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Waiting Is No Good (The LA River Song)

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From the 2012 album, "Unnatural Disaster"

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Go back to the ground from which you came
Show me your dust bed, concrete walls again
Bring back your slow drain to the sea
Bring back what you took from me

When I ask for understanding
There's a camouflage of words
Among them: intuition, absurd
A river, a storm, and her

Did it feel like a century
A one-hundred year flood
Was it time to drain the mountains
Did you count the suns?

I'm known to be a patient man
I've practiced my reserve
Holding out hands in her direction
To see what I deserve

A man is a balance of actions
What he does and what he should
Well, I've waited long enough to learn
Waiting is no good

Well I hear you callin', mama
Through the window of the night
No, I never gave up
I never dropped my sights
Off that dirty horizon line
Across that red desert burn
Across them skeletal rail tracks
In case you would return
I kept your candle burning bright
I kept the comb in your room
I kept the phonograph records
For you to come home to
I ceded understanding
About as much as I could
And I've waited long enough to learn
Waiting is no good

Go back to the ground from which you came
Show me your dust bed, concrete walls again
Bring back your slow drain to the sea
Bring back what you took from me

What I've done and what I should
Well, waiting is no good

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from FREE DOWNLOADS, track released July 18, 2012

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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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