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A Horse With No Name

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Building on their first single ‘Dreams & Happiness’, this release shows two more sides of DIRT, from their forthcoming album BLOOM. A celebration of the long-lost Double A-Side, both tracks continue to reveal the multi-faceted aspects to this duo, who up until a year ago were a trio with deeply missed third DIRT member, Malcolm Black.

An unexpected take on the classic America song ‘A Horse With No Name’. An inspired tribute in remembrance of Malcolm, it was the first song Black and Blackler played live as teenagers. A dreary but now beloved performance memory, the inclusion of this rendition of ‘A Horse With No Name’ harks back to the two playing Dunedin’s Fairfield Tavern, for the glamourous ‘All You Can Eat’ Sunday afternoon smorgasbord.
While a long way off their teenage musical aspirations, the song ultimately had a lasting impact on both. In later years they did travel the desert together - in Mustangs - to Barry’s Las Vegas drive-through wedding. While Black may have not heard the final mixed version, his presence was felt throughout the entire recording journey. No doubt he would have approved of this fittingly DIRTied-up tribute to their past.

Everyone needs a little DIRT.

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A Horse with No Name
America

On the first part of the journey
I was looking at all the life
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
There was sand and hills and rings

The first thing I met was a fly with a buzz
And the sky with no clouds
The heat was hot and the ground was dry
But the air was full of sound

I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain

La, la

After two days in the desert sun
My skin began to turn red
After three days in the desert fun
I was looking at a river bed
And the story it told of a river that flowed
Made me sad to think it was dead

You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain

La, la

After nine days I let the horse run free
'Cause the desert had turned to sea
There were plants and birds and rocks and things
there was sand and hills and rings
The ocean is a desert with it's life underground
And a perfect disguise above
Under the cities lies a heart made of ground
But the humans will give no love

You see I've been through the desert on a horse with no name
It felt good to be out of the rain
In the desert you can remember your name
'Cause there ain't no one for to give you no pain

La, la

Songwriters: Dewey Bunnell
A Horse with No Name lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc

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released July 10, 2020
Dewey Bunnell

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Dirt Auckland, New Zealand

DIRT. The evolving brain child of Barry Blackler and Nick Sampson. Aided and abetted by Malcolm Black and Robin Murphy.

DIRT. Purveyors of that elusive thing we call rock n roll. A synthesis of influences, long past and newly found. Songs about life, dying, trying, grieving, being happy and drinking.

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