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Taken from 'Brother, the Fight is Fixed' album (also produced by E.W. Harris. Niall and E.W. have performed this song together from Athens, Georgia to Budapest. E.W. does a great version here featuring his trademark speak and spell.

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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

credits

from aNiallated- A Big City Folk Tribute to Niall Connolly, track released 01 January 2012
Performed and produced by E.W. Harris. Check out his album 'A Waste of Water and Time' and his current project 'The Sky Captains of Industry.

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"Brooklyn-based Niall Connolly is at the head of a new breed of politically engaged eloquent singer-songwriters emerging ... more from New York's most populous boroughs with his immensely literate appraisals of the personal and the political."

— Death and Taxes, New York

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