The Jeers
by The Jeers
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Brother
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Skinny Jeans
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Central Park Epiphany
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Deeper than Squid
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Three Pint Haze
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Lies of the West
03:44
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Up There
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Ironic and Alienated
02:15
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Tipsy Whirl
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about
The Jeers have a sound built on protest-folk and early punk, with a dose of 70s rock, grunge, and indie/alt-rock. This album brings together solid songs with social and political concerns, while never losing sight of the positive impact of a hard beat, a killer riff, and loud chorus.
We hope you like it!
We hope you like it!
credits
released 04 June 2011
All songs written by Daniel Jackson
Performances by The Jeers
Bass: L. Belanager
Drums: R. Innes
Guitar, Vocals: D. Jackson
Guitar: M. Matz
Recording Engineer: J. Jastremski
Mastering: Bova Sound, Ottawa Canada
All songs written by Daniel Jackson
Performances by The Jeers
Bass: L. Belanager
Drums: R. Innes
Guitar, Vocals: D. Jackson
Guitar: M. Matz
Recording Engineer: J. Jastremski
Mastering: Bova Sound, Ottawa Canada
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- Track Name: Brother
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i got another call that they put you in the lock up
then I go to pick you up
you got kicked out of the bar again
why'd you get kicked out of that bar again?
ah ah ah you are my
ah ah ah my Brother
hit the shower, and here's another set of clothes
don't forget your bloody nose
you always enter into my life this way
why do you come into my life this way?
ah ah ah you are my
ah ah ah my Brother
our mother didn't raise us wrong
taught us both to get along
but you can't predict the effect of booze:
some just grin, some just lose
if you're gone when I get up
don't forget to lock it up
i know someday you'll get it turned around
remember me when I was on the ground?
ah ah ah you'll always be
ah ah ah my Brother
our mother didn't raise us wrong
taught us both to get along
but you can't predict the effect of booze:
some just grin, some just lose - Track Name: Skinny Jeans
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this is a song about a girl named Claire
who was in with the out-crowd but didn't care
her father loved her the most
and her mother was a living ghost
just a child of fifteen
in a pair of skinny jeans
townhouse life was sometimes rough
and often she didn't have enough
nails chewed to the quick
ashes on her lip
living beyond her means
in a pair of skinny jeans
there was this boy she kissed
only once but it was bliss
if her father found out he would say:
pack your bags and go away
(where else would she stay?)
if you go to Bayshore mall
you'll see groups of girls, like Claire
who dream that they will find true love
among the boys that they see there
the hidden lives of teens
in pairs of skinny jeans - Track Name: Central Park Epiphany
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took the subway
to 72nd street
and saw the Dakota outside
it didn't seem real
Strawberry Fields
even when Yoko walked by
on our way
on that perfect day
in Central Park to hear Chuck D say:
don't fall asleep: wake up from your dream!
the Upper East Side is a vicious machine
and you must kill it with words that you scream
trees did surround
the rhythm of sound
the DJ with dreads did amaze
i felt as one
with my eldest son
so much to see and to praise
on that day
in our perfect way
we heard what political hip hop could say:
it woke me up, from my middle class dream:
i live in a country that's a killing machine
and we must stop it with words that we scream
we walked back in the rain
closer than we'd been - Track Name: Deeper than Squid
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you're asking what holds you up, breaks the cup, gives you a frown
you wanna know who's the one, makes you run, makes you feel down
all the day in many ways, sorrow comes and sorrow stays
it is me!
your blood-stained enemy
so round and round and round we spit
the orbit falls into the ocean and
it sinks deeper than squid
and no one ever learns to swim
you're leaving this world of pain, half-insane, at least your intact
you're trading a fantasy, absurdity, for the world of fact
in this way after today, your love for me will fall away
say goodbye
to a pernicious lullaby
so round and round and round we spit
the orbit falls into the ocean and
it sinks deeper than squid
and no one ever learns to swim
i wonder, when will the sun reach the one under the waves?
