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Dope Calypso

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Try
With a little bit of action
They don't build the world this way
It's alright

She lied
With the face of Cleopatra
The world ain't built this way
It's alright

Now
I'm gonna go outside
Nothings gonna save us
Nothings gonna save us
My only dope calypso
My only dope calypso
My only dope calypso
That's alright

Wise
Like three men they never got it
They'll keep death staring me down
I'm alright

Safe
So safe they never asked us
The world ain't built this way
It's alright

Now
I'm gonna go outside
Nothings gonna save us
Nothings gonna save us
My only dope calypso
My only dope calypso
My only dope calypso
That's alright

All I say is all I know and all I know is what you made me
My only dope calypso

It's over
In pieces
It's over
I'm alright

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azazel23 On Dec 27, 2013

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2013-12-27 04:10:56

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Officially from the band:

‘Dope Calypso’ was one of those songs that came together from pieces of musical scrap. I was working on multiple guitar parts and lyrics as different songs and one morning out of frustration I mixed it into a melting pot and it magically glued together. I basically culminated the lyrics from taking scrap notes while walking to work in the morning. I remember Dean Turner (good friend and manager at the time) made a joke that skyscrapers are the “cathedrals of capitalism …trophy relics that represent man’s power over the world”. I love riffs that sound like they can destroy buildings, and I felt like this was one of them. The lyrics are a random mishmash of notes and reflections about identity and deserting normality. I have never written a song that naturally felt like a solid opener until this one – as soon as I wrote the riff I knew we could add 30 seconds of layered atmospheric sounds and bring the whole band in on a single snare hit – a lot of fun to play live!

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