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Ballad for the End Times

by Apocalypse Five and Dime

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1.
soft like a cat you cross my path wearing that coat of white without a beat and i’m on my feet i’m ready to face the night i wander down to the water looking for you no one has seen you tonight, won’t you wait up for me? ghost ships are swaying in the river they’re talking to me go home while you can i can’t forget the last time i saw you the air was so hot that night you appeared six feet off the pier wearing a crown of light if you knew how my heart was aching for you you would come back to stay, won’t you say you love me? what could i do? your eyes were so blue the last time i saw you alive it was this very day i saw you last the same day every year i’ve had enough, you know life can be tough and death is always near the water’s cold on my chest as i swim out for you i’m gonna see you tonight, if you wait up for me my body’s swaying in the river, it’s getting colder i’m going home with you
2.
Tomorrow 02:15
this little town it cannot hold us anymore and i say take me far away this place don’t need us and i know you feel the same so take me far away you want to find out what’s beyond the highway? take me far away i want to go someplace where no one knows my name take me far away tomorrow we will be gone and i know we will go on you keep your cops your schools and all your boring jobs take me far away keep your gossip and your drama and your skins take me far away i want to find out what’s beyond the highway take me far away i’m gonna ride this current down to new orleans take me far away so gone i’m gone so gone i’m gone
3.
i’m addicted to you i’m addicted the way you make me feel i’m addicted to the crazy little things that you do i’m addicted to you i’m addicted to your face i’m addicted to your hands on my hips i’m addicted to that naughty little curl in your lips i’m addicted to you i’m addicted to your swing i’m addicted to the way you shake that thing i’m addicted and it makes me want to sing i’m addicted to you i’m addicted to your game i’m addicted to the way you call my name i’m addicted and it hurts me all the same i’m addicted to you i am never coming down i will never quit you i am never coming down i’m so high on you i’m addicted to you i’m addicted the way you make me feel i’m addicted to the way it seems so real i’m addicted to you
4.
Love Life 03:40
one million miles you found me ten thousand times you’re wound tight one hundred days without you is ten more times than i can take one hundred lives around me ten thousand skies above me but when your eyes are on me it’s so much more than i can take do you live right? do you love life? so you want to know about me but you live with your eyes closed i want to love the whole world but it’s much more than i can take do you live right? do you love life? so you want to know about me but you live with your eyes closed i want to love the whole world but it’s much more than i can take
5.
like a broken chair / like your empty stare / like my pictures of you like the flower that’s started to flower because it thinks that it’s June like the cup with the hole in the bottom that nobody ever will use like everything you ever told me that turned out not to be true oh, how are you? i am fine, is it true? like a flick’ring light / like a rusty bike / like a string that won’t tune like the socks that you left when you left me that i still find in my room like that night it was dark, you remember, when storm clouds had covered the moon Like the buzz in the back of my head that says nothing again will be true oh, how are you? i am fine, is it true? have you come to stay, my love? what have you come to say, my love? have you come to stay, my love? what have you come to say, my love?
6.
the fire it burns, it burns the world it turns, it turns a heart it learns, it learns your love it yearns, it yearns come and walk with me underneath the sea and we will be together free forever free the tree it falls, it falls the bird it calls, it calls together we fall, we fall our love it calls, it calls chorus the grass it grows, it grows the wind it blows, it blows the pain it shows, it shows our love it grows, it grows chorus
7.
Dance Floor 03:26
if you want me / baby let me know just nod your head / and maybe we’ll just go we got the beat / to keep us on our toes and i don’t care / if everybody knows and it’ll be alright while we’re on this dance floor what would you say / if i kissed you right now why don’t you stay / where i can feel you yeah is this the day i feel your fingers in my hair and it’s ok if you touch me right now and it’ll be alright while we’re on this dance floor i lost my lovely baby don’t know where he could be where is my lovely baby don’t know where they could be i lost my lovely darling don’t know where they could be where is my long lost baby don’t know where they could be and now i’m / all alone on the dance floor / why won’t you save me?
8.
you know you can do it all alone there’s a suit and a tie on the tube who tells you so make sure to spend your unemployment well cause there are billions and billion of barrels left to sell what will the girls in the pageant say what will they work for when they win have you been a good citizen today or will i have to turn you in? the surface of the sand can get oh so cold but dig a little deeper and the heat is not so old how much can the desert absorb this week? because we’re cutting off all our fingers to plug the leak chorus my god, where the hell have you been?
