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Down on the Farm
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DOWN ON THE FARM
More problems than a matchbook,
I took a long Greyhound ride
with the sinners and the castoffs,
the wounded caterpillars who’d never fly.
In the bathroom of a Texaco,
I shot up the last of my dreams,
dialed heartache collect from a phone booth
as the desert rains washed over me.
Now a picture hangs on Saturday,
I open doors with my own keys,
buy my food inside supermarkets
and the cops ain’t looking for me.
And I got a blonde-haired girl.
She likes cheap shoes and cheaper porn.
She tells me she loves me
down down down on the farm.
I took a room in a motel
on the outskirts of Denver,
cashed in every broken promise
’cause I knew I could never save her.
And when it hits you, man,
oh, brother, it hits you hard,
when there’s no one left for you to let down
’cause no one believes in you anymore.
Now the same banks I stole from
give me my checking account,
I can walk around without a shirt on
and not worry my ribs are sticking out.
And I got a blonde haired girl.
She likes cheap shoes and cheaper porn.
She only tells me she loves me
even when I leave the lights on.
This body may be ragged
and I maybe have a scar or two.
But after all the drugs I’ve taken
even pesticide is health food.
And I may complain
because complaining is what I do.
But on this farm tonight I can’t complain
because it led me to you.
All these streets are paint-by-number,
all my friends are battered and bruised.
As the sweet summer rain falls around me
I catch my baby in her new red dress walking down the avenue.
And I got a blonde-haired girl.
She likes cheap shoes and cheaper porn.
down down down on the farm
I got a blonde-haired girl…
I got me a blond-headed girl…
I got me a yellow-haired girl…
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Paul Westerberg
03:55
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Teenage Drummer
03:47
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So It Goes (So It Went)
05:06
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The Crash
03:52
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The Wandering San Francisco, California
The Wandering are a San Francisco alt-country/rock/punk band (depending on the year), led by novelist and songwriter Joe Clifford with any number of the following: Jarrett Cooper, Joe Dean, "Big" Tom Mitchell, Franz Nicolay, Mattt Rossoff, Kevin Seidel, Krishna Feeney, Michael Urbano, and Erik Zalkin. ... more
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