The Final Broadcast of the Underground Radio Show
by Straight Arms
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[static intro]
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The Flood Song
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[DJ break]
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Fearless Mountain
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The Bar Lights
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Time and Time Again
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[DJ ID]
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I'm Sorry
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Doin' Fine
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[DJ exit]
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The Final Broadcast
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about
The concept for this album started with the album's last song called "The Final Broadcast," which was written after one of my favorite radio stations, an independent station, went off the air and was replaced with a corporate broadcast. As the songs were pieced together for the album, The Final Broadcast of the Underground Radio Show took shape. It begins with the static intro of a listener dialing in the last broadcast of a pirate radio station. The original songs are interspliced with some DJ commentary until the final off air static comes through.
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released 07 March 2006
Steve Richardson is the DJ.
Aaron Strickland played drums on "Sometimes (you were right)" and "Doin' Fine."
Phil Crocco and Andy Hiler sang background vocals on "Bar Lights."
Recorded in Denver, CO, Mason, OH, and Covington, KY.
Steve Richardson is the DJ.
Aaron Strickland played drums on "Sometimes (you were right)" and "Doin' Fine."
Phil Crocco and Andy Hiler sang background vocals on "Bar Lights."
Recorded in Denver, CO, Mason, OH, and Covington, KY.
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Darin Strachan is Straight Arms. Playing in a handful of bands including The Minni-Thins, Cowboy Curse, and For Algernon, ... more he's shared the stage with hundreds of bands including The Wrens, Wussy, Otis Gibbs, The Eames Era, Troubled Hubble, and Coltrane Motion, and played at SXSW, Lollapalooza Battle of the Bands, and the Midpoint Music Festival. less
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Mar 2006 -
Feb 2003
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- Track Name: Sometimes (You Were Right)
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Sometimes I lie down, I stare up at the ceiling
Looking for a picture in those haphazard patterns
I try to motivate to feeling a feeling
Something that'll make me think something else matters
Sometimes I fall asleep and sometimes I don’t
Either way, which happens is out of my control
Sometimes I want to sleep but sometimes I won’t
And those times I want to call you on the telephone
But every time we talk it always goes the same way
Eventually leading to an unhappy ending
So this time I’m going to tell you when I don’t know what to say
And sit there silently unrelenting
Sometimes I pick up my guitar and pick some songs
Playing through the night, playing till the dawn
And sometimes I wish had someone to sing along
But that someone is not you because now you are gone
Sometimes I think back to what you were sayin’
Always replaying your stupid words in my head
I think back to what you said about Kurt Cobain
I still can’t figure out why you said
You were right
I was wrong
The world won’t be saved by a song
You were right
I was wrong
The world won’t be saved by a song
You were right
I was wrong
The world won’t be saved by a song
You were right
I was wrong
You were right - Track Name: The Flood Song
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The rain came pouring down
The river got too high
When the levee broke
Nothing stayed dry
Back in 1937
The year of the last great flood
Water was ten feet high on the Westside
It covered up everywhere they once stood
And it came on so quick
He was afraid he was going to drown
So he gathered what he could
And headed for higher ground
She lived up that hill
So he knew she’d be all right
The flood was only one of the reasons he gave
For staying with her that night
He held her in his arms
Told her not to be alarmed
But he watched on in fear
As the water came near
They kept each other up
For most all of the night
As the water started to rise
Dry land went out of sight
Then they thanked the lord above
When the rain stopped the next morn
But the damage had been done
And nine months later my father was born - Track Name: Fearless Mountain
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I'll climb the top of that mountain
When I'm old or while I'm still young
It's not because I'm fearless
I just want to prove you wrong
Maybe it's a conviction
Without the due process of law
Maybe your predictions
Aren't going to stop me when I take off
When I reach the top of that mountain
I'll sing some ole vict'ry song
It'll echo back a chorus
Hear myself sing along
Maybe it's a long shot
