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Making Memories

from Listen to Your Discontent by Big Dudee Roo

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lyrics

T.H.

He always said, with a grin,
"It's all about making memories"--
the better part of twenty years spent
as a drummer on the road
with unknown bands in dark bars,
summer festivals
and Econoline vans--

the stories are all he has left,
the only things that cut through
the thousand-mile stare.
The present only has weight
when it becomes the past
and going home is like
watching himself in a dream.

Making memories
forgetting the present

W.A.L.

The road always called to him,
a distant, unattainable lover
sleeping in the future
on California shores.
With bass guitar in hand
and mop-shock of black hair on his head,
he followed like a gas-powered ghost.

Forty years pass by like cars
on freeways, the bulk of them spent
as a driver over-the-road.
Hauling fifty-three feet
of water heaters,
loading and unloading them
like faces and towns in his mind.

Making memories
forgetting the present
Making memories
falling face-first into the future

W.L.L.

Memories come rushing back
like a flooded collage
spilled across space and time.
Faces resurface where they don't belong
and seventy years spent
with sound, practiced mind
are washed away and scattered.

He drove a truck like his son,
who he drove away to the West,
to follow a future that wound through time
and flowed back to its source.
He was a scab-busting union man
and now our pride and the stories
are all that's left of his mind.

Making memories
forgetting the present

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from Listen to Your Discontent, released December 17, 2011

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Big Dudee Roo Grand Rapids, Michigan

Big Dudee Roo is committed to rock and roll, and the making of it. Started by high school friends Justin Dore, Max Lockwood, Kurt Rizley and Nate Wagner in the small town of Wayland, MI, the band has matured into a powerhouse of driving rhythms, heavy guitars, and thoughtful, poetic lyricism, combining the raw energy of Crazy Horse with the polish of Pearl Jam and Tom Petty. ... more

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