Employee No. 17 Playlist

F.B. Trusted Associate/Employee #71/Employee No. 17

Despite his recent unsavory connections, No. 17 has always been a key member of the Cafe and Diner and was one of its three founders. For his playlist, I went with a lot of stomp and holler, dark cabaret, and gothic Americana to really capture the essence of our strange and sometimes sinister magician out of New Orleans. His songs attempt to look at his internal struggle of right and wrong, fair and rigged, accepted and ultimately taboo.

- D.H.

Playlist

1.		“You’re a type of magician? Well, if you must call me that, yes. But if you are after mere parlor tricks you will be sorely disappointed, for if I reach behind your ear, it will not be a nickel I pull out, BUT YOUR VERY SOUL!”
2.		Poor Old Pierrot Somepeople, what an unfortunate name Some people have the low down notion that he is the one to blame He used to take the train from old Montparnasse to Madrid, hustles up a little under fifty quid Underneath the shell is an angry fire, but who's the first to jump on the pyre?
3.		Well, piece by piece and nail by nail it'll all come down some day before the fires of hell You let me in your house You let me in your house You let me in your house with a hammer Set to tile or set to stone Tit for tat and bone for bone I'm goin' to set fire to your glamour
4.		Goddamn there's always such a big temptation To be good, to be good There's always free cheddar in a mousetrap, baby It's a deal, it's a deal God's away, God's away, God's away On business Business
5.		They can take our trombones And pack them down there with us But no matter how longs it takes us We will not be defeated When we dance, we dance together Under the moon and under the weather We will lock our eyes forever in the night
6.		What's that floatin' in the water? Oh, Neptune's only daughter I believe In Mr. Grieves Pray for a man in the middle One that talks like Doolittle
7.		Ain't nobody gonna love me like the devil do Ain't nobody gonna love me like the devil do Well, I ain't been saved, honey, what for? If I went to heaven I would only be bored And there ain't nobody gonna love me like the devil do
8.		When anything that's anything becomes nothing, that's everything And nothing is the only thing you ever seem to have
9.		I remember the day when I cried out for help no one came running and that's when I first knew I am all I got Went to the wise man but no answer he could give I went to the kind man he shrugged his shoulders and wept You are all you got
10.		And we say that the world isn't dying. And we pray that the world isn't dying. And just maybe the world isn't dying. Maybe she's heavy with child.