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Monday, October 23, 2023

Sombre Start to The Week | DION : Your Own Back Yard | GUESS I’M DUMB

Dion - Your Own Back Yard (1970)

"Dion’s moving reflection on the substance abuse which left him a heroin addict and with a failing marriage. It could’ve have been mawkish, but instead Dion comes off forthright and honest. Mott the Hoople do a great cover as well, but the firsthand account wins out"

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You know we’re all losers in that game


Well heres a brave song and striking subject, true of all my work experience and sorry for a sobering thought to start the week! Brilliant selection again from Guess Im Dumb!  . . . . . well I guess you ain't so dumb huh?!



Lyrics:
I've been sitting here, thinking
About when I started in drinking
I went on to dope
It surely did change my life
Oooh
I cried a tear in a beer for me
I lost everything near and dear to me
Namely my children and my wife
I’m my idea of having a good time
Was sitting with my head between my knees
I knew everything there was to know
Everything except which way to go
I cried, oh, God, take me will you, please
Yeah many a time I swore up and down
I didn't need any of this junk that was going round
I can quit; let me finish what I got
After all, this stuff sure costs a lot
Then I'll get my feet back on the ground
Oh I can't tell nobody how to live their life
Even though inside we're all the same
All those things are toys I was playing with
You know we're all losers in that game, yeah, yeah, yeah
Now since I've been straight I haven't been in my cups
I'm not shooting downs, I'm not using ups
You know I'm still as crazy as a loon
Even though I don't run out and cop a spoon
But thank the good lord, God, I had enough
(Had enough)
Now, I got a friend, his name is Richard Grands
He says you don't need to be stoned to grow a friend
Believe me you're all beautiful people just the way you are
Tell me, what has that stuff done for you so far, huh, yeah, yeah
I've been sitting here thinking
Been winking, I been uh blinking
I don't have to sit around no more on the nod
With my nose in the eggs, you know
I can do anything that I wanna do
I do it straight I do it so much better too
And it's, it's gotta start right in your own backyard
I said it's gotta start right in your own backyard
You know everybody has their own beautiful backyard
You might have oil wells in your own back yard 

Yeah, your own backyard... 

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