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    "Calling My Name"genre: Alternative General
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    A dim view done with a sharp edge (and some unobvious humor)

    Story Behind the Song
    This is one of those songs that may have more impact if left unexplained.
    The inspiration was a bad news/work day.
    This is the first song we have recorded directly on a PC-based digital studio, and therefore, from a technical side of things, represents a proof-of-concept piece.

    Lyrics
    Calling My Name
    (skin and candy and a loaded gun)

    You can strike the match
    You can light the fuse
    I'll be running by the time you lose
    A bag of wishes
    That slow me down
    Eat them slowly - it's a way to drown

    So few heroes
    Leaving marks to find
    Silver bullets always left behind
    Time to step down
    From the ledge
    And join me dancing on the jagged edge


    CHORUS

    Caught in a play
    Caught with these bad lines
    Caught with these actors
    Calling my name
    Caught in my time
    Can't find the heroes
    Can't hear my echo
    Calling my name


    All that glitters
    Isn't all my fun
    Skin and candy and a loaded gun
    Smiling naked
    In a cardboard maze
    Counting pleasures in dollars and days

    Self-made snipers
    In an ivory shack
    Picking off lemmings as they're charging back
    Tapped the wire
    From god to hell
    The site to celebrate the love we sell


    Feeling out changes
    In a hot lead storm
    chipping off pieces while the body's warm
    singing for supper
    and dancing for fun
    the favorite weapon of the favorite son

    peace will come
    when it brings a friend
    pay the means to buy the end
    little prizes to say we've won
    skin and candy and a loaded gun

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