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The Hazards of Club Life
02:39
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The Hazards of Club Life
He fired up his ride and drove down to the river
full of dislike for the poison running in him
alone on the pike, as autumn turned to winter
turn left then turn right through the mighty timber
rock tees on the line
laundry drinking daylight
it’s a sparkling wine
incense from the pine
helps ya forget about the hazards of club life
she got on her bike and rode down to the river
if love turns to like will it be forgiven
employed but on strike when it comes to modern living
investigating fun, her hair came undone
rock tees on the line
laundry drinking daylight
it’s a sparkling wine
incense from the pine
helps ya forget about the hazards of club life
it’s such a bummer when you’re just getting started
and you’re feeling like you’re way behind
someone’s son or someone’s daughter
hanging out in cut time
one foot on the dock, and the other in the water
they met and they talked and sometimes lost the plot but
the sun it came up and then it went back down again
investigating light they got pretty tight
rock tees on the line
laundry drinking daylight
it’s a sparkling wine
incense from the pine
helps ya forget about the hazards of club life
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Carp King
02:46
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CARP KING
Hey hey carp king what do you know
Where does a walkin’ fish, a walkin’ fish go
Here comes the carp king, the carp king is low
Where does a walkin’ fish, a walkin’ fish go
Under the trestle, the train overhead
The carp king is sleeping, the cattails do glow
Hey hey carp king, let’s not pretend
We’re not muck dwelling, weird-smelling lords of the dam
Hey hey carp king
How do you roll
Don’t head out to sea
You got backwater soul
With a hook in your lip, a scar and a slit
You’re not some koi in the foyer of a restaurant half-lit
Give me the night, give me a hit
we’ll drive out to the edge of town and set fire to it
Hey bony old ghost, how do you do
a thousand years old with stories untold
I dreamed you were a princess, with a blazing silver sword
Watching over the put upon, the lonely and the bored
Hey hey carp king
How do you roll
Don’t head out to sea
You got backwater soul
Where does a walkin’ fish a walkin’ fish go
Somewhat tentative sometimes takin’ it slow
Where does a walkin’ fish a walkin’ fish go
Somewhat tentative sometimes takin’ it slow
Hey hey carp king what do you know
Where does a walkin’ fish, a walkin’ fish go
Here comes the carp king, the carp king is low
Where does a walkin’ fish, a walkin’ fish go
Under the trestle, the train overhead
The carp king is sleeping, the cattails do glow
Hey hey carp king, let’s not pretend
We’re not muck dwelling, weird-smelling lords of the dam
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Shook Loose
02:23
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Shook Loose
Anything that shakes anything loose
can move you toward anything true
rivets pop, days delaminate
heart beat, your street, down deep
red light, green light, all right, traffic’s tight
can’t sleep and can’t stay awake
spectors by the garden gate
all at once and in a long row
heart beat, your street, down low
red light, green light, all right, traffic’s tight
when you get down to the bottom of the hill
surfing on your smith corona ribbon still
you will have your wagon and a red rubber ball
and your favorite pair of worn out overalls
Anything that shakes anything loose
can move you toward anything true
rivets pop, days delaminate
heart beat, your street, down deep
red light, green light, all right, traffic’s tight
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My Remotes
01:14
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MY REMOTES
My remotes!
My remotes!
Need one for my TV
Need one for my DVD
Need one for on-demand
Need one for my think-I-can
My remotes
My remotes
double a’s and triple a’s
Rollin round on a TV tray
Dropped my cell phone in the soup
Fell asleep on endless loop
My remotes!
My remotes!
Tried to pause a drizzle storm
Change the channel to my friend Norm
Froze the frame on pepper steak
When I had to take a pee break
My remotes!
My remotes!
What’s got a remote on me?
On what I think and what I see?
What the hell is goin on
I’m a middle-aged chubby Tron
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AARP Punx
01:13
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AARPunx
Don’t wanna sound arrogant but I think I know the score
I’ve made that same mistake so many times before
You know I love you and that I’ll be standing by
making some new mistake in my particular stage of life
what a relief
so much less bullshit
a new belief
I’m throwing out my crappy shoes
and the dusty books I never read
gonna play guitar instead
and tell you I love you
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JUST ENOUGH HOURS IN THE DAY
just enough hours in the day
yeah yeah yeah
just enough hours in the day
yeah yeah yeah
when your old balloon has sprung a leak
yeah yeah yeah
basket sunk in catfish creek
yeah yeah yeah
hiking out with just one shoe yeah yeah yeah
don’t know what you’re supposed to do
yeah yeah yeah
one thing that I know, one thing that’s for sure
just enough hours in the day, I know you know
when you have got too much laundry to do
yeah yeah yeah
when you’re tired of the human zoo
yeah yeah yeah
when your double chin grows a chin
yeah yeah yeah
you know you’re gonna do it again
yeah yeah yeah
one thing that I know, one thing that’s for sure
just enough hours in the day, I know you know
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Frog In A Pail
04:19
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FROG IN A PAIL
cicada cicada and a cage of tomatoes
a preposterous cranberry moon
how did we end up in a world that’s so luscious
a world we could eat with a spoon?
creator, creator and a patch of potatoes
are you a boy or a girl?
