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Nine Lives

from You're Still Here by Dawn Riding

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    "You're Still Here" - First-Press Limited-Edition pressing on black vinyl. Full color cover with lyric sheet & recording session photo insert. Includes Digital Download card and unlimited streaming through the Bandcamp app. Released November 11, 2022 as a split between The Long Road Society and Speakeasy Studios SF.

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lyrics

He got his first tattoo sitting in the pen
The day his mama died
With some ballpoint ink and the scratching of a pin
A heart saying “mama tried”
He got a heart saying mama tried

Well I met him in a motel party in the days
We drove down to see a show
He was cutting up a pill he wasn’t gonna share
I watched him put it up his nose
Well I watched him put it up his nose


That was one of my nine lives
He nearly took me out
But I moved on down the line and
Now it’s just a thing to sing about
That was one of my nine lives
I’m on 8 7 6 by now

It wasn’t love at first sight but it was by the time
He agreed to hit the road
See I didn’t have a car and I knew it would be far
A place that I could really let go
I was looking for a place to let go

And his heart was broke when he was just a kid
By his dad and the D.E.A.
Daddy tried to make it right it was too late by the time
They finally put daddy away
Well they came and took his daddy away

That was one of my nine lives
He nearly took me out
But I moved on down the line and
Now it’s just a thing to sing about
That was one of my nine lives
I’m on 8 7 6 by now

We were two broken hearts looking for another half
To smooth in the jagged side
Yeah we fit alright but nothing ever healed
His knives cut right across mine
Well his knives cut right across mine

When we finally called it off I was full of blame
He snuck in my room and covered the wall in black shoe paint
It said “you know what you want, and that I ain’t”
I left him scratching at the door
Now that was quite a long time ago

That was one of my nine lives
He nearly took me out
But I moved on down the line and
Now it’s just a thing to sing about
That was one of my nine lives
I’m on 8 7 6 by now

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from You're Still Here, released November 11, 2022
Written by Sarah Rose Janko
Sarah Rose Janko (guitar, vocals), Alicia Vanden Heuvel (drums, bass),
Hall McCann (guitar), Jacob Aranda (pedal steel), Jessie Leigh Smith (harmonica)

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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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