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Playing For Keeps
03:26
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I see you laughing on the sidelines / it's easier to never care at all / watch from a velveteen position / never coming closer to the wall // I got it tattooed on my sleeve / all the ones who don't believe / all the stars that I will find / playing for keeps this time // Don Coyote and his noble sideman / search across the land for one true man / hang your photo up for inspiration / burning nights and a lover's stand / Singing “Hallelujah” at 3am / fueled by the third wind of the night / we'll burn you down like Warren Zevon / we'll burn 'til everything's all right
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Underneath The Trestle
05:27
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like memory / like digging through the vinyl / like geography / like Georgia in the bones / it's the beginning of the road / new sounds come bleeding (in) / it's the beginning of the road / bring your passion and your pride // (calling out) I found you underneath the trestle / I found you on the radio // if you fade away / you left your mark so clearly / if you fade away / you carved your name in time / it's time to reinvent / the boundaries low and blurry / it's time to reinvent / we will choose our song and dance / as you go around / watching as the wheels go by / we're moving down the road / we're picking up the station / every time a bigger room / every time a new romance…
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Far Away From Everything
04:38
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he’s crying gasoline tears again / 42 years down the drain / wearing his old medicine hat / all black and flat / from Saskatoon to Mineral Bay / he sent her postcards everyday / “Know I love you, wish you were here” / Saskatoon to Mineral Bay // take me, go around town, said maybe / take me far from everything / far away from everything // you know there’s six kinds of hell / three kinds of real love / seven kinds of wonder / and ten gods up above / through the smoke and through the rain / I pound the rail and I scream his name / everything I own rides now on you / so, go baby go / I don't know about the chances coming through the crowd / falling towers, take a stand, watch it on TV / I don't know if the chances are good enough for long enough / but there ain't no sin in wishing you were gone / count the roadside crosses / count the trucks that pass on by / the radio crackles with the thunder / and the lightning down inside / there’s nothing here but darkness / keep on driving through the night / you’re alone with your thoughts and hopes and sex and fears and dreams tonight
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Paying Down The Cost
04:13
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there’s a problem here / and no one wants to fix it / there’s a deep black hole / south and out of the way / there’s a dying scene / when you see, you can’t forget it / and there’s a dying need / crying for someone to help // we’re paying down the cost (again) // you can stand around / wait for something official / you can cast about for someone else to blame / you can use seven words when the situation calls for three / and you can leave the mess for someone else to clean / I got a simple plan / we’re going to put some boots on the ground / I’m just a single man / I need a whole lot of help / I can’t wait for your big ideas / hey man, where are the big ideas? / Hey doctor, where’s your big idea? / is that all you got?
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Come To California
04:22
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long winter’s ride / bottled up inside / and everything seems colored rust or grey / like a horse that seems bound to win the triple crown / the favorites always falter down the stretch / 30 times you swear things won’t be the same / and 30 times you say the same prayers // won’t you come to California? / won’t you come to California with me? // I want to electrify / tired of the shrug and sigh / and conversations circling 'round the same / we can start something new / leave behind the old and blue / and finally see the ocean for ourselves / you wonder if you’d notice if the angels came / you wonder if they’d find you way out here
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Pike 27 Cincinnati, Ohio
“Pike 27 plays rock and roll: jangly, smart, sometimes noisy, usually joyful, always passionate. RIYL REM, Alejandro Escovedo, and Elvis Costello in all of their genre-crossing forms.” — CityBeat Midpoint Music Festival guide
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