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Take What You Want

from APPROXIMATE HELLHOUND by REID PALEY TRIO

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    "One of America's best -- and most underrated -- songwriters."
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    "What? You want some kind of description of the artist and his music? Just fucking listen to the guy and enjoy his prowess."
    -- Frank Black a.k.a. Black Francis

    "A voice to turn good girls bad...Maybe crazy but damn exciting."
    -- The Village Voice

    "A proudly weird talent with a nervy raw appeal."
    --Time Out New York

    "Best Actual Gig of the Year. Very very impressive."
    --Sleazegrinder UK

    "The bastard child of Sinatra and Lemmy. Great epic, minimalist rock tunes with that end of the night feel."
    --Random Magazine UK

    “For all his simplicity, Reid is like nobody else.”
    -- Seattle Weekly

    "Possessed with the voice of a drunken wolf. Songs that roar."
    --Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    "Best Of Manhattan"
    -- New York Press

    "A soot-black sense of humor as biting as an underfed Rottweiler."
    --Cleveland Free Times

    "An unholy howl of a voice."
    -- CMJ New Music Monthly

    "Reduce-you-to-tears razor wit...Reid Paley ought to be a household name."
    --Pittsburgh City Paper

    "One of the East Coast's best-kept secrets, his wryly misanthropic schtick is all his own. Live, he is the Bill Hicks of the blues. You need to see him."
    --What's On In London

    "Straightforward, sarcastic, funny and gifted at putting a song together."
    --New York Press

    "For fans of churlish honesty and unaffected one-man shows, REVIVAL is a nonstop riot."
    --San Francisco Weekly

    "A jarring reminder of what rock'n'roll once was and could be again."
    --The Washington Times

    "Reid Paley is the kind of artist Seattle loves."
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Take What You Want was also recorded by Frank Black and appears on the Frank Black & the Catholics single Everything Is New, and is also the first track on the Frank Black covers album Snake Oil.

lyrics

TAKE WHAT YOU WANT (Reid Paley)

You know if you need me
You find a way
There’s trouble tomorrow
Let’s kill yesterday
Gonna lay my body down
Take what you want from me

And if you’re looking
For shooting stars
Come get my pistol
Shoot me to Mars
Gonna lay my body down
Take what you want from me

I’m on my way now
Might find a friend
Who might lead me
Home again
Might find a savior
Might wanna say
You’re right
I’m wrong
Not yet but it won’t be long
Come drag my broken bones
Away

You know if you want me
You ought to know
Down by the river
That’s where I go
Gonna lay my body down
Take what you want from me
Gonna lay my body down
Take what you want from me

Take what you want from me



Lyrics Appear by Permission
The Monkey’s Paw (BMI)
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from APPROXIMATE HELLHOUND, released October 30, 2007

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