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Lyrics:

There comes a time
It’s younger than you think 
When open vistas
Start to sink
There comes a time
It’s sooner than you know
When shooting stars
Cease to glow

And elders no longer smile in your direction
As if to say I was young and dreamt once too
Now you’re just one of them-it’s those hard laws you prove
Though you don’t know and 

every so often
The hanging moments of the day
The dreamless moments of the night
The hanging moments of the day and night
You think about the life that never was

When forgiveness comes rare and youth’s met with cold blank stares
As if to say I’ve no patience left
For all your high hopes so beware all life’s hard knocks
You should endure and
 
every so often
The hanging moments of the day
The dreamless moments of the night
The hanging moments of the day and night
You think about the life that never was


On Day and Night

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Lyrics:

Muhammad’s baby
Is a Diabetic
He begged me not for him, but for her, to help him help her to live.
His eyes with jaundice
Welled with tears of gold
What do I do but do what I can for a broken man whom I hardly know
If you dig it hardly shows

Apparently babe
You can’t do this no more
You declare it’s your problem, not mine,
That’s the only truth you ever spoke.
Oh, quit your cryin’ and sympathizing
With a lie of the mind.
You didn’t break my heart or my soul,
You just wasted my time.

Never want to be with you now.
I never thought you and I’d never work no how.
Never been better, we’re better off never together now.
So how am I? 
I’m okay
I’m okay


Seein’ as how you’ve been untrue
If I need somebody, baby she ain’t you.
When you blow a kiss, glow and bat your eyelashes, you bring me
To my knees
But now I’m free
I’m so free.

Heaven help you
With the truth I impart.
In truth I don’t know what I’m talking about,
But the horseshit comes straight from the heart,
Straight from the horse’s mouth.
It hurt at first
When I heard you say
That to lie with any man made you sick-
Maybe you should face the other way
Ever thought of that?

Never want to be with you now.
I never thought you and I’d never work no how.
Never been bitter, we’re better off never together now.
So how am I? 
I’m okay (x4)
And I'm okay, an' I'm okay, an' I'm okay, an' I'm okay... 
Come back now baby take your ass off tumbler and I swear if I see just one more hashtag I’ll go ape shit, so quick quit your facebook...
Oh god.

On Fruitless Romance

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Lyrics:

Barack be rockin’ the town
But what about the cretins he hangs around
We had Patreus betray us, commander was sleeping around
I’ll bet a regular guy could find a man who wouldn’t cheat on his wife
Who will lead the single greatest country to prosperity? (Me)

It’d be an ideal situation
First I’d move all Africans up to Paris, France,
And then there’d be no more world hunger, Just like that-
Like that, Oh yeah, Like that, oh yeah

The pushing, shoving crowds make choices they know nothing about
Add my name to your booth,
‘cause sugar I’ll debut as the man who follows through
That’s the truth

It’d be an ideal situation
No Katrina or Sandy would dare wash us up
I’d fill every street knee-deep in sponges
and stop flash floods

Flash floods, No bud
No floods for suds.
I’d live ‘til the end of time
Oh yeah, Oh yeah
If Given three wishes first I would bring Beethoven back,
Then borrow his power to play
Finally I’d restore his hearing and play his songs
I’m thinkin’ it would make his day.

It’s not an ideal situation
I would see Mr. Lanza grow up less mad
Embrace him with arms, not straight jackets,
And frisk his back
Oh, oh yeah
It’d be an ideal situation
Please you’ve got to believe me, I would open up my arms to big problems with the nation-illegal pot
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah
I’d live ‘til the end of time
Oh yeah, Oh yeah
Help me brother I need your vote
Help me sister, everyone’s waiting on you
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Oh yeah, oh yeah


On Elections

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Lyrics:

So I’ve been reading about nameless things,
Don’t ask me what they are
Nietzsche doth note
Zara thus spoke
Boy you have done him wrong
Everything is outta whack
Ever since you turned your back
Killer, when you turn around,
Pick your killed love off the ground
My mind is so sore,
I need some support
Life is too short to hold
This grudge for so long
Time to move on
It’s been seven months,
Let’s go
The writing on the wall of shame
Was written in invisible paint
Honey, you’re my brightest star
How I wonder who you are
Everything I’ve known is gone
Everything I’ve known and loved
Everything I love is gone
Yeah, You know what you stole

