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The Magician
03:50
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I saw you in the crowd
You pretty little ingenue
You’re the bunny I’ll pull out of the hat
The body I’ll saw through
I’ll dress you up in feathers
Put a python around your neck
Sell you to this room full of eyes
Show you the secrets of the card deck
‘Cause you make me such a magic man
Yeah you make me such a magic man
We’ll shuffle through the years
Of illusion and sleight of hand
Engrave my little trophy
Build my perfect brand
You’re my secret weapon, baby
This time I’ll get it right
My name up on the marquee
Your pretty face in lights
‘Cause you make me such a magic man
Yeah you make me such a magic man
You’re a singing decoration
A single declaration
Of dependence on my powerful hand
But now you’ve gotten wise to me
And that isn’t what I planned
Past all the smoke and mirrors
You see me as I really am
A broken spell of a man
And now you know
All the secrets of the magician
Yeah you know all the secrets of
The magician
So I see her in the crowd
She’s a pretty little ingenue
She’s the bunny I’ll pull out of the hat
The body I’ll saw through
You know Its just business, babe
can’t have you show the years
So a few more candles on your cake
And I’ll make you disappear
Yeah a few more candles on your cake
And I’ll make you disappear
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Spinning
05:50
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Your eyes say let’s begin
And don’t worry you won’t feel a thing
But the magnets line up right
And everything in sight
Is spinning
And you come to my sea
Go to the deepest part with me
The Mariana Trench
Now we’re both disoriented
And spinning
In a beautiful kaleidoscope
Where tumbling blues and horoscopes
Collide
But the fine print and blurry rules
Stir my mind up in a centrifuge
Spinning on and on and on and on
And now I wish I didn’t know how good it is to be with you
Here in the deep where you keep me wondering why
This love is such a subtle beast
I want to be true North,
But you keep me East
Where it’s too shallow
So I wash us off the dishes
And out of the sheets
I watch the water circle the drain
As I wash us off of me
Should I burn our love out
in the tumble dry
or will you ever change your mind
And stop us spinning
Should I let it go
in the undertow
Should I let it slide
In the riptide
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3. |
In The Neighborhood
05:18
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See them sniffing around
Down the street
Like scavenging wolves
Picking up the scent of dead meat
They’re gonna build a high rise
Blocking out your grandmama’s view
Flash some dollars in her face
As they start to chew
And say
We were just in the neighborhood
Adjusting the neighborhood
Just in the neighborhood
Adjusting the neighborhood
The silence of these lambs is deafening
So desensitized to the beckoning
Fly fly, Clarise
They’re gonna gentrify you right out of your lease
And say
We were just in the neighborhood
Adjusting the neighborhood
Just in the neighborhood
Adjusting the neighborhood
Funny- this is the same place
They used to drive through and say
Roll the windows up, lock the doors
Now they’re picking out tile and wood floors
Pack it up if you’re too poor to stay in the neighborhood
Just in the neighborhood
Adjusting the neighborhood
Just in the neighborhood
Adjusting the neighborhood
Yeah we were just in your neighborhood
Adjusting the neighborhood
Just in the neighborhood
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4. |
Writing on Water
05:29
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The wind is strong today
Nobody’s outside but the birds of prey
They circle gracefully
While we stay inside and wait
And the word came down that day
Them knights had no armor to stand in harm’s way
But the king sent them out
And his minions are shouting
They want it all back to normal today
Have we learned anything at all?
Are we writing on water or are the the veils gonna fall
Have we learned at all
Have we learned anything at all
So its crossed fingers on washed hands
Needle drop on cancelled plans
Wait on your government check
And just hope for the best
And for the lives it’s cost
No words can shoulder, no grammar can hold
All the prayers and thoughts
And apologies for loss just don’t feel like enough
Just don’t feel like enough at all
Are we writing on water or are the veils gonna fall
Have we learned at all
Have we learned anything
Maybe another Phoenix gonna rise
Maybe we’ll feed that good wolf inside
Maybe we’ll go back to the garden and thrive
Maybe we’ll bloom at exactly the right time
Maybe I’ll hold your face in my hands again
But until then take this lullaby
We may be distant
We can still be light
Like the old stars
We’re all made of
We may be distant
We can still be wise
Like the billion year old stars
We’re all made of
We may be distant
We can still be light
Like the old stars
we’re all made of
We may be distant, baby
We can still be light
So please keep your light on
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Jen Kearney Boston, Massachusetts
Boston’s Jen Kearney has spent some time seasoning her particular style of original music. Her sound is truly an
amalgamation of musical styles including Soul, R&B, Funk, Rock, and Latin. Kearney’s music and attention to lyrics and has met critical acclaim nationally and internationally.
Kearney is set to release an EP entitled “Atlantic” in March of 2022 and a full-length LP later in the year.
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