Saint Monica (Undone)

from Undone by The Ballroom Thieves

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The Ballroom Thieves is Calin Peters and Martin Earley. For the last decade the band has focused on an energetic and dynamic live show that features a powerful quartet of searing vocals, drums, bass, electric guitars, and more recently synths. But this season they’re scaling things back to expose the bones of some of their most well-loved songs with the release of their first stripped down, or undone, version of their catalog track Saint Monica.

lyrics

She stood like a wolf in the doorway
The others laid bare on the ground
Now she makes her bed out of Brooklyn instead
And I sleep with the goddamn hounds

Her voice for a moment of lenience
And her words for the coin in your jar
And while she pays her dues as another man's muse
I still can't tell my head from my heart

Can I know all that I am?
Lest I forget I'm a decent man

Now she drinks and I smoke as we please to
While the other men fall to their knees
And a trifling part in the back of my heart
Says if ever that coward is me

Maybe if I begged some old saint for her patience
And then sold it to pay for her time
'Til I wake up one day and to all my dismay
That old face in the coffin is mine

Can I know all that I am?
Lest I forget I'm a decent, oh, I'm a decent man

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from Undone, track released April 7, 2023

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The Ballroom Thieves Boston, Massachusetts

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May 12

Monarch Tavern

Toronto, ON
May 31

First Parish in Portland

Portland, ME
Jun 1

The Sinclair

Cambridge, MA
Jun 2

Iron Horse Music Hall

Northampton, MA

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