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Perfect Bash
02:34
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Look Me in the Eyes
02:05
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It Never Happens Here
01:59
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IT NEVER HAPPENS HERE
written by Steve Gregoropoulos (Temple Bells, BMI administered by BMG)
© 1986 all rights reserved
Not in the concrete, in the rubble and bricks
Never find a love in the wreckage.
Dirty old ceiling - dirty old walls
Oh, I can't imagine
It never happens here.
Dance 'round the maypole!
Beautiful girls dressed in white holding flowers.
Shady summer evenings, picnics in the park
Oh, I can't imagine 'cause.
it never happens here.
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4. |
The Great Barrier
03:41
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THE GREAT BARRIER
written by Steve Gregoropoulos (Temple Bells, BMI administered by BMG)
© 1986 all rights reserved
We threw it up out of wood and nails, we did,
and it took about a dozen of us to keep
a thousand of them in
for it is something in the color of
the cloth they made this jacket from
or that was what they told us
the day they made the great barrier..
it was a nice bit of work to have to do today
and you'll forgive me if I'm tired and I ain't got much to say
'cause when I'm out there on the clock
amidst the crush of working public -
committing a thousand acts of murder
is what it feels like.
The great barrier.
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5. |
Babies Falling
03:39
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BABIES FALLING
written by Steve Gregoropoulos (Temple Bells, BMI administered by BMG)
© 1986 all rights reserved
Where the workers stand in querulous rows awaiting dislocation
I will be there too.
When you're cashing in your food stamps
When you're sleeping in a cattle train I'll be with you
pushing up against a ticket counter window face against the glass
bleeding from the waist and kissing to be chaste.
It is said that those who will not rest
have been cursed to tramp like soldiers through the marshes,
and that blessed are the ones who leave the stage
like babies falling fast asleep
so I twice am cursed, and twice am stuck
affixed to this corner of the Earth.
That old river keeps a-rollin' but the old man doesn't see it
he just stands there with his eyes closed asking "Where'd you go?"
So wherever you may sleep tonight be it bed or bedrock, home or open field
when your breathing slows and your eyes are closed and you begin to yield.
then whatever you have chosen as your pillow, may it serve as mine as well.
Underneath the weeping willow will wait for you forever,
my eyes forever closed
asking "Where'd you go?"
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The Wild Stares Los Angeles, California
“Inscrutable, dense, manic, bizarre, intense, aloof, schizophrenic,” once wrote Option Magazine.
The Wild Stares,
formed in Boston, in 1979 by Justin Burrill and Steve Gregororpoulos, joined by Fran Miller Campbell toured Europe and the U.S. several times, releasing many recordings along the way and relocated to L.A in 1988 adding drummer Kyle C. Kyle before morphing into W.A.C.O. in 1993.
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