The Dahlia

by Rochester

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Leaning close to the mirror
Does her lipstick, makes a kissy face
She's a doll yeah

Beth intends to find work
As an actress
She practices

Pretty as a peony
What should we call ya?
Wait a minute it'll come to me

Broke and hungry
She walks to take her mind off it
Beth is propositioned by men

Far from naive
And a girl’s gotta eat so
Sometimes she goes with them

Pretty as as peony
What should we call ya?
Wait a minute it'll come to me

It’s Hollywood lore
Just after the war
The LAPD known to be corrupt

Time has obscured
What happened to her
Helped along sure by a cover-up

Beth-obsessed
Armchair detectives wrest
With meaning of it all yeah

With vaporous theories to vent
Said detectives descend
Into deeper melancholia

After the headlines fade
With a musty trace
Of newsprint and mold

When the only leads
Come from cranks and creeps
And the case goes cold

Still she smiles yeah
Looks at the camera
Head tilting back as if about to laugh

The sullen allure
Whatever it is about her
It’s all there for sure in the photograph

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released September 21, 2019
Words and music, all instruments and programming by Damon Anderson with additional Juno keyboard by David Carter

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Rochester Oakland, California

Rochester is a solo project for Damon Anderson in which he hopes to pursue his Kate Bush-inspired dreampop fantasies. He is also the singer in the band Gosta Berling whose last record, Winterland, was listed as one of the top 150 albums of the year in 2016 by The Big Takeover. He lives in Oakland, CA. ... more

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