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Neon Lights

by Blackbird Mantra

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"Neon Lights is all about that feeling of being out and about at night. Wandering the streets, partying, having spontaneous adventures. The lyrics were written at the end of the corona period when none of that was possible. And then I remembered all kinds of things. Some of the stories in the song I really experienced (the taxi story, for example) and others I made up. The song is the soundtrack to one of those crazy nights where one thing leads to another and you just get involved in the crazy energy of the night."

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They’re running through the streets
In the neon lights
Chased by the sirens
Of the blue-white knights

Climbing up the walls
Just to get out of sight
Throwing their cramp-iron
And disappear into the night

The railway bridge got some new tags
At the corner where they’re selling crack
The cops they didn’t get it
And headed for another act

All down the freeway
Across the riverside
Friday nights fever’s
What we felt inside

A little yellow cab
With the best driver we could find
He took us all (in)
We were six at one time

In the front seat with a bottle of wine
On the backseat in a crazy pile
In the foot room screaming “everything’s fine!”
In an endless line

To the industrial zone
It got some secrets to hide
Shady ragged buildings
They just keep on flying by

Down the weathered streets
You see ghosts at the side
When we reached that old backyard
We were all pretty high

Waiting at the temple’s gate
To step into the line
Then the beats are kicking in
From the turntable shrine

Bodies start to move
And are waving so divine
Everyone is in that groove
There is nothing to hide

Entering another time
Centuries under one sign
Your lips are forming dirty rhymes
About that midnight tribe

When the sound of the sirens
Woke us up from our trance
We all headed to yard
Everything was a mess

The beehive was humming
In the neon lights
And Everybody started runnin’
Into that
Holy night.

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released February 29, 2024
© ℗ 2024 La Pochette Surprise Records

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Blackbird Mantra Hamburg, Germany

Psych rock quartet from Hamburg (DE) combining groovy psychedelia and nostalgic folk. In 2018 they released their debut EP "Riverside Bar" on La Pochette Surprise Records, followed by performances at the Waldstock and Skandaløs festival, support shows for Lewsberg, Darjeeling and Khana Bierbood, and the recording sessions for their debut LP "High and Dry", which was released on Nov 6, 2020. ... more

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