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Vending Machine

by David Lowery

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    Third in a series of autobiographical albums. These albums not available on streaming services.

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    released January 1, 2023

    Vending Machine is the third album in the series of autobiographical albums by David Lowery.

    1. It Don't Last Long
    2. Fat Little Babies
    3. Mark Loved Dogs and Babies
    4. Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey
    5. Vending Machine
    6. Darken Your Door
    7. Giving Tree Father
    8. Art Basel
    9. Every Time I Try to Get Out

    All songs written by David Lowery and published by Bicycle Spaniard Music (BMI).
    Except:
    Track 4 written by Frank Funaro/John Hickman/David Lowery/Sal Maida.
    Track 6 written by Victor Krummenacher/Greg Lisher/David Lowery/Jonathan Segel. Published by Camper Van Beethoven Music BMI.
    David Lowery: vocals, guitars, bass, percussion
    Jim Dalton : Electric Guitar
    Marc Gilley: Saxophones
    Bryan Howard: Saxophones
    Luke Moller: Fiddles, strings and arrangements
    Velena Vego: Claps
    Produced by David Lowery
    Mixed by Drew Vandenberg
    Mastered by Jason NeSmith
    Executive Producer Velena Vego

    © David Lowery 2023
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1.
It Don’t Last Long I came out of oblivion With two hit MTV songs So Jackson quit his day job Process serving Michael Milikin I bought a house out in the country With my publishing advance Geoff Ayeroff said <pause> See? I knew you’d write a hit by accident And I should have got down Upon my knees and thanked the lord Cause it don’t last long Enjoy it while you can Cause it don’t last long Hoooooo it don’t last long Enjoy it while you can Cause it don’t last long The second album We recorded it out in pioneertown We tried to rent (frank) sinatras house the realtor shut us down The album spawned three more singles None of them sounded like grunge But we were selling out theatres It’s timing and it’s luck And I should have got down upon My knees and thanked the lord Cause it don’t last long Enjoy it while you can It don’t last long Hoooo it don’t last long Enjoy it while you can It don’t last long Solo Solo Cause I should have got down upon My knees and thanked the lord Cause it don’t last long Enjoy it while you can it don’t last long Hoooooo it don’t last long Enjoy it while you can it don’t last long I was getting way too cocky There was some bad behavior But it didn’t really cost me selling 5k every week but then I taught the audience to sing the record company president direct line telephone number we were dropped in just a week I should have got down upon My knees and thanked the lord Cause it don’t last long Enjoy it while you can It don’t last long Hoooo it don’t last long Enjoy it while you can It don’t last long
2.
Fat Little Babies Fat little babies riding on a cosmic chariot Fat little babies trip the light fantastic Fat little babies won’t fix everything between you and me Fat little babies the mystery of the universe C’mon little darling everything will be all right We should have a station wagon full Of fat little babies C’mon little darling everything will be all right We should have a station wagon full Of fat little babies Fat little babies wake you with a hangover Fat little babies eating from the dog food dish Fat little babies can’t make you like me any less Fat little babies what’s it gonna hurt? C’mon little darling everything will be all right We should have a station wagon full Of fat little babies
3.
Mark Loved Dogs and Babies Mary found Jed behind the 7-11 out on Doswell road It took a while to tame him but then it took It was minus 5 one winter night The woodstove blazing hot He came into the house all on his own Jed never liked the guitar player He was always trying to bite his ass Other wise that dog loved everyone Lucy had a broken leg From a fall off a balcony That’s what her owner said we didn’t believe Took little Lucy got a pin put in her leg And no we never gave her back I guess we are dog nappers Lucy bit everybody except for Mark Linkous He would pick her up for rides in his car He even wrote two songs about her And everyone just assumed They were love songs bout a beautiful girl Mark loved dogs and babies he came to visit my day old son He took a big sniff of his head and said “ I love that smell” Mark loved dogs and babies and may have a happier life If he and his wife could have had little babies of their own Or maybe not
4.
SUNRISE IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY [Hide Chords/Tabs] [Search Discography] [INTRO:] [Gm] [Eb] [Gm] [Eb] [Gm] [Eb] [Gm] [Eb] [Gm] [Eb] [Gm] [Eb] [Gm] [Eb] [Gm] [Eb] [C] [Eb] [C] [Eb] [C] [Eb] [C] [Eb] Sun-[Gm]-rise in the [Bb] land of the pha-[Db]-roahs [Cm] I see my broken [Gm] arrows [Bb] Scattered 'cross the plain [Db] Sun-[Gm]-rise on the [Bb] river in the [Db] city [Cm] I'm feeling pretty [Gm] shitty In the [Bb] wreckage of my life [Db] CHORUS: [F] So if you wanna live Let's live to-[Db]-gether In boas and fea-[Cm]-thers [Bb] Wiemar decadence [Db] And if you wanna die We can take the low road 'Cause dying is easy It's living that's hard [REPEAT INTRO] Sunrise in the land of milk and honey She says "my little bunny" "Is this all that there is?" Sunrise in the land of southern idols Lines on hotel bibles With fallen debutantes CHORUS: If you wanna see What's in the shadows The burning meadows In our apocalypse I dream of fallow fields I dream of winter 'Cause dying is easy It's living that's hard [ENDING AS INTRO]
5.
