Name: Stranger in Paris // Dark Days for Dancing
Duration: P00H04M34S
Description: actually two tracks, that somehow are connected. imagine that

Stranger in Paris // Dark Days for Dancing

from Black Out by Luke Sweeney

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STRANGER IN PARIS

I was in Paris around the turn of the century
the streets were all-ways-wet and none made sense to me
the women there barely looked at me.
I felt so ugly
each time I tried to speak,
all they said to me was 'no Engle'

I got off the train, whichever one ran
crooked like the rain from Amsterdam
the maitre'd could plainly see I needed meat on my bones
"But- do you have anything vegetarian?" I asked.
"Sorry, no ma'am."

I started walking toward Morrison's grave
perhaps there was a ghost for me to save,
or a road for me to pave
then I heard a voice in me
saying 'Let it be'
there is no communion to be made.

and to be frank, I spent my money too fast
on fancy cigarettes & disposable cameras
broke and too wet to step foot inside the Louvre,
I took a panorama of it instead.

DARK DAYS FOR DANCING

"find a place to stay while we're waiting on the end of the world"
watch your head on the balcony!

dark days for dancing, bad days for good
oh, we never know if we're doing what we should

watch your head on the balcony, babe.

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from Black Out, released June 5, 2020

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Luke Sweeney San Francisco, California

A bicycle crash left a young Sweeney with his jaw wired shut for six weeks, and in recovering, his sustenance was on a guitar. What was he chasing?

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