Name: Learn To Sing
Duration: P00H04M20S
Description: Kept the original piano recording, warts and all because...I don't know, that guy back then was playing it like he wrote it. We've also later determined that it was likely squirrels, not pigeons, so how could I rerecord the piano?

Learn To Sing

from Too Much Entertainment by Dan Kilian and The Million Man Band

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Kept the original piano recording, warts and all because...I don't know, that guy back then was playing it like he wrote it. We've also later determined that it was likely squirrels, not pigeons, so how could I rerecord the piano?

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I can hear those pigeons
Clawing through the wall
Is it my imagination
Or are they gonna kill us all?

Rolling on the floor
Like Denzel Washington
In Mo Betta Blues
Crying over you

I met my younger self
He asked if I could help
I told him just one thing
"Learn to sing, kid
Learn to sing"

The Mississippi blues
Never called to you
But that long tidal river
Keeps on rushing through

And I never found a job
That could suit my mind
Cause I'm well skilled
At robbing people blind

I met my later self
I asked him it felt
And what the future brings
He said "Learn to sing
Learn to sing"

If I ever learn to sing I'm gonna belt it to the back
For all the pain you felt and all the love you lack
And I could wail and whoop and moan
It don't mean nothing cause I'm singing all alone

I met my younger self
He asked me how I helped
I didn't have a thing
Learn to sing
Learn to sing

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from Too Much Entertainment, released September 1, 2021

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Dan Kilian and The Million Man Band New York, New York

Dan Kilian swallows hot coals of worry, regret and sorrow, then spits out rough diamonds of pop music. He's well regarded in the Antifolk scene, and whatever that is happening in Park Slope.

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