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1. |
I Wanna Be You
02:45
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I Wanna Be You (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 windowI wanna be you
when I look in the mirror I wanna be you, I wanna be you
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The Hazards of Club Life
02:38
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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
its 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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Shook Loose
02:25
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Anything that shakes anything loose
can move you toward anything true
rivets pop, days delaminate
heart beat, your street, wild leap
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, wild leap
red light, green light, all right, traffic’s tight
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AARPunx
01:18
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Don’t wanna sound arrogant but I think I know the score
I’ve thunk that thought so many times and made that move before
no way to show you so I’ll just be standing by
making some new mistake at my particular stage of life
what a relief so much less bullshit
a new belief
I’m throwing out my crappy shoes
and dusty books I never read
gonna play guitar instead
and tell you I love you
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5. |
Carp King
02:44
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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 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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6. |
Gonna Keep On
03:39
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GONNA KEEP ON
(for the 2020 film The Thing We Tell The Ones We Love)
I’m gonna keep on, be brave and true
I’m gonna keep on, good as new
Up in the morning, With my armor on
Gonna do it to it, through right and wrong
This is our city, this is our song
but I don’t have you now And the days go on
and I can’t see you now and it weighs a ton
Shades pulled down, I’m gonna keep on
Don’t remember if I slept last night
Did some pushups in the hall
Nothing’s gonna make my spirit stall
Cept I cant have you now
And I don’t have you
Knuckles bloody and I can’t recall
Wrap em up now in a swaddling cloth
Stars are shooting and the dark will rise
And I’m holding baby at the end of the line
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7. |
Up Another Mountain
04:02
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Up Another Mountain
I’ve been trying so hard just to get it right and I think that I might
Might not get it right But I’ll make it good or at least understoood
Sunup sundown wake up run down Take a little break sometime
I’ve been trying so hard just to get it right and I think that I might
Gus is a heck of a guy And he sure did try Got his piece of the why oh wHY
Somewhat hypertense And he acts kind of dense In matters of the heart
Sunup sundown
wake up run down
Take a little break sometime
I’ve been trying so hard
just to get it right
and I think that I might
in the morning you will know what to do
sleep on it and dream a little too
hush now baby you have tried
to push a big mountain up another mountain
years are piling up but who is countin
Jimmy wrote a note Sue Aster what do you do When you’re at a dead end
She sent a map of the world She’s a mysterious girl Never more than a friend
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8. |
My Remotes
01:19
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MY REMOTES!
My remotes!
My remotes!
(full stop)
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!
{full stop}
What’s got a remote on me?
On What I think and what I see?
What the hell is goin on
I’m a armchair chubby Tron!
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9. |
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
Little by little the drizzle will sizzle and burn burn burn
the sword it gleams on battle field
the personal is epic in your sketchpad notebook shield
in the attic room where you lay your head
like a star in a cloudy sky
and all the hours sing please don’t be shy
all the hours sing please don’t be shy
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10. |
Frog In A Pail
04:59
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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 lusciou
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
Im 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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11. |
Crater Kids
03:09
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Crater Kids
Someone in the future is dreaming your life
like bubbles of foam on the sea
way down deep where there’s craters and heat
the waves are flatter it seems
you made some decisions with limited vision
it’s playing out well day by day
everyone owns their own kind of gold
the rest is just image and bleed
sit down hate but don’t stay late
the day’s always dying
born irate and solid state
with a power supply
and demands that won’t die
someone in the past has their foot on the gas
driving you into the light
the digital crackle and campfire sparks
are floating up into the sky
you made some mistakes
and some choices (not great)
even put on shackles and chains
you gave a couple monkeys
a generous ride
now it’s just ashes and rain
sit down hate, it’s Christmas Day
the night’s always dying
born on 8 through a cranked up Crate
with a power supply and
demands that won’t die
crater girls and crater boys
fighting back with mountain warrior noise
kansas city to detroit
crater girls and crater boys
fighting back with dignity and poise
kansas city to detroit
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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 would be square
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 And 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
living on a locked down wing
got ta got ta have consumable things
got ta got ta have disposable beings
got ta got ta have consumable things
what are people for anyway
what are people for anyway
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13. |
Teal Pumas
01:55
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14. |
Late Bloomer
03:15
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We’re gonna live forever
our street corner in amber
and my hat blows off again (and again and again and again)
We’re gonna walk together
on cobblestones in fall
you will be ten foot tall
we’re gonna live together
our hobby village is lit up
and snow is in the leaves
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 fight
and your hand in mine
and we’re riding in the pocket of time
I let go of things
With you underneath my wing
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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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 is for sure One thing that I know
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 I’m gonna say it again yeah yeah yeah
One thing is for sure One thing that I know
Just enough hours in the day, I know you know
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Went down to the river and the river was high
what’s the point of even tryin’ to throw in a line?
The sun was going backwards it was dinosaur time
A pteradactyl flew over me
Went down to the river and the river was low
what’s the point of putin in the boat and the oar
no where to get to, no where to go
The sun dripped like a tangerine
I chucked in some stones, I was not alone
everything was speaking to me
I thought of Aunt Shirley who left way too early
and then the water started to sing
Went down to the river And the river was wide
I could feel it pulling on the moon and the tide
All the little pebblesHad been baptized
What a way to let it ride
the snakes along the bank told me to sing for you
told me to sing for you, so that’s what I’m gonna do
I got some chigger bites, I got a sunburn too
` Went down the river and the river was moving by
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18. |
Shook Loose (demo)
02:46
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Anything that shakes anything loose, can move you toward...toward anything true
rivets pop, days delaminate, heart beat, your street, wild leap
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 wornout overalls
Anything that shakes anything loose, can move you toward anything true
rivets pop, days delaminate, heart beat, your street, wild leap
red light, green light, all right, traffic’s tight
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19. |
Crater Kids (demo)
03:01
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Crater Kids
Someone in the future is dreaming your life
like bubbles of foam on the sea
way down deep where there’s craters and heat
the waves are flatter it seems
you made some decisions with limited vision
it’s playing out well day by day
everyone owns their own kind of gold
the rest is just image and bleed
sit down hate but don’t stay late
the day’s always dying
born irate and solid state
with a power supply
and a demand that won’t die
someone in the past has their foot on the gas
driving you into the light
the digital crackle and campfire sparks
are floating up into the sky
you made some mistakes
and some choices (not great)
even put on shackles and chains
you gave a couple monkeys
a generous ride
now it’s just ashes and rain
sit down hate, it’s Christmas Day
the night’s always dying
born on 8 with a cranked up Crate
and power supply and
a demand that won’t die
crater girls and crater boys
fighting back with mountain warrior noise
kansas city to detroit
crater girls and crater boys
fighting back with dignity and poise
kansas city to detroit
(c) daniel sherman jones bmi
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20. |
Gonna Keep On (demo)
02:44
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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
its 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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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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