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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

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    Second Language's 'Youth Is Not For Pleasure' album recorded in 1985 on CD in a new Deluxe Limited Edition of 100. Comes with 16-page booklet containing photos, credits, liner notes and the lyrics to all the songs.

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Toni Zeto: Lead Vocals
Jessie Jacobson: Guitars, Acoustic Guitar, Backing Vocal
Jerome Faulkner: Keyboards, Backing Vocal
Jarrett Lesko: Bass, Acoustic Guitar, Keyboard
Brian Bielski: Drums

lyrics

The Edge

You were here it was gone
You disappear it lingers on
In soft focus, delicate obscured
This hocus pocus is patently absurd

Still it’s there and it’s mine
And so I dance a fine line
Court it gently, treat it as a friend
Though it might just kill me in the end

It’s the edge it’s the edge
Like the edge of the knife
It’s the edge it’s the edge
And it slices through my life

It provides company
It resides inside me
Gently slicing my sinews apart
Cutting slowly into my heart

And the strength I once felt
Cut loose by the blow you dealt
Still I go on balanced on the ledge
Drawn and quartered, a captive of the edge

It’s the edge it’s the edge
Like the edge of the knife
It’s the edge it’s the edge
And it slices through my life

© Jessie Jacobson • 6/5/80

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from Youth Is Not For Pleasure, released November 16, 2023
Produced by Second Language with Earle Mankey.
Engineered by Earle Mankey.
Mixed by Earle Mankey & Second Language.
Recorded at Shock The Mankey Studios, March-June, 1985.

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Second Language Los Angeles, California

Second Language (1981-present) is an alternative rock band from Los Angeles. They will be releasing 7 albums of vintage and new material throughout 2024 on GO2L Records with Atmos/stereo singles releases on Alternator Records (mixed by Michael James).

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