In League with Dragons (Jordan Lake Sessions Volume 2)

[Verse 1]

It's so hard to get revenge

The human element drags you down

Lead a solitary life if you can

Try not to show your face in town

Let the breezes find such scandals as they may

Open up the variables

Find a way

[Refrain]

Make it real, make a deal

Until my protector comes

[Verse 2]

It's so hard to be yourself

When you've already seen the inside

Try to navigate the turns as best you can

Headed on down the slide

Good friends are where you find thеm

People talk all kinds of trash, nevеr you mind them

[Refrain]

Make it real, make a deal

Until my protector comes

[Bridge]

Huge wings blotting out the sun

Remembering everyone

[Verse 3]

It's gonna be so hard to look away

You gotta be strong in the face of suffering

I cut a good figure just in case somebody's watching

Even if it ends up meaning nothing

Let the breezes spread such scandal as they may

Maybe Boris Vallejo paints the back of your head someday

[Refrain]

Make it real, make a deal

Until my protector comes

Until my protector comes

[Outro]

Can I, can I say something real quick? You may

See when we have a crowd, yeah, one thing

I don't think we've ever talked about this, but when we have a crowd

There's, like, I've got a little scene over here

Yeah, you've got the, the, the what are they called, the Matt Massives, yeah, The Mattheads

The Mattheads over here, and Matt Massives was better, Matt Massives is better

But after that solo is over, when you pop, when you're in the pocket

If it's really good, I look over here (And they show you respect), everybody, and they know the deal with me

They know what Matt brings, they know what I bring

And they look and they're like, "Okay, good job, bud" (Yeah, they give you the thumbs up)

Do they hold up like Olympic cards?

Like a nine, eight, seven point five, and there's always a one who won't give you higher than a seven point five

There's always that guy but then when I shit the bed on it

Which is similar to that last one (Nah)

I look over there and I go like this, "Eh"

And they all go, "Eh", it's great, I feel like we have a thing

The thing is, what Matt is saying, the heavy truth behind what Matt is saying is that missing the audience is such a very intense things for us

We're used to playing music, is great at home, and is great with your friends, is great in the studio, and all that is great, but for me

Uh, and this is like something I thought a lot about theoretically when I was in college, you know

And I think about it with poetry too

The place that poetry lives is on the tongue and the place that music lives is in the house, right

That's where, I once uh, Art Garfunkel doesn't use monitors

Speaking of Paul Simon's former writing partner

Uh, doesn't use monitors, he listens to the house

And I get that, because like what, what you all, the audience, bring to us is incredibly special and something we miss terribly

And it winds up showing in our playing sometimes

But uh, yeah, you'll hear me say this again time or two while I got you on camera

But we miss you, it's hard to be without the people who have made our lives as blessed as they are for the last twenty years

And uh, as soon as there's a vaccine, I'll play 200 hundred shows that year

Peter will play 200, I will miss about 50 of those, but Peter will play a wicked bass solo and the audience will give him respect for that

Uh, what are we playing?

This is called, man, I know this song

This song was on Tallahasee (Love that one)

It's called "Southwood Plantation Road"