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1.
Be Here Then 03:47
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
2.
À Rebours 02:54
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
3.
Black Sails 03:34
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
4.
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
5.
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
6.
Doves 03:43
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
7.
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
8.
Gray Skies 02:26
(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
9.
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
10.
I Waited 04:28
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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The twentieth Danger Painters album

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released March 1, 2024

Kevin Douglas Lay - Vocals & Lyrics
Michael Barron - Guitar, Bass, Vocals, & Lyrics for “I Waited,”
Bob Boilen - Synth, Atmo, Drums, Vocals, Bass, & What-Have-You
Bill Harvey - Bass on “Legitimate Souls”

Recorded in Silver Spring, MD, Santa Monica, CA,
Shohola, PA, and Brooklyn, NY, over the course of Winter,
2023-2024

Released the First of March 2024
In response to the 2024 RPM Challenge

Produced and mixed by Bob Boilen
Cover design by Michael Barron
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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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