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Song And Dance Man

by Jason Collett

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1.
Provincial Blues 02:40
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I came to the city When the city was cheap Now that she’s had some work done I pay through the teeth You came from Alberta You said “Toronto’s not so bad” I took it as a compliment But I couldn’t think of a compliment back It’s just the wheels rolling by It’s just the wheels rolling by Honey we all get hypnotized By the times sometimes Honey we all get left behind By the times sometimes You went and told your mother She went and told your dad That’s how your older brother Came to kick my ass He threatened me with New York He said “all that provincial shit’s a drag” How come there’s always a better party That I think I should be at? It’s just the wheels rolling by It’s just the wheels rolling by Honey we all get hypnotized By the times sometimes Honey we all get left behind By the times sometimes
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Song And Dance Man 02:07
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Forever Young Is Getting Old 03:14
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Sermons written in stones In needlepoint framed on your Bathroom wall in your country home Sooth saying tongues of old Little prayers you collected from Little antique stores while on the road Forever young is getting old Still restless well wouldn’t you know It was easy come and easy go Now there’s no easy road Still reckless and it’s starting to show Would that it could be so easy Finding my way to your door Forever young is getting old Still restless well wouldn’t you know It was easy come and easy go Now there’s no easy road
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Long Day's Shadow 02:51
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The day is getting on And the sun set shadow Grows long First glass of wine In the sunset shadow Turns on the light Leaving a long day’s arrow To take flight Sometimes you burn so bright In the moonshine shadow You burn out the night Leaving a long day’s shadow Behind It’s been a long day A long day’s shadow
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Little Sparrow 02:22
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Broken heart strings strum While the broken arrow bangs the drum Come on little sparrow Come on little sparrow I know you know you can fly Dancing on the point of a star You’re gonna fall so far Come on little sparrow Come on little sparrow I know you know you can fly Is it possible the kid’s a natural? Is it possible that the kid’s a natural?
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If She Don't Love Me Now 03:01
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Shoot the moon pull down the stars If she don’t love me now Pretty soon I’ll be packing my heart If she don’t love now Curse her big brown eyes If she don’t love me now I’ll be crying inside If she don’t love me now Let there be no shadow of doubt If she don’t love me now God damn the wine if it don’t make her ne If she don’t love me now I’ll be left in the cold tonight If she don’t love me now I lost the battle and I’ll lose the war If she don’t want me anymore I’ll be falling on my own sword If she don’t love me now Let there be no shadow of doubt If she don’t love me now
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Singing American 03:17
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RnB on the BBC Blue eyed stars on NPR Detroit dreams across the sea Where Motown meets Mercy Beat Look at all the English girls singing American soul Look at all the English girls singing American soul You came from Northern streets but you bleached your teeth When you were voted best at South by Southwest Short hand soul thin white rock n roll With jukebox dreams of the land of the free Look at all the English boys singing American soul Look at all the English boys picking American banjo Further up and farther in we all wanna sing in American Further up and farther in we all wanna sing in American We all wanna sing in American
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Love You Babe 02:41
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Smell the roses taste the wine Try not to drink too much tonight Love you babe Zip up your dress damn you look ne Zip off your dress cause you changed your mind Love you babe Across the room you catch my eye I stir for you every time What can I say? Love you babe You like to eat you like to talk You hate to lose when we play cards Love you babe You like to dance kick off your shoes Turn it up shake your hair loose Love you babe You got a temper but I can take it You’re not as tough as your reputation I know just where you ache Love you babe All lit up on a Tuesday night A hard day deserves another bottle of wine So you say It’s so hard to deny you I don’t ever want to deny you Love you babe Lets go to bed before we ght Hold your body close to mine So I can love you babe Love you babe
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Black Oak Savanna 02:18
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Good night Irene Oh Suzanna don’t cry for me I’m going to California I’ll see you in my dreams In Black Oak Savanna Black Oak Savanna I rode into town On a Sunday Black tie and tails On a donkey I road into town With a banjo on my knee Those times were kinda funky In Black Oak Savanna Black Oak Savanna When I left the prairies I headed east I was a stranger then In the city of trees In Black Oak Savanna Black Oak Savanna
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Where Does Your Love Go? 02:50
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We can’t take it anymore We say it all the time We can’t take it anymore But we’re sure taking our time Where does our love go? Child of the Seventies Born without shame When sex sold out the century Our bodies fell from grace Where did the love go? Where does your love go?
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Nobody's Fool 02:34
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Laying on the couch with all your books stacked on high Your boots on the coffee table and graf ti on your mind Should you go to the supermarket and get some groceries? Or put it off to tomorrow and nish the last of the white burgundy? And you’re cruel like your mamma You’re cool like your dad Schooled by your older brother But you’ll have none of that You’re nobody’s fool but your own Waiting for money to fall from the tree Wondering where you got off Following your dreams It’s hard being poor in the lap of luxury And a drag having to hustle With your pedigree And you’re cruel like your mamma You’re cool like your dad Schooled by your older brother But you’ll have none of that You’re nobody’s fool but your own Monday Tuesday Wednesday’s child Thursday Friday Saturday’s child Sunday’s child is good and gay We’re all in a hurry to catch up these days Wednesday’s child is full of woe But you’re nobody’s fool but your own
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It Don't Matter Anymore 03:09
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It don’t matter anymore Who’s keeping score Nobody wins When the hurtin’ songs begin I’m too tired tonight I’m too tired to ght I’m too tired to try To make you feel like Everything will be alright It don’t matter anymore The sinner or the sin Or which direction The wind is blowing in There’s no light There’s no light Left in your eyes And no time left to change your mind It don’t matter anymore It don’t matter anymore You know it’s the end So let the hurtin’ songs begin
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Staring At The Sun 03:06
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Fishing in the sea of song Sometimes stormy sometimes calm Sometimes nothing gets done And you’re under the gun Staring at the sun I’ve been sitting here for days Humming it over every way I get a tune in my head Every day you wake up in my bed Staring at the sun So long as the day is long I might as well hum along Some get lucky some are charmed I try not to work too hard Staring at the sun

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“Song And Dance Man”, the title track from Jason Collett’s sixth full-length album, finds the iconic singer-songwriter back at centre stage, with three-minutes-and-change and a story to sing. Featuring the bright production touch of Bahamas’ Afie Jurvanen, “Song And Dance Man” covers the trials and triumphs of the modern musician with poignant poetry:

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Song And Dance Man’s thirteen songs bear the wit and melody of classic Jason Collett: contemplative reflections on getting older, backed with an affinity for freewheeling 70s dance music. The album’s conspiring themes of love & loneliness, sun & shadows, are buoyed by its soaring sound. Each song rises into an easy, spacious groove, lead by Jason’s languid melodies and Afie’s sun-drunk bass.

“There’s a cool economy to Afie’s approach that lets the record breathe and allows it to say more with less, something I worked hard at hardly working at in writing the songs,” says Collett. “Keeping a light touch, keeping it short.”

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released February 5, 2016

PERSONNEL: Christine Bougie, Don Kerr, Afie Jurvanen with Doug Paisley and Neil Quin

Design and layout: Robyn Kotyk

We acknowledge the financial support of Canada’s private radio broadcasters.

We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage (Canada Music Fund).

Made possible with the support of the Ontario Media Development Corporation.

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Jason Collett is a Toronto-based Canadian singer-songwriter. He has released four solo albums, and is a member of Broken Social Scene. His latest album, Song & Dance Man, was released in February, 2016.

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