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Song To New York

from Famous Anonymous Wilderness by Graham Lindsey

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SONG TO NEW YORK

I went to every city where I met no one
And I stood in every barroom where nothing had begun
There were fights in every alley way
And protests panting until dawn
Pleading someone listen to them
Belch their empty songs
And the pirates dressed in new blue jeans
Sold tickets in the square I heard that
Somewhere something happened once
But never quite occurred
Stagecoaches sent limp lovers passed
I watched the lure sink then raise
And dangle like a lullaby
But the children ran away
I saw twenty flowers baring
Twenty colors in a line
Each dancing to a cadence
Keeping them there 'til they die
As lonely dreamers peddled their schemes
To loners looking for anything
Take me where you want to
Just don't let me see the strings
The waterfront reeked of new perfume
Where strangers strangely drifted by
For morning would be coming soon
While unwilling goes the night
And I in my fading raincoat wondered
Mothered by a million fears
How ancient are these memories
That have always left me here
I remember serpent skylines rising
Swimming in infinity
And all the poisoned people
Submerged in obscurity
As if to reach up was enough
To beg eternity for more
I can't remember waking up
Or what my dreams were for
I am useless to the wild earth
So sings the bowels of every place
I used to map the laughter
Though I could never find its face
And anywhere that I may go
My judgment roars its restless bells
I never knew and shall never know
A worse place than myself

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

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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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