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The Barn Sessions

by State Radio

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1.
Let me trip the reason of your lecture for a change Let me tell you how you feel Let me strap you down and put morphine in your veins Let me fuck this bed of steel 'Cause here comes the State Inspector So doctor all your resident records Truth is he really don't care less It's just the function of the politics and business Oh oh oh... 'Cause here comes the State Inspector So doctor all your resident records Truth is he really don't care less It's just the function of the politics and the business Deinstitutionalization She had a wife but left her at the station And now there's women in the stairwells Where their love lives don't fair well Whoring themselves away in the kitchen Oh the squalor Whoa oh the squalor Let it empty me Welcome to whatever God may do It's no secret that you'll never leave (Hey, Chuck. Yeah. Come here for a second.) Calling all the presidents men 'Cause I’m stuck in this room locked in Won't you do me a favor and give me ten So I can peek into the hallway again Oh the squalor Whoa oh the squalor Let it empty me Welcome to whatever God may do It's no secret that you'll never leave She was the daughter of the second American Revolution A tall girl with a stones constitution
2.
Well indeed you lost your friend On the south side of where you live All curled around his knees Boarded up windows burned out brick Oh please don't forget A little know fact about the place you sit It's always an empty plate It's just there so we don't Forget your loss and your history Well indeed you found your friend On the south side of where you live All curled around his knees Was it worse then you fret Or the punishment you get Hollow points in the concrete Have you wailed for the likes of the walls and hunger strikes? Are you more than what you hate? Well your fear will not fade The lines that paint your face It's a black cab motorcade Black cab motorcade Well this one must be lost At this ungodly time of day A broken curfew has a cost A tidy sum you'll pay Teacher won't you teach your lesson Though the young are hard to break Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson And the cost of school these days Well indeed you saw your friend On the south side of where you live He was up and walking again And have you heard what's happened since Was it worth what you got Is there any honor outside of revenge? Don't let her set another empty place We swear that we wont Forget your loss and your history Forget your cross and your history Have you wailed for the likes of the walls and hunger strikes? Are you more than what you hate? Well your fear will not fade The lines that paint your face It's a black cab motorcade Black cab motorcade Black cab motorcade
3.
The women in the Valley Forge They go day to day Don't let them raid me home and My home and place But the man they can't see beyond So they war and war They don't remember what they What they came here for People to people are so unjust Carry yourself well so Carry yourself well People to people are so unjust Carry yourself well so Carry yourself well Women in the Valley Forge her The once home of the brave Don't let them raid me home and My home in place But the men don’t see beyond So they become what they hate They don't see that the moon has just Yeah the moon is just getting its legs People to people are so unjust Carry yourself well so Carry yourself well People to people are so unjust Carry yourself well so Carry yourself well Carry yourself well And you don't even close the barn door After the horses have scattered And no one knows anymore Where all the souls have gathered Though they will keep an eye on what you do And when the people have spoken You won't say mercy on, mercy on you Cause we will, we will be alive just broken People to people are so unjust Carry yourself well so Carry yourself well People to people are so unjust Carry yourself well so Carry yourself well Carry yourself well
4.
Olli Olli 03:44
Big Olli Mack came out swinging Looking for a soul to fry When the dust settled up I said no sir no not I It had been four years since he'd been put inside He gonna' make all the men pay And all the women cry Olli Olli out come free Olli Olli out come so guilty Olli Olli state your claim Olli Olli state your name your name Olli Olli out come free Olli Olli don't get me Olli Olli whatcha gonna do Cross your heart and hope to die Hope to God saint Jesus lies When the constable comes for you They slapped him with a rifle And threw him on the stage He fired a shot for every month he'd been put away Bookmaker (bookmaker) What do we do here It's hatred that keeps them coming second only to fear In the wee hours of the night the bonfire still rage Keep on keeping on and a martyr you will make No talk of the cross Just drugs and bombs and gasoline Gunning each other down both loyal to the queen, see Olli Olli all come free Olli Olli don't get me Olli Olli whatcha gonna do Cross your heart and hope to die Hope to God saint Jesus lies When the constable calls for you Olli Olli out come free Olli Olli all come so guilty Olli Olli state your Olli Olli state your Good Friday don't seem no good no more We don't expect peace from no gun running whore Bookmaker (bookmaker) tell us what you know The tensions running high This town is gonna blow oh Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli (all come free) Olli Olli Olli Olli (don’t get me) Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli (what you gonna do) Olli Olli Olli Olli (oh when they come for you) Olli Olli Olli Olli, Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli Olli
5.
