People Call Who They Wanna Talk To - David Ramirez

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I see the Atlantic
But you see a different moon
Don't call me dramatic
People call who they wanna talk to
Don't blame it on the distance
Don't blame it on the blues
Don't blame it on being English
People call who they wanna talk to

Give me a dirty look
Scream 'til you're blue in the face
Throw punches and tell me you hate me
I'll handle it all with grace

But there's one thing I know
To be true
That you can't deny
People call who they wanna talk to

Silence paints a thousand words
Your picture only paints a few
I'm tired of knocking at your door
You would call if you wanted to

Give me a dirty look
Scream 'til you're blue in the face
Throw punches and tell me you hate me
I'll handle it all with grace

But there's one thing I know
To be true
That you can't deny
People call who they wanna talk to

People call
People write
Near or far
People try
Ooh, it'd be easy I know
If I lived on the road

People call who they wanna talk to
People call who they wanna talk to

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David Ramirez is an American singer-songwriter from Houston, TX, currently based in Austin, TX.

By breaking through heartache, Ramirez has gone on a search for understanding. The Austin, TX, resident and frequent traveler to clubs, theaters and listening rooms all over the country, has come to a phase in his creative life where the tears have dried and moving on looks like the best option.

That change in perspective hasn’t erased the weary searching that has characterized Ramirez’s sparse Americana songwriting for more than a decade. It just means the questions he’s asking on his new album Apologies have changed. “There’s less to do with heartache and a lot more to do with personal struggles, and hope. I see a lot of hope in these songs,” Ramirez, 29, says. "I've been working on these and many other songs for a couple years but I didn't know what I wanted this album to say until right before going into the studio. Once I finished 'An Introduction' I knew this was going to be a very personal album."

That song finds Ramirez standing in a Roman cathedral looking for God – singing atop a simple but driving shuffle – while the sparse acoustic guitar-and-voice number “Goodbye” shows him closing the book (and setting it ablaze) on a relationship that seems to have left him permanently unsettled.
Whether solo or with accompaniment, Ramirez and his characters make an impression, which is why Paste magazine called him, "The best damn songwriter you don't know yet" and folk stars The Civil Wars praised him as "Soulful, stirring, heartbreaking.”

With Apologies Ramirez has widened his view but is looking outward as intensely as ever. The answers might elude him – as they do all of us – but the questions he’s asking ring honest and true. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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