This album is called "Getting Older" and nothing says that you're getting older like being excited about a pair of socks!
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I initially came up with the bulk of this song while riding my bicycle to and from work, while living in Calgary. I'd catch a stunning view of the Rocky Mountains with the Glenmore Reservoire glistening before them, and would find myself grinning. To juxtapose that beauty with Alberta's UCP government, and their goals of reducing restrictions on coal mining in the foothills, among numerous other things, frustrated me to no end.
Lyrically, that's where the song stems from, an anger.
I'd pedal along, wheezing the melody while climbing hills to get out of Sandy Beach Park, imagining Bruce Springsteen or Brandon Flowers of the Killers singing this anthemic song of mine that I was crafting. Sadly, neither of them have recorded a cover of it...yet.
However, more and more, I realized that the song felt like it could work as a country tune. I already had Nathan Burns' gorgeous pedal steel from the original version, so I sped up the rhythm, and rerecorded some parts, redid the vocals, and asked Jess Dollimont to sing some harmonies. And here you are!
lyrics
Dancing by the light of the refinery
Let the burnoff eat the flame
Betting our future in a fantasy
Our lives for someone's gain
Empty roads
Nowhere left to go
We keep on driving
Aimless wandering
Look outside
Where mountains used to stand
Where empty pits remain
Empty’s in demand
Take and take and don’t you dare ask why
Dancing by the light of the refinery
Let the burnoff eat the flame
Money in the place of missing memories
Our lives for someone's gain
Built a home
But didn’t want to pay
We set it up on sand
Watched it wash away
The world burns
Brighter every day
It’s slipping through out hands
What else could we say?
Left with nothing after all we’ve had
Dancing by the light of the refinery
Let the burnoff eat the flame
Betting our future in a fantasy
Our lives for someone's gain
credits
from Getting Older,
released November 10, 2021
Jess Dollimont · backing vocals
Nathan Burns · pedal steel
Doug Hoyer · everything else
Thank you Dylan Rhys Howard for gifting me the photo for the single artwork.
Alec Harryhausen writes very sharp songs for Dream Version (and he also plays a bit on 'Getting Older'). Check out the song 'Backdrop Painters' Doug Hoyer
Do you like GUITAR!?! If so, you will probably dig this great record. 1/3 abstract patchwork, 1/3 solid songwriting, 1/3 a sick band doing what they do Doug Hoyer
