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lyrics

It's September in New York City
Days shorten and their balmy evenings
Populate piano-bars with jaded journalists
Wordsmiths of world-weary wisdom
Authors of an uncertain age
Who're handsomely paid to pit their pithy wits
By penning pieces impaling the mood of the moment
Zooming in on the zeitgeist

The barmen are there to pour them all one more,
One more and one more for the road
But theirs is never a novel
Only an endless stream of counted column inches
Which map the monthlies, weeklies and dailies
Of this city's magazine-stands

It's the late 1940s
What drives their writing is a blend of alcohol and chain-smoking
With a war just won
Their thoughts tumble as freely as autumn's falling leaves
And cynicism rules

Dorothy Parker, Lillian Helman, Martha Gellhorn, Hedda Hopper
Walter Lippmann, H.L Mencken, Louella Parsons, Dorothy Thompson, Walter Winchell

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from The Columbus Memoirs, released June 4, 2022
(words: Nick Toczek / music: Matt Webster)

Nick Toczek - vocals
Matt Webster - keyboards, drums
Mark Cranmer - double bass
Keith Jafrate - saxophone
Emmanuel Williams - guitar
Chris Walsh - flute

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Nick Toczek & Signia Alpha Bradford, UK

Poet Nick Toczek began collaborating with Matt Webster in 2019.
They released Shooting the Messenger in 2020. A mix of indie, jazz and funk grooves with Toczek’s surreal poems and stories.
Walking the Tightrope followed in 2021 & included a guest appearance by The Damned’s Paul Gray.
A third album in 2022. Webster plays many of the instruments with contributions from guests, including Paul Gray,
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