Name: Too Late
Duration: P00H03M22S
Description: Written in response to the 2016 US presidential election, it attempts to capture the frustrations and rage that motivated those who voted for Trump. There is a dig at the use of "Stormy Weather" in the NPR show Marketplace whenever "markets" are doing poorly. The mandolin part was partly written by Johnny just a week before he passed on.

Too Late

from Won't You Believe Me by The Gated Community

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Written in response to the 2016 US presidential election, it attempts to capture the frustrations and rage that motivated those who voted for Trump. There is a dig at the use of "Stormy Weather" in the NPR show Marketplace whenever "markets" are doing poorly. The mandolin part was partly written by Johnny just a week before he passed on.

lyrics

And it's too late to be surmising
And it's too late for compromising
And it's too late to be un-wising
And it's too late to keep revising

I was a lonely weapon
I was a stepping stone
I was in West Virginia, with the daylight getting long

And it's too much to wrap in leather
And it's too much to shoe together
And it's too much stormy weather
And it's too much to make it better

I was a lonely weapon
I was a stepping stone
I was in West Virginia, with the daylight traveling on

And it's two times as many demons
And it's two men for all the seasons
And it's two hands to hide the lesions
And its too late for all the reasons

I was a lonely weapon
I was a stepping stone
I was in West Virginia, with the daylight going wrong

credits

from Won't You Believe Me, released November 8, 2019
Sumanth Gopinath: lead vocals, acoustic guitar
Beth Hartman: backing vocals, egg shaker
Rosie Harris: backing vocals
Teresa Gowan: fiddle
Nathan Knutson: mandolin
Cody Johnson: bass guitar
Paul Hatlelid: drums

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The Gated Community Minneapolis

The Gated Community is a country/bluegrass/Americana band with rock influences based in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area in Minnesota and has been in existence since early 2006.

Bandmembers: Sumanth Gopinath
Rosie Harris
Beth Hartman
Paul Hatlelid
Cody Johnson
Nate Knutson ... more

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May 3

White Squirrel Bar

North Saint Paul, MN
May 10

Sociable Ciderwerks

Minneapolis, MN

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