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Stranger Friend (2022)

by Dan Frechette

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I Can't Dream This Way No More 02:28
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I Just Can't Dream This Way No More You don't dream of me but I do dream of you I can tell you only wish for something more Just go on being a fool what else can I do? Until one day I say I can't dream this way no more You want a chance? I'll give it to you Even though you can do way better than flee I'll keep shining my light replace you when you replace me I can't dream this way no more Dreams are like poison they can seep into your soul My head's just something to keep the noise in while your ego is out on patrol You might look good on paper but where is the fire? Better a broken heart than a wasted life You're a high flyer I guess you're here to inspire But I can't dream this way no more I can't dream this way no more
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I'd Rather Have My Mama Back 04:43
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I'd Rather Have My Mama Back I got a factory lefty vintage Gibson mandolin in my California mountain shack But I'd rather have my mama back I've got a 000-18 Martin guitar that rings like a bell even when I play it like a hack But I'd rather have my mama back I've got a banjo dobro lap slide jazz bass autoharp lap slide drums and a killer Strat But I'd rather have my mama back A J-45 and a carbon fiber 12 string that I never have to tune or worry that she's gonna crack I'd rather have my mama back Why am I filled with pain and sadness every day? These people here just let me down and flake Why am I here? For some joke of a career? How did time transpire to turn this way? I'm giving up trying to book a gig at the Brookdale Lodge just to get Dan and Laurel back on track I'd rather have my mama back I'm giving up trying to get together and play with anyone who won't die any day from a heart attack I'd rather have my mama back Why do I try to make life be a breeze? Sometimes I want to make sweet memories Tired of all these winding mountain roads are getting me To haul up here where all I do is freeze I've got a life down here too far from where I'm from to ever see my mama laugh I'd rather have my mama back I got more albums out than I've got fans even if I only put out half but I'd rather have my mama back Time takes away the worlds that mean the most To my long gone father I'll always raise a toast the last 10 years down here somehow now I appear a broken man living down on the west coast With a world class workaholic who's too busy for loving building up her money stack I'd rather have my mama back I got a story I'd tell if you knew me well but you don't and I won't I'm surfing in the black I'd rather have my mama back I've got a Beatles jam group filled with folks who don't know me from jack I'd rather have my mama back I could play requests all night for strangers drinking wine making up for what they lack I'd rather have my mama back It may seem harsh to you but what would you do? If this became the only world you know You just want to dance like I don't have a clue You don't want a different point of view!
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No Memories Today 02:46
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No Memories Today I look back at all the years and remember sitting here all along the past all I had to take away there was no memories today! Most of the time I was busy my head was spinning dizzy I guess all along this was a throwaway with no memories today! Of course this won't include when I wasn't in the mood to sit and post away there was no memories today! So I know I've lived a life Must've been out in the wildlife Must've had a chance to break away With no memories today! Of course this don't include when I wasn't in the mood to sit and post away there was no memories today!
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Just Trying To Survive 04:54
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Just Trying To Survive Where's the party man? Don't let no one drag you down! Where's the party man? Don't let no one drag you down! You a retired millionaire yeah you're success story bound The homeless on the streets don't keep you up at night The homeless on the streets don't keep you up at night You want your power washer to set this town right Give this world no glory unless it's there to make your day Give this world no glory unless it's there to make your day If it ain't paving your highway just be on your merry way Ain't it hard sometimes most people just trying to survive? Ain't it hard sometimes most people just trying to survive? Rain on your millionaire party baby just be glad to be alive There's a hound dog barking baby dog can't take a nap There's a hound dog barking baby dog can't take a nap you can pay a lot for parking but the money's just a trap Can't sell away these blues so I'll spread 'em far and wide Can't sell away these blues so I'll spread 'em far and wide maybe they'll pay me to go away then I'll keep my blues inside.
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Sweet Annalee 04:43
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Sweet Annalee Listening to bluegrass reading my Yeats eating my lobster off a white paper plate it's all right it's all right by me Reading my bible smoking my pot Looking at all this S&M I just bought it's all right it's all right by me (Chorus) My body is my enemy You don't need to envy me Don't you worry sweet Annalee Someday the good Lord of all gonna set me free Sipping some wheatgrass smoking my cigar singing some opera in a cowboy bar it's all right it's all right by me Angry and crying sure everything's fine Got my pants held up with a barbed wire twine it's all right it's all right by me (Chorus) Tune my guitar with an old pair of pliers got an old flattop strung with chicken wire it's all right it's all right by me Zipper from a bypass sure looking good But anything with a good shot of moonshine would it's all right it's all right by me (Chorus)
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Don't Be Closing Down This Party Floor 03:14
