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Gorilla Performance #1

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So even though it’s been over 3 years since I’ve performed anything in front of people, I am being *encouraged* to do so again. I suppose as a way into it (and for practice) I’ve always thought gorilla style performances, whether people show up or not, is kind of a cool thing, especially since I know a lot of *secret* places from my photography urban explorations (urbex). So here is a first performance I recorded. Also, it’s the first time I put this minimal gear together for use as a test. I’m really happy with the raw audio here! Three songs, one new! A big reason I’m doing this, even if it’s a somewhat complex and convoluted way into it, is that whenever I perform live, the response is always remarkably positive, much more so than just doing recording. I guess partially since I’m just doing what I do and while it doesn’t exactly fit into anything very neatly, it is *something* a little different.

Heard My Music On The Radio For the First Time!

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Even though I knew Al Perry played some stuff off my last album, Lucky Strike, I somehow missed it, but tonight I was listening to his World Famous Clambake show on KXCI (Tucson Community Radio) and heard my song Better Than Whiskey live on air. Felt pretty cool! Not like a big deal, but a small deal that just made me smile — and smiling is a good thing!

Better Than Whiskey

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This song was partially inspired by seeing a woman at the grocery store buying a fifth of Jack Daniels and a package of hair dye at 8 AM. It’s not about her, but the connection between love, whiskey and loneliness.

Lyrics:

Love is better than whiskey
Except when it isn’t
Then whiskey, only
Makes it worse

When your heart’s on fire
Burning inside
Adding more gasoline
Won’t get you there

When there’s no escape
From the pain
You feel
Inside

Love is better than whiskey
Except when it isn’t
Then whiskey, only
Makes it worse

Time to move past
What isn’t working
Sitting at the table
Waiting for it to all go down

Hoping things will get better
When it doesn’t happen
Grasping for freedom
From the pain

Love is better than whiskey
Except when it isn’t
Then whiskey, only
Makes it worse

If you light another match
It will all go up
With no one to blame
Surrounded by the ashes

Burn the whole damned thing down
When it doesn’t work out
When your life goes wrong
And you don’t know what to do

Love is better than whiskey
Except when it isn’t
Then whiskey, only
Makes it worse

Copyright 2015 Mark Hahn, All Rights Reserved

The Promise and Reality – New Song

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This is a song about moving on.
Lyrics:

Who makes all those promises
We hang onto
When we can’t speak
About betrayal

‘Cuz it never adds up
The promise and the reality

Look out at the horizon
Where everything
Vanishes and
Ceases to matter

Walk into the
Desert
Storms brewing
Wherever you go

Overtaken by floods of doubt
Washing all the dreams
Away from my
Misguided heart

We put ourselves in this place
With all those broken promises
And dreams gone wrong

‘Cuz it never adds up
The promise and the reality

Look out to the horizon
Where the promises and the dreams
Vanish and
Cease to matter

You get to where you are
One step after the next
You can trace your route
Don’t know where you’ll end up

Can’t keep going
Into that distance
Looking only for those
Same old promises

That are never fulfilled
While falling on your face
Where your dreams lie dead
In your path

Watch where your
Footsteps land
And find beauty
In the surprises

‘Cuz it never adds up
The promise and the reality

Forget all of those
Old dreams
Out in the distance
Out of reach

Keep on walking
Into the unknown
Forever forward
Storms along the way

Leave them all behind
The promises and dreams
They only hold you back

And never add up
The promise and the reality

Leave it all behind

Copyright 2015, Mark Hahn, all rights reserved.

(Gmaj7,Am7)x2,(Em,Am7)x2,(Am7,Cmaj7)x2 – 2bars each mixed up.

Somewhere Where Elvis Is Still King – New Song

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I wanted to write something more upbeat. This song makes me happy!

Lyrics:

Well, you’re gunna’ find him
Riding up the Highway
Arizona Route 77
On his way

To the Shamrock Bar
Up in Claypool
Just off the main drag
In the shadow of the mine

Yeah, this is the place
Where Elvis is still king
Need to get back
With you somehow

And those
Tangled sheets
Tattered hearts
Holding tight
Under a picture

Where he’s
Looking like an angel
Looking like a saint
Watching over us
Protecting our love

Karaoke, every Friday night
Jerry rides his bike through
The burning mountain passes
Cold one by his heart

40 ounces to keep it cool
Hair slicked back
Blowing in the wind
Sun shining, off those shades

Going to sing his way
Through a life
Yeah, Love Me Tender
Love me hard

This is the place
Where Elvis is still king
Need to get back
With you somehow

And those
Tangled sheets
Tattered hearts
Holding tight
Under a picture

Where he’s
Looking like an angel
Looking like a saint
Watching over us
Protecting our love

Need to get away
Out of town
Up that Highway
To find our way

Somewhere
Where Elvis is still king
And our love
Fixes everything

Need to get away
To where Elvis is still king
And our love
Fixes everything

A,E(2BarsX2),D,A(1BarsX2),D,A(2BarsX1)

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