1. |
Double Elvis
02:05
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Double Elvis
Hail, hail
Flickering hatchet
Hands throwing shade
You threw that look
If I could catch it
I’d have it made
Peering flattening
Into mosaic
Carpet threading
Threading cadence
That’s where we’re heading
You’re not like anybody else
Not even your double
One leg outta this world
And hand on the throttle
Let’s go – baby let’s go
Re-re-reflecting
Solarizing patchwork
Souls have landed
The souls running righteous
Earning yearning
Yanking the sun around
Revealing and deep
And
Unending
You’re not like anybody else
Not even your double
One leg outta this world
And hand on the throttle
Let’s go – baby let’s go
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2. |
What We Had
04:57
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What We Had
Frozen red brick
And solitary cars
Cemetery cars
Empty cars just warmin’ up
Let’s warm it up
There’s rusty barrels
Inside other rusty barrels
All tipped over
Next to broken rails
And fallen trees
So many fallen trees
What are we gonna do with these
Now there’s something we forgot
And we could have remembered
It so easily
Whatever it is that they think they got
It doesn’t please me
Next to what we had
Next to what we had
Disused and out of season
Unloved and unlovable
There’s that saloon on the side of the hill
Where I get my fill
Wrapped against the cold
Like a broken truck
My secret’s told my secret’s told
My truck’s been sold
Rocks in rows
And stones in beds
Waters still and rushing
Sticks and stones
And kids in bed
Heart so full it’s crushing
We go poking
Round in dead leaves
For junction boxes
Gone grey as foxes
Hiding in the weeds
Last century’s detritus
The no more farm farmhouse
The danger hi voltage
The shiny little city man
The dusty little country woman
Their faces stark as fields
Head buried in the brush
Hearts choked with vines
This land is gone
This land is gone
God knows I miss America
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3. |
Now Change
03:40
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Now Change
I’m under 13
And I don’t know what I want
Sometimes I’m all fruit roll-ups
Sometimes Taylor in the dark
I’m spoken of
Not spoken to
Staring in stunned silence
Sharing silence
Shared action
I stand here like a misdemeanor
So relatively small
But I really mean it
Don’t try to fix it
I’m 2 x 6 it
Or 2 x 5½
Don’t laugh
When you’re a big girl
Everyone’s a speck
You take up all the room
You gasp up all the oxygen
And act like you don’t care
It’s only air
Where’s all the too skinny girls
Skinny as all heck
Who get mistaken for canes and chairs
Looking like a spare
After the ball
After all
I dislike uncertainty
Cuz I’m sure I won’t like it
Yet I’m sparkin’
On urgency
Now change
Now change
I’m under 13
But I don’t know what I want
Sometimes I’m all hot pockets
Sometimes it’s mommy in the dark
C’mon change
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4. |
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That Never Happened
Bring on the 13 graces
Show us your animal
A little growl might be sufficient
If it’s more than occasional
Bring on the eyes so limpid
Show us you can cooperate
Show us anything that’s actual
As you drive me to the airport
But we know that never happened
No matter how hard we dream
Or how blue were our highways
Where is everything
Pull on the old church bell
Is it really that simple
Or any alarm that you’ve invented
Just keep your hands visible
Pull my leg dear but be convincing
And don’t show it if you’re injured
Or if you’ve stopped remembering
Anywhere you’ve been
But we know that never happened
No matter how hard we dream
Or how true were our highways
Where is everything
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5. |
Wonder
03:20
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Wonder
As you stand in the door
I’d do nearly anything
To kiss your neck
And I’d give even more
To do it again and again
Your Adam’s apple
The real forbidden fruit
Bobbing for apples
My new and only pursuit
My dark little angel
Your black blade eyelashes
Cut to the core
In the raking light
They cut some more
My so-called Black Irish
My so-called cuppa tea
As your beard becomes illuminated
Your lips
Become an unlocked key
I’ll take the wonder
I’ll take the certainty
I’ll take whatever
You can give me
For all eternity
As you stand in the door
I’d do nearly anything
To kiss your neck
And I’d give even more
To do it again and again
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6. |
Poison Earrings
03:24
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Poison Earrings
Miss Sweeney undercover
Is mission impossible - anymore
Put a rock in your show
To throw off the watchables
As you move thru the region
With more arms
Than allegiance
Meet me in the house
In the Queen Anne Style
I know I know
No one does that – anymore
Meet me at the border
Near the cardboard guardhouse
Keep your ID in your head
And your hands by your side
Keep these in your bag
They’re combs for your hair
Take this letter and mail it
To yourself
The next time you’re there
Keep these in your bag
They’re combs for your hair
Take this letter and mail it
To yourself
The next time you’re there
As we hold on sweetly
And pair into each others eyes
This is the double double cross
The combs are tainted
And the letter’s imbued
And my gift of poison earrings
The least I could do
Isn’t love romantic
I still find it to be true
Isn’t love just the end
Just look what it did to you
Just look what it did to you
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7. |
Lachrimae
03:30
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Lachrimae
Tears
Nothing but tears
Tears
What are we gonna do about us
My dear
Whose hand is my love
My fear
That your hand should ever leave mine
My world
Shattered at the center
My heart
A dark place it enters
For the rest of its days
To the end
Nothing but tears
Tears
What are we gonna do about us
I cry – into my hands
I leave – to walk the hollow lands
I remain – alone
Not only alone
But alone without you
Just in tears
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8. |
Mandobird
02:35
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Mandobird
Well the Mando
Is a pretty bird
And will raise you like their own
With no plan to leave
Till it’s the right time to leave you
Till it’s your turn to fly
Well you played songs
For nothing
And you’ve played songs
For gain
O the joy that you bring
Whatsoever you sing
Everybody sings along
Well you bet that guy
Your Chevy
And he raised you
His Ford
Now you’re both
Pitchin pennies
‘gainst the back of the church
Cryin’ why me lord
Well the Mando
Is a pretty bird
And it watches as you try
The good job you’ve done
The good man you are
Bring a tear to your daddy’s eye
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9. |
It Begins
02:07
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It Begins
It begins
At the end
Or somewhere near the end
It begins
At the end
Or somewhere near the end
Terra Terra Terra
Circle moon
Cycle back
Circle back for the attack
Circle moon
Cycle back
Circle back for the attack
Terra Terra Terra
Last Night
I had a dream
It was 13 coaches long
Last Night
I had a dream
It was 13 coaches long
Cutting land
Peeling miles
Disappearing from sight
Terra Terra Terra Terra Terra
Last night
I heard a drone
It was 39 years long
Last night
I heard a drone
It was 39 years long
Hauling fog
In vast amounts
Evaporating in light
O ah Terra
O ah Terra
O ah
Terra
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10. |
It's Been a Minute
01:07
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It’s Been a Minute
We Teach our daughters
To raise their fists in the air
To make the truckers
Blow their horns
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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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