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You’re in Vegas. At a concert. (Did you hear someone shout?)

(Bullets sound like firecrackers. Like 4th of July.)

This song was a few notes jotted down the day Leonard Cohen died, the day after the 2016 election. “We kill the flame,” Cohen sang at the end.

Can pop hold the pain? Added to, erased over the years: Mandalay Bay, sadly, brought it here. Nation’s worst shooting. At a concert.

And then, a day later, Tom Petty. Dead. Broken heart.

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Streets are red, the market’s black
Bump stock, don’t look back
We stream while we’re young, we don’t look back
Cohen said everything’s gotta crack

I thought I heard someone shout (3x)

Streets are red, the market’s black
Bump stock, don’t look back
We dream while we’re young, we don’t look back
Tom Petty died of a heart attack

I thought I heard someone shout (3x)

Get out
Get out
Get out
Get out

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from W​̶​a​̶​r​̶​h​̶​o​̶​l​̶​a̶, track released November 5, 2020

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Famous Letter Writer New York

Philly-bred, NY-based Famous Letter Writer is the indie pop music project of award-winning writer and lyricist M.I. Devine and multi-instrumentalist Ru Devine. Full of gritty, witty, combustible pop, their debut, W̶A̶R̶H̶O̶L̶A̶, premiered in American Songwriter, where it was dubbed, "from front to back, a success" with singles featured in places like NPR ("All in my Head"). ... more

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