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Hogtown Meltdown

by Joel Dalton

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1.
Mississauga 06:05
He was a Mississauga man with a family sedanA 25 year financial plan He had his shit together, son Until it hit the fan Automobiles lurch forward in staggered steps Like the second hands of a thousand clocks with dying batteries The 401 at 5:01 oh God, bored out of his skull Reruns and Sudoku, waiting for the end of an ice age 18 lanes goin' nowhere slow He was a Mississauga man with a family sedan A 25 year financial plan He had his shit together, son Until it hit the fan In a parking lot fight over a parking spot At a strip club in a strip mall, a pistol is drawn With intent to scare, hie shoots straight up in the air Little fish on the bumper of her car As she's eyein' up the perfect spot by the front door A black sedan puts an end to her plans She don't turn no other cheek You're an asshole, didn't see you there Rainin' hellfire down Stray bullet lands on our Mississauga man. Glory to God in the highest Sacrificed a Mississauga messiah Heaven to the 427, a suicide mission Jesus Christ would have rather been fishin' Time be the death of us all, and death comes slow Like rush hour on the 401 through Etobicoke No second hands, no investment plans, no future, no hope Glory to God, he must have been high He was a Mississauga man with a family sedan A 25 year financial plan He had his shit together, son Until it hit the fan
2.
Twenty-Eight 03:33
Lord Germano presides over his kingdom at 28 Junked out cars in the drive Take up all the parking space And they’re going nowhere Like everyone here Had a couple good years But you ended up here And you notice that everyone’s just a bit crazy ‘round here Here comes Johnny he’s drunk and he’ll tell you the names of his fists And the names of the boys they have hurt and the girls he has kissed Nearly played for the Leafs Back when they were a team Had a lot of good years But he ended up here And he’ll fight to the death over nothing And he’ll buy you a beer In the next room over there lives a girl with her bird She’s in love with a parasite He breaks her down with his words All the schoolyard fights He just wants to be liked And it’s been a few years But she’s still here Beautiful Beverly why won’t you ever see He steals the good from your heart Beautiful Beverly why won’t you ever leave Beautiful Beverly why won’t you ever leave
3.
Etobicoke 03:25
Ice melts in a bus bay in the Etobicoke cold Large chunks of salt make crunching sounds under toes As we half ass try to form a line If the 191 arrives on time I’ll be fine But I’ve been standing here since 8:39 I’m just waiting sun, just waiting for the sun Just waiting for the sun to shine down on me Snow falls on the windshield at a suburbia donut shop Who would’ve thought it would be so hard to find the cops Whistle while they work, it’s the seven dwarfs Laughing as they walk right by the locked door Sittin’ on a chair bolted to the floor I’m just waiting for the judge, just waiting for the judge Just waiting for the judge to let me go free White male drunk on a Florida road It’s the king of Etobicoke Get arrested, nobody cares Park your SUV in the square Man of the people, they’ll vote you mayor
4.
Pride for your country, pride for bein' gay Climbin' up this one tree yeah it's just another day I'm tryin' hard not to want you but it ain't easy The good dreams never come true the way you tease me You hold the door open but you won't let me in So I sit on your front steps and count these happy little sins And I try to forget you but it ain't easy You tell me that I get you and you release me It's all blue skies in your green eyes Walking through the park so high It's all blue skies in your green eyes On this first day of July First time and the last time are one and the same Got to the next level but I'll never beat the game I swear to God I'll never love you, not that way But I'll be thinkin' of you on Canada Day It's all blue skies in your green eyes Walking through the park so high It's all blue skies in your green eyes On this first day of July I see you with your dukes up and your game face on I'm in your corner babe, I'm in your corner babe I hope you break his little heart I hope you break it real hard Shoot me right in the face Run around and push me outta the way Spend the rest of my sunny summer days Dodging bullets with you
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It was a funeral, we didn't even know the guy Or the old man smoking his pipe inside High on each other, it was Death himself Staring from the corner of the room Best get movin' on homeward, it's up a ways I'm young and I'm able but not today North Park is secluded, so lay me down Such a long way to the top of the hill You'll make it home, drink another day Barely alive, you live for yesterday Oh, the glory days Well blind luck and tough love will get you down Roll the dice 'till you've used up this whole town Mean old Death, such a buzz kill You don't scare me now I've been around You'll make it home, drink another day Barely alive, you live for yesterday Oh, the glory days

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I wrote these six songs during the last six months of my twenties. They are inspired by life in Toronto.

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released August 5, 2011

Vocals - Joel Dalton, Michelle Righetti, Arron Gibson, Jen Hall, Derek Edwards
Acoustic Guitar - Joel Dalton, Derek Edwards
Electric Guitar - Austen Valentine, Jon Dalton
Cello - Jen Hall
Trumpet - Joel Dalton
Piano - Joel Dalton
Organ - Joel Dalton, Janine Carter, Mike Ford
Bass - Tom Altobelli, James McLean
Drums - Joel Dalton, Scott Gray, Mike Ford

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