New Modern Age

from Dear Everybody, I Love You by Johnny Dango

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I swear to God, this was written as a dark joke. I wrote it in 2010, and the line about "where does the time go..." worked a lot better back then. But I didn't record it back then. No one got the joke, people said it was too bleak. People want sunshine and puppy dogs, I guess. And now they have Trump, but I digress...
At the urging of my pal Lew Card, I finally recorded in in 2016, so that's what I said in the line about time. And now the record won't be out until 2018, so we see once more how well I handle this whole notion of time. Really though, the whole thing was supposed to be a simple joke about hipsters adoptin Victorian fashion.

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Where's the kerosene, where's the morphine
Where is the ether, I just want to leave here
The whole thing's so rotten, we're caught in the flotsam and jetsam
of Something and Nothing's its name
I can't pull the trigger but I want to shoot up the town
Want to find a way to slow it all down
Find a way out, kill off the rage
Of being trapped in this place
In the new modern age

Where's the kerosene, where's the morphine
Where is the doctor, I'm locked in a personal hell I created
I don't get inebriated quite as often these days
I'm set in my ways
I've got a woman who thinks that I think too much
And another who says my ignorance is my crutch
I'm lame and lonely with no one around
I want to slip away, i won't make a sound
Except for the rattle of bones in the cage
Of the pen that passes for the new modern age

Where's the kerosene, where's the morphine
Where does the time go, it's twentysixteen
And the west has been settled for a long time
But now the 19th century is in style once again
When my rebellion has been pacified
Where's the morphine for my slow suicide
Where's the kerosene, I'm burning with rage
Let's burn it all down
This new modern age

credits

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