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Strange Times (LP)

by Est X

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Ending 01:56
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We Do What We Do 04:55
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Am I losing my Mind Are you using your mind Are they using your mind Am I losing my way Are you losing you way Are we losing our way Am I losing time Are you losing time Are we losing time Am I losing my Mind Are you using your mind Are they using your mind Half don’t care The other scared Which one are you? Are you confused? Hundred thousands die, is it fact or lie? They’ll do what they do What can I do Am I losing time Are you losing time Are we losing time Am I losing my Mind Are you losing your mind Are we losing our mind Do you really care? Where is our soul Our Rock and Roll? Half don’t care The other scared We’ll do what we do What can we do?
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Downtown Boy 02:57
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Would you hold my hand And hold my heart Would you take me home When I fall apart Sleeping by the side of the road Not a sound anywhere I go City life is now destroyed Said the girl to the downtown boy Out of time And out of place You take my money But you slap my face Chasing life but way too slow Warning signs everywhere I go Come together but then alone She’s a girl, he’s a downtown boy In the Sun, into space, I float my mind, into place From a rooftop, from the shore Help a doctor Get to the store I’m back again, I’m back again Let’s close our eyes and pretend This isn’t the end.. It’s the beginning…
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Dance Again 03:13
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Dance Again I walk at night, flashing light Hear the siren screaming now Into my room, Into my room Virus flight, city sky walk at night, You can’t Touch me anymore, No not anymore I love my friends so Inside we hide alone I’ll die to see a show And dance again Walk at night, awake ‘til light Shake in fright, See you On the other side The other side Live or die, tears to cry Walk at night, You can’t see me anymore, No not anymore I love my friends so Inside we hide alone I’d die to see a show And dance again When you hold me and dance in the light I feel so special and pretty my love I really want to, I really need to You see its all I really need tonight I walk at night, flashing light Hear the siren screaming now Into my room Virus flight, city sky Walk at night, You can’t You can't touch me anymore, Not not anymore I love my friends so Inside we hide alone I’d die to see a show And dance again Let’s Dance Again!
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Isolate 03:15
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Isolate Lead Vocal: Mike Get Out, Get Out, Get Out, Get Out, (- Out of my way) Move On, Move On, Move On Move (- six feet away) Freak Out, Freak Out, Freak out You Freak (- what did you say?) losing time, losing pace covered face, losing faith Fall from grace, stay at home, isolate... Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up (- With the Sun, talk voice from Mike) Lay Down, Lay Down Lay Down Lay Down (- now YOU’RE done) Freak Out, Freak OUt, Freak out Ya Freak (- do whadicha can, talk voice from Mike) Ain’t no plan from the man to understand spreading lies Distracted mind, yeah yeah yeah, we’re doing fine... No end no end No end no end No end no end No end Get Up Get Up Get Up Get Up (With the Sun, talk voice from Mike) Lay Down, Lay Down Lay Down Lay Down (when YOU’RE done) Pay no mind, losing time nothing to do, Nothing but time Distracted mind, Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah I’m feelin fine...
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Interlude 1.5 01:58
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Videodrone 03:57
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Videodrone Vocals by Mark Rinzel You only see me through your camera (through the camera) I Want to hold you like I used to (like we used to) I’m staring at the screen your smile is not the same , again When we talk sometimes I turn away (don’t turn away) I run out of things to say (things we say yeah) I’m staring at the screen your smile is not the same, okay In a Videodrone now, video drone it’s a world closing down Video drone now, video drone now This bad dream goes on But when you walk alone the earth feels so alive Please baby hang on, hang on To see the other side When I talk you want to turn away (Don’t turn away now) You just don’t know what say now (ohhhh) I’m staring at the screen your smile is not the same, oh no! We laugh at this too shall pass (this too shall pass) And I know that one day it will ohhh... I’m staring at the screen and your smile just wasn’t the same, oh yeah Videodrone now, video drone Of a world upside down Video drone now, video drone now This bad dream just goes on But when I walk alone The earth is so alive Please baby hang on, hang on To see the other side You only see me through your camera Through your camera...
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A Beginning 03:56
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A Beginning And in the end There comes a beginning We can pretend We go on living Everything is change But the struggle stays the same With so much at stake And choices to make I don’t know the end I don’t know the beginning My heart beats again My head is spinning We are floating away We are floating away We are floating away We are floating away...

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This release is also available on Apple Music and Spotify.

"This song cycle is designed to be played in a loop. Like our collective grief, there is no beginning and there is no end. Created in NYC during the COVID crisis between April and June 2020, the songs, sounds and words reflect the confusion, fear, urgency to shut down the city, tragic loss of life, and uncertainty of that time. Let's dance again someday."

- Mike Rinzel, EST X

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released August 23, 2020

All songs written and produced by Mike Rinzel. Vocals by Mark Rinzel and Mike Rinzel. Instruments performed by Mike Rinzel.

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Est X Brooklyn, New York

Est X is New York art pop music created entirely during COVID-19. Started in 1985 as a DIY music project of brothers Mike and Mark Rinzel in the D.C. suburbs, the band was initially called "Establishment X." The Rinzel brothers have reunited under the name Est X. Their STRANGE TIMES LP chronicles the COVID-19 pandemic and the lock-down experience in New York City. ... more

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