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Songs Of The Young Sinclairs

by the Young Sinclairs

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1.
Darling 01:57
use my friends and put us down I don't need to bicker with you go burn the Capitol right to the ground if your precious ideals are so true second-hand activist why do you preach you act like you're some kind of master or priest you're hung up on garments and haircuts and flesh your experiments are just like all the rest how do you feel when you're out in the street or when you're alone in a bed I wrote and recorded hundreds of songs and they will live on when I'm dead so go right ahead and talk and talk 'cause you're too afraid to sing another white man on stolen land we'd kill you if you were a king if you're such an intellectual man then go teach politics don't be in a band you're hung up on garments and haircuts and flesh your experiments are just like all the rest
2.
I took a trip to London but it didn't swing me right I went to New York City but I didn't like the lights I'd stay right where I am if I could fall asleep at night you can find me at the airport gettin' on a canceled flight I've been working at the movies sellin' tickets through the glass I'd feel better if they knew me but I just smile and take their cash I stare out of that window, count the cop cars as they pass gonna lift up off the concrete, put my fingers in the grass
3.
Engineer Man 02:51
he's the engineer man he's the leader of the band he does all the work 'round here he has to be alone no time to be at home there's no people here to fear engineer man he stays inside he is barely alive would you believe in him he can not talk and he trips when he walks and you are inside of him engineer man
4.
turn around and leave me here don't believe in anything turn your eyes into my heart I don't believe in anything
5.
you have a different view from your eyes I think it's good and what you play is such a surprise I think it's good blessed blackness I love you blessed blackness I worship you blessed blackness I love you blessed blackness I worship you I'm tuned in to just what you feel it's all the same we need some music we need love it's all the same looking at your hands you are the ancient man I know you will do better than I can blessed blackness I love you blessed blackness I worship you blessed blackness I love you blessed blackness I worship you
6.
Tough Face 01:48
you say the city would do me good you're wrong you think I haven't been experienced you're wrong don't you think it's time for living your life are you happy with what's going on your life all I really want to do is be your friend what about people makes them not be your friend I do me you do you your thing you are you I am I your thing
7.
hear me for the first time and take you far again follow through the water it's real and it's the end it's real and it's the end feed me for the last time sweet nothing is waiting there play the final notes to your song and die
8.
Tribe 02:27
I could think forever about what to do and I won't get through first of all jump in and try see if you die it's not that bad with the tribe on your side if you don't have it then here's some of mine if the silence comes you'll be OK I'll bring the day when the night is done we won't get paid but love is made do you think the sound is me it's not supposed to be but you know that there's no rules am I a fool it's not that bad with the tribe on your side if you don't have it then here's some of mine
9.
my name is written everywhere the most impressive thing of all and when the eyes begin to stare our feet stop working and we fall there's things that keep us far apart and you know we're not the same there is no light without the dark the meaning's different in your brain my feet are growing weary now and my eyes becoming dim my mind starts to wonder how and these strange feelings do begin to creep inside of my being I need this doubt to survive because when faced with it I win relief rush over and I thrive this is the great light when we end the night we can take you to the fields golden green makes it heal
10.
wake me up this morning softly face the day we can live together float and drift away thinking much too hard again sing your mind to sleep keep your head held high y'know earth beneath your feet and you'll find that you are real and you'll know you have it all and you'll see that I am here we are up against the wall
11.
you play the part of some one you don't know you heard about the river how it flows a sleeping mind of magic weaves a spell you're following the ringing of the bell a lighthouse in the morning comes to view and suddenly it's shining right on you they're not writing anymore then the ghosts they reveal your second pulse the children they are planted in the mulch you pause for just a blink and then it slips you're shaking but you just can't escape the grip they're not writing anymore
12.
you're the reason and you are the inspiration in my life I love you in the sunshine I love you even more in moonlight I'm so glad you didn't die from that disease when you were young I don't think that you and me are at the end we've just begun you smell sweetly of honeysuckle rose and pumpkin I have a good life but if I don't have you it's nothing you're always with me a hundred miles away or by my side when you touch me it makes me so happy I want to cry I'm proud to walk with you your flames are burning high little fire
13.
Talisman 02:29
sacred text of noble man receive your thoughts with open hands germ of life a time and space insects on a dying face my talisman will keep you bright my pentagram and clothes of white the fire is green and gold within my eyes crystal stone the astral salt away with guilt and fear and fault flames that ripen sand and ash we never die we turn to glass my talisman will keep you bright my pentagram and clothes of white the fire is green and gold within my eyes
14.
now that you're open-eyed you're scared to look and find there's some one there don't be scared you found a scratch upon the frame and heard that no one knows your name don't be scared there's just too much that's going on how did you feel when it was gone your kingdom stands for only time you have a tower still to climb don't be scared
15.
waving your hands from inside a machine thinking about all your friends that are dead what did you mean when you said do it clean thinking about all the books you have read spending the night in the Spanish hotel you want to be shopping where they were embalmed what do you feel like when nothing goes well there's emblems of magic and death on your arm
16.
can you send me a dream one I might like to stay in can you film me a scene with a cast I could play in will you show me your cloud now it seems it is waiting can you open your mouth do you use it for hating can you find me a love that's real everything I do is wrong can you make me a sound to feel everything I do is wrong
17.
some one will help you to decide when you need something to go by it's written on the biggest wall open your eyes you'll see it all some one will help you to decide

about

The Young Sinclairs made their debut on wax with this vinyl-only anthology LP, released in conjunction with Kindercore Records in 2009. It's a collection of standout fave cuts from all their self-released albums, plus a few exclusive tracks and rarities thrown in for good measure. Most of the material here was recorded in the 2005-2007 period and was originally only available on now out-of-print homebrew CD-R's and cassettes directly from the band. All songs recorded and mixed in Roanoke, VA in the band's own studio, The Mystic Fortress. Feel the sounds of 12-string guitars, vaccum tubes, spring reverb, tambourines and sparkling drum kits rumble underneath soaring melodic vocals that float effortlessly and hover atop the music like a heartbroken angel.

"Their music is jangly, upbeat, lyrically clever and melodically infused with the spirit of 1960s-pop rock. Their tunes, shimmering and feather-light, are draped in reverb and nostalgia. Much of the album is gentler and more purposefully restrained than a number of the other new artists presently trafficing in reverb-drenched 1960's pop, which gives The Songs of the Young Sinclairs a more definitive purpose." - Turntable Kitchen

"The jangly, psychedelia-inflected folk is executed with tasty precision, and the subtly tinny production often approaches a period-piece-esque accuracy that could fool all but the most attentive 60's fetishists. It's certainly an album that's about its individual songs, as these typically short nuggets are designed to stand on their own. There's plenty to pick from here -- and this might be the best thing about the record. Almost every song on this seventeen-track LP has something warm and glorious about it." - Michael Tau, Indieville

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released April 20, 2009

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