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Written March - August 1999

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Sometimes I wish I had the Storyville sound from way downtown
I mean right in the heart of New Orleans
Where I could find myself some city block
To let my fingers walk and make the ivories talk, ya see
But all them barrelhouses done closed
That sporting life died so long ago
My best conclusion to date
I just musta been born about a century late

If I were Henry Ford on the factory floor
With progress on my mind and my mind on the assembly line
I'd sit and watch those Model Ts
Bein' manufactured and shipped from here to Belize or Los Angeles
But now it seems as much ground we gain we lose
And it's givin' me those Edsel blues
My best conclusion to date
I just musta been born about a century late

I'll make a nostalgic bid for the yellow kid
When there were still some words to let the truth get heard
Before the message was the medium
Before we let our thought facilities grow cold and dumb
Now all the media moguls choose
What trivia to sell as news
My best conclusion to date
I just musta been born about a century late

I said the way I can see St. Sebastian and me
Shot fulla arrows and lashed to a tree
Martyrs for the sake of a tale to be told and grow old
And make a good man grab for his grail
Back when sainthood was as simple as
Bein' murdered by the brainless masses
My best conclusion to date
I just musta been born about a century late

Yes, back in the day the way that evil was laid out
In madmen and loons against them that prayed out loud
A simple value scheme
Black and white, just like good versus bad, it seems
But it was just as much an illusion then
And for all the myriad forms of sin
My best conclusion of late
Is that I'm right on time for this immediate
To be heaped up high on my servin' plate
Because the only path that'll make any sense
I'll let the past relax, boy, and live the present tense

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from Songs for the Anti​-​De​-​Counterrevolution, released June 23, 2000

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Rob Getzschman is a singer-songwriter and producer from Omaha living in Los Angeles. He was previously front man for DC-based Analog Jetpack, played bass for LA's Highland Hawks and writes and produces music for Mighty Good Road. www.mightygoodroad.com

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