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Lifer's Lament

from Dollar Movie by Goner

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So Autumn’s gone and you’re getting scared as retail outlets command the air. You pace your hardwoods and watch the streetlights dim. Tonight’s a good night for giving in. So you can’t go back to “So. Central Rain,” when every Friday sundown was Armageddon again, cold denim and bleachers, corn syrup and cul-de-sacs. Soundtracks in soft focus you can never play back. And friends call from New York City, making movies and wedding plans. You’ve got your thin hair and weathered hands. And lately all your daydreams are about staying in bad, but you’re dancing with all ages at all hours, eyelids red. And you wonder how much promise can the night hold anymore. And if no one’s even listening, what the hell’s the anthem for? What’s it for? So you wanna watch the crumbling camaraderie fall. You wanna up and go punk and show them all. You want the patrons to notice you haven’t been coming around. You wanna pack up your crates and try out another town. But Midwest, Boston, Seattle, South: it’s similar kisses from similar mouths. You can quote the same movies while you’re drinking the same merlot. It’s the
same distractions, no matter where you go. Like the playgrounds packed with crippled angels in black vanilla skirts, swinging ’til it hurts. While the barstool prophets bicker, second guessing books and bands and rotting on demand. But you don’t get off that easy. There’s a canvas to tend to, so dig your heels in. Brew some instant. You got your work cut out for you. In a scene full of early faders, in a room full of past-due bills, you don’t exactly feel blessed. But just give it time. You will.

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from Dollar Movie, released June 1, 2002

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Goner crafts great songs, combining a poetic eye for detail, a cinematic sense of place and character, and an encyclopedic love of rocks both classic and indie.

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