Rare Streetlight Manifesto Songs / Demos

Описание: Tracks (scroll down for notes/lyrics):
0:00 - Down Down Down to Mephisto's Cafe Demo
1:19 - New Streetlight Song (Grandpa)
2:37 - New Toh Kay Song
3:30 - One Mississippi
3:57 - Better Than You

Down Down Down to Mephisto's Cafe Demo
This comes from a show in 2005 at The Crazy Donkey in Farmingdale, NY. This is a very early version of Down, Down, Down to Mephisto's Cafe that Streetlight would play leading into Day In, Day Out. There's a few versions floating around YouTube, but this one is by far the best audio quality.

New Streetlight Song
Also from The Crazy Donkey in Farmingdale, NY. This is the only recording I've heard of this song. It's a bummer, cause I really, really like it. Sounds like it could be a Toh Kay song. I've tried my best to transcribe the lyrics, please pick them apart in the comments:

Grandpa told me one time
He didn’t learn the pain
Of growing up and growing old
And I would feel the same

But I don’t understand
I don’t understand
I guess it’s over my head

Sometime she smiles
Relives me of the pain (?)
Of all the years I spent and feared
That things would never change

But I don’t understand
And I don’t understand
I guess it’s over my head

And every time we speak(?)
We turn mountains into molehills
And every time we meet
We turn rivers into streams

And now
It’s time to say goodnight
And everybodys looking at me
And I can’t think of the words to say
So I nod my head and agree

Cause everybody’s got the time
It’s just a matter of when
I just hope when they come for me
I’ll be strong enough to defend
What I’ve done

New Toh Kay Song
This was taken from another YouTube video (/watch?v=VeWJ0oKj7pQ) - hope thats okay! Performed at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia, PA on April 29, 2012. Again, here are my attempts at the lyrics:

When I was young I never had no one
to tell me who, what, when or why
Now that I'm older I've got scars, I've grown colder
I've got reasons to stay inside
I had a cat
It ran away
I had a girl
She didn't stay
I had a car
It crashed
A house
It burned
Now all I have is a guitar

One Mississippi
The most requested Streetlight song, here's them actually playing it on April 22, 2005 at The Forum in the UK.

Better Than You
Finally, here's Streetlight playing a song off the Catch 22 demo way back in 2004 in Chicago. This sounds much better than the Catch 22 version, IMO.