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    "Hardwired"genre: Indie Pop/Lo Fi
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    Straight-ahead not so country rocker.
    Credits: Lyrics and music by Theo Hartman. Copyright 1995.

    Story Behind the Song
    The high E string broke off my guitar one summer and I got lazy about replacing it. Over the course of writing this song I got so used to that string missing that when I finally replaced the E string, I tuned it down to D so it would "disappear" a little. Turned out to have a cool drone effect all its own, so I left it. The lyrics are well, pretty self-explanatory.

    Lyrics
    Now you tell me that you
    shouldn't have to get
    another person to give you
    a permanent realignment
    But knowing you I find that
    just a little difficult to believe

    When everything about you
    says "Come inside"
    I want you to know me this way
    Leave me standing on
    the shoreline of
    the river called Monongahela

    Baby I could draw you
    all the maps
    Put an 'x' down on the
    parts there that will nail you
    Give a complete cartography
    of collapse
    And write a list of all ones down
    that will fail you

    There're so many names
    and so little room
    I want you to know me this way
    Leave me standing on
    the shoreline of
    the river called Monongahela

    So tell me how the fuck does
    what I have to say to you
    get twisted into all this other bullshit
    I think I keep well out of the way
    I don't want to be around when the bills hit
    to change you should
    One day you'll be hardwired through for good

    If there's one thing about you
    I could never stand
    I want you to know me this way
    Leave standing on
    the shoreline
    Getting stoned on
    the shoreline of
    the river called Monongahela

    (note, last chorus written but never recorded)

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