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Living the Dream

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lyrics

A mound of broken stars

A pile of dusty sparks

A stack of glowing coals

A thousand shattered disco balls

The skyline looked like all of those things

We sat by the river as the city sparkled to life,

The cherry bomb sun sank,
we squinted and stared,

And speechlessly spoke

Step up, come down, my friend

How many times we go ‘round again

Step up, come down, my friend

What do you say –

Let’s make this moment stay

We’re living a dream - living the dream, 

Living a dream - living the dream

A dried-up river bed

A faded scar
A derailed train

The spine of an old book

My lifeline looked like all of those things

The sun so hot it made us sweat,
The air so cold we could see our breath,

We inhaled pink clouds of the sunset, 

As it swallowed us

Step up, come down, my friend

How many times we go ‘round again

Step up, come down, my friend

Come down today

Let’s make this moment stay

We’re living a dream - living the dream,

Living a dream - living the dream

All the dust will return to dust

All the blessed, yes, and all of the cursed

All the meek and the mighty shall fall

So let’s make this day, the brightest of all

A stand of cluttered tombstones

A blurry neon billboard

A sparkling Atlantis

An exquisite, speckled canvas

The future looked like all of those things

A man on the pier pulled a fish
out of the black water

He wrapped it in a newspaper
and placed it beside me

It was still moving

The headlines on that paper
made no sense at all,

And made all the sense in the world

Step up, come down, my friend

How many times we go ‘round again

Step up, come down, my friend

What do you say –

Let’s make this moment stay

We’re living a dream - living the dream,

Living a dream - living the dream

credits

from Fireships, released April 21, 2015
Written by Andrew Vladeck
Special guests David Amram, pennywhistle; Marika Hughes, cello, Skye Steele, violin, Tim Luntzel, double bass

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Fireships Brooklyn, New York

“Accessible and anthemic, Fireships are also as cutting edge as rock bands get these days… you could call it Americana chamber pop… Andrew Vladeck writes fearlessly populist, Dylanesque narratives, and the band gets gritty with some pretty straight-up highway rock from time to time.” ~ New York Music Daily ... more

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