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Marcy Playground
Marcy Playground (1997)
My name is John Wozniak and I sing and write\nthe songs for Marcy Playground. During the late\n70's I lived with my family in Minneapolis and\nwentto the Marcy Open School. It was one in a\ngroup of experimental hippie schools that had\nopened in Minneapolis at the start of the decade.\nI was seven, and more or less a shy kid. I would\nsit in the back of the classroom, listen to records,\nand play with the guinea pigs; I never hurt anyone.\nDuring that time, there were some kids who\nwanted to beat me up; real mean kids from my\nneighborhood. When it came time in the day for\nrecess I was too afraid to go out onto the\nplayground because I knew these kids were\nwaiting for me. So I stayed upstairs in the\nclassroom, looked out of the window, and\nlistened to "Free To Be You and Me." From the\nwindow Icould see the whole playground and\neveryone on it. Everything happening at once. I\nmade up stories about what I saw, and who I\nsaw. Although theexperience was ultimately\ndepressing, I found within it a foundation fora\nfuture self. The strange way in which I see the\nworld today can be directly traced back to the\ntime when, as a little boy, I sat paralyzed by the\nunfortunate realities of life as I looked out of a\nschool window anddown onto the Marcy\nPlayground. \n\nIn a strange bit of coincidence, Dylan Keefe was\nalso growing up in the Minneapolis "open" school\nsystem at that very time. We never met though,\nsince he attended Marcy's sister school on the\nother side of town - The Lake Harriet Open\nProgram. It wasn'tuntil 16 years later that we\nwould meet on New York City's Lower East\nSide, introduced by a mutual friend (jazz guitarist\nKurt Rosenwinkel). We became fast friends.\nSoon we were talking about starting a new band.\nAfter a brief stint playing with several drummers,\nwe realized that Dylan's long-time friend, Dan\nReiser, would be better suited for our band than\nanybody else. Dan and Dylan, who began playing\ntogether seven years ago ata college in Boston,\nhad both moved to New York to pursue lives in\nmusic. Together, they formed the core rhythm\nsection for many successful NYC\nsinger/songwriters. By the time we got together,\nboth were weary of the "side-man" gig, and\nwanted to strike out with a band of their own YEAR: 1997
This rock cd contains 12 tracks and runs 34min 41sec.
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- Marcy Playground - Poppies (02:49)
Long long ago in China I'm told\nTo England was traded some tea\nAnd so sealed the fate\nIn pieces of eight\nAll England and all of the world\nYeah...poppies\n\nWhen soon his majesty sent soldiers and thieves\nTo Indiasearching for gold\nInstead from the - Marcy Playground - Sex And Candy (02:53)
Hangin' round downtown by myself\nAnd I had so much time\nTo sit and think\nabout myself\nAnd then there she was\nLike double cherry pie\nYeah there she was\nLike disco superfly\nI smell sex and \ncandy here\nWho's that lounging \nin my chair\nWho's that - Marcy Playground - Ancient Walls Of Flowers (03:16)
Ancient walls of flowers tumblin' down\nBlack cat petals and a smiling clown\nI like to keep them in \na jar beside\nJust enough to mess my mind inside\nBut I never heard you callin' from the sun\nDid you ever care to shoot your silver gun\nNo I never hea - Marcy Playground - Saint Joe On The School Bus (03:20)
Saint Joe he said he's never been\ndressed up like a woman\nSaint Joe they said your dad is gay\nThey said your mom\nshe's a whore They said it 'til you \nwere raw They said your mom \nshe's a bore They made her beg \nthem for more My Aunt Mary\nAunt Mary - Marcy Playground - A Cloak Of Elvenkind (02:59)
A cloaking robe of elvenkind\nhangs in my wardrobe behind\nAll those things that mother\nsaid were proper for a boy\nAnd I know I could not say why\nOn this summer evening\nSixteen books on magic spells\nstacked below the cloak of elves\nAnd sixteen books - Marcy Playground - Sherry Fraser (02:50)
Oo I saw stars falling all\naround her head\nRed, gold, and blue\nSherryFraser where are you\n'Cause I saw stars falling\nall around your head\nWhen we were young\n\nSherry Fraser where have you gone\nWe're all wondering\nWhen will you come back\nAnd play - Marcy Playground - Gone Crazy (02:45)
Come back and be\nCome back for free\nCome back and stay child\nHave yougone crazy\nMolly, it must be fine\nIt seems so dreamy to be sublime\nMolly has gone to Spain\nHas gone with Venus to watch the rain\n\nAnd it seems that's not the place where you bel - Marcy Playground - Opium (03:07)
Blue like water\nBlue like heaven is \nall of the time\nI'm all right\nI'm just gagging on all the all right\nI'm so happy\nSo happy\nI'm in heaven\nYeah heaven\nOh the season+s come for opium\nMom...mom\nMom...mom\nI'm so happy\nSo happy\nI'm in heaven\n - Marcy Playground - One More Suicide (02:39)
Christopher O' Malley\nwent out on a bridge\nDown in Chehalis\nAnd clutching his bible\nand a letter from her\nFell into the river\nPity no one was there\nNo angels in the air\nAnd the morning paper ran\nOne more suicide\n\nHis mama stayed by\nthe river s - Marcy Playground - Dog And His Master (02:12)
Hey little boy \nsee the Johnny and Janes\nHey little boy\nyou see them all go insane\nLook and see Spot run\n'Cause he pissed in their hallway\nRun Spot run\nRun away from it all\nAnd I say you can be anyway that you wanna be\nHow I'll be, that's up to m - Marcy Playground - The Shadow Of Seattle (02:48)
Rain\nLike tin angels falling\ndown\nLike a mission and we're\nhalfway there\nFrom some old dried up \nfried forgotten town\nWhy\nWon't they let us be ourselves\nWith our potential we\ncould toe the line\nAnd show the bastards up \nwith our divine\nLight\ - Marcy Playground - The Vampires Of New York (02:55)
Come see the vampires of New York\nCome lose your mind in Central Park\nBut don't leave your soul behind\nCome take in 8th street after dark\nSuch peculiar people you'll remark\nYou might even see a murder\n\nAnd all the whores on Bleecker Street\\nThey w
