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Ed was a customer who would come in a couple of times a week at a consignment store I worked for years in Austin, TX.
He told me stories from his time in Vietnam.
When I got to know him, his brother was dying from cancer, caused by Agent Orange.
One day Ed came in and said; "Well, Dave...I've got it now...cancer..."
A few months later, Ed passed away and I got a phone call to work from his other brother, who told me Ed had died.
Ed had made him promise to call me and tell me how much he appreciated our conversations and the fact that I listened to his stories from Vietnam and the suffering it had caused going there...

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Ed is standing in the parking lot,
he says: "I don't have long, I can feel the dark..."
He went with his brother to Vietnam
"Of all the kids I knew, I'm the only one left..."
he says that's gonna change real soon,
he says "Give me a couple of full moon's..."
I see him once and I see him twice,
he says "Dave, my man, I'm a fading light..."
and one day he's just bone and skin
and that's the last time Ed came in.
One day his brother's on the phone,
telling me that Ed has moved on...

Your father, in a distant youth,
looks just like you, man, just like you
he probably also got drunk and high
and laid out, looking at the sky
Sometimes when I watch the stars, I cry
it just comes over me, I don't know why...
It's just the feeling that your life runs by...

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from Songs From the Future, Songs From the Past, released July 13, 2021

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Citizens Band Orchestra Santa Fe, New Mexico

At the end of the last century (!!) I moved from Stockholm to Malmo, Sweden, where I started a band. I called it David And the Citizens Band Tranceiver, after a radio manual I found.Later shortened the name to David & the Citizens. We released 3 albums +a bunch of EP's,got lots of attention + a Grammy nomination. In 2009 I moved to the US. Didn't make music for 10 years... ... more

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