Hey kids, where you going?
Trucking through the wind and snow
Racing to the western shores
Where you’re praying you’ll be reborn
There are no truths save one
The rest is just a line
Your story may have been fun to tell
The better to live was mine
From the base of Shasta
To the dust of the Playa
We dipped into the well
And from a bottle he fell… but don’t tell
And the desert and the molecule
Exploding in our brains and veins
Road way dives to get more fuel
And ignoring the little pains
The music drives us on, though blind
To the Devil that’s waiting – behind
The fragile Buddha’s soggy mind
And I guess it ends right here
Don’t give in to fear, you hear?
It’s the divide between there and here
Bring us into your heart – this time to stay
And we’ll play forever
We’ll play, we’ll play
Written by : Trevor A. Clendenin
Trevor A. Clendenin is an African-American writer and lifelong musician whose work blends lived experience with a clear-eyed, literary sensibility. Raised in a military family and shaped by years spent in Boulder, St. Croix, and on the road, he’s moved through the worlds of jam bands, digital media, and small-town creative communities with the same curiosity that drives his fiction. His debut novel, Zuvuya, draws on decades spent in America’s improvisational music orbit, where transcendence, failure, ambition, and myth often collide.
Before turning to creative writing, Trevor earned a BA in Philosophy from Rollins College, a Master in Visual Media from IE in Madrid, served in the Peace Corps in Jamaica, worked as the Director of New Media for a PBS affiliate in the U.S. Virgin Islands, and later co-founded a digital marketing agency. He has played guitar in bars, basements, festivals, and renegade fireside jams across the country, and still believes that music communities are one of the last places where people strive for truth.
He lives in Savannah, Georgia, with his wife and daughter, and is at work on new fiction and essays about aspiration, identity, and the strange pilgrimage of American life.
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