 *Right-click and choose Save Target As... to download clip The Night Electric Died is LC's LIVE recording of their dynamic acoustic set.It was recorded live at the Recher Theater in Towson, Maryland. The Night ElectricDied contains acoustic versions of classic LC songs, as well as three previouslyunrecorded tracks. Available on FOWL Records at www.fowl.com
Recorded LIVE at the legendary Hammerjacks in Baltimore, MD
Recorded by: Steve Wright
Mixed by: Tony Bruno and Kenny Laguna
Edited by: Mitch Allan
© 1999 Laughing Colors Music Sense (4:23) In that garden, past the colors
there is black and white
And they all ask the questions
you know the answers to
And in my quest for new salvation
and dividing wrong from right
I felt fingers push right through
Someday this will all make sense to me
New icon make a random attire
pretty standing on the top of distinction-
So we sat for a while, on the floor
of the aisle, of the temple I was
So how about you did you say
won't there at least come a day
when we ask ourselves
"When can we breath again?"
You asked for freedom,
you asked for patience, you're alive
This tiny trembling is the hand
of indecision, all your own
Cuz in the end its only I
Someday this will all make sense to me
In between a walking dream or the shadow
we ask if we cry ourselves aloud
Do the tears in your eyes belong
to realize our sense?
So how about you did you say
won't there at least come a day
when we ask ourselves
"When can we breath again?" You and I Are (3:11) Were we stone? Are we seeds from a time that is gone?
When the silence won't leave me alone
I'm reminded I don't belong
Your sons and your daughters they're making it up to you
Now that they all have grown
Like my head underwater I cannot get through to you
Born all alone, you and I are ...... woo hoo, woo hoo
Should I nod when I'm facing the medicine man?
He's got something for me
Doesn't God understand that we do what we can?
Did we stray from the love that we'd given away?
Should we run from the garden and change all
The books on the shelves just to humor ourselves?
Your sons and your daughters they're making it up to you
Now that they all have grown
Like my head underwater I cannot get through to you
Born all alone, you and I are ...... woo hoo, woo hoo
Yesterday came pouring out through our fingers and our mouths
Should we be here in the now?
Did we stray from the love that we'd given away?
Should we run from the garden and change all
The books on the shelves just to humor ourselves? Sunrise Highway (4:47) The dream is in my sight,
and my mind's been captured by this overdose of light...
And the face that brought me change
has now begun to strangely rearrange,
But I've seen better ways, I'm not too easy to amaze
Sunrise Highway, someday we will find...
Sunrise Highway, it's always on my mind...
Can't you see that this could be the future of mankind?
Sunrise Highway, young man don't be blind...
The eye has doubts of peace,
and the road ahead shows darkness soon will cease...
We're closer than we've ever been,
traffic rolls on towards the sun...
But I've seen better ways, the need for change inside me always stays...
Someday I'll find my Sunrise Highway
The dream is in my sight,
and my mind's been captured by this overdose of light...
And the face that brought me change,
has now begun to strangely rearrange...
But I've seen better ways, the need for change inside me always stays...
Sunrise Highway is where I wanna be...
Sunrise Highway, come on now and see...
You got the time, so get in line, come on board with me,
Sunrise Highway, young man go be free...
But I've seen better ways, the need for change inside me always stays...
The dream is in my sight... Roll Into the Light (2:47) One day left, three days gone
Feeling like a time bomb walking along, where's the time gone?
Leaving the old machine and I can smell the green grass
Through the gasoline
But I'm like a gods eye looking for a way to get off
You know it's never enough their voices told me to go
Another century up, another dream born
And then we'll sit around dreaming of another scenario
Roll into the light -- And if not today go save your own life
Lat dat da da da
And when you wanna be alive you're gonna wanna see the
Sun still shining where they ripped out part of your life
Naked games skipping sun poured into a shotgun
When another thought runs out of my mind
But nevermind, there isn't time
To gather up the evidence, everything's left behind
Another century up, another dream born
And then we'll sit around dreaming of another scenario
Roll into the light -- And if not today go save your own life
Lat dat da da da
And when you wanna be alive you're gonna wanna see the
Sun still shining where they ripped out part of your life
We'll say what they can't figure out
You're crashing into something real
You're so high it's a long way down
Roll into the light -- And if not today go save your own life
Lat dat da da da
And when you wanna be alive you're gonna wanna see the
Sun still shining where they ripped out part of your life
Yeah where they ripped out part of your life
Yeah where they ripped out part of your life Wrinkle (4:28) You are inches from this world
You, our inspiration, but you'd never know
Can you remember feeling dizzy,
Turning circles, busy streets,
and scribbled lines-a wrinkle in the sunshine
makes you close your eyes
Looking for a sign from the other side,
Wrinkle in the meantime,
yeah but it was never enough for you.
