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Cutting Down the Country

from Burning Daylight by Jerry David DeCicca

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lyrics

“Cutting Down the Country”

Every day coming home from work, I drive past the Old King Ranch
140 acres, man, that’s some big heritance
And I know one man’s palace is another man’s prison
But it still makes me kind of sick to see it get sold off and turned into subdivisions

Over on Jacob’s Ridge, there was a 4-way stop
Where all these 100 year old Live Oaks covered every lot
Now they’re gone and it’s a drug store, a vape shop, and a bank
And I’m no tree-hugger, but I’d like to knock it all down with a tank

They’re cutting down the country
They’re cutting down the country
They’re cutting down the country
And it won’t grow back

I don’t blame the builders working their $10 an hour gigs
And I don’t blame the landowners who sold it to those real estate pigs
It took generations to get here and just 10 years to erase
And everyone just keeps shopping & shopping with blank stares on their face

So now we can drive our car payment to house payment to our credit card payment to our job
And stare at our phones until our body is a blob
Oh look, we got a cookie cutter town in a cookie cutter city
We’re all gonna be so much happier now that everything looks so shitty

They’re cutting down the country
They’re cutting down the country
They’re cutting down the country
And it won’t grow back

credits

from Burning Daylight, released September 28, 2018
JDD- vocals
Don Cento- electric and acoustic guitar
Tyler Evans- electric and acoustic guitar
Canaan Faulkner- bass
Gary Mallaber- drums, percussion, vibraphone on “Jamila Rose”
Eve Searls- Wurlitzer, piano, backing vocals, duet vocal on “Burning Daylight”

Produced by Joe Trevino and the band
Recorded by Charles Godfrey at Sonic Ranch, Tornillo, Texas, June 2017.
Mixed by Stuart Sikes at Big Orange
Mastered by Adam Boose at Cauliflower Audio; lacquer mastering by Adam Smith at Audiomatic
Cover photo by Tyler Evans, back cover photo by Charles Godfrey
Art and layout by Jeb Loy Nichols
All songs written by Jerry David DeCicca (Understanding Land Music/ ASCAP), except “Reach for You” by DeCicca and Don Cento (Third Ditch Music/ BMI). C. 2018
Thanks to Richard and everyone at Super Secret, Nathan Walker, Shil Patel, Jeb, Doug and Karla, everyone at Sonic Ranch, and especially this amazing band and Joe.
This record was cut live in the studio. Any mistakes you hear were created by humans playing music together.

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Jerry David DeCicca Bulverde, Texas

JDD is a singer/songwriter living in the Texas Hill Country.

He is also the producer of outsider songwriter albums by Ed Askew (Tin Angel), Larry Jon Wilson (w/ Jeb Loy Nichols), Chris Gantry (Drag City), Will Beeley (Tompkins Square), and an unreleased album by Bob Martin (Midwest Farm Disaster).

He makes his living working in social services and lives in the rural town of Bulverde, Texas. ... more

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