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Dancing Dogs

by Nana Grizol

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If you do now find yourself wondering where to go If you do find yourself wandering some lonely road In search of snow, or home Or whatever you chose Hung on, hung in, hung out, hung up Hung here are pictures of the ones we'll always love I wonder when, oh when will pictures be enough And time means less and less ever since this begun The years will all blend into one Time and again I think, I hope your having fun Gave on, gave in, gave out, gave up
2.
You fell in love with the sunshine And you took a walk with a boy You spent half a year on the verge of tears Just because nothing ever feels like it did before So now I understand if you're bitter Frankly sometimes I do feel the same It's amazing how in your own homes how the comfort and the pain Well they just grow This is the field where I realized I loved you And they just grow This is the diner where we learned that people die before their time sometimes The impermanence of it all Don't you let it make you feel too very small We saw new constellations with each observation The night sky grows bigger it seems But under our ceilings is much more revealing You'll find what we found in our dreams And I dreamt that all my old friends got together again Had a potluck or something, somewhere that we've never been And we settle and it's so strange The way that people in situations change You got caught up in some crazy current Now it seems as though we speak a completely different language But you'll always be as beautiful as the moment that we met And so I tried to write a song for my father San francisco bus ride that take way too long He said "you're coming back home boy Don't feel so alone Love yourself and you'll do no wrong." But the interstate and life go on and on And on and on and on and on And I wrote my dad a nice blackbox recording Just to hear what people say When they realize what's coming About a second or so away He said, "it starts with 'oh shit' and it ends with 'I'm sorry'" And it plays in his head all the time And I'm not oh and it's so crazy The ways we all sabotage our very own peace of mind
3.
I once saw a sunset so vivid and warm that I swore it was perfect I once had a lover, I'm not sure if I'll recover, but I know it was worth it Then, last night in the car, the falling raindrops looked like stars of some incalculable speed Then later, my friends said "Good to see you again, this is a home to me" So I wrote a song and I called it "The Love of my Life" Said "don't be gone long", it now sings me to sleep every night And I never learned a lesson looking at my own reflection, But sometimes it seems useful So I loosen my heart strings in high hopes Of starting to find something truthful Cynicism isn't wisdom, It's a lazy way to say that you've been burned It seems, if anything, You'd be less certain after everything you ever learned
4.
I saw the best minds of my generation passed out in their prime, Waiting on a suitable time for waking up. I must have looked in your eyes about two thousand times But I never saw a sign, No, Nothing to say "this was a time for giving up..." And if you somehow still believe in love, Try not to let it hurt so bad Don't you know that you always had everything that you need? If there was something in the stars above Besides our sentiments and masses of gasses, I used to swear that it still hadn't shown itself to me, But why should it? I had a dream about parking lots and shopping malls and lies. The only words anyone could muster were just "Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye" And ain't I ashamed, ain't I ashamed to engage in these infantile notions of pain? When we wake up, it's always the same, Still I hope everything is okay... I took a walk in your shoes, you know that I got the blues Thinking about how there's this wall, It makes climbers of us all 'til we eventually fall And so you talk about your ideals like they're not how you feel, Like they're a dream you hold inside, an old plan left unrealized Until the day that it died. Well, if you're waiting on the world to change, Don't waste your precious heart, Oh, I know that you are too smart to think that it will. That sure is one way to live But one day something has got to give, And if you're not ready, You sure fancy yourself lonesome still. So don't cry so hard for things that haven't come yet, Don't live your life like it's already gone, And don't listen to closely to nobody just trying to make themselves feel better with some song.
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Sleep in some Safe song to hum Dreams we've spun and Will run from The heavy head That goes to bed Wishing for some New day to come and is a High load of the beating of your memories That in their light make your days bright and dark Said in my pockets there is sand Oh, from many different lands I long only for the one that's marked with stars Cuz my home it holds my bed, my head, my heart Spent your days searching for some sunset Search for sunset, yeah you search for so long Drenched in darkness are you so full of pride now Cuz you saw what you were seeking, now the sunset is gone But the sun will rise a thousand times and Will you still be so surprised to say For every sun that is somewhere setting There is one that is somewhere set to rise Every pretty thing you find yourself forgetting There's a million nasty moments set to widen your eyes So I know it's best to hold my tongue Not trapped myself in time Till you come home and Listen to the ones you cannot remember Sing as loud as the ones you can't forget These autumn days lead to another December Furnished with a feeling that you haven't shaken yet And on and on What went wrong? Sing yourself a story to the same old song, yeah, well You might also like For Things That Haven’t Come Yet Nana Grizol Photos From When We Were Young Nana Grizol Maroon Taylor Swift It's the lighthouse where I said I'd always love you In the end, where I never knew your name In our lifetimes there's so many things we could do so I wish we wouldn't spend them polishing our own pain And you sang a song for time Give me the one that's right for spying and To the ones as they go past you To the ones that you will one day leave behind Speak kindly to the ones who never found the words to ask you, though A million years could pass and they would never seem to mind And I refuse to believe it was ever naive to say Give your heart to everything that you could find Try yourself, you try instead of everything you think, you said Everything that matters is sure to take time this fearsome face We'll find its place Give it time and Give it space Give it a name It'll come if you call it Give it shape Even if that's how you recalled
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We try to take nothing for granted Like breakfast, and breathing, and short term memory But sometimes it gets so cold you almost can't stand it To remember is to be reminded so insensitively That it's hard not being told who to be But the tradeoff is incredible just to know that you're free The best trapeze artists perform with no nets No one ever won a jackpot on a gentleman's bet So you wake up from the best dreams just to find your bed's wet And of course no life comes without a hint of regret But you can drive to Indiana Visit your metal friends in Savannah Or fly to England on a plane And though all the maps say that you are far away There are memories, warm feelings which will always remain Like college radio late nights And heart to hearts, curbsides The sheer beauty of which there are not words to explain The ghosts in the attic sure beat TV static We were up all night and damn near insane And all the time learning from each other how to keep out the rain
8.
We try to take nothing for granted Like breakfast, and breathing, and short term memory But sometimes it gets so cold you almost can't stand it To remember is to be reminded so insensitively That it's hard not being told who to be But the tradeoff is incredible just to know that you're free The best trapeze artists perform with no nets No one ever won a jackpot on a gentleman's bet So you wake up from the best dreams just to find your bed's wet And of course no life comes without a hint of regret But you can drive to Indiana Visit your metal friends in Savannah Or fly to England on a plane And though all the maps say that you are far away There are memories, warm feelings which will always remain Like college radio late nights And heart to hearts, curbsides The sheer beauty of which there are not words to explain The ghosts in the attic sure beat TV static We were up all night and damn near insane And all the time learning from each other how to keep out the rain
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The color of an afternoon just like when you were 5 years old The moon over the ocean I've seen from a island evening Progression does start to lose it's meaning If we have spent most of a lifetime dreaming Then dreaming is the state we shall keep The stories of our solitudes will sing themselves to sleep And we will sing to everything, the stories of where we have beens The history that's coursing through our veins No, nothing factual is written on a page So surely and so steadily, a slowly moving cloud will whisper "I am but for hours born to last And your soggy soaking future is my foggy fading past And so now if you want to wish upon me, wish upon me fast Whatever can be held in your heart, well, is surely yours to grasp" So you wish for a picture of all of the people that you had the pleasure to know Or a postcard from all of the places that you ever wanted to go Saying, "You are here now on this magical night" The southern sky at sunset, well, it's such a stunning sight You can sleep safely and soundly and you are loved And nothing ever does begin like nothing ever ends Ask every atom in your body and they're sure tell you "Friend, I'm old as time and older still And you are made of everything you love, you feel, or kill I will outlive you, and forgive you, and be just a baby still"

