Named for the formative location in lead singer John Wozniak's childhood, the Marcy Open grade school in Minneapolis, Marcy Playground emerged in the late 1990s with clean and subdued alternative rock. Wozniak's first effort, "Zog BogBean - From the Marcy Playground", was a self-produced labor of love, recorded in his bedroom studio with some help from his then-girlfriend Sherry Fraser in the early nineties. A small run of CD's was self-released by Wozniak, and to this day it remains extremely difficult to find, and highly sought after. Most copies that surface for sale go for over $100. After attending the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington for two years, Wozniak moved east to New York, where Marcy Playground began to coalesce around the songs that would become the self-titled album.
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Ancient Walls of Flowers Lyrics

Marcy Playground

Ancient walls of flowers tumblin down
Black cat petals and a smiling clown
I like to keep them in
A jar beside
Just enough to mess my mind inside
But I never heard you callin from the sun
Did you ever care to shoot your silver gun
No I never heard you callin from the moon
Did you ever care to sing your free love tune
Ancient walls of whispers falling low
Murmur simmer and Im feeling slow
Keep me up but keep me in my head
Ill ping a pound of posies til Im dead
But I never heard you callin from the sun
Did you ever care to shoot your silver gun
No I never heard you callin from the moon
Did you ever care to sing your free love tune
Ancient walls of flowers tumblin down
Ancient walls of flowers tumblin down
Ancient walls of whispers tumblin down
Ancient walls are tumblin all over this town