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Did you ever notice that Wall Street uses some of the most dangerous beasts on earth as metaphors for the market's role in society? "The Village" is a reflection on human relationships and community as defenses against the monstrous forms of capitalism that are threatening our lives. "The Village" releases on Sept. 12, 2025. 
-- Jesse James DeConto: songwriter, bass, vocals

David Wimbish: rubber-bridge guitar, piano,
additional vocals, musical production

James Phillips: synthesizers, percussion,
additional vocals, engineering, mixing

Justin Longerbeam: mastering

"THE VILLAGE"
By Jesse James DeConto/The Pinkerton Raid
There’s a village on a mountain high
Whose walls are arms of love
It’s guarded by a hero throng
The creatures dare not come

The bulls run through the city streets
Trampling roses, seeing red
These waving flags just feed their rage
It’s a mad disease of fear
The herd stampedes right off the cliff
We escape by narrow trails

To a village on a mountain high
Whose walls are arms of love
Guarded by a hero throng
The creatures dare not come

The bears are sleeping in their caves
with their hibernating appetites
they hunger for what we have raised
those bears gonna eat our young
Unless we climb to higher ground
Where monsters have no power

The bulls will rage, the bears will roar
But we will stand our ground
The villagers surrender not
Our arms are bound as one

In a village on a mountain high
Whose walls are arms of love
Guarded by a hero throng
The creatures dare not come

The Village

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BEST OF ME

Written by: Lauren Juzang, John Mark Nelson
Produced by: John Mark Nelson
Vocals by: Lauren Juzang
Guitars: John Mark Nelson 
Bass: John Mark Nelson
Drums: John Mark Nelson
Piano: John Mark Nelson

Engineered + Mixed by John Mark Nelson
Mastered by Joey Messina-Doerning

Cover Photo Credit: Izzy Baradaran
Cover Art: Lauren Juzang 

Lyrics:

I feel better when I am known
In my car, in my old clothes
I feel better when I’m alone
In my own bones

I feel better in easy times
When the world isn’t in a fight
When my family is playing nice
I feel alright

I feel better
I feel better

I feel heavy in times like these
You’re far away 
And now we don’t speak
I’m in my head
And I’m in need
So desperately

I feel good when you’re off my mind
Somewhere else out of my eyeline
Out of sight, baby
Out of mind
I feel alright

I feel alright
I feel free
I feel everything I’ve wanted to be

I feel graceful
I feel neat
I’m feeling better

I feel better

I feel better when I am known
By myself and by all those
Who I love and who I chose
To call home


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Kyle Scott

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