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recreation (disc two)

by Exit Reunion

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Samuel Mann
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Samuel Mann My old band, we reunited to record new tunes and those we couldn't in 1990. Side two are the older songs, side one are the new ones.
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1.
Freedom Tree So much to see In a free country So much to do Everybody wants you Be all you can be That’s all you can be It’s so fine to be In a free country After all of this time We don’t see the stop signs And wouldn’t you know They just didn’t show But we all get a turn They keep what you earn You think I’d have learned But baby I got burned So you think it’s a problem Well I can deal with that We can always talk about them But they’ll never know Never know where we’re at Would you look at the moon Shining into my room So far away We'll get there someday And it would've been nice It would've been fun But what can we do It's over and done Up on Capitol Hill Stood a little girl named Jill She said listen, Jack I’d like to have my money back But we all get a turn They keep what you earn You think she’d have learned But that little girl got burned So we don’t know what we’re missing Well I can deal with that Gotta watch who you’re kissing Cause baby you know You know it’s a fact So much to see In a free country So much to do Everybody wants you Be all you can be That’s all you can be It’s so fine to be In a free country It’s so fine to be In a free country It’s so fine to be In a freedom tree © 1989
2.
The Duke of Inspiration So you say they shook your brother down Well I saw him just last week He was trying to stop the danger of an information leak So I said I wished him well And shook the stars out of his head Then I drew my own conclusions From the words that were never said And when the police with no numbers Lifted clubs behind their heads Well I knew that it was time I looked behind and went ahead Cause that scene was so over-rated You always knew it was not for me And now I guess I'll take your words back home And put 'em in your cup of tea It's not for me to tell you what to say It's not for me to tell you where to go But if what we've been through isn't gonna be enough I guess we don't have much to show So I headed back to Old Stone Gap But there was no one there I knew So I grabbed my hat and got my money back And tried to look for another clue There was a man on the highway he was protesting the rain He had a poem and he handed it to me It said “It doesn't matter how fast you're going If you know where you're going to be Well I found out I'm going to be missing you When the big top comes around You see I'm working as the tightrope walker And there's uncertainty all over the ground And I guess you won't have time to stop As you're flying down the hills But it's better than living in this city And knocking flower pots from window sills It's not for me to tell you what to do It's not for me to tell you who to be But if the future's as bright as the stars are tonight I'm gonna sit back and let it be Cause the big dipper's pouring a light on me It's like a beacon in the shining sea And I know the ocean's calm tonight Cause I saw it on TV It was the six o'clock news they were singing the blues Another Neptune catastrophe And the girl who was singing 'bout the weather Started to smile and reminded me Of the way you pretended to laugh at my jokes But now the jester's got another queen And the chamber maids in his castle tonight Have done nothing to keep it clean And the Duke of Inspiration Has been trying to stay away from me Cause the last time he came down I was not to be found And who knows where I'll be It's not for me to tell you how to live It's not for me to tell you how much to give And I know there's not too much I'm sure of these days But if there's one thing I'm positive... That we've both been changing tires On the roads to which we were led And though I haven't read your book in years I can tell you what it said Cause today I turn the pages In my mind silently Some have corners turned back some are painted in black But they all say the same thing to me Just names and faces changing places All the words that time erases Keeps you on track pulling you back And there's no way that you can go back So let's drink to the consolation That we derive from the memory Cause today we're riding stars and bars All up and down the galaxy © 1990
3.
No Promises 05:49
No Promises Sometimes I’m up Sometimes I’m down Sometimes I’m away for weeks but I’m coming home So if there’s something you gotta say to me Then say it cause I’m lonely Sometimes I’m rough Sometimes I’m bound To take a little walk in the danger zone if you promise not to make a sound And if there’s something you gotta say to me Then say it cause it’s only Fools and queens in the city tonight And if you don’t lay low they’re gonna make it tight You got a message in the bottle and you drink it up and when you Wake up in the morning there’s a letter in your cup saying Who did you think I was A man who accounts for everything he does Who did you think I was You get up sayin Stop acting crazy Well I don’t mind this night’s been a bit hazy Who did you think I was No Hollywood Didn’t make you sad But now your thinking that the reason for the clouds today is the reason that your feeling bad And if there’s something you wanna say to me Something you wanna say to me Then say it cause I’m lonely While the bank machines are swallowing the city The girls on the corner are startin to look pretty Put a message in the bottle and drink it up and when you wake up in the morning there’s a letter in your cup sayin Who did you think I was? Prince Charming with a top hat tails and gloves Who did you think I was? You get up sayin Stop acting crazy Well I don’t mind this life’s been a bit hazy Who did you think I was Who did you think I was… © 1990
