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The Living and the Dead

from The Transient by David Dondero

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    The Transient is finally available on vinyl. Pressed on 180-gram vinyl, this pressing is limited to 1000 copies. This is the classic black vinyl version.

    250 on smoky “Ashes on the Highway” vinyl
    250 on two-tone black & white vinyl
    500 on classic black vinyl

    The record includes a download code for 4 digital bonus tracks of demos recorded during the same era.

    Mastered for vinyl by Carl Saff.

    Originally released on CD by Future Farmer Recordings.

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lyrics

Chose an easy rhyme
To fill these moments of your time
I tried to keep between the lines
Looking forward and behind
I’ve studied highway archeology
Poetry yet written
As it’s happening before me
At this moment of expression
It’s evolving and dissolving
Connecting and exploding
Building up and then eroding
It’s the endings i keep blowing
I play the skinny indie white boy blues
In scuffed up military style shoes
I’m a convenience store connoisseur
On a broken shoe-string budget tour
Flat broke folk
Just barely afloat
Sinking fast in an alligator moat
Getting old with no success
Soon forgotten put to rest
Crossed this country a million times
A trillion roads
A gazillion signs
A re-enactment is this life
These words are just a bite
From all those heroes that i’ve heard
Just paraphrasing words
To leave behind a song
A re-enactment of a song
Hey, i’m in love
with this living and the dead
Hey ,i’m in love
with the living and the dead
Living and the dead
I’m in love with a lover
who’s dead
Seen some highs and lows
I’ve seen those Akrons and Toledos
And you know we’ve done some shows
where not a single person goes
Driven’ 14 hours
Just to play it to the sound guy
As he’s reading his book
We’ve got to suck it up and try
As the bartenders playing on that
Megatouch machine
hear her long fingernails
tapping on that screen
It’s a cold bleak night
as the puddle’s bleeding light
Detroit’s abandoned
A casino’s in my sight
I gotta kill my time
I’m a ghost out on these streets
I’ll be sleeping in my truck tonight
Not sleeping in your ice cold sheets
Got a scrambled heart
It’s a little bit overcooked
I got a novel full of wishes
Missing from your book
There’s no insurance in this life
No protection from the night
Too many rules with no directions
You walk under the knife
It’s just this temporality
Creating fleeting moments
If you’re lacking in permanence
You better make your little moment potent
Hey i’m in love with this living and the dead
Hey i’m in love with the living and the dead
Living and the dead
I’m in love with a lover who’s dead

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from The Transient, released October 1, 2021

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