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VERSE1 :
I made a promise to cool my jets
But watching movies, playing checkers and chess
Just wasn't cutting it
I had to wet my lips
I took a few sips, you know they turned into swigs

CHORUS:
I was only trying to kill a night
Never thought that it might haunted me for the rest of my life

VERSE 2:
I read a stack of paperbacks
About Pearl Harbor and the entire work of Raymond Carver
The pleasant autumn turned into boredom
And my true love came a calling
So I entered the church
In an all or nothing search
I mumbled through the prayers and drank all the wine there

CHORUS:
I was only trying to kill a night
Never thought that it might haunted me for the rest of my life

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from KICK UP THE DIGITAL DUST, released March 8, 2015

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Knock 'Em Alive New York

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John Q. Gruber (aka “Knock ‘Em Alive”) will be forever indebted to music. He writes and records songs as a form of pay-back (with interest), hoping to add to the long-term value of the vault. Nothing loaned him more inspiration than New York City between the years 1977 to 1984. It was gritty, grimy and explosively-charged. These were the times of a near-bankrupt city, the reign of Th ... more

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