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Gadzooks

by Doctor Ew

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1.
The house of many mansions has been put up for sale I'm told of all the parties I go through the garbage pails A bloody minded moon on high is all alone in a blackened sky ends will come and ends will go but our hands remain around each other's throats The captain jumped ship last night some say it was suicide A bloody minded moon on high is all alone in a blackened sky ends will come and ends will go but our hands remain around each other's throats
2.
There's a grey voice sounding 'round me Pressing on my shoulders But I don't believe it anymore I heard a whimper in its roar Yeah I'm gonna do it Dancing on top of my grave Gonna kick over my headstone Gonna goose ya on my walk home Don't care if I live or I die Just want to walk in the light Gonna dance all over my grave Felt it sit there at my bedside mocking all my heavy tears Now I see I let it in I won't make that mistake again Don't care if I live or I die Just want to walk in the light Gonna dance all over my grave You know, I've always kept my problems bottled up inside, alone one day I said "you can't really die of embarrassment" so if life leaves you behind - fuck it Gonna dance all over my grave
3.
Be A Dreamer 01:58
The city makes the stars so hard to see from my window but my heart, my heart can see them shining there they'll ask you to keep a special place in your heart be a dreamer a sky full of dreamers I'm always reaching out and when I start to doubt my choices and doubt myself I need some help Oh star of Bethlehem That's guided many lost men to the cradle to the graceful
4.
Oh for years I fought through with a jealous mind and wouldn't give a second thought to leaving them behind my way to paradise is looking in your eyes Now I know what I must do to be a man it's to help you when you're down and understand my way to paradise is looking in your eyes to be your man
5.
I'm not mad at you anymore You did what you had to do I'd be wise to do it too I'm not mad at you anymore You forgive but not forget your eyes convey a heavy debt I've played my last hand in this waiting game I'm not mad at you anymore You didn't mean to hurt me too you were doing what you knew I'm not mad at you anymore I know you really tried your best I know we all need forgiveness I've played my last hand in this waiting game
6.
God said things will come in plenty if you take good care of business and take care to live and I don't want to speak to job or take a peak beneath his robes I just do as the lord tells me I just do as the lord tells me The river is raging like a drunkard It'll over-take this land and drag it to the sea but I don't bother stocking up I always give the lord a cut I just do as the lord tells me I just do as the lord tells me One night, a ghost came by my bedside and said "You'll wake one morning and all you'll see is sand get out of this deal while you can". But I won't listen to a disgruntled ex-employee who goes round shaking chains and giving a hell of a scare maybe its a test of faith from now on I won't hesitate I just do as the lord tells me
7.
You must be tired by now of playing this game of watching yourself of chasing some future that won't stay in place stay in place stay in place Pain is the flight from pain We're running around and making our sounds we desire to catch what won't stay stay in place stay in place
8.
Clap your hands if you're happy and you know it clap your hands I know you really want to show it if you're happy and you know it clap your hands Cry boo-hoo if you want to cry, cry boo-hoo oh cry out, boo-hoo if you want to cry, cry boo-hoo These are just feelings that we go through Give a shake if you're happy and you know it, give a shake shout hooray if you want to shout, shout hooray oh shout out hooray if you're gonna shout, shout hooray These are just feelings that we go through
9.
There's riots in the street they want my head they say I've failed to secure their daily bread I raise up my perfumed sleeve can hardly bear this indignity they say I'm getting fat Boom bah bah, boom bah bah Hey chubba bubba, hey chubba bubba I open up my robe piss on the flames I got my divine right people to blame I'm not going to read that writ there's people paid here to give a shit They say I'm getting... I'm not my daddy and I'm not going ride in front so, the only rumblings I want to hear is one telling me that lunch is near they say I'm getting fat Hey chubba bubba, hey chubba bubba
10.
Oh, human history has taught one thing to me the codes of civility don't apply when dealing with the enemy we cower from the light and run into the night Job went to the desert to see why god was giving him such misery god said "Idiot, you created me" Job started crying hysterically a bad moon or a golden dawn we gotta keep keepin' on
11.
Where did all those good times go? there's blood around your doorstep seems that all those great ideas have twisted around our legs like vines and tripped us up and choked our minds Now there's no more space it's just face to face to face face to face face don't fear the reaper, I'm your man I'll take you to that burning sand Never thought I'd wind up here as official executioner please don't take it personal friend a job is a job, pay is pay and you're attached to what is going to roll away Now there's no more space It's just face face face face to face face though we may be far apart a bluebird sings in every heart
12.
Miles Away 02:18
Sometimes I'm miles away when I should be close to you and when we're that, that far away we can't hear each other say those tender words like I still love you and I do, I still love you I want to meet you dear way up on some lonely hill and hold you dear just let time do what it will please meet me here I'm calling out to you I do, I still love you Please meet me here I'm calling out to you I do, I still love you
13.
Bitter Fruit 01:55
I did not want the apple for the apple's sake if it had been forbidden, I would've bit the snake A choice between two roads but that won't make me budge If there's one thing that you taught me It's how to hold a grudge All along you've sewn these lies you told as truth now kindly would you reach down and reap this bitter fruit Ladies, gentlemen, I have nothing to hide
14.
Got a date at the city hall scheduled just after 4 don't forget your photo I.D. They'll know you're you, they'll know I'm me Yeah we made it now let's make it Let's make it legitimate Your mom don't want some bastard born now I'm waking up in the early morning it's getting tough and I'm getting scared but my dad told me you're never really prepared Yeah we made it now let's make it let's make it legitimate No one's going to throw rice at us they say the road that lies ahead is really tough but I love my baby and I love you baby

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"the dark pop of Dr. Ew's debut record, which is really melancholy but has this ambitious, orchestral aura about it. In places, it reminds me of Brian Wilson, fighting his demons to make a Beach Boys masterpiece that no one else understands. There's an endearing, gentle cheeriness about this whole affair, with plenty of special guests onhand to push the Doctor on through his pain in peppy bursts of driving rock, tender ballads, and timeless pop jams."
-- (CBC R3) Vish Khanna

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released November 4, 2010

Fuzzy Logic Recordings FLR-013


All songs written by Doctor Ew except "Dance All Over My Grave" written by Doctor Ew and Matt Beckett, and "No More Space" written by Doctor Ew and Andrew Scott

Mastered by Mike Kuehn
Mixed by Sandro Perri
Photos by David Waldman
Layout and design by Scott McFayden

Thanks to my family, friends, the Bicycles, the Elwins, lenders of equipment, all of the musicians who played on the record, Maria Bui, Sandro Perri, David Waldman, Mike Kuehn, Scott McFayden.

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