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A Simple Song (Lyle Lovett cover, featuring Megan Siebe)

from Bring Down Goliath b​/​w A Simple Song by Simon Joyner

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    Bring Down Goliath featuring Richard Youngs and A Simple Song featuring Megan Siebe. Limited edition lathe cut record, on square clear plastic, cut by Mike Dixon at Lathe Cuts in Tucson. Sleeves are still being constructed but will be signed and numbered. Limited to 100. I'm charging a premium for these because I'm trying to raise as much money as possible for Grassroots Law Project, Color of Change, the Union for Contemporary Art and Culxr House. 100% of the profits will be divided between these organizations. Thank you for your help contributing to these organizations doing important anti-racist work at a crucial time in our democracy.

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This is a cover of a favorite Lyle Lovett song from his Pontiac album. It speaks of disenfranchisement, revolution, and solidarity and seemed a fitting flip side to Bring Down Goliath. Megan Siebe added strings to a very raw live recording just made with my phone and it really makes the song. Thanks, Meg.

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A Simple Song (by Lyle Pearce Lovett)

It's a simple song for simple feeling
You see the moon and watch it rise
Across the continent the night bird sings
And somewhere someone hears its cry

So disillusioned
Keep your head down
If you do they'll never know
You'll have no answers to their questions
And they will have to let you go

And disenfranchised
Revolution
They'll take away by right what's yours
And make you martyrs of your own cause
When they don't know what cause it's for

And all deserted
Stand alerted
They'll love you when you're all alone
But you find a red rose in the morning light
You wait the night and find it gone

So hear my words with faith and passion
For what I say to you is true
And when you find the one you might become
Remember part of me is you

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from Bring Down Goliath b​/​w A Simple Song, released June 5, 2020
Simon Joyner: Guitar, Voice
Megan Siebe: Cello, Viola, Violin

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Simon Joyner Omaha, Nebraska

Simon Joyner is a singer-songwriter from Omaha, Nebraska. He's been flying under the radar since 1991, releasing music on various independent labels including: Team Love, Jagjaguwar, Sing Eunuchs!, Catsup Plate, One-Hour, Shrimper, Brinkman, Secretly Canadian, and Unread. He is also the co-founder of Grapefruit Records (grapefruitrecordclub.com) and an occasional producer of other people's albums. ... more

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