American roots, that natural sound,
but it's never quite right when I've jotted it down
and later I'll find that I've changed my mind
about you and everyone else.
When I try to write it always comes out wrong,
when I wind up in a fight it isn't cause I feel strong,
You know, I'd like to be right,
But I'm usually wrong about half the time with a little hindsight.
Oh, how the time just slips away
Did we waste another year on these games?
I guess some things must never change a bit.
American roots and a natural-born king,
but he'd fallen out of touch and he wouldn't sing
for dry spells and dry humor,
the sorcerer or the mute.
Oh, how the time just slips away
Did we waste another year on these games?
I guess some things must never change a bit.
And I'm guessing we're the ones who like to walk away
from the day-to-day-in-day-out in a dream soundscape.
My dreams were meant to change.
Do they?
credits
from Dry Spells / Dry Humor [side B] Tape for Will,
released May 2, 2016
Strings and horns sampled from Space Odyssey 2001 soundtrack
Electric guitar by Teddy Smith
other instruments by Casey Dawson
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