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Wild Was Our Mercy

by Flatfoot

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1.
Blueblood 02:08
There's a part that yields to green pleasant fields And a part that grows amidst these neon rows. There's a part that screams apocalyptic dreams And a part that knows time is half repose. So I’ll be on my best behavior I won't see anyone until the day I die. I’ll be my own ward and jailer But I’ll go to heaven without a tear in my eye. So if there's anything I can do for you Let me know. To be tapped on the shoulder by a blue blooded soldier Is a gift from the time when fruit clung to the vine. And I don't know but I heard it whispered lowly Gentry is only a trick of the mind. So I’ll be on my best behavior And I won't heed anything but these visions in the sky. I’ll be my own lord and savior But I’ll go to heaven without a spear in my side. Baby don’t you think I want what's best for both of us? Baby don't you think I want what's best for all of us? So if there's anything I can do for you Let me know.
2.
I only step out with you but you’re never around I only step out with you but you’re never around And I know I’m just your pale dog And it always gets me down Hey, bridge and tunnel I know they Call you trouble but They don’t see you the way that I do We’re tougher than them As we’ve always been I’ve got a feeling that we walk right through I’ve got my island life and I don’t mind at all There’s only room for you But you’re never around I only go out with you but you’re never around I only go out with you but you’re never around And I know I’m just your pale dog And it always brings me down I know you work too hard And the tension in your hands is to blame On all the others But when the sky splits seams The rain ends you and me in a flame That never gutters
3.
Well life was hard And they needed a plan. Someone to face the burning bush And relay God’s commands. To drop the plague and kill the Passover lamb… I’m Your Man! Well Pharaoh thought it over Decided to spring ‘em free. But then his heart was hardened And he couldn’t let them be. Now who’ll part the waters Serpent staff in hand? Lead ‘em through the sand? To the Promised Land They call Canaan? I’m Your Man! The Church had gone rotten It was feeding on the poor. Well Marty he took action Nailed them theses to the door. I can do no other, here I stand… I’m Your Man! He traded fame and fortune For a Texas nursing home. To shoot the breeze with Kennedy In peace and left alone. But when evil strikes Who’s going to take a stand? And fight the mummy’s hand? But a guitar man From ‘ol Graceland? I’m Your Man!
4.
Manowar (free) 03:01
My skeleton parts the waters I have to save a madman's daughter Her sighing on the wind calls to me. I’ve been lying low and aimless And I need to ease all your distress Think it nothing more than means for your escape. I’ve thrown my fate to waves that serve the lost so well. Deliver me so I may free my drunken belle. I, Manowar, have come for you. I’ve come for you. I know that you forget me But know that you have never left me Though we float in placid bodies far apart. I won't ask you to go with me I know you need your room to breathe But if you do I can assure you a love you've never known. I’ve thrown my fate to waves that serve the lost so well. Deliver me so I may free my drunken belle. I, Manowar, have come for you. I’ve come for you. O! that quest is never painless. Believe me darling and let's rest, For when the day awakes we must steal away. I, Manowar, have come for you. I’ve come for you.
5.
Kathleen 02:50
Oh Kathleen what do you mean That you won't come and see me? Don’t you remember how long it's been? Don’t you remember the good times when I had no strife, had a good job, had a good wife? I left the best of my life on the hills of my home. I left Kathleen, you see, back in 1963. And I don't remember my other friends. But with Kathleen I must make amends, Because I miss the coal fires, I miss feeling like I’m not a liar And I pray that my pyre's on the hills of my home. I don't even know the names of the people she loves. Oh Kathleen how could this be? You were so much sweeter than me. But I pushed you past the point of faith. Past the point where the heart breaks. …the hills of my home.
6.
Leviathan 04:54
We rode a million miles Leviathan had stove us in And I could not believe That he once had been my friend. He replaced my homeland With a desert as blue as ice Where I learned to believe The demons that visit me at night. Everyone around me Is lost in their fright, And our hell is this clapboard That holds us in tight. He left us to the whim of the wind. I don't know if I could leave them. We're forever held to, in our minds, Strut and fret upon the sea To come to peace with our pagan designs I have seen white zombies Paw at sand like it were gold, And I have seen the maker Turn his back on his fold. And leave them to the whim of the wind. Release them to the whim of the wind. And everyone around me Is lost in their fright, And our hell is this clapboard That holds us in tight. He left us to the whim of the wind.
7.
Big Dan (free) 04:02
Big Dan was a jhwell of a man Stood about 7’5”. Woke up every morning And he took on the day, He was happy to be alive! Well, I don’t know what killed him. Some say it was his good looks. But when his debts were paid And his bills were laid He gave away more than he took. It took 16 men to carry him down His coffin was 10 feet long. Had to put the casket on a semi-truck ‘cause a hearse just wasn’t that strong. The day he died, the women cried, The men just stood around stunned. But the wind kept blowing And the weeds kept growing And the river kept rolling on. The river kept rolling on, The river kept rolling on. The winds kept blowing And the weeds kept growing And the river kept rolling on. I heard the word on the street today Big Dan was back in town. His good clothes looked a little worse for wear And dirty from being in the ground. I can’t look him in the eye When I see him shambling around. But winds kept blowing And the weeds kept growing And the river kept rolling on. The river kept rolling on, The river kept rolling on. The winds kept blowing And the weeds kept growing And the river kept rolling on.
