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Nice Dosen't Make Any Noise

from Pretty Simple by Jim Page

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    13 track solo acoustic. 4 panel wallet, inside photos. Cover & inside left photos by Elizabeth Carpenter, inside right at session in Doolin, Eire, by Katy Keenan. Back photo busking at Pike Place Market Street Fair 1972.

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Song about the neurotic fixation of being nice to people who are destroying the world.

lyrics

you gotta be kidding, you want me to be nice
back up buddy, let me give you advice
you ever see a mouse bein’ nice to a cat?
you ain’t gonna make it like that

chorus:
nice doesn’t make any waves
nice doesn’t move any mountains
nice doesn’t make any noise
let’s make some noise

its time to tear down that pompous facade
that rotten racket, that house of fraud
chains don’t break because you ask them to to
i’m making a fist, how about you?

Chorus

hand me that wrench, let’s take turns
see if we can open this can of worms
let’s make some plans, let’s draw some straws
and if we have to, let’s break some laws

chorus

bridge
i see the future looking back in disgust
their whole world is depending on us
we can’t let them down
so let’s get it together and go downtown

fightin' fire with fire don't make any sense
you gotta use water in the present tense
not the nice kind of water where the rich folk swim
but the fiery kind that you drown in
the kind that rises up to be
a tsunami of humanity
a wave across the finish line
and it’s about time

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from Pretty Simple, released January 23, 2020
Words and music copyright Jim Page, Whid Isle Music, BMI

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Jim Page Seattle, Washington

Named by Seattle Metropolitan Magazine as “One Of The 50 Most Influential Musicians In Seattle History.” Originally from California Page has called Seattle and the Pacific Northwest “home” since 1971. Songs covered by The Doobie Brothers, Christy Moore, Dick Gaughan, Michael Hedges, and Roy Bailey. Utah Phillips: “If you’re ever going to get the message, this is the messenger to get it from.” ... more

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