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I have an uncle named Rick. He has this sort of rootless, nomadic, over-the-road kinda life and one day I ate lunch with him and he warned me against making his mistakes. A few years later, that conversation inspired this song. I don't know where Rick is today but maybe he'll hear this someday. This is in my top 5 favorite songs I've written in the last decade.

Recorded as part of the 2012 RPM Challenge and previously released on the album "Blood and Scotch/Valentine".

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after his third drink he said "my heart doesn't have roads,
so how do I get there if I want to go home?"
I looked in his eyes and I lied and said you're fooling yourself
when you sober up you won't remember this hell

if only our demons were so polite
if only our dark side could be seen in the light
then we could learn to live with ourselves

<instrumental break>

if only our demons were so polite
if only our dark side could be seen in the light
then we could learn to live with ourselves

oh he's a great believe in his great misfortune
he's a parade with pitchforks and flaming torches
and after I close my eyes
he'll just fade into the night
on a new road

keep seeking, keep searching, keep knocking and it might open to you (repeating)

he'll always have the road
my uncle ghost
dead behind the wheel but looking for a place that's real
out of gasoline
vision bleaches dreams
at the end of the road
he'll find out what he's always known
my uncle ghost

my uncle...

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from A Man Could Get Tired and Other Songs, released July 20, 2013

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Ryan Sutter Hugo, Minnesota

Minnesota-based singer-songwriter formerly of The Lavone, Trumpet Marine and Nuclear Gopher Records.

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