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Rusty Trucks and Daisies

from Rusty Trucks and Daisies (Maxi single) by Martin Ruby

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Every song is its own little world - on this one, some words came first, just a handful of them “She never slept in the Chelsea Hotel/But she bought an old guitar just ‘round the corner.” They sat on the page for a while, not sure where to go next - and then, out of nowhere my old bandmate Molly Fitch died from Covid and I understood, in that messy, broken moment that this song was about her. She lived a complex, mysterious life and we had just gotten back in touch after years of silence, cracking wise about our adventures playing at CBGBs in the 90s. I decided to keep plenty of her secrets intact, and tried to paint an honest picture of where she ended up, and what it was like to wake up in a world without her.

Thanks for listening - Marco

lyrics

She never slept
in the Chelsea Hotel
but she bought an old guitar
just ‘round the corner

How did she get
to rusty trucks and daises?

We all got sick
in the winter
and she died
in the spring
So we learn to sleep
through the lonely

I’ll find a way
to get back to Coney

How do I get
to rusty trucks and daises?

Cold cups of coffee
oh it’s a cold, cold cup of coffee
Yeah, they say they got horses
way up there babe,
Yeah they say they got horses.

We never knew
how she learned that guitar
hollow and red
played it ‘til she bled
ski hats and parkas
on the 4th of July
Hilly’s old dog
that howled and whined

As we tumbled
and tangoed
on the tiniest stage
those spitball kids
to Lorraine’s surprise

They had no tattoos
no magic powder, no pixie dust
clean scrubbed and smiling
like a Cheshire Cat’s clowder

credits

from Rusty Trucks and Daisies (Maxi single), track released June 17, 2022
Marco North: vocals, acoustic guitar, mandolin, bass, harmonica, tack piano, accordion, mellotron, drums, and various Stradivarius string samples.

Written, produced, mixed and engineered by Marco North
Mastered by Oz Fritz
©+℗ 2022 Bittersweet Hum Music (BMI)

Design by Bittersweet Content
Photos by Irakli Katsadze

Recorded in a living room in Moscow, Russia with SOYUZ microphones.

THANKS TO:

Oz Fritz , Nataliya Usherzon, Eve North, Vera North, Kevin Salem, Eric B. and Chris W. from The Mixorcist, Irakli, Therese, JM, Evie, Jon, Jamie, Daniel, David, Marlon, Polly, Ryan and George.

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Martin Ruby is a Roots/Americana band led by singer and multi-instrumentalist Marco North.

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