Oh, Yola

from You Were Here by The Redactors

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Oh, Yola

yeah you lived here before me
you'll be here when I'm gone
if I were you I'd ignore me
if you were me you'd move on

I am a thoroughly post-postmodern man
and everything I love and ridicule
Is all that I am
the exquisite dullness of my day to day
is matched only by the scope of my dreams
and Yola my ego is coming apart at the seams

pit bulls and barbeques
these sidewalks are yours
and mine they never will be
the hydrant is open again and I'm soaked to my knees

oh, Yola
compro la
It's the most luxurious prison in the world
passing time at the station
single ride ticket in hand
parallel destinations-
Via Vespucci or Borinquen?

we'll swarm all the benches
like lions at the zoo
we'll package our lives of ambition and sighs
it's a trial for some, but we do what we do
our wallet's our voice
and we've made the choice
to keep ourselves shouting in squalor
and somebody runs to the bank
every time that we holler

potholes and motor clubs
the adventistas
never were singing for me
the hydrant is open again and I'm soaked to my knees

Oh, Yola
I'm losing control
in the most luxurious prison in the world

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from You Were Here, released January 22, 2012
Featured Vocals- Meryl Williams
Drums- Jim Archer
Everything Else- Zach Stamler

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Redactors is the recording project of Portland based musician/producer Zach Stamler (Ed and the Red Reds, King Twang, My Sister in 1994). More music coming? Maaaaybe...

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