aNiallated- A Big City Folk Tribute to Niall Connolly
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Justin Storer - America
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released 01 January 2012
Executive producer Ryan Morgan, Mastered by E.W. Harris. Cover design by Don Paris Schlotman. All songs copyright Niall Connolly
Executive producer Ryan Morgan, Mastered by E.W. Harris. Cover design by Don Paris Schlotman. All songs copyright Niall Connolly
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"Brooklyn-based Niall Connolly is at the head of a new breed of politically engaged eloquent singer-songwriters emerging
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from New York's most populous boroughs with his immensely literate appraisals of the personal and the political."
— Death and Taxes, New York
'aNiallated- a Big City Folk Tribute to Niall Connolly', features 12 of NYC's best songwriters reinterpreting some of his best songs.
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- Track Name: Chris Mills - Jesus is coming (and I can't pay the rent)
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Jesus is coming and I can't pay the rent,
The love is in the details
I was there when, ,
You were sick and you were tired,
Saying "I just need a friend",
You needed me to cry,
Honey, I can never cry,
Now I'm always laughing,
Laughing at the wrong time,
Laughing at the wrong time.
I shook hands with the soldier,
It wasn't his call.
I forgave you everything that was never your fault
I listened to your lover, I look him in the eye
I try to do the same for you dear, when i say that he's alright.
I walked the back streets between your memory and the sea,
But I coudn't find a way to be the person that you need
I gave you everything that I am and am now
Till I felt like the boy that gravity forgot..
Gravity forgot
Jesus is coming and I can't pay the rent
The love is in the details
I was there when ,
You were sick and you were tired,
saying I just need a friend,
You needed me to cry,
Honey, I can never cry
and now I'm always laughing,
laughing at the wrong time,
laughing at the wrong time,
laughing at the wrong time,
laughing at the wrong time.
I don't want to fight you, if i have to ight,
I don't want to fight you, but if i have to fght,
I don want to fight you but if i have to fight
you're worth the fight.
Jesus is coming and I can't pay the rent
The love is in the details
I was there when ,
you were sick and you were tired,
saying "I just need a friend",
You needed me to cry,
Honey, I can never cry
and now I'm always laughing,
laughing at the wrong time,
laughing at the wrong time,
laughing at the wrong time..
I shot the messenger in the back of the head,
I knelt before the statue that never felt,
the vibration of the prayer that I'm trying to send,
Now,I'm weak at the knees dear, standing on the ledge,
Weak at the knees dear, standing on the ledge.
Jesus is coming and I can't pay the rent
The love is in the details
I was there when ,
you were sick and you were tired,
saying I just need a friend,
You needed me to cry,
Honey, I can never cry
and now I'm always laughing,
laughing at the wrong time,
laughing at the wrong time,
laughing at the wrong time..
laughing at the wrong time
I don't want to fight you, if i have to fight,
I don't want to fight you, but if i have to fght,
I don want to fight you but if i have to fight
I don't want to fight you, if i have to fight,
I don't want to fight you, but if i have to fight,
I don want to fight you but if i have to fight
you're worth the fight. - Track Name: Magic Bones - Skin and Bones
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Skin and Bones
I woke up
with "go home" written backwards on my cheek
feeling like a cryptic crossword clue
like a jigsaw's missing piece
Staying up all night,
isn't going to make it last.
Worrying about it
isn't going to bring it back.
I feel like i am carrying water in my hands
if i could believe you, then I'd have a glass,
but i can't
We are just skin and bones and blood, without love, without love.
I want to rest where the trees grow tall
enough for men to feel small, enough, to think straight.
I want to say every kind word I've been thinking of
I want to do it without fear, I want to do it without shame,
I want to do it,
Every single day
We are just skin and bones and blood without love, without love
We Are just skin and bones and blood without love, without love
( I hope my God has a plan for me , for me,
I hope my God has a plan for me, for me..) - Track Name: Colin Campbell - Be There If I Have To Swim
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Be There If I have to Swim
Once upon a time, along time ago, we got lost in the woods
Strayed a little further than a sensible someone else should
Wasn't looking for trouble , wasn't looking for gold,
i knew it wasn't looking too good.
I lost my compass, I lost my northern star.
Now I'm talking with my best friend, she's right in front of me,
says I don't know where you are
But I'll be there if I have to,be there if I have to , be there if I ahve to swim
I was walking through the wasteland as a child,
I remember well stepping on rusty nail,
Pop up through my shoe, i was with my father and I cried.
I was young enough for that to be alright,
Old enough to feel like a fool.
She says some times I feel like that, i feel like that now too.
I'll be there if i have to swim.
You don't have to speak, your face tells a story by itself,
I know sometimes you feel like the girl at the bottom of the well.
