You Get Your Own Parade - EP

by James O'Brien

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I Know You Did It (Parade Version) 02:20 video
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I know you did it in a white heat your mind was empty as a blank sheet our souls were shattered on the concrete I know you did it I know you did it I know you did it, uh huh The monster calls for that old backbeat a broken shuffle on two jive feet the crowd moves forward, copping hungry I know you did it I know you did it I know you did it, uh huh Well, meanwhile outside on the hot street the gas gets thick enough to choke, see the line moves fast so no one breaks free I know you did it I know you did it I know you did it, uh huh Five hundred armies of evasion advance on cities of elation we ran for cover as the bombs fell I know you did it I know you did it I know you did it, uh huh Remember staring at the black sun with all the zombies on that scorched lawn the blank disk of that equation I know you did it I know you did it I know you did it, uh huh I know you did it I know you did it I know you did it, uh huh
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It's Over (Parade Version) 02:06
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And at the end of the day the hurricanes blow away a ship slips back out of the bay and the orchestra starts to play you get your own parade It’s over it’s over Let’s not get in the way the kids they can have their say and no one who leaves should stay It’s over it’s over Yeah, at the end of the day the hurricanes blow away a ship slips back out of the bay and the orchestra, it starts to play and you get your own parade you get your own parade you get your own parade It’s over it’s over it’s over it’s over it’s over
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Year of Fire (Parade Version) 03:08
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In a year of fire in a room of ice with all the cages locked and all the locks locked twice in a year of fire a year of fables undone a year of conflagration a year of poisonous sons we walk a tunnel of swords we face a storm front wide in a year of fire feel the rising tide In a year of fire I guess the river runs black every brother’s a stranger and all these stones on our backs there’s a fire for freedom and there’s a fire makes chains and there’s a fire that blackens and cleans all that remains we walk a tunnel of swords we face a storm front wide in a year of fire feel the rising tide In a year of fire a year when no one gets young I guess it’s time we remember and all these words to be sung in a year of fire well, maybe no one gets saved I took your hand and I felt my heart beating and brave In a year of fire in a year of fire in a year of fire in a year
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Oh Coronavirus 02:23
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Well, they don’t have arms and they don’t have feet they don’t like moisture and they don’t like heat it’s not true they want to kill us they much prefer us alive it’s when they tangle with white blood cells we get sick and we die Oh, coronavirus don’t catch a ride with me I’m gonna hide in my apartment while you’re out there on the street oh, coronavirus don’t you catch a ride with me I’m gonna hide in my apartment while you’re out there on the street In a couple years, the vaccines and immunity will spread for now it’s now soap and water, keep your paws off of your head as for their spiky proteins, all the scientists, they say with RNA mutations, we’ll be safe again some day Oh, coronavirus don’t you catch a ride with me I’m gonna hide in my apartment while you’re out there on the street oh, coronavirus don’t you catch a ride with me no, I’m gonna hide in my apartment while you’re out there on the street out there on the street
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Lovesong (Live 2002) 04:24
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Models, I ain’t looking for models I am living with the winter quiet, empty rooms and solitary dinners genius, I ain’t looking for brilliant but you writers and poets, painters and singers, come on write me a love song i want a little do-run-run-run-run make it a good line i’ll write you a true rhyme Millions, I ain’t looking for millions I’d settle for a hundred I can appreciate you better that way write me a love song i want a little do-run-run-run-run make it a good line i’ll write you a true rhyme I’ll be out in the back room I’ll be pulling the whiskey I’ll never push you you’ll have lots of time, time, time, time waiting for you waiting for you Perfect, I ain’t looking for perfect I think I said heartfelt you have a heart, I want you to feel it mistakes, I like how you let me make mistakes while it matter if I mess up, all right you give me lots of leeway tarot, I’d sure like to read your tarot that would not be a good show but at least it would be honest ‘cause we’re talking about future we want in this for the long haul that’s a secret between me and you me and you write me a love song i want a little do-run-run-run-run make it a good line i’ll write you a true rhyme write me a love song i want a little do-run-run-run-run-run make it a good line baby, i’ll write you a true rhyme I’ll be out in the back room I’ll be pulling the whiskey I’ll never push you you’ll have lots of time, time, time, time waiting for you waiting for you waiting for you
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Dirty Old Town (Parade Version) 03:43
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I met my love by the gasworks wall I dreamed a dream by the old canal I kissed my girl by the factory wall Dirty old town dirty old town Clouds are drifting across the moon cats are prowling, out on their beat now, springs a girl from the streets at night A dirty old town yeah, dirty old town I heard a siren from down the docks and I saw a train, it set the night on fire I smelled the spring on the smokey wind Dirty old town dirty old town I'm gonna make a big sharp axe shining steel, tempered in fire I’m gonna chop, I’m gonna chop it all down A dirty old town dirty old town dirty old town a dirty old town I met my love by the gasworks wall I dreamed a dream, then I let it all go and I kissed my girl by the factory wall Dirty old town dirty old town dirty old town dirty old town dirty old town dirty old town dirty old town dirty old town dirty old town dirty old town dirty old town Based on lyrics by Ewan MacColl, 1949

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released January 21, 2021

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James O'Brien New York, New York

James O’Brien toured the U.S. and the U.K. from 1998–2004 playing politically aware songs, sometimes solo and sometimes with a band, sharing billings with artists such as Hamell on Trial, Dan Bern, Michael McDermott, John Sinclair, Bill Miller and Freedy Johnson.

In 2017, after a 13-year hiatus, he began to release archival and new material, expanding his catalog to fourteen albums as of 2022. ... more

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