In case you don’t know, I recently released an album (of actual songs) named Odes to My Triceratops, Vol. 1, based on the nowhere-town adventures of amateur songwriter William Griffin, his blind love interest Claire Javernick, and his best friend the sentient triceratops Lorenzo (no last name), back when they were 12-14 years old. You can download that album here.

I’m slowly “remastering” the songs belonging to the second album in order to release it, but I came up with another song for the third volume. It’s titled “The Girl From This Town.” An Appalachian folk song about nostalgia creeping into the grieving William.

Lyrics below:

Lorenzo was the dino from out of town
That everybody knew.
Lorenzo was the dino from out of town,
And he was gonna stay a while.

Claire and him, well, they made a deal
To see what they were made of.
They ate, they drank, and they screwed
In good times and in bad.

When Lorenzo was a child,
He dreamed of finding a girl as stupid as him,
And having three kids together.
Lorenzo didn’t even have a last name.
He would have taken Claire’s.

I’m not talking.
I’m not being a person.
I’m barely breathing.

I wanna wake up at the ass of dawn
Next to the girl of my dreams,
To the sound of chirping birds,
To the sight of a blinding sun.

Claire was the girl from this town,
The girl from this town,
The girl from this town.
She was supposed to stay.