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Build This Bridge
01:39
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Bound by the shackles of the shadows in the shrouded sound of battles lost shattered through my memory
Charred with shrapnel of the battle locked secure within the castle doors those locks ensure you’re never free
Build this bridge
Build this bridge
Released with the painstaken ease by the stalemate that ceased with the steady shape within me
Bound narrow wound by the gallows on the hallowed ground with clouds of infinity
Build this bridge
Build this bridge
Build this bridge
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2. |
Mad Mad World
02:03
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The sirens softly sing
Calling in the ships
It’s time again to come back home
And the captain homeward bound
Calls, “Anchors to the ground!”
Greeted by sweet silence of the bay
She said, “It’s been a long, long time.”
You’ve got the ocean in your eyes
Rusty hands and heart still made of steel
And you scream!
“Mad, mad world
Beyond imagination
Every night I saw diamonds in the darkness
Sovereign light please bring me home.”
“Mad, mad world
Beyond imagination
Every night I saw diamonds in the darkness
Sovereign light please bring me home.”
“Mad, mad world
Beyond imagination
Every night I saw diamonds in the darkness
Sovereign light please bring me home.”
“Mad, mad world
Beyond imagination
Every night I saw diamonds in the darkness
Sovereign light please bring me home.”
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3. |
Both Sides Fall
02:31
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Suspend inside your love, fused and tempered
Bend inside your love, twisting turning
Send you down my love, yours forever
Mend inside my love, made to measure
Both sides fall, when we’re drawn together
Sun goes up and down forever
Meet you out in any weather
For you I will bow
Fused and tempered, two halves become one
Twisting turning, let me be the one
Yours forever, steel eye sees all
Made to measure, as we rise and fall
Over water deep and shallow
If I fall I know you’ll follow
I know that you always knew
That I’d bow down
Both sides fall, when we’re drawn together
Sun goes up and down forever
Meet you out in any weather
For you I will bow
For you I will bow
For you I will bow
For you I will bow
For you I will bow
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4. |
Echo
03:07
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Water so wide, so full of sorrow
Arms joining sides
They are not yours
They are not mine
Gone with the tide, a love I borrowed
Moments in time
They are not yours
They are not mine
Calling out into the wind
It steals your name
And leaves an echo
Across the divide, a heart so hollow
As hard as I try
I’ll never reach
The other side
Calling out into the wind
It steals your name
And leaves an echo
Calling out into the wind
It steals your name
And leaves an echo
Calling out into the wind
It steals your name
And leaves an echo
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I was building sandcastles right beside the shore
Then a big wave crashin’ over
My kingdom was no more
I was eating ice cream
Three scoops on my spoon
But it quickly melted on me
That’s summertime in June
You think I woulda learned back then
Fallin’ down the rabbit hole
In the end everything works out
Deep dark night of the soul
No more livin’ in straw houses
Dizy on the Wonder Wheel
I’m a badass bitch with my shit together
Make my bridges out of steel
You think I woulda learned back then
Fallin’ down the rabbit hole
In the end everything works out
Deep dark night of the soul
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6. |
Battle Of The Bridges
03:29
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Battle of the bridges, bring it on
We got two bridges, only room for one
Battle of the bridges, bring it on
We got two bridges, only room for one
In this corner, built in 2008, still in its prime at six years old, fabricated of pure home-grown concrete.
Measuring in at 420 yards, and a half million tons, the Maple-Oregon Bridge
Hailing from just two blocks north, built in 1929, an experienced veteran at 84 years, 400 yards, 450 thousand tons of cold hard steel, the last operational rolling bascule bridge in the world, Sturgeon Bay’s own Michigan Street Bridge.
This bridge, that bridge, which one to pick?
Cold steel or concrete slabs, place your bets
Winner takes all in this grudge match
Pound for pound for twelve hard rounds
It’s going down
Are you ready to rumble?
