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Black & White New York
04:56
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The beats went on and before too long
We came into view
The lights were flash, the wind would dash
Down Seventh Avenue
Black and white, clear and bright
Everyone’s on fast
I lost my shoe and before I knew
I’d given it the gas
Close another door
Black and white New York
Another trip, east village hip
Bobby got a new haircut
Took the train flirting with fame
We weren’t too green to dream
A knowledge box hitting on
All cylinders
We went inside, didn’t try to hide
From all the hymn hustlers
Lights along the shore
Black and white New York thrilling me
Chase a moment when you’re on the flypaper
Out on the roof with your eyes on fire
And the night won’t go out of sight and
If I’m (you’re) lying that I’m (you’re) flying
Lights along the shore
Black and white New York
Thrilling me
All around me
We were free
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2. |
Warren In The '60s
03:26
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Hey watch your back
You know what they said about Dean
I hear your song
All the boys and girls sing along
A dream about a former life
They wish they had known Warren in the 60’s
We went to get a glow
Friends of boys on the loose
Long gone and ready
Now we’re gonna rock steady
With a stroke that can’t go wrong
A deep sea diver Warren in the 60’s
Rocket in your pocket
We’ll go somewhere and light the fuse
Slay me now I don’t want to know
Sweating out the rest of it in time will be fine
No bats allowed
Now that you’ve got me laid out
Pack, shack and stack
He won’t be coming back
Pouring on the coal you’re driving
All the way with Warren in the 60’s
A dream about a former life
We wish we had known Warren in the 60s
Warren in the 60s
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3. |
Quit That Scene
03:24
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How come you do me like you do
This phase has now worn through
I’m caught in a snowstorm tonight
But I’m coming down alright
You’re cruising with dim lights on
Before you know it all this will be gone
For you and me the chill is on
I fanned the flame for so long
You’ve got friends in the bank
And I’ve got no one to thank
Split no tomorrow style
I won’t be coming back for a while
I’m driving down the road in my mind
I’m finding that the pain will stay behind
Wake me up another day
When all my cares have blown away
I’m driving down the road in my mind
I’m finding senses working overtime
I’m driving down the road in my mind
Today tomorrow beg or borrow
I’ll leave you behind
Split no tomorrow style
I won’t be coming back for a while
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5. |
Wishing
04:15
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Gazing down upon your window
I see into the night glow
What if only I could make it
Before the dream would break it
Hanging on to get with the program
If I go that way I’m so damned
Give the hurry call I’m not faking
With what you’ve got I’m
Already slated for crashville
I’ve driven off the road
And you’ve played around this town so long you’re fishing
While I can only gaze upon you wishing
You could play with dirty dozens
But it wouldn’t end your running
A Chicago piano crashed the ether (Now your silence)
But that didn’t show/stop you
Either way you’re gone today
And shimmying outside
All the words you wrote them down before you’d listen
And now I’m wishing here
He wanted to go to a skin show
A sixty minute man
He got his wreck taken off the deck
For slaughter in the pan
Better blow the scene and leave now
You’re doing next week’s drinking
I could dog around and sweat it
But I don’t think I’ll ever get it now
When you’ve played around this town so long you’re fishing
While I can only stand before you now I’m wishing.
You know I’m wishing
You know I’m wishing
You know I’m wishing
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6. |
Lives Become Lies
05:08
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Guarantees
They got away from you
Legally so far away from you
Got to go with the motion now when
Lives become lies
Yours and mine and our’s survive
When your lives become lies
It won’t be too long before you
Synchronize
Remember when
We had a somber hue
That turned around
And brought us a world so new
Unforeseen the road got twisted and
Lives becomes lies
Only dead leaves will survive
When your eyes become wise
You will work it out and come back to your life
Can’t stop this downward spiral
Routine’s become so vital
All I want is to be there
When you realize finally I’m going nowhere
When lives become lies
Your and mine and our’s survive
When your eyes become wise
You will work it out and
Come back to your life
Please come back to your life
Come back to your life
Please come back to your life
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7. |
Eyes Of Youth
03:45
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Running around this place
I see the fires standing by
If I unpack my case
Then I’m sure I’ll want to try again
I know he thinks of you
In summer smiling as you were
Everything you do
Follows me right back to her
Spend a lifetime in the race
See the lines upon your face
Only innocence can save you from the eyes of youth
I’ve got the will
But I’ll take a long time to decide
If you’re standing staill
Time will take you for a ride
Come along you’re next in line
Don’t let them take what’s yours or mine
All the years have come to claim you with the eyes of youth
Will wash away
Wishing you had only said goodbye
Now I’ve got to pay
For all the wasted years I squandered through the eyes of youth
Spend a lifetime in the race
See the lines upon my face
Drawing closer with each moment
And the final truth will never save you from the eyes of youth
I know what we will stand to lose
Please save me from the eyes of youth
Innocence betrayed me from the truth
Please say that we can start anew
Please save me from the eyes of youth
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He’s a radical
A Joe below who’ll dance around in your bones
She’s fanatical a taxi dancer
With a duke no one knows
You better tune me in
Or there’ll be no rockin tonight
Hold on to your chair for now
Straighten up and fly right
There ain’t nothing you
Can tell me now that I don’t already know
All broke out with (the) blues
As drunk as two sailors on the go
What do you shake them for
What’s all the shooting about
Bought sold and done for
I think I’m gonna cash out
Baby I’m cable now and I’m able to break you
I got your signal clear coming through so loud and true
Kicking the gong around
He blew the news out the door
Keep me out of it
I’ve heard that wind blow before
I’ve heard that wind blow before
I’ve heard that wind blow before
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9. |
Alta Loma
04:13
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Didn’t you sigh along the way
Why do you always have to
Pay for dreams you won’t’ surrender
To those who want their world to end there
He’d bring the water from the hills
To build a life where
All our plans could reach fruition
And our lives would have tradition
I dreamed I saw in Alta Loma
I heard the skies were blue
To live the life of opportunity
I hope it’s true
He took the car heading towards LA
He didn’t meant to stop but
Along the way around San Dimas
He met a few of his own demons there
I dreamed I saw in Alta Loma
Where wildflowers grew
The warmer climes ## California
Could be our revelry to set us free
We’ll use the streams to power the current
We’ll (To) illuminate the night
A strange white light will shine triumphant
To be seen as far away as Riverside
Maria vowed to avenge his death
But she’d been a pawn of his quest
The man who sought the key to adventure
Found his fate in misadventure due
The dreams we saw in Alta Loma
On Euclid Avenue
Forever will live on and on anew
For me and you
I know (hope) it’s true
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10. |
Texas Tower #4
06:10
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Bells chime away
And everyday the ocean’s rising
I don’t want to stay around here
Where God only knows
I’m feeling so lost way out here
The morale is so low I wanna let go
And fly away, face the day with no denying
Two Bits and a haircut as I feared, the men are dying
Now as I write of fallen fields in troubled times
The sky burns my sight, it wipes away their only crimes
If I couldn’t live without you
I wouldn’t be here
I was insane to doubt you
The signal’s corrupt, we are breaking up
The Bell chimes away
And everyday the ocean’s rising
Rising
Rising
Rising
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Tommy Keene Bethesda, Maryland
Tommy Keene was a pioneering power pop and rock musician from Bethesda, MD. His past and future digital catalog is now available here at Bandcamp.
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