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I like this quite a bit. First crack at some lyrics, not 100% correct I know:

 

Dark Neon

 

Sitting safely across the road

from the rust and scaffolding

picking our nose

when a bird spoke up from high on the dark neon

he said there are some things that you should come clean on

 

Oh I didn't know

Oh, where to begin

Oh, don't I know

Oh, except the emotion

 

I was beating up babies

babies I mean

that don't look like babies

but they're babies to me

 

I was looking around for my very own best friend

couldn't help feeling things had come to an end

I always let you go

then you let me back in

as is the status quo

oh nobody wins

 

I was feeling sorry

so sorry for myself

was trying to take it easy but that wasn't helping

a bird spoke up this time I think it was a dove

he said there are some things that you should come clean on

 

Well that's so it's so

you look through my skin

Oh, how do they know oh,

what was it in

 

Keep fooling myself

I might need your help

I can't just keep fooling myself

Oh let you go

Oh you led me back in

it's the status quo nobody wins

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I got you and that's all I need

I got you and that's all I need

I got you and that's all I need

I got you

 

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It's only rock and roll, but I like it.

At least that song had some melody to it. I'm tired of one-note verses.

 

That's also part of the reason I'm not as in love with "Bull Black Nova" as most people seem to be.

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I like this quite a bit. First crack at some lyrics, not 100% correct I know:

 

Dark Neon

 

Sitting safely across the road

from the rust and scaffolding

picking our nose

when a bird spoke up from high on the dark neon

he said there are some things that you should come clean on

 

Oh I didn't know

Oh, where to begin

Oh, don't I know

Oh, except the emotion

 

I was beating up babies

babies I mean

that don't look like babies

but they're babies to me

 

I was looking around for my very own best friend

couldn't help feeling things had come to an end

I always let you go

then you let me back in

as is the status quo

oh nobody wins

 

I was feeling sorry

so sorry for myself

was trying to take it easy but that wasn't helping

a bird spoke up this time I think it was a dove

he said there are some things that you should come clean on

 

Well that's so it's so

you look through my skin

Oh, how do they know oh,

what was it in

 

Keep fooling myself

I might need your help

I can't just keep fooling myself

Oh let you go

Oh you led me back in

it's the status quo nobody wins

 

Mr Dude did this in that other DN thread (which is gone or something?) - I love the damned lyrics!

 

I was beating up babies

babies I mean

that don't look like babies

but they're babies to me

 

People that is fucking kickass writing. PJ Harvey. Minutemen shit.

The first listen I was "did I just hear 'I was beatin up babies'?"

And the feel, the noises, the weird momentum - still hearing this as an album opener. If this replaced The Song, and everything else stayed the same, this would be a WHOLE other album.

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I think "Dark Neon" is either the prequel or the sequel to "Bull Black Nova."

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Not sure what to think about this one. I really like the arrangement and the bluesiness, but not sure about the songwriting. Hopefully we'll get some sort of ep with this disc as usual.

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Monday morning quarterbacking: WTA is a better album in my humble opinion, if Dark Neon was put in between My Country and Solitaire, it picks the momentum of the second side up a little bit and Solitaire would sound even more majestic coming out of something raucous like Dark Neon-- they perfected this sequencing strategy on Yankee, but Spiders into Muzzle on Ghost is probably the best example of what I mean.

 

--Mike

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Mr Dude did this in that other DN thread (which is gone or something?) - I love the damned lyrics!

 

I was beating up babies

babies I mean

that don't look like babies

but they're babies to me

 

People that is fucking kickass writing. PJ Harvey. Minutemen shit.

The first listen I was "did I just hear 'I was beatin up babies'?"

And the feel, the noises, the weird momentum - still hearing this as an album opener. If this replaced The Song, and everything else stayed the same, this would be a WHOLE other album.

 

You are so god damn right. I was just about to say something along those lines, but srsly. bingo,.

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Am I the only one here that doesn't liken this track to the coming of Jesus?

I would not go that far, but I do like the song.

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Have you read this thread? I think I'm the only one kissing the ground it walks on.

I finally heard it, and love the track enough to say that it would have saved the whole second side of the record, which I enjoy less and less every time I hear it. The songs are phenominal, but the sequence is abysmal, just boring. So much more could have been done with Neon added and one more "rock" songs, then mixing it up a bit.

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