9.
if you found my head inside a shopping cart would you take me for a ride or would you call the cops on me? i don’t know why i think all of these morbid thoughts when i think about your face i feel like i got shot in the heart / won’t you break my heart? won’t you break my heart? won’t you break my heart in two / my heart won’t you break my heart? won’t you break my heart? won’t you break my heart? would you even notice if i died today do you think that love is true or should i spell it out for you B – R – O – K – E – N hearted that is what i’m gonna be if we don’t get it started right now / ana would you start? ana would you start? ana would you start to notice me? ana would you start? ana would you start? ana would you start? won’t you break my heart? / won’t you break my heart? won’t you break my heart? won’t you break my heart in two / my heart (B – R – O – K – E – N hearted) won’t you break my heart? won’t you break my heart? won’t you break my heart in two right now (that is what i’m gonna be if we don’t get this started now)
10.
Do it Again 03:11
lying here / i can hear you breathe your face is wet / just like me you turn around and say baby this ain’t right and you know i can’t stay the whole night i say to you / i know you can’t stay but baby please don’t make me wait i touch your face / and pull you in tight nothing else to say but baby let’s do it again ‘gain ‘gain do it all the time again ‘gain ‘gain til we get it right again ‘gain ‘gain do it on the sly again ‘gain ‘gain do it every night sometimes i wonder if i could make you mine don’t think about it, it’ll be alright i don’t know what’s wrong with me i just want to be with you touch me one more time before we go this might just be the last time maybe oh someday you’ll change your mind before we die there’s just one time we go around let’s do it right but for now let’s do it again chorus
11.
Only Yours 04:22
this time this time / i’ve gone and blown it up / i’ve blown it up it’s mine it’s mine / it’s all my fault again / again this time i don’t know why / but i keep spinning round / i’m spinning round i try i try / but once again you cry / again you cry when will you see that i am only yours / and we were meant to be this time this time / you’ve gone and blown it up / you’ve shown me up it’s not a crime / why can’t you love yourself / like i know you should i don’t know why / but we keep spinning round / we’re spinning round i felt so high / but now i’m coming down / i’m coming down so hard and i watch you sleep at night / i wish someday it will be alright then you wake and it’s not true / how can someone be so blue someday i’ll take the trouble from your eyes / but now it’s there and i don’t know why there’s not much that i can do / but this one thing i’ll say to you when will you see that i am only yours / and we were meant to be
12.
My Love 02:59
13.
Let Me Go 05:00
take me down to the river / and let me go wrap my body tight / so it won’t ever show don’t tell me how it feels / i don’t want to know take me down to the river / and lay me low take me down to the river / and send me home the current will be strong / there’s no need to row don’t tell anyone at all / no they don’t need to know when the moon comes out tonight / that water’s gonna glow we’ve got no more time / this will end tonight a love so incomplete / no time to make it right maybe off downstream / love will rise again for a boy so innocent / and looking for a fight chorus i wanted this so long why won’t you show me how? how could it be so wrong? how could you leave me now? i don’t want you waiting for me just let me go
14.
our home is underwater alone, our only daughter you’re gone and nothing matters alone under the water a stone that’s sinking faster we go because we have to you’re gone and nothing matters alone under the water a long way down there’s no way out a long way down there’s no way out a stone that’s sinking faster we go because we have to you’re gone and nothing matters all alone under the water chorus where have you gone my love? where will we go from here?
15.
You 02:34
you make it hard to breathe and you wake me from my dreams and you make me fall apart but you make me feel so good you make my heart attack and you make my jaw go slack and you make it hard to stand up straight but it feels so good and you never wanted me to stay and you always sent me away and you well you never loved me true but you oh, you

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This first full-length by Brooklyn's brass-punk-folk band has blazing fiddle, fast beats, booming sousaphone, a tight horn section, strong melody and layers of vocal harmony.

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released July 1, 2011

Michele Lee - Vocals, Ukulele, Percussion
Phil Andrews - Banjo, Vocals
Rebecca Heinegg - Percussion, Vocals
Heather Cole - Fiddle
Naomi P - Saxophone
Adam Katzman - Sousaphone
Joe Keady - Trombone

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Oscar Owens (Gangstagrass) at Rench Audio in Brooklyn
Lyrics and music by Phil Andrews (except My Love by J. Timberlake, Timbaland, T.I., N. Hills)
Album art and design by Robyn Hasty

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Since 2009, Brooklyn's premier roots/bluegrass/punk/stomp six-piece. Squeezing dance grooves and heartbreak out of a banjo, ukulele, bass drum, tuba, fiddle, saxophone and four voices.

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