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Ra Ra Riot
Ra Ra Riot


Background information
Origin Syracuse, NY, USA
Genre(s) Indie Rock
Baroque Pop
Chamber Pop
Years active 2006—present
Label(s) V2 Records
Barsuk Records
Associated acts Discovery
Website Website
Members
Milo Bonacci
Wes Miles
Mathieu Santos
Alexandra Lawn
Rebecca Zeller
Gabriel Duquette
Former members
John Ryan Pike
Shaw Flick
Cameron Wisch
Michael Ashley



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Ra Ra Riot Album


The Orchard (08/24/2010)
08/24/2010
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We both had doubts
We both had doubts
I found myself while I was away
All your life, now I understand
So many hours
And no company
But you imagine things
Through cold eyes of sleep
Then what have I see this for
We both know about

All my life
You were important
And your father too
Wandering the orchard
Through budding dormant eyes
On a leveling plane..?
You imagine things
Why does this speak to me?
To you I know I'll only sail without..?
My life is dark
And my body aches
Oh then what I have I seen this for?

Oh I imagine things
Through cold eyes of sleep
And I want things
Back more than I do
My life is dark
And my body aches
Oh this blood in my mouth
Makes me hate
How we both end up.

. . .


When I have
Once or twice
Thought I lived
My life
For

Oh oh I'll
Wake up
In a thousand years
With every ghost I'm looking through
I was a cold
Cold boy
Hey!
Oh when I lie with you
But when I go back through
I... I...

When it's gone
And you hope
That your mind's
Made up
Oh I
Wake up
Twenty thousand years
With every ghost
Of what I knew
I was a cold
Cold boy
Hey!
Oh when I lie with you
But when I go back you
I... I...

I was a cold
Cold boy
Hey!
Oh when I say to you
When I go back through
I... I...

. . .


On my black feet, I
Run with all my heart
To black shores and rivers
In spite of all I fear

You're too dramatic
I can't understand it

Don't listen when you're weary, but
I wanna talk about it
You and me weren't made for that
I'm sure
'Not in my house'
It doesn't stop for you
It doesn't stop for...


You're too dramatic
I can't understand it
Out of this static
You're too dramatic

'You know I couldn't live here that way'
You said it before
He left Cincinnati just sixteen
Had his fill, boy
And though I guess
That there's nothing honest
Honest
All that matters
Is that

You're too dramatic
I can't understand it
Out of this static
You're too dramatic

But the people I know
Don't matter to me anymore

You're too dramatic
I can't understand it
Out of this static
You're too dramatic

. . .


There was a light, but I don't care
We both know that it's foolish

And what's become of it is in my heart
Oh, but it's a big part

Oh and I won't waste any more of your time
Oh and I won't waste any more time

I don't know myself
Oh, but I know you

How can you be so callous?

Oh don't ever say that I was not being fair
Oh that you don't rely on me when no one else is there

Anymore

Oh why can't we both talk, I must have taught myself
That it's a lie on both sides of you

Oh and I won't waste any more of your time
Oh and I won't waste any more time

Oh and I won't waste any more of your time
And oh I won't waste any more time

Give me bane?
And pains I've lived too (?)
When you're miserable
Living eyes (?)
???
To the bottom of the dock(?)
When you're miserable

Oh and I won't waste any more of your time
And oh I won't waste any more time

Oh I won't waste any more of your time
And oh I won't waste any more time

There was a light, but I don't care
We both know that it's foolish

We both know that it's foolish

Oh don't rely on me
Oh don't, don't rely on me

I don't know myself
Oh but I know you, how can you be so callous

How can you be so callous

. . .


In Massachusetts
Oh, no
The younger of the ocean sing
A paean to their mother, offering
To hold tight onto the quay
To hold tight onto the side of the quay
Oh, it don't matter what you do

In Massachusetts
Oh, no
A certain lack and dislocation
Sotted up to the gunwales, and
The tide tells you when to go
The tide tells you when to come and when to go
No, it doesn't matter what you do

I can't find my roads
I can't, I can't find my roads
Honestly, I want to hear the thought that I had
But I can't feel any more with you

In Massachusetts
Oh, no
To be held at bat and then consigned
To pet about the frozen time
To a mother so cold and gray
And though she gives you one, she takes one away
Oh, it doesn't matter what you do

In Massachusetts
Oh, no
The younger of the ocean sing
A paean to their mother, offering
To hold tight onto the quay
To hold tight onto the side of the quay
Oh, it don't matter what you do

I can't find my roads
I can't, I can't find my roads
Honestly, I want to hear the thought that I had
But I can't feel any more with you
Open it dies
How can I only say "It's a dark mind"?
It's a dark mind
It's a dark mind
Oh, I can't tell the things for you
I want someone like you
Watching it roll by
Watching it roll by

. . .


