Track 3 on Onward To Yesterday is a pretty straight-forward treatment of a Song Fight title. It started as an attempt to write something I could perform solo with a loop pedal, and build up parts as the song went along. This album arrangement doesn't do that, and I haven't really worked out the live strategy yet either. Oh well.
Elegy For Industry
Chorus: Come down to the city with me
We'll poke around in what used to be
We'll go sailing on the blacktop sea
To the bones of the industry
We'll get drunk and we can break a few things
Don't you worry 'bout the trouble it brings
Nobody cares about you or me
Or what's left of the industry
They came in back in '73
All smiles and opportunity
And promises they knew they would not keep
We knew it too but we were in too deep
We swallowed hard and we closed our eyes
Any port's home in a storm this size
We let them build on a hnadful of lies
So what I got to show you shouldn't be a surprise but...
Chorus
They took the hopes and the dreams of this town
They drove them right straight into the ground
And once the benefit couldn't be found
You knew that they wouldn't be sticking around
They slithered off like a well-fed snake
When there was no more money to make
And who am I to say it was a mistake
Because maybe we all need something to break
Chorus
This song (and all the others on the new album) can be heard on the music player to the right.
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