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Running Down a Drain (On Sunday morning)

from Running Down A Drain by Chris Page

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Earlier this summer I was reminded of that songwriter's trick when I picked up an old instrument I don't normally play to see what might float out of the sleepy wood.

Almost instantly, this thing emerged.

It introduced itself as a song about a drain (and some other stuff I'm still trying to wrap my head around).

Usually when a song is presenting itself, I don't like to question and I just roll with it, capturing what I can, before the moment's gone.

I equate it to a 4 year old chasing butterflies through the backyard with a toy net.

I've enjoyed getting 'Running Down a Drain' ready for this Bandcamp Friday and listening to the lyrics because frankly, it's still a bit of a mystery to me.

And of course it wasn't long before I also wanted to see what would happen if I cranked the amps, so yeah, there's a Saturday Night version.

Hopefully there are some of you out there and not just me who are getting a kick out of these Saturday Night/Sunday Morning takes.

Thank you for indulging me.

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Sunlight drifts around the room
We laid there all that afternoon
The greatest tricks I played on you
Aren’t documented.

Take me back to simpler times
When all our words fell out in rhymes
We rode our fears with no regrets
Like a house on fire

All the same
To me it’s all the same
Running down a dream
Or running down a drain
Where it’s all been lost

A photograph that needs restore
My memory of you fades some more
You left out the crucial parts
Of a heart worth wrecking

A thought of you beneath the stars
But thoughts don’t tell me where you are
If they wander let them go
Just breathe them out

All the same
To me it’s all the same
Running down a dream
Or running down a drain
Where it’s all been lost

All the same
To me it’s all the same
Running up that hill
Or running down a drain
Where it’s all been lost.

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from Running Down A Drain, released November 4, 2022
Recorded at the Las Vanier Haus of Fuzz, October 2022.
Lyrics and music by Pager.

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Chris Page Ottawa, Ontario

Songwriting for indie garage bands Expanda Fuzz, The Stand GT, Camp Radio, and all these folk songs I strum quietly to myself, just below the din.

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