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by DETONA

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1.
6:10AM 01:16
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theres a new day coming it's coming fast all these things will have passed get ready, get set, get going down the road i woke up in the morning light and i saw the sun i saw everything that i thought i shoulda done it all went away quick as a wink and i went back inside and fixed me a drink
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Hard Pan Clay 02:23
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on the move again i'm wearing down my shoes again on the road again i'm going where i ain't never been i got the right hand look lean all the way to the left i got a mean red book and a star hanging over my bed on the move again i'm wearing down my shoes again on the road again i'm going where i ain't never been got a big warm soup got a big warm bed and if you ever need either, babe you know where to lay you head on the move again i'm wearing down my shoes again on the road again i'm going where i ain't never been got a dozen fake names got no address just because i been away doesn't mean i need you any less on the road again blowin out my shoes again on the move again i'm going where i aint never been i got a home all over i got love anywhere a weary welcome but my friends still want me there got that hard pan left got that hard pan right got that hard pan clay keep me up all night on the move again i'm wearing down my shoes again on the road again i'm going where i ain't never been roll me over, lord, take me home
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Wage Theft Blues 03:38
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i walked with wind whistling down the line all of their money used to be mine since i haven't got a thing blues round this land gonna sing i walked in the doors of the liquor store i saw my clothes reflected in the glass and the floor i asked myself do i need me another another drink, another job, another chance to get more held out for hope, held my hand out for bread i wanted dollars, i got dimes instead asking myself to do it different, but till then the blues are whistling, my friend i didnt need anything i wanted new shoes not no diamond ring theres a man in the city with a name and address and hes sitting pretty on half my paychecks i walked with wind whistling down the line half of that money used to be mind since i haven't got a thing blues round this land gonna sing since i haven't got a thing blues round this land gonna sing we walked together in those midnight hours all of that money used to be ours since we haven't got a thing, blues round this world gonna sing since we haven't got a thing, blues round this world gonna sing
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Copper Buttons 02:50
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copper buttons on my jacket hearts on my sleeve i'm gonna make it outta here yes i believe yes i believe yes i believe i'm gonna make it outta here yes i believe doing a little walking i make it around i'm taking you with me we're going downtown go downtown we'll go downtown taking you with me but we're going downtown living in the country where the air is free they don't charge you nothing so baby, you can breathe baby you can breathe baby you can breathe they don't charge me nothing, so baby, you can breathe i'm heading for the station im heading for the door dont tell me bout my wristwatch i wanna stay some more i wanna stay some more i wanna stay some more dont tell me bout my wristwatch i wanna stay, some more copper buttons on my jacket hearts on my sleeve you can't tell me nothing cause i believe yes i believe yes i believe i'm gonna make it outta here yes i believe yes i believe yes i believe copper buttons on my jacket hearts on my sleeve I'm gonna make it outta here cause i believe yes i believe yes i believe i'm gonna make it outta here yes, yes i believe
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Prayer for the Dead of Night 02:44
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now if you've got my immortal soul who will watch me when i toil in the darkness and the dead of night? i made my way up to philadelphia and pittsburgh, pa everybody there lord, knows my name everybody there, lord, knows my name if i had to stay another week baby would you do the same? if i offered you my hand baby would you take my name? would you take my name? now if you've got my immortal soul who would watch me when i toil in the darkness and the dead of night?
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Out in the Tules 02:21
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can you be out in the tules anymore? is that a place that exists? is there anything left, anybody? or have they strip mined it all, strip-malled it all tore it all down and replaced it with a million drywall monstrosities and i'm paying to live in em god what a nightmare it is god what a nightmare look what they've done to my home look what they've done to it gimme the delta back, give me the rivers back gimme the mountains back anything but this lets see the salmon runs and get up the mccloud river get up the feather river get up the sacramento river or the american river and blow out those levees and blow down those dams let's see some real waters flowing out in the tules
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Don't Be A Coward 01:51
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here's a song for the children everybody wants to act bigger everyboy wants to act tough but nobody wants to run to me down with their truck i wanna die, yeah yeah yeah i wanna die, die, yeah yeah yeah a lot of talk, a lot of words but nobody's willing to murder a lotta big people, a lotta small thoughts die, i wanna die, yeah yeah yeah i wanna die, i wanna die, yeah yeah yeah well, the world is a-burning and my life is a mess if you think you've got the nerve why not come collect? die, i wanna die, yeah yeah yeah i wanna die, wanna die, yeah yeah yeah everybody's got their opinions but all of mine are correct and if you don't start hunting me down i'm gonna snap your neck i wanna die, i wanna die, oh yeah yeah yeah i wanna die, die, yeah yeah yeah everybody wants to act bigger nobody wants to act tough everybody wants to run to me down with their truck die, die, yeah hunt me down, i wanna die but let me get to the end of the album first
8.
Talkin' WPA Sidewalks 05:12
