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songs for Gus
Written from the memories of Rachel M. For Gus, a golden retriever mix, 2013–2026. Warm acoustic americana, at her request: the whole life, not the last day.
Players are placeholders on this demonstration page. On a live order these stream the approved takes and offer WAV and MP3 downloads.
01 Seventy Bucks and a Cardboard Box
3:10
02 5:15
3:40
03 Windows Down
4:05
Track one — the rescue
“Seventy bucks and a cardboard box, riding shotgun home with me. You cried at every red light, so I sang you something off-key.”
Track two — the ordinary days
“Five-fifteen, every evening, somebody’s watching for my headlights. Eleven years, never missed one, like I was worth the wait.”
Track three — the goodbye
“Some loves don’t leave when they leave. They just wait at the window.”
Gus was found in the last kennel on the left, sitting on a torn blanket, and he chose his person before she had finished walking past.
He cost seventy dollars. He was worth everything.
For thirteen years he held the ordinary days together — a face between bent blinds at 5:15, a stolen rotisserie chicken, a coward about vacuums and a stone through thunderstorms, an unasked, unpaid guard outside a nursery door.
On his last morning the windows were down, because he loved the wind more than anything, and there was a cheeseburger, plain, because rules are for dogs who aren’t dying, and there was a hand on his head saying the only thing that ever needed saying.
He was a good boy. The whole way home.
Written from the memories of Rachel M. · For Gus, 2013–2026
The chorus of track three over her photographs, cut vertical. Family gets the whole album; everyone else gets this.
Preview · render queued with the master
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Their story deserves a soundtrack