i never learned how to hear with my ear -- or how to behave
so all my days and many ways, sorrow comes and sorrow stays
so round and round and round we spit
the orbit falls into the ocean and
it sinks deeper than squid
and no one ever learns to swim - Track Name: Three Pint Haze
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he liked to sleep and then to dream
in there he never felt alone
a younger man with great belief
all the world's music in his room
and when he wakes up her spirit kisses him
he's still entangled in his dream
she always leaves him lovingly
on the zigzag of a moonbeam
in a dive in Guelph on a Friday
behind his kit
see him thrashing with RNR
in a tattooed fit
he plays...
while the guitar sways...
he plays...
in a three-pint haze
he liked to eat and then to read
in there he never felt alone
in Glasgow running from the law
on a day trip from his mind
and when the book is closed, its ethos follows him
through the mundane subway ride
it protects him from the shallow plot
of the workday's daily grind.
in a dive in Guelph on a Friday
behind his kit
see him thrashing with RNR
in a tattooed fit
he plays...
while the guitar sways...
he plays...
in a three-pint haze - Track Name: Lies of the West
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they're counting the ballots
applauding the system
yet one more ally
to say that we're with them
to follow the logic
forget education
that's just what blinds you
to the indoctrination
the Lies of the West
we cannot dispel
we corrupt our best
the remainder we sell.
in Colombia
they're quietly building
bases so that they
continue the killing
and stop the momentum
of a true people's movement --
things haven't changed
since I was student
the Lies of the West
we mouth even though
there are still untried guests
at Guantanamo
why can't we just leave others at peace?
we blast all our weapons
extrude all our culture
over diverse peoples
and dine there as vultures
and everyone's guilty
if you sit where I sit
if you buy what I buy
you are complicit
the Lies of the West
are hard to discern
if you live in the West
they're even harder to unlearn
why can't we just leave others at peace?
or tell the truth at least - Track Name: Up There
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when i'm inside i always feel at home in the world
what i describe is so unlike pride, i just look in their eye
in the thin air the world swirls around, a felicitous sound
and dance with the love on the lips of my favourite song
oh! the places that i've been, my god!
i'm just trying to tell you what they look like
in case you get there
in case you get there
they're in thin air
i hope i meet you up there
i try to extend the things that i do in the way i unfurl
an effortless blend, an open reveal of the facts that i feel
oh! the places that i've been, my god!
i'm just trying to tell you what they look like
in case you get there
in case you get there
they're in thin air
i hope i meet you up there
an orbit unchanged, i don't do this for you, and that may sound strange
yet we'll still collide, like rain to the earth and still keep our worth
oh! the places that i've been, my god!
i'm just trying to tell you what they look like
in case you get there
in case you get there
they're in thin air
i hope i meet you up there - Track Name: Ironic and Alienated
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you're faced with too much information
and you've got no time to pick through it all
so you lie, confused, in your bed so late
thinking about the many ways you could trip and fall
you don't know where to run
every house is locked and gated
you forgot how to have fun
IRONIC and ALIENATED
at least you have a job to pay the bills
and at least you have someone to keep you warm at night
but you keep on looking for the words between the lines
and the words between the lines are always printed white
you don't know where to run
cataleptic: your breath is bated
you forgot how to have fun
IRONIC and ALIENATED
don't blame your dear mother
don't blame your dear ol' pop
don't even blame the world around you
or none of this will stop
well you know just how to scramble up your brains
but do you know just how to simplify a thought?
if i were you, and i am, i'd stop collecting facts
that back the truth that life is mostly good for nought
you don't know where to run
every house is locked and gated
you forgot how to have fun
IRONIC and ALIENATED - Track Name: Tipsy Whirl
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coming to you in your earphones in stereo
sweet tasty treats baked in the studio
been making the music since i was in utero
no greater high than to hear it on the radio
i give it all to you
don't you know me yet?
i always sing the truth
i save my regret
for the world outside
with its crimson sky
i play long and i play fast to destroy a world
so everything just flies on past into a tipsy whirl
at this speed there is no creed or paralyzing thought
all the planet does recede into a tiny dot
creating alone, in isolation
choosing my notes in solemn calculation
i do it all for you
so that if we met
you'd have a grain of truth
to complete your set
hope i don't let you down
hope i'm still around
i play long and i play fast to destroy a world
so everything just flies on past into a tipsy whirl
at this speed there is no creed or paralyzing thought
all the planet does recede into a tiny dot
