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Dead of Night
03:18
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Dead of Night (Track 1)
Another star-crossed lovers’ song
The house is built but the foundation’s wrong
A night that stretches on and on
Forever dreams shouldn’t take so long
If the time is right, we could leave tonight
Leave it all behind in the dead of night
Leave in the dead of night
The spirit animal is all boxed in
Encircled in his own tailspin
A looper closet monster dream
Not getting out without a prayer scream
If the time is right, we could leave tonight
Should the stars align and design a sign
We could leave in the dead of night
Years to build it up
The big tent above
Minutes to tear it down
The work of wicked clowns
Another rickety carnival show
Ambling down old pothole road
We just have to let everything go
Don’t bring anything but your soul
If the time is right, we could leave tonight
Leave it all behind in the dead of night
So baby draw your eyes and I’ll paint a smile
And we’ll leave in the dead of night
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2. |
Rearview
03:43
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Rearview
My turn, a deaf ear to the hearsay
No harmony was clear to me anyway
My time, a blind eye to their purview
A sweet goodbye to who knows who
Set the course for- I don’t know
Just trust the winding road
Not looking in the rearview
I know that we’re gonna steer through
Not looking back ‘cause it’s already gone
Looking on to where we belong
The ditto zombies will shake their heads
Roll their eyes and play dead
But left down an abandoned mine
A canary sings and finds her wings
Knowing just how the breeze blows
So trust the winding road
Not looking in the rearview
I don’t care about the near view
Not looking back to where we started from
Looking on to where we belong
This road goes on forever
Just where we thought it would lead
And though we get there never
Hold onto the life we’ve carried together
You and me
Road signs and reasons and seasons change
Summer faces fade in autumn names
The old songs we all sang along
Frozen over then spring the same
Tomorrow became today’s refrain
And on goes the winding road
Not looking in the rearview
I know that we’re gonna steer through
Not looking back ‘cause it’s already gone
Looking on to where we belong
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3. |
All the Love
04:08
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All the Love
When you love somebody
When you love someone
You’d pawn the moon the stars and the sun
When you love someone
You find your lonesome heart beating inside of the other one
It’s gonna take all the love
we can summon up
It’s gonna take all the love
inside all of us
when you love somebody
when you love someone
the giver receives and eventually becomes one
when you love someone
walk in the shadows until you know devotion
It’s gonna take all the love
we can summon up
It’s gonna take all the love
inside all of us
‘Cause there’s no castle down no yellow brick road
No sum of gold you can hold in the air
There’s no label with a price tag of
Any amount you can compare
There’s no struggle, no fight for what’s right
No vision from no dream in the night
There’s no prayer that no God from above
Can answer before you open up the door
To your love
It’s never too late
To let go all this hate
Embrace your fate
Renew your faith
It’s gonna take all the love
We can summon up
It’s gonna take all the love
Inside all of us
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4. |
Sweetness and Light
03:26
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Sweetness and Light
Babylon talking can’t believe what you say
Light the fuse and then you walk away
Now turning in not turning out
You know it’s all about to blow
If all sweetness and light fades tonight
Into the bomb-blast afterglow
If all sweetness and light fades tonight
I’ll dream into tomorrow
If we’re winding down why are we so wound around
Holding the line so tight
If we let it go will it ebb and flow
Or is this the undertow
If all sweetness and light fades tonight
Into eternal blue sorrow
If all sweetness and light fades tonight
I’ll dream into tomorrow
Don’t wanna talk no more about the devil at the door
C’mon pick me off the floor
C’mon hold me tight take me through this lonesome night
Until we reach sweetness and light
Mad gears are turning, churning fear and blame
What the hell are we spurning anyway
All I know is I need you so, take the wheel in your hands and know
We’ll make our way back home
If all sweetness and light fades tonight
Into the blindness we followed
If all sweetness and light fades tonight
I’ll dream into tomorrow
Sweetness and light…
Into the madness we wallowed…
Dream into tomorrow
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5. |
Better Angel
03:02
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Better Angel (Track 5)
Battle-scars you know we got a few
The road goes far, seen a thing or two
And it’s hard holding your trigger finger
When you’re seeing stars and doing time travel
I don’t know how we got this way
A dark hour begun to fall
Sweet and sour has passed between our lips
Better angel pray you stay
Build the wall, roll out the barbed wire
We do the crawl below the lowered bar
Don’t forget just how you fight for it
Deep in your head older than memory
I don’t know how we got this way
The pitch black has come to call
We can’t go on we can’t turn back
Better angel pray you stay
My better angel
pray you stay
My better angel
The big fall to climb back up again
The order’s tall so find some more to show
Won’t let go, you’re not for granted friend
Heed the call, I got your number babe
I don’t know how we got this way
The darkness has come to pass
Hold on now it can’t last
Better angel pray you stay
Pray you stay
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6. |
Safe
03:47
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Safe (Track 6)
Shine my child, you’re a candle in the night
A north wind tries a flickering light
Followed footsteps led the way to easy ruts to fall in
Along the long way to head-strait wound up in circles again
I want you safe
The wolves of night surround
A keepsake in case
In case I’m not around
Shine in the sun, have fun before night endures
Your treasured heart beats for what bleeds pure
But fate aims to take the sun away, spun in this blur of late
