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Chalybes
02:53
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Solid gold lodged in the rock.
We were looking for iron but the gold wouldn’t stop
We drew lots on the boat to see who would die.
While I was asleep you drew better than I.
Here’s something nobody ever says:
I don’t feel alone when I’m in Chalybes.
But I’m as cold and dead as these rocks.
No one hears when I wail on the docks.
Something old at the bottom of the sea.
It was crawling like a slave, dying to be free.
I swan to the shore, fell asleep on the rocks;
Was awoken by ghosts of the Argonauts.
Here’s something nobody ever says:
I don’t feel alone when I’m in Chalybes.
But I’m as cold and dead as these rocks.
No one hears when I wail on the docks.
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2. |
Die In Your Arms
04:01
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Keep me awake, I’ll be dead in the morning.
No time for sleep while the stranglers are snoring.
Let me die in your arms.
When I have a dream, like a shiny new coin,
I place it in my pocket, but now my pockets are worn.
Let me die in your arms.
When I poured out my heart, like a widowers urn,
Well I ran out of love when it was your turn.
Let me die in your arms.
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3. |
Here She Comes
04:07
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Do you have a heart? Well tell me, do you have a brain?
Have you seen the girl who kills with a look?
Does she drive you insane?
You’ve seen her in your dreams
Well I’ve seen her in the flesh
I see her at the parties
And she’s seen my loneliness
Oh here she comes
Oh here she comes
If you see her, tell her
That I’m no longer in New York;
That I only live in dreams
In a broken-hearted resort.
And tell all those rowdy angels
They’re knocking outside my door
There’s no one here to bring to heaven
I’m no deader than I was before.
Oh here she comes
Oh here she comes
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You thought when she left you
And everything changed
That she'd been your savior
Who'd broke all your chains
And all of those demons
She'd driven away
Had come back to haunt you
Had come back to stay
Well it's not a woman
Who's made you this way
No it's, it's always been this way
Well when Eve said to Adam that she couldn't stay
And nothin would stop her from goin away
When she left him naked
On the freeway
And he turned to evil
To make it okay
Well it's not the devil
That made you this way
No it's, it's always been this way
Well wrap me in linen
And bury my corpse
And call all the women
That I have divorced
There's no one to punish
There's no one to blame
The demon inside you
After love shall remain
Well it's not your lover
Who's made you this way
No it's, it's always been this way
Well it's always been this way
It's always been this way
(Repeat)
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5. |
I'll Go To The Coast
05:18
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The road is closed and the cops are closin' in
But if we turn back now, it would be a sin
If we stay here we’re dead in our seats
They've blocked off all these streets
And that cold D.A.
wants us under his feet
Pace yourself
It's a long, long way down to San Francisco Bay
I gotta keep pressure on this leg, so you're drivin today
You always said that you dreamed of a chance to get away
Maybe you didn't think it would go down this way
And if a heart could regenerate
If only for a day
Tell me, what price would you pay?
I don't need you to tell me what I've lost
I can barely keep awake, we’ve got state lines to cross
You remember back in Idaho
You said we'd take it slow
Try not to speak of insult or cost
We used to be--
Oh well, that doesn't matter anymore.
You're a diamond thief and I'm a whore
But the breakers out in the dusk are beacons for beggars like us
We have no recourse but to go to the coast
And if a heart could regenerate
If only for a day
Tell me, what price would you pay?
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6. |
Dreamin
03:40
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In a revolving door of petty wars
We have become death connoisseurs
Oh and I, I've seen ya, seen ya by your window
You don't sleep anymore
Oh and something, something’s
Happened to the endless nights
You used to dream
Now you just want to fight
Oh dreamin, I've been dreamin
Dreamin of a former time
I dream but I have no right.
There's a girl in queens county
I think of her tonight
I wanna call, but I have to right
And my apartment tells no stories
Only yesterday's headlines
My subscription to the
New York Very Bad Times
Oh and the president and my postman
They got the same news:
We were born to lose
Oh dreamin, I've been dreamin,
I dream til I'm blue
I sleep so that I can dream of you
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7. |
I Shall Be Renamed
02:25
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The future is kind
I've made up my mind
I've never in my life been so sure
And the sun is overwhelming
It’ll look like I’m sending
Lasers out from my spine
Leaving this all behind
All these streets with their names
And I’ll name myself again
Yes somehow I shall be renamed
I’ve taken a hit, got shook up a bit
And everyone says it’s near the end
Yes this feeling has a name
Though it never stays the same
It’s two thieves on the road
Their hearts want to explode
It’s a race to the dusk where the sun just sits and rusts
It’s the sweat on my brow when I realize all has changed
That somehow I must be renamed
That somehow I shall be renamed.
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8. |
Start It All Over Again
03:54
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There’s something missin tonight
Among the stars I have no friends
I’m old and I’ve lost my fight
This party’s over, we can’t pretend.
When something great has to end
We’ll start it all over again
You never stay til the end
You’re always searchin for somethin new
But he left you without a friend
There’s only one thing we can do
When something great has to end
We’ll start it all over again
Start it all over again
Start it all over again
Start it all over again
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Joe McCarthy & the Faders New York
Joe McCarthy and the Faders came together in Brooklyn in 2015 to record a batch of songs that grew into their first album,
Step On, a heartfelt take on rock ’n’ roll.
In 2021Sean Patrick Kelly joined the original core members — Joe (guitars and lead vox), Joe Dahlstrom (bass, from Hot Knives), Abhay Singh (keys, from Teenage Afterglow) and Tom Barnes (drums, also of Hot Knives).
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