Dirt Brown Duplex

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These were dark days. I hated where I lived. I wasn't making any money and I was drinking cheap liquor. Sometimes when I tried to start my van the starter wouldn't engage the flywheel. So I had to crawl under the van and turn the flywheel by hand and hope that it would catch the few teeth it did have when I tried to start it again. If that didn't work, I had to crawl under the van again and repeat as many times as necessary. Particularly demoralizing when you're trying to make a graceful exit after a gig.

-Big Monti

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Dirt Brown Duplex

Sittin’ on the front porch of my Oregon City
Dirt brown duplex my stepfather owns
It come to me man it was time for getting’ over it
Time for leaving everything, everything I know

I was paralyzed but I came around
Don’t know if it’s me or this here town

Sittin’ in my Ford O-conoline turnin’ the ignition
I hope it fires into action sometime today
It come to me that I, I might do better
To set the thing on fire and just walk away

Sittin’ at the station of the man who wears the star
Dirt brown uniform and you can trust your car
But you can’t trust time to slow things down
Better get some highway and clear out of town

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from Big Monti, released April 1, 2005
Johnny Wilmont - bass
Cory Burden - drums

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