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Watch Ur Back is a three-part opus sung as a duet by Anna Salmon and Stephanie Genito. It's got an interwoven second verse vocal duel inspired by Hamilton's Farmer Refuted, ultra smooth piano by Jonathan Smith and the best recorded guitar solo of Ben Halperin's career.

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Watch your back Miss Nancy Kerrigan
Sweetheart American princess in pearly whites
Have you tried a triple axel
While in your castle getting bronzed beautified?
You think you got it; you don’t ‘cause I’m gonna deck the stack
Watch your back Miss Tonya Harding
You may be smarting while landing on your feet
Take a leap, you aim to dazzle
You’ll miss your axel the moment you feel the heat
They’ll never know you, ‘cause I’m gonna show you a true class act
So you better watch your back
Yeah you better watch your . . . back!

Woah – ‘cause I’m gonna take your curly ass down a peg
Woah – ‘cause I’m gonna make your trailer trash plead and beg
This isn’t a roll of the dice
And nobody will play nice
The competition’s on ice and I like it on the rocks  

Rocks and stones can shatter a limb if you let them
But don’t let them ruin your life
Ruin my life ain’t nothing, came from nothing
Nowhere to go but up, nothing to show but my heart
I’m gonna show you the art of gold
A champion
Knows where she wants to go and how just how to get there
So watch your back
No watch your back
You’re in my way
Get away split or I’ll make you pay
I’m the one who’s got it, you don’t
So you better watch your back
Yeah you better watch your back
No you better watch your back

Woah – you’ll never medal, you’ve got no chance with me
Woah – I’m gonna mettle in your lame fantasy
There ain’t enough room on the ice
Ain’t enough room here
For anybody to play nice
The competition’s arrived
And you better watch your back
Yeah you better watch your back

And when your back’s against the wall
You have to jump the gap or fall
Fall flat the wall don’t got your back
And when you’re falling ice ain’t all that
Cracks
 
You take it all upon yourself
You pray for luck and guts and health
You nail the jump with perfect grace
And punch your demons in the face
The time is
Now you make it count
You’ll
Count
Count
The
Other out – out
 
For all the ways you have to prove you’ll win it all
You push for days then trip and fall
But hope to rise again

You sink so low it’s tough to see the light it seems
Awoken from a fitful dream
You live to fight again
 
And all the time
You hope it’s fine
But teeter on the borderline
You scrape and climb
You know you’ll find the end
 
Don’t let them win
You’ve only been
Pushed until your soul gave in
Another’s skin
Is what you’re living in
 
For all the ways you try to prove you’ll win the day
Sometimes the best things slip away
You fight another day

credits

from Olympic Dream​/​Nightmare, released October 18, 2019
Ben Halperin: music/lyrics/guitar
Anna Salmon: lead vocals
Stephanie Genito: lead vocals
Jeff Ostroski: horn arrangement/trumpet
Uncle Funky: bass
Andrew Klein: drums
Jonathan Smith: piano/keyboard/organ
John De Simini: saxophone

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The Ninth New York, New York

The Ninth is a band based in New York City. Its first full-length album -- a rock/funk/theater concept album inspired by the Nancy/Tonya story -- will be out on Oct 18, 2019

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