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Verbal Tan

by John Ralston

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I got blessed with the Eternal Jackpot I've been winning so long I forgot what losing felt like, so I put it in this song (This won't take long) Good goddamn this Eternal Jackpot I win it every night I put on my fair face, my powdered hairpiece and I watch my river turn to rice Yeah that's right (you heard me right) I was born like a sweatshop, baby, 1979 I got tired of looking up, so I fell a little ways behind But I don't mind
2.
I just wasn't feeling good I felt like my my mind was blown I couldn't get off the couch Sinking in a twilight zone Hey, what was I thinking when I tried it all alone? Hey, what was I thinking living in a stranger's home? Left the coast and I don't really know what's left to do. Overboard, miss the shore, thunderstorms, and the fennec fox babies at the Dreher Park Zoo. I was feeling dim and slow My friend was on the telephone talking about Northern Soul - a record that I really should have known. Hey, what was I thinking when I tried it all alone? Hey, what was I thinking living in a stranger's home? Left the coast and I don't really know what's left to do. Overboard, miss the shore, thunderstorms, and the fennec fox babies at the Dreher Park Zoo. Sometimes you gotta break your own heart Take a chance / Make a new start Sometimes you gotta break your own heart Nothing is forever, no. Except for AM Country Radio... Del is singing soft and low I turn him up and let it roll. Hey, what was I thinking when I tried it all alone? Hey, what was I thinking living in a stranger's home? Sometimes you gotta break your own heart Take a chance / Make a new start Sometimes you gotta break your own heart
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Dark Bird 03:34
Chorus Lyrics: If I could be there for you  With or without words Just someone to be by your side Rest of lyrics: Dark was the bird in the air tonight Close overhead Feathers bristling song in flight If I could be there for you  With or without words Just someone to be by your side What kind of world…am I dreaming in real time? Nightmarish wrongs, so debased and void of life. If I could be there for you  With or without words Just someone to be by your side It's a short-sighted blade where the gravest games are played And the "why"'s in the shade in a maze of the human heart We looked on and we prayed / Our appeals to gods were made And those echoes replayed - the irony played on and on. If I could be there for you  With or without words Just someone to be by your side Talking heads prey on a feast of what's gone wrong But their broken, off-key song, it just doesn't interest me Cause there's real people out there meeting the cries for help they hear And they'll be tuning out the fear Real people like you and me Real people like you and me
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Everybody is gonna live forever Everybody is gonna live forever What else could there be? I looked around. I let myself see that everybody is gonna live forever. Everybody is gonna live forever Everybody is gonna live forever Multiple dimensions destroying my conventions Is this my opinion? Or even my invention? Maybe, but...oh did I mention that everybody is gonna live forever? Everybody is gonna live forever Everybody is gonna live forever Not trying to be funny Not trying to be clever, but Everybody is gonna live forever
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Mountain Top and River Run Revolver Moon and Yellow Sun I set out to see it all and paint you a picture
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Mom I want a haircut I know I just had one But this thing keeps growing back And no one else has one I’ll go swimming with the sharks Just when it gets dark It’s a dangerous time for a boy with a mind and a hook and a line and a heart Mom please slow the car down The pills he gives me make me drown And I can’t keep my head up When all the gears get rusted shut I’ll go swimming with the sharks Just when it gets dark It’s a dangerous time for a boy with a mind and a hook and a line and a heart But if I hide the pills under my tongue Will you notice then? I don’t think you will

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released February 3, 2017

Track 1:
Andrew McAusland: Gtr/Vox
JR: Gtr/Vox

Track 2:
JR

Track 3:
Chris Wood: Bass/Electric Gtr
Elliot Shaw: Vocals
Eleonore Shaw: Vocals
Jesse Dalton: Drums
Andrew McAusland: Slide Gtrs/Lead

Track 4:
Mastered by Andrew Schaap

Track 5:
Drums: Jeff Snow

Track 6:
JR

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