Everyday, everyday, you still will be
standing in line
I will be there waiting, standing on the ground.
You are inches from this life,
You have expectations from
the souls that we hang off.
And would you like to come
and see the distance smells like you and me,
and the pace is coming quicker,
be alive or step aside -
Everybody's pushing from the outside Shadow Child (6:59) When
I was young I saw a man in uniform
He asked me for a dime to get something to eat
I said, "Mister, you look like the man on the
movie screen, what are you doing out in the street?"
He said he lost his arm in Vietnam and "If you
don't know go ask your mom. She'll let you
know as she rocks you to sleep."
Hey, I heard you found the life you wanted
Hey, I'm not sure that this life's for me
Hey, I'm finding it hard to stand and be counted
I'm a child of the Seventies
When I was young I felt a burning part of me
Maybe that's the thing that makes me real
Or maybe that's just something I left open
With the latch key, left for anyone to steal
But if you don't know or understand
It just gets worse when you're a man
I guess I wish I still knew everything
When I was young I held my dreams in front of me
Now I pick the pieces up off the floor
Maybe that's the key to knowing what you are, or what you'll be
But that key won't unlock the door,
It doesn't matter anymore Seven Times Apathy (3:35) Is
there something you see with your hands
and your face in the clouds
Abusing the substance, cry like you're simple
Lost in forever and 7 times apathy
You can't wait for me I know
You just can't wait until they fly
Tomorrow's intentions are green
Aren't you happy you came
The patterns rolled on, shattered and born
from the suburbs and so on
We are not defined by the need to be vital
but the need to be pacified and so do I
So I close the garage and I sit in my car
but I can seem to reach for the key
Did I smile and remember my psychedelic
daydreams in 11th grade history
You can't wait for me I know
You just can't wait until they fly
Tomorrow's intentions are green like an island,
have you fallen behind by your own design
They were inclined not to let you know
You were sacred, you were on your own Telluride (3:49) In the afterward we listened, sunlight on the new world glistened
There was purple, pink, and yellow
Gentle people pass and say hello to you
It's not enough for me to be reliant on you altogether
It's not enough for me to be reliant on the only one
It's not enough for me to be reliant on you altogether
It's not enough for me to be reliant on the one
What do you want to believe? What do you want to believe, yea?
And on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and riteousness never came up
In the aftermath of reason sun fell on the newfound season
Caught a glimpse while we wonder
Need I say again the spell was under you?
It's not enough for me to be reliant on you altogether
It's not enough for me to be reliant on the only one
It's not enough for me to be reliant on you altogether
It's not enough for me to be reliant on the one
What do you want to believe? What do you want to believe, yea?
And on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and riteousness never came up
Hi la li li li
Call the master with the sunshine and his pride
We left today for Telluride
You are blind and unamazed so I will clarify
We left today for Telluride
Call the master with the sunshine and his pride
We left today
What do you want to believe? What do you want to believe, yea?
And on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and riteousness never came up I've Been Gone / Brother's Hand (4:59) I live down here,
with my sandpaper ceiling
and walls to my ear
I have, not one,
but two reasons for living,
the second's unclear
Did you ever think
trying to leave wake
Wouldn't be a strange odyssey?
Try to ride the waves of concrete.
What do we believe?
Staring at the screens,
drowning in the green
Why do we, throw away the same
things that they eat?
Sometime will the sunshine
wash over my skin,
And the world that I'm living
in bends over backwards
to keep us all occupied
I've been gone ---
I live inside,
and the blisters of solitude
swallow my hide
I have not won,
but I'm a long way from
Nothingness and that
is where I started from.
Did you ever think
trying to leave wake
Wouldn't be a strange odyssey?
Try to ride the waves of concrete.
What do we believe?
Staring at the screens,
drowning in the green
Why do we, throw away the same
things that they eat?
