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Doug Davis - The Ashes, Not the Fire

from Round 15, Week 6 by Monday Morning 3AM Music Club

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For next month's Friday Night Music Club charity show, we're doing a band lottery. People from all walks of musical life around the Triad signed up, and they've randomly been sorted into a band, and they can do anything they like with their 20 minutes of stage time next month.

My new band, in which I'm playing bass, is centered around Randy Carter, a singer-songwriter that in my quick estimation (we've never met before now) specializes in even-keeled folk/country/rootsy material. We're all going to attempt to put together material that might work best for this outfit, so I've decided to use my MM3 contributions for the next couple of weeks coming up with material that I'll submit for consideration for this project.

So, for my first song, I thought I'd concentrate on something vaguely Jayhawks-ish, with a hint of Everly Brothers. I didn't get much time this week to work on this (it was written and recorded today, in about an hour and a half), and it's not a "big" song, by any means. But I'm at least excited that for the first time in recent memory, I'm actually submitting something that approximates what you might call a song.

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I stood and watched my house burn down
The life that we built, all gone to ground
The clues, the hints you failed to catch
And I'm the one that struck the match

Is there a trace of what you sold
For moments of grace, this poor fool's gold
I never knew how much you meant
Until I smelled that sulfur scent

And if you've been considering
The wages of desire
Baby, it's the ashes, not the fire

The flash and the spark, the shock of "why?"
I thought that we'd seen the worst gone by
But now, these bonds all repossessed
The years ahead, the loneliness

And if you've been considering
The wages of desire
Baby, it's the ashes, not the fire

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from Round 15, Week 6, released August 7, 2017

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