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heres a story about a town I've lived in for a little too long WPA sidewalks, they built 'em in '41, everybody in my town is always on the run - but where are they going? went down to the store the other day all those people had to make way for the new road going down it's down by the river it rolls past the hills what are they gonna do with it and who's footing the bills? it better not be me. sometimes I wake up with the sun, get to see the dawn it always beautiful, just before the dust comes on and I'm always a-walkin down that road, the new one with all that asphalt still sticky under your boots not that I'd be noticing it, my boots are dirty as hell. where I live I can see the mountains but they're too far away they look down at me, tauntin' and tellin' "you wanna get away, babe, you wanna get away?" you know I do, why you gotta make fun of me for it, huh? everybody in this town's moving round and round they're moving so fast that they can't hardly be found the stray dogs that run the streets they're no friends of mine and the children that live around here ooh, they're dying to get out no fun, no business, no nothing to do so I raise my hat to you, little town all your people, all the things going round cause you've held on since '41, before your race was even run I can't do that. I'm not nearly that old. I'm gonna wake up with the dawn one day it'll be the last one that I see and I'll be heading outta this town, just before I hit the sea I wonder if they'll get that road finished I wonder if they'll ever tear it down I wonder if they'll ever tell themselves that they're done fixing up this old town and all the people living in it they don't need no fixing they just need to get somewhere else less dust, less heat, and maybe no mountains mocking you neither
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Pride 02:41
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i woke up in the afternoon light i heard some birds outside as they flew away, i learned that day whats the point in clinging to pride? you gonna die clinging to pride so when the years swallow our lives up two strangers looking back will you have settled all your scores when the memory's faded black? when the memory's faded black? can you forgive our past? i'm waking up with the sun, baby and I'm feeling fine and if you've got a problem with me, baby that ain't no problem of mine that ain't no problem of mine how many long weeks will it have been since i last spoke to you? will these things have all gone out and will the memories be shot through? will that flame be burning in the middle of the night? will you let yourself spin out like a satellite? will you still be fighting with all your might just to be the one who won? just to be the one who won? i woke up in the afternoon light i heard the birds sing outside and when they flew away, i learned that day whats the point of clinging to pride? I ain't gonna cling to pride I ain't gonna cling to pride
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One Hundred Miles Per Hour 01:18
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who am i to deny myself a good time? i'm coming right around the bend i'm going a hundred miles per hour, baby cause thats the only way that this ends i've got a heavy load, but no broken bones i swear to god, just as my blood does flow, we're gonna see this out to the end we're gonna see this out to the end took the corner slow, i took the straight road fast i saw the devil at the corner by the overpass said for him a quick prayer, for myself another we're gonna see this out to the end i saw the desert skies and i tried to hide wasn't no home for me i saw the shining light come from the other side as the road came up to see i'm coming home, but my skeleton roams in two hundred six area codes if you need me again, give my femur a call cause this won't be the way that it ends i'm going a hundred miles per hour, baby thats the only way that this ends
11.
What Am I To You? 01:34
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catch you by the river like a fishing net i'll put you back in the stream, give me a rest can't be the same as it was last year even back then when the waters was clear if you were a carpenter and i was a plank would you cut me down and measure my length see my warps and all my lines, lay me down like a board of pine if i were a door would you measure my height slam me shut in the dead of the night would you slip right past quiet as a mouse or would you put me in the front of your house? if i were a man would you know me by now if i were a field would you furrow and plow if i were something else instead would you still keep me beside the bed what am i to you? what am i to you? if I were a carpenter and you were a plank I would cut you down and I'd measure your length I'd see all your warps and all of your lines, lay you on the floor like a board of pine if you were a door I would measure your height wouldn't slam you shut in the dead of the night I'd slip right past as quiet as a mouse and you'd have a place in the front of my house if you were a field i'd give you some fruit if you were a-trapped i'd cut you loose if you were needing anything else instead i'd keep it in the very top shelf beside my bed what am i to you?
12.
Back Porch Blues 02:42
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back porch blues are here again they're not going away back porch blues are here again but i cannot stay i've been here for a long week but i'd sell my soul for a day i saw my friends last night they bid me farewell but everytime that i come along lord, i raise me some hell back porch blues are here again but i cannot stay i have never been at home, and it's lord it's hard to get me away back porch blues are here again they're not going away everyone that i know wants me to stay
13.
End of the Day 01:34
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leave only smiles, take only scalps turn everything over and turn everybody out it's the end of the day and i'm heading home on my own i'm easy to please, i'm hard to impress and nobody round here needs another weight on their chest so i'm heading home it's the end of the day and i'm heading home on my own again some call it a crime, some call it a life but i know when i wake tomorrow i'll be heading into the light i'm heading home it's the end of the day i'm heading home said everything that i'm gonna say i'm heading home

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recorded in Washington DC, Sacramento and Merced, CA.

big thank you to jon muchin for letting me borrow his guitar and orion lenz for help with song structure.

cover photo taken by kevin mclaughin after we stole the sign from down the road

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released April 25, 2019

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