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Home Sweet Homewood
04:33
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Home sweet Homewood
Baby baby
I don’t expect you’ll understand
It’s cliche but I know this place like the back of my hand
And I could take the train tracks running behind Aurelios
All the way back as far as my memory goes...
Well I remember sitting underneath this willow tree on the white logs in the parking lot of Dairy Queen
And when the sun sets at the end of heather road
The signal lights flash reflecting off the glass of my bedroom window
In sweet Homewood
Sweet home sweet Homewood...
Catching candy from the curb upon the Fourth of July
Rollin down willow hill underneath a spinning sky
A short walk up the block holds so many memories
Quick stop at Pearson’s bakery
In sweet Homewood
Sweet home sweet Homewood
Am I moving forward
Am I moving forward
Or looking behind?
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She took a look at the bulletin board
She found quarter on the floor
When she ducked to picked it up
She faked out the automatic doors
Stepped inside and just to the right she found one of those little machines
Where ya turn the knob left just to see what ya get
And out popped a little magic ring
Oh lord wish She would’ve bought a magazine...
Oh lord wish she would’ve bought anything...
Went around to the bakery counter
For some Fresh cinnamon bread
They were fresh out and as it turned out they had some shitty brand instead
Nice lady said they dont make it anymore
She got me feeling like a dinosaur
Oh boy!
And now I’m singing the blues
I never thought this would happen to me
Oh lord It can’t be! Give me a sign or a clue...
I can tell it was a magic spell
But I ain’t got proof
She dropped a dime in the check out line coulda sworn she said some magic words
Suddenly a stone like in Indiana Jones started rollin
But wait it gets worse
It burst through the wall and we ran down the hall but we were just too slow
It must’ve rolled downtown cuz here we are now and man it feels like the twilight zone
Where the heck is Sputnik and savoia’s t’go, Off the alley, Tom’s and the rest of ridge road?
And now I’m singing the blues
I never thought this would happen to me
Oh lord it hit me! am I missing a tooth?
Well I must have missed a trick
Cuz my whole hometowns gone poof!
Oh Revelation revelation at Walts grocery store
I woke up on the ground to the sound of “clean up on aisle four”
Without any explanation - did I dream the whole thing?
Reached inside my pocket found a little plastic ring
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Cardinal & Snow
03:48
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Hush now it’s alright
Hush now it’s alright
Cardinal and snow
All is brown and white
All is calm and Bright,
Quiet and cold
The afternoon
Feels so new
Silent night holy night
Silent night holy night
Steeple and smoke
Hush now it’s alright
Hush now it’s alright
Silent and slow
The yellow moon
Passes you
Smiling on the water
Playing in the haze
High above the quarry
Trace the silver maze
Of the highway
Dixie highway...
Halstead street...
As we dream
As we sleep
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Well the heart of the south suburbs
Is in Harvey Harvey the town where I was born
Oh the heart of the south suburbs
Is out in willow springs where the mother zs first performed
When I talk to folks here on the north side
They looks at me like I’m from the moon
Because my hearts in the south suburbs
And they don’t know nothing south of the loop
The don’t know about hazel crest out to the west
But if they happen to say yes when you put em to the test
Bet they won’t know glenwood, lynnwood, or lansing way out east
And maybe I don’t come around too much myself anymore
But I’m thankful for my south suburban memories (at least!)
Oh the heart of the south suburbs
Is down in park forest where my Greek grandma lived
Its where jazz legend Art Hodes died
And where we did all those stupid things as kids
Like when I snuck out on the fourth July
I had a major crush on you but I was too shy
You invited me to drink in your best friends backyard pool
I think about that every now and then
How I passed out in my green mini van
My clothes were soaking wet and I felt like such a fool
Yeah ya broke my heart in the south suburbs
In south Holland but I felt alive
We did big things We did small things
One time I even met Milt Pappas
at a bagel shop in Chicago heights
(One more time)
my heart is in the south suburbs
You can your hoity toity north side
And though I’ve had to leave the south suburbs
And on my sleeve I always wear my south suburban pride
Deep down I’ll always be a south suburban guy
And I’d move back home if I could just convince my wife
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5. |
Skate Shop
04:31
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Hey baby
Come and get a load of me now
You thought you knew all about me
You must be crazy
For ever thinking I was uncool
Cuz Now I break all the rules
I bought a brand new board
I don’t give a fuckin shit no more!
