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"Burning Down" by Dan Holmes ASCAP (c) 2006, Soup Kitchen Records Mastered at Royal Studios in Memphis, TN Mass produced at Discmakers MUSICIANS: 1. Neighborhood 120bpm Dan Holmes Vocals, Guitar, Organ, Keyboard Steve Brunner Drums Bill Ritter Bass Andy Kopis Sax 2. Burning Down 91bpm Dan Holmes Vocals, Keyboard Steve Brunner Drums Bill Ritter Bass Doug Henthorn Guitar Paul Shafer Baritone Sax Jeff Gill Tenor Sax Doug McCoy Trombone 3. Not A Thief Anymore 120bpm Dan Holmes Vocals, Keyboard, Drum Program Steve Brunner Drums Bill Ritter Vocals Ben Vokits Tuba Jeff Gill Tenor Sax Doug McCoy Trombone 4. Demon In Disguise 140bpm Dan Holmes Vocals, Synth Bass, Organ, Wurlitzer Dino Codalota Guitar Dave Clawson Drums Bill Ritter Bass 5. Superstore 120bpm Dan Holmes Vocals, Piano Steve Brunner Drums Bill Ritter Bass Andy Kopis Sax 6. Violet Moon 80bpm Dan Holmes Vocals, Wurlitzer, Organ, Drum Program Steve Brunner Drums Bill Ritter Bass Andy Kopis Sax 7. Lost At Sea 85bpm Dan Holmes Vocals, Guitar 8. Man In This House 95bpm Dan Holmes Vocals, Synths, Mandolin, Drum Program Jake Hahn Guitar Katie Hagan Cello Bill Ritter Upright Bass 9. Green 72bpm Dan Holmes Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica, Drum Program 10. Plastic 105bpm Dan Holmes Vocals, Organ, Wurlitzer, Drum Program Randy Howson Guitar Steve Brunner Drums Dave Eising Drums Mark Rohrman Bass Andy Kopis Sax, Radamez Backing Vocals 11. News 125bpm Dan Holmes Vocals, Baritone Guitar Dino Codalota Guitar Dave Clawson Drums Bill Ritter Bass Charles Bennett Trumpet 12. She’d Go On 75bpm Dan Holmes Vocals, Wurlitzer, Guitar Leah Tannen Violin Katie Hagan Cello Bill Ritter Fretless Bass Paul Shafer Baritone Sax 13. Must Be Getting Tired 53bpm Dan Holmes Vocals, Rhodes, Bass, Melodica, Drum Program LYRICS: Neighborhood House caught fire in my neighborhood / All that's left is some scraps of wood / It seems to me that it burned all night / Now nobody is feeling right / Then the firemen came / It was such a shame / They would help if they could / In the neighborhood / Two men broke in and they pulled a knife / On the man next door and his wife / Tied them up and expressed the rules / Took their money and all their jewels / When the neighbors distressed / No one got any rest / They would help if they could / In the neighborhood / Old man was working out in his shed / Grabbed his chest and his face turned red / Before they knew it two weeks had passed / No one could say when they saw him last / When the ambulance came / Nobody knew his name / They would help if they could / In the neighborhood Burning Down You don't have to leave me / 'Cause I was going to go / You were right to fear me / 'Cause I could put you low / You can't make me cross / 'Cause I don't get upset / You shouldn't try your luck / 'Cause you just might regret it / Just like a candle burning on through the night / You can only see as far as your light / And just like a candle, blown out in the wind / You'll sit in the dark, 'till someone lights you again / You're burning down, down / You're burning down, down / You're burning down, down / Forget about your pain / 'Cause soon you may not feel it / And if you want my heart / You're gonna have to steal it / You can save your grief / For your next important man / You say I lost your trust / But I can't change who I am / Just like a candle burning on through the night / You can only see as far as your light / And just like a candle, blown out in the wind / You'll sit in the dark, 'till someone lights you again / You're burning down, down / You're burning down, down / You're burning down, down Not A Thief Anymore He came in though the window / And he left through the door / What he wanted was the feeling / The one he doesn't get anymore / He could've stolen the television / He could've made long distance calls / No one there to stop him / He could've stripped down the walls / But instead he sat and laughed and drank / The beer he brought in with him / He sang ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh / And he cleaned the glass off the floor / Because he's not a thief anymore / When he finished his adventure / He put his beers in their fridge / He left a fifty for their troubles / Then he vanished down the ridge / So if you come home some evening / Find a fifty, and start to grin / Check your beer stash and your windows / Thief might have come in / But instead he sat and he laughed and he drank / The beer he brought in with him / He sang ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh ahh / And he cleaned the glass off the floor / Because he's not a thief anymore / What an asset to crime he was in his time / But he's not a thief anymore Demon In Disguise I got the feeling when I walked in that I wasn't very wanted / And like a prey, they stalk and kill, I started feeling very hunted / When did I become the one to focus on with those who claimed to love me / Even now I feel I must belong to this, but I don't think I want it / Now if they threatened me, I still don't think that I could be a stranger / So I get the silent treatment from the people filled with anger / And I feel the danger / Maybe I should've just kept to myself but I don't think I could've, it's bad for my health / And besides who I love isn't business of theirs so I wonder sometimes to myself why I care / So I never can hide, I can't keep up with