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Music Was Your Lover

from Wrinkles and Scars by JAMES GORDON

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A song about the unsustainable state of the current music so-called business

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Raised on
Rock and Roll, Rhythm and Blues
Twist and Shout and Blue Suede Shoes
You learned your trade you paid your dues
Music was your lover

The road became your closest friend
It nurtured you it kept you fed
You thought that it would never end
Music was your lover

When the road’s the only thing you’ve known
It’s in your blood it’s in your bones
it’s hard to watch it falling all apart
Your guitar’s not going to pay the rent
Unless you are the one percent
This broken biz is gonna break your heart

Something happened along the way
No one values what you do these days
They want your songs but they don’t want to pay
Music was your lover

Expenses have doubled and the income’s half
It’s so sad that you could laugh
It’s a joke if you try to do the math
Still music was your lover

When the rental car makes more than you
Gas and airfare, hotels too
What are you supposed to do
Music was your lover

Still somehow you keep on trying
It’s a hard sell, nobody’s buying
It’s not a living, it’s more like a dying
Is it time to leave your lover?

Maybe if you sold your gear
You’d make it through another year
But losing that life was not what you had planned for
People still like to hear you play
It doesn’t matter anyway
You can’t take applause to your landlord

So say goodbye to your beloved road
You can stay home and get it as a free download
Don Maclean was right I suppose
This is the day the music died

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from Wrinkles and Scars, released March 2, 2024

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JAMES GORDON Guelph, Ontario

James Gordon is a Canadian songwriter/playwright/musician/producer/author and community activist. Co-founder of the legendary Canadian folk trio Tamarack, He’s released 40 albums in 40 years!
His newest release on Borealis Records- "the Heritage Hall Sessions" has been very well received world-wide. James Moonlights as a CIty Councillor in his hometown of Guelph, Ontario. www.jamesgordon.ca ... more

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