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Names of War - A Scout's Prayer (Leverage Models Cover)

from Greys by Various Artists

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Artist Notes:
"Shannon and I bonded over a mutual love for all things melodramatic many years ago. Like so many of his friends and collaborators, he pointed me in the direction of artists who would become important touchstones in my own songwriting and performing (read: Jack Nitzsche, The Blue Nile, and Richard Hawley). It felt only natural to try to tease some of that out of one his songs. This version of 'Scout's' came tumbling out, chorus first, driving around in my car one day."



Bio:
Names of War is the musical moniker of Andrew Carlson; a native of Youngstown, Ohio and current resident of Durham, NC. Carlson currently tours as a member of The Building and backing up Heather Woods Broderick and has performed/recorded with St. Vincent, Leverage Models, JBM/Jesse Marchant, and Trippers & Askers. Names of War is about catharsis, grief, and dysphoria. The resulting music is romantic, even melodramatic, calling on the tradition of singers like Roy Orbison, Glenn Campbell, Scott Walker, and Jeff Buckley.

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A Scout's Prayer (What a Man Knows)
by Leverage Models
...

Shove me around. I was in charge. It’s all my fault. Again. Bandage her up. Do you think that she'll come to?
Tell me it's all right. Show me how to ask for something bright (or hit me 'til I smile).

Here is my uncle:
He asks me, in the rapture, where I'll land. Asks if I'm a man.

He says:
"You're hardly at the age where you can say that you know precisely DICK about what pain is. Let it go, and think on this:
When the lights go out you'll have to make a fire. You will have to be a Boy Scout when the power lines fall. As the cities get cold we'll have to make a fire, when the lights go out all over the world.

"Turn around. Bodies are facts when they can be used. And you're a tiny sprout…a simple pale of shit and sentiment flailing around. Don't you tell me you know…you DON’T. Your mother was strange, she held you too close. I used to think that you was strange, but now I want you to know that here, together, in this hunting blind,
well…*I* can see where you'll go (what a man knows, when the lights go out):

YOU’LL HAVE TO MAKE A FIRE…”
&c.

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from Greys, released August 28, 2019
Performed by Andrew Carlson (Vocals/Guitar), Anthony LaMarca (Bass Guitar/Guitar/Keyboards/Percussion), and Jason Lawrence (Drums/Percussion). Produced by Andrew Carlson, Anthony LaMarca, and D. James Goodwin. Recorded at Peppermint Productions, Youngstown Ohio by Gary Rhamy. Mixed at The Isokon by D. James Goodwin

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