He took a girl with a poisoned breast and a scar for the other
He tided her to the old iron bed and beat her as she pleased
She walks like a spider and creeps like a cat crawling up the bed
Not from disease she cut it out so her children could not be fed

But that’s the way she wanted it
A stillborn communion

She took a man with a hidden studier and putrid little loins
She danced like she said and left him on the bed to count all his coins
He walks like a killer and play like a child living in his head
War and violence and breaking virgins and let them bury their dead

But that’s the way he wanted it
A seedless communion   

They lived in shiny marble palace hidden from the road
A bath a stove a foul hat stand and a glistering white commode
An evil bed with a mirror sealing a drawer full of knifes
Sunlight sleeping through the cracks dusty beams sliced up their lives    

That’s the way they wanted it
A secular communion

A storm endure over dinner with friends consist of swapped lies
Concocted romance stories hot glances to another’s eyes  
Faded distance and timed laughter echoed through out the palace
A sudden moment of shared thoughts and they drop dead from malice

But that’s the way they wanted it
A terminal communion



Terminal Communion

Oh baby I’m going down away and there’s nothing for you
I do just how every dead man should do
Take my shit and going nowhere
And when I’ll be back to you, you will be dead too

Oh honey I’m going down again and you look so sad
You act just how every widow should act
Get your black dress and to my home
And when we’ll be over, you can go back to you

Oh baby our money is over and our drinks too
And babe this morning stands as pale as you do

Wait some more and this world might die
And if the devil comes we will hide
To a place where trees poor wine


My baby is going down to hell and I’m feeling blue
She does just how every dead girl should do
Take her beauty and go to nowhere
And when she’ll be back to me I’ll be there waiting

Oh honey you’re going down away and you look bad
I act just how every sad man should act
Dressed in black and wear a face dark blue
And when we’ll be over, you can go back to you

Oh baby our money is over and our dreams too
But babe I think I need another one or two

Wait no more this world will never die
And if the devil comes I won’t hide
I’ll feel his glass with some more wine


Dead Man

New song form our upcoming EP

Guitars, vocals: Tryfon Lazos
Drums, percussion: Andreas Venetantes

Bass, backing vocals: Darroll Wheatley
Trumpet: Tom Moon

Get it on down to the bone
Oh I can’t let go but I get by

Love is all around she said today 
Lay down all your cards don’t let it wait

Love will get you to the bones
Love will get you to the bones
No April fools 
But by the clues most people lose their way

How to define
Her kind of mind
Well by all Divine
Can try to get it all

Get it on down to the bone
Oh my head explodes but I get by

Full moon’s light in on tonight

Get through it every night and day 
Lay down on your knees try and learn to pray

Cause love will get you to the bones
Love will get you to the bones
No April fools 
But by the clues quite sure you’ll lose your chain

How to define
Her kind of mind
Well by all Divine
Can try to get it all

Get it on down to the bone
Oh I can’t let go but I get by

Full moon’s light is on tonight

Get throught it every night and day 
Lay down on your knees don’t let it wait

Love will get you to the bones
Love will get you to the bones
No April fools 
But by the clues most people lose their way

Stardance

The more it spins the harder to grow it out
The more it spins the harder to
The more it spins the harder to grow it out
The truth is crooked what can you do

No shades to hide the sun might hurt your eyes
Why don’t you try to stay below?
Well if your head can reach out have in mind
There’s lot to see don’t bother to

If I’m rude now
Darling don’t worry about it
I’ll shake your hands and I’ll put on my smile now

So now my hands are in my pockets boy
What if your mother thinks that’s rude?
At this age you won’t need your toys
You even know how far we are from home?

Reaching my head out
Reaching my head out now
Reaching my head out

If I’m rude now
Darling don’t worry about it
I’ll mind the tone and I’ll put on my smile now

If I’m rude now 
Darling don’t worry about it 
I’ll shake your hands and I’ll put on my smile now

I wave ‘em off I had to stay out 
Of where this seems it’s leading to
The more it spins the harder to grow it out
The truth is crooked what can we do sir

Reaching my head out
Reaching my head out
Reaching my head out

If I’m rude now 
Darling don’t worry about it 
I’ll shake your hands and I’ll put on my smile now

If I’m rude now 
Darling don’t worry about it 
I’ll shake your hands and I’ll put on my smile now

