Name: Wasting Away
Duration: P00H03M24S
Description: A song that crosses several styles of music with creative efforts on guitar, steel guitar and drums. A quick, peppy tune that makes for fun listening.

Wasting Away

from Last Surviving Son by David Gelman

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A song that crosses several styles of music with creative efforts on guitar, steel guitar and drums. A quick, peppy tune that makes for fun listening.

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Wasting Away (Gelman)

Well I'm driving down the road
Tryin’ to find my way
I don't know how the road
Turned onto the road I'm on today
Wasting away

Well people say I must be lazy
Why don’t I get a job?
I work all week for minimum wage
And I feel like I’ve been robbed
Wasting away

And it seems every step I take
It’s two steps back
And somewhere along the way
Got on the wrong track

There was a time in America
Before we lost our way
A hard day’s work, a hard day’s night
We all had fair pay
Now we’re wasting away

And it seems every step I take
It’s two steps back
Somewhere along the way
Got on the wrong track

So let's move into the back seat
Take our new place in line
As long as we have our freedoms
I guess we'll all be fine
Wasting away

Well we’re driving down the road
Tryin' to find our way
I don't know how the road turned
On the road we’re on today
Wasting away

Copyright 2019

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from Last Surviving Son, track released April 26, 2019
David Gelman: Vocals, Acoustic Guitar, Piano;
Ann Klein: Electric Guitar, Mandolin, Banjo, Lap Steel Guitar, High String Guitar, Dulcitar;
Jerry Marotta: Drums, Percussion; Sara Lee: Electric Bass;
Lorenza Ponce: Violin, Viola;
Rob Arthur: Organ, Rhodes;
Kevin Mackall: Electric Bass, Background Vocals;
Steve Count: Acoustic Bass;
Amanda Homi: Background Vocals;
Tim Hatfield: Synthesizer; Alex Alexander: Percussion;
Steve Terry: Percussion

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