Vending Machine Capo at 5th fret Tempo 148/74 Em C G Am Em C G Am I passed out underneath of the desk of the Publisher of Spin Magazine It was the last night of the Modest Mouse Camper Van Beethoven tour Am E D Am E D D I said I didn’t want to live this way anymore Walked down the alley and I knocked on the door C G Am Em C G D D How do I get started Fixing myself He said it don’t work that way Do you believe in god I’m really not sure He said we’ll find a way Em C G Am Em C G Am We’ll pray to God but your higher power Will be that flickering vending machine We pray to god while your higher power Is that flickering Vending machine Am Em D Am Em D D I do the work I read the book I volunteer each week I focus on keeping clean my side of the street C G Am Em C G D D But not that it matters But this is a historically black AAroom I am accepted I’m extended grace This blows me away Em C G Am Em C G Am Everyone but me prays to god I got this flickering Vending machine Everyone but me prays to god I got this flickering Vending machine Am Em D Am Em D D Everyone I ever met on Madison street I got you back cause you had mine C G Am Em C G D D And if you are living well even if you’re not I hope that this will find you And Even if you feel irredeemable now Well you should know that you’re not Cause one good deed done Or One moment of grace Is greater than all the darkness in the world cause what we don’t know Is always greater than what we know Including how this really works
6.
Darken Your Door (Richmond Version) So If you don’t want me no more I’ll go away never darken your door Baby we been up and baby we been down If you don’t feel it anymore I’ll never darken your door We had some good times living With a downtown Richmond view The sound of music studios til the bottom dropped out of it We had some bad times trying to keep The whole damn thing afloat Recorded music revenues were sinking like the Titanic So If you don’t want me no more I’ll go away never darken your door Baby we been up and baby we been down If you don’t feel it anymore I’ll never darken your door We had some tough times Raising up two small kids On the road 100 days a year Playing for half the audience There were still good times Produced a record for Counting Crows A Hollywood Hills swimming pool Looking down upon the Sunset Strip So If you don’t want me no more I’ll go away never darken your door Baby we been up and baby we been down If you don’t feel it anymore I’ll never darken your door I’ll never darken your door I’ll never darken your door If you don’t feel it anymore I’ll never darken your door I’ll never darken your door I’ll never darken your door If you don’t feel it anymore I’ll never darken your door
7.
The Giving Tree Father C F Am G F F C C Where you gonna go my black haired son You can’t be the prodigal one Your mother she’s asleep and the winter is deep White snow beneath the old leafless oak G G F C G G F F G G F C Am G F F We can go for a drive while the roads they are fine Black velvet ribbon of the blue ridge skyway While Aphex Twins softly bleats from the speakers I’m sorry I gave you my bad chemistry When you were fifteen I was out on the road When you probably needed me most “Father that’s not true” but it probably is The small lie says you’re a good son So please take from me I’m the giving tree Climb on my branches and rest in my shade You can have all my fruit and when I grow old Chop me down and sell off the wood Cause when I was young I was The Cover of the Rolling Stone father Also by Shel Silverstein But now that you’re my son I’m the giving tree father And that’s what you gave to me
8.
Art Basel 03:50
Art Basel ATL Delta Airlines to MIA. Accidentally went to Art Basel on this day I’m a civilian spouse tagging ‘long on my wifes business trip She’s a Live Nation music business executive 9 AM a movie producer drinking mai tais in the pool A couple French rent boys snorting yeyo off a boogie board An Instagram influencer floating on a raft Her publicist follows her trying not to get her iPad wet Chorus I’m so glad I’m on the outside looking in Cause none of this ends well. Its like a dumpster fire But the worst amongst emerge unscathed For bread and circuses that let us choose Which of them will live And who goes to the lions Verse An NFT artwork conference here at the hotel They got a sitting US congressman in on the grift He says “NFT smart contracts gonna reverse Systemic inequality” While making Sandhill VC firms a few trillion more Chorus I’m so glad I’m on the outside looking in Cause none of this ends well. Its like a dumpster fire But the worst amongst emerge unscathed For bread and circuses that let us choose Which of them will live And who goes to the lions The devil’s having drinks with an agent from CAA But he’s gotta see what William Morris is willing to pay A little taste of Gomorrah in Miami Beach Never knew the end of the world was much watch TV ATL Delta Airlines to MIA Accidentally went to Art Basel on this day
9.
Every Time I try to get out D 3/4 110 BPM But Every time I try to get out They pull me back in again I try to go straight Try keep me a day job But I miss my songs and friends Woke in a motel in Panama city The end of a cross country tour Sick as a dog and the maid is shouting Don’t think I can do this no more. But Every time I try to get out They pull me back in again I try to go straight Try keep me a day job But I miss my songs and friends Went to go work in the loop in Chicago Arbitraged options by day Sat on the board of a couple of startups Made some good friends but I just couldn’t stay See every time I try to get out They pull me back in again I try to go straight Try to keep me a day job I miss my songs and my friends. Finished my doctorate so I Could teach college The University of Georgia Got me a title Got me an office Co-wrote a textbook as well Still every time I try to get out They pull me back in again I try to go straight And keep me a day job But I miss my songs and my friends Still every time I try to get out They pull me back in again I try to go straight And keep me a day job But I miss my songs and my friends

