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Live at UMBC - Oct 17 2002

by Mike Roy

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Ethics and Other Things (free) 06:11
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The make-up’s caked upon The sliding dress a long frame Is hanging Breathe out loud Cracks at your foot The snake smiles assuring you You’re fine The moment’s tinted grey And in the crowded streets you Sway The question in your nerves That’s lit Assures you’ve found no answer Fit But the questions are gone so quick Into this haze that growing Oh so thick And you want it so unstable, But you hate it when it shakes So close to worn thin Far passed worn in Almost bending until you break And I don’t have to prove it to you That most of their smiles are fake But you want it so unstable But you hate it when it shakes You want it so unstable But you hate it when it shakes
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I Can't Believe You (free) 11:27
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This has gone on way too long She said to him kneeling Here’s my leaving song This must break hard to start healing But I can’t believe you I never thought I could If your own wounds don’t grieve you How do you think mine ever could? Given the power you should be leading You swore you’d remain strong Breathy words you keep repeating Sweaty hands keep rubbing raw But I can’t believe you I see it in your eyes If words this sweet deceive you You must train yourself to see the lies She kissed him once on his forehead She whispered in his ear The she moved towards the doorway And commenced to disappear I can’t believe you Screams his heart still pounding fast I swore I’d never leave you And you swore that this would last Wasted faceless piles of jargon Need bigger pipes or we will clog Adjust the ramrod in your back and keep marching Into this dampening history fog But I can’t believe you You’re much too much involved And nothing can relieve you This knot’s been tied for way too long Way too long… Born to die, born to be nothing Born for no reason at all Raise the flag you fly of treason Purse your lips and raise the call But I can’t believe you You understand the lightening Cause you’ve seen from where it came But you’ve never seen that it’s much more frightening The cracking mast, you loose the main... And oh this rain And oh this rain And oh this rain And oh this rain

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I'm only putting up two songs from this night. They are special in that this was the only time they were ever performed AND that night at dinner just before the show, I scribbled out the chords for Jeff on a napkin, and Drew had never heard them before... just flying by the seat of our pants... we didn't even have a single rehearsal (as I had been living in TN since August) and you can feel that in the recording. The other songs we played didn't have the same transcendent quality. They were songs from the "Roy" album that we had recorded earlier that year.

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released May 2, 2011

Mike Roy - guitar, singing
Drew Thiemann - drums
Jeff Conlin - Roland JX through a tube preamp, then a Dan-Echo pedal, then a Leslie

Jeff Conlin recorded this on his mini-disc recorder with a single stereo mic (if I'm not mistaken)

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Born outside of DC, raised in MD, college in Baltimore, made a record there, moved to TN, wrote a record there, moved back to MD recorded 2nd record, went on tour, met future wife in NC, moved to RI for two weeks, went back to DC to meet up with future wife, moved to NC, married wife, had 3 kids, finished 4th solo album called Mike & Eileen Chapter One. ... more

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