Re: Shadowville Speedway / Will Dockery & Henry Conley

On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 13:54:44 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2025 22:13:05 +0000, HarryLime wrote:

Will-Dockery wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Will Dockery wrote:

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Check out "Shadowville Speedway" / Will Dockery (words) & Henry Conley
(music)
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https://www.reverbnation.com/willdockery/song/8798172-shadowville-speedway--will-dockery
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Shadowville Speedway
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In a taxi watching a sporting house
Beside a Linwood vacant lot
Silverdollar moon portspotting
Constellation like a sailor's knot.
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The sky was black
ink and glitter in the night
Train whine saxophone
out beyond the light.
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I'm in love with a ghost
blue turns to grey
Put a pyramid on my head
to take my pain away.
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Shadowville, Shadowville Speedway
Riding slow down a one way street.
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Brown Recluse magic
drifting around the shed
Someone has it in for me
I must not lose my head.
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Moving with the speedo life
several with me left behind
Burned too many bridges
defragmented my time.
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Somewhere in time
I've seen all this before
In a magazine or a dream
of a distant war.
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Shadowville, Shadowville Speedway
Riding slow down a one way street.
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Manifested destiny
a manifesto and a part
All the actors still agree
that ever had a heart.
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Hazel knew the karma
she kept it in a bottle
Black tooth mojo
marked index cards.
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Bundles over the side
of Dillingham Bridge
Splashing as ripples
reflect from the stars.
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Shadowville, Shadowville Speedway
Riding slow down a one way street
Shadowville, Shadowville Speedway
Don't look back, don't admit defeat.
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-Will Dockery

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Once again excellent.

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Thanks again for reading and commenting.

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Here's yet another.
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"Shadowville" is

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I've been using "Shadowville" for two decades, long before anyone else.

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Michael Bartalos' book was published in 1995 (three decades ago).

Like I said, I was writing about Shadowville as far back as the 1980s
HTH and HAND.