how did the pea get out of the pod
i’m just a clod on the nod in the field
where was I going with the story I started
about the beauty I see in the world
i’ll roll in the dirt, it’s a new kind of church
i’ll sing like a frog in a pail
creator, creator I’m always waiting
just a little more rain and I’ll float outta here
how did the sun give birth to the one
my girl’s a star, in a car, at the wheel
hold us good spirit, we can’t always feel it
especially in these ugly times
i know now that kindness and courage will win
but it’s hard to be worldly about it
creator, creator up early or later
just a little more rain and we’lll float outta here
creator, creator a birthday belated
for the song that we hear
in the trees overhead
just talk among friends
the stars and the wind
tornado, tornado and a blue alligator
a mile high sweet sugary dune
how did we end up in a world that’s so luscious
a world you could eat with a spoon
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8. |
Rock and Roll Daydreams
02:37
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ROCK AND ROLL DAYDREAMS
rock and roll daydreams won’t leave me alone
I did a windmill and I dropped my phone
into a swirling toilet bowl
all my contacts down the hole
air drumming at a red light in the sun
near 51st and Troost where people go for chicken
people at work and people at school
all developin practical tools
they don’t hit themself in the nuts
doing ALDI air bass jumps
big ballad in the bubble of my commute
my coffee’s strong and I am resolute
what started as a way to see the town
has worn me down to what’s essential what is sound
rock and roll daydreams are my fuel
i pushed the lawnmower into the pool
i was pretending I was on a stage
long in the tooth singing powerslave
where will I put these bags of grass
not the kind you smoke—it’s cut on a bias pass
iadmit I like my toes in it
i’m just a cosmic blip on a parking strip
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RIDING IN THE POCKET OF TIME
we’re gonna live forever
our street corner in amber
and my hat falls off again
we’re gonna walk together
on cobblestones in fall
you will be ten foot tall
we’re gonna live forever
our hobby village is lit up
And snow is in the trees
in the street big and tiny feet
and your hand in mine
and we’re riding in the pocket of time
we’re gonna sing together
the birds will quiet down
and trains will let off those we love
all going out together
In the town along the river
where the ice explodes at night
why wait around forever
someday maybe has arrived
And we are in the know
in the street big and tiny feet
and your hand in mine
and we’re riding in the pocket of time
i let go of things
with you underneath my wing
and i’m always gonna sing
through january weather into spring
we’re gonna walk together
on cobblestones in fall
you will be ten foot tall
we’re gonna live forever
our street corner in amber
and my hat blows off again
(and again and again and again)
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10. |
The Rhythm and The Rhyme
01:59
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THE RHYTHM AND THE RHYME
the exclamation, the incantation, the rhythm and the rhyme.
where is the song in these broken words of mine?
some ancient function calls then stalls, talk too much then don’t talk at all
little by little, you wander and wiggle into something you can pass along
bug trail scratchin’ on the ground
makin’ kinda funny sounds
it’s a dusty manuscript
bust your lip on what is hip
have you ever studied poems in school, distracted by your sexual thoughts
where is the song in quiet longing as the afternoon grows hot
daydreaming on a trestle track with a cup of coffee and your old backback
she looked at you and you looked back and you burn burn burn
the sword it gleams on battle field
the personal is epic in your sketchbook notebook shield
in the attic room where you lay your head
like a star in a cloudy sky
or down in the basement where you lay your head
reading books about years gone by
and all the hours say please don’t be shy
all the hours say please don’t be shy
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11. |
I Wanna Be You
02:34
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I WANNA BE YOU
(c) Ed Cole
when i think of you
i see someone directed and pure
not dragged down by material living
when i think of you
i don’t see someone helpless
whose life is a mess like mine
when i turn the corner
i wanna be you
when i grow up
i wanna be you
when i”m done flailing
i wanna be you
I wanna be you
when i look around
at the sea of blank faces
and empty hearts
that have never known love
i look at you
and i’m blinded by what i see
no one carries you you carry yourself
and you do it gracefully
when i turn the corner
i wanna be you
when i pass a window
i wanna be you
when i look in the mirror
i wanna be you
i wanna be you
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LIVING ON A LOCKED DOWN WING
my dad is ninety five and way beyond jive
living on a locked down wing
they have to feed him now, the final slowing down
living on a locked down wing
he bought me al’s guitar when I was seventeen
i asked him for the money and he gave it to me
thirty four years later I have to introspect
is my heart on a locked down wing
if the virus knocks him out the timing could be fair
living on a locked down wing
some might even say it’s neither here nor there
please resume pursuit of consumable things
i hope we’ll get to see him we missed his 95th
living on a locked down wing
if i make 95 a way beyond jive
we will all be wild and free
it seems alright to me my mom won’t have to see
living on a locked down wing
some might even say it’s neither here nor there
please resume pursuit of consumable things
got ta got ta have consumable things
got ta got ta have disposable people
got ta got ta have consumable things
what are people for anyway
what are people for anyway
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13. |
Janie Jones
02:42
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He's in love with rock'n'roll, woah
He's in love with gettin' stoned, woah
He's in love with Janie Jones, woah
He don't like his boring job, no
And he knows what he like to do
He knows he's gonna have fun with you And he knows when the evening comes
When his job is done, he'll be over in his car for you
(refrain)
In the in-tray, lots of work
But the boss at the firm always thinks he shirks
But he's just like everyone, he's got a Ford Cortina
That just won't run without fuel
(refrain)
And the invoice it don't quite fit
No payola in his alphabetical file Send for the government man!
And he's just gonna really tell the boss
He's gonna really let him know exactly how he feels
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Dan Jones Kansas City, Missouri
Dan Jones is a punk-influenced rock and roll singer-songwriter living in Kansas City,
Missouri.
Rock and Roll Daydreams is his 9th full length release, and third with Dan Jones and The Squids (of KC), featuring hometown pals Steve Tulipana (bass) and Matt Ronan (drums).
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