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The Wild People (Mark Lanegan cover)

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Priced at 0.00 dollars so you can buy the original, Mark Lanegan "The Wild People," at iTunes or on Amazon. I can't post links here.

This is a lovely song by Mark Lanegan, who I just got into recently and am thoroughly enjoying. I've taken many trips through the southern California desert and southern Utah, and any time I see an abandoned shack I have to wonder who lived there? Why did they pick that place to build a house, and why did they leave? So this song reminds of that vibe. That and I identify with its message about "going where the wild people living." The suburban mom scene can be vicious, and sometimes when I feel very alienated in it, which is often, I just want to take my family and live off the grid... go where the wild people living...

Photo is from Grafton, Utah, a gem of a ghost town to visit!

This song is so special to me. I consider myself a 'desert rock' person, and yet after a 14 year break from playing guitar and not listening to a lot of that 90s stuff because it reminded me of drugs and pain, one day in 2015 I checked back in musically. And I found Phantom Radio. And Like Clockwork. And I found stuff I liked, and it felt good to be understood. All over again, under different circumstances. But 'Wild People" was extra special.

It might sound weird, but I was in the throes of my own little musical awakening and my son's autism diagnosis when I came across this song. My son was, and still is, very, very wild. Like dangerous wild. Danger to himself and others. We really can't take him in public. No one ever writes songs about this stuff, even metaphorically. My attempt is my song "I Know how this Looks." Which I would not have written without this song.

But this song helped me accept my son's autism. The "mama, mama, please....." lines- that is me with my son hoping and praying he doesn't hurt anyone, which he has a tendency to do. It's complicated, and I do love him, aggressive autism and all. Love him for it. Cry for him for it. Cry for him and myself and my husband, and acknowledge our removal from just a lot of normal stuff. We are wild, there is no two ways about it. People fear us. For valid reason. We are disenfranchised big time. But that is its own unique place of growth.

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My sin, my sin is done and it won't be forgiven
I'm gone, I'm gone, going where the wild people living
Going where the wild, wild people living
So long alone, close to the bone

They kill the messenger, they kill the tax man waiting in line
They kill the passenger, where the train and the taxi collide
A holiday has come, my mind has escaped into hiding
I've shot away my life, out where the wild people riding
out where the wild, wild people riding
So long alone, close to the bone

Mama, mama please, please don't kill the messenger man
Mama, mama please, please don't kill the passenger man
On Saturday I'm sick, sick with a virus descending
Burn Sunday to the quick, quick to the match on a one mile stick
My sin, my sin is done and it won't be forgiven
I'm gone, I'm gone, going where the wild people living

Mama, mama please, please don't kill the messenger man
Mama, mama please, please don't kill the passenger man

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released October 28, 2015
Written by Mark Lanegan
Vocals: Melancholy Rose, backing vocals Phaedra
Guitar: Dee Sharpe

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