Concrete Steps

from Home Recordings by Dan Jones

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lyrics

concrete steps

I'd like to write a song about our neighborhood
without concern for whether it is bad or good
to share the love I feel for Judy, Jack, and Jim,
and their pets and different ways we choose to live

concrete steps
up the slope
to our porch
footsteps in the snow

There was a party at our house on Christmas Eve
we drank and ate and played a bunch of records too
I focused on the art of hosting carefully
then got drunk and danced around and stood there grinning

concrete steps
up the slope
to our porch
in the spring

I got this weird epoxy stuff you squirt into
the cracks and thin interstices in broken masonry
A jackhammer and dumpster would be most ideal
build the forms and pour it all clean and new

concrete steps
up and down
beautiful sun
lemon lime moments

I like to read and write and draw and play guitar
I'd have no trouble retiring
you like to make a house a home
you are the north star (oh yeah)

For many years I couldn't even finish a song
like mercury popping on a red hot stove
now I hunker down it's just like dusting or bills
concrete steps spiraling upward

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from Home Recordings, released October 19, 2010
Dan Jones: guitar, drums, keyboards, vocals

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Dan Jones Kansas City, Missouri

Dan Jones is a punk-influenced rock and roll singer-songwriter living in Kansas City, Missouri.

Rock and Roll Daydreams is his 9th full length release, and third with Dan Jones and The Squids (of KC), featuring hometown pals Steve Tulipana (bass) and Matt Ronan (drums). ... more

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