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Country Boy in the City (17 Years Old)

from Locust Grove by Chris Monti

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Country Boy in the City (17 years old)

-words and music © 2005 Chris Monti

This town was founded on secret sad thoughts and stolen drugs | I find old aged both fascinating and disintegrating | And then there is beauty | But I digress…

Time is not so much spread out before me as it seems to be arranged in little boxed in which I wait claustrophobically until time’s up! | And I climb into the next box

Rigorously going from field to field | Absent of passion, principles, love | Sadness graying the faces of virgins aching | The innocence of childhood is not genuine | It shines forth from their faces littered with soup and cigarette butts | Mud on the first day, and in truth how could they not know? | So send me away to anyone, anywhere | And threaten me my darling, we’re at a loss | With a scissors or something else sharp if you still adore me

It is a human universe and I can show you teeth you’ve never dreamed | But all you ever do is go back to ancestral comforts | Baffling combustion everywhere and hardly any arc of love | Only heartily materialistic fears

So how can we begin again? | Know that perfection does not exist in isolation | In fact, it does not exist at all | And what just poked you in the eye was your own umbrella | So get up, get out of bed | Because there might just be a few little songs to be sung before the decimation of the race

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from Locust Grove, released March 1, 2005
Chris on vocals and guitar

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Chris Monti Providence, Rhode Island

Known for his effortless style and musical curiosity, Chris has immersed himself in West African guitar, dug deep into country-blues and old-time music, and moves seamlessly between diverse styles from Egypt, Peru and India. He has toured the East Coast, Canada and points west. He also enjoys his singular role in the community as a strange combination of entertainer, educator, and magician. ... more

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