Name: America, Remind Me
Duration: P00H05M34S
Description: A song I wrote as homage to Willie Dunn and as a Letter to America when I left the U.S. to go live overseas.

America, Remind Me

from World Gone Weird by Padre Paulo Santo

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A song I wrote as homage to Willie Dunn and as a Letter to America when I left the U.S. to go live overseas.

lyrics

I've shown you the flowers
in the cracks of the concrete
the dark rivers and bright allies
in the shadow of my dream
America, remind me
of stranger roads unwinding
of the narrative that binds me
to the highway of the king

I'll give away the love songs
sell stories of the decline
in the crumbling infrastructure
of the palace of my mind
America, remind me
of stranger roads unwinding
of the narrative that binds me
to another mans time

You can take away my car
my bedroom and guitar
but you'll never take the songs
the fuel or the heart
America, remind me
of stranger roads unwinding
of the narrative that binds me
and pulls me apart

I've shown you the power
of the backroads and big river
of the sleeping city sidewalks
in the city of my dream
America, redeem me
for the stranger roads inside me
for your narrative unbinds me
from the highway of the king

-Mark Matos (Padre Paulo Santo)

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from World Gone Weird, released April 4, 2021

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Padre Paulo Santo Tucson, Arizona

Padre Paulo Santo is the latest invention from the mind of Mark Matos, western outsider behind projects Trans Van Santos, Os Beaches, Campo Bravo, Sonny Santos and Old Mexico (with Jason Simon and Dave Mihaly.)

"Mark Matos re-invents Western Exotica..."
-LA Weekly

"Suggests an alternative future for Beck..."
-All Music Guide

"spooky..."
-Magnet Magazine ... more

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