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Doldrums

from Every Mile by Say ZuZu

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You’d never hear it in the presentation, but at the time I wrote “Doldrums” I was near-obsessed with the Tom Waits record, “Mule Variations” - especially all the evocative, seemingly random details in songs like “Hold On.” I wanted to create something with enough everyday detail that you could picture these people and the place, but with enough mystery for you to fill in the space.

lyrics

Pauly works at one of them ‘You Call – We Haul’ places
Friday nights he rounds ’em up down by the bars
Where the drunks can’t stand up,
Let alone drive away their cars
And he gets fifty bucks every time he takes a ride

Eight years old – his mom was dead and gone
Pop worked at the ”Drink Tank” slingin’ booze ‘til dawn
He’d sit in a back booth where people carved their names
And watched the people play their stupid people games

Drifting in the doldrums again
Waiting on some wind to come

Mary Frank is rosy all the time
Skin like a snowfall – hair like a coalmine
Opens the restaurant every five AM
Turns the key and Pauly comes walking in
He brightens up again every time she smiles
She makes some coffee and they sit and talk awhile

Drifting in the doldrums again
Waiting on some wind to come

The days come so slow
Love lingers – lays so low
Whichever way the wind does blow
Let it blow

The sky is clothed in violet
Mary holds her own hand waiting on a ring
Pauly waits to see what the next day will bring around
To see what the wind will bring

Drifting in the doldrums again
Waiting on some wind to come

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from Every Mile, released July 21, 2023

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Say ZuZu New Hampshire

Americana/Alt-Country/Rock band
from the wilds of New Hampshire.

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