Daniel Rogers: Music
All Is Even
CREDITS:
performed by Daniel Rogers; additional vocals by Danan Healy; guitar by John Morgan; bass by Jon Beard; drums by Keith Hanlon
produced, recorded, and mixed by Daniel Rogers at The Vinecatcher, Columbus; drums recorded by Joe Viers at John Schwab Recording, Columbus; piano recorded by Michael Jack at Phase One, Toronto
mastered Jeff Lipton at Peerless Mastering, Boston
LYRICS:
They say she was a brilliant girl, they say he was a clever boy
‘Til bullets blew up through the floor, until the flames burned up the door
They were destroyed, the girl and boy, and no one saw them anymore
Out of old-rimmed sunglasses, through their tear-soaked eyelashes
They see the scars upon their arms, remembering the fire alarms
And bandages they kept in stashes to cover gashes left by the bombs
Somewhere else, aloof and svelte, a lady drinks her tea and lays the sugar cubes out evenly
Someplace far, while men shoot par, a sweaty sort makes deals to make a war and break the seal
Without an honest reason, keeps it all uneven, thinks it’s the killing season
In the streets the families fleeing are watched on newscasts in the evening
By the civilized elite, we utter sympathetic creeds
And it’s the safe imbalance there that keeps it square in thought and deed
For all is even, all is fair, for those who dance, not those who bleed
All is even, all is fair, all is even, all indeed