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CITYBILLY
   (demos)
Polarity/1 CD - Speechless, produced by Polarity/1, subTekst Recordings, polarity-1.com, Gregg Bendian, Pete McCann, Michael Blake, Scott Parker Allen, David Gilden
  • We Believe
  • Hot And Dry
  • Peaches In The Rain
  • A Deal's A Deal
  • Big Mama Nature
  • You'll Do
  • Hold On
  • Lone Ranger In The Rain
  • Mandolin
  • Everybody Knows
  • A Dog Named Lou
  • Benny And Belle
  • Crazy Driver
  • One More Rain
  • Daddy Was An Asshole
  • When The Shit Hits The Fan
Everybody Loves Me
You’ll Do (demo)
words & music: Polar Levine
vocals & instruments: Polarity/1
produced by Polarity/1

demo
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She was swingin’ a meat hook at the meet and greet
Said it’s a  fashion statement but it ain’t complete
Is she just hungry or is this for my sake
Now, exactly what statement are you tryin’ to make?
She said, It’s you, you, you    
Is she sending the love my way?
You’ll do, you’ll do,
is what she actually did say
I said,  Brew, what  kind of  brew can I get you?  
She said, Let's get the fuck outa here
We'll do formalities in our informal-wear

Chorus:  She’s screamin’, Kicks  Kicks  Stop kickin' the can
               Don’t wait for the oven,  start lickin’ the pan
               Kicks   Kicks   Let's get em while we can
               Before the use-by date puts our fate in the crate
               I  did  the wait wait  It’s time to satiate

She said, Don’t get me wrong, I’m a traditional  girl
Chained to tradition like an S & M pearl
The tighter the leash, the harder I pull
Get your neck in this collar now like a nice pit bull
She said, It’s you, you, you  
I think she's sending the love my way?
You’ll   do,  you’ll do  is what she actually did say
I said Whoa, baby, let me  catch my breath  
She said, I’ll tell ya how it looks from here
That pal in your pants is up for takin’ a chance  

Chorus
Hold On (demo)
words & music: Polar Levine
vocals & instruments: Polarity/1
produced by Polarity/1

Demo
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On TV and radio  they get paid to get us mad and scared
Every issue is a war and no one on the other side is spared
Hard times come around
And that's when fear gets cheaper by the pound

Pre-Chorus: I don't go to flee or fight
                     if you don't happen to be just like me
                     I can sleep without a light
                     Pundit clowns don't put a fright in me
Chorus: Hold on for our sake
             You're not from my way, but I'm sleeping OK                
              Hold on for our  sake
             How do we keep strong If half of us don't belong?

There are people we don't know
having trouble getting through each day
Who lose home & family
and we spit   'cause they don't think our way
So sure about our perfect zone  
Till we're surprised by one of our own  
   
Pre-Chorus:  We can disagree all night and
                       it's OK if you're not just like me
                       I can sleep without a light
                       I don't give up on people easily
Chorus: Hold on for our sake
             You're not from my way, but I'm sleeping OK
              Hold on for our  sake
             How do we keep strong If half of us don't belong?

Chorus: Hold on for our sake
              You're not from my way, but I'm sleeping OK
              Hold on for our  sake  
             How do we keep strong  
             If we don't belong?
A Deal's A Deal (demo)
words & music: Polar Levine
vocals & instruments: Polarity/1
produced by Polarity/1

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A hard  luck Jack and a meth head poet named Jill
Snortin’ the rent through a faded dollar bill
Crawlin’ through the window is a guy with a drill
Something bout a suitcase they’re supposed to fill
They're goin’ down slow  Slow’s the way you go down
You drop your mojo  better touch it ‘fore it hits the ground  

Bunch of my homies,  PHDs and such
Could never get the girls
and their money doesn’t solve it much
They give me stuff to think about I stuff their veins
Then clean their wallets while they’re
lookin’ for their brains              
They're goin’ down slow Slow’s the way you go down
You drop your mojo better touch it ‘fore it hits the ground  
Chorus: A deal’s a deal interest and loans
               Fast relief for an achin’ jones
              You talking to me or just another set of groans?

