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DIAL​-​A​-​PRAYER

from RELIVING LIFE TO THE FULL by JACK HOWARD

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Another unreleased track from the 1994 recording session - Lawrence Maddy producing, Nick Del Rey on guitar and bass, Ash Davies on drums. I eventually re-worked this one and it finally ended up on My Lucky Day. Not another love angst lyric! A Raymond Chandler-esque portrait of a former hard man going to seed.

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He still dreams of mayhem after all these years
And though he's no longer called upon to clear a path or bend an arm
He walks tall before his friends
He used to ride the streets like a silent prince
With trigger fingers and trigger head
He was a man of steel
He had the whole world in his hands

Now it's dial-a-prayer, dial-a-life
Dial-a-whiskey, dial-a-wife
You'll see him round, you'll see him down
In this deadhead bar in this dead end town

Self-love still saves him in the mirror
Those sags don't seem so bad when lit by lamp
And the smile's quite debonaire for one so lost
Now he haunts the streets in the dead of night
With a pain somewhere down deep inside
That can't be reached, it can never be relieved

Now it's dial-a-prayer, etc

Then the dawn arrives and he turns to dust
And his flower fades with the rising sun
And he's just one of many whose race has been run

Now it's dial-a-prayer, etc.

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from RELIVING LIFE TO THE FULL, released October 12, 2012

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Jack Howard Melbourne, Australia

Jack Howard played trumpet with Hunters and Collectors and for the last 20 years, he's been releasing his own highly- regarded music. Along the way, he's also played with The Living End, The Violent Femmes, Rodriguez and a host of others. In 2017, Jack toured the world with Midnight Oil as their trumpeter/multi-instrumentalist. He released his memoirs, Small Moments Of Glory in 2019. ... more

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