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The More You Talk (The Less I Hear)

from Haul These Blues Away by Simon Flory

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Beginning with a tongue-in-cheek classic country title (parenthesis!), this song owes its genesis to The White Horse in Austin where I said the title as an off-hand comment to Brennen Leigh, then she suggested I write the song. It's the only song on the album that is completely autobiographical and also true. Details such as "under an Ozark moon" (locale), "14 by 72 feet of lies" (the actual dimensions of my old single-wide) and "when the auctioneer throws the gavel down" (I got $53 for my worldly possessions at an auction) are very specific and meant to be-sometimes the hardest truth is the most relatable. In a shortened, then prolonged refrain suggesting agitation, the song tells the story of a love gone bad, of a lover scorned for unknown reasons, the cleaving of a rural union and ultimate isolation in the city. Even the banjo's "half barbaric twang" can't offer solace to the narrator who is left to "fight with myself". A universal idea of communication breakdown to the point of not "hearing" what someone is saying, and the empowerment to move on is a message of solidarity to all of those who fight for a better existence far from their demons-real or otherwise

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The More You Talk (The Less I Hear)
-Simon Flory

I got to work in the morning you stay in bed
I work them fingers to the bone and come home half dead
Then it’s cold beer for supper and what you wanna do
Fight on the front porch under an Ozark moon

The more you talk the less I hear

You tell me that you’re leaving you holler that you’re gone
You scream there ain’t no picket fence could keep you at home
There’s just one to many of us in this single wide
14 by 72 feet of lies

The more you talk the less I hear

I woke up this morning you were really gone
I guess I didn’t hear you sing that same leaving song
Now the neighbors are talking and I bet your mama’s proud
I won’t shed a tear when the auctioneer throws the gavel down

The more you talk the lease I hear

Day and night it’s dark in this city where I sing
Half barbaric twang it comes from my banjo strings
There’s no one here but me so i fight with myself
And miss you like the devil misses you down in hell

The more you talk the less I hear

credits

from Haul These Blues Away, released February 26, 2021
Recorded and mixed by John Nicholson at Hilltop Studios, Madison, TN
Produced by: Jimmy Metts
Mastered by: Marco Saenz at Saenz Mastering
Simon Flory: vocals, banjo
Jenee Fleenor: fiddle, vocals
Brennen Leigh: guitar, vocals
Noel McKay: bass, vocals

“The More You Talk (The Less I Hear)” by Simon Flory
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It takes a perceptive ear to translate icons of a mythical “Americana” into the daily textures of real human lives, and Flory does it with the sincerity of early country music. His compositions are as much short-story sketches as they are songs, each populated – like the locales that inspire them – with those among us who have few choices. ... more

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