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Only By Shadows
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fooling around with an electric guitar and hollering too much
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rock, alt.country, americana, pop, boot-gazer. singer/songwriter/guitar aimed at crafting great songs rather than sticking to any particular genre of music...
singer/songwriter/guitar vaguely americana, pop, rock. all-original songs owe much to wilco, uncle tupelo, ryan adams, a whole mess of other good songwriters & dynamic performers.
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Genre
Alternative • Other Alternative
Charts
Peak #633
Peak in subgenre #88
Author
Joshua Watts
Uploaded
July 19, 2004
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MP3 3.9 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
recording: bought a 1964 gibson amp, wanted to try recording it. did a couple songs one day in February, with some pretty ragged vocals 'cause I was just recovering from nasty cold. the Feb '04 goof off. nothing like being mundane, miserable and feeling stifled to trigger a fine little rock tune, eh?
Lyrics
the time is grey dawn pull a pillow over my head not much change in the weather contemplating giving up refuse to focus on the fact of traffic put muscle into every dollar earned behind this chance or that sweating blood, the real, the endless no reason - no fault exploited - insulated talk and talk ...and meltdown collisions, afternoons oppositions outlast free hours rare water trickles down leaves lines in sand crossed only by shadows consider details, grocery lists am I balanced or backwards for the last time I wonder why tonight can't come fast enough the time is grey dawn...
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