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The Hills at Kandahar

from When My Baby Comes Around by Rod Johnson

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The "Kandahar" in this song isn't the city in Afghanistan. It's the backwoods hangout near my hometown, where everyone went to get into mischief during my misspent youth,

lyrics

The teenage girls are drinking
Annie Green Springs wine
Someone’s starting a bonfire
Everybody’s feeling fine
Headlights flash when they pull in the lot
It’s a Saturday night routine
Handshakes and handoffs
It’s a real Springsteen scene

[chorus]
There’s a restless urge that follows us
Wherever we are
It’s dark at the edge of the parking lot
At the hills at Kandahar

The music through the windows blends
In a beautiful rock and roll noise
We wander through the night, looking for a spark
In the darkness of high heeled boys
The girls all get reduced to tears
When their favorite song comes on
And they find someone to shelter with
Till it’s all exposed at dawn

[chorus]

All day long we wait for our lives to take shape
All night long we look for ways to escape

The cops come like it was foreordained
Though it always is a surprise
Everyone practices our innocence
And we all try our favorite lies
And we hop in cars and take to the roads
Like a stoned flock of birds
And the cops they ask if we’re being good kids
And we all know it’s only words

[chorus]

credits

from When My Baby Comes Around, released June 25, 2019
Rod Johnson: acoustic guitar, vocals
Dave Solo: acoustic and electric guitar
David Roof: bass, organ
John Crawford: drums

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Rod Johnson Ann Arbor, Michigan

Singer, songwriter, not really a singer-songwriter though. Just trying to make something good.

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