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  • State Of Our Reunion Live DVD (SIDVID022)
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    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

My friend lives in an ivory tower
She's protected from misery
She doesn't worry she's got power
She controls all she sees

But her blinders work too well
She don't listen when you try to tell her
It's too late
Your ivory tower's falling down

She strolls down the rose lined lane
With her thoughts up in the air
And she never has known pain
Yet she still insists she cares

But her blinders work too well
She don't listen when you try to tell her
It's too late
Your ivory tower's falling down

Still you got to be careful
What you say to her
Still you got to be careful
What you say

My friend lives in an ivory tower
She's protected from misery
She doesn't worry she's got power
She controls all she sees

Still her blinders work too well
She don't listen when you try to tell her
It's too late
Your ivory tower's falling down
It's too late
Your ivory tower's falling down
It's too late
Your ivory tower's falling down

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from State Of Our ReUnion - Live 2004, released July 2, 2020
Written by Barry Shanks
© Barry Shanks
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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