Listen to the clatter, the chitter, chitter , chatter, the voices overground
In the overstretched city with it's head stuck in the clouds.
Where all the king's horses and all the king's mena
Are far too busy helping somebody else
Yeah you can fix it, but your going to have to stick it, stick it back together yourself
When your backs against the wall, it's hard to stand tall and raise your voice and sing
Hey, I know you, I've seen you at your best, you can rise above anything,
I'll be there if I have to swim - Track Name: E.W. Harris - 99 Cent Dream
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99 c dream
I'm standing outside 99c dream
On a Tuesday in jersey city.
It's along way from here it's along way from there
Anywhere i ever thought i might be
If you step inside I've got a dollar to spare
This one's on me
I'll take my change to the penny arcade,
and a game that i know i can't win
My love may be lost but I'd do it just the same for one chance..
I picture just a few years from now,
in a bright house on top of that hill
children colouring outside the lines
doing puzzles beneath your feet,
It's a polaroid that i like to watch developing
between you and me
and against all odds..it's a house i'd like to live in
but my horse is lame,
the jockey's overweight
it's a race i should not be in
still i'd make the same mistakes again, for one chance
In a million,
in a million
Lover, oh friend, prince on bended knee
there's no mystery here
one part makes you rise
one part makes you kneel
one part makes you fear what you feel
so look me in the morning eye
and tell me what you need.
if you can't see all of these parts
i can't believe that it's real
right hook to the left jaw
the referee's starting to count
my fighter is back on his feet
"you'll not take me, before the last round"
I'm standing outside 99c dream
On a Tuesday in jersey city
it's along way from here it's along way from there
any where i ever wanted to be
if you step inside I've got a dollar to spare
this one's on me
I'll take my change to the penny arcade
and a game that I just might Win - Track Name: Justin Storer - America
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In the name of all the brave and all of the betrayed,
From Sand Creek and White Antelope
to the president on the grassy knoll,
In the name of Martin Luther King
and the beat poet Ali
In the name of all those giants
on that shore in Normandy.
In the name of all the chapters,
Torn from your history books.
America, I love you,
won't you tell me the truth.
In the name of Abu Gharib and the protest in Iran
In the name of Palestine and our friends in Vietnam
In the name of every child from here to Afghanistan
In the name of all the words twisted from the holy books
America,I Iove you, won't you tell me the truth.
In the name of all our brothers uninsured on the night shift
the soldiers and their mothers,so sure they're doing the right thing
In the name of the creeps behind the lie on your screen
Poisoning the lifeblood of the American dream
In the name of all the chapters
Torn from your history books
America, I love you,
Won't you tell me the Truth.
In the name of New Orleans, the abandoned and the damned
All that's well intended about your flag
I know you know it takes more than muscle
to be a man
In the name of all the words twisted from the holy books
America, i Iove you, won't you tell me the truth. - Track Name: Casey Black - You've Got to Look In (To Look Out For Yourself)
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Seven long years in a hollow tree,
Thinking how different things should have been,
Won’t help.
Seven more years, busying bar keep,
A thousand happy hours and not enough sleep,
Won’t help.
You’ve got to look in to look out for yourself,
Nobody, nobody, nobody else.
I was nervous like a caged bird freed
And I did not know what the creature needed from me.
Like a dumb dog on my own leash,
Yes, I dug that hole, now I can’t stay clean.
You’ve got to look in to look out for yourself,
Nobody, nobody, nobody else.
Hey,
What good would it be,
If I promised you more than our world would ever give
What good would it do?
To sit around moping, “boy, we’re owed way more than this”?
You’ve got to look in to look out for yourself,
Nobody, nobody, nobody else...
Seven more years looking over my shoulder,
Hiding in the past, when it’s high time I rolled over,
And coughed up the cobwebs and my worryings,
For seven long summers and all that they might bring.
You’ve got to look in to look out for yourself,
Nobody, nobody, nobody else...
Hey,
What good would it be?
If I promised you more than our world would ever give?
What good would it do?
To sit around moping, “boy, we’re owed way more than this”?
You’ve got to look in to look out for yourself,
Nobody, nobody, nobody else... - Track Name: Diana Jones - Away With The Birds
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Darling, when your worries are piling,
and the rent is over due.
When all we own is battered and worn,
that was once bright and new.
I'm still away with the birds,
I'm still wired to the moon.
I'm still in love, I'm still in love,
I'm still in love with you.
And when you are tired and angry.
and the Darkness slips right through.
When you can't bare to be anywhere near me,
and I can't blame it on you.
I'm still on your side, to share the load when you need me to, I'm still in love, I'm still in love, I'm still in love with you.
I'm still away with the birds,
I'm still wired to the moon.
I'm still in love, I'm still in love,
I'm still in love with you.
