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This Bird Will Always Fly

by Patrick Dunn

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1.
New York, please don't take my sanity I feel it slipping away As I'm riding on your subways Fighting for it every day Ever since I left Los Angeles Since I left my sunset bed I've gotten better at writing my stories And losing my head I need a peaceful home A peaceful home Unite me with my soul in a peaceful home I know a city cannot change a man Cannot change his mental health But if I don't blame this on a sense of place I'd have to blame it on myself And I have been there before It does me no good So I'll make a case for loneliness Like any desperate man would Who needs a peaceful home A peaceful home Unite me with my soul in a peaceful home These city lights Hide nervous nights For anyone counting them alone In time, I know My condition will show If I don't find a peaceful home A peaceful home A peaceful home Unite me with my soul in a peaceful home If I climb across your bridges And live for you and no one else Would you give me my transgressions Or would you keep them for yourself? Because I need a little easiness I need a little help I need some kind of holy land To believe in myself I need a peaceful home A peaceful home A peaceful home A peaceful home I need a peaceful home A peaceful home Unite me with my soul in a peaceful home
2.
Bluebird 05:47
As I see how this is going I'm seeing how it could be better not knowing Where we will be I've given money, I've given time She's given happiness and health in kind For what I could be In a world class city known for self-abuse The connections are mine to lose Bluebird, sing long for me Put my whole life into a sad, sad song Bluebird, if you can't sing for me There must be some other state in which I belong As I think about getting out And getting beyond talking about The faulting of my time Pushing luck and passing blame Island hopping on these subway trains From line to line Depending on time tables and underground tubes Too damaged by a hurricane to use Bluebird, sing long for me Put my whole life into a sad, sad song Bluebird, if you can't sing for me There must be some other state in which I belong I'll always be your salty harbors Your wooden bones under my waters Exposed with pulling tides Your hills will always be my north As I ride west on a modern horse This bird will always fly Land of promise, land of my birth Land of the rising bluebird Sing long for me Put my whole life into a sad, sad song Bluebird, if you can't sing for me There must be some other state in which I belong
3.
Willy 04:53
Willy was a Mexican man In Hawthorne, Los Angeles Where graffiti cuts the land Into hard-line chains of command Flashing their gang signs With a shaping of hands Willy, now don't you ride Across El Segundo tonight There's something going down In that part of town Willy, now don't you ride Willy was a family man With a wife, a daughter, And a long term plan To do whatever he can Put that wife through school To be an honest man Willy, now don't you ride Across El Segundo tonight There's something going down In that part of town Willy, now don't you ride Willy was a bicycle man He rode sixteen miles to work And back home again He always called me his friend I guess I'll never See Willy again Willy, now don't you ride Across El Segundo tonight There's something going down In that part of town Willy, now don't you ride Willy, now don't you ride Willy, now don't you ride
4.
I thought of you again today It's becoming quite a theme For this time in my life I'm living between The man that I was The man I want to be In case you ever come around To make a better me Your mother talks about you And I don't know what to say I feel like my living Has gotten in your way I've been trying to have it all Trying to live a dream It's getting so that I don't know How to fall asleep Don't stay away, child We've been waiting too long I don't know what it's gonna take To bring you home In a way, child This might be my fault I don't know what it's gonna take To fix this at all I still think there's a reason For the life that I have lived The people I have known The places I have been But I'm beginning to think that reason Is more for myself And I should start living For someone else Your mother talks about you And it breaks my heart To know that I can't give you A better start It's hard to talk about you When I feel so far away From being the man you can Look up to every day Don't stay away, child We've been waiting too long I don't know what it's gonna take To bring you home In a way, child This might be my fault I don't know what it's gonna take To fix this at all Your mother talks about you Almost every day I feel like my living Has gotten in your way

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THIS BIRD WILL ALWAYS FLY is an EP of songs about leaving and finding a sense of place, a sense of home. Lyrically driven Americana.

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released June 8, 2015

Tracks 1, 3, and 4 recorded by Eric Lichter at Dirt Floor.
Track 2 recorded at Dirt Floor and at home.
Mastered by Michael Burke at Music Lab Mastering.
All songs copyright Patrick Dunn (Sunday Long Run Music, BMI) 2015.

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Patrick Dunn Sacramento, California

Patrick Dunn writes and plays music in the tradition of the old soul, the rambler, the traveling singer-songwriter -- characters found along the ever-growing timeline of honest music. Pulling from his influences, Patrick plays a mix of folk, soul, country, and rock and roll that has come to be called, for better and for worse, Americana. ... more

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