The moody gentleman is lying in a puddle of pee
First of his family in the university
He needed some income to pay the fee
Now he’s doing fifteen for some pills and weed
He’s goin’ down slow  Slow’s the way you go down
You drop your mojo better touch it ‘fore it hits the ground  

I make the pills and I help design the ad
The lobbyist hustles to redefine my bad
It’s a pharma chain relieving your pain  
So no legal  harm to claim
Now you're goin’ down slow  Slow’s the way to go down
You drop your mojo better touch it ‘fore it hits the ground  
Chorus




Peaches In The Rain (demo)
words & music: Polar Levine
vocals & instruments: Polarity/1
produced by Polarity/1

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Got a hatful of head  and I’m in my feet  
Like a  pogo stick in a slomo beat
Rocky wheels on a shiny road  
Mambo surfin’ a billy  mode
Sumo glidin’ in my laser suit    
Sucking  the  juice of a ganja root    
Got a hatful of head and feeling real cute

Got a hatful of head and a song to fling    
Throat full of note and that funky  bring
Kick drum droppin’ a bucket of sharks      
Loops on the lam from copyright narcs
Got a djembe head in a fractal spin        
A noseful of prose and a yang-ful of  yin        
Four AM  and it's still flyin’ in    
       
Chorus [ 2x ]: Let the love come down  
                         The love come down  
                        Let the love come down
                        Like peaches in the rain

B:  Tweezer the meter  Goin’ Boom Bang    
     Crackle the tweeter goin’ Boom Bang
     Noise get sweeter Goin’ Boom Bang  
     Makin’ the love come down

All these tap dancing preachers and juggling nurses
Lobbying for lines in  my verses
Hogging my flow with their agitation  
They don’t know they’re just my imagination
Dining car on the Coltrane,  
Eatin’ chile con carnal and a twangy eel
I’m makin’ it up but keepin’ it real

Chorus [ 2x ]
B
Chorus [ 2x ]


Hot And Dry (demo)
words & music: Polar Levine
vocals & instruments: Polarity/1
produced by Polarity/1

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There’s desire in your eye
And combat in  your high
Let’s call it greed  Let’s call it off  
There’s something else you need
I’m not in this for the therapy
I’m not playing with your fantasy
I’m not your private  piece of the  rock

Chorus: You mistake me for the rain
              ‘Cause you’re hot and dry  
              I’m not the rain I’m not what you need
              Love's not here to make us bleed  
              When you know who you are
              When you  know what to call  your pain,
              You'll see me around  
              And we’ll stare  down the eye of your hurricane.      
              But  till  then,  
              Stop calling me

Your words will never fly
If the music is a lie
Let’s set us free Let’s let it go  
It’s  time to say goodbye
I don’t want a love that’s out of key  
Lots of rhythm but no harmony
The kind that comes with a chain and lock
Chorus


Big Mama Nature (demo)
words & music: Polar Levine
vocals & instruments: Polarity/1
produced by Polarity/1

demo
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INTRO: Made it     made a mess
      Makin’ makin’ makin’ a mess
The sun goddess
   and the man in the moon
Checking out the galaxies
   trying to find a clean room
Space junk flyin’ out here
   with no space address
Those damn Earth humans
   they can't stop making a mess
Their god was exhausted
   after six days
He half-stepped their brains      
   then put the project away
He told em they can do what they want
   with animals, the land and sea
Then he took a long rest
   and left all the housework for me
Adam and Eve                
   got needy with their needs
Dumping trash all over my hair          
   then calling it weeds  

Pre-Chorus:  Here's a thing   I should mention                                                      Did that flood   get your attention?
Chorus:   Are you feeling me?
                    Don't you know it's me
                I’m Big Mama Nature  
                    Not a global conspiracy
         Are you feeling me?
                    here's the take-away
          From now on, baby
                     it's pay to play
           Made it  made it, made a mess    
                  Makin’ makin’ makin' a mess

Technology   You're sure will save ya
   Say it Mama Nature
While it's killing all the stuff we gave ya
   Big Mama Nature
You say, Hey, no worries
   we’ll capitalize
There’s a planet out there
   we can colonize
I say dream on, baby    
   Invest away    
It's gettin’ mighty late              
   You might as well pray
I'm temperamental, a ballbreaker    
   Say it Mama Nature
Since their God forced me
   to be a homemaker
You think you’re gonna save it
   singin’ with your guitars
I got a condo to sell you                  
   up on Mars

