All the Rage

from 700 Miles by Mary Lee's Corvette

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ALL THE RAGE (words and music by Mary Lee Kortes)

Everybody’d doing it
Cut a piece keep chewing in
Don’t look for much that’s true in it
It makes them happy

From country club to county fair
They’re savoring their steely stare
So proud of how much they don’t care
They’re safe and happy
Let everyone see it’s

All the rage in the world
All the rage in the world

When mama was a baby child
All that mattered was her mother’s smile
Safe from the politics of style
So very happy

The epidemic took her bones
The call to worship empty thrones
And laugh out loud while throwing stones
So safe and happy
But all that I see is

All the rage in the world
All the rage in the world
Another page is torn and curled
From all the rage in the world

What does it take to turn away
From dark distortions of the day
A people joined by love of hate

The fear that takes us all by storm
Has cut a path bow too well worn
Where differences are hated
Instead of celebrated

Following the followers
Voluntarily coerced
A glimpse at truth can be reversed
Be reversed

Following the followers
Voluntarily coerced
A glimpse at truth can be reversed

All the rage in the world
All the rage in the world
Another page is torn and curled
From all the rage in the world

It’s all the rage in the world
All the rage in the world
All the world

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from 700 Miles, released March 21, 2003
Mary Lee Kortes: vocals, keyboards string arrangement
Brad Albetta: bass
Graham Hawthorne: drums and percussion
Joe Chiofalo: accordion
James Roven: cello
Timothy Roven: violin

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Mary Lee Kortes New York, New York

"Songs so meticulously crafted they sound completely natural". Jon Pareles, The New York Times
“Mary Lee Kortes's voice—the high mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde." David Fricke, Rolling Stone
"Mary Lee in concert... a feast for lovers of great songwriting that thrives in live performance for its wit, insight and glowing humanity." Billboard
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