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These long and dusty roads I traveled
Have dug me many shallow graves
It's been so many I lost track of
And I don't know how much still wait
Chorus:
I am here to murder and I am here to stay
'Cause when I killed somebody I can't just walk away
So I dig a shallow grave in which you will decay
It's not a proper burial, but still it's quite okay
If I decide your time has come
Then I shall make sure it will
I take my shovel and my gun
This weekend I need time to kill
Chorus
'This country tune is about a murderer who takes his shovel with him when he goes out in the weekend. He buries his victims in shallow graves, and claims to have done so on numerous occasions. In the past this song has been played live under its original title I Take The Shovel And Dig Next To Where You're Lain! at all three of Danny's June 2012 acoustic comeback gigs (and possibly at some gigs later in 2012), with its first ever performance on June 1st. In July 2016 the title got changed, and with it one line of the refrain. After not having been played live for about four years it reappeared on the set list on September 10, 2016 (shortly after the Back With A Dungeon! EP came out), and got played 22 times until October 9, 2021. The song was done one last time on December 2, 2022.'
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I Need Some Bodies!
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Now that you're mine
I am doing fine
Your name I don't care for
I just want some more
Chorus:
I need some bodies
To feel more love
I need more bodies
I wanna get off
It ain't personal, baby
But I can't let you be
I wanna feel you once more
'Cause most of you I don't care for
Chorus
There's nothing I love better
Than you and I being together
I'm in control, you'll do as you're told
And whatever you say won't matter
Chorus
'Although I already came up with the title in August 2001, the actual song got written in February 2008. While doing so, I took the best part of the lyrics of the October 2002 written It Is Your Life I Will Take! to use it, 'cause the song wasn't eligible for release anyway. I Need Some Bodies! is about someone keeping another human being in their house on an involuntary basis for obvious reasons, but with no word about killing this person whatsoever -- and apparently they're intended on getting some more captives. This song can be seen as the sort of title track for the Back With A Dungeon!-EP, but never was played at gigs.'
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Chorus:
Let's do the Mexican standoff
All you need is four or more guns
Some people and also some sort of
Room where no one else will come
We don't have no knives
We don't even have to take a life
It's all about power and control
And who has the strongest nerves of all
Chorus
Eight arms, four guys
Eight guns pointed, going left to right
Words are our saviour in this war
But don't forget to add some 'por favors'
Chorus
'The title already popped up in 1999 or 2000, but it took about ten years before I wrote some lyrics around it. A Mexican standoff is a confrontation between two or more parties, in which no participant can proceed or retreat without being exposed to danger, according to my friend Wikipedia. So the words are just about this, with four dudes each pointing two guns at one another and really nothing happening otherwise. For the music I mostly relied on traditional Mexican guitar chord progressions and an occasional lead trumpet throughout the song. It was first (and thus far only) performed live on November 18, 2016.'
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Chorus:
I've got a low profile job
Or maybe I have no work at all
I might have dropped out of school
And be a convicted sex offender
Ninety percent of us are male
Our IQ's as high as the bright normal range
But we all did poorly in school
Have a hard time holding down jobs
And we ain't no strangers to substance abuse
We come from unstable families
With psychiatric and alcoholic histories
And often criminal too
And we can't get along with our parents
'Cause we still remember our abusive childhood
Chorus
We have a high rate of suicide attempts
And at an early age we got interested
In voyeurism and fetishism
And sadomasochistic pornography
We practice a form of deadly submission
Chorus
'Spring 2012 I came across the web site of Dr. Phil and read an article with a list lining out the characteristics of serial killers, which served as the inspiration for this song. Now, I hear you say 'Doctor Phil, what does he know!', but he based his writings on the findings of Robert K. Ressler, a well-respected FBI agent in the 1970s and 1980s who is credited to having coined the term 'serial killer'. Anyway, together with the refrain that I already had come up with in 2011, I did put most of them serial killer characteristics into the lyrics to this mid tempo song. It's been played live once, on November 3, 2012, at an acoustic guitar gig.'
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Danny Ramirez Leiden, Netherlands
Danny Ramirez is a singer-songwriter from the Netherlands and the guitar player for stonerdoom band Toner Low! Besides playing morbid folk he has some one-man bands as well, but most of his releases are Ramirez EPs! Danny did solo gigs in the Netherlands, Finland, France and Germany, and played with a.o. Amigo The Devil, Bob Wayne, Joe Buck Yourself (Hank III) and The Goddamn Gallows! ... more
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