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Dishes

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This song is a bit of a response to the Gillian Welch song, "Everything Is Free". "Never mind it working hard. It's who I'm working for." I thought this was true until I became my own boss and still felt like my boss is a dick.

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Blame it all on a work situation
blame it on my boss is a dick and the worst part is
I can't keep working for myself
Guess I'll quit

Blame it all on a work situation
Blame it my moto is dead
there's a song in the sink and a sponge in my head
and a pen with some ink but my hands are too wet

I wish that there were more dishes to do so there was something for my hands
keep the headphones on, keep the tv going, keep the screen saver spinning
cause I'll kill time till the clock begs for mercy and comes back round

And I read a lot of creative types keep it messy
Surely Jackson Pollock had some paint stains on his couch
Not to mention the stuff between his teeth
And the turpentine smell stuck in his sheets

Blame it all on a work situation
blame it on the the words that I keep
And I only read in slow motion
Guess I'll sleep

I wish that there were more dishes to do so there was something for my hands
keep the headphones on, keep the tv going, keep the screen saver spinning
cause I'll kill time till the clock begs for mercy and comes back round

And I saw in a dream this is all a bit too clean
Even through the plumes at one half speed
And I'll write every last rhyme to the bottom of the page
But the words in my head wont sweep into the pan

I wish that there was more dishes to do so there was something for my hands
keep the headphones on, keep the tv going, keep the screen saver spinning
cause I'll kill time till the clock begs for mercy and comes back round

credits

released October 3, 2025
Owen Burton - vocals, guitar, b-bender telecaster
Alex Farrar - keyboard, bass, guitar
Matt Winship - drums

Written by Owen Burton
Produced, mixed, and engineered by Alex Farrar
Mastered by Greg Obis
Assistant Engineer - Seamus Rooney

Recorded at Drop of Sun Studios in Asheville, NC

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Ovven Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville's Ovven (pronounced oven) is the indie rock/alt-country project of Owen Burton. Their debut album, Gnawing at the Cord, was hailed as "a fuzz-guitar, alt-country tour-de-force" (the Indie Scene); "an instant classic" (SiriusXM Outlaw Country); "compulsively relistenable" (Steven Hyden); and was produced by Alex Farrar (MJ Lenderman, Wednesday, Indigo De Souza). ... more

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