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Floating in the Backseat While the World Goes By

by Derek Deon

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1.
When We're Older and Free 03:29
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One of these days when we're older and free You can be you and I can be me We won't have to hide no, the world can see Everything that we wanted to be I wanna hold your hand... When I was much younger somebody told me Someone like you would never be free From the restraints that you've made for yourself It's a shame...it's a shame But I just... I wanna hold your hand...
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Melted Wax 04:27
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I'm a broken record Stuck on missing you And it's the same old message I've been sending you I'm a broken record Stuck on missing you And those dim-lit nights Hiding out in your room Under those Christmas lights Making love to the beat of the tunes Those dim-lit nights They made me calm when all else was wrong Now I'm a broken record Stuck on missing you I'm a broken record Then one hazy night Sitting up on your roof Everything was alright 'Cuz I was there with you One hazy night I think I fell in love with you Now here I am Without you Bored and horny with nothing to do Close my eyes and smell the perfume You left on a card saying "see you soon"
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Guess It's Alright 03:13
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I'm sick of hearing people talk about All the things that they don't mean I'm sick of myself Doing the same thing I'd like to be there when you wake up If only to make sure that it's me and not someone else I'd like to be there with you tonight But I fucked it up so I guess it's alright I'd like to show you my tattoos Then maybe you could show me yours I'll keep on knocking for just a little while Even though I know you locked the door
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My Car is a Campfire 04:13
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My Car is a Campfire And I take it with me nearly everywhere I go Things all around me pulling me away from what's real Filling my mind with wasted time and it's making me feel Like I need to be free from the air that I breath It's all around me Let's break away, let's have a getaway for a while You and me we're gonna live our lives in style I took a walk today with a good friend of mine Went to a place up high where we could see the skyline I thought a lot about things I can't live without The hours I've burnt up driving miles and miles And how it probably won't matter in a little while You and me we're gonna live our lives in style My car is a campfire And I take it with me nearly everywhere I go The world is my travel guide And it's full of things that I wanna know
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Waiting For the Sun 03:23
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I’ve been wondering How long it will take for the feeling to kick in I’m scanning all the faces in the crowd Searching for The people i call my friends But I’m not recognizing any of these kids that probably like to pretend that They don’t really care to fit in Then people start fighting The atmosphere’s dying As the chemicals kick in And all I want is to go home But once I do I know I’ll just Start to feel alone Feel alone I feel so alone Feel so alone… I’ve been wondering Whether or not The feeling will ever kick in We’re sitting in the car and we’re so far past Different ways to say what’s new with you and how have you been We’re trying to hide from all the noise outside But can’t ignore the fact that it’s out there and we’re trapped in here I swear I thought this would be fun Didn’t think that we’d end up sitting here waiting for the sun And all you want is to go home And what I’m scared of most is being left alone Left alone Don’t leave me alone no, Don’t leave me alone Leave me alone, no Just leave me alone Leave me alone, no Leave me alone Leave me alone, no Don’t leave me alone
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Floating in the Backseat While the World Goes By 02:29
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Everything Ends 05:32
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A summer night Lights going by As we take a drive Staring out the windows wondering why Headed home It’s been a long night Close my eyes Floating in the backseat while the world goes by... I never stopped to wonder why All these dreams keep passing me by You’re dozing off I stare at your closed eyes I’ve never been good at goodbyes I’ve got myself another job The last one didn’t last so long It’s just a matter of time before this infatuation dies The seasons change and so do I Everything Ends, Everything Ends Everything Ends, Everything Ends… Headed home It’s been a long night Close my eyes Floating in the backseat while the world goes by...
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Floating in the Backseat While the World Goes By is a conceptual effort of four years of sporadic recording sessions and revisited mixes, featuring a pool of Southern Oregon-based musicians, with Audio Engineering by Sandy Ficca and Mixing and Co-Production by Bret Levick. The album includes Derek Deon’s debut singles in the context of a seamless, atmospheric listening experience.

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I was 17 years old when I went to Sandy Ficca's studio for the first time. At the time I'd written my first two songs and was certain that I was ready to make a record. Naturally, I was told I needed more songs. Stubborn as I was, I proposed that I could write material as we went, recording what I had along the way.

Throughout the process of recording this album, I was tracking demos in the studio while learning to play along to a click-track for the first time. I'd been playing guitar for about a year-and-a-half and my experience playing music was mostly comprised of learning a handful of my favorite songs on my acoustic guitar and playing them over and over again in the solitude of my bedroom. In other words, I didn't know what I was doing - just that I wanted to create something. These sessions of recording, scrapping, and rewriting my first compositions were spread out over the course of roughly three years; a process that, frankly, I'll never again approach the same way, knowing what I know now, but that I'm grateful for in what it taught me.

Floating in the Backseat While the World Goes By is an album that arose out of wanting to create something that embodied a feeling of nostalgia for long drives home in the backseat of my grandparent's car; of being a kid and finding peace in the low rumble of the engine, the quiet mumbling of their voices, and sometimes, the faint chatter of the radio.

It was about a year after I met Sandy and started working on the vague, yet convicted concept of making an album, that I came up with the title. I trimmed down my track-list from 12 songs to a mere 7, deciding to keep only what fit the theme I wanted for the album, sonically speaking.

Lyrically, these songs came from the feelings and experiences of the nearing end of my adolescence: first love, the yearning for social validation, and a soft spot for the simple comforts of childhood, like that feeling of falling asleep in the back of the car without a care in the world -from poeticizing and putting melodies to memories through rose-tinted lenses, and attempting to archive some of those thoughts and feelings, knowing that they can't ever truly be returned to in the same way. Now, it's sort of funny, and at times, even a little embarrassing hearing and performing some of the words that came out of that version of myself, having written these songs some odd years ago during a very naive and developmental time in my life. Still, like most people (especially in the digitized and well-documented age that we live in), I'm a sucker for nostalgia, near and far.

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Special thanks for this project goes to Sandy Ficca for taking me on as the inexperienced, yet head-strong kid that I was (and still am), and for mentoring me through my first experiences in a recording studio, all while being a very busy, actively touring musician himself. I owe a lot of my passion for pursuing music as a creative outlet, and a lifestyle, to having the opportunity he provided me to create and learn in a hands-on way.

John Johns also deserves an emphasized acknowledgement for being the core of my first introduction to an independent music scene, and to my initial experiences collaborating with and learning from musicians far more seasoned than myself. Moving out of my parent's nest and into his house with his living room PA, his drum kit, and his willingness to get out and play my first gigs with me, will always be an essential part of what music has become to me.

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released August 31, 2019

Produced by Derek Deon
Engineered by Sandy Ficca
Mixed by Bret Levick
Mastered by Jim Chapdelaine

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Derek Deon Ashland, Oregon

Derek Deon is a songwriter, performer, and recording artist based in Ashland, Oregon. Being a producer who enjoys using the studio and the stage as a sonic canvas, he enjoys somber, sensuous music, and copious amounts of reverb and delay in his guitar and vocal tones. ... more

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