El Paso

from CRUDE BOYO EP by David Keenan

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"The song has been with me since I wrote it at 14, a song about hometown experiences in Dundalk, something I'd sing with friends and no more. A few years later at 20, I sang it in a local taxi & the ensuing video which was uploaded by the driver went viral. To be honest, it gave me a fire in the gut to go out and be taken seriously as a songwriter and I haven't looked back. I was slightly scarred by the viral experience in the sense that I didn't want to be remembered as the kid in the taxi, so I didn't record it or release it until now. I've come full circle, I'm proud of the song and the young man who wrote it, I'm constantly getting sent cover versions of El Paso from people at home and abroad, singing it in clubs, bars, at gatherings. It's become a universal hometown song and I'm excited to finally share it again".

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El Paso

I was told long ago that you'd learn more on a building site than you would in school, I don't know who's to know in El Paso.
Friday nights the floodlights you'd hear us roar, sing the town till we die then our throats went sore, we have grown on the road to El Paso.

Photographs on your mantelpiece they fade
Sitting at some bus stop in the pouring rain
In your mind things that you've seen
Now the shoe is on the other foot, how does that feel?
If you wanna go I'll take you there, feel the rain on your face in the morning air
Let's go back, take me back to El Paso
You go around with your tie and your briefcase
With a look on your face like I'm a waste of space
Take me back, take me back to El Paso

Oh take a walk, take a walk down the echo road I'll be waiting
don't you know i'll be waiting.

And if you wanna go I'll take you there, feel the rain on your face in the morning air
Take me back, let's go back to El Paso
You go around with your tie and your briefcase
With a look on your face like I'm a waste of space
Take me back, take me back, take me back let's go back
to El Paso, to El Paso, to El Paso, to my El Paso.

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from CRUDE BOYO EP, released March 24, 2023

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David Keenan's latest record the "CRUDE BOYO EP" will be released on the 24th of March via Barrack Street Records.

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