Pulled to center to remember, Love child. Forever more
I want you safe
They’ll tear this whole thing down
Won’t let you stray into harm’s way
While bad charms abound
I don’t know if I can rely on faith these days
I want you safe
Shine divine, by design always be mine
When midnight finds you, she seeks to define you
No rescue comes for you now, just memories of the sun
You shall become the one, your dark-circled eyes they shine on
I want you safe
The wolves of night surround
A keepsake in case
In case I’m not around
I don’t know if it’s too late for me to say
But I just want you safe
I want you safe
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Reclaim the Night Part 1 (Track 7)
I wanna wrap my arms ‘round this world
Hold her like a lost little girl
Tell her it’s gonna be all right
But I- I know it’s a lie
Wide eyed in the night
Look to bridge the divide
A well of tears to cry
Each time bridges catch fire
In between rhythm and rhyme
Behind the beat softly inside
A cure encrypted in verse
If I can kick the curse
The past, she’s a liar
She don’t know where we’re goin’
Don’t know what we’re knowin’
We reclaim the night
I wanna wrap my arms ‘round this world
Hold her like a lost little girl
Tell her it’s gonna be all right
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Reclaim the Night Part 2 (Track 8)
Each time the world goes and turns ‘round
She goes and leaves us all upside down
We had to shelter deep underground
On the way down lookin’ out
These are dark times
We claim what remains
Reclaim the night
Did our time yeah, we punched the card
Ran that fumble back ninety-nine yards
We took the gig when they subbed out the hard part
In line defined by what we buy
These are dark times
We claim what remains
Reclaim the night oh
Claim what remains
Reclaim the night
Sat on our hands yeah, we bit our tongues
Caught ourselves on the broken rungs
You’re on our dime yeah, you’re wasting light
And it’s grown dark, it’s grown dark
Seems the new normal is world upside down
An angry mother tilts to balance
We know that only love can save us now
On the way down, lookin’ out
These are dark times
We claim what remains
Reclaim the night oh
Claim what remains
Reclaim the night
Reclaim the night
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9. |
Weeds
03:31
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Weeds (Track 9)
When hope is on “E”
When hope is on “E”
You’re revved up in park all alone in the dark
Where the hell did love go? Nobody knows
And the blow-and-go won’t go no more
For mother’s little hobo
When hope is on “E”
And you’re way out in the weeds
Wound up on side streets all tangled in knots
And all you remember is how you forgot
No amount of napkins can begin to sop up
All the blank spots that you can’t blot
Way out in the weeds
You can call on me
Reall love is free
I know it’s hard to believe
You can call on me
Knee deep in need
Knee deep in need
Treading the vortex, swimming with sharks
Red in the water right from the start
The illusion comes together the more you fall apart
Tarred and feathered and bleeding from the heart
Knee deep in need
Real love is free
When fun house mirrors are all you can see
Lip-licking smiles with razor-sharp teeth
Seasick of the fun of bumper-car whiplash
Punch-drunk from interpersonal backlash
Real love is free
You can call on me
Real love is free
I know it’s hard to believe
You can call on me
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10. |
Whisper
03:44
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Whisper (Track 10)
Whether time is against me
Or time’s on my side
Is in the riddle that invented me
And how I make up my mind
When the wind blows right through
It leaves me cold inside
I’m in the shadow of the mountain
Feeling relative size
A whisper on the wind
Echo in time
A whisper on the wind
Listen to the quiet
Should your grip it slip
And your hands be open wide
Grab hold like foretold
And maybe catch that drift
A whisper on the wind
Echo in time
Whisper on the wind
Listen to the quiet
As the sunsets on what we fought for
Standing in the fading light
Hear a distant tune forgotten
Like an echo in your mind
And if your hands are open
And your eyes are wide
Yeah, if your heart is open
And the time is right
If they could give it to you
The jewel of their pain
Should stone-ground bones remember
Whether tempered in vain
Whisper on the wind
Echo in time
Whisper on the wind
Listen to the quiet
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11. |
Dead of Night
03:18
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Dead of Night
Another star-crossed lovers’ song
The house is built but the foundation’s wrong
A night that stretches on and on
Forever dreams shouldn’t take so long
If the time is right, we could leave tonight
Leave it all behind in the dead of night
Leave in the dead of night
The spirit animal is all boxed in
Encircled in his own tailspin
A looper closet monster dream
Not getting out without a prayer scream
If the time is right, we could leave tonight
Should the stars align and design a sign
We could leave in the dead of night
Years to build it up
The big tent above
Minutes to tear it down
The work of wicked clowns
Another rickety carnival show
Ambling down old pothole road
We just have to let everything go
Don’t bring anything but your soul
If the time is right, we could leave tonight
Leave it all behind in the dead of night
So baby draw your eyes and I’ll paint a smile
And we’ll leave in the dead of night
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Kurt Deemer Baltimore, Maryland
For more than two decades, Kurt Deemer has made workingman's rock & roll inspired by the trials and triumphs of the contemporary world. Already hailed by outlets like Americana UK for his "driving ahead roots-rock," he brings new drive to an album of hope and heart-on-sleeve honesty, delivered by a songwriter who, more than 20 years into his career, is still finding new directions to grow. ... more
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Andy steps outa Junestar just a bit to reveal more dimension and intensity. This is my favorite record from last year.
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This record should be HUGE.
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Andy continues to put out excellent music year after year. This record is the latest.
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