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I Got An Idea
02:26
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I Got An Idea
I Got An Idea
I Got An Idea
I Got An idea
And It's gonna sound a little far fetched
Unfold you imagination let it stretch
Put on your glasses take a look at the sketch
I Got A Design
I Got A Design
I Got A (wild) Design
I Got A Design
And I know it's the design of the times
It's very simple and completely streamlined
Read all about it in tomorrows headlines
Is this how Edison Felt
Is this how Edison felt
Is this how (Tom Alva) Edison felt
is this how Edison felt
In his studio down in Menlo Park
When his light bulb lit up the dark
You can turn the world on with a little spark
I Got An Idea
I Got An Idea
I Got An Idea
I Got An idea
I Got An Idea
I Got An Idea
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YOU, you know you look so pretty
You make me smile
And I try to be witty and you smile
You know we're just kinda GIDDY tonight
ME, I'll bring my key to the city
I'll fly your kite
Above the rain and humidity
And we will glow from this electricity tonight
And it is such a pity
Thanks everyone can't feel this way,
It's sad (so sad) but somehow I can't weep.
Our days can be weak on levity
But what can we do, what can we say
Tonight, we're gonna lose some sleep
LA LA's
And when you hear this ditty
You won't be wrong to sing along
It'll be (we'll be) so harmonious
And as we pass through eternity
and we decompose in each others clothes
It won't end
We'll make love in the dust
OUR love, can be a threat to society
But we get off on a minor technicality
I'm crazy for you so I'll just plead insanity tonight
Yeah, you you know you look so pretty
You make me smile
And I try to be witty and you smile
You know we're just kinda GIDDY tonight
WE are just kinda giddy tonight.....
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3. |
Minimum Day
03:06
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Minimum Day
I Need A Minimum Day
I Need A Minimum Day
I'm bored of education and the PTA
I need a Minimum Day
I've been working too much
I've been working too much
Im just a little kid, an innocent child
I should be treated as such
I don't like Mr. A
I don't care for Mrs. B
I SEE you went to Yale
But that doesn't mean you're any smarter than me.
OH SNAP>>>>>>>>>>
This building feels like a jail
This classroom feels like a jail
it doesn’t make sense
it’s the same difference
if i pass or if i fail
I need a minimum day
I need a minimum day
Take your science and your history
and f-fade away
I need a minimum day
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4. |
She's So Mid-Century
03:03
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Well she’s a real case study
With a feminine mystique
She reads Jack Kerouac
She’s an amphetamine freak
Well she purrs like Ann-Margret
She’s Grace Kelly cool
With her Virginia Slim cigarette
She’s breakin’ all the rules
She’ll blow your mind before it’s time
And never bother to explain
Just where she goes no one knows
She’s off on another plane
(Ch)
Cuz she’s so mid-century
A stone cold mystery
She gonna re-write history
She's So Mid-Century
She's got an oral fixation
With her princess telephone
She'll bang the Beat Generation
And then you’re gone Daddy gone
She's got all the Wright angles
And all the Wright curves
She digs the Jazz and Bossa Nova
On Blue Note and Verve
(Pre-Ch)
Ya can’t figure out what she’s all about
But man, she’s got a hold on you
She don’t tick like the other chicks
She's 50 years overdue
(Ch)
Yeah she’s so mid-century
A stone cold mystery
She gonna re-write history
She's So Mid-Century
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5. |
The Last Revolution
05:23
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I don't recall who wrote that song
But it's a time, I'll always remember
I heard the snaps and the crackles with my pop
And I swore that I would never join a record club
That would have someone like me as a member
I like to let my boot heels wander when I shop
I was born in '45, turned 33 in '78
and I subscribe to life and Billboard
Now I find myself down in the basement
With my turntable near the cassette tapes
Walk up the stairs, turn out the light and shut the door
(chorus)
Yeah, so I'm swayed by the public opinion
I accept that it's a forgone conclusion
Just an equal, opposite reaction
I am waiting for The Last Revolution
Now I'm an addict who can't find a needle
I'm the man with the golden arm
They'll say we walked that dinosaur to extinction
And that's how it went
But I need something to grab on to
Not a jewel case without any charm
The fall leads in to the winter of my compact discontent
I had the blues when I sold my jazz
And the soundtracks I heard all my life
I would've cried if I had no self control
Then they gave me ten cents for my Billion Dollar Babies
and flipped through my R&B
I Know what it feels like to be selling my soul.
(Chorus)
Yeah, so I'm swayed by the public opinion
I accept that it's a forgone conclusion
Just an equal, opposite reaction
I am waiting for The Last Revolution
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6. |
Back Door Man
03:22
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You're in or you're out or
You're somewhere else in between
You say it's a lock
But I know it's only a screen
There's two sides to every story
I suppose sometimes there's even more
You can stand in this line in all your glory
While I'm sneaking in the backdoor
yeah I'll be sneaking in the back door
You can show all your cards to the security guards
I'll be creeping through the back door
I feel like a spy with a double dose of intelligence
Don't make a racket
It's a quiet game of confidence
Well you can become one with nature
While I will decorate the interior
Put one hand on the knob, squeeze, then a flick of the wrist
And place one foot in the back door (it's easy)
One food in the back door.
Just undo the hinges, because everything hinges
on getting in through that door
You say that things won't ever change
That the door will never be ajar
Well things have happened that are even stranger
Thant's what I say I'm GARY CALAMAR
It's time to follow me.
I won't end up behind bars
'Cause all is fair in business, love and war
Well there's a right place
And there's a right time
And there is the back door
Yeah then there is the back door
If you wanna get paid look past the barricade
and focus on the back door
Just think about the back door
Will I see you in the back ?
I'm a back door man.
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Gary Calamar Los Angeles, California
Gary Calamar, who is well known in the music business as a music supervisor (True Blood, Dexter, House), Radio DJ (88.5fm
KCSN), and author (Record Store Days) has added another title to his resume: singer-songwriter-rocker !
Calamar’s debut ep “You Are What You Listen To” will be released digitally on Atlantic Records on 10/14/14.
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