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WXDU v​.​2

by Des Ark

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1.
darlin do you really want this war to be honest, i don’t think you should invite it i’ve been fighting off this anger all my life & the truth is i ain’t got the will to hide it like i want i can’t get out of bed i’ve been plagued by all these voices that done rally round my head
2.
you don’t need to die for me to lose you forever & i don’t need no misty eyes to tell that you been cryin so unless you can gather up a line or two that you can guarantee will bring my love back to you dancer take my hand & say goodbye to me you was a sailor on my sea with a key to unlock me you know what it’s like to want to die & so do i & not cuz the weather don’t suit yr mood it is a sadness you carry around with you that’s been in us since the day that we was born you don’t need to lie for me to love you forever & i don’t need no fancy fare or fawn to make me smile so unless you can guarantee a line or two that will drag my love straight back to you dancer take my hand & say goodbye to me
3.
this town is a dirty dirty town makes the back of my knees sweat pulls the drawl out of my mouth why you wanna leave for so long just promise me before you go we will grab our bikes & ride tobacco road we are lonely when we wake up we are idling at best at night we drug ourselves to sleep & dream of all the things we would miss had we the good sense to leave this town but we don’t in case we change our minds we oughta grab our bikes & ride tobacco road
4.
i wanna die with a halo on my head for all my friends i need to find a place to lie low where i can learn to be good to them i wanna saddle up at sunrise after the death of a dusty night in a cabin in the carolines where ain’t nobody gonna find me oh to be perfect for the ones we love i gave it a shot but i am not & i never was if i keep dragging all these anchors across my scars i ain’t never gonna heal at all you know you died with a halo on your head for all your friends if you had asked we would’ve said so that you had learned to be good to them i know i’m dying alone i know that my drinking makes this hospice feel like a home & i know i’m using drugs every morning when i wake up to quiet the symphonies of lovers who will sing so sweetly to me they will sing 'sunshine' oh this is what they said 'i’d love to keep on loving you my dear but yr already dead'
5.
i’ll be the knife on yr plate you don’t need me but i can make it easier on you cut off a piece we can chew you ain’t gotta lean on me & i won’t lean on you & when we touch, we can really touch each other instead of fumbling round for something that’s familiar that we will not find in one single night we were marred by our ex-lovers it is true but i thought of one simple thing we can try & do: i won’t look for him in you & you won’t look for her in me let’s make a promise just to be you’ll be my special friend & i will be the girl who says 'i swear to you, it is safe to love again' & i suppose we could fall for each other in the end but we won’t tho even if we do remember this remember this remember this... you ain’t gotta lean on me & i won’t lean on you
6.
i hope you come & stay with me we can camp under the old fig tree i’ll draw yr bath & i will fix yr tea all for the girl who said that she would marry me baby, if we cut out what’s between us all the miles & the mountain tops i know that we could count on it honey, we could live a life of cowardice or we could build a little bower nest something to believe in besides this awful mess i got this anchor on my finger now i got yr blood pumping through my veins & still somehow when i am with you, dear, i cannot breathe i gave my heart but then you took my lungs from me baby, get on an aeroplane to napoli let’s buy some land & start a family ...whatever you ain’t never had honey, we could stay in bed for hours talkin shit & telling stupid jokes & working on this garden where we will sow all of our restless hope
7.
can you say for serious that you can’t tell the difference in women who can’t understand that their skin ain’t the skin of just any man who asks for it can you tell me son what do you do with it & is it any ease to know you got the cold press in yr hands i am going to do my best not to desert you in the middle of this mess i’ve got a map but darling what good is that if i couldn’t tell you where to point it at if i couldn’t tell you how i’m gonna get back to arkansas or new orleans or anywhere to make my bed in between
8.
let’s be swingers let’s be brothers let’s be lovers undercover at the bar tonight buying drinks for one another as we fall on top each other in the back, under the light you look beautiful in red with yr hair piled heavy in a halo on yr head you don’t need to say it no i knew it when i saw you that you are one of us: girls who get drunk as the best way we know how to open up i will take him home we’ll start making out before we make it to the front door wait for it & i swear that it will come now yr flashing back to the days when you were younger woods behind my house who’s that man covering up my mouth when will you understand as embarrassed as i am when i look at the body of a man what i see is a stock piling of weaponry
9.
if yr looking for a reason to freeze to death mannie can you feel that it’s yr father’s breath & if yr scared as shit to talk about yr family truths just know that i believe & i always will believe in you if you lay another hand on yr son, sir i swear to god i’m gonna waste you you can holler you can cry sober up apologize but still what good are you if i don’t give a fuck about the ties that bind a father to his son if he’s just some deadweight deadbeat drunk i can show you all the things he’s gonna steal then sell & still you hold him to yr ear just like a paper shell i can take you on a tour of my old neighborhood here it is the bathtub where you’ll find the love of yr life choking up his own blood well a junkie’s got a fire that is burning hotter than the brightest star & if he don’t put it out himself it’s the needle it’s the spoon it’s the little white balloon i wish i didn’t give a fuck about the ties that bind the blood the guts even little paper cuts... these are the ones we love

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THE DEAL:
every few years i show up to my local radio station & fumble through a bunch of songs, live on-air, during my friend Ross Grady's radio show.
some of these will eventually end up on records, others don't...so you get to hear how my songs evolve from tiny beat up dumpstered whisper hymns to poshed-up studio recordings. or you get to hear songs that will never again see the light of day, in all of their naked half-assed glory. basically it's like going to a solo des ark show, without the 67 minutes of totally profane banter.

WXDU V.2:
this batch of songs center around anger management issues, alcoholics, fucking your friends, failed marriages, sexual assault, letting go, going AWOL, junk, total lying sacks of shit & more...set to broke ass dumpstered banjo & tenor guitar.

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released December 9, 2007

aired december 9, 2007
recorded by ross grady on WXDU 88.7fm in durham, nc

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