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Stages
03:01
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All the world's a stage
There are many here today
In bedrooms and kitchens all across the USA
We've been trying to reach you from across the air
Backlit and in shadows with 2020 hair from our Stages
I bounce the walls every day in a cage like a mouse trap in a maze
With the end on the way we'll recover by degrees
I just hope that the cure Is not worse than disease
I’ve nearly given up on this dramatic season
The world is kind of screwed up
For no particular reason
I bounce the walls every day and I gaze
like a mouse trapped in a maze
With the end on the way we'll recover by degrees
I just hope the cure Is not worse than disease
The first stage along the way will it find you on your knees
As you stumble on the way on the first thing that you see
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Don’t pass me that bottle
Don't want to take a hit
Don’t pass me that bottle
Don't know what you put in it
You say the truth is never plain
And media is all to blame
Don't tell me confusion
is the only thing that makes any sense
And the chaos you're building
is the only thing of Consequence
You say your will it won’t bend
And it's alright if the world ends
Don’t pick up that weapon
Why did you choose to fight?
Cause it's just the last thing
before they turn out the lights
You say your will it won’t bend
And it's alright if the world ends
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You complain about that hero’s skin
It’s not the same as what you’re living in
Hey it’s all just make believe
I don’t know why you’re making a scene
The world isn’t just how you see it
All kinds of folks, you better believe it
Who should have the pleasure to see
The kind of people they would like to be
Right here it’s so plain to see
Right now, you’re killing so many dreams
Right here if only you and I could agree
To hear the story right now
Superman is from another world
He’s always save the girl
No reason he’d be black or white
Your color code is just like kryptonite
Krypton may be his faraway home.
He doesn’t have a bulletproof soul
Lois Lane can always make him feel
It’s just his heart that can not heal
Right here it’s so plain to see
Right now, you’re killing so many dreams
Anyone could save the day
If we read the story right now
Who’s gonna save the world not you, not this time
Who’s gonna save the world not you, not this time
That little mermaid was never real
Can’t catch her with rod and reel
Half human half fish in the sea
Any kid could dream to be
The hero can’t always wear
The colors From your childhood dreams
Anyone could save the day If we write the story right now.
Who’s gonna save the world not you, not this time
Who’s gonna save the world not you, not this time
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Calamity Town
04:16
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Snow melts in the gutter A little less than before
the same place we all started always hoped for something more
The streets smell like oil and the shops are closed down
the damage is done to the good and the bad parts of town
When your hope’s all burned to the ground
Who's surviving in Calamity town?
Feels the same if you float or drown
It’s down to luck in Calamity Town
You can’t drive around even look someone in the eye
Someone always brings a gun the fear is hard to describe
No innocence here, no lives too cheap to shut down
still a target for every calamity that goes down
It always starts with an insult nothing more or less
Personality dramas another full court mess
Hate’s latest victim and they’ll be plenty more
Never just rains until the sky opens up it’s doors
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Penny's Notebook
03:01
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Penny has a notebook she spends a lot of time with.
She's sitting on the sidewalk With an educated look
Maybe that note book has pages filled with lists
Of money that’s owed her to be collected with her fists
Page after page after page please don’t let it say
Page after page after page of “all work and no play”
She’s just writing down lines that she’ll keep to herself
But maybe someday she’ll tear it all up And throw it away
Maybe she’s a poet with clever metaphors
Elaborate rhyming schemes she can only write outdoors.
Perhaps a manifesto? Political ideas
A system for future a radical New Deal
Page after page after page It better not say
Page after page after page of “all work and no play”
She’s just writing down lines That she’ll keep to herself
But maybe someday she’ll put it out there
And blow us away
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School's Out
03:25
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Turned on the news this morning
Another trigger warning
Darkness at noon
School’s out too soon
Empty thoughts and prayers
hiding under chairs
Body count just grew
What are they supposed to do?
