"Sidewalk Serenade" genre: Folk Punk
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	simple song: choppy punk folk to start, alternatiing with a sort of sweeping see-saw rhythm, with some cool backing vocals at the end.
	Credits: Recorded by Ross Hammond
	Story Behind the Song This is a true story of the day I was stopped in my tracks by some ghost, literally forced to sit down by an allergic reaction to the air as I crossed the corner of 17th street and Capitol in Sacramento. The Bermuda triangle refers to the Comptons market, the food bank, and the punk house that used to be there. Lyrics heat still in the sidewalk all of the faces read suffering we felt so joyful in the portland-style rain i thought i'd breathe better i approached a corner i should've noticed how slow it was the air caught my throat and knocked me to the ground it's our bermuda triangle my back to the market wall all styles of poverty passing me "sing" said the wind and write these folks a song i pushed open my throat sing nitengale sing looking to my left and i'm wondering where the sidewalk ends looking to my left and i'm wondering where the sidewalk ends patterns in the trees above me represent the hearts of men greener on the tree or soggy sewage in the gutter i didn't think the rain would come until the end of summertime i coughed and cried for humanity still wondering where it all ends a man stopped in to listen "how did you learn to play that thing?" well, i don't know i guess i taught myself well, he seemed to be satisfied but now here's more of an answer fate strikes the notes on my guitar words flow from dreams i overhear at night no, not only my dreams hey, all of you people spill all your stories into the street i'll scoop them up with the dustpan of my brain but, will the road be cleaner? sing nitengale sing no one could explain to me the reasons why i couldn't move or diferentiate the sounds of planes that crashed below me well, no one died here recently unless thy're just not telling me that millions have died and are buried here still wondering where it all ends where it all ends sidewalk serenade...

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