about

We recorded these songs over the winter of 2008-2009 at our HQ in Athens. We really loved the frenetic energy and warm analog sound of these recordings, but decided to record all of these songs again with Derek Almstead in the sessions that became our second studio album, "Ruth."

We've wanted to release this record for a long time. It used to feel like a picture of another direction the band could have taken. Now we think of it more like a snapshot of the band from a different angle. We hope you enjoy it!

We are releasing this album now to support two causes dear to our hearts. One is Cruisin Records, a DIY label putting out queer art and music. The other is Another Gulf Is Possible, which is a group that describes itself as "a women-of-color centered, grassroots collaborative of ten members from Brownsville, Texas to Port St Lucie, Florida." They are doing some critical work during the long recovery from Hurricanes Ida and Ian, prefiguring the world we want to live in.

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released December 23, 2022

NANA on these recordings: Theo Hilton, Jared Gandy, Robbie Cucchiaro, Matte Cathcart, Laura Carter, Patrick Jennings, Ryn "knuckles" grace, Lacey Jon, Ian Rickert, Scott Spillane, Nesey Gallons, Julian Koster.

Engineered by Nesey Gallons, mastered in 2009 by Derek Almstead and AGAIN in 2021 by Jason NeSmith

Art is by Landon Sheely - @landonsheely on instagram--great stuff!!

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Nana Grizol is a rock band from Athens, GA. Their most recent album, South somewhere Else, is about growing up in that town. In addition to Theo, Jared, Robbee, and Matte, South Somewhere Else features BZ Gibbs, Sherri Miller, and Kym Register. Cover painting by Patrick Sprague ... more

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