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Almighty Rock & Roll
04:02
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Almighty Rock & Roll
You play guitar your fingers blister
Tape 'em up and play some more
Your senior prom you've gone and missed it
Fell asleep in your headphones
You don't fit no mold
You can't be bought or sold
Don't feel like doin' what you're told
Kid don't fight it it's almighty rock and roll....
You went and took a shot at college
Flunked right out and got a job
Playing shows and painting houses
Sleeping in your friend's garage
You don't fit no mold
You can't be bought or sold
Don't feel like doin' what you're told
Kid don't fight it it's almighty rock and roll....
Spend most of my life right here in this basement
Don't need no money to feel proud
Just do me a favor cue up some Replacements
And turn that shit up really LOUD!!!
You don't fit no mold
You can't be bought or sold
Don't feel like doin' what you're told
Kid don't fight it it's almighty rock and roll
-CJC
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Half Century Man
04:12
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HALF CENTURY MAN
White caps are rollin' in...
Look a little further out, losin' the horizon
Part of me is Lieutenant Dan
Gonna strap my ass to that mast, point directly at my chin
say I'm waitin' on...waitin' on the hour
Headin' home to shit, shave, and shower
To meet the lord, someone saw him on the Bowery
Why do I need therapy someday they're gonna bury me
I'm not a man for this age
where we talk with our fingers, broadcast our innards...
live and die on a screen page...
Always selling makes one soul sick
If you have the time you can find us on line
at the methadone clinic
Cause I'm waitin' on...waitin' on the hour
Headin' home to shit, shave, and shower
to meet the lord, someone saw him on the Bowery
Why do I need therapy someday they're gonna bury me
Halcyon days....
of golden grass Octobers and a heart pounding gaze
Seven years a skin....
And I don't know where I'm destined for, or what's more, where I've been
Cause I'm waitin' on...waitin' on the hour
Headin' home to shit, shave, and shower
to meet the lord, someone saw him on the Bowery
Why do I need therapy someday they're gonna bury me
Headlong for the Why-zits and the who-zits
Dead wrong, somehow I always choose it
In a restaurant feelin' like I'm gonna lose it
Oh, Mr Yamaguchi whatcha puttin' in your sushi?
Some days my life's a penitentiary, I'm here a half a century....
-CJC
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Customer Service
05:42
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Customer Service
spent the afternoon fiddlin'
nothing's working but lights are blinkin'
disconnected and plugged back in
but no amount of my best thinkin'...
was gonna work and I got nervous
so I lobbed a call into customer service
guy puts me right on hold
now I'm listening to the theme from "Taxi"
a sad song by all accounts...
but for some reason it makes me happy
I think of things the family did
and the New York City I knew as a kid
Well, go on and keep explaining
wait I think you lost me
somewhere in the middle maybe double-crossed me
perhaps we'd do better speaking with your boss please
only question left is what's this gonna cost me?
Now I'm lost in reverie
thinkin' about a train I took and...
I guess I'd just turned twenty three
I had my nose inside this book when
this girl sat down and we shared some booze
flirted and made out all the way up to Syracuse
God I feel like a cliche
phone in hand perched at my window
staring out on a rainy day
wondering where did all that time go?
but I'm happy with what I see
even though it's not the place I thought I'd be
well, go on and keep explaining wait I think you lost me
somewhere in the middle maybe double-crossed me
perhaps we'd do better speaking with your boss please
only question left is what's this gonna cost me?
guy comes back to aplogize
tells me there's no easy fixes
can't get into the "hows and whys"
that the world's made up of these type glitches
and I thank him for his help
turns out I just needed this time to myself
Well go on and keep explaining
wait I think you lost me
somewhere in the middle maybe double-crossed me
perhaps we'd do better speaking with your boss please
only question left is what's this gonna cost me?
-CJC
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Taking a long walk through a short life
I'm gonna stop and see all the sights
Cause now you've shown me
I dig a pony
I love you only...I love you only
Whence a dark night, oh those green eyes
Are now the high beams through my dream skies
Lived on boloney and Rice-a-Roni
I love you only...I love you only
Fist time I kissed you, you started laughin'
Then we sat listenin' to the traffic
Oh it just throws me...how well you know me
I love you only...I love you only
You've been racing 'round...have your hands in everything
Couldn't chase you down long enough to hear me sing
While I while away the hours....
Taking a long walk through a short life
You are my true north and my porch light
Cause now you've shown me to dig a pony
I love you only...I love you only.
-CJC
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Christopher John Campion New York, New York
Christopher John Campion is a singer-songwriter/author known for his rollicking off-Broadway music-monologue-piece, Escape From Bellevue and the acclaimed memoir that followed on Penguin Books. In recent years he has toured and opened shows for M.Ward, Rhett Miller, and Violent Femmes and his songs have been featured in movies and on the CBS shows Instinct and NCIS:Los Angeles. ... more
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