lies and now I'm just a demon in disguise / They lurk around my thoughts to come out when they know that I'm defenseless / Waiting for the moment of trust to return so they can knock me senseless / It appears I may not be useful to them, it doesn't mean I'm useless / What a time of foolishness / Slowly in the shadows waiting for someone to come along and wake me / I feel a fever coming on before too long I'll be so cold and shaky / Would I be so wrong to ask of everyone to dish what they could handle / I just won't say what I think of anything, I guess, unless they make me / It's probably better, though it hurts so deep inside, they treat us like two strangers / Because I know the dangers / Maybe I should've just kept to myself but I don't think I could've, it's bad for my health / And besides who I love isn't business of theirs so I wonder sometimes to myself why I care / So I never can hide, I can't keep up with lies and now I'm just a demon in disguise / Just a demon in disguise Superstore I bought some milk and some cereal / I bought some shoes made from a suede material / I bought a dog toy for my little boy / The superstore's got it all / A jigsaw and a sheet of drywall / Got some shampoo and drops for my eyeball / A paper towel and a big plastic owl / The superstore's got it all / The fluorescents hum over isles of gum / While my dreams float through the rafters / All of the games keep calling my name / This can only turn out in disaster / I bought a book and I bought a magazine / I bought a rug and chocolate chip ice cream / I bought some pantyhose and some spray for my nose / The superstore's got it all / The fluorescents hum over isles of gum / While my dreams float through the rafters / All of the games keep calling my name / This can only turn out in disaster / I bought a plant and a window drape / Pudding and some more duct tape / A can of flea spray and a T.V. tray / The superstore's got it all / An oven glove and all of my love / The superstore's got it all Violet Moon She danced around on her soles that bled / One eye was blue, but the other one red / Hands felt as heavy as they were made of lead / She can't still keep them up above her head / She got too dizzy as she spun around / Slipped on her blood as she came down / Fell through the air, never made a sound / Never felt nothing as hard as the ground / Oh, she got through the afternoon / Oh, but evening is coming soon / Oh, she got through the afternoon / Oh, but here comes the violet moon / The violet moon can steal your dreams away / It rises soon and conceals the light of day / It steals all her strength and makes her think that there is nothing she can do / Oh, but here comes the violet moon / Shadows become the night time show / The clouds all lined up in a row / She tried to rise, nowhere to go / She thought she knew, but she don't know / She finally made it to her knees / Breathing out against the breeze / She saw moonlight up through the trees / Remembered that it always comes in threes / Oh, she got through the afternoon / Oh, but evening is coming soon / Oh, she got through the afternoon / Oh, but here comes the violet moon / The violet moon can steal your dreams away / It rises soon and conceals the light of day / She lay there with the thought that she forgot all the important things she knew / Oh, and here comes the violet moon Lost At Sea Lost at sea / Didn't lose much except my memory / Now it's gone but I keep rowing on / Floating on the clouds above / Aimlessly / Drifting further from my sanity / Now it's gone but I keep / Going on, showing all the stars my love / Then the waves come crashing down into my eyes / When the wind's the only sound it's no surprise / Rocking back and forth asleep on ocean blue / Dreaming that one day I may return to you / Lost at sea / Just a figment of a former me / Not for long can I keep rowing on / Knowing how I miss my love / Lying here as shadows push the night to dawn / Wonder will I still be here when dawn is gone / Do I still have anything that I call mine / Except the breeze across the sea and my sunshine / Lost at sea / Can't find me Man In This House There's a man in this house / Who hasn't been here in forty years / He sneaks in like a mouse / And he fights to hold back his tears / Memories of his dad / He thinks of him like a king / And yet still he's so sad / As if he's here for a peace offering / There' a room in this house / That he sat in so long ago / He learned Bach and some Strauss / If he can play them still, he doesn't know / People change as the years go by / Distant dreams fade away / Losing things can tear up your eyes / As you wait for the break of day / He roams through all the rooms / Looking for different clues / None to find he assumes / So he takes only what he can use / He thinks of things long been past / Remembers a time that used to be / All his thoughts fade so fast / But there are still things that he can see / He's had enough for one day / All his thoughts have started to slow / And what else can he say / He knows that it's time to go / On a bus to another town as the road slips slowly by / Staring out the tinted window at the reflection of his eye / He wonders where he's going, he wonders where he's been / He wonders when he gets there are they going to let him in / Seeing all the land ahead, the amber waves of grain / Provokes a thought about the sky, he hopes it doesn't rain / His mind begins