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Third in a series of autobiographical albums. These albums not available on streaming services. Only available here or on CD. Did we mention there is also a CD version available from www.crackersoul.com ?

credits

released January 1, 2023

Vending Machine is the third album in the series of autobiographical albums by David Lowery.

1. It Don't Last Long
2. Fat Little Babies
3. Mark Loved Dogs and Babies
4. Sunrise in the Land of Milk and Honey
5. Vending Machine
6. Darken Your Door
7. Giving Tree Father
8. Art Basel
9. Every Time I Try to Get Out

All songs written by David Lowery and published by Bicycle Spaniard Music (BMI).
Except:
Track 4 written by Frank Funaro/John Hickman/David Lowery/Sal Maida.
Track 6 written by Victor Krummenacher/Greg Lisher/David Lowery/Jonathan Segel. Published by Camper Van Beethoven Music BMI.
David Lowery: vocals, guitars, bass, percussion
Jim Dalton : Electric Guitar
Marc Gilley: Saxophones
Bryan Howard: Saxophones
Luke Moller: Fiddles, strings and arrangements
Velena Vego: Claps
Produced by David Lowery
Mixed by Drew Vandenberg
Mastered by Jason NeSmith
Executive Producer Velena Vego

© David Lowery 2023

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David Lowery is the lead singer and guitarist for the critically acclaimed groups Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker. He splits his time between Richmond VA and Athens GA.

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