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MetroSongs, Volume 8: Metro Lounge

by Jason Mendelson

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Please give us a sign tell us it will be alright giving up the fight a vision that was torn apart turning back to streetside art see the history Old New Carrollton for free shown a single scene someone saw the people demeaned others saw the legacy Hey Jim don’t you give up now there’s a lot more ways you can help this town I said hey Jim if you leave us alone we’re gonna miss you til you come on home I said hey Jim we apologize for all the philistines who couldn’t see before their eyes that when you paint your panels to your heart’s delight you shouldn’t have to worry how you’re gonna sleep at night Why bother to dream? How did we get so unclean? When will we achieve everything that we deserve? Who among us has the nerve? Hey Jim don’t you give up now there’s a lot more ways you can save this town I said hey Jim if you leave us alone we’re gonna miss you til you come on home I said hey Jim we apologize for all the philistines who couldn’t see before their eyes that when you paint your panels to your heart’s delight you shouldn’t have to worry how you’re gonna sleep at night we didn’t mean to be so unAmerican we’re gonna put ya back up on the Sheraton Small town, everything has a place now... Hey Jim don’t you give up now there’s a lot more ways you can save this town I said hey Jim if you leave us alone we’re gonna miss you til you come on home I said hey Jim we apologize for all the philistines who couldn’t see before their eyes that when you paint your panels to your heart’s delight you shouldn’t have to worry how you’re gonna sleep at night we didn’t mean to be so unAmerican we’re gonna put ya back up on the Sheraton
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Branch Bossa 05:24
End of the line They tried to take us to the horses you should honor your agreements she was the last of her kind on the train a solitary trip among many every day When the sandstorm swept the desert we turned the tennis court into a hospital Mr. President keeps his airplane here Branch Bossa End of the line
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Shady Grove 02:19
5AM on Monday I'm running out the door sit on I-270 an hour, maybe more got my house in Fredneck with 5 beds and 4 bath and tell myself that one day I will have the last laugh My dreams go for miles and miles they don't end though I've been through some tough trials I won't stand for your foolish denials and you’re never gonna keep me down no, my dreams are bigger than this town You tried to make me think you were the best I could do told me lots of stories, not a one of them was true standing on the platform, staring at the track Shady Grove to Union, hell I’ll never look back Each stop it’s like my life passes me by Time to make a change I’ve got to try
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Huntington 03:12
Contrabands and Freedmen lost for many years property constructed, the underground in tears Find the Gladwin record and find the history of slaves who found their freedom, disease and poverty 1800 perished buried in the ground memorial erected
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Vienna 02:31
Internal affairs digging up numbers From the M to the B to the A to the FBI In the big big apple, he placed a call to the reds And he made a lot of money selling out his fellow feds In Foxstone Park was a dead drop site Moving in moving out moving up with the KGB There’s a big big pile of cash in the dresser drawer The warning fell on deaf ears when the supervisors wanted more The wall came down winning one for the gipper And the U to the S to the S to the R broke up But the big big story ten years down the line Was in 2001 they caught the famous super master spy Super Master Spy Super Master Spy Back in 2001 they caught the famous super master spy
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Glenmont 05:13
Sodium in glass, lighting the hall Never breaking, nighttime to rest All I see are endless gardens All they need is chlorophyll Butterflies and caterpillars Learning of the metamorphosis Flying on their wings of fancy Let them take you all around this park I am leaving home, clothes on my back Sleeping in my coat to stay warm, wanting for heat All they see is no future, all I see are bright big things Photographs and written stories History is coming back to life Traveling and loving language sharing songs so far around the world All I see are endless gardens, all they need is chlorophyll Butterflies and caterpillars, learning of the metamorphosis Flying on their wings of fancy, let them take you all around this park I am leaving home
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Largo 02:49
I wanna ride on a roller coaster I wanna feel the wind in my hair Six Flags over Largo, Maryland No time for the wimpy or scared Wild one and a mind eraser Is all I need to cure my blues Great chase and a mighty roar Besides lunch, there’s nothing to lose I want to feel the caress of steel Pulsing through me like it should Even though I like both kinds, My favorite’s made of wood Wild one and a mind eraser Is all I need to cure my blues Great chase and a mighty roar, Besides lunch, there’s nothing to lose Climbing ever higher til we get to the top of the hill Never knew another way to capture a magical thrill I’m a front row warrior, so gravity do what you will
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Greenbelt 03:04
Greenbelt, Greenbelt any kind of weather Greenbelt, Greenbelt people having fun Greenbelt, Greenbelt we all work together Greenbelt, Greenbelt we live and breathe as one then there was the time that they made a music video synchronized swimming and a face on a stick made a cameo you must have had to eat a lot of popsicles to make that video then there was the time that Eleanor planned this suburbia cause what’s a New Deal without a way out of the urbia? if the Bachelor and Bad Actress have their way they would call it New Bernia
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Fort Totten 00:55
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a million square feet of outer space trapped between walls in this place before the distillery it’s clear Wiehle was here man’s first step and it began one small step into Lake Anne Lord Fairfax once owned this land silver lines drawn in the sand all of the beauty and his grace found hung in a jail near this place before the big mezzanine my dear Wiehle was here conceived as planned community brought to life by Robert E. had recently sold Carnegie highest conductivity not the end eventually eventually this end will leave 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
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Jackson Graham of Mosier, Oregon, Corps of Engineers he’s a man that we could talk about over several beers retired from the army, he was a Major General then a few weeks later he was WMATA’s first General Manager Went to work with father as he was building Golden Gate after OSU his army exam score was first rate Europe and Korea, units in combat and in aviation then back home chief of personnel in charge of projects over fourteen states the train sighs and kicks on down the line please oh please don’t you leave me here behind Sometimes we get busy and it’s so easy to forget I admit I too am guilty so let’s just take a sec recognize the people trying to make this system go you won’t see them in the paper as often as you see the head honcho Managers of stations help you to navigate the map hundreds of custodians keep the place free and clear of trash Operators in the driver’s seat make sure you get home law enforcement officers keep you safe when you are riding all alone the train sighs and kicks on down the line please oh please don’t you leave me here behind I have always tried to be a believer in this system I was never one to make a fuss hopefully we start to see all the changes we’ve been promised sometimes it just gets to be too much the train sighs and kicks on down the line...

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released April 18, 2017

Album design by Caleb Menzies
Photo by Roxplosion!
Mastered by Dave Mallen at Innovation Station Music
Special thanks for hat advice to RM

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Jason Mendelson Washington, D.C.

Multi-instrumentalist, producer and composer Jason Mendelson of Alexandria, Virginia created MetroSongs in 2010 with the goal of writing and recording a unique original song for each of the DC area's 91 Metro station locations, based on local history and character. The project was completed in April 2017 with Volumes 7 & 8. ... more

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