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On The Road (Song For Robert)

from Heliotropism by GioSafari

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    This is a double album including both Heliotropism and its companion album, The Pulvinar Movements.

    The CD packages were hand-made with pages of the Occupied Wall Street Journal. The envelopes are stamped with the original album art by Alex Velazquez (@x2creator) and also contain a pamphlet of liner notes, lyrics, and sheet music called The People's Hymnal, a packet of sunflower seeds, and a sticker of the album art.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Heliotropism via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Double-album disc, packaged in recycled cardboard sleeve stamped with original album art by Alex Velazquez; includes The People's Hymnal, a pamphlet of liner notes, lyrics, and sheet music.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Heliotropism via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Purchasable with gift card

      $15 USD or more 

     

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This song is a spin on Bob Dylan's "Song To Woody," which was itself an homage to Woody Guthrie and borrowed the tune and progression from Guthrie's 1913 massacre. My version is an homage to them both and a lament for Robert Zimmerman.

lyrics

I’m out here a thousand miles from my home,
Walking a road other men have gone down.
I’m seeing your world of people and things,
your paupers and peasants and princes and kings.

Hey, hey, Bob Dylan, I’m writing this song
For the man with a brand you would never take on.
You say “you’re born with the wrong name, it happens you see...
Call yourself what you want, it’s the land of the free.”

So you left home behind and you never looked back,
Just rambled and gambled your way ‘long the tracks -
All alone on the road with the spirit ahead
And old Rob back in Minnesota, cold and dead.

You know I went with you all the way down to New York.
Tried following your footsteps but the road got too dark,
And the imprints more shallow each step ‘long the way -
Twenty one grams you lost with each role that you played.

Then I lost you and couldn’t get on by myself;
And I couldn’t believe I was anyone else.
So I sought all those characters in people I knew
And the drama’s been guiding me cue after cue.

So I pray that you’re doing alright on your own;
As for me, well, you know I’ll just keep moving on,
With my comrades and company, this road occupied -
Making all the difference that it’s less traveled by.

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from Heliotropism, released September 15, 2012

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GioSafari New York, New York

GioSafari was the pseudonym for singer-songwriter and peace activator Gio Andollo. He lives in NYC, where he has committed to music - songwriting, recording, busking, performing, promoting - and activism. He speaks truth to power in the heart of Empire, recalling the subversive musical traditions of American folk & punk, singing for peace & justice, and advocating the use of bicycle helmets. ... more

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