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Dear Old World EP

by jon ji

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    6 seriously fun tracks. A wild caravan ride. lyrics and such over here:
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1.
Tumble Dry 03:59
Tumble dry and don’t ask why hang your hopes out on the line beat the rug, with a broom sing a tune of moon and june things they cling and one is lost to wash away a steeper cost somethings stain and won’t fade away you can’t forget you can’t replace shadows dealing hard against the wall they don’t care a lick about the fall tumble dry and don’t ask why pinch of salt in the devil’s eye wrap your knuckles on a piece of wood black cat laughs at ya underneath your foot tumble dry and don’t ask why eat a piece of the fallen sky click your heels and poke the moon it all ends all too soon and it’s coming back (for) to you down the hill, end over end laughing shouting with my friend the sun is blue, and the sky is green i’ve torn a hole in my new jeans wind it races through our hair grit our teeth and have no care the world is spinning beneath our wheels everybody needs to know how that feels shadows dealing hard against the wall they don’t care a lick about the fall
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Maybe 02:43
Maybe Maybe I may be wrong Came on a little too strong but maybe i may be right cuz you sure put up a hell of a fight rock me baby, underneath the trees tell ya little song about the birds and bees hold me close like lovers do i can never get enough of you and hold me close when you feel it’s good and when you feel it’s good (when you feel it’s good) we know we’re understood and i know we’re both going to gray but that’s another day (that’s another day) baby, can’t you stay Maybe I may be wrong yeah, hung on a little too long but maybe i may be right and you’re sure worth a hell of a fight Maybe I’m gonna be low when you pack up and getting to go maybe it’ll be alright i see a little sparkle in your eyes
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In My Shoes 03:23
if you could walk a mile in my shoes you might not think i've to to sing the blues but if you walk another ten you might change your tune and think again and if you walked a hundred more you'd find out what i'm crying for but oh, where did you go taste summer rain felt winter snow and the time don't help me know was it all for real if you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd say another hue i'd choose but if you took just five more steps you'd taste the salty tears i've wept it’s all come down the line and i’m dying on the vine but oh, where did you go taste summer rain felt winter snow and the time don't help me know was it all for real
4.
Seven Steps 04:57
Not buying it not selling not putting it on loan not wining it not dining it not saying I’ll phone not bending it not stretching it not trying to make it fit yeah, the best of this is the mess of it and this is what you get no, you can’t have everything you want but that don’t mean you have to go along you can have everything you need if you’re not afraid to make those roses bleed not wallowing, just polishing the shine on this cracked shoe not holding up, not folding up cuz we’ve got to push on through not listening to the little voice deep inside your head that tells you ain’t good enough that you ain’t enough, that you’re dead chorus one, two, three, four, five, six, seven all good children go to heaven eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve what's this place? i believe they call it hell
5.
Always Fall 04:15
What can I say that you haven’t already heard The feeling is mutual but never understood What can I make in the twist in your smile I’m not gonna guess because It’s always fall outside my window And it’s not necessarily oh so beneficiary That I know Don’t lead me to be Expect me to be What can I say when I can’t say a word Notions are potions in oceans absurd When do we hide and what do we seek I’m not gonna guess because It’s always fall outside my window And it’s not necessarily oh so beneficiary That I know Don’t lead me to be Expect me to be How does it feel when you're coming down how do you know when you've hit the ground cuz everybody feels that way every now and then
6.
Strap me in your flying time machine send me back to where the grass is green cuz here i stumble always out of step my face full of lines filled with my regrets send me back to when jazz was king and they danced all night and rag jumped swing and the trumpet the preacher hallelujah till morn and the band the choir everybody get born dear old world i send a letter to you by parcel post and i hope it gets through why has this world abandoned me? everybody’s lost and gone crazy dear old world i’ve reached the end of the line this train is out of service and we can’t rewind but, dear old world, now old becomes new because in my heart i’ll keep dreaming of you a machine was a thing with moving parts and blowing smoke rings was a fine art the ladies with style, grace and class and oh, how them flappers could shake that sass before the rock rolled and crushed all just too slow before the children rose and ate up the globe before the tube came making us shallow and vain but, it’s an old song it’s the same refrain Chorus

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Dear Old World EP (love songs to things that never were)
A crazy caravan ride with Django at reins. Picking up Billie Holiday, Doc Watson, Johnny Cash and Bob Marley, all headed dow the bbq at the Violent Femmes pad.

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released January 18, 2014

all songs and sounds by jon ji.

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cowboy bebop and gypsy crawl. django meets dylan, both dylans.

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