Sometime will the sunshine
wash over my skin,
And the world that I'm living
in bends over backwards
to keep us all occupied
I've been gone --- Counting
stars on my ceiling and building a wall
That I use to hang pictures of what I once was
And the reason I've asked you here is not what you think
It was only to hold me up so I don't fall down
And the lives that they've promised us - nothing,never
And the riddles they told us, well I don't get it
Just a hand is enough to keep us together
On the outside everything's fine, we look
Way down inside, way down again
Brother I'm wasted, Brother I can't believe I'm alive
I can't catch the wind, but I've chased it
Brother I'm here again
Carry this thought with you even when I'm not around
All your patience will give you whatever you need
And the lives we made for ourselves we deliver
And we stand cuz we've learned not to crawl
And the cold breath of lonliness makes me shiver
Cuz without us, we're nothing at all, we look…
Sometime will the sunshine
wash over my skin,
And the world that I'm living
in bends over backwards
to keep us all occupied
I've been gone --- 10,000 Miles (4:43) We've frowned at the weather
and the shoes that are on our feet
Take a look at a young boy or a young girl
that's got nothing to eat
And all wrapped up in the American dream,
in a house with a white picket fence
But the streets are cold, for the lonely souls
That's where they pay their rent
We don't care about discussion,
No there's no need to argue
Use the concrete as a cushion,
You'll want someone to talk to
10,000 miles below
And I can fly to where I want to go
And I can see, I have
10,000 more to go
Sometimes when it's raining,
and the light ain't shining in
I don't bother complaining,
only God knows where I've been
And all tied down in the American dream
In a house with a white picket fence
But the streets are pain, they remain the same,
and then… Big One Small One (4:25) You're asking me to try I am,
I believe I'm doing fine
You're asking me to try I am,
Speak the voices in the crowd
So break me into pieces,
Keep the shining ones
Your asking me to try I am,
Heal me just this once
Shut your mouth
What if I was a little less numb,
maybe not so dumb, maybe everybody
has a name where I come from
in the outside of me
You're asking me to try I am,
As if I tremble when you turn
So break me into pieces,
Keep the shining ones
You asking me to try I am,
Not aloud to fly
You are everything, I will not be like
Shut your mouth
What if I was a little less numb,
maybe not so dumb, maybe everybody
has a name where I come from
What if I was to reach so tall,
that I should fall, paint a big picture
of a man in chalk that was all…
In the outside of me
Can you hear me? Are you listening?
This is how I am, this is not how I am Cyrus Column (3:27) We paid a lot for what we got
Just to look bright and shiny in the eyes of god
And are we here to be remembered
as the ones that were kind
As we ask not enough of ourselves in the meantime
And I held on too long
And I held on to Cyrus Column
When you realize that lonely
don't know where to begin
Let me put my faith in your reflection
and put my arms in your wind
Can it be too loud to figure out
we're obtained in the dark
But relieve all our silence in a way
we never have before.
And I held on too long
And I held on to Cyrus Column
And I held on to you for now
But we're not everything
that we said we were
Come alive with indifference
to what we read we were
You're a day late for something
you don't understand
And stumbling away after finding it all
And then maybe they described us after all Samhouse (6:06) There must be a light out there
Not wasted on our suns
Halfway I found you there
Halfway down you recognize
You're feeling just a little like
The one who taught you nothing's wrongs
So wide awake we come undone
There must be a light out there
Not wasted on our suns
Must be a light out there
And I can see the walls are coming down.
Peel me back, unravel, are we
Close enough to know how far we
Realign our secret sky.
And you nearly lost the odd inside your head
that makes you happy, makes you brave
And the odd insight of abstinence
is everything you thought that it would be. If You Don't Look Up (3:50) If you don't look up, you might just be amazed
at everything you missed
You didn't flinch, you didn't pay attention
And if you don't look up, you might not realize
how long the days have grown
You pass the time, one method own
you didn't know, you couldn't know
Day after day-silence over
They have come, but not together
Yeah, yeah, yeah-
Here we are, can I open my eyes
When I look down, below my waist
The puddle of my legs goes out for miles
I cannot reach the sky, cuz I am not so high now
I'd gather me up in a cup, but that could take awhile,
so I'll just sit and spread myself around
Until I come out of the ground
Day after day-silence over
They have come, but not together
Trade away the new belief in time again
you want but do you need it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah-
Here we are, can I open my eyes
Change, don't ask me to change,
Cuz I'm not starting over-crave my anger away  | 
