Forever Ago

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Forever Ago

The girl with the red hair in a red dress is dancing
She’s dancing in a trance on a hot July night
While the drummer is pounding out the poison
That burns through his veins that he caught from a spider bite
Under the full moon they played for some spare change
In the little town square where I met you

Outside the museum the tourists have gathered
They wait patiently for the time to come
For the guards to throw open the vaults of a culture
That’s only a shadow of what it once was
What good is Picasso, Pollock or Rothko
When you’re an ocean away?

I want to know where does the time go?
Cause it feels like forever, forever ago

Now the TV is blaring in a bistro in Dubrovnik
Where the old men sit around and smoke
And I wonder where it all went
Was it worth it, was it well spent
Or were the gods playing some kind of joke?
Your laughter rings like the song of a siren
As my little boat washes ashore

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from Forever Ago, released January 13, 2019

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John Kruth New York, New York

With 12 solo albums to date, multi-instrumentalist, John Kruth plays mandolin, banjo, guitar and sitar as well as flute and harmonica. The former leader of the NYC "other-world" music ensemble TriBeCaStan, Kruth has played with Ornette Coleman, Allen Ginsberg, Sam Shepherd, John Prine, Rick Danko and Violent Femmes, and worked with producers Joel Dorn and Hal Willner. ... more

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