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Don't Blame it on the City

from Let's Make it a Party by Burnside

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Don’t Blame it on the City

Years ago
You swore the lights were shining brighter, now the city’s darker every single day
And all them colors — from our luminescent youth
Painted over, now everything is gray

CHORUS:
Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, baby
But the lights they shine just like they — used to
It’s just you’re no longer flying like a moth to the flame
You’re crawling careful underground where they — can’t find you

Don’t blame it on the city
‘Cause it ain’t her fault — it ain’t her fault (not this time)
Don’t blame it on the city
‘Cause she gave you all you needed when you gave her all you had
Don’t blame it on the city — this time

All your old haunts
Taken over by these strangers who don’t know the way that things here used to be
And you’re alone there
Sharing drinks with all these ghosts of people who never died, they all just moved away

CHORUS REPEATS

This is ain’t your city
This ain’t my city
But she breathes our life and if ya hold on tight
You might not drown tonight

You can try to tell her tale
Understand her, but you’ll fail
And the moment that you think you know
She’ll take it all away...

On your arrival
You felt the torrents of the streets nearly knock you back to where you’d just begun
But you stood upright
Dusted off and looked upon chaos, said bring it on, but now you’re not so sure

CHORUS REPEATS

credits

from Let's Make it a Party, released June 27, 2019
Jason Berkman: Drums
Nash Weber: Lead Guitar
Jeanna Collet: Vocals
Andros Howes: Bass
Evan Wiig: Vocals, Keys, Songwriting

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Burnside Sebastopol, California

In the western hills of Sonoma County, Burnside ignited from funky bassline groves born of Dixie, slick beats from a beekeeping yogi, and a motley repertoire of original songs that tell the journey from city streets to country roads, of anxious agrarians in search of home, yearnings for a better world and of a goat who thinks it's a sheep. Americana, modern rock, soul, funk, indie and more. ... more

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