Feature: Thomas Johnson (#3)
I feel like this one is probably the new album’s ‘single’. I know it’s been played on WWOZ some lately. Definitely has some of my favorite lyrics.
ALSO: last-minute announcement that we’ll be playing BEFORE the Krewe de Vieux parade, right here in the Marigny this Saturday (2/19/11). Come party with me (us!) before I hit the road for Baton Rouge!
ALSO: shout out to John Tracy for killin’ it with us at Prytania’s last night! Talk about doing a great job on short notice! Yes!
‘Dauphine’.
Well we got no money
Down on Dauphine
And we play on the street for groceries
And play on stage for free
And we’ll spend our time worrying
How to keep it all alive
And if we lose this music
We’re gonna lose our minds
Cause it’s a separate mentality
A loss of control
A conflicted reality
Is all we have ever known
And I walk these old streets
And pass the bars of time
Let the walls dance around me
And the daylight close its eyes
Let Miss Orleans please tell me
That my heart is not a stone
And the eyes of my lover
Will never leave me alone
Cause it’s a separate mentality
A loss of control
A conflicted reality
Is all we have ever known
Well these people have found something
That no one will ever hold
And it can’t be bought by a rich man
For any weight of gold
And it’s preached high up on the mountain
It can’t be written in the news
And any man can take it
All he has to do is choose
Cause it’s a separate mentality
A loss of control
A conflicted reality
Is all we have ever known
