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I have no recollection of this song AT ALL. I don't remember writing it, recording it, it's totally alien to me. Maybe I was abducted and recorded it on the planet Mahevas.

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I need you tonight, I needed you yesterday, I'll need you tomorrow, I'll need you 'til all the planets explode. I was away, I was far from you, I was surrounded by people I didn't know-and I forgot what we built.

I wandered out, at first it seemed okay, we were laughing and talking band I thought I could get the hang of this. Something I said and the room got quiet and they were staring hard and it was brutally apparent something was amiss-just like it was before you.

We blow the trumpet that is discarded, we join the band that is drunk and down, we stick our thumbs out for the ride that doesn't show, we sneak the sinners out of town.

There are a great many people, when I talk to them I feel a despair like a baseball bat has hit me in the head, they'd never know, I keep my mask intact, it's so exhausting that I could spend the year in bed-What are you doing over the next year?

And I'm surrounded by mad dogs that howl, snakes wait in suburban lawns, the monkeys are rabid and wild, I'm a smashed radio, I feel terrorized, left alone on a ledge, like an abandoned child, once again to come running to you.

We spin the roulette with the broken axle, walk the streets the rain won't wet, cross the bridges with the Styrofoam trestles, to say the prayers the priest forget.


We blow the trumpet that is discarded, we join the band that is drunk and down, we stick our thumbs out for the ride that doesn't show, we play our best games out of bounds.

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from SONGS FOR PARENTS WHO ENJOY DRUGS, released October 7, 2013
Hamell: Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
Ani: Background Vocals and Keys
Mike Napolitano: Electric Guitar

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HAMELL ON TRIAL Austin, Texas

Hamell on Trial is loud, fast music informed by politics, intelligence and a wicked sense of humor.
1995-Mercury Records-Big as Life, The Chord is Mightier Than the Sword.
1997- Choochtown
2003-Righteous Babe Records-Tough Love
2005, Songs For Parents Who Enjoy Drugs.
2007-“The Terrorism Of Everyday Life,” (Edinburgh Fringe Herald Award)
2012-New West Records -The Happiest Man Alive. ... more

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