep your eyes open
You are a camera
There can be no assessing
The risk is worth taking
When you write
When you sing
When you paint
Make make anything
Make anything at all
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6. |
Doves
03:43
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We had never been happier
Or farther apart
I ran away
While reaching back for you
Where did we go
That’s when you pass me
That’s when you praise me
For going the distance
All of the decades
Of tripping and falling
Of swimming and calling
On the telephone
Cuz that’s how long ago it was
It was
We never lost our manners
Even when we broke the bed
I got stuck in reverse
But I know how to fix it
I’ll tell you so you know
I’ll hold you above me always
While I live downstairs
I’ll meet you for coffee daily
Aren’t we a pair
Of intimate strangers
Blind to the whispers
Old and beautiful
Frayed by time
Devoted as doves
That’s when you kissed me
That’s when you saved me
We’re going the distance
Let’s pile on the decades
Let’s keep tripping and falling in love
Let’s keep swimming and calling in love
On the telephone
Cuz that’s how long ago
Yea that’s how long ago
We started
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7. |
Another Man's Fight
02:39
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All I could say was nothing
All I could do was keep on walking
With you
Through the clouds
By your side
I wanted to tell you how it was for me
How I was stolen by forgetting
By the heat
By the whiskey
By the junkyard below
Something beyond my power
Has paid a visit
My body trembling
Oh what is it
Just relax lean into it all the way
I know I want more than mere mention
If it takes divine intervention
All I want is your attention
Poor fools
Wandering souls
Poor fools
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8. |
Gray Skies
02:26
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(It’s just not my fault
It’s a function of science
Brightness falls
Ode to Joy
I am the blot
I am the look of silence)
I may not be the one you want
But I’m the one you get
You can go to the beach
When the clouds roll by
I’m as good as any other
I’m as cool as the sun
Are you being kept indoors
Are you getting anything done
I may not be the one you want
But I’m the one you get
You can go to the beach
When the clouds roll by
I’m here to give you pause
I’m forming pools of reflection
Pull back the curtains
The light has
The light has
The light has no discernible direction
I may not be the one you want
But I’m the one you get
You can go to the beach
When the clouds roll by
I am I am I am
You can go to the beach
When the clouds roll by
I am I am I am I am
Gray skies
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9. |
Legitimate Souls
03:15
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Disregard my defects
Laid down at your feet
The echo is collapsing
Judge me as you might
All your deeply held exclusions
Like fever
They dazzle and they shame
Assorted rhymes and reasons
The lesson
The lesson is bloodstained
By perverts and poets
By movers and shakers
So many flying objects
Before our sisters
Before our systems
Before real feeling
Before real feeling
Replaces your version of ecstasy
I’ll disrespect your certainty
I’ll live in my own light
My skin my skin my skin my skin
Is everything
I’ll crusader for my point of view
You’ll burn up all the histories
While fossils
Sleep under the streams
Assorted liars disrobing
The angels
The angels are in pain
From supply and demand
From the unseen hand
So much misdirection
Our freedom the ladder
The moment you smiled
Rev rev rev rev up the revolution
Of our legitimate souls
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10. |
I Waited
04:28
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It took a long time to get there
Almost a day
I came ‘cause you called me
You said you would be there
You told me to sit tight
I waited
I waited
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Danger Painters Washington, D.C.
Danger Painters is Michael Barron, Bob Boilen, Bill Harvey and Kevin Lay. Their musical Heritage dates back to the seminal
70s-80s DC music scene, including Tiny Desk Unit, Fuji's Navy and Rhoda & The Bad Seeds.
The band members met in DC but now live in Maryland, New York and California, collaborating via the internet and very rarely meeting in one place to perform in public.
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