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The Devil's Knockin' on My Door

by Attila Tapolczai

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1.
I Cannot Pull the Stars from the Sky 03:12
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I Cannot Pull the Stars from the Sky I remember the day we were walking around In this little graveyard in your town It was a sunny day at the end of May On this bench by a tree we were sitting down [Chorus:] This day has long gone by But my feelings never passed by I feel, for you, I could even die But I cannot pull the stars from the sky I remember the day sitting by a lake, We were feeding the fishes, your hand in mine I always wanted you, you always wanted me, That was the common feeling beating in our hearts [Chorus] I remember the day when I was driving away, guitar in my hand, tears in my eyes You knew that I was poor, I knew that you were poor, we had no other chance to build our life [Chorus]
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Walkin' Away 03:05
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Walkin' Away Faces and pleasant voices All of them I met on my way Mirroring and echoing in my heart As I'm walk, walk, walkin' away Traces and memories That I left behind every single day Showin' me that nothing will remain the same As I'm walk, walk, walkin' away [Chorus:] And when it's time to say goodbye I know I can't leave without tears And though there are doubts in my mind I'll have to do it without fears And I don't want to waste my...I don't want to waste my time Raindrops, snow flakes Winds and dust and each single sun ray Leaving their effects upon my skin As I'm walk, walk, walkin' away Good days, bad days Always been telling me another tale It's all being now a part of my life As I'm walk, walk, walkin' away [Chorus] Words and melodies That I learned and taught and sang and played All ringin' dearly in my ears As I'm walk, walk, walkin' away Tears and laughter Have been forming my face this way Reminding me of all my friends As I'm walk, walk, walkin' away [Chorus]
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Better Off Dead 03:00
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Better Off Dead Brett Gurewitz & Greg Graffin (Bad Religion) I’m sorry about the sun How could I know that you’d get burned? And I’m sorry about the moon How could I know that you’d disapprove And I’ll never make the same mistake The next time I create the universe I’ll make sure we communicate at length Oh Yeah But until then better off dead A smile on the lips and a hole in the head Better off dead, yeah better than this Take it away ‘cuz there’s nothing to miss I’m sorry about the world How could I know you’d take it so bad And I’ll never make the same mistake The next time I create the universe I’ll make sure we communicate at length Oh Yeah But until then better off dead A smile on the lips and a hole in the head Better off dead, yeah better than this Take it away ‘cuz there’s nothing to miss Better off dead, yeah better off dead Why don’t you try pushing daisies instead Better off dead, yeah better off dead Smile on the lips and a hole in the head And I’ll never make the same mistake The next time I create the universe I’ll make sure you participate Oh Yeah… And I’ll never make the same mistake The next time I create the universe I’ll make sure you participate Just in case
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Somebody 04:51
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Somebody Somebody is raising trees in the garden Somebody buys rain forests and cuts them Somebody takes good care of children Somebody goes home and beats or kills them [Chorus:] Somebody wants to walk with me Somebody would never speak a word to me Somebody wants to set me free Somebody would build a jail for me Somebody plays a game with folks and cheats them Somebody stands up and says: 'Let's stop them!' Somebody has love and respect for women Somebody just owns and use and abuse them Somebody thinks we're all equal as humans Somebody treats men like dogs and shoots them [Chorus] Somebody pours poison into our water Somebody tries to clean it over and over Somebody plows whole populations under Somebody would die for helping people [Chorus] 2x
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Lost in the Forest 03:11
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Walk On Boy 03:13
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Walk On Boy I was born one mornin', The rain a-pourin' down, Heard my mammy say to my pappy, "Let's call him John Henry Brown." [Chorus:] Walk on, boy; walk on down the road; Ain't nobody in this whole wide world A-gonna help you carry your load. I left my mammy and pappy Just about the age of ten; Lord, I got me a job a-workin' on the levee Totin' water for the hard workin' men. One day my pappy told me, "Some advice I wanna give to you -- Son, find a good woman, be good to her, An' she's gonna be good to you." If anyone should ever ask you, "Just who is that fella Brown?" You can tell him I'm the boy who left his hammer smokin' Where he beat that steam drill down.
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Chilly Winds 03:27
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Chilly Winds Oh, chilly winds are blowing around Trailed by hatred, leaving fear behind Man's irrational thoughts are unleashed again We have less and less place to hide Oh, chilly winds are piercing to the bone Getting people out of their mind, it seems the brakes are gone Blows and roars, stirring up the deepest soil of the past Demons arose with enormous groans [Chorus:] Oh, who will stop the chilly winds before They get into the hearts from where they can't turn back no more So let us build a shelter out of love side by side Where children of every color can hide Oh, chilly winds are blowing around Driven by the absence of a meaningful life So the anger finds a way to break through the mind As the lords of Necropolis arrive [Chorus]
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Rod McNeil 03:48
