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Everybody Sings A Lonesome Song

from Famous Anonymous Wilderness by Graham Lindsey

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Track 6

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EVERYBODY SINGS A LONESOME SONG

Where have all the singers gone
Gone to churches one by one
The street's been quiet for so long
Where has all the music gone
The radio keeps everyone at home
Slow dancing through the telephone
And then we die and no one knows
And there's just the sound of the radios
While the counterfeits who hate our dreams
Moan joyful tones through the tv screen
But I can't believe what I have seen
Now everybody hums the same damn melody
And the pushers know the junkies will come back
If no one ever understands the trap

And for those young without their mouths
Echoes break the windows in an empty house
And no one wants to hang around
Not long ago I was just a babe
When targets chased the armed parades
They ran in rhythm with the notes that played
And we'd sing along with the falling rain
But that ain't how it feels today
'Cause the butchers with those electric bones
Fired hearts like empty bombs explode
Now everyone's back on their own
Dying fast I am not growing old
Yes the lonely know the only way is down
And not everybody comes back around

Whose song has stopped for the voice of God
Angels or fools call them what you want
We all make do with what we've got
You are hard-wired for eternity
Eyes roll back so the heart can sleep
Conversations bite the ankles of infancy
You and I are a stupid symphony
Reborn and dying constantly
Like the jukebox wind on the ocean blows
Take this change and make the silence gold
It's deafening out here on my own
I suppose that's just the way it goes
But the solitude proves everybody wrong
'Cause everybody sings a lonesome song

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from Famous Anonymous Wilderness, released September 2, 2003
Graham Lindsey - vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica

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Known for the dark, raw, stripped-down approach he takes to American roots and folk, Graham Lindsey's music has been said to fall somewhere in the middle of Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and 'if Gillian Welch had a male counterpart,' while following in the traditions of Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly. But, it does so with plenty of his own punk rock sensibilities in tact.

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