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Under the Mynah Bird

from Jimmy & the Moon by The Stephen Stanley Band

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UNDER THE MYNAH BIRD
He wasn’t busy being born, but he didn’t want to stay at home
Things were moving faster than the days were flying by

And it seemed like a disaster, when the bank put you to pasture
But you came up with a new plan in the blinking of an eye
Took a job as a stock boy in a sporting goods store

Because shutting it down wasn’t something you were made for
You spent your last days under the Mynah Bird
More than a memory fades under the Mynah Bird
You spent your last days under the Mynah Bird
And didn’t know the trail you blazed
A naked singer sings a funeral song and the go-go dancers dance along
A glass box gimmick hanging out over Yorkville’s avenues

Neil Young and Rick James played there then they stole the name

Long before the Super Freak and the Buffalo Springfield
A scene was blowing up as you were breaking down
I wonder if you ever stopped to listen to that sound
You spent your last days under the Mynah Bird
More than a memory fades under the Mynah Bird
You spent your last days under the Mynah Bird
And didn’t know the trail you blazed
I hope you weren’t like Syl Apps and his truncheon army gas masks

Filling wagons with the voices of a city being born

And I’d like to think you heard something, even just the floor boards thumpin’
After-hours in the basement filling shelves down in the store
A scene was blowing up as you were breaking down

I gotta think you must have stopped to listen to that sound
You spent your last days under the Mynah Bird
More than a memory fades under the Mynah Bird
You spent your last days under the Mynah Bird
And didn’t know the trail you blazed

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from Jimmy & the Moon, track released November 24, 2017

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The Stephen Stanley Band Toronto, Ontario

The Stephen Stanley Band announce their new album, Before The Collapse Of The
Hive (Wolfe Island Records) will be released on November 10, 2023. It's an album
brimming with raw, unflinching urgency, steadfast observation and soul-searching storytelling
that highlights Stephen's immediate world: those he loves, and those he's lost.


Photos by Russell Styles ... more

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