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Chinese Guitars Delicious

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1.
She pulled every string from your heart up through the neck at the head of her hummingbird Epiphone. A bead of sweat hanging from her nose alone. Electric tape covering her toes. What those feet had kicked no one knows. She just killed the murder ballad Nailed it and then hung it from a tree Anyone who walks that path can hear its bloody melody Junkies in her songs playing blackjack through the night with hockey cards subbing for the lost. That dirty low-down view was not without a cost. She fluttered on the high notes in a way that when scooping out the lows she made you pay Like falling off a log the song's protagonist wound up slitting their sleeping lover's throat to save them from a fate that wouldn't float. The living lover sunk into despair. The no-longer-living lover filled the air
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On Halloween, 1 box of costume - mother said. Kids are mean it's safe to here assume - mother said. On Halloween, Bozo's in his winter coat A husky tween his candy made him miss the boat It's like you read. You're mother said. He had a heart attack but with fewer years on his back Before the ticker went south before the Nicorette in his mouth Yeah yeah yeah no one was laughing wipe that look off your face Yeah yeah yeah no one was laughing Hail Mary full of Grace hallelujah There's a point where loneliness burns your face Blushing like we're in disgrace It burns your face. No one is laughing now. No one. I got a message from you From down a deep dark river I'd never been to I got a message a message from you When that message got through In a high ho silver And be bop a loo I got a message I got the message from you You were union hating men With boot straps high Nobody helped you when You were too low to try Off the line. Off a straight and narrow line. Let it shine. We're here to try again To pick it up And to begin
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Peffer Park 04:30
A drummer’s girl from a river town met his drums and moved on down. A med assistant to pay her way with horror stories from work that day Rolling through the dark of Peffer Park I’m out of your mind And I’m out of mine Boomers on a summer night In a graveyard laughing at the sight That boy had disappeared from you You whispered what I had wondered too Rolling through the dark of Peffer Park I’m out of your mind And I’m out of mine I remember by Pentothal And I regret it all Rolling through the dark of Peffer Park I’m out of your mind And I’m out of mine
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Where are you now There’s was a passing phase Left wandering lost among the weeds Where are you now What weighed on our days Sun has bleached to white and now recedes Slender hopes must cling to you Where are you now Momentary as a sound Swift as swallows darkening a dream
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You were not allowed You were a long way from the short list Like Charity Charity Barnum Married to the circus drum Elephants whipped to bow And head bumping with phrenologists’ Clarity Like Charity Barnum Buried with an outstretched Thumb I’m like the father I’m like the son I’ve had and I’ve been both and none I’ve had to wonder What deal had you made To stand in that monkey’s shade You are among the freaks In a parade of little horrors Like Charity Charity Barnum Watch the kingdom come I’m like the father I’m like the son I’ve had and I’ve been both and none I’ve had to wonder What deal had you made To stand in that monkey’s shade

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"...chords have no friends here."
Skip Callahan- MusicPit

"This is the "Triumph of the Will" of romantic comedies."
Julie Klopper- Disc

"No."
Sting- Musician

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released June 28, 2017

all songs by Brian Stevens, except Halloween Rockeretta by Brian Stevens and Benjamin Stevens

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Brian Stevens New Milford, Connecticut

I am an alien that was sent to earth to study humans and report my findings to minister Zolumb on the planet Yat. To fit in with other middle aged men in my area, I took up pretending to make music. Enjoy.

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