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Houdini in Reverse

by Kyp Harness

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Wake Me Up (When We Get There) 03:21
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WAKE ME UP (WHEN WE GET THERE) See the handsome young man speakin’ his mind You wouldn’t think it would take all that much time Seems like everywhere you meet someone who knows Just exactly the way it’s gotta go The speakers scream and the megaphones wail Just like a snake swallowin’ its own tail Spare no expenses in buildin’ fences Did I happen to mention that I couldn’t be less impressed? But don’t mind me, it’s nothing crucial I am only desperate as usual You take the wheel and drive awhile I’ll ride behind – Wake me up when we get there I woke up from a night-time vision Walked right into a three-way collision People took pictures, wrote down everything I said Before movin’ on to the baby born with three heads Saw a whole way of life and a world that once had been Sacrificed to satisfy somebody’s drunken whim What some must do to pay the rent Is beyond belief and beneath contempt But don’t mind me, it’s nothin’ crucial I am only desperate as usual You take the wheel and drive awhile I’ll ride behind – Wake me up when we get there I’m only waitin’ for a miracle Just one last chance for a human to stand still And dream and lean upon a windowsill And see the scenery No expectations of gettin’ out of debt Just wanna catch a ride and catch my breath For one last moment before I’m chewed to death By the machinery See the young woman dancin’ with the chemical glands See the mind of the outcast snappin’ like a rubber band In a crippled crevice of a city wall Where life is cheap if it’s even there at all Politician says “Why help the needy?” Scientist says “It’s all a matter of breeding” All I’m lookin’ for is a few feet of space Without somebody’s derriere shakin’ in my face But don’t mind me, it’s nothing crucial I am only desperate as usual You take the wheel and drive awhile I’ll ride behind – Wake me up when we get there :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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Dance Monkey Dance 04:17
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DANCE MONKEY DANCE Dance monkey dance, with a fire in your pants And your head lost in dreams of tomorrow You spin ‘round the floor, down the long corridor Of dark vacancies and of sorrow Though the day of your doom May be comin’ up soon ‘Neath the white frozen moon Monkey, dance Dance monkey dance, in a spell, in a trance In a well-tailored velvet tuxedo You can save the day, you make the band play All the way from here to Toledo With your tail up so high So proudly you fly Through the day, through the night Monkey, dance Dance monkey dance, while you still got the chance Before somebody comes and destroys you The whole world’s asleep, all the wolves, all the sheep All the men, women, girls, and the boys, too As the crows gather near And the sky disappears Through the smoke, through the mirror Monkey, dance :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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Good Old Days 03:14
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GOOD OLD DAYS The morning sun comes down like a hammer The ones that aren’t struck dumb just stammer The meek ones crawl and the clever ones clamour Up the tower where the gold still shines Everybody’s in costume but nothin’ much is doin’ Silicon Mona Lisa and Leather Rasputin Go divin’ in dumpsters to sift through the ruins Of whatever is left out there to find The good old days are gone at last Thank God, I thought they’d never pass The good old days are gone at last He was the pride of his parents but nothin’ could hold him He had stereo drugs and wall-to-wall boredom The sissy boys fear him but the bully boys court him For reasons of a monetary kind His life was too soft, he needed some friction A taste of the whip, some polite mutilation Reborn as the savior of a new generation Now they sell his blood like vintage wine The good old days are gone at last Thank God, I thought they’d never pass The good old days are gone at last Left me standin’ like a lamp with an empty socket in the rain They pulled me inside out like a poor man’s pocket once again As the howl of the misfit faded out On the wind like the whistle of the midnight train (in vain) Now it’s Saturday night in the Land of Amnesia The freaks in the Big Top pass out the anaesthesia As Leather Rasputin and Silicon Mona Lisa Disappear in a stretch limousine And it’s blessed be the flag and blessed be the nation Whatever it stands for, whoever creates it Pull up the covers and let’s celebrate it As our last prayer fades from the screen ‘Cause the good old days are gone at last Thank God, I thought they’d never pass The good old days are gone at last :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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That's My Middle Name 04:15
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One & Only 04:06
