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Make Your Own Danger

by Alina Simone

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1.
Hot sand, the smell of diesel On the back of my hand The map is fading and the Photographs blow out in a string of flares Strike a match and burn Through the season We’ll all go down with The sun-drenched heathens Dancing as the lanterns Softly sway I want to feel love Get caught in the echo chamber I want to get crushed In the beautiful machine Oh, the coastline is ghostly The lighthouse on the hill Cold and still The shore keeps getting closer To the highway The ocean is closing in Cold and still Signal fades, accelerate The stars are cold and hard Reflected in the water Where an Exxon sign blinks on And on… I want to feel love Get caught in the echo chamber I want to get crushed In the beautiful machine Kaleidoscope collapses Brings me up to the rapture I want to get caught In the beautiful machine
2.
Glitterati 02:52
A stopwatch and a heart full of darkness Your battered cabs set sail like ships at sea When no one is around, your glittering Storefront grates pulled down The highways are alive with the likes of you Oh I know, your conversations burrow through the walls Your words they make their way into my mouth The shotgun’s going off in the harbor Where the West Side highway falls into the sea There’s no one here but us Two hearts collide and turn to dust And the whole world opens wide in front of you
3.
Gunshots 04:03
I thought I heard gunshots last night Underneath the broken streetlight Back when this was the bad part of town All off-track betting joints and dive bars Rent was cheap and it was well worth it You called me up long-distance last night To talk around the problem and fight I wish there was something much better left to say But guys like you, you know you can’t really have friends You save it all for one good woman So I drove North until it got cold Where the deer all wait by the sides of the road Waiting for just the right chance to jump ‘Cuz safety lies over the next hill, always Yeah I hope we get it right I hope we get it right I hope we get it right
4.
Are you dreaming of a lost god Of a rock star from some forgotten age Is the anthem playing in your head As the searchlight sweeps an empty stage Are you running under water Follow the arrow down Fascination Street Facing a window into another world I think you needed to be found And to feel surrounded at every turn Kissing silhouettes dissolving into smoke It’s an epic soundtrack for the neon days It’s your revolution and your barricade Take a walk down Day Glow Avenue It’s the sweet feel of anonymity Is it the money, or the season Or just desire with no place to go Are you hoping for a savior When the waitress looks you in the eye Under the makeup she’s just another girl Who’s not gonna tell you who you are. Is the revolution still a day away As the searchlight sweeps across an empty stage Do you feel surrounded at every turn Kissing silhouettes dissolving into smoke
5.
My love is a mountain Glittering white with snow And no one can mine it It’s stone Could I be the one you wanted A diamond in the coal But no one could find it It’s over And it’s all I ever knew it’s all I ever knew So bury me in a silver locket Or move miles and miles away But your eyes turn skyward To the north, to the north And it’s all I ever knew it’s all I ever knew it’s all I ever knew
6.
Colored lights and clapboard cheap motels and starlight Restaurants glow like a string of oiled pearls As the smoke pours up through manholes in shimmering spirals Curling up the walls to rooms with rooftop views Under the wings and in the hollows little pockets filled with secrets Oh yeah we run Through the bridges and the tunnels throwing boots that catch on wires We’re gonna run So take these photographs and just cut them into pieces Til you landscapes become beautiful and wild Take these one-night stands and longtime disappointments Turn them into bars of gold and vintage wine I will change my name Forget everything Until the sun’s drawn in the water and the copters circle low up above Until the dream is just a dream of someone else’s fantasy life (you fall away) (you fall away) (you fall away) (you fall away)
7.
I don’t want to fall in love tonight I’m just here to watch the show And then go home, go home The kitchen was too quiet and My coat was near the door I came alone, alone Turn off the lights it gets real quiet Now’s the hardest part When your eyes light up like rockets But I won’t turn around Won’t turn around, around Tonight, tonight I won’t listen in Or think about Your mouth
8.
It’s hunting time A ball falls to the ground Build a fire like Jack London’s When November ends And the Artic winds cut down Slumber til the snow melts And you cannot just pretend Sure we’re all alone In a house made out of Broken bones on chicken legs That run So write your name With a finger in the frost Waiting, waiting for the holidays Waiting, waiting for the holidays
9.
Chase me through a dream life On a motorcycle made of ice Swimming in the man-made lake Safari in the mall at night Let’s dive straight down Let’s drive all night Let’s dive, brake lights red against the snow Let’s make our own danger Cuz danger makes us feel real close A figure in the headlights An empty bottle in the snow Let’s work on our addiction Addiction makes us feel real close And I just want to feel real close We just want to feel real close
10.
Under the bridge fires punctuate the darkness Salvaged my mast from a fire sale in Queens The city blows up, trembling in the water And I holler, innocent and free Floating downstream, somewhere in Indiana Counting the silos and singing La Marseillaise Stealing corn and weaving wild flowers Into a sail that’s bigger than the sun Trucks and chains and tires rusting on the shore Sun-kissed slashes I steer right past Mistook your rockets for fireworks and flares I guess the hunt is on, tracers mark the bullseye Forever westward, forever expanding Armadas armed with waterguns and mirrors The crowd is cheering, throwing neon streamers And we holler, innocent and free
11.
Hush now baby, baby don’t you cry Cuz stars are shooting arrows from their eyes And battleships keep falling from the sky Another a beautiful night So baby don’t cry A million fruit shaped islands they will bloom In a sea of pink champagne foam And your coconut shell boat it will rock Til we both fall asleep and awake Beneath a wild, trembling oak We’ll wake to the chocolate caresses of a ghost And the icicle flowers will sing to us In reverse…

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Second original full-length album, produced by Steve Revitte (Black Dice, Liars). Artwork by Vladimir Zimakov.

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released June 7, 2011

Produced by Steve Revitte

Mastered by Alan Douches

Chris Barrey: Guitar (3-7, 10), Electric Piano (7), Bass Arrangement (8), Bass (12), Percussion (11)
Shawn Setaro: Guitar (1, 4, 10), Bass (1, 8, 10)
Jenny Petrow: Cello (2)
Greg Heffernan: Cello (1, 5, 6, 8, 9)
John Lynch: Percussion (1-6, 9, 10, 12)
Conrad Doucette: Percussion (8)
Satish: Trumpet (6, 9, 12)
Spock: Flute, Violin, Percussion (11)
Alina Simone: Vocals, Guitar (1, 3, 4, 7-12), Autoharp (2), Strumstick (5)

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