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I’d like to say this is a Dylan-influenced song. But in fairness, aren’t all us who try to write literate, acoustic guitar and harmony-driven folkish tunes that comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable influenced by Dylan? I mean, come on. To put a finer point on it, I’d say it’s more Ritter/Isbell/Goldsmith/Porterfield-influenced. I tried to be honest and confessional about the part each of us plays in building and dismantling the culture of outrage; but at the heart of this song is a lie: I don’t really believe “the world went mad” on November 8, 2016. I just think it went madder. Hatred was already very much with us, but the outcome of that election cosigned it and invited it to the table…and wrote the menu. This song reveals me as a bit Pollyannaish – a wishful thinker – still believing that love is our best and only answer. Liz Carney’s harmonies boost me and make me feel like I’m not alone.

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We’re strangers on the interstate
We calculate our interest rate
Then tell a story well-defined
For binding us all to the crime
That we committed long ago
Before the world went mad

We started running far away
Learned to say that I’m okay
But I don’t feel the way I said
We were fed a comment thread
That we kept feeding all night long
Until the world went mad

They say that it’s all temporary
Where we just momentarily
Lost our way along the trail
We’ll course correct when we exhale
We keep waiting to exhale
But I can’t exhale

CHORUS Let’ s put this on hold
Let’s hold on a minute
Before we lose sight
Of the people who are in it
Let’s hold each other close
Pull each other close
Let’s hold

We love the things that separate us
Educate and decorate us
We wear the labels sold to us
Controlled by what is told to us
By heads that talk on our machines
Since the world’s gone mad

There’s this thing that I have found
As I’ve traveled all around
There’s good folks in the north and south
If we’ll just shut our mouths
And hear their hearts in pain
We all want to get out of the rain

CHORUS

When the steeples all fall down
When the king has lost his crown
We’ll gather ‘round what remains of us
Trust there’s something in the dust
That we recall from long ago
Before the world went mad

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from SOMETHING GIGANTIC, released March 19, 2020
Brett Miller: vocal, acoustic guitar, percussion
Liz Carney: harmony vocal
Barak Hill: acoustic guitar
Dallas Jones: organ, bass
Brandon Moore: drums

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Brett Miller is a singer-songwriter from Springfield, Missouri. After over 15 years writing songs, singing, playing rhythm guitar, and recording three studio albums with his band Brother Wiley (also known as Mincks & Miller), Miller released a solo album of 14 original tracks, recorded and produced by fellow Midwest musician, Barak Hill. ... more

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