Pre-Chorus
Chorus

See those houses on fire
   Did it get your attention
Those floods are gettin' higher
   Did it get your attention  
Take care of my turf            
   I’ll treat you first class
Put a frack on my back        
   I'll put a quake up your ass
Take a dump on my carpet      
   I’ll set your hood ablaze
I'm a godless slut            
   not impressed by your praise

Pre-Chorus
Chorus

We Believe (demo)
words & music: Polar Levine
vocals & instruments: Polarity/1
produced by Polarity/1

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We are tremendous, the top of the heap  
Lobbying the gods when they're trying to sleep                        
Codifying every shade of our blues    
Pinning all the blame on the you-know-whos  
We’re on a  holy  mission: get laid and paid  
And be righteous too    
That’s how we’re made  

Chorus:  ‘Cause we believe    Yeah   We believe  
               I believe we got a pile of stress to relieve
               So we believe   Uh huh  We believe    
               We all believe we’re puffin’ on a bona fide peeve  
               Tallying  our deficits in disappearing ink  
               Everyone believes their shit don't stink  

My tribe is the best   And my country, my  hood  
Now some won't agree but I believe they should  
They won't see the light  Got some goddamn gumption
They're out there eatin’ children or somethin'
I  wanna reach out, help em understand  
Troll em to the runway where I think they should land

Chorus:  ‘Cause we believe   Yeah, we believe    
               I do believe we got some stress to relieve  
               So we believe   Uh  huh   We believe  
               Our senses should be telling us we’ve  7 taken leave                                                                                                                      
               Our cuteness and the universe are all in synch  
               Every one believes their shit don't stink  

Politics is complex   So let’s make it a game  
Pundits with updates on which group to blame  
Inconvenience is tyranny  Call  in the musketeers  
And a psycho demagogue to surf our fears  
We’re migrants in a land of customized truth  
Where we’re great again or woke in eternal youth

Chorus: ‘Cause we believe  Yeah, we believe    
               We got a crazy mess of stress to relieve  <
               So we believe   Uh huh  
               We believe that what we want is all there is to perceive  
               God    is up there laughin' with a devilish wink    
               Watchin’ us believe that our shit don't stink

Lone Ranger In The Rain (demo)
words & music: Polar Levine
vocal and guitar: Polarity/1
‍produced by Polarity/1

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Lone Ranger in the rain searching for a virgin vein
Long Dong Novocaine
Is nodding through the hurricane
More money, more honey
More honkin', more tonkin'
Still bangin' that good-guy theme
But it just ain't like the good ol' team


No more Tonto to boss around
No one to clean the camping ground
No one to hold when the night is long
Kemosabe no more strong
Coyotes howl, bad guys prowl
Feed the horse, stay the course
The lonesome sun is going down
Just can't trust no injun clown

Chorus: Oh Tonto, you were his boy
              You left the masked man so lonely without his toy
              You never had his taste for the law
              And helping the paleface rape the squaw
              So move on, move on, Native Son
              Go on - you be the Righteous One
              Do it, do it.
              Do it, do it - be The One
              Do it. Yeah, you be The One
              Go on - be The One

Ain't no more cowboy scene
A mask is just for Halloween
Lone Ranger in the rain
A silver bullet to ease the pain

Roll the credits, roll and splice
Roll them suckers, roll the dice
Tonto now deals the jack and spade
Believes he's no more being played

Chorus
Mandolin (demo)
words & music: Polar Levine
vocal & instruments: Polarity/1
produced by Polarity/1

Demo
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Mandolin, do your dance. Baby, do it with me
'Cause the night is red. Yeah, we're chemistry

Mandolin, are we lost in a jam like dolphins at sea
Our music in the air. Yeah, it's harmony

Bridge: There's a concert in my heart
              Since the day I first heard you, Baby
              It's a song, it needs a part
              And it's waiting for you
              'Cause I'm so in love with you
              Yeah, I'm so in love with you
              Yeah, I'm so in love with you

Mandolin, is this my last affair -
The one true tool for me
Our song is in the air. Yeah, we're harmony

My mandolin, do your dance. Baby do it with me
'Cause the night is red. Yeah, we're chemistry
Everybody Knows (demo)
words & music: Polar Levine
vocals & instruments: Polarity/1
produced by Polarity/1