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Don't Be Closing Down This Party Floor Don't be closing down this party floor there's some good people here for you and me they came over just to walk in the door and give us some good company just because your heart is broken now because of something I shouldn't have said don't be closing down this party floor get the hard times out of your head We been strumming now and picking along and now it's two or three the look on your face is killing the song that Jake sang just for me I know you're working tomorrow we don't care you just letting the boss man win just let us party until we pass out here and wake up and do it again. When you say, "hey baby - there's the rising son." I'll say, "we fought the man last night a little war got won." Hey, more folks are coming they're bringing wood and the kind of beer that you drink when you're fun then we start getting good and so gone that we just can't think because life is so short and beer is cheap and we just ain't just doing no harm let's sing that Marley and that Johnny Cash tune so loud we drown out her alarm. When you say, "hey baby - there's the rising son." I'll say, "we fought the man last night a little war got won." Don't be closing down this party floor there's some good people here for you and me they came over just to walk in the door and give us some good company
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The Things I Used To Be 04:21
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The Things I Used To Be Got the blues in my heart you all walking out on me Got the blues in my heart you all walking out on me There's money on this highway that's how good life can be Mud in the dust winter all summer long Mud in the dust winter all summer long Non stop talkers gonna tell you how things gone wrong Some people go off to work some people go off to war Some people go off to work some people go off to war What I'm just too jaded to enjoy my life anymore I'll have a side of blues don't let no jazz get in the way I'll have a side of blues don't let no jazz get in the way Well I want you alone and I want it your way Where's that feeling now? You know I ain't about to retire Where's that feeling now? You know I ain't about to retire Everything looks good on paper but I'm wondering where's the fire? I'm playing this empty room watching this life pass me by I'm playing this empty room watching this life pass me by Do you want to be one of the left behind? Left me for dead but I ain't gonna die Left me for dead but I ain't gonna die better a broken heart than a wasted life You can do better than me til' we're far between and few You can do better than me til' we're far between and few You won't dream of me but I do dream of you Give me some blues from the stones down in the ground Give me some blues from the stones down in the ground Why I thought it would last forever but forever ain't coming around Even the stars are smiling they're alone and free Even the stars are smiling they're alone and free I'm hanging on to all these things that I used to be I'm hanging on to all these things that I used to be I'm hanging on to all these things that I used to be
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Meeting In Oxford 02:30
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Meeting In Oxford There's a white meeting in Oxford and I don't want to go Daddy said the old guard is there to vote in so and so (Chorus) But I don't want to go I don't want to go There's a white meeting in Oxford and I don't want to go! Politicians still endorse those crazy deeds they've done but if I had my way these racist bastards wouldn't run (Chorus) Daddy said "we can't give up we've got to see this through" But I told dad this is one thing that I won't teach my kids to do. (Chorus) These people he calls monkeys have got burning in their souls They relieve all the same needs we do and I don't want to go (Chorus)
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For Evermore 03:51
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For Evermore Rocks are clean in a stream so drink There’s no dust in a windy room so breathe There’s no pain in an open heart so talk There’s no trail without reason so walk Your poetry is song so sing Your flight is freedom so soar Your word is truth so give to the silence And defy its deep gravity for evermore
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Someone I Know 03:54
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Someone I Know I don’t need your prayers of pity  I just need to know you’re with me Life’s a long road of lonely  And I see it pass me by There’s no reason for an impasse Who will be the first to call back How many years until they ask  If a life is going fine I’m your friend to comfort you But it’s nothing you ever ask me to do You must think I haven’t got a clue I’ll die behind your point of view (Chorus) I’m in the middle of nowhere dying slow Watching best friends laugh and flow From my little computer screen  I introduced them on the scene Sad to see the way it goes Another let down half second pose Just to say here’s someone I know  And I don’t know where they’ve been  Excited to meet someone again Will they be another stranger friend Someone I hope to hear from again While life is a lonely road  Can’t reach out too much to talk Might be a nuisance better off To stare at birds and softly scoff At another day here left alone Friends I’ll never get to know  Another day passing me slow Now it’s night nowhere to go I’ll give you the blow by blow (Chorus)  

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released December 13, 2022

Recorded December 2022 at Mighty Tight Recording Studio, Bonny Doon, CA.
All songs Copyright 2022. Music and Lyrics by Dan Frechette and registered with SOCAN.

Dan Frechette: Vocals, Harmonica, 6 and 12 String Acoustic Guitars, Electric Guitar, Lap Slide Electric Guitar, Resophonic Lap Slide Guitar, Mandolin, Banjo, Bass, Drums.

Album cover taken September 28, 2022 at Times Changed High and Lonesome Club in Winnipeg by Neil Fitzpatrick.

Special thanks to those who support shows and buy music from independent full time musicians like me. You know who you are.

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