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Common Ground

from Dashboard Elvis by Dead Beat Daddios

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Recorded at Pie Street Studios in Brisbane, 2010. Produced by the Dead Beat Daddios, mixed by Malcolm McBeath.

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Common Ground (by Paul Cumming)

Well I once knew a girl and I loved her too
But she went to the country to find something to do
She went to the country to have herself a look around
And it’s so sad the way our lives unwound
She won’t leave the country, and I can’t leave the town
But somewhere we’re going to find some common ground

She was so sophisticated a real hip chick
But now she walks like a horse, she’s a real hick
She used to do it at the disco now the square dance is where she gets down
And I’m thinking while I’m drinking so my sorrows get drowned
Why can’t I quit the city, why won’t she come to town?
Somewhere, we’re going to find some common ground

BRIDGE –
I’ve been alone so long I’ve cried and I’ve cried
I’ve got a phone bill with noughts falling off the side
I call her and say come to me, so we can be near
But she says if you want to see me you’d better come here

I still love her, maybe she loves me
Oh where is that promised land where we can live happily?
She won’t come to the city so I’d best be country bound
But then one day her wagon wheel might roll around
To bring a little country into the town
Somewhere, we’re going to find that common ground

credits

from Dashboard Elvis, released January 1, 2011
Jim Carden (vocals, drums, percussion), Hugh Martin (guitars, backing vocals), Malcolm McBeath (bass, backing vocals). Written by P cumming.

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Dead Beat Daddios Melbourne, Australia

Story songs about love, landscapes, misfits and mistakes, set to tuneful alt-country grooves.

"Great music in the country and kinda-country genres isn’t just for those of us here in the southern states. There are tunes brewing in Brisbane, as the Dead Beat Daddios prove."
Sunburnt Country Music on Dashboard Elvis
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