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First single off the upcoming album, "Penny Picture Show" a weird, rootsy, experimental collection of narrative songs adventuring through the streets of classic Hollywood. Loosely based in the setting of Ray Bradbury's "A Graveyard for Lunatics."
Out August 18th, 2023!
lyrics
Tommy was a brawler in the Penny Picture Show
Fighting cardboard cutouts, saving women made of straw
Every day at work he'd throw his fists of fallacy
And every night he's throwing back quarter-fifths J&Bs
Tommy he'd wear a bowler and make all the ladies swoon
But he's just another pug-nosed pugilist, promising them the moon
And he'd say we all have our roles to play
The gin soaked cameramen, they're setting up the shots
And the late-night hairdressers, they're out making lipstick love
The lighting crew, they're rigging something for tomorrow's fairy tale
The writers' room, they're drinking something to craft the dialogue
The bookkeeper, he's in the corner shuffling digits and decimals around
Seeing just how many more pictures they can make
The director, he's out on the cutting floor
He's got a glass of burgundy
He's going over today's takes
It's just another day
At the Penny Picture Show
Lucy, she was a dancer at the Penny Picture Show
She loved to play the black dressed femme fatale
She could smoke long cigarettes on stage
And go on and on and on and on and on
With coy cliches
But usually they'd just have her do the same routine
She'd be wearing next to nothing
Sipping dry martinis
Dreaming about Paris in the rain
She'd say, we all have our roles to play
The gin-soaked cameramen, they're setting up the shots
While the late-night hairdressers, they're out making lipstick love
The lighting crew, they're rigging something or other for tomorrow's fairy tale
The writers' room, they're drinking something
They say it's for the dialogue
While the bookkeeper, he's over in the corner
Shuffling decimals and digits into different columns
To see just how many more pictures they can make
While the director, he's out on the cutting floor
He's got a glass of burgundy
He's going over today's takes
It's just another day
At the Penny Picture Show
Charlie was a writer at the Penny Picture Show
Pulling heroes out the air, saving scripts from the grave
He'd lie in wait to see what kind of thoughts came through the door
But usually it was just somebody else looking for his key to the liquor drawer
So Charlie, he'd go out and get some ice and fill the glasses to the top
Then put paper into his machine and wait for those ghosts to come
He'd say, we all have our roles to play
Yeah, we all have our roles to play
It's just another day at the Penny Picture Show
credits
released July 14, 2023
Music & Words by K. Edward Smith
Mixed & Mastered by Brandon R. Williams
Performed by K. Edward Smith
Upright Bass Performed by Aren Winebrenner
Additional Keys and Guitar Performed by Brandon R. Williams
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