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Gotham City Breakdown (folked​-​up version)

from Folk Appetizer by GrooveLily

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We carefully and obviously removed the word "s**t" from this song in the hopes that we'd get some folk radio airplay. It worked.

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Feels like I'm headed for a Gotham City breakdown
The water level's rising up above the whole town
I'm like a minnow in the world's biggest fishbowl
I think I'm headed for the darkest night of my soul
I turn and paddle more...can't even see the shore
I'm in a whirlpool of city and I'm losing my mind

Feels like I'm headed for a Gotham City breakdown
My head is spinning on this urban merry-go-round
The bumper cars are lining every avenue now
The carnival is just an overcrowded zoo now
And everybody's rude...I need some solitude
We gotta stop this roller coaster 'cause I'm losing my mind

We've got to break from Gotham while there's still a way out of town
We've got to break from Gotham City 'cause if we don't break this party up
Then any day now Gotham City's gonna break us down

Feels like I'm headed for a Gotham City breakdown
Somebody kicked me off the stairway to the high ground
Nobody listens to the song I want to sing here
Nobody gives a particular four-letter word beginning with "s" and ending with "t" about a single thing here
I'm sliding down a hill...though I am standing still
The world is spinning all around me and I'm losing my mind

We've got to break from Gotham while there's still a way out of town
We've got to break from Gotham City 'cause if we don't break this party up
Then any day now Gotham City's gonna break us down

credits

from Folk Appetizer, released February 1, 2001
Written by: Milburn/Vigoda
Valerie Vigoda: vocal & electric violin
Brendan Milburn: vocal & upright acoustic piano
Gene Lewin: vocal & djembe drum kit
Recorded and mixed at Monster Island by Mike Caffrey

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GrooveLily Seattle, Washington

Bicoastal trio GrooveLily inhabits that contemporary space where creative musicians ignore the boundaries laid down by words like rock, folk, jazz and pop. The success of their first concert-musical, the critically-acclaimed holiday show STRIKING 12, has led them farther into the world of theatre, where they have carved out a unique niche as a rock band writing and performing shows. ... more

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