Get all 12 The Minders releases available on Bandcamp.
Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Psychedelic Blacktop, These Days (Single), Listen! The Bugle Calls, Christmas, Christmas, Home, Magic Anorak, You Call to Me, Detective of Crime, and 4 more.
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Home
02:44
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These Streets have lived a lot
This town has grown up all on its own
The loneliness is tough
But I still feel so tied to it all
Big River, keep us together
Flow on since days of old
Into the valley gold
Look down from Tabor’s top
Straight down the boulevard to my home
I chose this place and stopped
Hung up my hat and called it my own.
Big river flows on forever
Carries our worries oh
Out to the oceans cold
Big river keep us together
Flow on since days of old
Into the valley gold
Big river go on forever
Carry us over oh
Out to the sunset home
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Let's Go Driving!
03:53
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Let’s go Sunday driving we’ll head out to the coast
Golden sands and sailing boats, we’re overdue
The station wagon’s glidin’ hang my arm out in the sun
Bang the side just like a drum, you know the tune
chorus
Shalalalala shalalalala only ten more miles to go
Oh I can see a cove the ocean blue
Shalalalala got to spend this time with you, all those hard times-
Made it through, we made it through
And don’t you worry, we’re still in tune -me and you
And I’ve been worried but now I’m through, now I’m through
All this time we hurry
We run around so lost, can’t be bothered we’ll not stop and catch the view
Let’s go Sunday drivin’ we’ll head out on our own
Get out escape the town-do something new
[Repeat] Chorus
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Astoria
03:51
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I could be a writer
Hideaway all winter in your heart
Fickle charms
Glorious Astoria
From under my umbrella look out over the harbor
Spy the past, tall ships masts
I see your dark heart, Astoria
The pitter-patter that taps my pane
Raging storms that churn the waves
May I never know the harm
Light a lantern and look away, press the pen to the open page
The tale goes on and on and on
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It's all the Same
03:33
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He drives home late at night, the evening’s the time
The lights downtown gleam
Like jewels so bright
His sadness is his trade, he’s worked his whole life
The pendulum keeps swinging from wrong to right
The same and not the same
There once was a child
Can hardly remember, his life’s run wild
Gaze out the windshield at the glow
Somewhere there’s treasure there he knows
Oh but it’s all the same
It’s all the same
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Magic Anorak
03:49
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Between the lines I stow away
Adventure sings to my heart and runs deep inside me
I’ll run away with you for the day
Chase the setting sun to the park
Where we can be so easy
And if the rain comes down
We’ll hideaway, there’s a tree I’ve found
We can carve out our names
Everyday I feel the weight
A stirring sweeps through me smart
And cuts deep inside of me
I lay about all day with the shame I’m good for nothin’ says Ma
But nothin’s ever harmed me
And if they’re playing our song
I’m miles away
Above the clouds, the sun shines all day
Put on my magic anorak, I’m miles away
Put on my magic anorak, I’m on my way
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6. |
You Call to Me
02:57
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Another misty rainy day in Portland town
My collar up my head hung down I go wandering
You’re not anywhere I’m used to seeing you hanging out
I’ve searched the bars, the dim hangouts
Night is falling
Always looking backwards never forward
You and I, we can’t just rise
Oh how we tried
We’ve fallen
But you, you call to me
And I, I still believe
You, you’re all I see
And I still believe
I still believe
Oh another misty rainy day!
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7. |
The Girl from Oklahoma
03:53
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Turn the key and lock the past up
Down the street the moon just lit up
All your memories leave you so low
High up on a hill you look out
All your troubles seem to fan out
Underneath the clouds that go and go
Every time she felt too much
Every time he made her cry
Across the dessert wilderness
She felt her mother try, to hold her world so still-
-no harm came to her
Nothing to be done but head out on the open road
The highway signs that faintly spell out the distance left to go
Every town she passes up, she thinks about the lives
That chase that phantom happiness that always seems to hide
And all the time it promises to thrill you.
Drive all day and night through California
In the morning she’ll arrive in Arizona
Alone again the girl from Oklahoma
Is headed home
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Listen! The Bugle Calls
03:23
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Listen the bugle calls
A sunrise on every door
No time to settle down we’ve got to keep pushing on and on
The weight of the world may fall
Stand tall like grey statues all
No time to settle down, we’ve got to keep pushing on and on
Miss her, do you miss her?
Do you pine for the fields of your home?
And later, much later, they’ll be jewels, silver
The gold I say! The winding road leads there
Listen the bugle calls!
A sunrise on every door
There’s no time to settle down
We’ve got to keep pushing on and on and on
The weight of the world may fall
Stand tall like grey statues all
We’ve got to keep pushing on
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Detective of Crime
03:00
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On My Own
03:48
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Bird song breaks the silent hour
In my head so far I’m out
Don’t fall down
When the flame blows out
So dark at times I can’t look out
I’ve let it show
No way to leave or keep on going on my own
Don’t blame me my nerve ran out
Lost somewhere in the thickest cloud
It don’t seem fair but that’s the way it’s found
Placed in chairs that are moved around
I haven’t grown, no way to leave, or keep on going on my own
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11. |
Blacktop
02:53
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(Instrumental)
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The Moon and the Tide
03:40
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The moon and the tide
The stars in the night too much to contemplate
Ah, Still you do it anyway
I feel so fragile tonight
Too much turns round in my mind
I’m gonna lay awake, heart beats loud inside my head again
Where did we go?
Pictures in a book tell some stories of the days
They go and go, the distance of your smile
Leaves me cold and out of place
I know, I know, I see it in your eyes I see it in your smile
The path you delight, it’s taken some time for you
To set it straight -love with every step you take
Look to your left and your right
The scenery’s nice it holds you in its sway
Drink it in, you know its gonna fade
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These Days
04:17
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These days I’ve been wanting to dance
The dance where we sway, our hearts lead the way
But all this time I’ve been stuck in a trance
My heart in my hand, no soft place to land
It’s really nothing, when we move we breathe not thinking
I miss this feeling-swept away in the moments fleeting
These days we try to make plans, we fight and we play
Our hearts in the way
But most times we try a new dance
A fine-tuned ballet where our arms move and flail
You’ll tell me something
Wrestling with a bundle of meanings
I dare not listen
Too much truth, too much feeling
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The Minders Portland, Oregon
We are an indie-pop band residing in Portland, Oregon. We make records and play live shows because it's a lot of fun to do. Our new LP, "Psychedelic Blacktop," is out now. Thanks for listening!
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