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The Wild Dogs of the Central Valley

from Wildwood Road by Marc Delgado

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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,
Oh 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 dropping 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.
Yea, 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...

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from Wildwood Road, released August 13, 2021
Delgado/Tracy

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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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