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These Are Sad Times

by The Last Whole Earth Catalog

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    The first time any LWEC has been on vinyl! It's taken me 8/9 months to get this sorted, but it's happened and they've turned out wonderfully.

    I'll try and make sure I always bring some to upcoming gigs so you can just buy them from me without dealing with Royal Mail!

    The price is not as cheap as I'd like, but I'm just me, no label, no management and a run of 100 is not good at reducing the unit cost. But know you're supporting me directly and I hugely appreciate anyone who buys one - I hope I can get some more of my albums on vinyl in the future!

    dan xxxx

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    i'm combining both THESE ARE SAD TIMES and DEAR SUPREME LEADER into one physical release.

    they are both acoustic guitar based and at either end of the last whole earth catalog discography, so would be interesting to hear how my songwriting has changed over the 6 years between them.

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    I'm selling 3 of 5 of the test pressings that were made for my first album release!

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1.
when i create i try and find a reason the things that ive made do i even believe in line after line is anybody listening chord after chord would anybody hear this is there time to make it cause the clock is ticking can i make a living from the music i am making a simple kind of strange that puts me in my place to journey in our brains we must reject our frame
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Audi S4 02:12
what is silver? what is gold? what is need? what is greed? who is the builder? who is told? you're born into riches, the blood line holds oh am i a man i fit in where i can before the avalanche results of circumstance if only i was bigger a little less old had a nice selection of suits and an audi s4 and i lived in a mansion that my parents paid for and i feel that ive made it ive worked for it all i cant feel my heart, im all alone cant smell the real life, from all the coke after all of this i am, i am a joke after all of this i am, socially broke
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Mistakes 05:42
it only takes an hour to fall but it takes a week to get up again never presented an achievement award always resented the lives that we look up to this life belongs to this mind belongs to who do my thoughts belong to? i can see a meteor its a problem cause it hasn't burnt up yet close my eyes and think good thoughts how do i deal with it it just keeps happening this town is running from my friends are running from we are all running from you if you can't see that, i can't stand the past and what it means is to always make things last how is it true that you loved those who arent like me if it should be hold me back hold me back ill be back ill be back so if you were never there and even if you never cared if only i could walk right by those memories would not survive i think that you have made mistakes but i have also made mistakes we seem to keep making mistakes mistakes mistakes mistakes mistakes mistakes mistakes mistakes mistakes mistakes mistakes mistakes mistakes mistakes mistakes mistakes mistakes mistakes
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Ink 03:15
if you're left behind then how do you survive every minute that passes every milestone missed is a thorn in my side if you felt that pressure to be that one you're not inside then when the world stops crushing us it takes a look above to believe you're alive every one takes away intimacy it makes my mind run wild time and time again sometimes i don't know who you really are when we see the past have you left the door ajar was it you that did it or was it that they did it to you there is no choice when all your futures have formed a queue these words get hard to put on a page where the ink will remain, causing their pain another time without me another time where i should leave oh you can try and help me out, but i would find it mean oh you can try and create doubt but my mind it would scream theres some evil within me, within you
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its about time my brain should be coming round to recognise the thoughts and feelings ive disguised as being me some days i will frown and some days i will drown in the things that feel bigger than my being and ill get triggered and retreat, my brain gets flooded with anxiety and thought i was stronger than this and help me off the floor and help me out the door and i dont mean like that. i just mean i need to get out there and live my life you, its not you, its not you again and i mean me, its not me, its not me again how do i even know that's me if the two will never meet my past and future selves and who they were and what they wanted can i ever cross that street? look both ways and then ill meet the person that i always wanted... to be you, its not you, its not you again and i mean me, its not me, its not me again
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remember the age that you bled remembering pages you read they were heroes but now there people with messed up lives be careful of who you like try not to idolise status riches adverts numbers objects anger liars slander badmouths assholes you should commit tell the truth think for yourself respect yourself know your limits no-one is invincible be kind
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i prayed last night i was taken back 8 years and a day have passed how long does time really last? how different it would be on a new trajectory did we know what we'd become all those things we wouldnt have done if we knew we'd fall in love and how could we prevent our stupid fucking brains from causing us to fail and messing up again with the person we really want to be with was that stupid stuff worth it?
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sometimes i find, its hard to be here in my mind, stuck in gear i dont believe your words are they deliberately obscured are you embarrassed by the truth or is what i read news to you you've got no plan, what are you doing kick that can, into ruins the deeper that i search the further that you fall from your perch your life doesn't make sense or at least in my head i wanna be happy in my mind i dont wanna be trapped in my own rhymes shouldn't i be in my prime i could be wrong some times i could be wrong some times i could be wrong some times i could be wrong some times these are sad sad times these are sad sad times

about

i wanted to write an album where i was restricted, so here is me and a guitar and nothing else. which is something ive neglected for more layered and full band songs over the last few years

on one song i did some vocal harmonies and on another added another guitar. i hope this isnt cheating.

my dad wrote track 5 and john fahey wrote track 8 but what im playing seems to be an amalgamation of several songs.

UPDATE: PDF songbook included in digital download

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released May 8, 2021

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The Last Whole Earth Catalog Northwich, UK

i'm dan, currently based in london, record music in a small room, play live with benn, ben and pitt

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