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This Guitar

by David Dondero

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Rain, roses and rain Rain rain rain roses Roses love rain Roses love rain It’s raining again Roses love rain Do you think it’s gonna last The sky’s all overcast They say November to June You’ll rarely see the moon The moon oh the moon Cause it’s here and then it’s Oregon Rain, roses and rain Rain rain rain roses Well you look up to the sky As it starts to cry Don’t you ever be sad Roses will be glad Glad oh so glad Cause it’s here and then it’s Oregon It’s raining again Roses love rain It’s raining again Roses love rain But it’s here and then it’s Oregon Yeah, it’s here and then It’s Oregon
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I travel light But i gotta whole lotta baggage Hey it’s alright If your drain is full of bammage How do you sleep With a razorblade on your pillow? The hanging tree Is mocking the weeping willow I’ve been punching against the gun But my hands are flesh and bone And i am alone I broke my hand Somehow my eyes got full of cryin’ Do you understand? All this contemplating dying If you could see Inside a boxer’s fracture How could it be For i am not a boxer I just been punching against the gun But my hands are flesh and bone And i am alone Where is the band That’ll set my heart to loving? Where is the song That’ll sing me back to living? Where is the love? Where is the audience to listen? Hey up above Could you sign my last petition? I’ve been punching against the gun But my hands are flesh and bone And i am alone
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This Guitar 03:36
This guitar took me ‘round the world Got me money and it got me loose women And it left me empty handed at the end of the line Stranded alone, broke and out of my mind This guitar it always makes me drink Never listens to the things i think It just goes off and does what it wants to do I sit back and wait and let it whine ‘til it’s through Just to play Just to play ‘Til i slip away I slip away This guitar fuckin’ ruined my life Lost me jobs and it lost me wives And i swear i’m gonna strangle its skinny neck For turning my sweet life into a wreck This guitar taunts me from the case Swear to god i’ll put it back in its place But then it sweet talks its way back into my life But every goddamned time i’ve got to pay the price Just to play Just to play ‘Til i slip away ‘Til i slip away Rich people out on Lakeway way Lazy money ain’t got nothing to say They talkin’ down to me like i’ve got no education They’re the ones who are obsessed with their sprinkler systems Every evening when the sun’s going down I get the guitar and i walk downtown And i drink with my grandma for the happy hour Yes we drink, we drink until we find the power Just to play Just to play ‘Til we slip away ‘Til we slip away Gotta slip away Slip away
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Samantha’s got a bag of coal Mighty soul but i couldn’t find an ego Dressing up like Santa Claus She gave it to the bankers and the others that were evil Like the cops in this town Disturbing all the peace Always bringing everybody down Why you gotta spoil the fun? Creating problems where there are none I’m singin’ ho ho ho here’s a chunk of coal For the overzealous cop Acting like he’s the gestapo Ho ho ho here’s a chunk of coal For the hypocrite who’s preaching in the church under the steeple Ho ho ho here’s a chunk of coal For the money driven bastards Putting profits over people Ho ho ho here’s a chunk of coal For the rich white frat boy yelling crap out of car windows For the overzealous copper acting like he’s the gestapo Samantha use to be called Sam Samantha was a woman who used to be a man Trying to find a place in this world It’s kinda hard when the boy becomes the girl She took it to the west coast side She got pushed off a bridge She nearly died A victim of a hateful crime The sadness crept in Samantha took her own life I’m singing ho ho ho here’s a chunk of coal For the overzealous cop acting like he’s the gestapo Ho ho ho here’s a chunk of coal For the hypocrites preaching in the church under the steeple Ho ho ho here’s a chunk of coal For the bankers and the brokers Ripping off all of the people Ho ho ho here’s a chunk of coal For the rich white frat boy yelling crap out of car windows For the overzealous cop Acting like he’s the gestapo For the greedy bastards Putting profits over people Homophobic bigots Spreading violence on the people Hoes
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Take a left turn in Boise Roll on down to Reno Got three nights in a hotel for free So i bought an air mattress And i floated down the Truckee To the center of the littlest big city I watched as the leaves twisted green into silver In the breeze on the bank of the old Truckee River At nighttime the sunburn Will give me a shiver I play my last soaking wet twenty dollars On a Wheel of Fortune machine For all my spun out dreams Love was a whirlwind Clouded our vision Cotton clouds of heaven on the earth Twas a pinball decision and a snapshot division Why’d you have to tell me what it’s worth Cause i’d rather by blinded by cotton and clouds And i’d rather hear symphonies playing too loud I’d rather have sweetness and love in this life Than be bitter alone and all drunk every night Playing Wheel of Fortune machines Spinning out my dreams Dream dream and you dream I’ve jumped to conclusion Mostly delusion All the things i cooked up in my head I thought you were against me But you backed me up instead All the things i made up in my head But the future is beaming bright on the coast And the oysters are ripe and ready for the roast And all of the chances that could have been lost If you never gamble it’ll never pay off On the Wheel of Fortune machine You’ve gotta spin it for your dream Dream dream and you dream