Don’t try to say it’s all just a lie
Actors on stage with false flags to fly
But they don’t get curtain calls
To play the victim one more time
Come tomorrow morning
When battle lines are forming
nothing that we say
is going to change the tune
Don’t try to say it’s all just a lie
Actors on stage
with false flags to fly
What can you possibly say
When it’s time to say goodbye
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God's Not Listening
02:37
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Screaming out until your face turns blue
Is this the only thing you ever do?
It’s been this way since the day of your christening
Making noises no one wants to hear
What’s got you so full of fear
Nobody’s coming after you
Pray all you like, God’s not listening
Open up your mouth to curse the day
You don’t let the facts get in the way
What’s got you so full of scorn?
Do you rue the day you were born?
This boy’s cried wolf too many times
We’re not living in a nursery rhyme
Nobody wants to hear it now
Cry all night, Nobody’s listening
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I'm a Fool For This Town
03:42
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I’m a fool for this town ever since I was born
A sidekick to a man still drunk in the morning
Not the smartest to be in the town I was renowned
Just a fool to this town
I was schooled in this town but it never fooled me
Jokers were wild with all of their banter
Druggers and nerds and tough guy buffoons
Juggling words struck me as fooling around
I’m a fool for this town but it never occurred to me I was the clown
I’m a fool for this town
So I left for new pastures of Tricksters and Pranksters,
Madcaps and Pantaloons, Cads and Lambasters,
Jesters that sing for the Kings just to steal their crowns
I’m a fool for this town but it never occurred to me I was the clown
I’m a fool for this town
I went to the circus but they wouldn’t send me in
The tears and the frowns wouldn’t mean my death
Held Court for a while but in all of my trials
Sentenced to play the part of a sad Charlie Brown
When I came back it seemed almost sensible
Kind of surprised to be so apprehensible
I’m a fool for this town but it never occurred to me that I could still drown
Waiting for jeers and curtains to come down
While I lie on the hill with the eyes in my head spinning round
spinning, spinning, spinning, spinning around
I’m a fool for this town but it never occurred to me
That I was the clown
A fool for this town
Fool for this town
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I had a dream I was back in a cubicle with nothing to do
Heard a song I hadn't heard in so long and thought about you
I saw a plane in the sky, it went tumbling straight to the ground
All the faceless people that surrounded me didn't make a sound
Come with me take a ride we'll go anywhere
Come with me we can fly
Come with me take a ride out into space
My dreams are so surreal Yeah, I worry a lot
When I wake with you next to me
I'm glad for what I've got.
I can't recall all the things that I've ever seen Or the places I've been
The faces of the kids from the neighborhood have faded away
Walking by the place that I grew up in on Eagle Lane
All the houses and the trees were familiar but didn't look the same
Come with me take a ride We'll go anywhere
Come with me We can fly
Come with me Take a ride out into space
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Trying Not To Fall
03:49
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I’m trying not to fall Trying not to fail
Trying not to trail behind
But I’ve fallen so far I can’t see the top
And the bottom's coming up blind
Trying to break my fall
Is the only position I ever use
I’m trying not to fall, Standing up to you
even when I know you’re there
You’ve caught me before taken my trust
But I probably should prepare
To take a good look around and not see you anywhere
I'm Trying not to fall
Cause I know the consequence of them all
I’m trying not to fall Cause I’ve fallen before
And the bottom is a long way down
I'm Trying not to sink cause every time I do, the next step ends in a flash
I'm trying not to slip cause every single step could be the first or last
I'm Trying not to fall
Cause I know the consequence of them all
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Kelley's Heroes Rochester, New York
Kelley’s Heroes is an Original Indie Rock band which aims to meld the great singer-songwriter traditions with classic Indie
Rock power and energy. You might hear echoes of our own heroes in our songs: from Elvis Costello to Steve Earle and many more.
Fronted by Austin music veteran John Kelley and Rochester’s own Jon Gary, along with the talents of Dan Hoh and James Conner.
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