Demo
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Everybody thinks we're goin' wrong  
Thinkin' that our house ain't worth a song    
They just know they can't be wrong ‘cause they just know

They seem to know that I just got canned        
And my rocket  is  unmanned
I'm a CEO stud on the other hand  
They all seem to  know
B: We should be pissed   We should be burning  
    But it's too funny to get my goat
    It's just other people yearning
     for a lifeboat that will float

They just know,  they know, they know, they know
They know that we can't have kids
even though you're three months along
They think our love is on the skids  Everybody knows

Chorus: Everybody knows ‘bout what we have going on
             The  story grows in the bar and the hair salon
             They think they know the deal  
             ‘Cause they hear us talkin' bout what's real
             So the rumor grows  
              ‘cause everybody thinks that they know

We were arrested somebody said    
Or was it a cop show on TV
How do they get this in their head?  
They all seem to know
They think that we're not really wed,
that we're just about a bed
A shotgun wedding, on the other hand  
They all seem to know

B: We get sick of stupid rumors  
     A pain in the ass but it don't bruise
    Fixated on some other guy's blues
    ‘Cause they ain't makin' their  own news
    They just know, they know, they know, they know
     They think our life is a reality show  
     Every weird little detail grows
     They think our love is on the skids  
       Everybody knows
Chorus
A Dog Named Lou (demo)
words & music: Polar Levine
vocal & guitar: Polarity/1
produced by Polarity/1

Demo
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Two times two
A dog named Lou
A smack across the chin
A needle, thread and pin

I'm talking to my mother
She's talking to her little brother
He was sixty when he died a few years ago
The numbers on her meter are all aglow
She's technically alive. Two times two is five

A wagon full of fruit.
Laughing in her bathing suit
She can't get up or walk to the bathroom
Now she's screaming,
"I lived a life, now I'm ready to go, please let me go
Those bastards say No. Where's Lou?
Who the hell are you?"

The dog named Lou
The kangaroo
The dolphins jump and dive
The bees in their hive
They don't waste a minute pondering
Who put them there, they're just being alive

They don't need tales about eternity
Or comforting mythology
They don't impose sanctity
To force her heart to pump until it's
Too late... too late
To hold us in her arms and say goodbye
A room full of strangers -
we watch her crumble and die
Benny And Belle (demo)
words & music: Polar Levine
vocals & instruments: Polarity/1
produced by Polarity/1

Demo
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Belle sets her eyes on every green light  
Moving like oil through an oily night and
Cruisin’ breezy, never faster than she has to  
Wherever she's going she'll always arrive

Chorus: At the right time Always she's right on time
             The right time   Always she's right on time
             The right time   Always she's right on time

Benny takes his time, thinks everything through
Automatic in the attic and his thinking symptomatic
Of a guy who invents what he can’t buy  
He don’t sweat it cause he’ll catch it on the fly

Chorus

Bridge:  At the right time, always in the right place
             They always win cause they’re never in a race
             Don’t need someone to tell them or give em a quiz
             They can see  for themselves
              what ain't and what is
             At the right time  They’re always right on time  

Benny was always her   bottle of moonlight
Keepin' Belle laughin’ and squealin’ through the night
Was a long and hot one when they planted me
Belle was pushing and shovin’   I was playin’ in the oven till

Chorus


Benny & Belle kept  kickin’ up hell  
Till their  tops went gray & they started to smell
But they shimmied, never gimme’d  till the very end
And they went out together like they always intended at the

Chorus

Bridge
Crazy Driver (demo)
words: Polar Levine & Lee Kotick
music: Polar Levine
vocals & instruments: Polatity/1
produced by Polarity/1

Demo
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Green is to go and red's to stop
The lights are there to make the pressure drop
Things do get slow, so damn slow
I forget where I was trying to go


Like a fast-moving train doing time in the rain
Red light won't do, I'll invent a new lane
Can't stand where I'm going. Too big a load
But if I'm not there soon I'm gonna explode
Chorus:
 How the hell do I keep this pace?
 How the hell did I get into this race?
 If I were you and you were me
 We'd be chewing the chain link fence to get free
 Of this traffic and all the congestion
 This crazy driver, crazy driver
 This crazy driver needs a new direction


Time to slow down to avoid a collision
Gotta stop all the drama - just make a decision
Been pushin' the mountain, pushin' too far
Who's in control, the driver or the car?


