It Got Old Years Ago

from Darkland Express part one by Greg Segal

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It Got Old Years Ago
Presenting the hamster wheel of modern life as a blues is not a stretch. Here we return to the concept of this album as a blues-based one. While I may not have stuck to it, there's still a fair helping scattered throughout. I think it's appropriate here.

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The alarm clock rings
Time to get up again
Your life's the same as it's always been
Time is torn by the clock hands for somebody else
Now you work for the money
And not for yourself

It got old years ago
This whole thing got old years ago

Remember back in school
How you felt the same way
The same old feeling at the start of the day
'Cause you learned what they taught you
and not what you sought
Had to play all their games so you wouldn't get caught

It got old years ago
This whole thing got old years ago

You get to work
Take the same old crap
Necessity's got you caught in it's trap
Can't look for a job if you have to work
Necessity makes you feel like a jerk

Going home the traffic gets you down
So many people, such a big town
Not one would care if you turned up drowned
They're just like you and me...

Your door is armed with many locks
Your dinner comes from a cardboard box

The same old pain
The same old blues
The same old deaths on the evening news

It got old years ago
This whole thing got old years ago

G.S., mid '85

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from Darkland Express part one, released April 29, 2016
GS: vocal, acoustic & electric guitar, slide guitar, bass, electric drums, sighs and fingersnaps

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