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Allegory! Allegory!

from Sunshine by The Lives of Famous Men

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Los Angeles eyes, gather
your alibis and
ready yourself for the drive.
Pronounce your bones,
and into the cab.
The district’s a vampire for
your photograph.

The drug’s on its way,
the ransom is there,
it’s marching in playbills down
the thoroughfare.
They’re thinning your blood
and breaking your back.
So tell what it’s like when you write
high demand.

This is a new kind of vaudeville.
Perform, now elevate your heel.
Goddamn!
The gallows, the theatre house!
They’re alive!

Vacant eyes,
creased in a pin-up:
the caveat, yeah but no one
is listening.
You’ve a voice to
euphemize the war, but that’s
not what we’re paying for.

And you may have the radio,
but you won’t move mountains
with the frequencies, will you?

credits

from Sunshine, released December 15, 2009
Written and performed by The Lives of Famous Men: Daniel Hall, Ari Katcher, Dylan Mandel, Andrew Totemoff, Jason Wahto. Words by Daniel Hall. Additional performance by James Paul Wisner.

Daniel: voice
Ari: guitar
Dylan: drums, percussion
Andrew: bass
Jason: keys
James: guitar, keys

Produced and engineered by James Paul Wisner at Wisner Productions, St Cloud, FL. Mixed by James Paul Wisner at Plush Studios, Winter Springs, FL. Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music, New Windsor, NY.

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The Lives of Famous Men

Hailing from Alaska and based primarily in Los Angeles, The Lives of Famous Men draw on wide ranging musical traditions to create a sound all their own. This unique brand of art-pop makes for a danceable live performance that’s landed them on stages from MTV’s Campus Invasion Tour to Jimmy Kimmel Live! Their new album Greener Pasture Blues is out now. ... more

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