We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.
/
  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 AUD  or more

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Jewel case with 12 page booklet featuring lyrics and artwork by Michael Cusack

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Lucky Country via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 5 days

      $20 AUD or more 

     

  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    The Lucky Country CD & Widescreen Rock N' Roll T Shirt

    Includes unlimited streaming of The Lucky Country via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    ships out within 2 days

      $40 AUD or more 

     

  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 16 Dave Wright & The Midnight Electric releases available on Bandcamp and save 30%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of 2012-2022- A Decade of Widescreen Rock & Roll, Go With Grace Single, Christmas Spectacular 2018, Thank God For Rock and Roll Single, Happiness Single, Streets Of This Town Single, Lost Inside A Dream, Tennessee (Radio Edit), and 8 more. , and , .

    Purchasable with gift card

      $70 AUD or more (30% OFF)

     

lyrics

Father

I got in on the early train; been gone so long that everything has changed,
And the town I grew up in has long gone.
I did twelve long years for theft, assault, and other petty crimes I swear that weren’t my fault,
But they stuck everything else on me they could.
I bought a thrift store suit and a railway pass and now the smell of fresh earth and new cut grass will stay with me until the day I pass.
And I walked the half-mile back into town and down Main Street just a looking around,
The day I came home we put her in the ground,
The day I came home we put her in the ground…

Father,
What are you going to do,
Now that you have lost anyone
Who ever cared for you?
How can you forget,
The only one who stuck by you
What will you do now she’s not there for you?

I left school at the age of sixteen, my father was drunk, my mother was mean,
But I remember a time when she used to smile.
But I guess he wiped that smile right off her dial so many time she upped and died inside and spent the rest of her days just trying to survive.
And I was put to work in a lumberyard where the pay was bad and the hours were hard and every Friday night he used to try and drink my cheque,
And I remember when she got that cough; it was around the time he got laid off,
And the very next night I hitched a ride out of town,
The very next night, I hitched a ride…

Father,
What are you going to do,
Now that you have lost anyone
Who ever cared for you?
How can you forget,
The only one who stuck by you
What will you do now she’s not there for you?

So I can home with nothing more than a chip on my shoulder and to settle a score but the fight went out of me when he opened the door.
And we stood together at her graveside, he said “I loved her, son” and he started to cry and I realised, I felt nothing inside.
Though I swore myself I would never be anything like he was to me it seems the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
Because I squared my shoulders and I stood my ground and I caught the next train out of town and I know in my heart I’m never going back,
I know in my heart, I’m not going back…

Father,
What are you going to do,
Now that you have lost anyone
Who ever cared for you?
How can you forget,
The only one who stuck by you
What will you do now she’s not there for you?
She’s not there for you
She’s not there for you
She’s not there for you
Now no one’s there for you.

credits

from The Lucky Country, released November 1, 2014

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Dave Wright & The Midnight Electric Melbourne, Australia

Singer/songwriter/bandleader Dave Wright is after one thing: A perfect 4-minute pop song.
When he puts pen to paper and pick to guitar strings, however, the Melburnian-by-way-of-Colac knocks out epics and ravers and boozers about girls, cars, Australia, mariticide, Diggers, truckers, sadness, sickness, drunks, heartbroken mothers, angry fathers, desperate sons … and death. Lots of death. ... more

contact / help

Contact Dave Wright & The Midnight Electric

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this track or account

If you like Dave Wright & The Midnight Electric, you may also like: