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Vanity Fair (part 1)

by Parlour Regiment

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    Blue-Eyed Soul from San Diego, California.
    References from all that good old stuff in a current style; enough to make you groove.
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breathing on yourself like smoke struggling while you hardly cope God gave you a telescope but you're looking through the wrong end hanging with your little tacks printed lists of all you lack but someone pushed an hour back just to write a song to heal you contrary to your hopes and dreams you'll never be somebody else close the door and turn the bolt keep your mind on home be the mare and loose the foal you are not your own rest your soul on tried and true realize what's been done in you have your cake and eat it too who cares if it's cliche
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Vanity Fair 03:50
Vanity Fair, I've had enough of your plans for me years of my life spent on fantasy you just lie to me Vanity Fair, class and romance make a fool of me why would I want Hell's nobility? you sell misery labeled as love tables and tables of wares on parade all one could want but so shoddily made they won't buy your soul but they'll take it on trade a small bit to touch and a sample to try (you can) taste everything even if you don't buy you can stay forever in Vanity Fair... bow-ties and collars so clean and well-pressed shopkeeper's wives with clear eyes and well-dressed faces you trust and love just like the rest but why are their hands always under their coats? perhaps just a knife to hold, cold to your throat should you get keen on leaving Vanity Fair...
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dust-covered roads in a conquered land smoke plumes up from where the king would stand before the palace was ground down to sand women weep where children ran since all time it's always been the same and our king we can't recall his name but his banner that was felled in shame lit all Glory with its holy flame when the whip became a blessing and the thorns begat the crowns the Innocent confessing pulled the seperation down oh, how Evil must have felt when the Lion led Himself to be our lamb the people work in the dirt and the clay for food they would have thrown away in the kingdom's time before that day when their way of life was chased away most the young have never seen the weight of good armour on an honest face but the fallen men who died in grace left the ground where they were laid to waste
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we have dreams to be good and to be strong to heal the world, and "save the babies" just like the songs but though we fight we can't right every wrong most things are as have been all along nothing has changed it has always cost blood and the ways are the same and it's always God's love that changes a name with hope from above Lord I've tried to stand up and raise my hands to plant my feet, to hold the line; to take a stand but then I find, time after time, that's just not the plan so in the meanwhile I will just do... I will do what I can: to believe in Him whom nothing can change

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Trying to keep it real all the day long, Ian and the Regiment do their best to bring you the soulful tones of yesteryear in a stylish millennial package. Get your solid groove on for the best part of a half-hour with this set, and look out for the anticipated Vanity Fair Pt. 2
Thanks for your support that keeps the music coming.

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released May 8, 2011

Ian Gallagher: vocals, guitar
Rob Glickman: lead guitar
Rick Sybrandy: bass
Spencer Kim: drums
Rheanna Downey: girl vocals on "Not Your Own" and "Vanity Fair"
Shannon Rall: girl vocals on "Ooh Child"
Louis Fanucchi: organ

all songs written by Ian Gallagher except "Ooh Child" written by Stan Vincent

produced by Rob Glickman

recorded at Spectrum Studios in San Diego

engineered by Rob Glickman
and Denovious Lampkin Monk

mixed at Signature Sound in San Diego, Ca. by Mike Harris

mastered at The Mastering Lab in Ojai, Ca. by Robert Hadley

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