Take me for a ride, let’s jump into your old grey pick-up, we can grab a crate of beers at the nearest gas station, some sandwiches too. We’ll take the blue road through the desert, and drive straight for miles and miles encountering only vultures, snakes, and agaves. Let’s put some good old shit into the stereo, I think I can bring my old tapes yeah? Some MC5, and Blue Cheer, figuring the world is still dreaming and fighting for a better day. But we won’t need no future, just the here and now, we’ll camp for the night under wool blankets into the back of the van and the stars will shine brighter and closer just for our eyes. We will talk about Woodstock and the indian tribes who used to live here. You can bring your guitar and me my tambourine, to play some tunes around the fire. The day after we shall head to that small village where they still have a saloon, locals will give us news about the corn harvest, we can for sure find a place for the night and have a shower outside with water from a sun-heated tank. Who knows maybe they’ll need some seasonal workers too and we could be of help, it would be such a free life, hard work for sure but free, riding horses and eating prickly pears from their succulent leaves. There will be a festival late August, with bearded half-naked men with tattoos playing fuzzy guitars and women with brown suede boots and bandanas. We’ll get lost and get high in the spires of sounds reverberating and levitating with the dust arisen by sirocco from the red ground, we’ll see the whole spectrum of the colours of love and we’ll drink laughing from the golden cup of happiness.
Take me for a ride now, my dear friend, let’s never come back anymore, and everything’s gonna be allright.
Driftwood Pyre were founded in 2012 by Liam Watkins (First Communion Afterparty) and Aaron James (Rocking Horse People). They live and work in Minneapolis, and their debut album is out now on Exag Records.
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