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Rosa
03:18
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Rosa with the neon yellow hair
Takes the high road when she’s headed to dispair
When the people on the block say she’s no good
She’s read them all, she knows what makes their neighborhood
Rosa
The vaquero on the train, says he knows her from somewhere
Or sometime when he was younger and she had raven hair
And what’s that story about a husband’s sudden gory end?
You don’t know me stranger, but I hope someday you find your friend
Rosa, Rosa
There’s a lot about her, you’ll never, ever know
Rosa, Rosa
She’s got that bullseye tattoo, covered by her curls
All filled up by the potshots of the men who shook her world
And it’s the evil eye armband for the ones who like to lurk
In bars at the witching hour when she wants to do her work
Rosa, Rosa
There’s a lot about her, you’ll never, ever know
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The Bit, The Bridle
02:50
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Well you never really had a shot
You feel like you missed the mark
And the TV is screaming signs and wonders
Years they can go so fast
Conscience and doubt harass
And the window is rattling -- lightning thunder
Hold me like glass when it all goes down,
cause it all goes down, someday
The books that your parents read
The ideas that fill your head
Sit in your bedroom, dusty crumbling
Years they can go so fast
Conscience and doubt they nag
And the TV is rattling -- lightning thunder
Hold me like glass when it all goes down,
cause it all goes down, someday
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Beg, Borrow, Steal
02:50
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Tell me what you want
I will steal it from you later
Show me how you feel
I will put it in my files
Everyone is real
Look too close and you’ll see through me
Beg, borrow, steal
I will let you down
And I’ll want you to pick me up
Bring me what you’ve made
Or I take it from your pocket
Give me all your youth
I want to bite right through your spine
Beg, borrow, steal
Ain't it easy? Ain't it easy? Ain't it easy? Take it easy.
Ain't it easy? Ain't it easy? Ain't it easy? Take it easy.
March them to the edge
If you love them you will push them
Throw them off the cliff
They told you that I was no good
But you will know the truth
So I’ll turn your head like a screw
Beg, borrow, steal
Tell me what you want
I will steal it from you later
Give me all your youth
I want to bite right through your spine
But you will know the truth
So I’ll turn your head like a screw
Beg, borrow, steal, beg
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Joanie
04:42
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Joanie, open the door
I’ve never felt like this before
Come on out it’ll be just fine
Let’s try to get some sleep tonight
Joanie, open the door
I told you once, don’t ask for more
I know I hit that pretty head
Don’t be mad, let’s go to bed
Joanie, don’t go home
You’re better off living alone
You shot him once, he wouldn’t die
A nasty drunk will always lie
Joanie, don’t go home
Your broken bones, your broken bones
Stay with me, don’t disappear
That badge he’s got fills me with fear
But if I go who will take the children,
But if I go where will we go?
But if I go he will take the children,
But if I go where I go?
But if I go who will take the children,
But if I go where will we go?
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Last Year
04:57
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Maybe I’m gonna get back to you
gonna find out that I’ve been wrong
I see my faults, I name them all
and the worst one is I’ve been gone
and absence can kill, absence can kill
I think I’ll come around
I’ll find out when I’m back again, it’s a different town
All in the year of goodbye
I see the writing on the wall
Common theory of how I’ll live through fall
and past the Shoreline Star
neighbor to the chipped teeth windows of the old world
The old palace of envy, now cat-tailed and overgrown
and absence can kill, absence can kill
I think I’ll come around
I’ll find out when I’m back again, it’s a different town
All in the year of goodbye.
Eleventh hour of high logic, no safety to be seen
and I’ll I’ve got is you and me
(and) all I’ve got are all these dreams
What’s that you said about my memories
they’re never quite the same?
It’s a sightline in the dark, it’s a long dark revelry
and absence can kill, absence can kill,
I think I’ll come around.
I’ll find out when I’m back again, it’s a different town
All in the year of goodbye.
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Demeter Brooklyn, New York
New York - word rock - 2017
photos by Sara Laufer (IG: @sarlauf)
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