Dan Papson (EP)

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released 23 April 2011
Dan Papson—Keyboards, Trumpet, Vocals
Lilly-Anne Merat—Vocals
Hilary Diefenbach—Vocals
Tyler Reny—Bass
Alex Robbins—Drums
Jesse Hurwitz—Guitar
Jake Donohue—Trombone
Max Koenig—Tenor Saxophone
Aaron Wallace—Alto Saxophone (track 5 only)
Danny Schwartz—Guitar (track 5 only)

All words and music © 2011 by Dan Papson
Except for rap on track 4, written and performed by Lucas Sanoff

Recorded, Mixed and Mastered by Dan Vidali at Black Dog Recording Studio
www.danvidali.com

Cover Art by Caitlin Allen

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Born "Dan Papson," Dan Papson is now known by his stage name "Dan Papson." Hailing from the rough-and-tumble suburban ... more streets of Chevy Chase, MD, and making a pit stop at the equally street-cred-worthy Skidmore College, he now resides in Brooklyn, where he uses his musical superpowers to turn ordinary citizens into instant fans! Or at least he will if that radioactive spider ever comes through. less

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Track Name: Study Buddy
Concentrating has become so hard for me because of you
Why did I pick somebody so distracting for me to sit next to?

World civilizations have never been to me so sweet
I couldn’t tell you about ancient Greece but I shiver when our eyes meet

Woah-oh-oh-ah
I can’t hear the professor speak
Woah-oh-oh-ah
All I hear is my heartbeat

I don’t know much about the world
But I’m sure I want you girl
Ever since you came in late today
I’ve been sure we should grab a cup of coffee / study for that test together sometime wouldn’t that be nice

All my notes are just love letters, poems, and various tokens of love
When I try to recall what happened I have no memory to speak of

It’s worth failing this class to make eye contact seven or eight times a day
One day I’ll get the courage to talk to you and it’ll finally be okay

Woah-oh-oh-ah
I can’t hear the professor speak
Woah-oh-oh-ah
All I hear is my heartbeat

I don’t know much about the world
But I’m sure I want you girl
Ever since you strolled in late today
I’ve been sure we should grab a cup of coffee / study for that test together sometime wouldn’t that be nice
Track Name: Vision
When I contemplate your beauty, it’s like looking into space
Complex and mysterious, it never ends
I see something that is different every time I look at you
Nobody else can do that to me

Are you a vision child
Or something else entirely
I don’t believe
What my eyes are telling me
I don’t know what is real
Of what I see

I am set upon you darling, no one else is quite like you
I can’t explain your power over me
The only question that remains is whether you could feel the same
I’m waiting on your answer desperately

Are you a vision child
Or something else entirely
I don’t believe
What my eyes are telling me
I don’t know what is real
Of what I see

If I close my eyes
Will you disappear
Are you an apparition conjured by my consciousness?

Please don’t go away
I’d like it if you stayed
Even if you’re just a trick of the light
What do you want from me?
Track Name: Goon Nights
Pound it down quickly
It’s not about taste
You know it gets the job done
Don’t let it go to waste

That feeling in your chest now
That’s what they call fearlessness
You’re king of the world tonight
Try not to make a mess

And when you find yourself walking home all alone
Your stuff is all still at the club
You know that headache is coming, your blood is still pumping
Your eyes are bloodshot

You can’t stay up right, it’s like you’ve been in a fight
You’re almost crying now
If you could take it all back, you’d probly take it all back
But you still gotta love those, love those goon nights

You’re hurting much more now
Like you were hit by a bus
If you were a machine
You’d be covered in rust

You might drop dead any second
Your heart is filled with fear
But something changes and you push on
You’re gonna have another beer

(CHORUS)
Track Name: What We Have Become
My friends we’re surrounded by caution tape
Always so concerned with what we might break
Always looking hi and low / for the worst case scenario
We sacrifice creation to avoid mistakes

Our mothers taught us all to keep our seatbelts on
To keep the kids in line, pills are never wrong
Wrap it up in bubble wrap / it don’t get much safer than that
As long as you’re safe you don’t have to be strong

CHORUS: I don’t know (I don’t know)
I don’t know (I don’t know)
I don’t know what we’ve become

Rap Verse:
Yeah
Well if you knew what we'd become
Might turn around and run
A race with no senses, deaf blind and dumb
A place where everything's for sale, baby name your sum
Where it ain't one for all, now it's all for none

Think a change gonna come, change came and went
It's why we all scraping plates tryna save a sent
Can't afford no weed, all my money is spent
The only thing that's too high is the god damn rent

Man I don't get it, we wedded a strange philosophy
Quickly cornered the market on mediocrity
So go to jail, go directly to jail, do not pass go, act like you know this monopoly

Uh, they said it's all for the better, how we heated up the weather, still no warming the economy
Murder and guns, it's so worrisome
Man I swear to y'all, I don't know what we've become

CHORUS

(bridge in c major)
Why don’t you paint in the bomb shelter child
There’s plenty wall space for you there
Where’s the need to be free / when you’re safe as can be
When you’re as happy as me, you’ll understand