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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Paper Dolls Lyrics

Marcy Playground

Who's the captain of the ship I think it's sinking
I know I don't know what I know I don't know what was I thinking

Paper Dolls
Before The folding
Schools like malls
That all are closing
Afraid to dance
Don't talk to strangers
Avoid romance
Read what the sign says
Parental guidance is advised
Another teenager surprised
blah, blah, blah, blah
Feels so good to be alive
blah, blah, blah
Yeah, life was easier at five
blah, blah, blah
Feels so good to be alive
blah, blah, blah
Yeah, life was easier at five
What was I thinking?

I can't make up my mind
Can't even make up my bed
Yeah, I should clean up my act
But first I clean up my head
My books are on the shelf
I don't apply myself
You always check up on me
But check yourself, oh

Paper Dolls
Before the folding
Schools like malls
That all are closing
Afraid to dance
Don't talk to strangers
Avoid romance
Read what the sign says
Parental Guidance is advised
Another one us survives
blah, blah, blah, blah