4.
Put it Back Together Doesn’t it seem to be you and me Take it all apart so we can Put it all back together later on And wouldn’t you quite agree with me We’re restless souls of history And nothing really lasts very long And half the fun of building them castles is Tearing them down I’ve been run into the ground with these hassles Tryin to find what I already found Put it back together it’ll be better than ever Put it back together you know nothing lasts forever Though we tried and tried to make it right It fell to pieces over night And now it’s time to put it back together There doesn’t really need to be a remedy One day I took apart my TV And I still couldn’t find a thing in it that I wanted to see So I put it back together and it didn’t work So I looked at the weather It was a beautiful day so I went out to play And I’m glad I took my TV apart. But half the fun of building them castles is Tearing them down And I’ve been run into the ground with these hassles Tryin to find what I already found Put it back together it’ll be better than ever Put it back together you know nothing lasts forever Though we tried and tried to make it right It fell to pieces over night And now it’s time to put it back together Sewn to the pocket of the big boss man there’s A wink and a stare and a master plan And a whole lot more no one will ever know Thought he’d be a captain of industry Not just another sucker with a lemon tree But nothing really lasts very long And up and down all the Main Streets and sidewalks The worn down signs tell the tale You and I we got buckets of daydreams And a strong wind behind our sail Put it back together it’ll be better than ever Put it back together you know nothing lasts forever Though we tried and tried to make it fit It fell to pieces all of it And now it’s time to put it back together © 1990, 2011
5.
In Your Backyard Why live in confusion There’s no way out You’ll just end up losing He started to shout She smiled to refuse him the chance to begin He smiled and began again Saying I’m alive and I’m hungry Here with my family Unhappy to be living here In your backyard There’s an angry citizen In your backyard Outside the home you’re sitting in In your backyard Watching all the businessmen In your backyard And he lays his head outside the door There’s doubt in your reason Reason it out There’s fear of trees and reason to doubt Just one big happy family Fighting it out Glorified on the battlefield That’s right there’s a battlefield Behind the jungle gym Right by the picnic bench In your backyard There’s an unemployment line In your backyard There’s a dollar bottle wine In your backyard Goes down like turpentine In your backyard But it’ll help you fall asleep and forget In your backyard You can see a circus clown In your backyard Try to put his brother down In your backyard And you’ll go along with him In your backyard And you’ll let him suck you in In your backyard And you’ll practice his religion In your backyard And he’ll make all your decisions In your backyard Til he turns his back on you In your backyard And you’ll do things like you used to do © 1989
6.
Nowhere Like You I been up and down these roads 95 is still alive and killing me I’ve crossed the 7 seas I been on a mountain top Been under rocks and in a fox’s lair If you should care I been all around the moon I been to mars Road on stars of blue But I ain’t been nowhere like you I have heard the sound of one hand clapping Hoping to be heard above the murmur or applause I've heard the dueling saws I have seen the world turn Seen the times a changing The minds a rearranging I have made the sound of thunder clapping I’ve told a tale or two But I ain’t been nowhere like you And everywhere the bars are full of artists Sinking in a cocktail or drowning in a beer And the people on the street Some of them are living there The people on the street Some of them are going somewhere Everyone on the street Is breathing the same air I been down a waterfall Up in the sky with an eagle’s eye You know I can fly Now I’m a billionaire Nothing much is left for me to say or do Except for you I've been inside a drop of rain Been all around the coliseum waiting for the dew But I ain’t been nowhere like you I've seen buildings disappear I've been inside them too But I ain’t been nowhere like you I ain’t been nowhere like you And there is nothing I have seen that is like you © 1988
7.
Jessica 04:39
Jessica I’ve looked around In and out of hearts along the way And more than I can say I’ve been let down Waiting for that door to open Thinking I might never know when Time is gonna let you into my life Oh Jessica All the time I thought about you All I had to give Is what you see And what you see is all that’s left of me Oh if you could see If you could see me dream of you I’d be a fool to pass you by Wherever you are Time wasn’t fair And it’s hard to make good choices in time And the more I look I find Time doesn’t care But it’s good to know you’re somewhere out there Though I might not ever know where Sure would love to see you walking my way Hold out your hand And I’ll know the rest is left up to me And as soon as I can see I’ll be your man And the rest will soon be history Like an ever-flowing rhapsody You and I will simply float away © 1987

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released September 21, 2012

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Exit Reunion New York, New York

In October, 2011, soon after a rousing, 20-year reunion show at Bobby Q's in Westport, CT, members of the erstwhile jam band, Left Exit, got together in a studio made of reclaimed bowling lanes in Brooklyn, NY to begin recording what would, a year later, become RECREATION, a 2-disc, 14-song album by a band of one time road warriors with some unfinished business. Thus was born Exit Reunion. ... more

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