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Welcome To Dreamtown (fdm003)

by Chris Anderson

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Welcome To Dreamtown 00:55
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A Lovely Place 04:26
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A LOVELY PLACE it's funny how we turn our backs against each other now standing silently, we're racing violently back home breaking down another place where we discovered love get your act together they said, better head back home it's such a lovely place such a lovely place, and i don't know she's got a lovely face got a lovely face that i don't know stand up, look back to your childhood ends and i begin again the storyteller speaks a sign and sign, and endless pantomime how did we ever come to look in reverie to our time take me back too long back to the place where i belong it's such a lovely place such a lovely place, and i don't know she's got a lovely face got a lovely face that i don't know where were you when we ran to to that place so far behind i cannot remember that december sky, so cold now we've moved along we're singing different songs way out of key if i could, i'd see you one more time just out of novelty it's such a lovely place such a lovely place, and i don't know she's got a lovely face got a lovely face that i don't know -1/6/93
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Saratoga 07:21
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SARATOGA powder face on a silver scren pale white baby, seldom seen throw her secret across the skies she's now a fallen angel with bloodshot eyes singer, singer, shining on the screen every lover's lover loves the broadway scene an angel with golden hair that baby fixed another english stare i know it's been a long time but i forgot today and i know it's just a wrong time but i had to say the highway's breathing again and the right way's leading you wrong and the sideway is wasting all my time the highway's breathing again and the right way's leading you wrong becuase your blue eyes wasted all my time ----- saratoga tugged a branch from the tree of love and hate a garden party lie spoiled her innocent face secrets told could not convey the silent fool she felt inside she taste is sweet, her art is fine naive of all the lies saratoga's hanging on to a word, unspoken her mind, a cavern well her path, a swift, unbroken chain of lies and mishaps caught inside by treason a con, saratoga -March 1993
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Dream Town 07:43
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DREAM TOWN i have seen your falling-down playing in my head it's coming back in season now these darling dreams in red was it just the wrong time to wish for a better dream? it's been such a long, long time and i'm coming back you picked your perfect timing, love for going out of style you lied to me so subtlely and returned it with a smile was it just the wrong time to wish for a better dream it's been such a long, long time and i'm coming back, i'm coming back bridie, don't you turn around now and bridie sang a sad, sad song and the lies we shared have long since gone and if my dreams can swallow me calm down and see it now... welcome to dreamtown! you walked into my garden of lies and dreamed your dream again i turned and walked away from you as you were drowning in the rain oh my god, right now it is just the wrong time to dream a better dream it's been such a long, long time and i'm coming back, i'm coming back bridie, don't you turn around now and bridie sang a sad, sad song and the lies we shared have long since gone and if my dreams can swallow me calm down and see it now... welcome to dreamtown! -March 1993
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Wind 04:22
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WIND scraping pennies on a factory floor my eyes bleed red and the face they adorn is cracking from a bitter chill and i feel like i'm falling down a great big hill wind me, now make me move again my chapped hands can work no more jenny works eight hours a day, on the row and the children god bless 'em they do what they can to throw down a loaf and lend a hand wind me, now make me move again i gaze upon a sunrise with my pension in hand my heart is growing weaker ten dollars can never mend all the sorrow that swells inside carry me away, good lord i can no longer hide wind me, now make me move again -12/16/92
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Just Leave Me Alone 03:35
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JUST LEAVE ME ALONE just leave me alone i can stand on my own won't you try me? don't try to entice me take your own advice walk away from me what happened to eden? i know this ain't even the start of it all just leave me alone i can stand on my own on my own -January 1993
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I Don't Believe 03:58
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I DON'T BELIEVE i don't believe that we can celebrate i don't believe that it's never too late i don't believe in the powers above i don't believe there is a reason for love i don't believe in guantanamo i don't believe in the stories we're sold i don't believe in the stars in the sky i don't believe there is a reason for why and it's all the same, in different ways i don't see it anymore the lies are all the same i don't wanna hear it anymore the joker's wearing a different hat don't talk to me, don't talk to me it's all the same, it's all the same i don't believe in the kingdom come i don't believe that he fired the gun i don't believe in the war in the gulf i don't believe that you can save yourself i don't believe it's anything i need i don't believe there's anything but greed i don't believe in the republican i don't believe in the american and it's all the same, in different ways i don't see it anymore the lies are all the same i don't wanna hear it anymore the joker's wearing a different hat don't talk to me, don't talk to me it's all the same, it's all the same i don't believe in it took a toll i don't believe that he sold his soul i don't believe in rock and roll i don't believe that we can save the world i don't believe the walls are fallin' down i don't believe that they'll stick around i don't believe in theology i only believe in me -February 1993
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Privacy 04:29
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PRIVACY i walk this subtle monument a memoir of another life a life i left behind pardon me, as i shall walk away and dream upon another day another frame of mind what you say cannot affect me now but what you do can anger so forget me now what you hear and what i say to you may not amount to anything so leave me now yes i know, i know that time moves on flare dog baby has an open book a chapter torn and sold to you resting in your head filthy secrets garnish everyday like everyday was yesterday yeah, that's what she said the passage to utopia is barred and locked for none to see so you may never leave it's just like a lie does not exist unless there's someone to believe yes i know, i know that time moves on walk along and toss aside the evidence of your own lie to forget the past and live tomorrow as a brand new day not focused on yesterday it can never last but if you don't believe in yesterday there won't be another day to be left behind blinders only rose your view the skeptic's criticism's leaving you and, as all, you're blind yes i know, i know that time moves on -March 1993
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Garden Of Avalon 03:45
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GARDEN OF AVALON don't walk with me today lie down on another sunday i want to see you cry i want to see you left behind another tear forms in your eye it falls from another sky i know the choice is mine and i'm coming home and i remember avalon so cold and i remember avalon so cold stop, dance, sing your song i will not be there too long i just wanna go back home back home to where i feel alone these chords and this guitar is all i have to say, my love i know the choice was mine and i'm coming home and i remember avalon so cold and i remember avalon so cold these chords and this guitar to sing my sad, sad song back to the garden back where i belong rock and tilt, from side to side what do we do when we don't hide? a black box is in my head now i'm coming home back to the garden, back where i belong back to the garden, back where i belong these chords and this guitar to sing my sad, sad song back to the garden, back where i belong blatent sky in my eye avalon'll leave you behind now i know the choice was mine to, uh, go away if you see another sky tacked onto another lie i know the choice was mine and i'm coming home and i remember avalon so cold in the garden, where the trees grow old these chords and this guitar to sing my sad, sad song back to the garden, back where i belong -February 1993
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This Is The Last Time 05:49
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THIS IS THE LAST TIME this is the last time i cannot explain but when you come down too this is not the same this was your last chance darling, head back home i'll call you when i come to if i'm all alone i know, i know don't talk that way don't talk that way again and i thank you and i thank you now look at what you've done just leave me alone this is the last time don't see it anymore and if you believe me get back off the floor this is the last time fading every day when will it come down to those child's games you play i know, i know don't act that way don't act that way again and i thank you and i thank you now look at what you've done just leave me alone this is the last time kings shall always fail to cut this line i walk dust shall block my trail this was your last chance now i'm on my way i'll see you in good time when i've more to say i know, i know don't walk this way don't walk this way again and i thank you and i thank you now look at what you've done just leave me alone this is the last time... -December 1992
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Dreamtown Outro 00:17
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12.
Garage Band (bonus track) 03:35
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Deal Go Down (bonus track) 03:03
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Leaving Dreamtown (bonus track) 00:26
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about

