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Creekside Boogaloo

by Xylophone Tuning Company

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Intro 00:49
2.
Well I didn’t see it coming- I can remember when The future was a timebomb, The past was just the places I’d been. It’s got me twist-and-turning And spinning circles in my head Before I look both ways I’m a thousand steps ahead Well it’s time to get up and go Take this train so far away from home I’ll see you again in a year Are the words I never want to hear It’s freezing and I’m frozen I wonder if I’ve chosen right Walking down on Newbury At 7:35 at night I’ve got a brand new conscience And fancy college clothes I’m majoring in ‘maybe’ With a minor who ‘who knows.’ Well it’s time to get up and go Take this train so far away from home I’ll see you again in a year Are the words I never want to hear I’ve got dreams, dreams to remember.
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I’m headin’ down to the river To a place right by the sand I’ve got a date with a melody and a guitar in my hand, I said hey What have I got to lose? I’ve got six strings on this guitar and those Creekside boogaloo blues A summer day surrounds me With a humid kind of heat The bass it thumps to the guitar twang and the snare drum sings the beat, I said hey, hey, hey What have I got to lose? I’ve got six strings on this guitar and those Creekside boogaloo blues
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There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy And God I know I'm one My mother was a tailor She sewed my new blue jeans My father was a gamblin' man Down in New Orleans Now the only thing a gambler needs Is a suitcase and trunk And the only time he's satisfied Is when he's all a drunk Oh mother tell your children Not to do what I have done Spend your lives in sin and misery In the House of the Rising Sun Well, I got one foot on the platform The other foot on the train I'm goin' back to New Orleans To wear that ball and chain Well, there is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy And God I know I'm one
5.
The Wind 05:00
What is the secret to happiness? Am I really just star stuff? Is there something that I missed? Why do I never have enough? Don’t rationalize Don’t patronize Don’t fantasize Don’t pretend Don’t depend Don’t condescend Don’t lose your cool Don’t play the fool Don’t be a tool Don’t resist You will persist Just coexist Life is amazing and it is blazing by- Don’t let the wind decay Let it blow right through, then you can start anew ‘Cause it’s okay. How can I forgive and forget? Why can’t I sleep at night? Is there really something great I haven’t seen yet? Will I ever really be alright? Don’t analyze Don’t disguise Don’t compromise Don’t ignore Don’t abhor Don’t think before Don’t correct Don’t deflect Don’t interject Don’t resist You will persist Just coexist Life is amazing and it is blazing by- Don’t let the wind decay Let it blow right through, then you can start anew You are okay. Life is amazing and it is blazing by- The wind won’t decay. Let it blow right through, then you can start anew ‘Cause it’s okay.
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Interlude 02:26
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We are all bits of water Rushing down a stream Rubbing against one another Not knowing where we’ll be But one day we will come to the end Our obstacles and actions all complete And when we rush around that final bend We’ll all rest idle in the sea. Meeting rocks and gravel all the way Obstructions are a part of the stream We rush on past a bit faster, as if to say We don’t care where we’ll be But one day we will come to the end Our obstacles and actions all complete And when we rush around that final bend We’ll all rest idle in the sea. But then the sky turns grey And we all feel the rain Companions from the clouds on their way And now the sea is their contain But one day we will come to the end Our obstacles and actions all complete And when we rush around that final bend We’ll all rest idle in the sea.
8.
Mary 03:01
I dreamed a dream last night of a girl with raven hair. She smiled and waved to me but all I did was stare. The shadow of her figure was dancing in the light As she appeared to walk upon the wings of night Oh, Mary. Oh, Mary. She whispered in my ear but words were not produced And as she looked at me, she cut my brain strings loose I whipped around to see her, and touch her long dark hair But as she waved to me, she laughed and turned to air Oh, Mary. Oh, Mary.
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Looking from a distance at a pale blue dot A mote of dust suspended in a sun beam Where every human being ever lived a life Every thought, every feeling, every dream Our imagined self-importance of a privileged position- Our planet is a speck of light alone Can’t you see that we must cherish the pale blue dot The only home we’ve ever known. Every king and peasant, every mother and father Every hopeful child and couple in love Every creator and destroyer and inventor and explorer Every person you could ever think of Our imagined self-importance of a privileged position- Our planet is a speck of light alone Can’t you see that we must cherish the pale blue dot The only home we’ve ever known. And all the rivers of blood from every general and emperor Spilled to be the masters of a fraction of a dot The endless cruelties we cause to each other Over something that another has got Our imagined self-importance of a privileged position- Our planet is a speck of light alone Can’t you see that we must cherish the pale blue dot The only home we’ve ever known.

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released May 26, 2012

Nick Angeloni
Evan Breen
Mike Destefano
Andrew Hiles

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Xylophone Tuning Company New Garden, Pennsylvania

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