to wander as his eyes begin to close / A feeling of discomfort grows as he begins to doze / Sad man sitting on his cold hands / Sad man sitting on his cold hands / Sad man sitting on his cold hands / Sad man Green In a hundred bleached white blue jeans, on a hundred smelly teens / There is always room for currency, colored different shades of green / In a black tri-folded wallet, they got it in their jeans / Stuffed down in their back pockets, it's ripping out the seams / Greedy little heathens complain at what they've got / Wishing they were richer, but knowing that they're not / Plastic cash is easy and no limit is a lot / Except a statement wants a check to pay for things they've bought / From a bank in Utah, a man sends out the bill / Regurgitating lunch time, he thinks he might be ill / Grasping at his stomach, he searches for a pill / To keep from bending over and letting it all spill / Feeling green and clammy, as sweat drips from his face / He asks to go home early in a manner far from grace / Picking up his coat and hat, forgetting his briefcase / His red Ford pickup waits for him in its parking place / A cafe in Salt Lake City serves old food to business men / Who carry briefcase Apples and degrade women / Waitresses in pink and white all overcharge him / The cooks all watch him eat and they just stay in back and grin / Stuck behind a fryer, he watches his domain / Secretly he knows he can put gourmet chefs to shame / Dreaming of the future, he plays his little game / In reality a plastic tag identifies his name / Before he leaves he changes into his old blue jeans / On the street he blends in with a hundred smelly teens / Because he works, his wallet rips out his pockets' seams / Overstuffed with money colored different shades of green Plastic Shake my hand and tell me something plastic / The smile you wear puts out what you conceal / Let me know you care about my family / The more time you take, the more you steal / Sit and speak your stand on all the issues / What is the current state of affairs / You won't be the one to represent me / In between your ears is stale air / So you walk door to door for the people / Oh, you're humble as a man can be / You think you can impress me with your doctorate / Paper doesn't mean that much to me / First you say you're strict, then you are open / Then you say you're open when you are closed / You can't be everything to everybody / What I am to you, God only knows / Water is flowing, and the tide is high / Better get going, or it'll pass you by / Make a mistake, there's no time to cry / Thinking you're great, but you're plastic News I got home so late, I couldn't think about sleeping / Put down my bags, suitcases under my eyes / Before my head hit the bed, I was already dreaming / Then the light came in, it's the sun I despise / Maybe the daylight slipped by without me / I saw the sun rise in the middle of my night / I know you don't understand what I'm doing / You know I don't really care much at all / I can't lay in my bed, my mind is constantly stewing / I'm so afraid to get up I know I'll probably just fall / Could it have been my minds as sharp as a knife / Or was my mind wandering though this mess called my life / I feel like I slept for less than an hour / A new day has come, a new task to begin / I stagger out of my room, down the hall to the shower / I haven't begun, but I want it to end / When I walked in the room, you know my face was still dry / I guess the dirt and the flowers didn't feel like good-bye / Lying in bed is not the place to start mourning / I'd prayed that what happened didn't happen at all / Sometimes they just go, sometimes they get early warnings / The dumpster is full, but there's still trash in the hall / I know I must go through this again / Don't want to go back to where I've already been She'd Go On It didn't matter what she said to him / It only mattered what she meant / For all her words, for what they're worth / It still couldn't pay her rent / But who's to blame, they're all the same / Who's to blame, who's to blame / Heart racing in her chest / Her thoughts slipped through the door / The neighbors waited knowingly / There wouldn't be much more / She'd go on, she'd go on / Yeah, she'd go on, on and on / But who's to blame, they're all the same / Who's to blame, who's to blame / A million names were scattered / As the neighbors listened on / Breaking glass destroyed their memories / In a moment he was gone / She'd go on, she'd go on, on and on / No one left to blame / She'd go on / Nothing stays the same / She'd go on, on and on / Yeah, she'd go on / Nothing stays the same / She'd go on, on and on / Yeah, she'd go on Must Be Getting Tired I couldn't fall asleep last night / It was something about my bed / The house seemed to be ringing / My ears both slowly bled / I couldn't fall asleep last night / I was far too self aware / My fingertips were aching / The ceiling drew my stare / I think about the day I had the day before / Drift in and out and then back in again / I must be getting tired / I couldn't fall asleep last night / My heart beat through my chest / A thousand beats per minute / Beat my thousandth chance at rest / I couldn't fall asleep last night / Both legs were speared with pain / She slept so calmly next to me / I didn't know her name / I think about the day I had the day before / Drift in and out and then back in again / I must be getting tired |