The Way It's Gone

by Fogle

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The Ballad of Johnny Kempsville 02:27
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I was eleven when my eyes opened up rain huddled then down it come impression I was the only one uh-huh over there’s the shit & here’s the shine heard em straight up fight twenty or twice slept hard them nights thought I knew who the old man was not the things that he started to become afraid I was fated to be the same someone made up, made up I wore a silver cross around my neck silly stories inside my head who’s gonna snap me out of it no one, no one Choose Your Own Adventures on my shelf D&D mazes in my desk unspeakables in my bed don’t judge
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Down Cellar 02:10
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I’m browsin thru old letters lost track of time down cellar life coulda burned out better I don’t know what to say page after handwrit page hooked on hookin up with yesterday your tongue was on the seal your tongue on parts of me part of me still wants part of you here ever fear
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Nick of Time 02:33
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in the nick of time must be a sign interpretin divides, we’ll split it and call it alright in the nick of time past crowdin out now fast livin slowed me down now, outta sights all around past crowdin out now
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Carter Scratch #1 02:04
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when that sigh swells in my chest time to lay me down to rest one last distraction to resist slow-slow down, hoss up the stairs, 14 steps turn out the light, I’m undressed close my eyes, open my breath slow-slow down, hoss sense my heart speed less & less sense my blood my bones the bed sense my senses infinite slow-slow down, hoss
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The Way It's Gone 02:01
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I was young and held my tongue almost all the time bottom line idealize just a limp summarize cuz the painted paybacks’d peel off the paraphrase and that ain’t the way it’s gone
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Walked All Over 02:19
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you were the would-be big-O One, the wannabe trust the dear dumb delusional path I chose and I walked all over the oceanfront chalk-line drawings underfoot future that I wanted, image that I loved figures I believed in, I made em all up I been walked all over by what I walked all over I been walked all over, bye

about

This EP is about the on-again-off-again-fuck-and-fight relationship the past and present seem to so easily have with each other.

It's my first with lyric-vocals in every song, all of which were at least a few years old, some more than 10. I guess that means these songs have aged or seasoned (or spoiled) more than the ones on other EPs.

They're also twangier, more traditionally structured songs with only 1-2 guitars.

Except for 1 electric guitar in "Walked All Over," they're all the acoustic Alvarez I bought at Alpha Music in Norfolk VA in 1992, although sometimes using some of Garage Band's filter-things. "Down Cellar" is my first/most traditional solo, Lordy.

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released May 19, 2021

Everything at the house February-May 2021.

Most of these written something like 2009-2016.
The Way It's Gone was written November 4, 2017.

Cover photo: 24 South Old Glebe Road, Arlington VA, early 2000s.

I lived in 305A with Jeff something like 1999-2002 and then 2002-2005 in 102C with Marla. A mile south from the Ballston Metro. Across the street was Halteh's Pizza, a block away was Fuji & Ravi Kabob (which is the only 1 of the 3 still there).

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Fogle Saratoga Springs, New York

Tidewater, VA. DC. Albany & Adirondacks. Poet, musician, teacher.
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