 Western Independent Recordings WIR 0115
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07. CAROL DENNEY: LAST HOTEL SHAMPOO
Carol Denney; Solid Frog Prod. (BMI) July 22, 2013
you try not to keep your spare change near the gear shift
or they'll break right through the wing to get a dime
tear up everything you have to find a nickel
leave all the doors unlocked it saves you time
there's nothing left to take but they don't know that
til they've taken every last hotel shampoo
keep the things I need behind the wheel well
letters in the bag with all the shoes
you gotta keep your instrument beside you
no matter how it's always in the way
no matter how it always tracks attention
especially when you got nothing to say
it isn't like it's safer as you're walking
especially on these streets out late at night
but at least they know it matters like it's family
at least they know it never leaves your sight
(bridge/chorus)
people love to say I had it coming
you won't hear me argue when they do
people love to say they saw it coming
I only wish I'd seen it coming too
I probably know the guy who's breaking in here
we probably had a laugh in better days
he probably knows this car better than I do
and more pissed off than I am that it stays
stuck here 'til I got enough together
to either make it back or move along
find work now and then but nothing steady
couple days and all the money's gone
(bridge/chorus)
people love to say I had it coming
you won't hear me argue when they do
people love to say they saw it coming
I only wish I'd seen it coming too
all the window knobs are long since missing
only change the station with the pliers
just wouldn't be any point to fix it
long stopped putting out the smaller fires
concentrate on setting up tomorrow
making moves to get me back on track
back up on a road that takes me somewhere
and promises to never take me back
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 CAROL DENNEY:
Award-winning lyricist, published poet, guitarist, fiddler, and concertina* stylist, "Fiddlers for Peace" founder, curator of the "Deep Poetry Project", and editor of the Pepper Spray Times. 2004 honoree by the City of Berkeley for homeless advocacy, 2003 honoree for civil liberties activism through music, humor, and art by the Berkeley Commission on the Status of Women, winner of the East Bay Express' readers' poll "Best Solo Performer" for 2002, and selected as one of the San Francisco Bay Guardian's 2001 "Best of the Bay". Featured writer at the Centre for Political Song, Glasgow Caledonian University in Scotland, microradio pioneer with Free Radio Berkeley, etc. Failure to Disperse Acoustic Revolt and Road Show ensemble and solo performances. Spiritual advisor and graphic production for the Best of Blasphemy project in Canyon, California. Published commentator in local and national fora. Proud part of the Folk This! extended family. Winner of the 2009 Oldtime Spirit award from the Augusta Music Heritage Festival, voted best female artist at PirateCat Radio in SF in 2010. Nominated to the Revolutionary Poets' Brigade by former poet laureate of San Francisco Jack Hirschman in 2010. Inventor of the chairapillar. Crankie innovator. Organizer of the 2012 Olympic Sitting Competition. Cast member and contributing writer on the esteemed production of KPFA's TwitWit Radio produced by George Coates, live radio comedy on Sunday Nights from 6:30 pm to 7:00 pm. Author of "They're Building A Pipeline" song being used to fight the Dominion Resources pipeline through West Virginia, Virginia, and North Carolina.
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