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ONE & ONLY I was stranded in a city where the only known truth Was industry and labour, hard work formed the noose For the love of strange beauty and the fancies of youth And the blue sky was blocked by the factory roofs Solitude and loneliness, starin’ out the window Lookin’ in the fields all smothered in the snow Waitin’ for a sign to show me where to go Countin’ every minute, not so long ago The minds were straight and narrow and the friends were few But there was always someone handy tellin’ me what I should do I listened to them all then did what I wanted to There was no choice, one voice comin’ on through Singin’ out: Baby, don’t you know me? I’m the one and only Sanctified and holy Lonely as a hounddog bayin’ in the moonlight Check it out, baby! I went into the city of saccharine and steel Where the long-faced ones tried to show me what is real Sterilized and compromised with so much to conceal But I never could kneel nor settle for the deal Never had a doubt I was on the right trail Never gave a thought to what would happen if I failed Runnin’ for my life with a dead man on my tail By rail or sail, direct mail – Singin’ out: Baby, don’t you know me? I’m the one and only Sanctified and holy Lonely as a hounddog bayin’ in the moonlight Check it out, baby! As I explained to the judge and jury too, I only got one As I explained to the judge and jury too, I only got one As I explained to the judge and jury too, I only got one So do you – So don’t run and hide when you hear me call I ain’t no Sunday driver, I’m in this for the long haul Can’t be erased nor painted over like Graffiti on the wall, no no no Some like to weep and some like to sleep You can read the news and count the sheep There’ll always be enough to get yourself in deep And raffle off your soul for what you cannot keep Some speak of the future, some of what has been Makin’ you forget that you’re a human, bein’ But life ain’t a dream and I ain’t a machine So put the pedal to the metal, honey, don’t forget the gasoline Baby, don’t you know me? I’m your one and only Sanctified and holy Lonely as a hounddog bayin’ in the moonlight Check it out, baby! :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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Revenge of Lazarus 03:02
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REVENGE OF LAZARUS Too many cooks spoilin’ the broth, little darlin’ Too many saviors on the cross I’m goin’ out for to read the writin’ On all of the coins that get tossed Five lonely mothers in a welfare line And an irritated cop on the beat Skinny little hippy man puts a fine shine On the shoes on everybody’s feet But not mine Slack-jawed glassy-eyed enterprising college boy With a collection of electric power tools Big mouth back-slappin’ dirty little hypocrite Sittin’ on the family jewels He got a bridge that he built in nineteen sixty-nine And it’s still collectin’ toll All of the money that money can buy And a lease on everybody’s soul But not mine Come along with me, honey, take ya out where All the weeds and the wild things grow It’s just a step away from the slaughterhouse gate Or at least it was a week ago Where no-one hides from the rain or remembers your name Or cares what side you’re on Or pays much attention to the wind’s direction ‘Cause all of their hope is gone But not mine :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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I Believe in You 03:52
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I BELIEVE IN YOU I got a heart that takes no chances On anything it can’t see through It’s very trained to be aware Of every trap and every snare But I believe in you I got a mind that won’t be swayed By any passing point of view I keep it set into its groove Where it’s not easily moved But I believe in you I put my trust into so many things And one by one I seen them fall But like a fool who never learns I’m willing to risk anything Anytime I hear you call – I got a love that strains and rages I’m afraid of what it might get up to I keep it under lock and key So tell me how can it be That I believe in you? It’s closin’ time down in the gamblin’ house And they’re takin’ all the tables away It’s time for one last bet Even though we’re deep in debt Well, you can’t win unless you play I got a life that rolls and plunges Who knows where it’s gonna lead me to? So much uncertainty and fear And so much that’s unclear But I believe in you So much uncertainty and fear Still, while I’m here I believe in you :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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Old Grey House 03:41
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OLD GREY HOUSE There’s an old grey house by the side of the road Faraway from the highway where nobody ever goes Who once lived there, nobody knows In the old grey house by the side of the road It’s an old grey house half-hidden by the trees With the shutters fallin’ off, hangin’ down in the breeze With the laneway gone, overgrown with weeds It’s an old grey house that no-one needs Someday someone must have built it there For some good reason But now it is just cluttering up the air It’s so displeasin’ One day they say there was parties there There was dancin’ in the front room, people sat in every chair You could hear the music float out on the still summer air There was revelry and laughter, people came from everywhere But now the old grey house sits in the middle of a field With the windows boarded up and the doorways sealed With the roof cavin’ in and the paint all peeled It’s an old grey house with nothin’ to steal The old grey house just sits there takin’ up ground And that is all Why the hell don’t someone tear it down Put up a shopping mall? As the old grey house rots and decays Getting’ uglier and uglier with every passin’ day Couldn’t sell it for a nickel, couldn’t give it away ‘Cause it’s all old grey house, and it’s a big disgrace Have you ever seen anything so dumb And don’t it make you wonder? Waitin’ for the bulldozers to come And plow it under There’s an old grey house by the side of the road Faraway from the highway where nobody ever goes Who once lived there, nobody knows In the old grey house by the side of the road :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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Cat's Pajamas 02:46