Battle of the bridges, bring it on
We got two bridges, only room for one
Battle of the bridges, bring it on
We got two bridges, only room for one
You’re cold like ice, I’m a hot potato
I’ll crush you just like a rotten tomato
You’re an ugly old bridge, tired and sore
I bet you can’t even raise it up anymore
My span is long, my gears are large
Show me what you got, you can hit me with a barge
I see your frown, I feel your skepticism
Get a load of my bascule mechanism
Your metal sucks, concrete is better
I watch you rust and fall apart in the weather
Battle of the bridges, bring it on
We got two bridges, only room for one
Battle of the bridges, bring it on
We got two bridges, only room for one
Bang, bang, ring that bell
Rise above the gates of hell
Bang, bang, ring that bell
Hot white stone vs. cold hard steel
You’re older than my gramps, break out the cane
We may look alike, but we’re not the same
Round and round you turn but people wait in line
‘Cause your rolling bascule is broken all the time
Are you on Maple or on Oregon
You don’t even know what street you’re on
I’m hard like calculus, shine like a jewel
I might be old but I still look cool
Why fight when we can work in harmony
When my bridge is up your peeps can pass for free
Got the steel bridge now coming up in view
Dropping the beats on the one and the two
No need to fight ‘bout which one to chose
Bridges unite, that’s what we should do
Bang, bang, ring that bell
Rise above the gates of hell
Bang, bang, ring that bell
Hot white stone vs. cold hard steel
Bang, bang, ring that bell
Rise above the gates of hell
Bang, bang, ring that bell
Hot white stone vs. cold hard steel
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7. |
Cross Me
03:17
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Lay me down and go to town
I’m feelin’ naughty
I’ve got grooves that you can use
Beneath your body
But don’t forget I’m the best
And you can never stop me
Did you come here for the show, oh baby here we go
You can cross me but you can’t, no you can’t walk all over me
You can cross me but you can’t, no you can’t walk all over me
Won’t let you down or mess around
I can take you higher
I’ll lift you up cuz I’m strong enough
To steal your desire
I hold the match and won’t look back
When I start the fire
As you watch it burn, everyone will learn
You can cross me but you can’t, no you can’t walk all over me
You can cross me but you can’t, no you can’t walk all over me
You can cross me but you can’t, no you can’t walk all over me
You can cross me but you can’t, no you can’t walk all over me
You can cross me but you can’t, no you can’t walk all over me
You can cross me but you can’t, no you can’t walk all over me
You can cross me but you can’t, no you can’t walk all over me
You can cross me but you can’t, no you can’t walk all over me
You can cross me but you can’t, no you can’t walk all over me
Can’t walk all over me
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8. |
Givin' Up The Ghost
02:53
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Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord
When my feet get tired and my knees get weak
My eyes get blurry, my tongue can’t speak
Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord
My heart gets shakin’, I just can’t stop
My back is breakin’, I’m ready to drop
Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord
You drive on my face and you squealin’ the tires
Ain’t no holiday and I’ll never retire
Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord
I got rusty bones, I got skeleton teeth
I got clackety clack all underneath
Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord
Clackety clack, don’t talk back
Clackety clack, don’t talk back
Clackety clack, don’t talk back
Clackety clack, don’t talk back
Friends, sinners, speeders, and slow drivers
I would tell you it’s nice to see you this afternoon, okay, but I would be lying
Listen here, you don’t have to burn it at every turn, okay
And I been muckin’ around this slimy lurch and I been tryin’ real hard not to get bitter, but I must, I must, I must be honest here (say it)
My level is disturbed, my back breaks fifteen times a day
My oil pressure is risin’, honey, and I don’t feel like compromisin’!
