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Danville's Best & Brightest

from North America by The Anatomy of Frank

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    After The Anatomy of Frank made the astonishing announcement last year that they were going to record an album on every continent, the first compilation is now completed. “North America” will be released in the US on October 2, 2015.

    Featuring the band's "CD as part of the poster" design, this package will include a full-sized poster, CD, lyrics, and cardboard box.

    Artwork by Jimmy Bullis and Tim Price.
    Logo by Anna Radcliffe.

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lyrics

You crumple all your money into plastic bags
And you dump it over all their heads
And they’ll pour it back to local businesses

You’re giving up all hope of an interstate
That would route people through the town
For the smug diversion of one quick look around

You’ll gentrify the outskirts
Encroaching on your personal space
You’ll reinvent the wheel
Instead of rolling out of this place
Because running from your problems
And fixing all your problems
Sometimes appear to look the same

You gather all the brightest from the local schools
to compete for a free ride
In their Sunday blazers and orange and blue ties

They’re trained by the pillars of the Lion’s club
To possess an opportunist’s flair
And to tell you exactly what you want to hear

These kids aren’t just opening the door
They are clawing at the knob
And name-dropping Mr. Jefferson
Like he might get them a job

Life seems pretty easy
When highschool was such a breeze
But there’s a cruel, cold world of finance, kid
And it’ll knock you to your knees

You’ll put a foot in the middle
When we come down the slide
But southern Virginia
Is running out of places to hide
The best plan you’ve devised
To dig your town out of a hole
Is asking unanswerable questions
To some rich eighteen year olds
And o’er the quilted plains of kudzu
And every overgrown marquee
Get the kids out of here

From overeager thespians
To photogenic lesbians
Who suck each others’ lips off
to mortify the elder residents

They’ll fill the local theater
To a third of all its parts
You kids are kind of dirty
But there’s some profit in the arts

You’ll put a foot in the middle
When we come down the slide
But southern Virginia
Is running out of places to hide
They say life would be sweeter
If you’d step back on the ground
Do the right thing, and let nature
reclaim this failure of a town
And for the red, white and blue
Neon tubes behind the bars
Get the kids out of here

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from North America, released October 2, 2015

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The Anatomy of Frank will record an album on every continent on earth. Europe is next. "The Anatomy of Frank blend the complexity of post-rock with the immediate likability of pop-rock to create music that will get stuck in your head without ever driving you crazy." - Pretty Much Amazing ... more

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