1. |
Foot Of Pride
05:57
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Brilliant Disguise
04:40
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Would you be my David Briggs?
Would you be my Artie G?
Harmony and recording rigs
You could save me
From me
If I was your Neil or Paul
You’d intuit how I feel
Two for one and one for all
The hard work of
Being real
Would you cancel out my doubt?
Make me laugh instead of shout
If I yell, well you’d yell too
Oh I wish that I could sing like you
And I wish that I could mix like you
Would you speak the truth my dear
With your keen unerring ear
Together we would get it right
Though I’d still put up
A fight
Would you tell me I was shit?
If the moment demanded it
Sure there’s plenty of easier gigs
Than Artie G or David Briggs
David Briggs or Artie G
You could save me
From me
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5. |
Read The Room
01:58
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Darling you’re an animal in pharmacy perfume
You’re a little pigpen with an atmosphere of gloom
Did I do something to upset you?
Have I met you or did you send your cartoon
I would love to take your hand cause
You’re so grand and all but you can’t read the room
Scientists debate you try to date you from your rings
Every time you cry another angel gets his wings
And I’m eager to absolve you
Who can solve you greater minds have failed the test
Come on over to my backyard
You’ve tried everybody else, now try the best
This is where it ends yes this is where it has to halt
I want you to live that’s why we’re cutting back on salt
I’m trying hard to find an answer
I’m no dancer but I do know how to move
Keep me right next to your heart
And we can start up when you’ve got nothing to prove
Darling you’re an animal in pharmacy perfume
You’re a little pigpen with an atmosphere of gloom
Did I do something to upset you?
Have I met you or did you send your cartoon
I would love to take your hand cause
You’re so grand and all but you can’t read the room
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6. |
Hello Sixty
02:25
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Twenty was funny, twenty was tough
Love, money, never enough
Twenty
Thirty was a blur: him, we, her
Thirty was work
Learning who to be
Thirty
Forty was a field a field of dreams
Fifty didn’t fit had to let out the seams
Twenty was forever twenty was friends
Thought we would never get to the end of
Twenty
Thirty was the best, thirty was the worst
Know I was blessed, thought i was cursed at
Thirty
Forty was an anthem, key of E
Fifty was a film by Mike Leigh
Hello Sixty
Hello Sixty
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7. |
Cut & Run
02:24
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She was from a town they called the pits
She liked the hits she dug the sound she hung around
She craved the noise she eyed the boys, she eyed the boys
Nobody could tell her what to do
Nobody could make her heel
Nobody could change the way it made her feel
She was something new like me and you
She threw the dice she paid the price
She did it twice she had her fun
She cut and run, she cut and run
Nobody could tell her where to go
Nobody could weird her out
Nobody could take away her twist and shout
Falling, she keeps on falling, can’t help it she’s falling down every hill
Dreaming can’t stop dreaming forever dreaming…
Nobody could tell her what to do
Nobody could make her heel
Nobody could change the way it made her feel
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8. |
My Back Pages
03:44
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9. |
Chasing You
02:39
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10. |
Only A Broken Heart
04:10
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11. |
Long and Wasted Years
03:43
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12. |
The Walking Wounded
01:44
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Nobody said it would be easy
Ain’t we the lucky ones, we made it through
No guarantees
We keep cool in a crisis
That’s one good thing about me and you
We’re so far from where we started
The trail of breadcumbs blew away
And the stars have changed their names
Like the streets and buildings that remain
Will somebody turn the lights out when we leave?
Taking account of the minus column
We’ll call it square if that makes some sense
No going back
And who’d want that anyway?
Too much perspective when you’re on the fence
We’re so far from where we started
The trail of breadcumbs blew away
And the stars have changed their names
Like the streets and buildings that remain
Will somebody turn the lights out when we leave?
Signed, The Walking Wounded
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13. |
Heart Is A Muscle
01:22
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I’m on a roll
I’m on a tear now
I’m gonna burn down everything in my path
I sold my soul
So I don’t care now
I told my plans to make the devil laugh
No bounds
No outer limits
Hey I’m so in it
Passed myself at the door
Yeah I don’t care
I bear and grin it
Nobody sees you when you’re out on the floor
I’m digging deep
Can’t stop the hustle
And if I have to I can step on the gas
Read it and weep
Heart is a muscle
Abandon hope ye who through this way pass
I ain’t no clown
No ancient princess
I’m leaving town for where the good times go
No way but down
Resisting useless
Time is a river gotta let it flow
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Amy Rigby Catskill, New York
Amy Rigby has been writing, performing and recording her transcendent songs about everyday
life for over 30
years, first with bands Last Roundup & the Shams in NYC,
from 1996 solo debut Diary Of A Mod Housewife to The Old Guys (2018). She published her first book Girl To City last year.
“..one of the country’s best songwriters, with a mordant wit & keen eye for emotional detail.”
Chicago Reader
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