But here we are, here we are again and I stand here and you ask me to take you over once again, you ask me to take you across, take you across, take you across
Well, here I am and we’ve come too far to turn back now, we’ve come too far to turn back now
We’ve come too far to turn back now, we’ve come too far to turn back now, we’ve come too far to turn back now, we’ve come too far to turn back now, we’ve come too far to turn back now, we’ve come too far to turn back now, we’ve come too far to turn back now
I’m givin’ up the ghost
Givin’ up the ghost
Givin’ up the ghost
Givin’ up the ghost
Givin’ up the ghost
I’m givin’ up the ghost
I’m givin’ up the ghost
I’m givin’ up the ghost
I’m givin’ up the ghost
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9. |
It Still Stands
04:08
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Dismantle my finger from hand
Army of you marching up and
It still stands
It still stands
It still stands
It still stands
Taken apart piece by piece
Desperation sinking in
It still stands
It still stands
It still stands
It still stands
Bo bo bo ba
It still stands
It still stands
Bo bo bo ba
It still stands
It still stands
Forces you can’t stop
What a punishment of time
I hold back the tide
It still stands
It still stands
It still stands
It still stands
Bo bo bo bo ba
It still stands
It still stands
Bo bo bo bo ba
It still stands
It still stands
Forces you can’t stop and
It still stands
It still stands
Forces you can’t stop and
It still stands
It still stands
It still stands
It still stands
It still stands
It still stands
Boo boo ba
It still stands
It still stands
Boo boo ba
It still stands
It still stands
Boo boo ba
It still stands
It still stands
Boo boo ba
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10. |
Back In My Day
04:07
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I’ve been here a lifetime
Since they built the canal
In years gone by
This was an old quarry town
They came here from nowhere
Looking for work
Digging the limestone
Out of the dirt
Back in those days
I was the talk of this town
But time has a way
Of wearing you down
Some came for the shipyards
They worked with their hands
So I reached out my arms
For the hardworking man
They built these great vessels
Right here on the shore
We all stood there watching
As they sailed through the Door
Back in those days
I was the talk of this town
But time has a way
Of tearing you down
Now it’s all different
Time marches on
The quarries are closed
The ships mostly gone
You should have seen me
Back in my day
I’m an old steel bridge
Just in the way
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11. |
Angel In Chains
03:21
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Angel in chains
Angel in chains
Cold steel baby
You’ve forgotten
Your name
Angel in chains
Angel in chains
Cold steel baby
Leans into
A hammering
Rain
So strange
Angels and chains
Angels restrained
Angels and chains
Angels restrained
Shadow untamed
Shadow untamed
Bat shit crazy blind-
-folded
In shame
So strange
Angels and chains
Angels restrained
Angels and chains
Angels restrained
Angel in chains
Angel in chains
Cold steel baby
You’ve forgotten
Your name
I said
Cold steel baby
You’ve forgotten
Your name
So strange
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12. |
Curve Of The Earth
02:56
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Postage stamp window
Mail won’t make it home
Every little piece of sky
Infinite inside the eye
Gravity will come alive
Songs in every space
Corners of this place
Picture perfect day
Translate to the page
Every little piece of sky
Infinite inside the eye
Gravity will come alive
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13. |
The Space Between
03:12
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I’ve spent some time
On both sides of the river
They both seem fine but there’s
Another place I never get to
Linger it’s the loveliest
Place I’ve ever seen
The space between, the space between
It’s like a crazy dream when I’ve been in
The space between
I love to hear
The words you say but I need
More than my ears
To understand precisely where to
Laugh and listen for the other
Half of what you mean
The space between, the space between
It’s like a crazy dream when I’ve been in
The space between
We’ll linger in the loveliest
Place you’ve ever seen
The space between, the space between
It’s like a crazy dream when I’ve been in
The space between
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Two haggard pirates ready for slumber
“Cheers,” they say, to one another
Years of sunrises unnumbered
They’ve seen sunset and its wonders
Ahead
Aho
Settin’ sail from shore to shore
Ahead
Toward the horizon
Fresh outta lifeboats
Sinkin’ the ship
Grab the raft for our final voyage
Raise up that bridge
Ooooh
On this God forsaken beach, we’re stranded
Ahead
Aho
Settin’ sail from shore to shore
Ahead
Toward the horizon
Ahead
Aho
Settin’ sail from shore to shore
Ahead
Toward the horizon