Clear my eyes from this
Every so that I don't mind
Ohh no no no no
Said I, well I
Don't, don't wanna know
Even if you say, love, that you
Wanna find my heart, oh
Tell me that you never wanted to
Promised to hide up in my eyes
I would unburden you from this
Unaware, you, well I need to.

Don't, don't leave a note
Even when you say you know that you
Wanna find my heart, oh
Tell me that you never wanted to
Don't, don't leave a note
Even if you say you know that you
Wanna find my heart, oh
Tell me that you never wanted to.

You and I, you and I know.
You and I, you and I know.
You and I, you and I know.
You and I, you and I know.
You and I, you and I know.
You and I, you and I know.
You and I, you and I know.

Don't wanna know.
Even when you say you know that you
Wanna find my heart, oh
Tell me that you never wanted to
Don't, don't leave a note
Even if you say you know that you
Wanna find my heart, oh
Tell me that you never wanted to.

. . .


How long will you listen?
Something about the way she calls
I was alone for what I felt that night
Come on, say you were
Sarah's never much for reason
But it's no fair to leave
If the coal is in the ground
Why don't we dig it up like a bull hound?

Oh, hope that I don't see you anymore
I won't...

How high will you leave us
Something about the way you call
I worry for the public
I know you feign, you do
Vapor fired on the horizon
And the shadow of control
Well if the coal is in the ground
She'll just dig it up like a bull hound

Oh I know, I do
Only need
What I want

Oh, hope that I don't see you anymore
I won't

. . .


Wondering if all of your light it was
I would be a fool
If I let it die

Could I
Get you alone
Tonight
Oh

Do you remember what you said to me then?
Under the oak trees and the leaves in the rain

Do you remember what you said to me then?
Under the oak trees and the leaves in the rain

Don't let me be afraid of our life apart
Darling say something
Ohh, I never could

Can I
Get you alone
Tonight?
Oooohh tonight



Do you remember what you said to me then?
Under the oak trees and the leaves in the rain

Do you remember what you said to me then?
Under the oak trees and the leaves in the rain

On my heels
Oh I don't mind

On my heels
Oh I don't mind

When I come over to you
It's such a lonely talk
She said "hey come on now"
Nooo we both got a little time
Tonight
Tonight
Ohhh tonight
Ohhh tonight


Do you remember what you said to me then?
Under the oak trees and the leaves in the rain

Do you remember what you said to me then?
Under the oak trees and the leaves in the rain

On my heels oh I don't mind
(Do you remember what you said to me then?
Under the oak trees and the leaves in the rain)
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Oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

. . .


When I came back from San Diego
Checkered lights and rain in the afternoon
Oh, made me miss the imagination I used to have

There's something else
I thought about
The universe
When it's merciful

How should I know
After wringing out my memory
And all that my hands send away
Oh, riffling for a stem to find an answer I knew

There's something else
I thought about
The universe
When it's merciful

Who's light did it come in on?

There's something else
I thought about
The universe
When it's merciful

. . .


Four hours up by 95, you and me were cold
If you want to compromise, I can hold on

I know it's wrong
It's a cold life, though

Oh...

Cold water for cooling down
But you know that when you stay around
Oh fortune, for subtly
Oh but maybe you're sincere, sister oh

Another hour, oh
Trouble having satisfied two different paths
Can I give up on one, it's a thought I hate

Oh I could lose, it's a cruel life I choose
Oh, cold water for cooling down
But you know that when you stay around
Oh fortune, for subtly
Oh but maybe you're sincere

Keep it quiet, keep it quiet
Oh heartbeat, keep it quiet
Through the doorway, keep it quiet
Yes I'm tired, keep it quiet

Cold water for cooling down
But you know that when you stay around
Oh fortune, for subtly
Oh but maybe you're sincere

All my doubt
All my doubt

How can I want to stay around

All my doubt
All my doubt

How can I want to stay around
How can I want to stay around
How can I want to stay around

All my doubt
All my doubt

How can I want to stay around
How can I want to stay around

. . .


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