8.
Oh My God 02:41
I can see us standing on that rocky cliff's edge On my brothers I was reliant For what we saw below in the port's eerie glow Left us all in a deathly silence The next thing that we knew We were herded by the crew But Niko was always defiant He set to throw a left but the porter just laughed and said We're taking you to see your father Then halfway across me and Gussy got the pox while Niko's was walking pneumonia It was the evil in this world that put us there It was the evil in this world that put us there, I swear But time always does Just like it always has Rips your past apart at the seams So I’ve been living here screaming into millions of deaf ears Some messed up American dream While Gussy, he is dead, and Niko He just fled And I ain't never been back I just can face that dear old rocky place I can't even speak her true name. It was the evil in this world that put us here, I fear.
9.
As every age of empire Sees a sun that never sets As to the underground will thrive with night The scavengers and miscreants So I found myself a pirate In the county of the Queen Take what I want what I can get Thought nothing’s what it seems As I wind these mangrove backstreets On the nights when I may roam I think of you and the life I’d give up If I had anything at all So I’ll board up all the windows ‘cuz there’s a blackout on the way There’s a fog outside So we don’t leave Queens tonight I don’t know how I went to shambles And I don’t know if you get my letters And this island life is so stressful That it seems I’ve lost all my direction The last thing I remember I was at a pub in Woodside In a cloud of Skull and Bones who tell me Everything’s alright As I wound these mangrove backstreets Trying to find my way back home I thought of you, so far away Just like my lonely bungalow I came to via satellite At some power plant, unsure Of what the circumstance could be That led me here, But intoxicants seem certain So like Washington fled Brooklyn I was found East River bound When the law caught up I was so messed up They just took my to my house
10.
Peloponnesia 01:58
Peloponnesia, I can't front how I need you You're to blame for how thick my blood is We were but the dreams of Grecian kings Seared onto meadowlark wings You're to blame for how thick my blood is. Joe got kinda drunk last night He nearly lit the fuse And even the kids from Cleveland both bowed their heads to pray When he showed them some infinite American decay Then he started preaching about the dangers in the sky And if you ask him, he'll tell you why But what he fails to mention Is the cradle of invention That still holds a claim on his rogue's eye. Peloponnesia, I can't front how I need you You're to blame for how thick my blood is We were but the dreams of Grecian kings Seared onto meadowlark wings You're to blame for how thick my blood is.
11.
New Rome 03:48
Standing tall on top of a hillside, My city, shining bright. A beacon in the dark, Man’s last light. I see New Rome burning, It’s getting weaker inside. The pillars are cracking, The fear in their eyes. New Rome, Don’t ever want to see it Fall to the ground New Rome, Won’t let it burn down, On my watch. New Rome, Brightest star In the night sky Vandals at the walls of the city, Darkness just out of sight. Tea and circuses for all. Dance all night. How could we fall so far, From this state of grace? I want to open the floodgates! I want to try to erase! New Rome, Don’t ever want to see it Fall to the ground. New Rome, Won’t let it burn down On my watch. New Rome, Brightest star In the night sky.
12.
The Crawl 05:27
Join me now and we’ll burn Like a torch across time Over once mighty kings Let us creep like slow vines Should the earth end tonight Though we both sulk and gloom Upon my back, I’ll carry you To the moon Did we not live loud? Did we not howl at the sky? Did we not share a life Of volume and speed? Do we not burn our bridges, And maraud the countryside? So we part now And I don’t know why ‘til we crawl to each other again I love you so much I can love you no more I love you so much I can love you no more And here’s to you My witch of the trees I’ve kept all the envelopes The ink and the leaves So severed we are With still so much to say You don’t seem to mind My friend Marck says it’s okay Did we not stand proud? Did we not drink the port dry? Did we not share the dreams And the spirit of the times? Do we not feel the pressures, The storm and stress of the minds? I died last night Or so I felt Over foxfire town Saw the twilight melt As the transit streams flowed To the strain of the Ninth I wept away years At the beauty outside We survive! We’re alive! Blame it all on the tides We two are all And all is as one But it’s all in my head It’s all in my head

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released February 6, 2009

Flatfoot is:
Dan Amori - drums, percussion
Aaron Bales - vocals, guitar, accordion, harmonica, vibraslap
Thom McCartan - vocals, bass, organ, guitar, wood sticks
Justin Zeppa - vocals, guitar, piano, maraca

With:
Tom Green - orange shaker
Jeremy Rapp - pedal steel
Jeremy Whitwam – afuche

Produced by Flatfoot and Jim Diamond
Recorded by Jim Diamond at Ghetto Recorders, Detroit
Mastered by Jeremy Whitwam at El Studio Del Cacto Roho, Lansing

Liner notes edited by Joe Irvin
Cover art by Darrin Higgins

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"lately, live Flatfoot has been all about out-rocking the competition knees and elbows flailing wildly and somebody (it doesnt seem to matter who) howling a campfire tale gone wrong into the microphone." Cale Sauter, Lansing City Pulse.

Flatfoot is Dan Amori, Aaron Bales, Tom Green and Thomas McCartan. We love the twangy soul and the rock 'n roll.
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