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When the Sun Goes Down

by Driftwood Soldier

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"When the Sun Goes Down" felt immediately relevant and pressing when it crawled up out of the drain last October. We drafted recent Philly transplant Chris Lauf (inner ear brigade) to add some emergency drums and tried to get it out before the election, which stacked on the pandemic and police killings had most everyone we knew in a state of poisonous delirium.

Didn't happen.

A year went by, and the saddest thing became clear. That darkness of that moment wasn't momentary. It's been around a long time and won't leave just because people want to unsee it.

So here's "When the Sun Goes Down."
It's of that moment, and this moment, but we're struggling for the day when it's just a tarnished relic the kids don't understand.

lyrics

Lyrics

Well we’re all pretty much lizards
With fleshy little palms and opposable thumbs
Chewing rocks in our vestigial gizzards
Huffing and puffing ‘til our eyes go numb

Chorus
Don’t you come around here when the sun goes down
Don’t you come around here when the sun goes down
Don’t you come around here when the sun goes down
Don you come around, don’t you come around


Get a grip on yourself before someone else does
Get a hold of your friends while they’re still your friends
If that rainbow sheen means what I think that it means
We were all just a means to an ends

Chorus

That ain’t fear that you’re smelling that’s just dinner
You like to party you might like this party, it feels just like a mob
We take our neighbor, who we love so dearly and we separate them from the sinners
That ain’t a man, in a cage, it’s a job

Chorus

And if you breathe in just right, it won’t hurt when they hit you
And if you smile just right, they might not hit you at all
But let that smile slip, kid, you better bite your bottom lip
This is America, and we’re having a fucking ball

Chorus

credits

released November 5, 2021
Driftwood Soldier is:
Owen Lyman-Schmidt: Vocals, Mandolin, Suitcase, License Plate
Bobby Szafranski: Bass Guitar, Bottle Caps

Featuring:
Chris Lauf: Drums

Written by Owen Lyman-Schmidt
Arrangement by Driftwood Soldier
Mixed and mastered by Bobby Szafranski

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Driftwood Soldier is no average mandolin-bass foot-stomping gutter-folk duo.

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