Biography:
Kevin Devine is an American songwriter and musician from Brooklyn, New York, who is known for alternately introspective and political lyrics and melodic acoustic guitar tunes. He cites his influences as Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, Guns N' Roses, Brother Paramo and Nirvana, among others. He grew up in Brooklyn and Staten Island, and has spent significant time in Manhattan and Queens as well. Devine graduated Fordham University at Lincoln Center in 2001, majoring in journalism.
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Other songs:
- A Flatline Blur
- Brooklyn Boy
- Like Cursing Kids
- People Are So Fickle
- Splitting Up Christmas
- Tapdance
- The Longer That I'm Out Here
- You Are My Sunshine
- Afterparty
- Alabama Acres
- All Of Everything Erased
- Awake In The Dirt
- Before Youre Here
- Between The Concrete And Clouds
- Bloodhound
- Brothers Blood
- Bubblegum
- Burning City Smoke
- Cotton Crush
- Country Sky Glow
- Fever Moon
- Fingerprints And Photographs
- Go Haunt Someone Else
- Guys With Record Collections
- Haircut
- Heaven Bound Glory Be
- Holland 1945
- I Could Be With Anyone
- I Was Alive Back Then
- If We Meet Today
- Instigator
- Its Only Your Life
- Just Stay
- Kareem Abdul Jabar
- Keep Ringing Your Bell
- Less Yesterday More Today
- Little Bulldozer
- Longer That Im Out Here
- Lord I Know We Dont Talk
- Love Me Im A Liberal
- Luxembourg
- Marie
- Murphys Song
- No History
- No One Elses Problem
- No One Says You Have To
- No Time Flat
- No Why
- Noose Dressed Like A Necklace
- Not Over You Yet
- Now Navigate
- Off
- Part Of The Whole
- Probably
- Redbird
- She Stayed As Steam
- Shift Change Splits The Streets
- Sleepwalking Through My Life
- The Weathers Wonderful
- Tomarrows Just Too Late
- Tomorrows Just Too Late
- Trouble
- Wait Out The Wreck
- You Are The Daybreak
- You Knock Me Out
- Youll Only End Up Joining Them
- Youre My Incentive
- Yr Damned Old Dad
- Yr Husband
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40 million refugees
D E A
with no place on this earth to call their home
A
one for every aimless graduate
D E A
with nothing else to show for it but loans
D A
And those of us who make a mark
E A
use someone else's blood
D A
Our western stain won't wash away
E A
won't vanish in the flood
Bm A
It goes deeper through each hurricane
D E Bm A
and tidal wave and war
C#m F#m
We want everything we see
Bm E A
and once it's gone we just want more
A
Atlas had those shoulders
D E A
We've got Ambien and Jamesons and blow
A
to bind us in a bubble
D E A
keep the newsprint nightmare distant and remote
D A
But when we wake in guillotines
E A
And pitch our screaming fits
D A
When the governors strikes up the band
E A
And gags our parted lips
Bm A
When the worst case shows up dressed and dazzling,
D E Bm A
Ready for the ball
C#m F#m
Boy, that bubbles bound to burst,
Bm E A
And what a tragic way to fall
A
The tabloids tell us hate the rat that
D E A
Strikes those subways closed and puts you out
A D
Forgot those 50 hour tunnel weeks inhaling
E A
Steel dust poison through his mouth
D A
Well if he don’t deserve a pension that
E A
Makes his family feel secure
D A
If we're now so disconnected
E A
it's our reflections we ignore
Bm
And if our constant choices
A D E Bm A
skim and pass the writing on the wall
C#m F#m
Then, I'm sad to say we're lost
Bm E A
and I'm embarrassed for us all
Just play that same pattern over until the end of the song...
F#m - X-10-12-12-11-10
A
40 million refugees
D E A
with no place on this earth to call their home
A
one for every aimless graduate
D E A
with nothing else to show for it but loans
D A
And those of us who make a mark
E A
use someone else's blood
D A
Our western stain won't wash away
E A
won't vanish in the flood
Bm A
It goes deeper through each hurricane
D E Bm A
and tidal wave and war
C#m F#m
We want everything we see
Bm E A
and once it's gone we just want more
A
Atlas had those shoulders
D E A
We've got Ambien and Jamesons and blow
A
to bind us in a bubble
D E A
keep the newsprint nightmare distant and remote
D A
But when we wake in guillotines
E A
And pitch our screaming fits
D A
When the governors strikes up the band
E A
And gags our parted lips
Bm A
When the worst case shows up dressed and dazzling,
D E Bm A
Ready for the ball
C#m F#m
Boy, that bubbles bound to burst,
Bm E A
And what a tragic way to fall
A
The tabloids tell us hate the rat that
D E A
Strikes those subways closed and puts you out
A D
Forgot those 50 hour tunnel weeks inhaling
E A
Steel dust poison through his mouth
D A
Well if he don’t deserve a pension that
E A
Makes his family feel secure
D A
If we're now so disconnected
E A
it's our reflections we ignore
Bm
And if our constant choices
A D E Bm A
skim and pass the writing on the wall
C#m F#m
Then, I'm sad to say we're lost
Bm E A
and I'm embarrassed for us all
Just play that same pattern over until the end of the song...
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