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Replacement Things

from Replacement Things by David Newberry

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We don't go into battle just to give up on the fight.
But from the lay of the waterline, it looks like something ain't right.
You're gonna need a diamond, if you want a diamond ring.
We're just looking for replacements, to replace replacement things.

They boarded up the windows, where the river got too mean.
Built the gates to keep the families, from the trenches on Main Street.
You find safety in the suburbs, where you take your pretty feet.
And where you sealed your own fate, with your lips upon my cheek.

There will always be a river. It will always rise in spring.
We all make our own undoing, with every little thing.

Yeah I sang the things I sang. Yeah I said the things I said.
I fall in love with all the singers too, but I don't take'em off to bed.
All this money that we're digging, digging right out of the sand.
It can't be piled high enough, to keep the consequence from land.

There will always be a river. It will always rise in spring.
We all make our own undoing, with every little thing.

The levees just delay our fate.
We moved the earth until the weather changed.
Footprints we left upon the mud that day.
The river rose up and then washed away.

There will always be a river. It will always rise in spring.
We all make our own undoing, with every little thing.
There will always be a river. It will always rise in spring.
We're just searching for replacements, to replace replacement things. (x2)

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from Replacement Things, released September 11, 2015
Words and Music by David Newberry

David Newberry - Guitars and Vocals
Kenton Loewen - Drums and Percussion
Matthew Campbell - Guitars
Peter Mynett - Bass

Veda Hille - Piano
JP Maurice - Vocals

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David Newberry Toronto, Ontario

David Newberry sings folk music with rock sensibilities. Or is it the other way around? His increasingly noisy songs provide insights into the complex contemporary social world.

His new record 'No One Will Remember You' Was released March 6th, 2012 on Northern Electric Records.

His first album 'When We Learn The Things We Need To Learn' was released in 2010 & earned critical praise.
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