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SHE CAME ALIVE

(Neill)

A shock of hair hanging in her face,
The camera loves her shy beauty
It sees what most people miss
It captures her defiance, a feral look right back at you
Her longing and her restlessness
Holed up in a railroad apartment
Bound together in a dance
The needle lands on black vinyl
Spinning spinning in a trance
Spinning spinning in a trance

She came alive in a shower of sparks, she came alive,
illuminate the dark. She came alive she came alive
She came alive she came alive

Daytime found them bathed in light,
Sun shafts through dirty windows
Clothes flung in the corner,
Pile of sheets on the unmade bed
Every scrap has purpose,
Some memory some meaning
All stored up in her dreaming head

He melts into the city
Bound to her by impossible love
Strays into the subways and alleys
Night coming on like a flood
Night coming on like a flood

He came alive in a blinding flash, he came alive
in a culture clash
He came alive he came alive he came alive he came alive

They would walk around this town for years and never tire
Living life at crooked angles, reckoning with desire
Crooked angles bodies tangled reaching ever higher
Higher and higher

Manahatta marches onward
In a state of constant change
His love lives on inside in her
Ever splendid ever strange
Ever splendid ever strange

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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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