Concrete To Grass

from Dear Everybody, I Love You by Johnny Dango

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Austin's grown and grown since I moved here in 2001. It's changed a lot, and not all for the better. One casualty that hit particularly close to home and really hurt was The Mean Eyed Cat changing from a bar that gave me and a lot of my friends a home for our music--however we wanted to present it--to what it is now, a place where even though the name and some of the interior decorating remain, it's simply not what it used to be. The Cat was a community in every sense of the word. Then the condos went up all around it, the rent went up, and now it's a Johnny Cash-themed sports bar. Cool, huh? When the definitive history of Austin is written sometime in the future, it will be done by the real estate developers' ghostwriters.

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They put up a tower where the kids used to groove
Full of apartments for the yuppies to move
Convenient pricing for the white collar crowd
They closed down the kitty 'cuz she purred too loud

Happens so fast, seems the paint never dries
Again and again before our very eyes
Happens so fast you get squashed like a bug
And swept away underneath the rug

Boom-a-chaka boom-a-chaka building and growing
Is it still growth when you're losing your soul?
Jiving and shucking always working and f*cking
Who said that new is always better than the old?

The market's ripe for selling out
Money's all you ever think about
Another parasite following the crowd
Enjoy another $7 stout

Nobody knows what anything is worth
Yes, I guess I'd like to rule the earth

Eating and sleeping, sowing and reaping
All you ever want to do is keep the beat straight
Walking or crawling, flying or falling
The hardest part of patience is learning to

Wait and wait and wait a little more
It may seem like such a dreadful bore
Give it time, it'll all come to pass
Dust to dust and concrete to grass

credits

from Dear Everybody, I Love You, released January 19, 2018
Johnny Dango: vocals, guitar
Jacob Hildebrand: guitar
Chris Jacobie: bass
Todd Thompson: keyboards
Fred Mandujano: drums
Tony Rincon: pedal steel guitar
Sean Rolie: engineer

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Johnny Dango Austin, Texas

Johnny Dango is an Austin, TX-based musician. He's led his own bands, The Memphis Strange, and before that, The Stillwater Pioneers. He's also been a sideman for Brothers & Sisters and Stoney LaRue. It's been said he's from Stillwater, OK, but then it's also been said he's from outer space. Or worse. ... more

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