Green is to go and red's to stop
The lights, they're just some kind of prop
I'm a crazy driver, so I've been told
Got to be the only junk on the road


Chorus
One More Rain (demo)
words and music: Polar Levine
vocal, guitar, ambience: Polarity/1
produced by Polarity/1

Demo
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I was born in the winter on a chilly day
Eighty degrees and going down
The sun was laughin' as it dropped away
Behind the Statue of Liberty's crown

The New York Yankees were a baseball team
From my home town so long ago
Before they left to go way up north
Where sometimes in winter they still get snow

Chorus:
    One more rain... One more rain...
    One more day of rain...
    You can see out the window all you need to know
    The water's rising, it's time to go

Mama reached New York at a real young age
From a place called San Antonio
Grabbed her dolly while the water's rage
Busted the gates of the Alamo

So many left and moved up here
Broke and muddy, without a home
An empty old ruin is where they'd stay
Till old Yankee Stadium got washed away

Chorus

Way far back, a scared little boy
Crossed the ocean on a mighty ship
A giant green lady said, "Now you're home"
Pointed to Manhattan with her fingertip

I read all about the old Broadway
People used to walk there, right on the ground
Now that giant lady the little boy saw
Is standing in the water up to her jaw

Chorus

My grandma told it a hundred times
They warned for years 'bout the coming change
Politicians did nothing while it all got worse
Puppies on the leash of the corporate purse

Chorus:
    One more rain... One more rain...
    One more day of rain...
    You can see out the window all you need to know
    The water is rising, it's time to go
    One more rain... One more rain...
    One more day of rain...
    You can see out the window all you need to know
    Take a last look around, it's time to go

I was born in the winter on a chilly day
Eighty degrees and going down
Never been that cold since then
I'm tired of thinkin' bout what might've been
Daddy Was An Asshole (demo)
words & music: Polar Levine
vocal & instruments: Polarity/1
produced by Polarity/1

Demo
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Daddy was an asshole, an asshole to his core
Made me laugh on his good days
But an asshole evermore

It was George Jones, James Brown
Coltrane, Celia Cruz
Rock and rap and ragas, flamenco, reggae, blues
What kind of horn did Bird play?
Who wrote the Blue Suede Shoes?
Daddy was an asshole. There are no undos

Chorus:
 Daddy was an asshole. Today he is the same
 Had music in his belly and pictures in his brain
 He made me practice every day
 Each day I'd hate him more
 Made me laugh on his good days
 But an asshole evermore

Picasso and the cubists and Salvador Dali
Dada and abstraction and anthropology
Metaphors and dinosaurs, philosophers and funk
Daddy was an asshole and I hate all his junk

Then I had my own son. I swore I'd do it right
Gave him video games and candy bars
Cartoons and Bud Lite
I taught him how to monster burp
Steal bicycles and fight
Now he's reading fuckin Menken
And bangin' drums all night


My kid, he's an asshole, and I'm an asshole's son
Three green peas in a green pea soup
I'm the only normal one
I pimp roll in Armani and subprime is my trade
Daddy was an asshole, but me - I'm gettin' paid
When The Shit Hits The Fan
words & music: Polar Levine
produced by Polarity/1
vocals & guitar: Polarity/1

Demo
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Well, there ain’t no use in cussin’ and cryin’  
About these confusing and insecure times
My temper gets hot but I don’t talk a lot    
Instead I just say it in rhyme

The terrorists are crazy and politicians lie  
Saying whatever to stoke the divide
If  I  had my way,  I’d leave here today  
If there was only some place to hide

Chorus: Oh the end is a-comin’   I can smell it in the air  
        And when it does happen  I really won't care
        It may never get better   Whatever we do
        But when the shit hits the fan, baby
        I'll be under the covers with you

Tornadoes are twirlin'  Rats are crawling in my window
The landlord has uglies parked at my door
And here I just sit with a nicotine fit    
Serenading the bugs on the floor

Well, I won’t get upset  ‘cause the worst ain’t here yet
Though my sense of humor is going downhill
But as long as there’s hope, I’ll have one more toke    
I still have some time left to kill

Chorus