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The Random Walk

by John Dog

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1.
Video Shop (free) 02:35
I'll meet you down Shantalla Road At the Video Shop Where flesh is bared and heads explode At the Video Shop We see the girls all passing by But there's no clubbing for you and I Cos we choose Buckaroo Banzai and the Video Shop There was the strangest kind of silence In the Video Shop As we perused the sex and violence Of the Video Shop Between the sci-fi and the horror Two boys with no school tomorrow How many nightmares can we borrow From the Video Shop? There's something funny going on With the Video Shop I turned around and it was gone The Video Shop Who'll keep the monsters in their place? Chucky, Freddy, Michael Myers and Jason? Killer Klowns From Outer Space Took the Video Shop! Remember when we were all so scared Of all the nasties lurking there, now Videodrome is everywhere But the Video Shop Videodrome is in the air Not the Video Shop You'll never get it back in there Not the Video Shop
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The Random Walk (free) 02:44
I read in a magazine That before sunlight is ever seen It has to push up through the machine Through miles of noise and plasma and all It's soaked up and disappears Then re-emerges and disappears They have a name for this weird career The Random Walk The Random Walk So stupid and slow But the Random Walk is all that sunbeam knows I know how it must appear I'm over there then I'm over here When I go zig-zagging out of fear Then call you up next morning to talk I don't know what else to do You think I'm walking away from you But I'm just doing what I always do The Random Walk The Random Walk So stupid and slow But the Random Walk is all I know I don't know what else to do You think I'm walking away from you But I'm just doing what I always do The Random Walk
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Infamy, oh, infamy One day they'll all have it in for me! But, of course, my prayer was answered Now I'm feted far and wide And they're weeping in the mosh pit Imagine what would happen if I really tried... Oh, I'm still amazed, from time to time How far they'll come for an average rhyme But please don't get a life, dear Living's overrated No, of course I don't believe that But, dear, you do expect me to say it When you bring your broken dreams to me The Unhappiest Man in the World Sing along, pretend to be The Unhappiest Man in the World And you won't dare be disappointed in the show Cos you pinned me up here you know How was I to know those legendary punks Were just dull and thuggish, unglamorous drunks? With your badges and contusions And your overburdened eyes Don't you tire of the illusion? What if everything I sang was just lies You'd probably bring your broken dreams to me The Unhappiest Man in the World Sing along, pretend to be The Unhappiest Man in the World And you won't dare be disappointed in the show COS YOU HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO I know
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After All 02:37
After all those days What do we have now? After all the care we took getting here Just a heavy heart for a souvenir After all those smokes It seems there was no fire And a chill comes over the evening They're closing and everyone's leaving Is that all there is? I hear myself sing Down the darkest of roads my mind goes wandering We do it out of fear We do it cos we must Before we disappear into dust After all those plans Where is the little house With the kitchen, like in the magazines And those cosy, fireside scenes After all those laughs All we can do is sigh And wonder why, when we had a ball We wound up saying goodbye After all
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King St. 02:47
Looking back is a dangerous thing And you don't want to do it all day But every time they ask me to sing They want to be swept away They're hoping maybe I'll Begin the Beguine And bring a phantom into view I'm only happy to oblige them If they don't mind coming back to To King St To a small Italian place Where it wasn't bright enough to take a photograph All that came out was the outline of your face Looking back is a dangerous thing But why must I forget? Sure there's the day that we finished the thing But there's still the day we met No-one gets to keep everything At least not for very long So you'll forgive me for remembering That night we walked along Along King St To a small Italian place Where it wasn't bright enough to take a photograph All that came out was the outline of your face And I doubt that I'll ever forget that beautiful silhouette
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Party On My Own (free) 02:42
Out the window now I see the sun go down And all the boys and girls Are struttin' into town I'm not some lonely crone I won't wait for the ring of the telephone I'm gonna party on my own Well I got Jack here And there's Charlie too And look, it's Mary Jane So who needs friends like you And when I'm in the zone I won't need you to throw me a frickin' bone I'm gonna party on my own
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Now that you're gone All I have is a poster Just hanging on to the kitchenette wall Blackening now with the smoke coming up from the toaster I can't take her down Not my Lauren Bacall The curl of your mouth The seam of your stocking What a knockout - oh, boy did I fall I blurted out something like "the resemblance is shocking!" She said"Gotta light?" and "Who's Lauren Bacall?" I wonder now Did I light you in shadow? Drape you in dreams Like some kind of a doll? Cos I don't know how, but sometimes I look back and don't know Who broke my heart: You or Lauren Bacall?
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Toby and Daisy (free) 03:01
Toby, as it turns out, was a prick But Daisy didn't care about that It always made her sister sick She fell for any posh boy in a hat Daisy was as thin as a rake She spent the day saying "I'm so fat!" Toby never once said she was mistaken He'd just read a book and stroke the cat And Daisy says "London is better than New York" Though she fears it isn't so And Toby says "Oh, SO much better than New York," And Daisy says "I know!" They spent a sunny Saturday at a party On a rooftop garden Then bickered horribly all the way From Bishopsgate to Barden's Daisy tried to stay away but she failed After he pushed her around So many girls have told me this tale I'm just tired of it now And Daisy says "London is better than New York" Though she fears it isn't so And Toby says "Oh, SO much better than New York," And Daisy says "I know!" They were standing on the corner Of Dalston Junction and Ball's Pond Road
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about

This LP consists of songs written from late 2010 to 2013.

The tracks were recorded throughout 2013 using a 2008 Macbook with Garageband, an M-Audio interface, an M-Audio keyboard controller, a 2002 Zoom effects box, a vocal mic and Betty, a Gibson J185. Also some egg shakers.

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released December 13, 2013

All songs written and performed by John Dog

Cellos on After All and King St written, arranged and performed by Paul Harvey.

Time-warp Casio on King St conjured and performed by Paul Harvey. Thanks, Paul!

The samples on Party On My Own are from Joe LoTruglio's terrific performance as Francis The Driver in Greg Mottola's 2007 classic, Superbad, and are used without permission of any kind.

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John Dog Galway, Ireland

John Dog is a singer and songwriter from Galway, Ireland. A true believer in the popular song, his own are often wordy, arguably tuneful, occasionally funny, and usually short.

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