There's a quiet in the cellar And if they find us It'll be all she wrote And by the time the ground thawed The summer She had barely spoke I feel so I feel so blind to what you're sayin' And if I don’t, And if I don't need your help just say it He came screaming down the river All hopped up on the Calvados Whatever he Whatever he's taking Whatever he's making please don't give me any of those Last time I saw him Smiling, sitting up high in the caravan As if to say if we are anything If I am anything Then this is who I am I feel so I feel so blind to what you're sayin' If I don't And if I don’t need your help just say it R-E-E-L-E-C-T C-R-O-O-K D-I-S-T-R-I-C-T A-T-T-O-R-N-E-Y (re-elect Crook district attorney)
6.
Right Me Up 06:16
Manny don't need no comforting He just ask of himself to bring him up Ain't gonna see him waiting on, waiting on, waiting on a day Got him a chair in '73 It was his only option so Manny agreed Same chair he has today Since they threw the cane away And Manny he been doing nothing he just doing his own thing You know it's getting pretty cold out by the jub jub swing Living with his sister till he got too big to roll in so he rolled out Oh this friend today right me up And oh this friend today right me up And oh this friend today right me up And oh this friend today right me up, I'm not so And Manny you know everything always mattered to him We've gone down past Fall River all the way to Tiverton Watching Manny fall, you know he just don't know Old man where'd you get the love that you sold He don't know how he go and the wise man say Young Manny said I'm going to the vineyard today And yeah he go on ways to bide his time You know he loves you when he forgets your name Oh this friend today right me up And oh this friend today right me up Oh this friend today right me up Oh this friend today right me up, I'm not so 'Cause my back isn't working, my feet not too well My life isn't holding my body too well 'Cause my back isn't working, my feet, no not too well My life isn't working my body too well But the bottle, is not empty, 'cause your voices are all there My life, will fight, my body for air 'Cause the bottle, is not empty, 'cause your voices are all there My life, will fight, my body for air Manny we gonna get that AM dial just right I'll hold that hanger up as long as the Sox put up a fight You know reception on this island was never so tight Always left us pining away for more Oh this friend today right me up And oh this friend today right me up And oh this friend today right me up And oh this friend today right me up, I'm not so Oh this friend today right me up And oh this friend today right me up And oh this friend today right me up And oh this friend today right me up, I'm not so way, way, way, way
7.
Rushian 02:46
Rushian, always rushian Yeah, yeah Rushian, always rushian Yeah, yeah Anatole, do you have to Keep on telling me That this time will pass you And we wont be Rushian, always rushian Yeah, yeah Rushian, always rushian Yeah, yeah You set up the roadblock and don't speak of Kafka And keep on telling me The way you ride them czar's men will never match you oodalolly oodalolly golly what a day oodalolly oodalolly golly what a day oodalolly oodalolly golly what a day oodalolly oodalolly golly what a day Rushian, always rushian Yeah, yeah Rushian, always rushian Yeah, yeah But don't look back It'll only slow you down Don't wanna' know the odds when it's us against the crown And if you hear 'em close behind ya Don't let the coin out shine you Just leave them one by one by one on the ground 'Cause my sweet Czarina I'm sorry my sweet Czarina, I’m sorry my sweet Czarina, I’m sorry but you have to step down oodalolly oodalolly golly what a day oodalolly oodalolly golly what a day oodalolly oodalolly golly what a day oodalolly oodalolly golly what a day CCCP, you'll never get me CCCP, you'll never get me CCCP
8.