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Rod McNeil Now I make my living from a circuit I made Out of trial and error and gigs that I've played It might be the money or the town that it's in But mostly it's people make you come back again There was one little place that I played every year It's outside of Pittsburgh, and I guess it's still there Just a little old Moose lodge, the crowd was okay But you never got rich from the money they'd pay It's mostly been silent since Rod was around But that place used to ring with a bluegrassy sound And I'll never forget the way he made me feel A big man with a bigger heart, named Rod McNeil Beg you might arrive tired and dark in a gloom Then he'd buy a big dinner and pay for your room Pete Rowan would hug him and call him his dad That day the lonely road didn't seem bad I saw this and said that I'd buy it for Tim, Didn't I Marty, he'd say with a grin And I keep that toy fiddle on my window sill To remind me of Rod and those grey Pittsburgh hills It's mostly been silent since Rod was around But that place used to fill with a bluegrassy sound And I'll never forget the way he made me feel A big man with a big heart, named Rod McNeil
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The Sea of Superficiality 04:00
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The Sea of Superficiality You and me In the sea Of superficiality Where nothing’s Innerly Pretended gladness around me But I’m blue Where are you? Please help me somehow to find you In this huge Plastic sea Of superficiality
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The Market 02:50
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The Market There is a place called The Market And this is the mightiest place in the whole world You can buy, you can sell anything you want For the great supply you find no word And there's a house near the market And this is the house where happy people work There's a sign on the door 'production' But nobody really knows what's going in there [Chorus:] And then you walk inside the house 'Labour-power' is your new name And there you work for 10-12 hours In a profit-making game And when your time is over Go and get the things you need to survive and pay Wasn't it a beautiful day? What a great place is the market 'Cause this is the place where everybody's free You can exchange here whatever you have Nowhere else there's such equality Everything works fair in the market No trade violation you can see Social relations between things Controlled by a mysterious hidden hand [Chorus] [Chorus:] And then you walk inside the house 'Labour-power' is your new name And there you work for 10-12 hours As a profit-making machine And when your time is over Go and get the things you need to survive and pay Wasn't it a beautiful day? On the marketplace Nothing but fair-play Everybody say What a beautiful day
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Augusta Reel 03:59
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Mack the Knife 03:57
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Moritat (Mack the Knife) As performed by Lyle Lovett for the film Quiz Show: See the shark with teeth like razors You can read his open face And MacHeath, he's got a knife, and In such an obvious place On a beautiful blue Sunday, See a corpse stretched in the Strand See a man dodge 'round the corner... Mackie's friends will understand. Mr. Meier reported missing Like so many wealthy men: Mack the knife acquired his cashbox God alone knows how or when Jenny Towler, she turned up lately With a knife stuck through her breast While MacHeath, he walks the embankment, Nonchalantly unimpressed And the ghastly fire in Soho, Seven children at a go In the crowd stands Mac the knife, but He isn't asked, he doesn't know And the child bride in her nightgown, Whose assailants still at large Violated in her slumbers Mackie how much did you charge? Yes, the child bride in her nightgown Whose assailants still at large Violated in her slumbers Mackie how much did you charge? Mackie how much did you charge? How much did you charge? How much did you charge? How much did you charge? How much did you charge?
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The Devil's Knockin' on My Door 03:06
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The Devil's Knocking on My Door I've seen another star-economist on the TV He told us everything is alright, on his graphs all you can see He never lived on the ground He never cared what's going down Another lie of our mad times I heard another gypsy child has been shot down Young men in Nazi uniform marching around They want to paint everything red They make more people go mad They're obviously being misled [Chorus:] And all hell breaks loose tonight I need to be strong enough if I want to save my mind The Devil's knocking on my door I don't want to fear him anymore Another crying mother sent her son to war Fantastic opportunities for the sadist and the poor This is a real fascination For a sick generation In the 21st century depression Another riot took place in the heart of the town Desperate workers are on strike for they don't want to go down The laws treat them really bad The bourgeoisie's gone mad ‘No more welfare’ that's what they said [Chorus:] And all hell breaks loose tonight I need all you good hearts if I want to save my mind The Devil's knocking on my door I don't want to see him anymore I've seen good things, I've met many true people in my life I've read good thoughts that gave me moral and helped me to survive And I know many of us may fall But we've got something to fight for So come all you good people more and more 'Cause the Devil's knocking on my door October, 2010

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Recorded in Augsburg, Germany between December 2010 - February 2011

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released February 4, 2011

Attila Tapolczai - guitar, vocals, mandolin, recording, mixing
Johanna Regenbogen - viola, vocals (1,2,7)
László Pásztor - bass guitar, vocals 1,7)

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Attila Tapolczai Augsburg, Germany

Attila Tapolczai is a singer-songwriter, guitar and mandolin player. Previously doing many years of punk rock, he formed his first acoustic group in 2005 which became known as Attila & Friends.

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