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Sweet Soubrette - When All This Was Bay Ridge

from Bushwick Book Club Presents BROOKLYN NOIR by Bushwick Book Club

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Inspired by Tim McLoughlin's "When All This Was Bay Ridge." For more Sweet Soubrette, please visit sweetsoubrette.com

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It’s an issue of geography
The shifting of tectonic plates
That carry a neighborhood farther away
Or reduce it to a shadow of its golden days

Back when all this was Bay Ridge
We had the answers
You just gotta stay on the inside
Nobody will stick up for you if you drift
Like the borders of Sunset Park

Daniel you don’t know the first thing
About being a loyal defender
Closing ranks when one of your own needs protection
Covering up for the hotheads

Back when all this was Bay Ridge
We had the answers
You just gotta stay on the inside
Danny, nobody will stick up for you if you drift
Like the borders of Sunset Park

Sun’s going down on our empire
We drink in the afternoon squalor
In the bar that’s still home to the last of the donkeys
Where the white dinosaurs still rule Sunset Park

Who owns history
The past is a photograph you can't identify
Who owns memory
The old guard of Bay Ridge and the rest of the relics

Back when all this was Bay Ridge
We had the answers
You just gotta stay on the inside
Danny, nobody will stick up for you if you drift
Like the borders of Sunset Park

Back when all this was Bay Ridge
We had the answers

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from Bushwick Book Club Presents BROOKLYN NOIR, released September 26, 2012
Ellia Bisker: vocals & ukulele

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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