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This Old Dawg


Catching Gears

Un-Released

“Catching Gears” will be included on the album In The Fifth Circle, which will be released in late 2024 or in January of 2025 (assuming it's ever finished).


Lyrics

If I had a dollar and fifteen cents,
You'd be riflin' around in my pockets
To pay your rent.
I don't mind chippin' in,
It's like always bettin' on a pony
That never wins.

I've known love from coast to coast.
You're the girl that I have chosen.
If things don't change I'm outta here,
Wind in my hair... catchin' gears.

If I was a preacher, you'd fleece my flock.
You'd be sippin' that sacramental wine
By ten o'clock.
Now, I don't mind a little sin,
But I'm too old for dancing with the devil
The shape I'm in.

I've known love from coast to coast.
You're the girl that I have chosen.
If things don't change I'm outta here,
Wind in my hair... catchin' gears.

(BREAK)

If I was drownin' in a puddle of mud,
You'd step on my back to keep your feet dry,
Yes you would.
Now, I don't mind chippin' in,
But with all of my cards on the table,
I never win.

I've known love from coast to coast.
You're the girl that I have chosen.
If things don't change I'm outta here,
Wind in my hair... catchin' gears.

Music & Lyrics: Wicasta Lovelace.
Copyright © 2024: Wicasta Lovelace.
Copyright © 2024: Windhaven Network.


Credits

performers
Victoria Lovelace - backing vocals
Wicasta Lovelace - lead & backing vocals, guitars, bass, sample instruments, drums, programming

production
Wicasta Lovelace - mixing, mastering


There Are Stories?

The short story which matches to “Catching Gears” is titled “Dulce”. This story is somewhat experimental. Enough so that when I let a professor friend of mine in Texas read an early draft, he pretty much stopped talking to me. lol. Well, art is supposed to elicit a reaction, and that one damned sure did.

AN EXCERPT

      “Dulce,” she said. And again, “It’s Dee-ul-say.” Parsed out the phonetics. Syllables. Rhythm. What was it he would say? “Mouth feel.” She felt the name in her mouth. It didn’t taste right. Didn’t feel right. It would do for now, as a name, as a reference. But it didn’t feel like her. Something they could call her until she faded back into the void.

      Dulce blinked. Hard. She closed her eyes so tightly it hurt and she saw stars or sparkles in the darkness. She had to reform. Reincorporate. Breathe. Reintegrate. Be. Just for a little while.

      She had winked into a muddled existence that morning, spent most of her day making sense of this new existence. Or tried to. What came before was there, in bits and pieces. Fragments. Whispers. Moving shadows. Waking dreams. There was a word for it. A phrase. Like a name on the tip of her tongue.

      Something… other.

      Something… not Dulce.

      Someone… not Dulce.

      But who was she now?


Videos

Coming in 2024


“Catching Gears” @ Apple Music

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“Catching Gears” @ Spotify

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