2420
by Mike Northcutt
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2420
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Strawberry Peaches
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Set You Free
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Roll With It
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Soldier
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Your Eyes
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Josie's Gone
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Melody In Turmoil
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Shade
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Under The Table
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about
The songs on this record were all written in one 3-month period though the final product took a few years to complete. Style is varied from straight up rock, to 80s / Police-style pop to acoustic funk in the vein of Jack Johnson and Sublime. Lyrically, songs range from personal experience, relationships, and free-association to the political.
Songs are all based on upbeat grooves, old school funk drumming, acoustic guitar, and vintage guitar tones.
Words & music by Mike Northcutt.
Produced by Mike Northcutt.
Songs are all based on upbeat grooves, old school funk drumming, acoustic guitar, and vintage guitar tones.
Words & music by Mike Northcutt.
Produced by Mike Northcutt.
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released 15 December 2010
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- Track Name: 2420
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2420 say how do you do when you've got nothing to gain,
you got nothing to lose, so they say
I was young staring at the moon, I got a '67 Phillipine Strat,
they say "who do you play"?
It's just a cage with an airhole for a socket, when you're singing in a can and the place keeps knockin' you down
High hopes, hell what you do, what you lose when you choose
to lay steady and low with the blues
Everybody was sayin' how come you stay here?
We were part of the scene and we didn't care yeah yeah
And everybody would ask me how come you stay here
But when there's nowhere to go you still got to play
Take me back cantina in Manilla, rucksack on my back,
workin for a weekend or two
Livin' on a dream 'bout how we gonna make it, ain't nobodies fault, when everybody goes and stays too long
How high son can you fly with an angel in your pocket
and a ball and chain on the inside?
Livin' it up, livin' it out, you gotta give what you got
if you wanna get out of the rut… you gotta give it all up
And everybody was sayin' how come you stay here?
But we were part of the scene and we didn't care yeah yeah
And everybody would ask me how come you stay here
But I ain't got nowhere to go so I just play…
In my head, in my heart, 2420
Time I had a brand new start 2420
How high son can you fly with an angel in your pocket
and a ball and chain on the inside?
'cause 2420 said how do you do, when you got nothing to gain,
you got nothing to lose so it's true - Track Name: Strawberry Peaches
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Uptight macaroon on channel 52
he got a whole lot of peaches but he ain’t got no canoe.
Rollin’ down the alley towards Strawberry Falls
where the angels and the lemmings they won’t talk to you at all.
Holmes’s in the kitchen, Joanie’s in the bathroom,
Paul’s on the avenue and sayin’ something crass.
I’m on the patio, listenin’ to the radio,
fishin’ for the fashion of the latest constitution.
How do you say I mean I wonder what to do,
you gotta hit me with a hammer if you wanna see me move.
I got a rolled up rector shack with 57 tools
and a mindful on the table just to jump back in the pool.
College didn’t do it, papers on the fluid,
polish it and turn it in there’s really nothin’ to it.
Grownups on the cribbage, rollin’ for the spinach,
powered by the gummies and a lot of phooey gibberish.
Turn that rack around the spindle on the wheel,
you got the nitty-gritty pictures on the back of a pill.
I got a whole lot of fortune, pull the hair from the coin,
I’ve been talkin’ to the boss ain’t got no company to join.
I’m gonna do it, we’re all going through it,
the torture and the torment man there must be something stewin’.
Fruitless frappuccino, don’t tell me something we know,
just walk me down the plank and get me out of this casino.
Oh there’s a whole lot more a lot I’d like to say
but this song ain’t being published and I ain’t getting paid.
And I ain’t got a motive and I ain’t got a rap,
and I ain’t got no connection to the happy and the sad.
Town homes and beaches, strawberry peaches,
funkified Levi’s, and a brand new coat of paint.
Hold me to this credence, I ain’t sellin’ trinkets,
or bangin’ you with Bibles like I’m some kind of saint. - Track Name: Set You Free
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You don’t need no knife to make you beautiful
You don’t need no altercation with the plastic doctor
You don’t need to ride the diamond wheel with a perfect shine
You don’t need all that I think you’re beautiful
Come let me set you free
And all the things that bring you right down,
just send them over to me
Love, love is all you need
So come let me set you free
You don’t need no couscous kitchen and a bottle of wine
You don’t need all those things that you’ve been so denied
You don’t even have to say you gonna be mine
You don’t need all that I think you’re beautiful
Come let me set you free
When everything you want so bad
is driftin’ out to sea
Love, love is all you need
So come let me set you free - Track Name: Roll With It
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She don’t worry about today
Always time for the small things along the way
I have this fear in my heart that wont let me go
And when I’m alone in the dark, she stops to lets me know
You gotta roll with it baby
Life’s a celebration
It’s not complicated
It’s not a revelation
There’s no need to worry
It’s all in your head
You got to roll with it baby tonight
I know, I should hear what she’s sayin’
Old complications always stand in my way now
I don’t look back much and I don’t look to the future much either
And gone are the dark clouds that used to linger in my mirror
You gotta roll with it baby
Life’s a celebration
It’s not complicated
It’s not a revelation
There’s no need to worry
It’s all in your head
You got to roll with it baby tonight