A cheap ones all I could afford
Still I’m not the same as I was before...
I went to the skate shop
Yeah now I’m a brand new dude
And I got a new attitude
And I can’t do a kick flip
But you can shove it for sure
I don’t need you anymore
Oh and as I kick-push on by
You’ll be kickin yourself asking why
You never gave me a try
You missed your chance for romance
Always said you had other plans
Never gave me a second glance
Hey baby
How do ya like me now?
You think you know what I’m made of
Good golly!
Once I get this Ollie down
There’s no one in town I’ll be afraid of
I’ll be tearing up the cul-de-sac
Yeah Screw the books in my back pack!
See this backwards black label hat?
it’s from the skate shop baby as a matter fact
If you think I bought it at the mall,
Well you don’t know me at all
Here’s one thing you can’t ignore:
And I’m not the same man as I was before...
I hit the skate shop
Right her on ridge road
I went to the skate shop
seventeen years old
I went to the skate shop...
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6. |
The Movies & The Moon
04:47
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Slow slow slow Slow grind
Four wheels crushing gravel
Rollin over painted white lines
We got the glisten of the pavent
Under lonely blue and silver streetlights
We got the movies and the moon
And the drive thru and the tunes tonight
Oh let’s go out Orland let’s head to Cal City baby
Oh LaGrange Rd or Torrence like gem mines Before us they gleam like crazy
Oh baby you can choose the street
And I’ll be there
... the time and place to meet
And I’ll be there
God bless the sweet concrete between our little towns
cuz it gets me around
Well we took Flossmoor Rd as far as it could go oh no
Past the giant on the hill sleeping till next summer casting its gigantic shadow
And in the safety of my heater
Neath the shadow of the theater I stopped
To pick a new CD from my passenger seat
While a freight train crossed
And under silhouetted trees
And moonlight
I drummed upon my knees
And screamed “alright!”
God bless the sweet concrete between our little towns
Cuz it gets me around
Oh baby we got the movies and the moon
Oh baby we got the movies and the moon...
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7. |
Aurelio's, baby!
04:21
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It’s been a while!
It’s been a long long time baby
Since we all got together and just had ourselves a good time
So let’s go!
Let’s go go Aurelio!
Cuz there ain’t nothin better than lots of mozzarella to bring everyone together tonight
Don’t need no cheeseburger in paradise
Alright...
Chorus:
Oh somebody help me
(Tell em joe sent me)
Somebody help me
(Tell em joe sent me)
Let’s hear it for my hometown slice!
(Tell em joe sent me since 1959)
This is a little Love letter to just one of the places that made me
We’ve had every celebration - birthdays, graduations - here since I was a baby, baby
Well somebody help me
(Help me help me)
If it ever closed down
It’s my one way ticket back in time everytime I’m back in town
Chorus (x2)
When the weight of the world ends up on your shoulders
(Over and over and over and over)
Just place your order and shrug those shoulders baby!
When nothings the same but you keep getting older
(Older and older and older and older)
You can play the arcade and forget your age get your fortune for a quarter - oh yeah!
It’s wild!
How it satisfies the inner child
So make the sign of the cross
And thank God for the sauce
And let’s celebrate Aurelios style!
Cuz there ain’t nothin better so here’s my love letter
Let’s hear it for my hometown slice
Alright!
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8. |
Lions Pool 1996
04:11
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Swimming underwater at lions pool
I can open up my eyes
Alone with my thoughts for a moment now
As I float and stroke and glide
The noise of the surface is far away
All I see is feet and legs
Sunlight streaming landing on the ground
In glowing window shapes
Chaos at the surface when I emerge
Screaming splashing cannonballs
I can stand just about anywhere
Mom says I’m getting tall
But no matter how big and grown up I get
No matter how important or cool
I don’t think I could ever be too grown up
To swim at lions pool
They closed down the slide
The sky went gray and green
The wind and whistles blew
We stood cold and clutching our beach towels
Around the empty pool
Finally the loudspeaker told us to go home
And we convinced our dads
To take us out for pizza at Aurelios
Do you remember that?
I sometimes wonder what you’re doing now
I think youre probably something important and cool
I’m writing you this song from underwater now
Swimming at lions pool
Swimming at lions pool
Swimming at lions pool
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Andrew Robert Palmer Chicago, Illinois
I'm a regular guy doing a very small thing.
Chicago-based. Sometimes rock, sometimes folk.
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