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Surprise Attack

by The Merry Mobile

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table of the emperor upon which fine things sit your cleanly pretty lineage well I know you're banking on it your parties are famous your horses are purebred but people who are salt of the earth we know just what you're worth you think you've got the blood of christ and that's what makes you king but if everybody has the kingdom within then your blood don't really mean a thing your parties are famous your horses are purebred people who are salt of the earth we know just what you're worth your army of slaves will never fix up the odds of putting your hand in god's your army of slaves will never fix up the odds of putting your hand in god's your army of slaves will never fix up the odds of putting your hand in god's
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arrest this man- i know he’s done nothing wrong but i can see it in his eye’s he’s just playing along so take him down he’s a danger to all he’s just sitting there a’waitin’ for our guard to fall that woman too- she looks so innocent and sweet but she’s got battle in her eyes she won’t easily retreat so take her down just as fast as you can if they look like they have questions- every woman child and man take them down just as fast as you can they smell blood in the water and they’re circling in if they figure out how to sink us they’ll realize we can’t swim and they’re already asking too many questions we used to have them lined all neatly into rows there were no accounts of any reports to expose then one man fell out of line- and we should’ve known then it’d be a domino effect- we’d have to deal with them and there were women and children and all color of men at first they merely asked us what our business had been but then they had to ask us if we’d been straight with them Then they pointed fingers, said our lies were a sins so take them down just as fast as you can they smell blood in the water and they’re circling in if they figure out how to sink us they’ll realize we can’t swim and they’re already asking too many questions
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Whatever it was, I think we just heard the first and last of it Nothing to mention, Forgettable moments in the day In that 5 seconds, we aimed our rays and blasted it And all the dogs have run away Sing along , the band is finally free Overhear the ordinary We did our jobs as filters of the tap exceptionally Now disperse to nothing be Motion captured every lesson learned And peaceful memories Embrace the cosmos with your warmest greeting Climb and behold, it’s over but it’s never beginning Whatever it was, I think we just heard the first and last of it Nothing to mention, Forgettable moments in the day In that 5 seconds, we aimed our rays and blasted it And all the dogs have run away Embrace the cosmos with your warmest greeting Climb and behold, it’s over but it’s never beginning It’s beginning, it’s never over And it’s nothing at all
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there's always a maybe I won't wake up feeling so crazy I'll wake up feeling fresh as a daisy but then here it comes big old feeling of dread there's no way to remember they told me it was all in my head swimming turns to drowning flying turns to falling I'm crashing against the furthest moment of all time when the end of all things comes a'calling there's never a reason my whole world comes crashing in I forget to be so grateful for all I've been given and what a miracle it is just to be alive even as scary as these times may be just soak up the air put my feet in the grass and know that's the best things could be cast aside all answers cast aside all questions cast away any thoughts that there ever were any rules and that you ever were some kind of an exception let it roll off your shoulder peel it all off your back let those demons in, let them sit for a spell so they won't have a chance to surprise attack
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Star Ride 05:13
it's a magical evening to go for a ride my love so lay your back on the ground point your legs to the sky put your feet on the stars and let's ride as planets go there could be worse ones for us to ride on to ride on mercury's blazing and mars has run dry earth is just right for a star ride earth is just right for a star ride

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Paul Taylor- vocals/guitar
Daniel McKee- bass
Brian Wells- drums

Art Edmaiston- saxophones
Marc Franklin-trumpet/flugelhorn
horn arrangements by Marc Franklin

with very few exceptions, all vocals guitar bass and drums recorded live on the floor!

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released May 1, 2020

recorded September 2013 at Zebra Ranch, Coldwater MS
produced by Luther Dickinson and Paul Taylor
recorded by Kevin Houston
"mixed" by Paul Taylor (+ auxiliary percussion/synth/steel guitar)

all songs by Paul Taylor (Fantasy Landis/ASCAP)

cover design - Dalton Green
photograph- Kelly Jones

2020 Owl Jackson Jr Record Company

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