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Shiny Pretty Things

from Replacement Things by David Newberry

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After every circumstance; every love; and every dance; every platitude that's drifted from our painted lips.
The ships of these ideas set to sea. For their own eternity.
If only we could learn to breathe, surely we would learn something sweet.

But I am getting pretty tired of the radio.
They're always talking about our twisted dreams.
Something has gone sidewise, through a loophole at the gun show,
We used to be such tiny pretty things.

Place an armed guard at the library.
Settle all your debts of the flesh.
Ask the walking dead for a dimebag.
Ask the walk-in clinic for some Percocet.

Remember when we laid our hands upon the alter?
To ask for anything that all that wasn't what we had?
No one anticipates their fall / attends their own funeral.
No one who watches this happen deserves to laugh.

I am getting pretty tired of the radio.
They're just reporting on all our shiny dreams.
Something has gone wrong, come out the front door of a sideshow.
We've learned to love such wicked, wicked things.

All the mathematics; All the little rhymes;
All the learning to assemble (at the sound of bells) in lines; All the schoolyard fisticuffs;
All the little crush; Burried by a culture that isn't good enough.
All the choir practices; All the memorizing lines;
All the dreams of wrigley field; They're just a waste of time.

I'm so tired of the radio.
They're always talking about our wicked dreams.
Something has gone sidewise, through a loophole at the gun show,
We used to be such tiny pretty things.

credits

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

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

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. ... more

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