A Longway From Settling Down

from People, Places, Things by Butch Ross

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This is a song about writer’s block, and my then impending first marriage, all disguised as an elliptical metaphor about farming.

lyrics

You can do what you can to try and save face,
but nothing disappears without a trace.
A lotta dead air, a lotta blank page,
lotta time working on my thousand-yard gaze.

Ain't no secret to be revealed,
plow's gone rusty in the field.
The cow's won't milk, if they got no feed,
and I watched that crop all go to seed.

And it's a crooked barn with an empty smell;
dried manure in an empty shell.
Sunlight streaks where the shingles fell,
but the whole damn farm has gone to hell.

//I’ve been gone for a long, long time,
long enough to be outta your mind.
Many a moon since I been around,
but I'm a long, long way from settling down.

Bare-feet crying on the road again,
old nostalgia’s creeping in,
I smell the dust of an ill-black wind,
but I almost feel like I'm ready again.

So I'm gonna drag that thing out into the sun,
kick that motor 'till the damn thing runs.
The road might show you where it wants to go,
you got to learn to plow a straight line though.//

So I grew dust from a bone-dry field
‘til my wanderlust like a cyclone wheeled.
But if a harvest of rust has taught me just one thing;
it’s I'm here 'cause I got a song to sing.//

credits

from People, Places, Things, released June 13, 2014
Hunter White - End Drums
Travis Kilgore - End Bass
Tim Hinck - Piano
Br - Bass Drum, Hand Claps, Banjammer, Guitar, Upright Bass, Accordion, Organ, Strings, Jaw Harp, Vocals
Contains interpolations of the traditional song “Little Sadie”

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Butch Ross Chattanooga, Tennessee

Chattanooga multi-instrumentalist and mountain dulcimer maestro Butch Ross has tackled everything from Radiohead to Bach and come away with a renewed appreciation for what the humble dulcimer is capable of. His music is born from his respect for its abilities, a respect born from the years he's spent prying apart its pieces and discovering new sounds where none existed before. ... more

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