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Grandpa's Farm

from Old Overhaul by The Desert Kind

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I'm sure by now, we've all heard the line,
that sooner or later we're all gonna die.
Yeah, but I know for sure that I ain't going down,
without a kick and a scream.

The big man will tell us to lay on the tracks.
While his workers silently stab in our backs,
the daggers of conformity and the rigging of tax,
yeah, but it just seems like the right thing to do.

How can we turn back the days?
Get back to when we felt safe.
Oh, how, how can we live?
Live in sweet, sweet harmony.

The numbing of freedom with the blinding of fact,
with, prescribed pain killin' pills for our backs,
and all the while, they're still laying tracks, right over grandpa's farm.

Driving the roads I grew up along.
Paved with the statues of financial row.
Once I remember where those willows did grow,
on the dirt road to grandpa's farm.

How can we turn back the days?
Get back to when we felt safe.
Oh, how, how can we live?
Live in sweet, sweet harmony.

I guess I'm done running from the future of late.
Rollin my wagon from state to state.
Just trying to find a town where I can settle my fate,
all the while feedin' the man.

How can we turn back the days?
Get back to when we felt safe.
Oh, how, how can we live?
Live in sweet, sweet harmony.

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from Old Overhaul, released June 10, 2014

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The Desert Kind Portland, Oregon

The Desert Kind is the brainchild of Portland-based songwriter Chris Bigley. Beginning as a mostly unplugged Americana outfit, Bigley shifted gears in 2015, stripping the live presentation to a duo--himself and bassist J Elwood Johncox, and emboldening their material with pulsing kick drums and crackling electric guitars. Anchored by Bigley’s writing, the band marches onward. ... more

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