Going through it, goin’ through what’s up on the inside
Gonna climb up, climb up to the top of the hillside - Track Name: Soldier
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I was a soldier, when no one else controlled you
and no one else would fight for your rights
Writing from the 4th of dawn, I peer an empty pantheon
a sanctuary just for the night
Long are the hours waiting on a bandage
running from the angel inside
now I’m on the move again thank you for your time again
someday I’ll return to your side
Not today, they carry me away
A band of light in the sky
Night has fallen again
Only inside do I cry
How I should warn you they only trick and thorn you
nothing is as nothing should be
cup full of liquor to quench the iron vicar
pretend I’m not the only enemy
But days pass I wonder where we might have ended
if only I had stayed by your side
but duty-trouble called me a dirty double hog’s head
lay in the tracks where somebody lied
Not today, they carry me away
A band of light in the sky
Night has fallen again
Only inside do I cry
I was a soldier waiting to behold you
fighting for the freedom to flee
you were my sermon singing from the front lines
carrying me through to victory
But now it seems chameleon, changing like the seasons
only want and puzzle for the cause
red lines are drawn again and we are just the cinnamon
sap in their political claws
Not today, they carry me away
A band of light in the sky
Night has fallen again
Only inside do I cry - Track Name: Your Eyes
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I look around and I see your face
Something that I cannot erase
And oh how your eyes do shine
I cannot cry, when they don’t meet mine
Now is the time for the dust to rise
In your eyes
I see a circle soft and new
Something that’s inside of you
And all I can do is just try
A break in the yarn is not a tattered shrine
Hold on to Scarborough through the tides
And though I confide
It’s all inside... you’re all inside
Now is the time for the sun to rise
In your eyes
I see a circle soft and new
(I’m on the outside looking through)
Something that’s inside of you
And all I can do is just try
Now is the time for the dust to rise
In your eyes
I wander through the hazel dew
(And for a moment I thought I knew)
Searching for a side of you
And all I can do is stand by - Track Name: Josie's Gone
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I can hardly see you, I can hardly hear you
When I was alone I wanted only to be near you
Now and then forever, a face upon the sky
A distant voice is calling me and still I don’t know why…
Oh oh Josie’s gone away, I can hardly stand it
Now it’s up to fate, face between my hands
Oh oh Josie’s gone away, I can hardly stand it
Seems like it was only yesterday…
Who gets all the pieces, lying in the sand
Who finds all the answers, when they’re right there in your hand
Now and then forever, a face upon the sky
A distant voice is calling me and still I don’t know why…
Oh oh Josie’s gone away, I can hardly stand it
Now it’s up to fate, face between my hands
Oh oh Josie’s gone away, I can hardly stand it
Seems like it was only yesterday…
On the road a fortune comes your way
On a whim she turns around to stay - Track Name: Melody In Turmoil
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I get to movin' but I don’t even know where I stand
I hit the drum but she rattles down on the pan
she roller coaster but I slide slowly on the steel
I get to thinkin' that she don’t even know how I feel
Cool me down, would you get over me
If I had no more songs to play?
A melody fills the good ol’ air
But I can hardly hear no sound when you walk away...
Yeah, alright
She roller coaster but she don’t even know who I am
She got the music but she bottles it up in a tin can
Sweet escalator take me to where I can see
Whole world aside and she’s standing right in front of me
Cool me down, would you get over me
If I had no more songs to play?
A melody fills the good ol’ air
But I can hardly hear no sound when you walk away...
Yeah, yeah, yeah
How do you do it when you’ve turned the other screw loose?
How do you fix it when you’re drivin’ down on the noose?
And how do you play it when the band is out there on the bus?
Melody in turmoil always turns to the blues
Cool me down, would you get over me
If I had no more songs to play?
A melody fills the good ol’ air
But I can hardly hear no sound when you walk away...
Yeah, alright - Track Name: Shade
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So you wanna be Ghandi
He’s a man with a real plan
Crimson tide averted through peaceful stand
He’s coming out out with an easy hand
So you think you got it made
All tucked neatly in the shade
Well, I’m a winner, but I concede the blade
Yeah, yeah, yeah
So you wanna be respected
No one wants the ultimate rejection
Hall full of echos, stiring souls, hollow reflection
There’s nobody left to congratulate
So you think you got it made
Like ginger tea and lemonade
Well, I’m a winner, but I can’t leave the shade
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I wish it wasn’t a wonder
I wonder what a confined consultation
Crammed inside turned up down by the ring
I’m coming out with a cryin’ confession
So you think you got it made
All tucked neatly in the shade
Well, I’m a winner, but I concede the blade
Yeah, yeah, yeah - Track Name: Under The Table
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Love always turns to the right
Life always gives you a sign
Signs never quite enough
Diamonds always come from the rough
1234 under the table
Turn it up now you’re young and you’re able
Feelin’ low now, feeling disabled
Feelin’ unable to write
And when I get you on the table, I wanna know now, I wanna know now
It’s just a tricky proposition, we gotta go now, we gotta go now
Cause I got my head in the clouds
Heart full of passion so low
Love always turns to the right
Life always gives you a sign
Signs never quite enough
Diamonds always come from the rough
1234 under the table
Turn it up now you’re young and you’re able
Feelin’ low now, feeling disabled
Feelin’ unable to write
And when I get you on the table, I wanna know now, I wanna know now
It’s just a little proposition, we gotta go now, we gotta go now
Cause I got my head in the clouds
Heart full of passion so low
1234 under the table
turn it up now you’re young and you’re able
Feelin’ low now, feeling disabled
1234 under the table
