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No Police in Paradise (Please​!​)

from High Holy Hills by Poor Player

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    4-panel digipak with original cover design by Marija Franetovic. Includes free download of bonus track, 'Motor City'.

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lyrics

The cop cracked my skull against the ground
(No police in paradise)
D.O.A. is what the coroner found
(No police in paradise)

At the pearly gate I saw Saint Peter
(No police in paradise)
Hungover, unshaven and he wore a wife beater
(No police in paradise)

Puh-lease, puh-lease—no police in paradise!
No police or I’m outta here—no police in paradise!

Well I robbed a bank, I started a war
(No police in paradise)
I plundered the place for all it was for
(No police in paradise)

I saw a hundred virgins, did what I could
(No police in paradise)
It was hard work but for the heavenly good
(No police in paradise)

Puh-lease, puh-lease—no police in paradise!
No police or I’m going to hell—no police in paradise!

Well, the cop who killed me asked to bum a dime
(No police in paradise)
I said, “Don’t you know the rules, there’s no money and no time!”
(No police in paradise)

Holy prophets were getting ripped on Scripture
(No police in paradise)
Isaiah burped, said, “We’re secure for sure”
(No police in paradise)

Puh-lease, puh-lease—no police in paradise!
No police I’m going to hell—no police in paradise!

I saw an old man with a fiery beard
(No police in paradise)
Well my heart beat fast and I quaked with fear
(No police in paradise)

Then that old man with a fiery beard
(No police in paradise)
He sent out his son who said have no fear
(No police in paradise)

Then I saw my wife, I said they let you in!?
(No police in paradise)
She knocked me top the head and started swearing
(No police in paradise)

Puh-lease, puh-lease—no police in paradise!
No police or it’ll go to hell—no police in paradise!

Well the sky started fallin' and I lost my balance
(No police in paradise)
St. John said, “This is the heavenly dance”
(No police in paradise)

We hit the world with frightening speed!
(No police in paradise)
In the end someone said, This what the place needs
(No police in paradise)

Puh-lease, puh-lease—no police in paradise!
No police or it’ll go to hell—no police in paradise!

credits

from High Holy Hills, released January 1, 2015
Matt Fredericks - vocals, acoustic guitar, organ
Stuart Tucker - drums
Brian Simon - lead guitar, mandolin
Ian Williamson - bass
Fred Vitale - piano, rhodes
Adam Druckman - bass, pedal steel, lead guitar

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Poor Player Detroit, Michigan

Motor City folk rock Americana born of beverages, Poor Player takes to the stage with a hopped up grab bag of American riddles and laments. Saluting the guy flying a sign beside the highway exit, zigzagging through the post-industrial prairie, Poor Player is all about finding the roots beneath the rubble, the green beneath the ruin, the folk in the f*d up, & the beauty in the city gone to seed. ... more

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