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Collected Recordings

by The Deadeyes

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1.
I’ve been working Like a dog Pushing this stone Up the world’s steepest hill Working like I ain’t got no choice Just keep on pushing By force of will --- I’ve been working On my monument to you No Brooklyn Bridge No golden road to Timbuktu I’ve been working Just to make ends meet each week Sisyphus and John Henry Ain’t got nothing on me --- Big boss man Keeps his hands so clean Big boss lady Ain’t nothing but cruel And a whole lot of mean We’ve Done so much With so little For so long We qualifiy to do anything With nothing at all --- I’ve been working On my monument to you No Brooklyn Bridge No golden road to Timbuktu I’ve been working Just to make ends meet each week John Henry and Sisyphus Ain’t got nothing on me Notes: Lyrical references include "John Henry" (traditional), "Big Boss Man" by Jimmy Reed (written by Luther Dixon and Al Smith), and "Keep On Pushin (Curtis Mayfield). The title of this song is deliberately misspelled to avoid having the same title as the excellent 4th track off of Van Morrison's "His Band and the Street Choir". The Timbuktu reference is in regards to rumors of the lavish wealth of Mansa Musa in 15th century Mali. This composition in general pays homage to traditional folk music "work songs".
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Hold on don't slip No more words, no more speaking Jump up get down Ain't no magic incantation Next time Is this time Ain't no more later No start again Don't you jump in The Danube River The Danube River never Let you go Hold on don't slip No more words, no more speaking Jump up get down Ain't no magic incantation Next time Is this time Ain't no more later No start again Don't you jump in The Danube River The Danube River never Let you go Had to start a fire He was locked out in the cold Wind begin to howl And everybody knows You cannot get lost in the woods all alone When the wind begins to howl and you're locked out in the cold Next time Is this time Ain't no more later No start again Don't you jump in The Danube River The Danube River never Let you go Notes: The Danube River reference comes from experiences visiting my mother when she lived in Budapest and locals telling us there was an unfortunate tradition of citizens committing suicide by leaping into that river and never swimming back out. Dark, I know, so don't you jump in.
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Did you ever hear the sound Of an old freight train Rolling through the night Putting you to bed? Things haven’t been the same Since Percy went away Guess I always knew But things don’t go the way You think they’re gonna be Things don’t all come together It’s just an unsolved mystery Like some ghost upon the wind (Guess it’s just like it’s always been) Now I look forward to the sun And the days still yet to come Am I so foolish to believe That the brightest days are done? What would that make me But some tired lump of stone I’ve got my living legacy I can still feel my blood flowing Mistakes left yet to make Letters left to write Promises to break Ain’t no ghost across the breeze Notes: Lyrical and musical influences include "The Sun" by The Flaming Lips, and "'Cross the Breeze" by Sonic Youth. The "Percy" mentioned in the song is a reference to my grandfather's pen name, Percy Wentworth, which he used for wrtiting and publishing a one act play entitled "Love in a Dentist Chair".
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Drop in the ocean Star in the sky Old rubber tire Lifeboats in the tops of the trees Walking Massachusetts and Virginia Saying your goodbyes in the street Promises and lies, just a laundry list Similarly charged ion particles We might never meet again We might end up just as friends Here is your aeroplane Write sometimes Anyway Old TV dinner On a Saturday night Interstate out in the desert Wish I could rewrite the last draft Of this song Walking Massachusetts and Virginia Saying your goodbyes in the street Promises and lies, just a laundry list Similarly charged ion particles We might never meet again We might end up just as friends Here is your aeroplane Write sometimes Anyway
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Should I sing a song about The last days of summer? Was never really young But I used to be a little younger People don’t get bored no more There’s too much work to do I don’t have time to write this song Or verify the news Killer drones are tracking Our cellular phones and I Wish I’d know things would Be turning out this way I’d have built a home Out of skull and bones so I’d Have a place to go Just so that I could get away Should I sing a song about The last days of summer? Was never really young But I used to be a little younger People don’t get bored no more There’s too much work to do I don’t have time to write this song Or verify the news -------- Had to sell my car So my kids could eat But then you know I couldn’t get to work the next week Saw your favorite professor last night Sniffing glue Gave me a message And told me to give it to you You can always find a room Down by the old Turk’s Head But you better sleep with one eye open Or you’re liable to wake up dead again Got a new way to make you high Said the spider to the fly We don’t need to grow poppy, Just call it a pharmacy Searching for the perfect world Wore out all the soles of my shoes Back to where I’d started from, Everything looked all brand new again… Notes: Lyrical references and inspiration include "Who Do You Love?" by Bo Diddley, "I've Gotta New Car" by Troyce Henry Keys and J.J. Malone (similar to The Kinks' "A Gallon of Gas"), and a lot of musical inspiration from The Stooges and Nick Cave. The Turk's Head is a reference to the inn located in West Chester, Pennsylvania; the town was originally called Turks Head until it was renamed in the late 1700's.
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Narco (live) 04:43
You're living like a narco You never see the sun, no You never had a vegetable No no no You buy your groceries at the pharmacy You've only ever read the dictionary You've got an allergy to history Think everybody is an enemy You're living like a narco (x4)
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Everybody else has all gone home Up above us you can hear the breeze I’ll tell the kids my car wouldn’t start again They don’t really ask me where I’ve been When they’re at home with Maryanne She lets them watch the most awful shows on television And then they sleep late in the morning If there’s any justice in it The moon looks bored and unimpressed But the stars seem to be excited about nothing in particular How can you write a song about something? How can you write a song about anything? Thoughts of yesterday and the future And the things I can’t explain, which is mostly everything Now there’s static on the radio I guess the d.j. went home Now it’s just night and sky and which way am I supposed to go? I lost my diary and all I’ve got is This telephone this microphone This left here is my road Some one’s still up The lights are on Thank you for listening Please tell Jeannine I said “hello” Notes: Lyrics make rerence to The Smiths' "How Soon Is Now", vocal performance a slight reference to John Giorno.
10.
3 a.m. on a Thursday in May Walking across the River Liffey Shaking off the smoke From the Firehouse Skank Club Plane home leaves at 7:50 Cobblestone walk on the way to our room The Spirit of Dublin fell upon me With scabby-face sycophants hanging on each arm I realized they’d come here to hurt me She stole my flowers and took my hat And kicked me in the balls But you can’t beat the shit out of no memories Can’t drive them through no brick walls Who said that “living well Is the sweetest revenge”? She stole my flowers and took my hat And kicked me in the balls Rode my way home on the back of a bus Smelled like an old leak in a bathroom Two kids joking, “don’t call me Imam, you chocha!” Time seemed to pass in some kind of a vacuum Later that night eating left over take out Action News channel man says “Late breaking news, I regret to report to you Rock and roll has been pronounced dead, No further details as of yet are available, No one’s releasing any statements Of course, there were a few open warrants And pending investigations More details as news breaks, Now back to you, Gus” It was cold and raining when I got out of work So I rode home in the back of a bus Notes: The Firehouse Skank was a DJ night in Dublin, which continues to function under the name Firehouse Skank Sound System. Lyrics make references to Johnny Thunders' "You Can't Put Your Arms Around A Memory", and "The Bus" by Buffalo Tom.

