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"You Bet (The Catalyst Blues)"
(Aaron W. Davis/Yella Dog Records/ASCAP)
I don’t know what he’s been told but he ain’t seen this road before
Don’t act like you wrote the book, can’t even read the page
Slippin’ through the cracks, son
Patronized one-by-one
You Bet, that’s how its gonna be
Empathy can’t be shed and the truth is stuck inside his head
All we want is decency that he refuses to give
Hunkered down like sheep, son
The reckoning, it ain’t done
You Bet, that’s how its gonna be
The catalyst blues [writing it off]
The catalyst blues [fuel for fire]
It ain’t news [laughing it off]
The catalyst blues [ fuel for fire]
See the dark comedy, that market is a bull
Who gets to kill the fatted calf? The catalyst blues
Gotta stay in tune, son
To navigate the hit-and-run
You Bet, that’s how its gotta be
I don’t know what he’s been told but he ain’t seen this road before
Don’t act like you wrote the book, can’t even read the page
We’re slippin’ through the cracks, son
Patronized one-by-one
You Bet, that’s how its gonna be
The catalyst blues [writing it off]
The catalyst blues [fuel for fire]
It ain’t news [laughing it off]
The catalyst blues [ fuel for fire]
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Hug it Out
04:17
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Hug it Out (Aaron W. Davis/ASCAP)
Still couldn’t wrap their heads around, had it been a blue dream
You wouldn’t believe the end of the Earth, and what it taught them
Well they could go stag with this weariness, a static heart, A Song Remains the
Same ooh ooh ooh remain the Same
Faint at heart was extinguished by those three little words
Love is the fruit, fear runs off, and just try to stay in your lane
Know there will be a roundabout ahead, is the exit closed? Will the Circle Be…
B r o k e n …or Unbroken
Keep your wick trimmed, you can’t be contained,
nor should you be, muscle the train, hoo-oo
Are you willing to bend? Fight the good fight? Support the home team?
You know there’s no I in Love, and this life we know is a slow burn
So hug it out, fist bump your bud, and treat it as One Big Holi-
D a y It will come to be
Hug it out
Fist bump your bud
It will come to be {there’s hope for us}
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The Great Ones
06:08
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The Great Ones (Aaron W. Davis/Yella Dog Records/ASCAP)
We hang our heads when the Great Ones fall
A force to be reckoned, a letter to us all
Chin up tight now, don’t beat yourself
There’s plenty to knock you, the voices are stealth
Make more than tears, you’ll crumble just to see
The pieces out front mean less to the dream
Let’s make art, let’s make a point
Grace under fire, let’s nail this joint
When the Great Ones, when the Great Ones fall
It’s what you do from here, the spirit will endear, it’s what you do from here
When the Great Ones, when the Great Ones fall
Don’t be around when the colors turn
B-Line it south for a reality burn
Beauty be death when seen as law
1000 sighs, we hem & haw
Death can’t kill what never dies
When the water grows thick, swim to survive
Got a wounded wing, hear the Jedi call
Eddies of the wind, that’s the medicine ball
When the Great Ones, when the Great Ones fall
It’s what you do from here, the spirit will endear, it’s what you do from here
When the Great Ones, when the Great Ones fall
Empty space could be the saving grace
Since the mountains won’t move, revelations will prove
Admission to be alone, Admission to be alone … When the Great...
We hang our heads when the Great Ones fall
A force to be reckoned, a letter to us all
Chin up tight now, don’t beat yourself
There’s plenty to knock you, the voices are stealth
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"Weather" (A. Davis, March 13 2020).
Open F Tuning. Written & impromptu recorded at Three Hearted Recording cabin in 3 hours.
It’s been an all the weather kind of day
Feelin low when it ends
Smiled at the rain and snow
Felt the sun and seen it go
Yeah, it’s been an all the weather kind of day
an all weather kind of day
It’s darker than I thought it would be
It’s darker than I thought it would be
But I got you and you got me
Yeah I got you and you got me
Now what do we do about that TP?
Where we gonna get that TP?
Yeah, it’s been an all the weather kind of day
an all weather kind of day
INTERLUDE
The ripple, it grows still
Unsettled by how it ends
Bold moon on the rise
A warning shell for the times
Yeah, it’s been an all the weather kind of day
an all weather kind of day
It’s darker than I thought it would be
It’s darker than I thought it would be
But you got me and I got you
I got you and you got me
Now what’do we do about that TP?
Where we gonna get that TP… ohh…
Yeah, it’s been an all the weather kind of day
an all weather kind of day
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Aaron Davis Jackson, Wyoming
“An essential force in the Americana roots music scene in Wyoming.” Wyoming-based, Kentucky native Aaron Davis stages his songs with a deep well of old-time and modern sonic textures. Chiefly known as co-founder of national touring act Screen Door Porch, as engineer-producer-session player at his Three Hearted Recording Studio, and for the eclectic quartet Aaron Davis & The Mystery Machine. ... more
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