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1.
Swinging, almost stars Singing, naming cars The maps don’t have no places So the spinning wheels won’t reach The distance doesn’t leave The maps are in their places And I’m gone, out of the way The summer’s coming down like The devil or a clown might Like a whisper you once borrowed Tell me mister, tell me more The dancing statue’s down The bastard moving clouds The letter’s got no pages In the shadows, morning sounds The answers echo round The letters and torn out phrases And I’m gone, out of the way Did you find the face you were making Hanging on the back of the door Tell me mister, tell me more
2.
Time, trickled through an hour glass Shine, shattered in the aftermath She’ll be waiting on me, planned my arrival Anticipating Lines, measured out and matching Drive, children of the morning She’ll be waiting on me, planned my arrival With a jar for the keys and a drawer for the Bible I check the pulse of my friends and kick the ignition Anticipating Miles, sliding in an instant Style, making up the distance She’ll be waiting on me, she’s been waiting awhile With a jar for the keys, she’s been waiting awhile I check the pulse of my friends but there’s no condition Anticipating Lies, told for no reason Cries, linger like the season
3.
Settled back inside the picture frame She’s drifting away again Evening’s tired and the city tastes like rain She’s changing her name again The hangers in this crowd All wear capes and sing aloud I’d have been a capital express Had she held her eye Caught against the conversation neck Had she held her side These hometown freaks Remind me of your cold red cheeks And how I like to miss and warm them Confessed the sheets and tore them Bought the pass and boarded And stepped out of the frame See my face when you’re walking around Tailored toward the understanding wave She’s coming up for air again Choreograph the summer ending fade She wouldn’t call them friends These October lies make our Minneapolis skies More inviting to everyone before them Confessed the sheets and tore them Bought the pass and boarded And stepped out of the frame In the morning, I like to miss and warm them Confessed the sheets and tore them Bought the pass and boarded And stepped out of the frame
4.
Then you’re tangled in your bed The night is crawling to the middle of the room Watching you soon It’s suspended in the air It’s not suspended in the air There’s no suspension anywhere Then you’re on a highway in the dark Desert’s laying in the middle of the road But you know It’s suspended in the air It’s not suspended in the air There’s no suspension anywhere In this contraption No wheels beneath the fractions As you’re moving in Your eyelids for a bend You’re slung against your friend As you’re moving in This place has left us behind
5.
Let’s pour the last of the wine And listen to missing tonight Let’s tell each other goodbye And be like the traffic outside Just cause you taste like you do I would trade places with you If you asked me to Let’s answer questions tonight And lay to rest unsettled minds Let’s take the shields from our skins And watch them get lost in the wind All of the valentines you’ve never seen Won’t let you ask that of me
6.
Salt Off 03:25
I have seen sailors Compete with each other For love and attention For a look in their direction For someone to lick the salt off I have seen sailors Arms locked like brothers Cry home to their mothers Pour beers on each other And cry out for Zeppelin Always for Zeppelin Cover the night away Drunk with no place to stay Shelter is never enough Here in the hurricane Somebody else’s rain Isn’t the same as it was Lick the salt off

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released August 27, 2021

Produced by Bicentennial Drug Lord
Recorded and Mixed by Alan Weatherhead in Richmond, VA
Mastered by Justin Perkins at Mystery Room Mastering
All songs written by Daniels/Donner/Weatherhead
© and ℗ 2021 BDL Music; Under license to vfibrecordings
Cover design by DishDesign
Cover photo “4th of July, Mpls 1995” by Dan Monick
Band photos by Mark Cherek

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Bicentennial Drug Lord Milwaukee, Wisconsin

BDL gets the details right. Big choruses, subtle songwriting, indie pop in places with a dose of 70’s rock. Summer’s coming down. Based in Milwaukee, WI, Bicentennial Drug Lord was formed by longtime friends John Daniels (Soda, Maki), Rick Donner (Punchdrunk) and Alan Weatherhead (Soda, Maki, Sparklehorse, Hotel Lights). ... more

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