Biography:
David Dondero is a singer/songwriter whose music has been compared to such American folk music/troubadour greats as Woody Guthrie and Townes Van Zandt. He began in 1993 as a member of the band Sunbrain, and later played in This Bike is a Pipe Bomb and The Flatwheelers. He is currently on the Team Love Records label and has toured with such acts as Bright Eyes, Tilly and The Wall, Spoon, and Willy Mason.
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Threw this together real quick after watching his live radio performance..
His tempo changes here and there, check out a couple different live versions to get the feel. Thanks!
[Verse]
C
Chose an easy rhyme to fill these moments of your time
I tried to keep between the line, looking forward and behind
I studied highway archeology, poetry and rhythm
As I'm tapping in the forniac this moment of expression
G Fmaj7
It's evolving and dissolving, connecting and exploding,
C
Building up and then eroding
G
It's the end and I keep rolling
F C
I played a skinny, skinny indie white boy blues in a scuffed up military style shoes
F
I'm a convenient store connoisseur
Fmaj7 G
On a broken shoestring budget tour
C
Flap or float, just barley float
Sing it fast and now get them all
Get no one knows success
It's soon forgotten, put to rest
Crossed the country a million times
Trillion roads, gazillion signs
A re-enactment is this life
G
These words are just a bite from all those heroes that I heard
Fmaj7 C
Just paraphrasing words. To leave behind a song,
G
A re-enactment of a song
[Chorus]
C Am G C
Hey I'm in love with this living and the dead
C Am G C
Hey I'm in love with the living and the dead
Living and the dead
I'm in love with a lover whose dead
[Verse]
C
I've seen some highs and lows
I've seen those Akron’s and Toledo's.
And you know we’ve done some shows, not a single person goes.
Driven fourteen hours
Just to play into the sound guys
He's reading his book
You’ve got to suck it up and try
G Fmaj7
Some bartender's playing on that mega touch machine
C G
Hearing on her long fingernails tapping on that screen
F
And it's a cold bleak night as the poles bleeding light
C
Detroit's abandoned, no casinos in my sights.
F
I Got to kill my time, I’m a ghost out on these streets.
C
I'll be sleeping in my truck tonight
G
And not sleeping in your ice cold sheets
C
Cause I got a scrambled heart, it's a little over cooked
Got a novel full of wishes missing from your book
There's no insurance in this life
No protection from the night
Too many rules and no direction
You walk under a knife
G Fmaj7
It's just this temporality, of creating fleeting moments
C
If your lacking in permanent
G
You better make your moment potent ah ugh
[Chorus]
C Am G C
Hey I'm in love with this living and the dead
C Am G C
Hey I'm in love with the living and the dying
C Am G C
Hey I'm in love with the living and the dead
C Am G C
Hey I'm in love with the living and the dying
Living and the dead
I'm in love with the living and the dead
Living and the dead
I'm in love with a lover whose dead
His tempo changes here and there, check out a couple different live versions to get the feel. Thanks!
[Verse]
C
Chose an easy rhyme to fill these moments of your time
I tried to keep between the line, looking forward and behind
I studied highway archeology, poetry and rhythm
As I'm tapping in the forniac this moment of expression
G Fmaj7
It's evolving and dissolving, connecting and exploding,
C
Building up and then eroding
G
It's the end and I keep rolling
F C
I played a skinny, skinny indie white boy blues in a scuffed up military style shoes
F
I'm a convenient store connoisseur
Fmaj7 G
On a broken shoestring budget tour
C
Flap or float, just barley float
Sing it fast and now get them all
Get no one knows success
It's soon forgotten, put to rest
Crossed the country a million times
Trillion roads, gazillion signs
A re-enactment is this life
G
These words are just a bite from all those heroes that I heard
Fmaj7 C
Just paraphrasing words. To leave behind a song,
G
A re-enactment of a song
[Chorus]
C Am G C
Hey I'm in love with this living and the dead
C Am G C
Hey I'm in love with the living and the dead
Living and the dead
I'm in love with a lover whose dead
[Verse]
C
I've seen some highs and lows
I've seen those Akron’s and Toledo's.
And you know we’ve done some shows, not a single person goes.
Driven fourteen hours
Just to play into the sound guys
He's reading his book
You’ve got to suck it up and try
G Fmaj7
Some bartender's playing on that mega touch machine
C G
Hearing on her long fingernails tapping on that screen
F
And it's a cold bleak night as the poles bleeding light
C
Detroit's abandoned, no casinos in my sights.
F
I Got to kill my time, I’m a ghost out on these streets.
C
I'll be sleeping in my truck tonight
G
And not sleeping in your ice cold sheets
C
Cause I got a scrambled heart, it's a little over cooked
Got a novel full of wishes missing from your book
There's no insurance in this life
No protection from the night
Too many rules and no direction
You walk under a knife
G Fmaj7
It's just this temporality, of creating fleeting moments
C
If your lacking in permanent
G
You better make your moment potent ah ugh
[Chorus]
C Am G C
Hey I'm in love with this living and the dead
C Am G C
Hey I'm in love with the living and the dying
C Am G C
Hey I'm in love with the living and the dead
C Am G C
Hey I'm in love with the living and the dying
Living and the dead
I'm in love with the living and the dead
Living and the dead
I'm in love with a lover whose dead
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