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Wildfire Blues (or, Sweet & Easy Once Again)

from Five Songs, For Now by Paul Kotheimer

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1.) I got a worried heart.
I got a nervous mind.
I can't get no sleep.
I can't relax and I can't unwind.
I have lived my life--Don't get me wrong.
I'm not afraid to die,
but everything that I read in the papers
says the end is nigh.

2.) The city's on fire.
The smoke will choke you to death.
The whole sky is glowing. There's nowhere to run to.
You can't catch a breath.
Sweet, sweet California,
where once a garden did grow,
now ain't nothing but cinders and ashes,
so's you'd never know.

3.) We could fix this heat.
We could fix these rains.
We could fix all these droughts and wildfires
burning up through these hills and plains.
We could see the light and have the foresight
to do the right [*] things, and then
Summertime would be
sweet and easy once again.

4.) I got a worried heart.
I got a nervous mind.
I can't get no sleep.
I can't relax and I can't unwind.
Sweet, sweet California,
where once a garden did grow,
now ain't nothing but cinders and ashes,
so's you'd never know.

written 20-25 August 2020

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from Five Songs, For Now, released November 6, 2020
Words and music by PK. Drums by Sean Kutzko. All other instruments and vocal by PK. Recorded in the dining room and living room at Pillow Monster Studios.

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