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No Surf In Cleveland

from Self Titled by Forgotten Souls of Antiquity

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This is a cover in name only. The Euclid Beach Band wrote and released the original song in 1978, and it was a regional hit, but never charting nationally (like that really matters though). The first version was played in a sunny Beach Boys style from when we were still just the Mistake on the Lake. Now we've been upgraded to the 'Most Miserable/Poorest/Most Dangerous City in the Fattest State of America". That's a mouthful. Needless to say, it's not very sunny anymore, as if it ever was. For some reason I prefer it to anyplace else, though I'm still not sure why...

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i am from an industrial town
where the streets are mean and the people frown
seems like there's always something keeping us down
the lake is clogged with industrial waste
the politicians are crooked and the skies are grey
there ain't no surf in cleveland, usa

i'm a rustbelt motherfucker with something to say
those six little letters spell 'fuck l.a.'
'cause there ain't no surf in cleveland, usa

this town is dying
we are not a tourist stop
but we can work at wal-mart
they went and put it on the steel mill plot

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from Self Titled, released June 18, 2011
Originally written by R. Reising / J. Girard
Re-written and arranged by W.H. Michael

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