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1.
Double Elvis 02:05
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
2.
What We Had 04:57
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
3.
Now Change 03:40
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
4.
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
5.
Wonder 03:20
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
6.
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
7.
Lachrimae 03:30
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
8.
Mandobird 02:35
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
9.
It Begins 02:07
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
10.
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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The thirteenth Danger Painters album

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released February 28, 2019

Kevin Lay - Vocals, Loops and all Lyrics
Michael Barron - Guitars, Xylophone & Vocals
Bob Boilen - Synth, Guitar, Electric Mandolin, Aural Voodoo
Terry Baker - Bass

Written and recorded in 4 locations between February 1 and
February 28, 2019, in response to the 2019 rpm challenge
Produced and mixed by Bob Boilen
Special Thanks to Nick Koumoutseas
Cover design and artwork 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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