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NORTHERN SONG
We’ve sang this song
For so long
It’s the first we ever knew
It’s a miracle
It’s still here
A miracle and a clue
Northern sunsets
Fire in my eyes
Reverb and distortion
The signal cries
The living long
The long goodbyes
Dedicating this song to you
We’ve stood in the storm
So long
Too long to be true
Like a wet brain
Running dry
Or an old song sung new
Northern sunsets
Fire in my eyes
Reverb and distortion
The signal cries
The living long
The long goodbyes
Dedicating this song to you
As above
8 miles high
As below
But that’s a lie
The only truth
Is keep on rockin’
Hey hey
My my
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THE GAME
We’re all worlds in collision
We’re all whores in collusion
Clinging to the illusion of cleanliness
Like a public swimming pool
As the world runs down
To a standstill
I hold my head up
Like a fool
Heading up another hill
I will
Play the game
We’re all difficult and dumb
We’re indifferent and numb
To yet another bum
With his hand reaching out
As the world runs down
To a standstill
I hold my head up
Like a fool
Heading up another hill
I will
Play the game
It’s all good morning morning
And all sundown take care
And we got to keep giving
Cuz the taking just ain’t fair
As the world runs down
To a standstill
I hold my head up
Like a fool
Heading up another hill
I will
Play the game
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3. |
We Once Was
04:31
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WE ONCE WAS
Somebody gonna tell you a story
You can see for yourself
If you believe it see if you believe it
In whole or in part
In whole or in part
Single file no do-si-do
We walk alone it’s what we know
It’s what we do our whole life through
We try so really hard to work it through
We’re pickin’ out the shards which pierce us two
It’s what we do until we’re through
That’s what you say
Like you gonna stay
But we wonder
Yea we gotta wonder
What goes on
What goes on
I ain’t so hard when it comes to you
I ain’t so really tough when it comes to you
All I know is when I’m with you
I glow
Who’s got the will and who’s got the arms
For all this heavy lifting
Who got the will and who got the arms
For all the heavy gifting
You come over my house you take over my couch
You think you never hurt me cuz I never say ouch
Baby it’s true you’re still singing to me
Baby it’s true and maybe we’ll see
Maybe we’ll see
We wake at night and wish for sleep
We pray alone our souls to keep
When we go blue until no more you
We try so really hard to work it through
We’re pickin’ out the shards which pierce us two
It’s what we do until we’re through
I ain’t so hard when it comes to to you
I ain’t so really tuff when it comes to you
And maybe that’s enough
Hard and tough enough
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Pony Pony
03:13
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PONY PONY
We used to do a little dance
Called The Pony
We used to do a little dance
We used to have a little thing
Called some money
Now we barely got our pants
And you know that ain’t cool
Or maybe too cool - fool
What did you think was goin’ on
And how dare the wind be so gone
So long
We used to dress like a
Work of art
They called us macaroni
Yea a walking work of art
A walking tea ceremony
What did you think was goin’ on
And how dare the wind be so gone
So long
Springtime in China
All blossoms
And ancestor power
Whittled down to paper tigers
In paper houses
20 million children
Sewing our blouses
East is East
And the dance is
Pony Pony
We used to have a little thing
Called some virtue
Then we put it to the test
We used say a little thing
Can I help you
I guess you know
The rest
Pony Pony
Pony Pony
Pony Pony
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Love Me Go
03:16
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LOVE ME GO
So get your tickets
And board your craft
Go go forward
Or starboard or aft
Just go
Just go
Its starts out all love me
Don’t leave me baby
Oh how’s that sound
It ends up all
You better believe me baby
We’re gonna go at least
Another round
I need to levitate
Don’t need to gravitate
Love me Love me
Leave me leave me
Love me love me
Leave me go
Love me Love me
Love me leave me
Leave me leave me
Love me go
Starts all candy fluff
Ends up all blues and stuff
Starts out all wild and dreamy
Ends up all silent screamy
Starts out all lazin’ in the green grass
Ends up all you can kiss my
As I lay dying
Time to stop trying
So where’s the highway
And where’s the door
And where’s that open window in the floor
When you really need it
When you really need it
Restraining
Retraining
Restraining
Retraining
Before the cops
Come round for us
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6. |
Evit This
04:14
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EVIT THIS
I feel so bad
I need calibratin’
The lift of this fulcrum
So the back
Don’t be breakin’
Holdin’ on for the train to come
Holdin’ on
To make you come
Holdin’ on for the change to come
Train gonna come
You gonna come
Change is gonna come
I feel unrest I feel unrested
We all wear the too tight vest
Of these tests
That we gotta keep passing
And rising
And passing
And rising
And passing and rising
And passing and rising
Holdin’ on for the train to come
Holdin’ on
To make you come
Holdin’ on for the change to come
Train gonna come
You gonna come
Change is gonna come
Babe in a basket
Or born in a trunk
I’m bourn by the river
Until it stop flowin’
We don’t stop goin’
Until it stop flowin’
We don’t stop goin’
We just keep on flowin’ on
Holdin’ on
For the train to come
Holdin’ on
To make you come
Holdin’ on
For the change to come
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Heart Daze
02:43
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HEART DAZE
What am I gonna do with your heart
What am I gonna do
Now it’s played out
Now it’s beat down
Now it’s played out
What am I gonna do
What am I gonna do with your stuff
What am I gonna do
Hold it close
Or throw it out
Pretend it was never there
What am I gonna do
How ya wanna be displayed
How do ya want it
Splayed out
Or in a cluster
Or some other array
What do you say
Remember when I said don’t be cute
What are ya gonna do
Parachute
You said maybe – I can’t say
OK
Parachute away
What am I gonna do with your heart
What am I gonna do
Now it’s played out
Now it’s beat down
Now it’s played out
What am I gonna do
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Heaven Metal
04:18
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I Remain
03:05
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I REMAIN
How you gonna see
With blood in your eyes
How you gonna sashay
Through the mud
Or pick your way
Through the sticks
That’s left of your house
O Lord
Cuz I got eyes that see
And I’m plugged into every extension
I’m blessed
And I know it
I’m ancient
And I show it
I remain
How you gonna breathe
When it’s up past your head
How you gonna walk away
When you got no instead
We just drag our shit
To higher ground
Lord leave us some higher ground
Cuz I got eyes that see
And I’m plugged into every extension
I’m blessed
And I know it
I’m ancient
And I show it
I remain
I’m gonna walk with my baby
Down to the ocean
We’re gonna stick our feet in
We’re gonna get our pants wet
We’re gonna drown in deep blue eyes
And we know the best is yet
To come
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10. |
Fade Into
03:09
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FADE INTO
Somebody got their good news
Somebody made their big deal
Somebody walked in my shoes
Somebody loves me for real
I will fade into
You will fade into me
Will fade into we
Talking love out on the ledge
We’re talking love without a net
We’re making love behind the hedge
Our souls were fused since we met
I will fade into
You will fade into me
Will fade into we
I open my eyes and behold
Something so rare and so strange
A loving axis so bold
A love the years cannot change
I will fade into
You will fade into me
Will fade into we
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11. |
One More Thing
01:36
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ONE MORE THING
There’s the door
What you lookin’ at?
I’m in a band
Can I have your number?
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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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