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Sat on the porch / Watched the telephone wires
Throwing sticks in the yard / I’d like to light the whole place on fire Made me a drink / Now I’m watching the ice cubes dismember
If this city burns down / I wonder if I will remember I lived here

Built me a wall / I’d like to hide out behind it
Break my guitar / Put it where no one can find it
And when the war begins / I’ll be up high in my tower
Contemplating original sin
Throwing sticks o’er the wall at the top of each hour

And watching the masses / Huddled below
Darling young lasses with faces aglow
As they gather the willows / Tie them with lashes
Lighting the torches to burn me to ashes

And if your name was Woodrow / And my name was Katherine
Would we still be sitting here / Hopped up on aspirin?
And smoking our cigarettes / Drinking our whiskey
Each wondering, will the good lord e'er forgive me

When the walls, when the walls come tumbling down
When the walls, when the walls come tumbling down
When the walls, when the walls come tumbling down
When the walls come tumbling down
When the walls
When the walls come tumbling down

And if I told you I loved you
Would I be a liar?
And would you light the match
For my crematory fire?
And if you had a trumpet
Would you raise it to your lips?
Would you blow?

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from Day Laborers and Petty Intellectuals, released October 3, 2013

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Day Laborers and Petty Intellectuals Seattle, Washington

Day Laborers and Petty Intellectuals is a six-piece folk-apocalypse band from Seattle, WA, featuring cello, violin, theremin, bucket drumming, and four-part harmonies, not to mention heartfelt songs about love, life, and the end of the world. DL&PI has been bringing their cacophonous blend of indie rock, folk, punk, country, and jazz to the barrooms and bedrooms of the Puget Sound since 2012. ... more

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