I dream a road to anywhere Proclaim my hobo heart still young Gag my grumbles More or less & grin the long run The lazydazandnites ooze by I laugh great thoughts Doze grand outcomes Dreaming the implausible dream Cruising down that stupid blinking blacktop Like a bloodshot jalopy Whose time has come The radio blaring catchy tunes Between the catchier ads Someone running for office on a swell sounding ticket Another fat dog with a big grinning beard gets elected Bombs are released on the nunnery The Batmobile goes racing by & I Fall asleep at the wheel Careening through middle age Am I awake now? As the scenery changes My sense of accomplishment grows The creeping edges of towns congeal Malls with stuff everyone wants And has too much of Food courts, movie theatres, big box stores Designer beer, modular homes, year-round potted trees Acres of free parking, sexy gas stations, voluptuous arcades The big picture is impossible to see I move forward anyway Going through the motions Saving my cash for tomorrows wake Following the whiff of if Through unreality's sadistic little maze Emerging, as always, in some strange desert Scanning the horizon for smoke Howling at the misty moon Conjuring melody from desert air The big bell of silence ringing in my ear The bright red road still ahead ...ellsworth ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ellsworth - Vocals, Guitars, Piano, Bass Dean Bohanna - Drums, Keyboards Patrick Andriantsialonina - Bass Phil Hicks - Back-up Vocals, Harp Eric Liljequist - Back-up Vocals Gene Hicks - Accordion, Fiddle Ruben Gutierrez - Saxophone Clark Gayton - Sousaphone Barry Kornhauser - Cello Recorded & mixed by Dean Bohanna at: RockGarden Studio, Brooklyn, NY Eric Liljequist's vocals recorded by Jeff Root at Root Cellar Studios, Ashby, MA Mastered by Scott Hull at MasterDisk, New York, NY Album design & layout by George Tocci Photo for cover & back by Johnny Girouard