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Jericho - Berlin

from Last Of A Dying Breed by Mäkkelä

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about

Going nuts one very hot summer night in Berlin after playing a gig on a roof top with my tour buddy, Clark Nova, is sort of predictable. Running into a massive, drunk, tattoed bloke in a bar on the way home probably as well. The interesting bit starts if this bloke you wouldn't want to mess with turns out to be a rabbi. There's some urban voodoo in here.

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the boys in their tuxedos
when they kicked it off that night
bound for glory in their madness
screaming prayers off the roof tops
in this city's fading light
to the patron saints of darkness
with a burning sky behind them
runs them shivers down your backbone
gives you shivers down your spine

I can see the walls a tumblin
and i smell there will be rain
and the heat is just enormous
yes i bet it fries my brain

and Berlin can't be the answer
no Berlin can't be the answer
if Jericho's the name

ran into twenty stone of rabbi
who'd turn water into booze
tonight I'm really shaky
with that fever in my head
and the monkey on my shoulder
sings the depravation blues
runs them shivers down my backbone
runs them shivers down my spine

the crack is getting bigger
tonight it all comes down
I can see the waters rising
and i know that i will drown

and Berlin won't be the answer
no Berlin can't be the answer
if the answer's Jericho

i can feel it coming closer
I can hear them cock their guns
I can feel my head exploding
like a hundred million suns

and this town is not an answer
it's just a different frame
for a portrait of desaster
Jericho it's name

no this town is not the answer
it's just a different frame
for a portrait of desaster
Jericho by name

credits

from Last Of A Dying Breed, released September 4, 2015
Mäkkelä - acoustic guitar, irish bouzouki, vocals
Isabel Rössler - double bass
Pentti Dassum - kücheperkussionz

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Finnish-German, Papua-born singer-songwriter performing solo and in numerous collaborations. Mäkkelä, Folk's Worst Nightmare Collective, Maekkelae & Orkesteri, Church Of The Blue Nun, Maekkelae & Grae J. Wall, The Anglo German Low Stars, The Très Biens, The Goho Hobos... ... more

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