Spent our lives pillagin’ our plunder
What comes next, they wonder
Driftin’ off from the island
Under the bridge and toward the horizon
Ahead
Aho
Ahead
Aho
Ahead
Aho
Ahead
Aho
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15. |
The Music Never Stops
03:52
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Don’t let them step on your freedoms
We can rise above
I can hold your hand
In the name of love
We can make a stand
Party on
Party on, rise up in the streets and
Party on, get up off the beat and
Party on, stand up for your thoughts and
Party on,
Music never stops and
Party on, rise up in the streets and
Party on, get up off the beat and
Party on, stand up for your thoughts and
Party on,
Music never stops
Naked and liberated and happy you made it
The freedom of speech should never be so underrated or overstated
We’ve got the right to bare arms but let’s be civilized
No need to make bombs
Supportin’ our troops, man, they goin’ overseas
And when they come home, no guarantee a place to sleep
The police search your home, but not without a warrant
And if they find something, only then you go to court
Imma stand on that fifth like Imma stand on that bridge
Can’t afford a lawyer, get the one who doesn’t know shit
So sick to contradict all the lives and the souls
Who lost just so you and I can cast in the vote
Slavery’s abolished, we got the same rights, but that view changes
Look through other people’s eyes
Capital punishment, politics as usual
Government taxes every individual
We can rise above
I can hold your hand
In the name of love
We can make a stand
Party on
Party on, rise up in the streets and
Party on, get up off the beat and
Party on, stand up for your thoughts and
Party on
Music never stops and
Party on, rise up in the streets and
Party on, get up off the beat and
Party on, stand up for your thoughts and
Party on,
Music never stops
We can rise above
I can hold your hand
In the name of love
We can make a stand
Party on
Party on, rise up in the streets and
Party on, get up off the beat and
Party on, stand up for your thoughts and
Party on,
Music never stops and
We can rise above, rise up in the streets and
Party on, get up off the beat and
I can hold your hand, stand up for your thoughts and
Party on,
Music never stops
In the name of love
Music never stops
Music never stops
We can make a stand
Music never stops.
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When you feel you’re running out of time
The world can turn on a rhyme
Everything will look the same
You just stepped on a different plane
Only thing that stays the same is change
There are places in this life you must go
Some are high and some are low
So take comfort for when you journey in
The bridge will be there to bring you home again
The bridge will be there to bring you home again
A scent that travels on the breeze
A song rustlin’ up old memories
Rosy sunset in the sky
Love’s light inside your eyes
Connections to another space and time
There are places in this life you must go
Some are high and some are low
So take comfort for when you journey in
The bridge will be there to bring you home again
The bridge will be there to bring you home again
Slowly crossing over, the bridge will bring us home
Slowly crossing over, the bridge will bring us home
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17. |
Old Steel Bridge
01:54
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I’m gonna take that old steel bridge back home
I’m gonna take that old steel bridge back home
I’m gonna take that bridge back home
I’m never gonna ramble, never gonna roam
I’m gonna take that old steel bridge back home
I’m gonna see that silver steel shine
I’m gonna see that silver steel shine
I’m gonna see that silver shine
Shine right into that heart o’ mine
I’m gonna see the silver steel shine
Back in the spring of ’73
I’ll tell you a story that my dad told me
It’s cold and wild and roared like a lion
And the wooden lever rose and the people got frightened
But the bridge still tolled and sounded like a rock
And … like a key in a lock
Nothing got wrecked, nobody died, nobody got lost, and nobody cried
When the bridge goes up, I’m gonna wait
When the bridge goes up, I’m gonna wait
When the bridge goes up, I’m gonna wait
So don’t make no fuss, ‘cause I’m gonna be late
When the bridge goes up, I’m gonna wait
I’m goin’ over when that old steel bridge goes down
I’m goin’ over when that old steel bridge goes down
I’m goin’ over when the bridge goes down
…Sturgeon Bay town
I’m goin’ over when that old steel bridge goes down
Yeah, I’m goin’ over when that old steel bridge goes down
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A 1952 motel taken over by musicians in 2007 for the purpose of creating and hosting collaborative songwriting events, The Holiday Music Motel is the world's only motel with its own internet radio station that plays 100% self-generated content 24/7.
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