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The Wild Dogs of the Central Valley

from Live @ Pete's Candy Store Volume II by Marc Delgado

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The Wild Dogs of the Central Valley is a song about living w addiction & loss & violence & heat & insanity. It is a mash-up of my time in Fresno & Sacramento shortly after my mother died. The Hydra of Summer is the spoken word piece @ the end that tells the tale of a couple of murders in Fresno. I tag on a little piece of one of my favourite poems: All Systems Tower & Collapse by David Bottoms. for some reason it feels right. It is the fourth track off of my second studio album: Wildwood Road

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You're all alone
& the voice that you hear down the hall
Is your mother's voice
Your mother's ghost
So you pick up the phone
You call & you let it ring & ring
Till you find out what you already know
There's nobody home
If you keep on running from
The hounds you can't escape
If you keep on reaching for
The hand you cannot save
There won't be any time to make your getaway
The money you spent
Is the money you stole from your sister's coat
After she went to bed
& it's time to repent
But you make your way
To The Astro Motel instead
w your cocaine eyes
If you keep on running from
The hounds you can't escape
If you keep on reaching for
The hand you cannot save
There won't be any time to make your getaway
All alone now in the valley sun
All alone again, down & out again
In the valley sun
The sound that you make
Is the sound of the key in the lock
When you turn it the wrong way & it breaks
If you keep on running from
The hounds you can't escape
If you keep on reaching for
The hand you cannot save
There won't be any time to make your getaway
You're out of time

It was 1987
School was out for good
The Hydra of Summer was upon us
Old people & dogs
Were droppin' like flies
That's the summer they found
Earl the Pearl dead in a dumpster
Behind The Tower Theatre
w his arm bent back behind him
Like a question mark
Yeah, that's the same Tower Theatre
Where those bikers shot
Kimber Reynolds in the head
Joe Michael Davis
Pushed his .357 into her ear
& pulled the trigger
For her purse...
He wanted her purse
Well, the cops caught up to him
Later on
& gunned him down in the street
But that was later, much later
That's the summer they found
Marilyn Gay Ward
Dead inside The Book Stall
The details of her murder
Were never released
& her killer was never found
they never found who killed Earl either

So here is the natural gospel of it all
All systems tower & collapse
& we babble in darkness
seeking foundations for other reconstructions
Knowing all along that what works always
Is nothing (David Bottoms)

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from Live @ Pete's Candy Store Volume II, released August 2, 2022
All Systems Tower & Collapse by David Bottoms

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Marc Delgado Woodstock, New York

Marc Delgado is a singer/songwriter from Woodstock, NY. His new record: Wildwood Road is a psychedelic, poetic, cinematic coming home story. A blend of harrowing accounts of addiction & madness & the surprising & healing power of love. Recorded @ Hurley Sound w partner Producer/Engineer/Multi-Instrumentalist Justin Tracy. Wildwood Road is a bold statement & a hat thrown into the ring. ... more

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