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Wrap your laughing gear round this one Aleuitious and the typewriter keys Sixteen sisters, oh the summer breeze Graybee baby and gobbler too Kack-a-doo BBQ the kangaroo Where’s the platypus of Yungaburra? Down under the murky water See him, there he is, look for the bubbles Oh the dreadful Irukandji I don’t to get them on me They can even penetrate the safety net Swimming in there could be a risky bet Get stung once and you’d rather be dead Let’s swim in the pool instead A Custard apple and a Brazil cherry Oh the vicious Southern Cassowary Is it the world's most dangerous bird? Go try to pet it if you think that’s absurd It’s got a pretty cool looking blue neck and head But you wouldn’t wanna have that thing in your bed trust me They’re burning off a sugar cane field All those deadly brown snakes are gonna get revealed I saw one slither right across the road Fires and floods will get ‘em out on the go Most of them are really pretty shy So why not let them just slither by?
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Don’t you feel Like you could feel Don’t you feel like you could love Don’t you feel Like you’re not a zombie Inside your heart There was blood You’re not a vampire You’re not a demon You don’t live in a video game Looking for something That’s good to believe in You tripped on the cracked walk of fame Don’t you feel That true love was only Only for the lucky one Don’t you feel Your life would be lonely Forever you’ll be on the fun Overnight lows And cold misty mornings Will greet you to start the new day Old aged whoas will come without warning Your mouth will not know what to say And you love And you love But you’ve got no follow through You love Yeah you love You don’t know what to do Don’t you feel Like you could feel Don’t you feel like you could love
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Alcohol 04:22
Alca-alcohol Alca-alca-hello Alca-alca-hole I got no control I like to drink Been in the program A friend of John A friend of George Maybe Bob & Alice Do you wanna hear my life story? Don’t wanna hear your drunk story Cause all your drunken stories Just make me wanna drink more now I wanna drink more now I wanna drink more now and more Your drunken story’s a bore Just makes me wanna drink more So c’mon c’mon let’s drink more Your dear old ma’ma Told ya, i was trouble Told you , i’d always be poor And that you’d best get out on the double What does she know? She don’t even know me But maybe she’s right Maybe she’s wrong Don’t you think she’d like this song Don’t you think she’d hum along You told me she married for money And she didn’t think it was worth it But at the time she wanted stability To raise up a family So she took the money over love She took the money over the love She took the money over love And you wonder why people drink Alca-alcohol Alca-alca-hell Alca-alca-holy Holy holy camoly
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I can’t believe my eyes I’m a barfly just like in the movie A Blissful morning drunk Clinging to my chair Squinting my eyes as the sun bleeds through The crack under the doorway of Anchorage Somewhere in Talkeetna there’s an on your honor store There’s a radio station playing all my favorite songs It’s cause i know the DJ She knows just what to play She plays it for today Cause she knows there’s no tomorrow There’s no tomorrow in this song I knew there wasn’t all along I’m not planning out my future In my future i’m gonna be dead and gone Just like there’s no forgiveness hone There’s no tomorrow in this song Grady bought a rifle Jacky bought a forty four They’re calling it survival They are ancient as the Vietnam war You got such a lovely scar Hold it dear your precious wound Hold it up like a trophy Take it through your life in to the tomb It’s 1 a.m. you’ve got to tell me why the sun’s still shining I crossed the arctic circle Skidded into Dead Horse today Went past the last tree standing Over the Brooks Range But you gotta pay a toll or you might even get arrested If you try to dip your feet Into the Prudhoe Bay Met a bush pilot A bush pilot brave and strong Next thing you know it You know my pilot friend is gone See he went to close the base camp On the glacier in Denali The weather closed out In the morning all they found Was a cracked up plane And three casualties There’s no tomorrow in this song I knew there wasn’t all along I’m not planning out my future In the future i’m gonna be Dead and gone Just like there’s no forgiveness honey There’s no tomorrow in this song
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They’re building the new Berlin wall California to Texas so tall But you know that you can’t catch ‘em all Yet your building the new Berlin wall I’ve seen Mexican men rounded up in Juarez Women and children behind a razor wire fence Herded like cattle to some government bus I don’t know where they got sent I tried to look closer some cop he suggested I keep my eyes to myself Pointed his gun and said “move along son Unless you want trouble yourself” Cause they’re building the new Berlin wall San Diego to Brownsville so tall If ‘n’ yer a Mexican You’re a criminal ‘til they prove you’re a citizen Check the Itlalians and check the Chinese Check the Scandinavians and your Portugues Better ID the Irish, question the British Check them out now could you please? Check the Czechs while your at it Check you Germans for your citizenship Check out the Polish and check out the Jews Are they kosher, hey are they legit? Cause they’re building the new Berlin wall Then they’re trapping you all in so you can’t leave at all And if you get rich you can shop in their stores But if you’re poor, you gotta serve them and find the back door I don’t see freedom with a twenty foot fence Beefing up borders with rich arrogance Has the statue of liberty Staggered drunkenly into the sea They’re building the new Berlin wall You say you can’t let ‘em all in Because your economy will fall Well it already did and your greed caused it all Yet your building the new Berlin wall Send off your battalions of gun toting thugs End this unwinnable war against drugs Legalize all of it, stop the cartels Crack the black market and tax that as well And take all that money for rehab and schools Break this unbreakable circle of fools Tear down the border fence open the door Send us your hungry, your sick and your poor
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released November 3, 2013

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