Polite Fiction

Saw an old woman cry at the window
Saw an old woman and asked her what’s wrong
Saw an old woman she said “quit with questions boy you ain’t got long” then she told me slowly

All day today I’ve been talking to my blood
All day today I’ve talking to my bones
All day today I’ve been talking to these two old eyes in looking glass and not a word spoken

But yesterday I was talking to a ghost
Yesterday I was laughing with the dead
Just yesterday I was smiling at the phantoms of many long lost friends ‘till that long day was gone

Tomorrow I’m going up the graveyard
Tomorrow I’m going up those cold stones
Tomorrow I’ll call up every name and dance on every last grave
Better dance while you can

All Day Today

Louder and louder I speak
With this new tongue that comes now to my dreams
Not the place to play it all that proud
I count everything twice later I found
This world and I don’t seem to bad to try

Well my baby I have to see what I can do for me

Strange habbit and lazy this seems
Chasing words what shoddy hand to pic
When this whole place went upside down
We were singing of merriment and score

How charming but it seems I called your bluff

Oh my, oh my poor troubled mind
Don’t claim it all leave something for the soul

Said and done
Mind, Body, Soul

Said and done
Fire come light it on

The Great Escape

Churches won’t stay open at night any more
The Saviour needs some rest so all the evenings he’ll be off
The thief and the cobbler won’t cry for her love
The king is safe her dignity is restored

She told me that she saw once a fairy south in Spain
Wearing sunglasses and smoking like a train
She asked her is it getting any better on the way
“If I knew I wouldn’t be here today my child”

Hold my hand this time might be forever
Strange enough love doesn’t always stay

She knew well not to fall in love a boy from the south
The never bath they only sing cute stories for lost crowns
And when the night comes they might treat you with their tricks
They whisper to your ear when you sleep

Oh India is thousand miles away ain’t worth
Go just for two weeks you will miss why you came for
A toy air balloon and I’m scared if I'll fit
Well bring it on ain’t gonna sleep on it honey

Hold my hand this time might be forever
Strange enough love doesn’t always stay

Love And Other Demons

Load your pockets with dough
Work like a dog stop thinking with words
Oh lord I can’t choose this lifestyle, oh my!

Might need some time to adapt
The way things work is best for us all
Oh lord what a joke they pull on us

They hired a new girl a couple year younger
Free beer with every meal but why would any bother

Shut in the basement your hopes
Yeah why not selling your soul you can buy the whole world
And have one of those rich burials

How much would it be for you doll?
Four weeks per year is all that you’ve got
Then happily walk with glory and might

Shine all the four wheels for toilet use this bucket
When mister Shinny comes please show him to his locker

My head got so tired baby
Still trying to save what matters to me

Bury it all into a hole
But I know the score, it won't be long
'till you wish it all back

My head got so tired baby
Still trying to save what’s dear to me

21st Century Glory

Little Red Riding Hood is the first song of our upcoming album God Damn That Gold. The release day is on the 11th of June 2012.

Little Red Riding Hood

I heard her crawling on my floor
Dyed blonde hair wears a rusty soul
Nobody here’s left to pray
She owns the game so I must play

A red purse with a gun inside
Few pennies and all the sins of mankind, she said
“I’ll burn the green now, paint it black”
This world is shacking, floating on a rack

Do you love anybody babe
Neighbors know why she wears that face
Do you love everybody?

Knocks four times on my door
I know she is working down the road, she sings
Sit down boy have a drink with me
Saints always drink cause they cannot sin

A red purse with a gun inside
Few pennies and all the sins of mankind, she said
I’ll burn the black now, paint it blue
This world honey ain’t for me and you

Do you love anybody babe
Neighbors know why she wears that face
Do you love everybody?


Used Shoes from down the road

Old House Playground release their first album God Damn That Gold on June 11th through The Evening Economies and Fat Bob Records. Available on CD and download featuring 11 tracks of booze and smoke filled songs meditating on love and loss taking in rock, blues, folk and swing along the way. 



God Damn That Gold

Old House Playground have just released the album God Damn That Gold through The Evening Economies and Fat Bob Records. Available on CD and download (iTunes) featuring 11 tracks of booze and smoke filled songs meditating on love and loss taking in rock, blues, folk and swing along the way. 



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