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Vacation (Livingston, Montana, USA)

from Travel Songs Deluxe by Kristen Ford

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Written in on a park bench in Livingston, Montana, USA June 2015.
This was the only song on the album with drums and guitar tracked live at the same time. Lauren Horbal and I had finished "work" on recording Idealism, and just for kicks starting jamming on this song. With my two channel recording device, I had no idea if what we recorded would be usable. Usually, Vacation is a very slow acoustic guitar song, but the muses had a different idea for this reggae-roadhouse jam, and closing track for Travel Songs.

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Step right up for the county fair
tonight we're in your town but we're everywhere
Ferris wheel rides tilt a whirl a spinning
money on a game the house always wins
some folks say you can't trust a carnie
pay no mind they don't know me
Monday putting it all on trucks
highway hum our mother tongue

my life is better than your vacation
scanning through static for a radio station
lines on my face
lines on the interstate
can't remember why I left in the first place
do doo doo, do doo doo

holding up my sharpie cardboard sign
new Orleans was fun but I need a ride
nights I get scared never knowing where I'm sleeping
that's why a dog is a girls' best friend
left one day I never told my parents
it's my life I don't need permission
to travel the world at just nineteen

my life is better than your vacation
scanning through static for a radio station
lines on my face
lines on the interstate
can't remember why I left in the first place
do doo doo, do doo doo

playing a show in a bad part of town
but there's people inside so you sing your heart out
make a few fans playing that guitar hope they come back for your next tour
ain't no shade in the Walmart lot the summer sun wakes me by eight o clock
I'm in the public bathroom scrubbing my face
it will all be worth it once they know my name

my life is better than your vacation
scanning through static for a radio station
lines on my face
lines on the interstate
can't remember why I left in the first place
do doo doo, do doo doo

do doo doo, do doo doo

My life is better than your vacation

credits

from Travel Songs Deluxe, released April 27, 2017
Percussion Lauren Horbal
Bass Rhees Williams
Pedal Steel Jules Belmont
Guitar and Vocals by Kristen Ford
Recorded and mixed in Nashville, TN by Kristen Ford
Mastering by Mike Degener

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Kristen Ford is one lucky SOB. Her debut single on Righteous Babe Records "White Man's Dream" co-written and produced by Ani Difranco is out now, and she will be supporting Ani on her fall tour.

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