Camilo 07:17
Woke him up with a barrel to his head His eyes shut tight bracing for the blow Resigning his life to the metal held in another man's hand The only language we share Is the distrust of war and utter looks of despair Two soldiers separated from their packs Twenty days in a concrete fallout What life have I to take your own Oh my country, won't you call out Doorbells are ringing with boxes of bones From another land's war torn corners To a prison cell in my own Punish me for not taking your orders But don't lock me up for not leavin' my home Your words just a bloody fallacy A house of cards you painted white Tried to recreate Normandy But you made up a reason to fight And now red oil is spillin' down on the street And your eyes too big for the belly you feed Decisions made in the distance between the dirt and your fancy shoes Red oil is spilling down on the street Your eyes so big for the belly is weak Will you not refuse this currency Or is blood money just money to you Or is blood money just money to you Twenty days in a concrete fallout What life have I to take your own Oh my country, won't you call out Doorbells are ringing with boxes of bones From another land's war torn corners To a prison cell in my own Punish me for not taking your orders But don't lock me up for not leavin' my home Twenty days in a concrete fallout What life have I to take your own Oh my country, won't you call out Doorbells are ringing with boxes of bones From another land's war torn corners To a prison cell in my own Punish me for not taking your orders But don't lock me up for not leavin' my home Twenty days in a concrete fallout What life have I to take your own Oh my country, won't you call out Doorbells are ringing with boxes of bones From another land's war torn corners To a prison cell in my own Punish me for not taking your orders But don't lock me up for not leavin' my home Camilo Camilo Leavin' my home Camilo
9.
Diner Song 04:09
Oh oh oh… Whoa a little love at Caesar's Whoa you know I love to please her Whoa a little love at Caesar's Goes so far Whoa a little love at Caesar's Whoa whoa whoa you know I love to please her Whoa a little love at Caesar's Goes so far I hope I get a little snack tonight I hope I get a little smack tonight I'll be starving Standing in the broad day light Just waitin' on the comin' of the night 24-hour diner's almost closed All I need's a cup of joe 'Cause she's so nice Treats me like I tip her from my head to her toes Brings me my water with her skirt so high I catch a little glimpse in the silverware shine I ain't no thief That just ain't right But I ain't go no money And I intend to pay for my meal tonight Whoa a little love at Caesar's Whoa you know I love to please her Whoa a little love at Caesar's Goes so far, yes it does Whoa a little love at Caesar's Whoa whoa whoa you know I love to please her Whoa a little love at Caesar's Goes so far She's got a tattooed tongue She loves to abuse You can tell that she's good by the language that she use She says meet you in the bathroom at a quarter to two You know what you must do 'Cause the flood gate's open Your hips are getting loose You got a rocket in your pocket 'Cause you don't know what to do So go, whoa she says I betcha that I can take all of your soul You say put your money where your mouth is and let all be told Whoa a little love at Caesar's Whoa you know I love to please her Whoa a little love at Caesar's Goes so far Whoa a little love at Caesar's Whoa whoa whoa you know I love to please her Whoa a little love at Caesar's Goes so far They got crayons on the placemats Refried beans Don't give me half-and-half Just whip up my cream Gimme some slapjacks And flap on the butter Corned-beef-hash My mind is in the gutter Heavy with the syrup Heavy with the grease My foots in the stirrup Just do as you please Whoa a little love at Caesar's Whoa you know I love to please her Whoa a little love at Caesar's Goes so far Whoa a little love at Caesar's Whoa whoa whoa you know I love to please her Whoa a little love at Caesar's Goes so far Na na na na na na na…
10.
Sunshine you caught me sleeping And I woke to your skies so grey But I lay cold in the power of your keeping So please don’t take it all away Sunshine you fell down on me As I was fast asleep And now you woke in the power of your keeping Just proved a second too late Me I’m just calling you over By the power of your own rays And if I had half a mind I’d give you all my time to save Sunshine was I so blind That I could not see your face Wont you lend me half a mind So I can have my time to save Sunshine, you caught me sleeping As I woke to a world so gray But I lay cold in the power of your keeping So please don’t take another second away Me I’m just calling you over By the power of your own grace If I had half a mind I’d give you all my time to save Sunshine, was I so blind That I could not see your face And would you give me half of mind I’ll give you all my time to save

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released April 17, 2007

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