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CAT’S PAJAMAS Cat’s pajamas, angel wings Lovin’ cups and broken strings It ain’t enough, it ain’t enough Without your love To keep me standin’ here Tellin’ lies and cryin’ tears Without your love Been out in the wilderness, past the past fence and beyond Seen the seven wonders of the world, they only made me yawn It ain’t enough, it ain’t enough Without your love To keep me sittin’ on this fence Pretendin’ that it all makes sense Without your love God said to Jesus: “Listen to me, son If that’s the way they’re gonna treat us, I think we’d better run” It ain’t enough, it ain’t enough Without your love The truth may still be true But what good’s it gonna do Without love? You fill my cup to overflowin’ You drain my head when I get plugged But I just don’t know where I would be goin’ Without the light of your love Monkey feather, grizzle bone Pink umbrella, purple telephone It ain’t enough, it ain’t enough Without your love To keep me hangin’ on here Long after you’ve gone, dear Without your love :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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You Should Know Better Now 05:12
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YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER NOW The moon is comin’ up over the trees As if even it’s got someone it has to please This room is crowded, though just the two of us are here Waitin’ for the fever to break And there’s still so much that I feel I’ve got to say But nothing that hasn’t been repeated for ten thousand years Outside a crowd is gatherin’, cryin’ out for vengeance They’ll cry that way forever now, all along the road of good intentions But you should know better now You should know better now We stepped off a cliff, but survived that fall And now return again to confront the same old wall And you’re thinkin’ of a doorway But is it the same one I’m thinkin’ of? There’s a tavern across the street where the old soldiers go Now that the war is over, now that life is slow Upstairs from a funeral parlour And they call it ‘Heavens Above’ They got a brand new singer but it’s still the same old song Where a man’s more punished for doin’ what’s right Than for what he knows is wrong But you should know better now You should know better now Outside there’s a figure Movin’ through the shadows of the night Could be another murderer, Or another blackbird takin’ flight As a blind man walks straight into the sun Cryin’ out: “Won’t someone please turn on the light?” Laughin’ Boy’s uneasy, sittin’ on the windowsill He got so much space to fill And so much time to kill And tonight he’s desperate, Like a ghost without a house to haunt As you raise your eyes to me from the book you’re readin’, then Let them drift down slowly, like the silence that descends When somebody finally decides what it is they really want And I’m hopin’ that you heard me And believed me when I said That my love for you is real, not just another accident But you should know better now You should know better now And I should know better now :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
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Houdini in Reverse 02:58
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You're the One 03:33
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YOU’RE THE ONE Always on the wrong side of a bloodbath or a mudslide Or on an ocean liner when the ocean’s at an ebb tide You’re the one, you’re the one Always in crossfire of some maniac for hire Or in the eighth floor window when the seventh floor’s on fire You’re the one, you’re the one You’re the one that makes this life worth livin’ You make this constant slaughter almost worth forgivin’ And because of you I wouldn’t miss a single minute of it You’re the one And even when I’m weary, Just to know that you are near me Is enough to keep me pumpin’ when the world outside is dreary You’re the one, you’re the one You ask me where the light is, I haven’t got the slightest All I know is where you are is where the dark is brightest You’re the one, you’re the one You’re the one that makes this life worth livin’ You make this constant slaughter almost worth forgivin’ And because of you I wouldn’t miss a single minute of it You’re the one People come and offer their solutions They’re all so certain But I see nothin’ here much worth salutin’ Or preservin’ Except the thin blade of your smile as we walk the moonlit mile Behind the backdrops of the world where the casualties are piled You’re the one, you’re the one Always on the wrong side of a bloodbath or a mudslide Or on an ocean liner when the ocean’s at an ebb tide You’re the one, you’re the one You’re the one :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

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released October 26, 2014

Produce by Dale Morningstar and Kyp Harness with David Pedliham
Kyp Harness - guitar, vocals
David Pedliham - electric guitar
Nick Burson - drums
Rob Clarke - bass

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