I dreamt I was crawling
Down a wetland plain
As dogs licked the sweat and rain
Off my cold face.
Where’s my alpha male
Who drives all the dogs away?
Everything is outta whack
Ever since you turned your back
Killer, when you turn around,
Pick your killed love off the ground
Everything I’ve known is gone
Everything I’ve known and loved
Everything I love is gone
Yeah, You know what you stole

I thought you carried a sword to cut me down
No, no you carried a shield to goad me on
Let me go

My name is Zara and I’ve come to counsel you
And contradict each calculation you made in the school
On the mountaintop
Where waves would stop
At your feet and kiss your toes, well now they climb and sweep you off your rock
Do not get dissolved


Try this, Toss a penny down your partner’s soul
Listen for its echo to know how deep the penny goes
There you are
It don’t fall far
When you drink from a shallow well, it poisons you as well and turns you cold
Do not turn to stone

You think before you act and you can’t act at all
If you can find the time to think you’re thinking way too hard
Just keep your word
And lay down your sword
With truth and sweetness in your soul, youll be the man with both and you’ll go far
Do not disregard

In school you could wear a mask if you were shy
And hear the music of a punk philosophy of life
But in my soul
It hurts I know
Look everywhere and you’ll find no mask more terrifying than your own
And that’s the day the music’s gonna stop


On Betrayal

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On the Old Man and the Tarantula

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Lyrics:
Father’s day I spent forgetting everything my father ever said
focused more on what he did
He’s given me a life I only dreamt
I know you’re supposed to have a gift
But forgetting was the only gift I had lying around
My father’s father thinks he’s lying in the ground
Packing bags without a flight
I guess his boarding pass is Jesus Christ
Planning death took his whole life
Damaged as he is, his blood is mine
Although his son and I have had our fights
Should my father go into the light…
 now, now…Ah
Then I would understand.
All right.
Here it is.
To you that said my man,
You’re not your father’s kid-
Don’t you tell a man who he isn’t-
Unless you’re going to tell him who he is
Whoever I become it’s because of him
So I’ll imitate the sun
I'll Show more good, attract more eyes
But Hal, you’re running out of time, you’re out of time…
Now, now…
I'll never believe you just don't care
you soon will understand

On Father's Day

WRITTEN BY: Daniel Emond
ARRANGEMENT: Daniel Emond
RECORDING CREDITS: Nick Miller 
VOCALS: Daniel Emond 
MUSICIANS: 
Guitar: Ben Moniz 
Bass and Violin: Josh Henderson 
Drums: Rick Martinez 
Piano: Daniel Emond 
Backing Vocals: Jessie Shelton, Adrian Enscoe, Daniel Emond 
Harmonica: Nick Miller

The Whale

WRITTEN BY: Daniel Emond
ARRANGEMENT: Daniel Emond
RECORDING CREDIT: Nick Miller 
VOCALS: Wayne Bennett 
MUSICIANS: 	
Guitar: Seth Johnson 
Bass: Jamie Mohamdein
Drums: Rick Martinez 
Piano and Banjo: Daniel Emond 
Backing Vocals: Ashley Perez Flanagan, Garth Taylor, Courtney Bassett, Daniel Emond, Danielle Alexis Thompson, Adrian Enscoe

The Ramadan feat. Wayne Bennett

WRITTEN BY: Daniel Emond
ARRANGEMENT: Daniel Emond
VOCALS: Jessie Shelton
RECORDING CREDITS: Nick Miller 
MUSICIANS: 
Guitar: Seth Johnson 
Lead Violin: Jessie Shelton 
Rhythm Viola, Lead Violin, Rhythm Violin: Josh Henderson 
Drums: Rick Martinez 
Double Bass: Jamie Mohamdein 
Keyboards: Daniel Emond 
Harmonica: Nick Miller

The Squall feat. Jessie Shelton

Daniel Emond is an actor, a singer and a musician living in New York City. He plays the piano, banjo, clarinet, guitar, bass guitar, and ukulele (in order of diminishing proficiency). 

Daniel plays regularly in NYC with his bands Blue Eyed Bettys, Lion & Spaniel and Act One, in addition to his own work. His work has been seen at Rockwood Music Hall, Mercury Lounge, PIANOS, The Slipper Room, Bowery Electric, Arlene's Grocery, Pete's Candy Store, The Living Room and had a residency at Pine Box Rock Shop. 

Daniel's debut rock album, Punk Philosophy was released in 2013. His upcoming EP Kill The Whale, will be released end of 2017, and will preclude a full, double-sided LP by the same name.

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