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  • State Of Our Reunion Live DVD (SIDVID022)
    DVD + Digital Album

    For their first live gigs in seventeen years the Long Ryders kicked ass and took names and you can see the results on this stellar recording from the London gig.

    The DVD is a double sided, region free disc - PAL one side for Europe and NTSC for the US/ROW.

    Included as extras is some footage of the band live in the UK in March 1985 as well as larkin’ about in the A&M Studios with Ed Stasium in autumn 1986!

    The track listing for the DVD runs like this;

    So You Wanna Be A Rock & Roll Star?
    Lights Of Downtown
    You Don’t Know What’s Right, You Don’t Know What’s Wrong
    A Stitch In Time
    Gunslinger Man
    Wreck Of The 809
    Years Long Ago
    And She Rides
    I Can’t Hide
    Capturing The Flag
    Ivory Tower
    I Want You Bad
    I Had A Dream
    Final Wild Son
    (Sweet) Mental Revenge
    State Of Our Union
    Looking For Lewis & Clark

    Plus Five bonus videos

    Gunslinger Man (Official Video)
    A Stictch In Time (Official Video)
    I Had A Dream (Live)
    State Of Our Union (Live)
    Anarchy In The UK (Live)

    Prima Records has 25 of these OOP DVDs left.

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    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Christmas In New Zealand, Native Sons - Deluxe Reissue, Down To The Well, Bear In The Woods, State Of Our ReUnion - Live 2004, Metallic B.O., and Three Minute Warnings - The Long Ryders Live in New York City. , and , .

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lyrics

Tried so hard to explain
The way things are and how quick they can change
But you never listened you just turned your head
Never even heard a single word that he said
While it's true now that I'm not a saint
I felt pain when you live to hate
Said it before and I'll say it again
Leave me alone man or treat me like a friend

I had a dream last night
Everybody's laughing and everything was alright
Still some hope in sight, that was last night

I had a dream last night
Nobody's crying, nobody's frightened
Still some hope in sight, that was last night

Well if it seems like I sound like the rest
We're trying hard not to be too depressed
Once they take everything I've left, it's so easy
So if you're dreaming I hhope that you do
Wish for the best and hope that it comes true
Who knows what they'll leave when they're through

I had a dream last night
Everybody's laughing and everything was alright
Still some hope in sight, that was last night

I had a dream last night
Nobody's crying, nobody's frightened
Still some hope in sight, that was last night

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from State Of Our ReUnion - Live 2004, released July 2, 2020
Written by Stephen McCarthy
© Stephen McCarthy
Published by Warner Bros Music Ltd/Bug Music

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The Long Ryders Los Angeles, California

The Long Ryders founded alt-country with their 1984 album, Native Sons, and helped codify and popularise Americana throughout their career. Crossing Byrds/Buffalo Springfield electric guitars and harmonies with a Sex Pistols/Ramones rhythm section was their idea and their legacy. Their signature songs Looking For Lewis And Clark and I Had A Dream have never left the airwaves. ... more

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