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SAINTED STREETS

(Neill) for Brad Will & other ghosts


Goodbye to the world that you once knew
And all the girls on 1st Avenue
Come Saturday they’d be down at the squat talking smack
Saying “I was here for the riot man,
I want my neighborhood back”
Here comes Davey with his scarf wrapped round his throat
Smoking and laughing in that famous black peacoat
And little caruso walking like he’s onstage at the garden
Making everybody smile


Do they know do they care?
Do they hear our prayers?
For these names once written in the wet concrete
On sainted streets


Young man climbing the fire escape up in the old tenements
Dives headfirst into the fray, and into the argument
Time skips a beat and moves on he stays true to his will
I can still hear marcie calling down from the windowsill
Saying, “if you stick around you can sleep in my bed again.
Don’t leave now if you do it’ll really be the end”


Will they find us or forget us?
Will they come and get us?
Will these be stories lost in the endless shuffle of feet?
On sainted streets


Another endless summer, laying out on a beach tar roof
Kids playing in the hydrants, old men sitting on the stoops
Davey with a new lady, Little C with a stolen radio
We’d be listening to Joe
Singing about a burning town
It was always Joe
The ramshackle day parade
Joe
Making the music talk
With the sound of the rebel waltz
The sound of the sinners
Heathen choir ringing in my head
The sound of the sinners
Heathen choir ringing in my head
The sound of the sinners
Now his face is painted on the wall by the park
Looking out on these scenes as they unfold in the dark


Do you see, can you hear,
can you kiss away my tears?
We’re still out here dancing to the crooked beat
on sainted streets

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from All You Pretty Vandals, released November 12, 2013

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Casey Neill & The Norway Rats Portland, Oregon

CASEY NEILL & THE NORWAY RATS are a crack gang of musicians from Portland Oregon. Their sound combines high energy diesel fueled rave-ups and haunting ballads. Neill's weather beaten narratives celebrate miscreants, and explore the hidden corners of the American landscape. ... more

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