Name: Neon Motel
Duration: P00H05M01S
Description: This song was started in a motel room in Grants Pass many years ago, and recently finished in a cafe on Kauai...

Neon Motel

from Verisimilitude by Bruce Harvie

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This song was started in a motel room in Grants Pass many years ago, and recently finished in a cafe on Kauai...

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This old neon motel has seen much better days
The showers all leak, and it's aged in so many ways
But I tend to pull in here year after year after year
You see, I have these memories of you and me and here

We were at the high side of 20, 30 was just around the bend
In a Dodge Slant 6, we both thought it would never end
Don't even waste your time trying to figure out the whys of life
Because 30 years later that neon still cuts like a knife

It takes a ton of ore to make a golden wedding ring
Those rocks are still in the ground and it's time for me to sing
"Love Like You've Never Been Hurt" said Satchel Paige
Been there done that, now it's time to turn the page

At sixty years of age, every man has the face he deserves
He's hit all the fastballs but can't quite catch up to the curves
The summer has stolen spring and Fall's in the rear view mirror
You see, I have these memories of you and me and here

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from Verisimilitude, released August 4, 2020
Bruce plays a Gretsch White Falcon through a Magnatone 213, 1921 Gibson A Model mandolin, Danelectro tic-tac bass, Kay standup bass, 40's Ludwig snare, and one of my favs for slide--an Airline Town and Country through a '63 Fender Brown Deluxe...and sings.

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