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released April 5, 2022

track 1, track 6 and track 10 recorded by Adam Garbinski at The Mind Cabin, philly 2019 (mixed by Matt Schenck)

track 2 recorded and mixed by Aaron Martinez and Sean Ferguson for bits AND waves at Volume IV, new brunswick 2017

track 3 recorded by Adam Garbinski at The Mind Cabin 2019, philly (mixed by Derek Morton)

track 4 recorded live at The Fire, philly Nov. 2015 (mixed by Josh Pannepacker, aka Shorty BoyBoy)

track 5 and track 8 recorded and mixed by Aaron Martinez and Sean Ferguson for bits AND waves at brooklyn practice space 2016

track 7 and track 9 recorded live at The Boom Room, philly 2017 (mixed by Eric Bogacz)

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Dave McMullin: drums
John Coursey: violin, electronics
P.W. McHugh: guitar, vocals

Treatment Bound - © Paul Westerberg (The Replacements)
Do You Want To Dance - © Bobby Freeman

all other tracks: lyrics by Paddy Wax, music by The Deadeyes

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The Deadeyes Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Deadeyes rose from the ashes of Philadelphia’s indie soul punk band Grubstake. This violin driven 3-piece effortlessly traverses the musical genres of punk and roots-rock with tinges of soul, drawing comparisons to bands such as Yo La Tengo, The Velvet Underground, and Replacements. ... more

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