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Dawn Riding

by Dawn Riding

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1.
On My Mind 02:45
Honey I'm on the lonesome side of I’ve got you on my mind I’ve been looking under every rock I've been looking a long long time If you call me on the phone and say you might just change your mind I’d be running tearing up the road just to get me by your side I've been down, I've been blue, I hang around, I look for you A dog wanna lick a knucklebone clean I wanna give you everything that I have and I'd be glad I'm on fire and its been a long long time and I’ve got you on my mind I want my name up in your sky I put yours in mine look in your eyes like back in time I want to put down everything call up your phone and let it ring all night and that’d be alright you miss my calls you don't miss me at all ain’t that wrong
2.
Quentina 04:50
He wanted to be there when your breath was new I would know that place that kept him from you if I could I would name it sparkling wine but I can't Quentina baby you be the light Quentina baby you be the light You do take all of my dreams and make them true while he's gone we're the only ones and we're sitting in the sun while you’re swinging from the trees skinning up your knees how you make it just a wretched memory San Quentin is a hell of a home cut through a family like a mother only knows so the change born of my mind Quintina baby you be the light Quintina baby you be the light You do take all of my dreams and you make them true while he's gone we're the only ones and we're sitting in the sun while you’re swinging from the trees skinning up your knees how you make it just a wretched memory I made a bow from the dress I tore running out the house into the street all the lights all the neighbors gathered round for the parade of my own misery An ugly name for a beautiful thing make me a word that I can say again take that hell and make it something to sing take that prison and bounce it on my knee
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Copper Steel Aluminum paid for by the pound crushed into another life in another town As the crow flies happiness ain’t far away I walk these circles most of the night and the day Do you know my name? Did you know my man? Have you held a sweet thing and had it slip from your hand? When I die I will go easy while I'm here I just do as I can and this misery well it won't always be and I'm counting on that I'm counting on that Highway like a fur collar wrapped around the neck of my town it gets hotter and hotter and the mink gets more tightly wound I was your daughter in my 16th year I had never known the blues but thats what you wanted to hear I sang in beauty and was praised by everyone I sang it truthful like I knew what would come When I’m done I will go easy for now I just do as I can and this misery well it won’t always be and I’m counting on that I’m counting on that And the scream of glass on glass from the screaming of my name silver, pearls, diamond rings to copper and steel what a shame
4.
O the struggle of my heart I get upset and loose my head O the wringing of my hands at the table to break bread and OOO a heart like mine it runs on sugar it runs on wine if you fill it to the brim you can be sure I'll make it back again I've been depressed I've been amused It aint I don't know what is what I don't know what is you and all the things I gotta do just to keep it goin just to see it through and OOO damn I love a spade to turn the soil and change its name watch me dig back into time and bring it back again when u were mine if I never knew your name you wouldn't feel so far away you have palace in my mind but theres no road and theres no time and OOO a heart like mine it runs on sugar it runs on wine you fill it to the brim you can be sure I'll make it back again and I’ll put it on the line I walk it to the end and thats the place I meet my friends if you wanna fall apart fall into my arms and thats a dance and I am charmed and that is just the way to start and OOO such a heart as mine it runs on sugar it runs on wine you fill it to the brim you can be sure I'll make it back again
5.
He's a fighter and a drunk but I want him so much everybody says that ain’t no idea at all cuz he don't know how to act he says be right back then he's gone and I'm broken hearted So if u see him tell him I'm waiting Maybe let him use your phone and he'll call and he talks about dinner and this that sweet whatever but at night most likely you will find him at the bar and he says he's no good like I misunderstood like I ain’t seen him shake when he hadn't drank but I love his slurred speech and his kicked in teeth now he's gone and I'm broken hearted He’ll buy you a drink he's a sucker for a wink now he's gone and I'm broken hearted
6.
The Rope 03:20
When I hear your voice on the phone I feel like I'm pulling a rope I drag my heels to the bone I still don't know my strength or my place You never claimed to be the best You claim all your regrets think you had it all before he left ooo the things you let him take but my place do you want a knife do you want a blanket you don't know the truth but the sentiment and I'm the luckiest on the planet I'm going mad looking after you you lay in your bed of snakes thats the bed you made I tell you it'll be ok but I'm so afraid of my place where are you now in the wind in the pines I don't recall but I can't look beyond the lines they lead from you from your inside through machines to the outside of the hospital to the end of my rope
7.
Alone in Red 04:23
I was on a long drive and you were on the wrong side of the line you didn't think it could be when they came for you baby you sat there silently That had been a run to beat came along a loosing streak dust sliding to a rapping on the pane teeth shining when you told the man your name what he said to the back of your head it sent your teeth to chatter it filled you with dread caught you alone he said all alone alone alone alone in red They draw a line around my name and draw it through the legacy of the same call it evil in the family line well you sing hallelujah just the way that you smile I see mama in your hands counting out the change or tilling the land in the loving of the crime when you tell me its all mine what he said to the back of your head it sent your teeth to chatter and it filled you with dread caught you alone he said all alone alone alone alone in red I'll have the wind in my hair and the motor oil underneath my nails the neon sign at the pines motel is a diamond in my mind I'll have the wind in my hair and the motor oil underneath my nails the neon sign at the Pines motel will be flickering for all time
8.
Swim into my heart with your lantern on your belt build your house inside the cavern of my chest and call it home I have been waiting to call you home love a dog that comes to my call better love the dog that doesn't leave my side at all and calls me home I have been waiting to call you home and take my coat off and take my shoes off and rest my worry for a while kiss my neck and suck out all the pain bat your eyes and make this engine turn again and we drive home I have been waiting to call you home and take my coat off and take my shoes off and rest my worry for a while rain outside banging on the walls sleep so easy when I'm sleeping in your arms cuz we are home and we've been waiting to be home and take our coats off and take our shoes off and rest our worry for a while

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released July 6, 2015

Recorded and mixed at Faultline Studios in Sf by Alanna Paoli
Guitar, vocals, and all songs written by Sarah Rose Janko
Mastered by Stephen Oriolo
Photography and collage by Nicolas Pwj Josephs

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Dawn Riding Oakland, California

Dawn Riding is the musical project of singer-songwriter Sarah Rose Janko, who was born and raised in Northern California and currently lives in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dawn Riding’s songs of love, loss, and friendship, present characters chiseled out of Janko’s own experience & memories, and you can feel it in her intimate, tough-as-nails depictions of American life, ... more

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