roots rock | From the Sound of It

It came as a hell of a shock causing me to at last take stock I was complete in complacency so much I couldn't face you see Lying in my quarters half my health is gone soon though I'll be leaving where I belong CHORUS: Moving from the farmhouse my family formed a circle round my frail familiar frame Moving from the farmhouse nothing no now nothing will ever be the same I ran back over my escapades all the times we had it made dreams now seem so resolute trust the dust and rust to be destitute I moved down here to start anew did I manage as I planned it in your view with the reminders you'll find were kinder each machine evokes a scene more distant than I mean Walking out and working out what it was for sent from where we went before Stir and stare at what's in store CHORUS: Moving from the farmhouse my family forms a circle round my frail familiar frame Moving from the farmhouse sever forever now will never be the same

As a rock swot, I was a little surprised at the newsthat psychedelia in UK and US had also triggered a “backlash” of roots rock. Well I’m happy to look at both, not knowing how different it will be to what we have already picked over.

I love psychedelic rock but at the same time I can see how in the wrong hands it could dissolve into a pile of pink dust. At the same time, roots rock is kissin’ cousins with Americana I would have thought. Maybe the emphasis is different.

Later Writers

We evolve as the plot develops
as the mood is rued and eve envelops
We're characterised by our character's eyes
if you're simulacra I do sympathise

Later writers with elongated scrawl
dipping dripping tripping
they can reach the far wall
 

We advance in a dance with chance
too real to feel so is circumstance
Reader feedback on our foibles to date 
a dunce with whom we could once relate 
[Chorus]
We're the scribble in the margin
  emerging in the script
Egg the stage when the ego is tripped
 [Chorus]
Assembled scribes with what resembles bribes
what was truth in our youth is now circumsubscribed

From the Sound of It

Tag Archives: roots rock

Roots, toots

Moving from the Farmhouse

Gotcha psyched

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