But it's one I've got to take
Maybe I won't stop
Now that I got so much at stake
Up on top of that mountain
I'll see where I belong
Suddenly I'll be fearless
And forget why I proved you wrong - Track Name: The Bar Lights
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In the bar lights
You seemed familiar
But I'd forgotten your name
We talked and laughed
Quickly moved past
That old shame
Things felt comfortable
Like they once did
One thing just ain't right
I tried to find
That look in your eyes
It got lost
In the bar lights
You seem so stoic
Strong and bitterly unchanged
Clock struck midnight
Cab honked for you
Slipped into the rain
Bags were packed
Waiting for you
A quick stop on the way
You were headed off
To a new romance
No time to delay
A broken heart can’t wait anyway
In the bar lights
Of a new town
New faces crowd the scene
You feel welcomed
For a drink
Maybe stay longer than you mean
It's a good time
For the hard stuff
He ain't thirsty anymore
But you gave up
Before he dried up
And slipped out the door
Once more - Track Name: Time and Time Again
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I think about you
I wonder what you been through
I wonder how you ever made it without me
Because I know I barely made it without you
Our last night together
Was better than anything I'd known
But when I awoke the next morning
I woke alone
I soon found your letter
I read it over and over again
I just couldn't seem to get it
But the answers were in my hand
Time has answered some questions
And healed some wounds
I now understand
You were getting married soon
I still think about you
I still wonder how you've been
I still wonder, but now too often
Just time and time again - Track Name: I'm Sorry
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She’s back together with him
She’ll be cheating on him again
Telling him lies at night
Like everything gonna be alright
Where were those thoughts before?
Behind close doors, underneath sheets
Wrinkled pressed she couldn’t say anything
Except yes
I’m sorry
She reaches into some guy’s pocket
Says I want to shoot like a rocket
Then grabs his keys and says
Please take me your way
The only thing she can’t say is I’m sorry
She’s not sorry - Track Name: Doin' Fine
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What’d I say
What’d I do
Don't remember
Don't have a clue
But I know I’m the one to blame
Don’t tell me why
Don’t tell me how
I don’t need a reason
To be held down
I know things are never gonna be the same
It’s been six days and seven nights
It’s been six days and I’m still alive
It’s been six days and I’m doin’ fine
At least fine as I should be
I’m gettin’ by
When I can
I’m alright
Now and then
But sometimes it’s still too hard to ask for help
I’ll take a walk
I’ll go outside
I might get lost
Might try to hide
From the things that scare me about myself
It’s been ten days and eleven nights
It’s been ten days and I’m still alive
It’s been ten days and I’m doin’ fine
At least fine as I should be
I’m holdin’ on
Not givin’ in
I know I will
Live with my decisions
One way or the other I’m gonna have to learn to live or die
It might be hard
So far it ain’t easy
Ask Leonard
What I mean
He knows the secret to doin’ fine - Track Name: To Advertise Here, Please Call 382-5968
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Some say what comes next is natural selection
Some call it survival of the fattest with a Walt Disney connection
If it's cute and cuddly and it makes a buck
They're gonna mass produce it to sell to every schmuck
But it's not about whether it does what it's suppose to do
It's all about how many units they can move
Add whistles and bells to try and make it sell
And they’re gonna tinker with the sticker til it subliminally tells you
"It will get the girl, it will save the day
It's everything you wanted packaged in a better way
It's more like you than you are like yourself
You better buy one while they're still on the shelf"
Grab your ankles and close your eyes
Accept the shackles and never ask why
That's what they want
It's tough to keep yourself individually stalwart
When thinking for yourself seems to be a lost art
You can do whatever all of the advertisements say
Or try to live your life your own way
But hold true to the simple fact that
You don't have to buy this crap - Track Name: The Final Broadcast
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This is the final broadcast
From a room on the west side of town
They’re gonna pack up all the records
Before the new bosses come around
Big business bought them out
Big business made them fall
But it was their decision
To sell out instead of standing tall
This is the final broadcast
The last track is almost done
They’re gonna use the time to recollect on
All the memories that have come and gone
They were one of the first to do what they did
They survived the worst before they faded
They were one of the last ones to care
But now the final broadcast has passed through the air
They said it was the future
But they couldn’t find the guts to last
They said it was the future
But now it’s all in the past
Tell me, where is the future
After this final broadcast