Chris Anderson's 2nd full-length album release.

After putting together the Dialects album, I soon started planning a follow up release. Initially it was to be an album called Chinatown and was to feature tons of special guests but, as usual, that soon fell apart. Most of the songs written for that set were awful so I went back to the drawing board and started adding songs to the list. The tipping point was when I accidentally wrote "Dream Town". I was so jazzed by the song that I was inspired to record it. And so the sessions began. At the same time, the big blizzard of 1993 coincided with my first spring break from college. Since I couldn't really leave the house, I instead used that time to record this album. A couple of the songs were holdovers from the Chinatown sessions while a few were devised during the sessions, and the rest were ones that I had written in the meantime. While ideas came to me often back then, lyrics did not flow so easily, so a couple of songs on this album feature adlibbed gibberish and unfinished lines. Several of the songs from this album were later performed by my band, Carpe Diem and, in fact, this album was the inspiration for the configuration of that band.

While the Dialects album preceded this one, that set was compiled from material recorded in separate sessions and from different mindsets. As such, I have always considered this to be my first proper album, since it was written and recorded as a specific project. I was so proud when this album was done and I released it on cassette, with a cool hand-drawn cover, and I sold it for cheap. Even then, I thought this album was a mess but I still considered it to be important and it certainly led to the prolific period that was to follow.

-CA, 1/27/19

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released March 31, 1993

"produced" by Chris Anderson
Recorded and mixed at Disarray Studios, March 1993
Remastered in The Room, January 2019

CA: acoustic and electric guitars, bass, keyboards, drum kit, percussion, vocals, other shit.

All song written by Chris Anderson
(c) CA / Flying Dachshund Music (BMI)




(p)1993 (c)1993/2019 Chris Anderson / Flying Dachshund Music. All rights reserved. Unauthorized duplication is not particularly advisable.

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Chris Anderson Alexandria, Virginia

I made my first album in 1992 and I just can't quit. This site collects what came before my recording style changed in 2008. These are the records that shaped and guided me to the music I make now. Often flawed, always right. Newly remastered, with tons of bonus tracks, this catalog is my life story. A musical memoir in real time, ragged and as rough as I.


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