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Rockaway Shuffle

by Thomas Clarke

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Rockaway Shuffle 04:13
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Snowy 03:27
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Seabreeze 04:23
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Here We Go Again 04:06
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Squall 03:46
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Disjointed 03:30
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City Of The Dead 02:50
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Another sleepless night thinking about you again after more than 25 years you still curse me city of the dead, marching toward your own funeral drugs, racism, insanity and yet you proudly march on seems fitting since I lost so much there including my soul Back to the place where I lost it all-again Can't go back, another funeral again seems I only went back there when someone was dead or dying seems fitting since I lost so much there including my soul grandparents, parents, sister, what's next? what would you expect in the city of the dead? so what if my mother, MLK, and Elvis died at the same hospital? I don't care to join them whoever said walking through the streets of this town was magical and fun never stepped in my shoes from getting beat up in high school to getting mugged 10 feet off of Beale waiting for the quake to destroy this place and end the suffering watched my sister go from normal to insane watched my family wither and die and they wonder why I left that place was never my home even for the decade I was there they said my formative years were there which is why I'm the ogre I am now Maybe New York, Louisville, and Baltimore messed me up too maybe I shouldn't have moved back to my other childhood home but they're still better than the hellhole on the bluffs don't know why my thoughts went back there maybe it's time to let the dead bury their dead and get on with my own life
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Back 02:39
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It doesn't feel so good to be back nach bhfuil sé go maith a bheith ar ais Here we go again Good times gone again back to life, back to grim reality no more nice place with a kitchen or affordable rent Here we go again Good times gone again back to life, back to grim reality no more nice place with a kitchen or affordable rent no more good drinks or social life or partying no more cute girls flirting with you or ugly ones either back to the rat race back to the hate no more green not even on the dollar bills no more happy music just the groans and the drones love's gone back away an ocean or two the rain's gone, but the sun's not back either no more nice people it's everyone for themselves we'll help the poor, they say so why was I richer when I was away Everything's great, they say but it was better in Austin or Dublin or London or Munchen You may not be from here, but you're stuck here and barred from going home Can't get high or drunk to ease the pain, even if you could afford it Gave up on this land a while back, but no skills to go anywhere else Escorted out of Eden, angels barring me from paradise demons to the left of me, jokers to the right nobody in the middle with me they're all a pond away, an ocean away, a bridge away, mountains and continents away a spiritual gulf away a spiritual gulf away It doesn't feel so good to be back
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Ceol Trá (Beach Music) 02:56
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Note- lyrics are in Irish, English translation is in parentheses..... Ceol trá (beach music) An bhfuil tú réidh le haghaidh roinnt dubstep (Are you ready for some dubstep?) é a bhriseadh síos (break it down) An bhfuil tú réidh le haghaidh roinnt dubstep (Are you ready for some dubstep?) é a bhriseadh síos (break it down) ceol trá (beach music) é a bhriseadh síos (break it down) Sin uile daoine (that's all, folks)
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Piping Plovers Part 2 02:35
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We're back! Don't you know it? We look cute, but don't mess with us we're the piping plovers We're back! Don't you know it? Get the lawyers ready beacuse we're going to sue you! Get the gull goons Our club is doing fine The seafood's nice and fresh but you idiots will never join us in the club! Get the gull goons We look cute, but don't mess with us we're the piping plovers The pigeons stopped paying tribute, so we got them evicted from their penthouse on Beach 116th Street! They really shouldn't have taken that jacuzzi so we sprayed them with catnip and let the alley cats do the rest! Isn't it great to claim to be endangered in case the cats get any weird ideas Get the gull goons Get the gull goons Hey Rocco, nice cameo on that Seabreeze video Hey, we need a new nesting ground so let's condemn that mansion in Neponsit! We look cute, but don't misjudge us! We get 40 percent off the Boardwalk And 10 grand for each day it's delayed Life is great by the sea If you know how to milk the system And for those Rockaway humans who cross us We'll get our Socialist buddies in Albany and Manhattan to make your life a living hell! We look cute, but don't mess with us we're the piping plovers Get the gull goons Don't mess with us!
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Feel Part 2 02:50
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What does it feel like to not oversleep? What does it feel like to keep a job for more than a year? What does it feel like to actually act your age? What does it feel like to not have to move when you lose a job? What does it feel like to be satisfied with the Presidential Candidates? What does it feel like to sneak across the Rio Grande? What does it feel like to be satisfied with life? What does it feel like to learn German? What does it feel like to be satisfied with the crumbling American Society? What does it feel like to not be extremely pissed off? What does it feel like to know that God actually loves you? What does it feel like to not be ridiculed for being smart? What does it feel like to have someone who loves you back? What does it feel like to have to emigrate time and time again? What does it feel like to think suicide is the answer? What does it feel like to not be ridiculed by everybody? What does it feel like on top of the world? What does it feel like to sneak into Europe? What does it feel like to be ridiculed by a supposedly conservative billionaire and his left wing opponent? What does it feel like to be happy? What does it feel like to know you write well? What does it feel like to know a Frenchman and a Connecticut woman ripped off your song idea more than a decade ago? What does it feel like to recycle your old ideas? What does it feel like to come up with a better song than last time?
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Nitecap 04:12
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primarily instrumental, but the vocals are (with Irish translation into English in parentheses): Feel the music Dúirt tú nach raibh mé é a dhéanamh , anois ach éisteacht (you said i couldn't do it, now just listen, motherfuckers) Oh come on now, baby am dúnta (closing time) and it's funky póg mo thóin (kiss my ass) break it down break it down and it's funky nach bhfuil sé go hiontach a bheith ar ais (it's not great to be back) and let it flow póg mo thóin é a bhriseadh síos (break it down) Oh come on now, baby break it down am dúnta póg mo thóin sin uile do anois (that's all for now, folks)

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Compilation of tracks composed September 2015-February 2016 in the Rockaway Park section of Queens.

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released February 24, 2016

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Thomas Clarke Colorado Springs, Colorado

Thomas Clarke was born in Abilene, TX, and raised in Colorado Springs. In the early 1990s, he first met producer Steve Peak (Speak Online), who introduced him to songwriting. He attended Brooklyn College in the late 1990s. He was one of the co-stars and contributed music to a 2014 art production about homelessness in Austin called “Am I Invisible”. ... more

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