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240227: Old King Kong

from Leap Songs, Part 4 by James Tristan Redding

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Near misses and also-rans
Ricochets and best laid plans
All feels like a game of chance
Praying for a change

High hopes for a harvest moon
Bright and early and gone too soon
Dressed up like a church in June
Standing in the rain

Hours dancing like ink on skin
One day ends and the next begins
Sweating bullets and drinking gin
Wrong side of the tracks

Velvet halos and shattered glass
Questions that I never asked
Painted memories of lovers past
Never going back

Leather couches to canvas shoes
Paper tigers to concrete blues
Roll the dice but I always lose
You should know by now

Fire engines and old king kong
Sirens singing the same old song
And I'd go back where I belong
If only I knew how

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from Leap Songs, Part 4, released March 1, 2024

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James Tristan Redding Nashville, Tennessee

British-American songwriter, singer, audiobook narrator, studio player, Godin Guitars official artist.

Founded global collective www.SongAWeek.org, performance art experience The Under Over: tinyurl.com/uoxuo (song circle underneath a highway) and writing retreat www.TheNashville24.com (annual challenge: write 24 songs in 24 hours).

Cuts by Sarah Harralson, Eli Alger, Emma Gale, David Easterling
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