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When We're No Longer Weird

by Hayden Lindsey

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There’s a woman on the East Side sitting on a stoop
Playing guitar, selling fresh eggs from a backyard chicken coop
You won’t see anything like it farther west than Guadalupe
Anymore
That’s for sure

There’s a man on a sidewalk using trash can lids as drums
Says he beat and kicked his way from the bottom of the slums
Now they say he’s gotta move before that big new hotel comes
He’s an eyesore
Troubadour

They’re boarding up the honky tonks
The dinners and the dives
Playing California roulette
to see what all survives
You say you come here for the culture, the people and their songs
Who’d you think was gonna sing them when all of them are gone?
And when the only thing that’s strange here
Is how it all just disappeared
Tell me lord what will we be
When we’re no longer weird

The garage bands all got punk’d, the rockers all rolled out
The hippies who ain’t run for the hills are holding out down south
And them old blues pickers still have plenty of the blues to sing about
But nowhere
They can share

They’re putting up a high rise on razed historic lots
And on top of the tower, a final coup de grace
A radio transmitter, one hundred thousand watts
We’re on the air
But do we care?

That they’re boarding up the honky tonks
The dinners and the dives
Playing California roulette
to see what all survives
You say you come here for the culture, the people and their songs
Who’d you think was gonna sing them when all of them are gone?
And when the only thing that’s strange here
Is how it all just disappeared
Tell me lord what will we be
When we’re no longer weird

I can’t say that I blame them for going up in spades
But I can’t but help but wonder about the cost of these upgrades
The stock is flyin' higher while our soul quickly degrades
And none of it matters if the right people get paid
Well I don’t give two fucks about the latest new Starbucks
I’d rather live deliberate than fake urban deluxe
When appearance matters more than a century of substance
Will we even recognize ourselves in 36 more months

Cause they’re boarding up the honky tonks
The dinners and the dives
Playing California roulette
to see what all survives
You say you come here for the culture, the people and their songs
Who’d you think was gonna sing them when all of them are gone?
And when the only thing that’s strange here
Is how it all just disappeared
Tell me lord what will we be
When we’re no longer weird

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released October 1, 2021
Written by Hayden Lindsey

Performed by
Hayden Lindsey - vocals, rhythm guitar
Rich Brotherton - lead guitar, bass guitar, harmony vocals
Kate Howard - Harmony Vocals

Produced by
Rich Brotherton
Ace Recording
Austin, TX

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