The Road is an Endless Trance

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Sometimes a song lyric doesn’t look good on paper, so I’ll start with the song.

Here’s a sample of the lyric

The sun beats down like judgement
on the armour-plated road
I just called out God and the Devil
and neither of them showed,
and there’s a sour smell of whiskey sweat
on the air-conditioned air
sometimes I think I care too much
and sometimes I just don’t care……

and it’s not where you’re going
it’s what you left behind
there aint’ a colour out there
that could describe my state of mind

That’s John Mitchell on vocals, guitar and that’s his daughter Nikki on drums and background vocals. It’s part of a CD we made together, a little while back , (Crossing Lines , The Mitchell Feeney Project). I wrote the lyrics and John did everything else! It’s a dark lyric, I guess. Around the time I wrote it, a close friend of mine had recently died and also I was listening to a lot of Tom Waits and The Eagles. So it kind of morphed into a lyric, then with John’s input and some revisions it became ” The Road”!

Here’s a live version with John and Nikki.

Taking part in OpenLink over at dverse.

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